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

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

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Post by wellboy »

pjbrunet wrote: post #361
tluyben2 wrote: post #355

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These ideas were not original to start with; 4 pics 1 word (which is, imho, incredibly boring) somehow got a lot of attention, downloads and money but was never original. Then 100s of devs copied it in some way or another. All these 'games' look / work the same. I made one for a client and the 24 hours sounds plausible including artwork but excluding the actual levels. That would take around another day. Making a few…

Seems to me someone with this much skill/ability could easily make $100k/year ($100 x 1000 successful app months) plus pension/benefits just working for the government. 10x easier work with 10x the pay and more stability. And "mobile apps" is supposedly the promising, high-tech growth segment of the economy everyone is harping on. What's wrong with this picture?

But I value my work at $50,000/h, so I need to focus on my startup 100%, that's why I didn't want to spend more than 10 days in sustaining myself (10 apps a 24h).

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

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Post by emhart »

emhart wrote: post #223
jsleuth wrote: post #185

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Now that's interesting. Please do share more about your disposition away from revenue. What does that mean to you?

I'm trying to think how to explain it without using anecdotes, as I want to understand it myself without punting to simile. I know that I undervalue the importance of money in my own life (I have been poor to the point of homelessness once, poor the point of selling possessions to get rent/food money a few times). I also undervalue my worth, almost never charging an appropriate amount for my time. I've cultivated a n…

Hey, halfcat, I hope you revisit this thread and see this, but you are apparently hellbanned (only those of us with "showdead" on can see you. I actually can't imagine why, your comment history all seems pretty reasonable. Anyway, figured I'd leave this here to let you know. Good luck.

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

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Post by konradb »

jakobe wrote: post #241

I make around $2000/month from two Mac apps (database tools). Revenue is falling as multiple competitors cloned my profitable app, so I have to do more client work again :(

Is there any way you find to guard against competitors cloning your app? Do you have any recourse?

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

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Post by mansigandhi »

pjbrunet wrote: post #356
mansigandhi wrote: post #43

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Nothing about what Apple and Google provide for developers/App Store is "passive".

I disagree. Nobody at Google would have a job if it wasn't for Adsense/Adwords, which hasn't changed since the Goto.com days. It's a fancy click counter script paying everyone's salary. Search = content to sell clicks. You could fire 99% of everyone at Google and they wouldn't lose one penny of profit.

So the App store infrastructure, support, etc just built itself automatically? The entire eco-system would not have been possible without them making it.

I've been an App developer for 4 years now and have no qualms with apple taking the 'passive' 30%

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

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Post by rk0567 »

$500-$1000 per month from my blog [0], Railyo [1] and from another website [2] from Adsense, Direct Fees and Affiliate programs. I spend 2-6 hours a month.

[0] http://blog.sudobits.com - I blog about free and open source softwares, tools, news and so.

[1] http://railyo.com - Job board for Rails freelancers.

[2] http://assembleyourpc.net - A simple tool for building pc online.

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

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Post by emhart »

sixdimensional wrote: post #387
emhart wrote: post #223

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I'm trying to think how to explain it without using anecdotes, as I want to understand it myself without punting to simile. I know that I undervalue the importance of money in my own life (I have been poor to the point of homelessness once, poor the point of selling possessions to get rent/food money a few times). I also undervalue my worth, almost never charging an appropriate amount for my time. I've cultivated a n…

I am like you. Recently, I was given the advice (by someone who the advice was working for well) to hire a business manager. You do what you are good at (producing content, conducting research, giving workshops & lectures) and they manage the business. You need to be able to trust them, but assuming you can find somebody like that and afford to pay them, it makes a lot of sense. Perhaps there should be an app for tha…

I'd love to! But, the 3 people I've approached about it so far have all failed to work with a single lead. Literally I'll forward them an email asking me to come speak somewhere, and they never communicate with the person or me about the work again.

If anyone on HN wants to start a speakers agency for tech/security folk, I'd be first in line to sign up :)

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

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Post by marco-fiset »

egomaksab wrote: post #369

4 figure each month, Breeze ( http://breeze.pm ), it's a project management app (Basecamp and Trello mashup).

The thing with saying "4 figures" is that it can be anywhere between 1000 and 9999, and that is a way too big range to even give us an idea.
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