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

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Post by stevenmays »

tthrowaaa__dddd wrote: post #32
tvanantwerp wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This blog post is highly misleading. The only reason you made $6k in a month with index funds is A) because you would have already had about $60k in the account and B) because indexes were recovering from a large drop just before that one-month time horizon. To give more perspective, the 3-month return for your most heavily weighted fund is about half of the current 1-month average. To make $6k/month assuming average…

Probably also good to point newbies at the chart from late 2008.

Even accounting for 2008 and the great depression, historically the stock market returns 8% a year. It's a solid vehicle for wealth growth.

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

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Post by twelvenmonkeys »

$190 / month (net profit, after tax, fees, everything) from my cheap-as-hell VPS company (http://kihi.io). Helps little-businesses get off the ground for only a $2 VPS. Fortunately it hasn't had many orders as of late since everything is quite full.

Largest customer base has been China & Indonesia which brings in a lot of happy faces and awesome customers, so I got that going for me at least, which is nice.

Been looking at alternative plans (disposable VPS' maybe?) and other ways of profit.

I've done enough Android development to warrant a decent app, so maybe I should create a few more in the horizon.

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

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Post by Ologn »

gravitronic wrote: post #12

100-200 a month from having an android app. The free version has had 483k downloads, makes ~5$/day advertising (admob/adsense). ~250 downloads a day, been on the market since 2011. The paid version ($2.99) has had Unfortunately I've no time to keep it updated so last update was in 2012.

I've made $1500 in the past month on my Android apps. I also did some additional Android stuff with a partner, so that would be another couple of hundred dollars on top of that.

All from ads. Mostly Admob, but also Millennial Media and Inmobi.

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

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Post by chrisdew »

I wrote virtsync, an alternative to rsync, which performs much better on sparse, GB+ files that don't change much (like VM disk images). http://www.virtsync.com

It's a niche product that makes me $1-2K per year.

More importantly, virtsync customers have hired me for other jobs.

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

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Post by jliptzin »

Around $2k / month from real estate rentals after expenses. It'd be a little less if I hired a property manager to make it fully passive, but I actually enjoy doing the property management myself as it gets me away from the computer and exposes me to things I would never otherwise be involved with.

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

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Post by Someone1234 »

twelvenmonkeys wrote: post #44

$190 / month (net profit, after tax, fees, everything) from my cheap-as-hell VPS company ( http://kihi.io ). Helps little-businesses get off the ground for only a $2 VPS. Fortunately it hasn't had many orders as of late since everything is quite full. Largest customer base has been China & Indonesia which brings in a lot of happy faces and awesome customers, so I got that going for me at least, which is nice. Been lo…

That is "cheap-as-hell."

People who have ran other hosting companies have claimed that "the lower the price the more support you have to provide" (because in the low end many users won't have dedicated technical personnel or are just penny pinching and will shift problems to you when possible).

Has that been your experience? How do you cover the cost of support time in general at $2/month. Also is there a language issue as your customers are Chinese and Indonesian?

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

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Post by quickpost »

jeremyjarrell wrote: post #23

I generate about $1750 USD per month producing training videos for Pluralsight, most recently on how developers can make sense of agile. http://www.pluralsight.com/author/jeremy-jarrell The $1750 month is the current rolling average. It can be much more when a new course is launching.

From only two courses? That seems pretty darn good!
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