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I built http://www.randomnamepicker.net/ last year and now get's $30+ per month from Adsense. Complete passive except for few updates here and there.
"click the 'Spin' button."
Nope, button clearly says 'Play'. Might wanna fix that.
Also looks totally sweet :)
EXISTING: 1. Rental properties. Have 3 rentals that we purchased last year as part of a 1031 exchange (after selling the family ranch). I manage them and its been fairly low maintenance so far (knock on wood). FWIW student rentals in a university town aren't as bad as you might think. Most have a steady source of rent (parents or financial aid) and if you choose students in hard majors, they're less likely to party a…
I've written a few microservices for listing-lists, getting list-members, which generally just serve the contents of a JSON/YAML file.
I've done it often enough that I can see the value in a list-server, but equally it's something I'd struggle to see monetizing well, or even at all. How do you plan to handle that?
(Because in the worst case you can just be lazy and embed your list-data in your application itself as a lazy-loaded YAML file which is parsed on each request.)
EXISTING: 1. Rental properties. Have 3 rentals that we purchased last year as part of a 1031 exchange (after selling the family ranch). I manage them and its been fairly low maintenance so far (knock on wood). FWIW student rentals in a university town aren't as bad as you might think. Most have a steady source of rent (parents or financial aid) and if you choose students in hard majors, they're less likely to party a…
On lists I'd want: - a list of all possible domain name tlds (org, edu, info, etc)
My approach is simple: invest the vast majority of all money after expenses into VOO (S&P 500 index fund). First max out tax advantage accounts like 401k and IRAs, then regular accounts. I have $1,100,000 in VOO. Trailing inflation adjusted returns are 7% ish. Call it $25,666 for the first 4 months of 2016. I KNOW market returns aren't smooth like this but it is a simple approach that works for me (I'm not selling th…
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It hasn't sold much yet, but I haven't been able to dedicate as much time as I would have liked to marketing it.
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What neighborhood? I've been looking but NYC real estate just seems hella expensive and bubbly. So you're living there too?
Bed Stuy. I'd look there, Bushwick, eastern Crown Heights, Ridgewood, and similar neighborhoods with quick travel to Manhattan and near trendy areas. Bubbly? Maybe, but if your rental income covers or can cover the mortgage then it doesn't matter, is my rule of thumb, it's a great deal. The city has 500k more inhabitants in between 2000 and 2010, rent has only one direction to go given scarcity of housing - - while m…
I build a developer tool for premium plugin / theme authors in the Wordpress ecosystem. If you can build something that scratches an itch in a programming ecosystem, people are likely to pay for it. Although with the amount of work I do on it, I'm not sure I'd call it passive ;)
My approach is simple: invest the vast majority of all money after expenses into VOO (S&P 500 index fund). First max out tax advantage accounts like 401k and IRAs, then regular accounts. I have $1,100,000 in VOO. Trailing inflation adjusted returns are 7% ish. Call it $25,666 for the first 4 months of 2016. I KNOW market returns aren't smooth like this but it is a simple approach that works for me (I'm not selling th…
Any idea what the average amount you put in each year was? Just trying to get a feel for how long it will take me to hit that kind of number.
EXISTING: 1. Rental properties. Have 3 rentals that we purchased last year as part of a 1031 exchange (after selling the family ranch). I manage them and its been fairly low maintenance so far (knock on wood). FWIW student rentals in a university town aren't as bad as you might think. Most have a steady source of rent (parents or financial aid) and if you choose students in hard majors, they're less likely to party a…
> An API for lists. I've written a few microservices for listing-lists, getting list-members, which generally just serve the contents of a JSON/YAML file. I've done it often enough that I can see the value in a list-server, but equally it's something I'd struggle to see monetizing well, or even at all. How do you plan to handle that? (Because in the worst case you can just be lazy and embed your list-data in your app…
1. Buy any single list one-time for $9 (as a JSON/YAML/PLIST download)
2. Pay $49 per year for API access to all lists
I built a themes website ( https://jekyllthemes.io ) in a weekend that's monetized using affiliate links and Adsense. After the initial work was done, it's virtually 100% autopilot and brings in around $80/mo.