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It's a physical game in San Francisco, but it's run day-to-day by a manager. Overall it makes about $15k/mo, and after rent/labor/etc I just make a few thousand dollars a month.
I run a business automation services site ( https://www.mergeyourdata.com/ ). Basically I build an automation for small businesses and schedule them to run. Took years of learning the ins and outs of the biggest pain point areas for businesses and the technical solutions that would solve those. The learning all pretty much took place at my regular day job and I was just able to expand on those lessons.
Thanks!
There's decent money to be made but a ton of competition, so for newbies I'd recommend easier niches to start!
Not exactly passive, but side hustle that I hope becomes main hustle: https://simplescraper.io Tryna fill the gap that Kimono left. Aim to post as a Show HN once I polish it a little more.
Investing in boring index funds has produced 20% returns this year. Can't imagine it will happen again next yr but who knows. Actually I had an allocation in Apple which has had a crazy year..up 60% or so to all time highs.
I also did some passive index fund investments but I only count cash dividends as actual "income".
Stock photography
How did you get started with this? I remember reading somewhere that stock photography is a nickel-and-diming business given that almost anyone can produce a half decent picture with modern cameras.
About 1-2 times a year I’ll get a large buy (eg. $75+) from 500px, but I don’t upload there very often since they broke their Lightroom plugin.
Investing in boring index funds has produced 20% returns this year. Can't imagine it will happen again next yr but who knows. Actually I had an allocation in Apple which has had a crazy year..up 60% or so to all time highs.
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Growing, stable or declining?
Stable or slightly declining, but that is a personal choice I made as I focused on my career. Unlike many, I don't update or A/B test anything after a product launch, so once a product is out launched, it's done from my perspective. With some more effort, I could be growing, either by launching new products (last product launch was in February) or by starting up my ad campaigns again (I cancelled most of them in Apri…
My partner and I have two related product assemblages that we think are under-represented on Amazon, but for which we think we've identified a reasonable demand.. and for which content/instruction/information are not consolidated/accessible.
Not what you were looking for but real estate (mostly rental) has been and remains my primary passive income.
You don’t have to do work as a landlord?
When things to break or need service (usually a few times a year something minor pops up), my involvement is approving a repair or calling on a company I have used prior to take care of it for me. I have service providers for each property that maintain it for small fees, so like lawn, pest, sprinkler, AC is all taken care of on preventative maintenance plans.