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Ask HN: What is your best passive income in 2017?
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Re: Ask HN: What is your best passive income in 2017?
#2Unfortunately, all of the best moneymakers probably won't get shared, because the people don't want competitors.
I don't have any real passive income, myself, but one of my buddies has a pretty sweet setup.
He wrote a bunch of trading bots that would automatically perform arbitrage between all of the bitcoin exchanges. He wrote a variety of bots with different strategies, and then he would lease them out to people and take a cut of the profits (in addition to doing his own arbitrage trading with his extra money). From the sound of it, he was making some serious cash (like thousands of dollars a day).
Re: Ask HN: What is your best passive income in 2017?
#3I have to be honest here. Posts like this kind of confuse me - you're basically asking people to either share their secret sauce so others can copy it, or to provide vague descriptions that won't help overly much building your own passive income.
Anyway, I'll get this started even though it's not what you're probably looking for: my best passive income is rental properties. I purchased a small house in Florida that is now renting for all costs + a few hundred a month, and will be adding a second property in a few months. It's about as low-maintenance as a SaaS side business and required basically zero marketing to get a "user".
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#4Most of my income currently comes from:
1) ~45% - Two hand-selected ads on a major developer website. These were individual deals with the companies placing the ad.
2) ~5% - Ad network ads on two websites.
3) ~45% - Rental income from my house on AirBnB.
I wish I could say that these were clever projects or startups, but I haven't yet found a "traditional" software side project that makes money. I have one that's been running for a little over a year, although I haven't figured out how I want to actually charge for it. People are just using it on a free tier right now.
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#5CLM. The dividend has paid my water, fiber and half my electricity every month while I've been out of work. Pretty nice!
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#6After 3 months the visually lossless image optimization tool Optimage (http://getoptimage.com) I'm developing in my free time has started to bring ~200$/month. Hoping to resolve the last performance issues and launch a server edition.
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#7http://www.ferryschedules.co
As someone who commutes via ferry, I got sick of checking the official schedule of my ferry because it's not mobile friendly and was slow. Then I noticed more of the official schedule sites are typically in pdf, slow, not optimized for mobile devices or all of the above. So I've been slowly putting some of the schedules on this site over the past week. While not fully passive, the schedules will only have to be updated a couple of times per year since they change fairly infrequently.
It is just monetized via Google Adsense right now, but already paid for itself with a couple of ad clicks and when all said and done it should be some decent beer money every month.
Next steps are to learn how to automate the monitoring of the official schedule sites, so I can automate the updating of my site to match the official schedules. That would make it more passive.
Re: Ask HN: What is your best passive income in 2017?
#8http://www.ferryschedules.co As someone who commutes via ferry, I got sick of checking the official schedule of my ferry because it's not mobile friendly and was slow. Then I noticed more of the official schedule sites are typically in pdf, slow, not optimized for mobile devices or all of the above. So I've been slowly putting some of the schedules on this site over the past week. While not fully passive, the schedul…
A cursory Google search suggests you could use a package like poppler to convert the pdf to raw text, and then in theory use regex to create data your server could use and serve.
If the pdfs are published as scans like so many municipalities do, then OCR is the only way to go.
Either way, good luck and decently nice design.
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#9-Woodworking
-Teaching older people on how to use Feature phones/Smart phones
Re: Ask HN: What is your best passive income in 2017?
#10YTD by revenue:
Stock > Job > Books > Affiliate Websites
Stocks are auto-invested each month.
Job is not passive.
Books were written a while ago. Some by me most by others. Probably a couple hours a week evaluating how they're doing. Sometimes I'll do sales, etc. Less passive as I'm trying to grow their revenue.
Affiliate websites are all 100% passive at this point. I automatically generate content for them. Maybe an hour or two updating the VPS/WP.