It might sound kind of obscene here on HN, but I'm making about 3500 euros per month, semi-passive from adult related site/community. It's subscription based and the content is user submitted (that's why it's semi-passive). Some moderation is necessary, as well basic user support, but overall - not so much hustle.
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#32low 4 figures from real estate
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#33It seems the big winner is Apple and Google. They passively collect 30% on the apps we spend months making.
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#34Nil.
likewise. :-(
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#35A better question I'd like to read is "Good ideas for recurring income".
Any idea which hasn't been proven to work already is practically worthless. You're better off looking at cases of existing successful passive income and emulating those.
Then, you can tweak it, one small change at a time.
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#36I generate around $2,500/mo. I operate a company which mines poker data and have a couple of partners, plus some large server / tech / support costs. No-one is full time on the business any more as after Black Friday there isn't a lot of $ in poker: http://hhsmithy.com/
If you, like me, are wondering what "Black Friday" is in the context of poker, it refers to United States v. Scheinberg: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Scheinberg
United States v. Scheinberg is a United States federal criminal case against the founders of the three largest online poker companies, PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Cereus (Absolute Poker/Ultimatebet), and a handful of their associates, which alleges that the defendants violated the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) and engaged in bank fraud and money laundering in order to process transfers to and from their customers. (...) After the indictment was unsealed on April 15, 2011, a date quickly dubbed Black Friday by the online poker community, PokerStars and Full Tilt stopped offering real money play to their United States customers.
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#37I make enough to buy a Frappuccino from day to day, mostly from a reaction gifs application on the App Store : https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/my-reaction-when/id632831985...
By the way, all in-app purchases are free today and tomorrow...
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#38$2500/mo from AdSense on http://coverphotofinder.com/
Zero-maintenance, which is nice.
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#40TL;DR: The top of our funnel is fine, and our app is making money, but it's not "easy money" and our trial to paying customer sign up needs some serious attention. I run a HR app for SMEs called http://www.staffsquared.com . We're making a comfortable 5 figures each month. We're reinvesting this income back in the product either in the form of new functionality (paying programmers) or advertising (paying Google Adwor…
Please share anything you can about how things go in the future. I'd love to see how your dunning emails turn out. Can you also share some background? When did you start? How many people are on your team? What kind of initial investments did you do?
Really awesome to see people being so transparent about how they're doing.
By the way, if you ever want to write any blog posts and cross-post them to Lifestyle.io [0], we'd be happy to have them.