I make around $10-$20 a month from my amazon affiliate link generator.
http://blog.onaclovtech.com/2012/12/how-to-quickly-build-ama...
That actually got me work for another app, and I make around $10-$20 off that as well per month.
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?
#52I currently make about 1000EUR/month consistently from an Android app I sell for 9.99EUR. It's a tasks app that syncs with OmniFocus. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.quantus.app...
That is quite remarkable, do you think the OmniFocus integration is the killer feature that gets most people to pay?
I think so, the app is purely focussed on OmniFocus integration and reuses their backend.
Most of my customers pay for the app because they are heavy OmniFocus users on the Mac and recently switched to Android.
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate and from what?
#53Just wanted to add a note: Most people who aren't making anything won't be posting, so results will be drastically skewed. So for anyone here getting discourage because they think their a minority - think otherwise (And then get back to work on trying to get your own setup ;))
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate and from what?
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I agree. I just think newbies should understand the market doesn't only move up.
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#55Bingo Card Creator is pretty firmly EOLed. Sales YTD this year are about $30k, probably $35k all-in for the year. Profits are stable at about 60% unless I miss my guess. This is down substantially from previous years, partly as a result of Google changes which I haven't made the least bit of effort into looking into. Also have ~$1k a month from books/courses, and hoping to get out another course before the end of the year, if life cooperates.
My main gig these days is Appointment Reminder. I'd describe it as "modestly successful." (A single signup for the largest publicly available plan is, probabilistically, worth more than BCC made in its best months. Historically, that has only received about as much sales effort as BCC clients got -- i.e. nil -- but I'm experimenting with having active inside sales starting this week.)
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate and from what?
#56$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 is…
Yeah, that is one issue that I did encounter at first. Supporting users.
Luckily, since most of the marketing comes from word-of-mouth, a lot of users have a decent knowledge of Linux / VPS'.
I also make Ruby scripts as well as using a crap-ton of custom shortcuts in Mutt (terminal-based email) so answer support tickets quickly and without a ton of effort.
The occasional ticket I usually get involves some form of client-side/user issue such as a borked Linux package install. Usually I bite-the-bullet and say "We don't usually provide support.. but I would suggest having a look at X or Y on your VPS." 90% of the time the customer fixes it with my guidance and they learn what do to next time it happens. The other 10% I unfortunately say tough luck to and suggest to hire a Sysadmin or I link them to someone who can provide support for cheap setting things up.
Funny enough, most Chinese / Indonesian customers rarely ask questions! Even if they don't speak English well, we can still understand each-other in Linux terms. I don't know if it's a cultural thing, but most Eastern clients countries try and figure the issue out themselves first. Western clients usually open a ticket first, then figure the issue out.
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate and from what?
#57I own and run a website, in the category of special-interest news stories, that's making 10–15k a month consistently for almost 10 years. (Yeah, we got started early, which is probably why I have good search engine rankings.) Google AdSense is the only means of income. We get close to 1 million unique visitors a month. Just me and one other part-time employee running it, so it's been a pretty spectacular (and unexpected! It started as a hobby) success.
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate and from what?
#58I have a small iPhone app that generates around 200 a month. Nothing spectacular but not bad for a bit extra.
I always thought that building something like this might generate an initial income (and potentially a profit) but that consistent, longer-term revenue was much harder to come by. Any chance you'd expand on what your app does and what the revenue generation/ongoing promotion model is?
It's a utility app. I think that if you build something people will get some use out of, and make it look (and be) easy to use then you should get a fairly recurring revenue. A lot of the smaller apps look bad, so i just tried to make mine look a little more like something i'd want to use.
I think it depends on store positioning too, once i got into the top charts for my section then I got more downloads (or maybe i got there because i got more downloads, i guess it's a rolling ball effect).
I plan to do some more utility ones soon, and i'm working on a bit of a bigger one (health based) now that will hopefully provide more value to people.
I'd be happy to tell you more about it and what i did if you want. My email is in my profile.
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate and from what?
#59I own and run a website, in the category of special-interest news stories, that's making 10–15k a month consistently for almost 10 years. (Yeah, we got started early, which is probably why I have good search engine rankings.) Google AdSense is the only means of income. We get close to 1 million unique visitors a month. Just me and one other part-time employee running it, so it's been a pretty spectacular (and unexpected! It started as a hobby) success.
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate and from what?
#60I net about $1000/mo from one decently-watched pluralsight video I made over a year ago - http://www.pluralsight.com/courses/description/building-dotn...
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