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Re: Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2018?

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Post by t0mislav »

chrismorgan wrote: post #41
t0mislav wrote: post #11

One small geography site, bringing "only" like 600-700$ a year, but it is passive. https://random.country/ I made few more similiar sites, but they all failed.

FYI, you’ve got encoding problems. When I was told about the “Aland Islands” (no accent on the A, but I’ll forgive that as a content error rather than an encoding error), the Wikipedia excerpt spoke of “The Ã…land Islands” while the actual Wikipedia article had “The Åland Islands”.

Thanks. I noticed that but tbth I was lazy to fix it as I needed to work on other things. But it will be fixed.

Re: Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2018?

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Post by max76 »

enraged_camel wrote: post #45
max76 wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Authoring a book is very passive income. Passive income is defined as high upfront work and very low maintenance work. Other than possible marketing tasks the author's job is done once the book is published and collects money on every sale.

>>Authoring a book is very passive income. Authoring a book, sure. But the parent poster implied that he/she continuously writes these stories, i.e. many of them, hence why they said it is "hard on the imagination".

Each book is passive income. I'd consider a prolific author as someone that makes a series of passive income intellectual properties.

Re: Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2018?

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Post by greysteil »

mightymosquito wrote: post #44
greysteil wrote: post #14

I built https://dependabot.com to be passive, but ended up going full time on it (the startup I was working on feel through). Generates $9k/month passively, but I put my full-time energy into growing it (adding new languages / improving support for existing ones).

How long did you work on it before it started making any money?

About 6 months and it was tough!

2 months of that (part time) was the initial build and the rest was hustling to get initial users. GitHub wouldn't put it in the GitHub Marketplace (which drives pretty much all signups now - I don't do any marketing or sales) until it had 250 users and it was a struggle getting the word out to that many people. In the end I did it by commenting on relevant open source PRs on GitHub asking if they'd be up for giving it a try (being really careful not to be spammy).

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kohanz wrote: post #50

I've posted about this before, but years ago I made a blog about completing the application and exams to obtain a professional engineering license in my jurisdiction. It is just a WordPress blog. Over a year or two, it started getting organic traffic since it provided information in an underserved niche. After making next to nothing with Google ads, I was approached by another site that sold help packages for the lic…

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Post by itprofessional4 »

Listed a paid vm on azure,aws and gcp . The VM has all the required setup for learning Etherem and Truffle. Created video tutorials alongside to help use the VM. I have made around $1500 so far in 6 months and still counting.

http://techlatest.net/products/products/

http://techlatest.net/support/ethereum/

Re: Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2018?

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Post by tosbourn »

wyclif wrote: post #57

Is anybody doing "Parrot Secrets" type eBooks? And if you have and are reading this, what have been your best selling books? Referencing this sort of thing: http://www.parrotsecrets.com/ An explainer: https://www.cringely.com/2009/03/14/parrot-secrets/

When I was about 16 I collated a load of information on looking after your bearded dragon and sold the eBook on eBay - maybe made around £150 overall. I was chuffed at the time.

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Post by hultner »

greysteil wrote: post #14

I built https://dependabot.com to be passive, but ended up going full time on it (the startup I was working on feel through). Generates $9k/month passively, but I put my full-time energy into growing it (adding new languages / improving support for existing ones).

Very cool service, might try this out!
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