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I remember when it started selling in tindie. It was really interesting but I wrongly thought that no one would use that. Im glad I was wrong. It definitely opens yo my eyes for opportunities. Best of luck!
I was just as surprised as you are. :)
https://www.soundviz.com Two and a half years ago I started working on the idea. It took me about a year to get the initial offering done and launched. The first calendar year in business was technically profitable. We ended up reinvesting the profits into new computers as well as paying all of the operational expenses upfront for the following year. This year, it's tracking at roughly 5x of last year's revenue and w…
I wrote an online multiplayer game called Aberoth: http://aberoth.com . I released the first version to the world in January 2010, but the game did not have many features initially, and there was no way to buy anything. Toward the end of 2012 I felt good enough about the product to start selling memberships. I continued to work on the game on the side over the years, and I released the game on Steam in July 2015: htt…
After six years of doing it on the side, I'm now doing it full-time (for a year and a half) and have one employee/apprentice (for the last half year). I provide IT training and consulting. Started out with CFEngine, now offering Git training as well. Companies fly me in for 1-5 days to train their staff. I love getting to see different parts of the US.
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At the Previous Company I was in (Bindo Labs) I was coding the NFC Payment Integration with the Point of Sales System (POS). One of the requirements for the integration was that every transaction has to happen less than 0.5 seconds including the hardware card-reading part. So I ended up having to wave the card around the reader all day testing it. I thought of building a automated testing robot but tight deadline pre…
We're now at about $150k in bookings halfway through the year. Last year was $30k revenue for the entire year. I hope the numbers keep going up or this will have to go back to side-project status!
YouTube video tutorials on niche tech topics. Upfront investments: $50 for a decent microphone. Spent about 40 hours creating and editing the videos. They have been online now for nearly 11 months and i have a total of ~300k views. That made me nearly $400 from video ads.
(Not trying to be insulting, so I hope I don't come off that way.)
1 year. Built up a hobby site slowly over the past two years, at the end of the first year it was making £7,700 a month.. It is still active and earning around £2-3k per month with only about 1 hours work a week. Currently looking to sell it on as I have just started on a new project.
What do you mean by "hobby site"? A site covering a specific hobby or something else? Can you tell more about how you earn money (memberships, advertisements, something else)?
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Are you still scraping or did you migrate to their API?
Still scraping. If you use their API, you need to submit your app for evaluation and there are a bunch of restrictions and other things you need to comply with. I'd need to do a whole lot of work and remove some of the features. The level of effort has never felt worth it. It means there are occasional breakages every 6 months or so but it's usually the work of half an hour to fix it and push out an update. My users…
I finally reworked my code to just download the html files using phantom.js and parse it with perl so that I can run this on a headless server, and this method hasn't broken lately. I find trying to use phantom.js is kind of crazy (mainly I have a hard time with the documentation) and javascript is not my native language. I was using curl, LWP, and wget in the past.
YouTube video tutorials on niche tech topics. Upfront investments: $50 for a decent microphone. Spent about 40 hours creating and editing the videos. They have been online now for nearly 11 months and i have a total of ~300k views. That made me nearly $400 from video ads.
I don't know anything about YouTube ads, but I figured it would be more $ for that many views. (Not trying to be insulting, so I hope I don't come off that way.)
I think certain demographics will influence it (depending upon how much they click links and I'd imagine tech people are less inclined to click on links and more likely to adblock)
About 9 months ago i created https://namesmith.io , a business and domain name generator. I practically did nothing to boost the search engine ranking but the volume of visitors is growing (very slowly). So far the site can barely cover my vserver cost but that's ok since I can use the server for more than just namesmith. Most of the time some few dollar amounts tickle in but I had some sales of premium domains which…
Is this common or did I do something wrong?