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Re: Ask HN: What are your passive income sources?

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Post by abrookewood »

dorfsmay wrote: post #13
csallen wrote: post #4

I run https://IndieHackers.com where I interview developers/entrepreneurs about how they make money from their apps and projects. There are tons of examples there that fit into the "passive income" category as you define it ("making something that makes you money while you sleep"). A couple of good examples from the site: - park.io (from Mike Carson) makes $125,000/mo taking domain backorders; he essentually wrote to…

You're going to write a blog post on your site about how to make passive income, which you are doing by hosting your site about how to make passive income! I don't think it can get more meta than that!

I think that's an abuse of the term passive income - his site's product is the interviews he conducts. Unless he automates that away (which would be interesting), he's intrinsically tied up with it's success.

Re: Ask HN: What are your passive income sources?

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Post by abrookewood »

jefflinwood wrote: post #26

I still get royalties from programming books I wrote about ten years ago - the content has been updated by other authors in the mean time, and the corresponding royalty split has declined, but I don't do anything active either. On the not-quite-as-passive side, I have an iPad game that I had basically left out in the Apple App Store for several years, where it sold with no involvement or investment on my end. Only re…

What type of programming book did you write that is still relevant 10 years ago? Presumably something not tied to a specific language or technology?

Re: Ask HN: What are your passive income sources?

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Post by atemerev »

pigpigs wrote: post #71
atemerev wrote: post #33

I run a few high frequency trading algorithms on Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. These are research-grade and not scalable (I already make 20-30% of trading volume on some exchanges), however, it still brings me around $200 per month.

I'm actually thinking of doing this starting this weekend (mostly for fun). Any tips you care to share?

1) Have fun 2) Start from obvious opportunities first, then move to less obvious 3) Commissions are the killer, minimize it at all costs.

Re: Ask HN: What are your passive income sources?

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Post by dizrupt »

bkrull wrote: post #70

I run BitPixels ( http://www.bitpixels.com ) that provides automated website thumbnails. I purchased Bitpixels from another HN member a few years ago and have continued to build and market it. BitPixels currently makes ~$1k/month which is enough to cover the App Engine and DigitalOcean bills plus a bit extra. I'm working to find 1-2 more marketing channels that can drive sustainable growth.

Not 100% sure how this works or what it does. Can you explain?

Re: Ask HN: What are your passive income sources?

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Post by tom_wilde »

Veratyr wrote: post #61

I'm invested in forex (foreign currency trading). There are 3 buckets I'm in: - $3500 deposited, run since Jun 3 (~5 months), current balance is $5200 (48% total profit, 8%/mo). - $5000 deposited, run since Jun 28 (~4 months), current balance is $4590 (8% total loss, ~-2%/mo). - $3000 deposited, run since Sep 2 (~2 months), current balance is $3218 (7% total profit, ~3.5%/mo). It's certainly not for everyone but it's…

did you apply Deep Learning / ML techniques here? ;)
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