Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2016? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by Murkin » Sun, Dec 11, 2016, 5:13 PM UTC

billconan wrote: post #257

Murkin wrote: post #2

A self published book on "Redux". Still in progress but already sold for 3,160$ in revenue between me and a friend. Hope to have it really pickup once done and turn profitable https://leanpub.com/redux-book

why did you choose this leanpub platform? I like the fact it can publish unfinished book. but I'm worried that it is not as big as amazon?

Its a great place to build and edit the book. The pre-release is a good market validation bonus.

Once its done we will publish on Amazon as well (no exclusivity at leanpub)

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

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Post by brookside » Sun, Dec 11, 2016, 5:15 PM UTC

austenallred wrote: post #11

I co-wrote a book on user acquisition and co-created an accompanying video course to climb out of debt left over from a failed startup. Made $104,000 in revenue since June (turns out the user acquisition stuff actually works), about 87k of which is profit, so we'll say ~$11,000/month part-time. It still makes me a solid $2,000/month now with zero work, and hopefully more once the book is officially published. (It's d…

Making money selling a book isn't proof that the content of the book contains good advice for making money.

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

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Post by shadykiller » Sun, Dec 11, 2016, 5:17 PM UTC

I don't need to invest anywhere. My company invests for me in 401k and by the time i retire i will get $401,000 as the name suggests :)

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Post by hueving » Sun, Dec 11, 2016, 5:18 PM UTC

dorfsmay wrote: post #252

madaxe_again wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Man alive. Here in the UK a five year treasury bond yields precisely nothing - potentially less than nothing. I have a mountain of cash and nothing to invest it in here. Even property doesn't present a meaningful yield any more. It also doesn't look like it's going to get better, just worse - so as far as I can discern the best course of action is just to spend it before it becomes completely valueless. To stay ahead…

A quick google search shows UK inflation for the year at .9%. Why are you saying you need a 10% yield.

Read the second half of the sentence you are responding to.

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Post by djadmin » Sun, Dec 11, 2016, 5:19 PM UTC

georgiecasey wrote: post #156

an android app that pulls in about €500 a month. i coded it years ago and literally have not thought about it this year until now. it used to bring in about €700-€800 a month but i finally got some competition after a few years. i've noticed the app game is tightening up

and what is the app about? Any link to share?

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

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Post by toymachine » Sun, Dec 11, 2016, 5:26 PM UTC

grecy wrote: post #19

I wrote my first e-book [1] about how to save money to work less and live your dreams. I'm really happy for a first attempt, and it has inspired me to write more. [1] http://amzn.to/2hcfuB7 - Work Less to Live Your Dreams

Wow, that's awesome. How are you promoting/marketing it? How do people find out about it? And how are you getting reviews?

Have been thinking about this for awhile and haven't settled on the right topic yet!

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Post by alecmgo » Sun, Dec 11, 2016, 5:27 PM UTC

http://www.siliconvalleyguide.org is a geeky tour guide to Silicon Valley. It makes about $10/month in ads.

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

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Post by alecmgo » Sun, Dec 11, 2016, 5:27 PM UTC

http://www.siliconvalleyguide.org is a geeky tour guide to Silicon Valley. It makes about $10/month in ads.

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Post by brandables » Sun, Dec 11, 2016, 5:31 PM UTC

https://brandfountain.com

I sold a domain I had intended to develop this year to a FB founder for $12,000 and another for $7,500. After researching I found there are few places to buy really good startup domains so I made brandfountain to passively fund my startup(s)!

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Post by wordpressdev » Sun, Dec 11, 2016, 5:36 PM UTC

kohanz wrote: post #308

This was pretty accidental, but to motivate myself to complete the arduous application process for my professional engineering license, I creates a WordPress blog documenting the process. Also because I thought I would learn something new (setting up WP blog) and this seemed very "shippable". I completed the application process over the course of a year and haven't written a blog post in over a year. Thanks to a comp…

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