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My wife and I made a small, word based multiplayer mobile game (gibberish game) in 2020 during first lockdowns. It's been making over $500 consistently ever since: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/guess-the-gibberish/id15137961...
There’s hundreds of word games on the App Store - do you do a lot of marketing and promotion to gain new users?
Adsense revenue on a simulation based web game, https://sandspiel.club , Investing all of that money back into development though, it's a passion project.
It is a simple web app that displays map sizes without Mercator projection distortion. It hits 500$/month (google ads) on occasion.
I'm running a website for people learning Japanese (a dictionary and an SRS/Anki replacement, among other things) and currently making ~$1300/month from Patreon donations, up from ~$590/month the last time this show and tell was posted. Link to the website: https://jpdb.io/ Still only a side-project, and will probably stay that way for a long time still. Here's some info about the tech stack I'm using: https://news.y…
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Nice. I am exploring something very similar, but for a different language. I am curious if you considered making this a business (as in paid features/subscription based) and if not why not?
> I am exploring something very similar, but for a different language. Which language if I may ask? I'd like to branch out into other languages too in the future (preferably into something that's easier to parse than Japanese), but since I'm nowhere near done with Japanese at this point it's probably going to take many more years until I do so. > I am curious if you considered making this a business (as in paid featu…
Mandarin Chinese. I taught myself the basics (and a bit beyond) quite a while ago, but I am unhappy with either always having to start from scratch with every new tool I try or learn irrelevant things I am not interested in. Before I have seen your site I thought this to be quite a niche use-case, maybe it still is.
Really just want to scratch my own itch, but if I can also add value for others and make this a well-rounded product, even better.
I made it to monetize my own extensions but other devs have used it to make over $69k and counting which feels really cool. The API is open source, really easy to use, works across browsers, and doesn't cost anything until someone pays for the extension:
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I must say its pretty special to retire because of investing in such a short period. Must be with a great starting capital.
I would not consider years a short period. But anyway I have started with around 50-65k. Don't remember exactly. Around 50k was inheritance. I knew about investing since I was a teenager. I was interested in trading futures because that's what was popular back then during my high school years. But I realized day-trading is just another day job, so I never got into it. And stocks, back then, were expensive(broker fees…
Congrats btw, its good to hear a success story that does not have a course or affiliate/sales link attached!
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I would not consider years a short period. But anyway I have started with around 50-65k. Don't remember exactly. Around 50k was inheritance. I knew about investing since I was a teenager. I was interested in trading futures because that's what was popular back then during my high school years. But I realized day-trading is just another day job, so I never got into it. And stocks, back then, were expensive(broker fees…
Are you able to share what platform you use for trading, and any regular reliable sources of information you use? Congrats btw, its good to hear a success story that does not have a course or affiliate/sales link attached!
I am very lucky that my broker charges me insanely cheap fees - 7.95$ for up to 100 shares and 9.95$ for more than 100 shares per order. Since I usually do tens of thousands of shares per order, this saved me many thousands on fees throughout the years. Usually I think it is 0.02$ per share with most brokers. You can use brokers that use spread to avoid paying any fees but I would strongly discourage from those brokers and just pay the fees(spread is where you want to buy at $1.00 but the broker waits for 0.99$ and takes the fee of $0.01*number of shares and same if you want to sell).
As for sources of information, you have to find your own. I watch yahoo comment sections on stocks I am interested in and I am mostly on stocktwits. Not that you get much out of there(plenty of smoothbrains, like everywhere) but I like to keep myself up-to-date in case something goes down or someone has a good analysis to share(not very often). It simply keeps me engaged.
As for investing advice..I would highly recommend getting Phil Town's Rule #1 book. I haven't finished it after the years but it is VERY good for novice investors. It is written in very plain language, the advice is very defensive(safe investing) and the guy had humble beginnings so he went through the rough himself. He also has YT channel and podcast but that's up to you if you want to follow. But I drew inspiration from him, among others, for sure. Best thing to do is to look for creators and find the ones you resonate with and simply follow those. Each has different approach so you need to find the ones whose philosophy you like. Keep in mind that most of YT scene are people who have no idea about anything and just bullshit their audience. So be careful to not fall for that. It will take you time to filter out these people.
But I must warn you to avoid getting lost in theory. It's mostly just complete bullshit. The entire financial industry, especially investing, is based on making simple things as confusing as possible and selling people the lie that they cannot do it themselves. Investing is really as simple as basic math in elementary school. Heck, even pre-school. Once you start learning you'll see it's all just a bunch of grifters trying to profit on people's ignorance.
PS: be wary of any financial magazines/websites. For one, one day they write "sell" the other day, heck even hour, they write "buy". They are NOT reliable source of ANY information. Think about what they are in the first place - they need to cater to all people to get the views and clicks. So they will write whatever the audience wants. And for second, don't listen to any analysts or people giving investing advice for free. If they would be any good, they would not be analysts but rather invest themselves. Same goes for any courses, classes,... whatever. Those who know do, those who don't teach. It's 10000% true in investing. In the end, it is YOUR money and YOU have to make the decision. No one else.
Running https://rosterbird.com on the side for 2 years now. It's oscillating between $800-$900 mrr for the past 3 months. I originally wanted it to be a passive income project but it has grown in scope before I even realized. Building and maintaining a B2B SaaS on the side is pretty draining. There's always more features, support requests, etc. Wouldn't recommend unless it takes off immediately or it is within a nice…
Some feedback: Your homepage is focused on all the features of what the software does. I'm super technical and someone that signs up for SaaS all the time (plus angel invests in B2B SaaS companies), and I can't quite understand what you're software really does based on the site copy.
Speak more to the pain-points. I'm someone that is an early adopter and this sounds up my alley, but I'm left confused by what why I would even sign up for your service, and I'm giving it more time and attention to try and figure it out than most.
What is the ideal customer profile? What pain-points are your solution solving for your existing customers? I'm actually just genuinely curious. But also take those answers and make them more clear on the site versus just listing the features.
I built OnlineOrNot ( https://onlineornot.com ) - it's a hosted Status Page, with built-in Uptime Monitoring. It supports: * Custom domains * Private Status Pages (password protection) * Automatically posting incidents to your status page based on uptime monitoring (possible to BYO monitoring via Uptime Robot) * Subscribing to incident updates via Email The uptime monitoring itself supports websites, web apps, and AP…
Congrats on building up to that revenue! There seem to be a lot of these type of services, how do you differentiate yourself?
Some more takeaways from the start of the year here: https://onlineornot.com/what-learned-running-saas-for-year
You'd also be surprised at how many competitors ceased to exist over the last 18 months.