Ask HN: Your Passive Income Suggestions?

Post by bitserf » Wed, Feb 03, 2016, 7:17 PM UTC

winter_blue wrote: post #92

CryoLogic wrote: post #24

Here's my experiences for last year in passive income: Total Gross Revenues: $20,000 or so. Mostly from a single high-traffic niche site which I promote almost exclusively through social media. My site offers a free version of what a few other websites in the same niche offer as a SaaS service. From that same site, most of the revenue (~80%) is from ads (ad revenue increased when switching to responsive units). Next,…

So all your eBooks are bringing in $60 / month in total? For the incredible time investment required to write books, that is quite discouragingly low .

Post by livingparadox » Wed, Feb 03, 2016, 7:18 PM UTC

max_ wrote: post #2

-Build a BTC gumroad version. -AI stuff like http://predictor.ai

Post by zingermc » Wed, Feb 03, 2016, 7:21 PM UTC

herbst wrote: post #7

caipre wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Broken link?

I assume he ment predicto.ai but its just a mess of text for me. Site broken, stylesheet blocked, something like this

Post by odonnellryan » Wed, Feb 03, 2016, 7:23 PM UTC

edent wrote: post #17

* Apps with ads in them. Easy enough to churn out, but decreasing revenues and most of the high earning adverts are the scummiest. Low value and of low moral usefulness. * Solar Panels. In the UK, the government pays you per kWh generated. Needs an upfront investment, but stable income and you reduce your own energy bills. See http://shkspr.mobi/blog/tag/solar * Renting out property. Needs a much larger initial inves…

Post by shanecleveland » Wed, Feb 03, 2016, 7:24 PM UTC

wtracy wrote: post #61

edent wrote: post #17

* Apps with ads in them. Easy enough to churn out, but decreasing revenues and most of the high earning adverts are the scummiest. Low value and of low moral usefulness. * Solar Panels. In the UK, the government pays you per kWh generated. Needs an upfront investment, but stable income and you reduce your own energy bills. See http://shkspr.mobi/blog/tag/solar * Renting out property. Needs a much larger initial inves…

> Apps with ads in them. Easy enough to churn out, but decreasing revenues and most of the high earning adverts are the scummiest. Low value and of low moral usefulness. I assume that by apps you mean native mobile apps. Anyone know how ad-supported mobile apps stack up against web apps? On the one hand, there's no such thing as ad blockers for native apps. On the other hand, web apps run on more platforms out of the…