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Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2020?

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Re: Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2020?

#41
I sell two products on Gumroad. One is an ebook about AWS, and the other is a 1.5hr video about building on audience.

Sales past 12 months: $290K

- Dec: $25K

- Jan: $26K

- Feb: $8K

- Mar: $9K

- Apr: $43K

- May: $59K

- Jun: $25K

- Jul: $14K

- Aug: $21K

- Sep: $12K

- Oct: $17K

- Nov: $29K

Profit: $256K

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Re: Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2020?

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The stock market has had a ridiculous year. I'm mostly dull indicies, with a middling adventurous fund that has more than doubled in the last year; my investments increased by about 30% overall. My investments brought home more money than I did (I've been in full-time employment throughout) and I'm starting to wonder if Piketty wasn't on to something. Utterly passive and zero effort on my side; I just do what they sa…

Yeah, this has been a good year so far. I actually pulled a decent chunk of money out early on. I'd have been better off not doing so though it probably helped me sleep better through some of the swings. And, even so, it's been a good year with almost entirely passive investing.

Of course, it's not just this year. Anyone who has been able to have a significant of money in the market over the past ten years with any reasonable diversification strategy has done more than OK--even if they've been somewhat conservative.

Re: Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2020?

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I made a watermarking software 10 years ago, still makes 1000$ every month, with almost zero work. http://watermark-image.com :)

Not bad. I see many people who mention a SaaS, books, a website, etc. and a lot of the time it doesn't look all that passive for the typically small amount of income it brings in. Nothing wrong with any of these things of course. They're just not really a passive income stream. Of course, very few things are truly passive, especially things that have minimal risk to the original capital.

It was more work 5 years ago, doing 5-6-7k$

These days it is a few minutes a few times a week, doing support.

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