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Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?

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Post by geuis »

udfalkso wrote: post #50

Roughly $1,000 a month in revenue from http://isitnormal.com . Expenses add up to around $300 a month for hosting on linode and paid moderators. Given traffic levels, I feel I should be able to do better than this somehow. Still searching for the best way to monetize all the super-weird (but interesting!) UGC content.

The ads on your site, the ones that show up in a lightbox that you cant close and show a little pre-OS X stopwatch icon for the mouse? Really, really, really annoying. I left your site and don't have a reason to come back.

Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?

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Post by ka010 »

withoutfriction wrote: post #277
ka010 wrote: post #153

I'm happy to say that I make a solid $2k-$5k with a bunch of niche Apps in the AppStore, see http.//010dev.com Although this requires a good amount of time, I'm still able to do some freelancing on the side which makes a pretty sweet addition to the above, works out just great.

If you are happy to, I would love to contact you. hn myusername.com Also just wanted to say that you should improve the link text color used on the about page of your website.

Yeah, I definitely should, thanks ;) Sent you a mail.

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Post by TheWaterbug »

joshu wrote: post #190
jashmenn wrote: post #78

I make ~$2,000 a month with an iPad game for cats. My co-founder and I were working on a "more serious" game and it was taking a long time. We needed a quick win, so I agreed to do it if we spent less than 4 weeks on it. We completed the game from idea to app store in 3.5 weeks and it is now, by far, our most popular game. * face palm * EDIT: We split the revenue 50/50, so the revenue (after apple's cut) on this game…

FYI my dog likes to play this game too.

WTF? This is a game for _cats_. Can't your dogs read?

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Post by TheWaterbug »

pbiggar wrote: post #282
jashmenn wrote: post #265

Earlier quoted context omitted.

True story: I emailed friskies about this in November last year. I sent them a video of our game and asked if they wanted to work together. I had a few phone calls with them and they told us they loved the idea. Then one day: silence. They wouldn't return my calls or emails. Now just this week they release this game, same idea, almost same domain. (I would guess the reason they didn't use the domain gameforcats.com i…

I'd try to create a big stink about it in the press ("BIGCORP steals indie company's idea!!"), but not actually sue them or anything. This would have the benefit that people would hear about your product, which would benefit you both (though I assume you more because you'll have higher SEO and ranking in the App Store?).

This is the right approach. See if someone like Mossberg at the WSJ would pick this up. The traffic increase would be huge.

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Post by medius »

iconfinder wrote: post #71

$3000 from ads on Iconfinder.com

How do you add the icons and the related information in your database? Do you do it manually? I am always confused about how people manage to put so much of data on the web with inconsistent formats on their website.
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