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

Post by kornholi » Sun, Dec 11, 2016, 9:39 AM UTC

chipperyman573 wrote: post #38

antr wrote: post #33

In early 2016 I purchased commercial real estate, got a 25 year fixed rate mortgage, and leased it. This requires very little of my time every month, and the post-tax yield is above 5%. I couldn't be happier. I'm now considering doing this again in 2017. Hopefully interest rates will remain as low as they have been in order to lock-in an attractive mortgage.

As the property owner, aren't you responsible for maintenance etc?

Post by bertjk » Sun, Dec 11, 2016, 9:45 AM UTC

Romajashi wrote: post #52

vladdanilov wrote: post #26

Optimage – a visually lossless image optimization tool http://getoptimage.com Released this week. Came unnoticed on HN but somehow got featured on PH. 1200+ downloads of free version and a few sales. Not sure if that'll change. In that case, the best of 2016 will be one of the plugins for Sketch https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12319286 .

what's PH?

Post by Pharaoh2 » Sun, Dec 11, 2016, 9:49 AM UTC

vladdanilov wrote: post #26

Optimage – a visually lossless image optimization tool http://getoptimage.com Released this week. Came unnoticed on HN but somehow got featured on PH. 1200+ downloads of free version and a few sales. Not sure if that'll change. In that case, the best of 2016 will be one of the plugins for Sketch https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12319286 .

Post by rachelandrew » Sun, Dec 11, 2016, 9:50 AM UTC

philippnagel wrote: post #44

rachelandrew wrote: post #29

I put my CSS Layout knowledge into an online course at: https://thecssworkshop.com/ Interestingly it has been very popular with teams (so selling a set of licenses so a whole team of developers can use the material). I also teach the same material in person (either in-house or in open workshops) so I'm keeping the two in sync. I made some notes about that process on my blog: https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2016/0…

Would you be willing to sell the code powering the website itself?

Post by pmx » Sun, Dec 11, 2016, 9:59 AM 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…