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

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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.

been looking into real estate investment lately, what do you consider a good roi?

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

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We launched Watsi's Universal Fund [1] (our monthly donation product) a few weeks ago. However, we had people beta testing our previous version of monthly donations for around a year before that.

We've had 671 people join in total. 1 signup today. 8 signups this week. $21,300 in recurring monthly donations. $1,900 in recurring monthly tips (to our operations). The median monthly donation is $20.

Since we launched the Universal Fund we've seen a conversion rate of 2.42% (signups/sessions). I'd be curious to know what conversion rates other recurring revenue products see.

[1] https://watsi.org/universal-fund

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

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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 ;))

People on H1B, like me, simply can't. It is ilegal to have any income coming anywhere else other than the employer associated to the H1B...

It is ilegal to even make money on ads on a blog... this completely sucks and is very frustrating.

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

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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 am…

I am fairly clueless about stocks. Would you mind sharing how would one start? How much upfront cost does it require?

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

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About $450 a month from my share of a spanish language bookstore, reader, and audiobook player app. It provides public domain books and Librevox recordings in a nice UI and all cleaned up. Users can buy books for 0.99 or 1.99 or buy the whole library for 4.99

I spent about 4-5 months working on it full time and kind of consider it a failure, but revenue isn't dropping. I don't know how to grow it though because it is search targeted.

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

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100-200 a month from having an android app. The free version has had 483k downloads, makes ~5$/day advertising (admob/adsense). ~250 downloads a day, been on the market since 2011. The paid version ($2.99) has had Unfortunately I've no time to keep it updated so last update was in 2012.

thank for sharing. it's surprising that nearly half a million downloads translates into such a small amount of revenue. is this the nature of in-app advertising, or is this because the number of active users of the app is much smaller than the number of downloads?

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

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My wife and I have an old website that makes about 1200 euros/mo from Adsense. No work on it in years. So many ideas, so little time.

Whilst I understand you won't want to share what the website is, can you give us an idea of how you went about picking the particular niche you choose, how you built traffic, how you wrote the content? I presume most of this is pure organic search engine traffic that is highly SEO optimised? Those are some nice figures. Have you not though about replicating this x100?

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

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post #93

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 ;))

People on H1B, like me, simply can't. It is ilegal to have any income coming anywhere else other than the employer associated to the H1B... It is ilegal to even make money on ads on a blog... this completely sucks and is very frustrating.

How about if the income is in your country of origin? Can't your side project just pay out where ever you're from? It's the Internet, websites aren't really located anywhere.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

This blog post is highly misleading. The only reason you made $6k in a month with index funds is A) because you would have already had about $60k in the account and B) because indexes were recovering from a large drop just before that one-month time horizon. To give more perspective, the 3-month return for your most heavily weighted fund is about half of the current 1-month average. To make $6k/month assuming average…

I have more then 60k in the account. Yes, results are atypical. I said that in the blog post. I also said assume 8% a year returns on average. Edit: Btw, everything you said is true. And great advice for those trying to follow a similar path. I rarely even check my on my stocks, it's mostly set it and forget it. I simplified this for family members and friends who I think would benefit greatly from investing.

Hey Steven,

I saw what your investing allocation was from your blog post 60% VTSAX, 25% VTIAX, 10% VGSIX, & 5% VBTLX

Have you heard of betterment? https://www.betterment.com/portfolio/

What do you think of betterments portfolio strategy and allocation? For younger people they recommend 90% stocks 10% bonds.

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

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Bingo Card Creator is pretty firmly EOLed. Sales YTD this year are about $30k, probably $35k all-in for the year. Profits are stable at about 60% unless I miss my guess. This is down substantially from previous years, partly as a result of Google changes which I haven't made the least bit of effort into looking into. Also have ~$1k a month from books/courses, and hoping to get out another course before the end of the…

Please share your experience with active inside sales (when you have some anecdata) - I know many of us would find it a valuable read.
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