~ $1,000/month in stock dividends.
What's the ROI on that?
Based on the original cost, it's 17% (10% excluding outliers). Based on current market value, it's 6%. I did sell off some REITs at a loss a three years ago for tax purposes.
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?
#72$25k in revenue, ~$15k in net income (at 12-15% monthly growth) from http://jivosite.ru (English version http://jivosite.com is yet work in progress). This is online chat for e-commerce web sites sold primarily to russian-speaking audience, USA & Europe sales start in 2-3 months. Bootstrapped, no office, 2 co-founders (1 business+tech, 1 tech), 3 employees (1 marketing, 1 customer support, 1 programmer).
How long have you worked on that, and how long have you been in business in Russia?
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
The food blog is awesome! http://www.theyummylife.com/Refrigerator_Oatmeal
The detail and personal experience make it feel more adventurous than a normal cookbook or recipe blog. I have a few questions: * Are you building on top of a blog platform, or is this mostly custom? (The BuiltWith page makes this site appear full of tech [1]). * What % of the revenue comes from Amazon referral links? * Are there other revenue sources? * Can you discuss your visitor distribution (first time vs. repea…
The blog is entirely custom. Several years ago I made my own blogging software just as a fun side-project, and I decided to use that code as the base for The Yummy Life. It sucks missing out on all the great WordPress plugins, but it's really nice having absolute control over the entire experience. I know you technically have control with WordPress, but it's much harder to edit someone else's code than your own (for me, anyway).
Until recently, Amazon made up almost all of our revenue. Now that we're doing slightly better with advertising, Amazon makes up about 60-70%. We also sell a $1 eBook, but we only sell about one per day, so that revenue isn't significant. This information isn't up-to-date, but you can read a blog post about our monetization: http://www.lessannoyingcrm.com/articles/259/How_I_monetized_...
Visitor information:
-65% new, 35% returning
-1.7 pages per visit
-1.2 million page views last month
-Most traffic comes from Pinterest or direct. We get ~3000 visitors from search each day. My mom (understandably) hates link building, so we don't have many inbound links meaning there's not much referral traffic, and we also have weak SEO relative to other blogs our size.
-Almost all traffic comes from the U.S.
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#74I make about $5/month on Food Trucks Near Me [1] through ads. At least it's not losing money! [1] http://foodtrucksnearme.com
I assume the hosting is not free?
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#75I won't go into numbers, but I make a living running http://www.improvely.com , http://www.w3counter.com , and http://www.dialshield.com Improvely is a monthly subscription with a free trial period, W3Counter is freemium, and DialShield is pay-as-you-go. They are all bootstrapped and profitable.
Dan, I respect your decision to not discuss numbers, but judging by the quality of your products I'd have to guess you're generating an extremely healthy revenue stream.
Of all the SaaS entrepreneurs I've found, you seem to be the one who's closest to exactly where I want to be eventually (running a suite of SaaS products).
Do you have any general tips for people following the same path? Anything you'd do differently?
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#76I make a little over 600$ selling a Newsletter script on Codecanyon http://codecanyon.net/item/newsletter-mailer-v13/149365 Currently I am planing a SaaS Newsletter Mailer.
MailChimp?
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#77Created an iOS dev company few months ago w/ a friend. We made $50k in August from a successful free iphone app. (around $40k in a regular month). We are only two in the company and we are still college students. Don't know what to say more about this but feel free to ask any question (except what is the app ^^)
Any tips on getting traffic to an app?
focus on popular niches, but not overdid ones (ex: games). Some have a lot of opportunities.
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#78A flash game I built in high school (about 7 years ago) went from an average of $30 per month on AdSense to $500 the next month, to $3,600 the month after that due to an unexpected surge in traffic for a keyword for which it ranked #1 on Google. The $3,600 month happened in May, and it has since dropped steadily to about $1,500 a month now. Regardless, it was a nice surprise since the game was just sitting there from…
How is it making money? With ads?
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#79A couple of years ago I started a food blog with my mom (www.theyummylife.com). She does all the writing, and I do programming, design, and monetization. I spent a lot of time setting it up originally, but now it only takes a few hours each week of my time. Right now we're making $5000-6000/month after expenses, and I get 40% of that. My main business (a bootstrapped SaaS startup) generates more than that, but the pr…
Does your mom snap the photos herself? They're - dare I say - a big part of what makes the site so great.
Top-notch design.