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TLD List - https://tld-list.com It's a price comparison website for top-level domains. Gross on average is $600/month through affiliate sales and data download subscriptions. Requires maybe 10-20 hours of work per month for maintenance and new features. The most difficult part is tracking registrar affiliate earnings, and then actually getting paid by the registrar. Many require you to manually request a payout once…
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Unemployment is only 4.9% because the participation rate dropped 3% points in the last 10 years: http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000 That's close to 10 million people who have stopped looking for jobs who we would otherwise expect to have them.
Baby Boomers should be leaving the labor market though.
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I do have portfolio of small web apps: tools for learning music notes, non-latin alphabets, language flash cards and so forth. They are making some nice money each year, but the trend is quite clear: given same traffic I am making about 50% less each year. Ad revenue is way down (more adblock users, less money per click, CTR is down), but paid premium plans are balancing it a bit. These projects are still my biggest…
How are the p2p loans doing?
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> but given that I have a 12 month DSRA account in place, I'm quite happy with the investment.
What happens if you can't find tenants for 12+ months? I've seen many commercial properties sit barely occupied for years.
I wrote Hello Web App and Hello Web App: Intermediate Concepts ( http://hellowebapp.com , they're learn-to-build-a-web-app books using Django) and self-published both in 2015. Just checked and this year I've made about $13,000 in profit. It's mostly passive — this year I started using a fulfillment company so the majority of my work is sending them orders (and answering questions about the book.) Hoping to continue t…
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I think "over promise and under deliver" has been part of business for far before any of us were around :) Or spoken in more buzzword silicon valley speak - you have to set customer expectations and then aim to exceed them.
I think "over promise and under deliver" has been part of business for far before any of us were around :) Sorry but isn't it 'under-promise and over-deliver'? Just double-checking...
Domain sales, over US$ 2M/yr that could have been mid 7 figures easily but still holding onto those other gems. With all the new extensions valuable .com domains is where it is. Brokers managing sales. Also not sure if falls into passive or not, sold a business few years ago and did the financing, still getting paid monthly for few more years.
25$/month in Adsense. Not much, but it's passive and it grows. Everything started as a fun small project. http://random.country/
I'm really curious to know how you promote and get traffic to a site like that. I've seen a couple and I've been working on my own, but I've never known how they get discovered.
https://www.castingcall.club Social network for amateur voice actors. I wrote about it here: https://medium.com/@buf/accidentally-built-a-successful-soci... Brings in about $2k/mo. p2p lending is hit or miss for me: 3-10% Index funds pull in the rest. I've also moved temporarily to a very cheap COL country so that I can focus on some more side projects to pull in extra sources of income before I return to the work fo…
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To be fair porn sites do need all the video/image optimization they can get due to the sheer amount of data they hold
Yes, Pornhub uses a mix of JPEGmini and our own image optimization.
Sorry if this isn't in your wheelhouse or it's inappropriate to ask in a HN comment.