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Re: Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2016?

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Post by to3m »

scolvin wrote: post #164
erikb wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It seems to be a searchable man page index. What does it offer that google+terminal don't offer?

Man pages in the terminal are pretty annoying as you can't (easily) search them. By "Google" I presume you mean online indexes of man pages E.g. This site. The other man pages sites are ugly, old and incomplete, despite that done of them rank pretty high on Alexa. I built this site to end up smarter, more modern, easier to use and more complete. Still a work in progress atm.

On Firefox, code examples are sometimes 1-2 pixels longer than their viewport, so you can get a fairly pointless scrollbar. See, e.g., https://helpmanual.io/man3/printf/

One suggestion: how about guessing at hyperlinks. For example, there are a few underlined instances of `size_t' in the printf man page. If you ask for the size_t man page, you get the man page for stdint. Suppose I had a device on my desk that could automate this sort of drudgery for me...

(I did something like this for my patched version of Bwana: https://bitbucket.org/tom_seddon/bwana, original: https://www.bruji.com/bwana/ - works well, at least for the OS X man pages. My code only looks for man pages with the exact name, though, since it runs on demand. If you're doing a preprocess to generate all the pages ahead of time then you could perhaps afford to be more thorough.)

Re: Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2016?

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Post by wvlia5 »

inovica wrote: post #249
wvlia5 wrote: post #246

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Hi! I would like to know the language and LOC of both SourceGuardian and Competitor Monitor, to see the what's the complexity of code people are selling. Thanks

Both are relatively complex now and I don't have a precise answer for 'lines of code' for you. Competitor Monitor has evolved for 5-6 years and has various subsystems including image matching, crawling, proxy management and much more. Both started out as MVP's and have evolved. Competitor Monitor is built in Python and Go predominantly, however that shouldn't mean anything. The language, platform and complexity of so…

Thanks ;) yes I did

Re: Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2016?

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Post by Guyag »

monkeywork wrote: post #238
nkkollaw wrote: post #98

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Saw that on PH, looks good. May I ask what percentage of sales did you get? I'm going to launch my product soon, and I'd like to know what I can expect.

What is PH?

https://www.producthunt.com/

Re: Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2016?

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Post by loloferrari »

Been trying to do this for years, never really succeeded.

In 2016 i've relaunched https://www.interssl.com/en/ but when i'm being honest there are just too many support incidents. So i just can't call it passive income anymore - even if that was the initial idea.

The margin of sales without support basically just covers the cost for the orders that require heavy support. Remaining income is basically blown for advertising and maintaining the site.

My conclusions:

a) think twice about potential time killers - even if the core business model per se is passive, it might turn out to be time intensive ...

b) i'd rather not go into reselling something anymore but rather sell my own product, gives me more financial headroom.

my 2 cents.

Re: Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2016?

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Post by bootloop »

pimlottc wrote: post #243
bootloop wrote: post #12

Unfortunately not 2016, but two years ago when the Samsung Gear Watch came out a friend of mine got it right away. We went out drinking the same day and when we came back at night we put together a watch face while still being drunk. We uploaded it, set the lowest possible price 1$, and... Nothing happened. Everywhere in the admin panel it showed 0. 0 downloads, not a single dime earned, even after a few days. We wer…

So roughly how much did you make overall? A few hundred, a few thousand?

A few thousand over the course of a few months. The first three months were working out really good. But than it dropped to a fifth of the previous month and it went downhill from there. Anyway. It was still worth it. What took most of my time was setting up the store pages. (Which I couldn't look up by myself because I didn't own the device so I could not access the store at all. I didn't know the ratings on my apps either. Or the ranking in the store.)

Re: Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2016?

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Post by durkie »

codecamper wrote: post #219

I want to be able to invest in solar projects. These projects often have internal rates of return of 10%+. However, this involves 20 or 30 year contracts to buy power from you after you have made the initial investment to purchase /rent land and install the panels. Wish there were a way to securitize those deals & allow us to trade them like bonds.

Solar City used to (and night still) offer solar bonds that were exactly this. The future of these is a bit uncertain after their Tesla merger though. It sounds like they might be changing strategies

Re: Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2016?

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Post by averageweather »

libria wrote: post #266
averageweather wrote: post #256

http://www.averageweather.io Only have made like $20 off Adsense, but I've got a lot more work to try and get this tool into passive mode: * working on selecting a date range * style up the site a bit more * maybe have users so you can save searches etc I get very valuable data that the travel industry would probably consider great leads, but I'm just figuring out what to do with it all. Edit - and fill out these gra…

Nice. Some wants: * If I type Manhattan, NY, automatically show me a map w/ overlay of weather in Manhattan and surrounding areas. Maybe default to today, but also forward cursor to calendar. * Or maybe automatically show bar chart of Manhattan for 1 week starting today. If they select a day automatically show +-3 days. * or allow a date range to be selected or even just Month of December * you need exposure, I've ne…

Thank you. Any tips on exposure?

Re: Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2016?

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Post by rbcgerard »

wfunction wrote: post #133
bdowling wrote: post #109

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If you sell you pay taxes on the gains, so you are probably better off borrowing against your investments if you need cash, since borrowing isn't a realization event for tax purposes. Investments that pay dividends aren't as good for individuals since the dividends are taxes at ordinary rates.

> you are probably better off borrowing against your investments if you need cash I don't understand what that means. Whom would you be borrowing from? Where would the cash be coming from?

Your broker https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=interest&p...

Re: Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2016?

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Post by bootloop »

dorfsmay wrote: post #245
bootloop wrote: post #12

Unfortunately not 2016, but two years ago when the Samsung Gear Watch came out a friend of mine got it right away. We went out drinking the same day and when we came back at night we put together a watch face while still being drunk. We uploaded it, set the lowest possible price 1$, and... Nothing happened. Everywhere in the admin panel it showed 0. 0 downloads, not a single dime earned, even after a few days. We wer…

You created an apps in a few hours while drunk, set the price to the lowest possible, and when you thought you had no sale after a few days, you were "devastated"?

Look. We were very emotional at the point. We thought the binary clock was a good design and the booze helped us to believe we were going to get very rich of it. ;-)
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