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Ask HN: What is your passive income 2020?
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Re: Ask HN: What is your passive income 2020?
#2I've continued running my Elixir screencast business, and added on a 2nd product, which is a starter template for apps built with the Phoenix Framework. Neither is 100% passive.
The screen casting business means continuing to make a few new tutorials per month and making occasional improvements to its site. It sure pays a lot more per hour of my time than it did 18 months ago, though!
The starter kit is still in alpha, so there's a considerable amount of work to do. I'll be raising the price as it hits various milestones, though. Once it's "done", it will be mostly passive other than updating libraries.
Elixir is a rough market since it's very niche but still has a surprising number of authors, conferences and screen casters in its ecosystem who are also creating educational materials.
My MRR is fairly low, but it's just enough to cover my expenses living in Taiwan.
When I have the bandwidth, I'll launch another product which will be still more passive and it won't be limited to only Elixir devs. After that, the plan is to spend some money on outsourcing the editing of my videos and some routine social media tasks.
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#3I run https://www.checkbot.io/ myself while doing consulting.
It's a Chrome extension that checks multiple pages at a time for common SEO, speed and security issues. I started working on it initially to automate checks I was often doing manually while developing websites for others. Developers I worked with found it useful so I spun it out into its own product. I wrote the online guide on the website too that explains all the web best practices Checkbot tests which I'm trying to turn into an ebook as well.
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#4Well, I recently received a payout of $11.99 for products sold via Amazon affiliate links. It nearly covers my domain registration fees.
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#5I made a web app that turns Google sheets into beautiful web pages in 3 easy steps. https://sheetUI.com it's still lacking in many ways, but I'm working on a V2 with paid features that'll be launched soon.
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#6None. My side projects are free.
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#7We selling private equity financial models online at https://privateequitymodels.com
Expanding to full acquisition toolkit / training with established entrepreneurs.
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#8Was passive earlier in 2020 but am now full time on watercoolertrivia.com — not taking a salary yet though.
It’s weekly trivia quizzes via Slack or email for work teams to build connection!
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#9I am a serious practitioner of the FIRE (Financially Independent, Retire Early) philosophy. Over the years, I have accumulated assets in a very conservative portfolio. This portfolio has reached a point where it has consistently generated over 150% of my base salary for more than 5 years.
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#10I have a side project [1] that I haven't monetized, but some folks like it enough that they Paypal me for additional credits