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Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate and from what?

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I net about $1000/mo from one decently-watched pluralsight video I made over a year ago - http://www.pluralsight.com/courses/description/building-dotn...

What tools did you use to create the video?

I used (and they recommend) Camtasia Studio. Also picked up a Rode Podcaster microphone for decent audio quality.

Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate and from what?

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Around $2k / month from real estate rentals after expenses. It'd be a little less if I hired a property manager to make it fully passive, but I actually enjoy doing the property management myself as it gets me away from the computer and exposes me to things I would never otherwise be involved with.

How much would you make if you hired a property manager?

Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate and from what?

#83
Stocks 300 / month with a custom data analysis (very simple, it's based on event. It analyse stok data and highlit regular period of high on the stocks on the same date each year, and after by hand i try to find why it goes high, and i can put past event also and it told me if theses event have an influence on stocks in the past). http://www.skruge.in/ https://github.com/skruge/skruge.github.io

I'am limited by the amount of cash. I'am in the process of launching a fund.

Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate and from what?

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post #77

$30K per month from https://www.improvely.com A few thousand per month from https://www.w3counter.com

nice stats. i have signed up for w3, proceeded to add a site, noticed i cant make the counter invisible, saw the pro signup page, closed the site. maybe you should consider to let the first site added to be free with pro features and charge for the next sites , or maybe for a 60 day period and then ask for pro.

Thanks for the feedback. W3Counter has around 79,000 users despite never being advertised; I don't really care to grow it faster by giving away more. The PRO features cost money because they cost me more money -- they include real-time reports that take more server resources to scale.

W3Counter's always been a pet project I built for myself, back in the days before Google Analytics existed, that I've just been happy to see pay for itself. The site turned 10 this year.

Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate and from what?

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post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

how many units do you manage? what would you guess you spend, time wise, managing the property per month?

2 properties, currently looking for a third. Probably about 3 hours / month right now max. Edit: It's so low because I buy properties that are in good shape. I have a full time job so I wouldn't have time to focus on doing repairs and improvements.

Any advice for someone looking to get into real estate investment?

Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate and from what?

#88

Just 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 ;))

It's been several years now that I'd like to launch a few side projects. But contrary to the crowd here I'm just a normal human : when I come home I'm just exhausted and / or want to do something else than coding.

I could use the extra cash though. This month I even tried placing bets on soccer and tennis and failed miserably.

Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate and from what?

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I am a Google apps reseller and have a few customers. My customers get the accounts for a small discount then what they would direct and I make a small margin. Right now the total on that is about 1200 a year. I pretty much use that as a "toy slush fund" and use it to buy geeky stuff without getting in trouble from the boss ( wife ).

Do you provide just customer service? Or do you also manage the accounts for them as well?

Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate and from what?

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post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

how many units do you manage? what would you guess you spend, time wise, managing the property per month?

2 properties, currently looking for a third. Probably about 3 hours / month right now max. Edit: It's so low because I buy properties that are in good shape. I have a full time job so I wouldn't have time to focus on doing repairs and improvements.

Feel free to email me for advice
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