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Re: Ask HN: What are your passive income sources?

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Passive income: something that makes you money while you sleep(read it somewhere). Any examples, what type of businesses you are talking about?

I get paid to sleep on overnight shifts, does that count?

Not unless you can do it from anywhere AND you are not expected to be available during overnight if the situation demands :)

Re: Ask HN: What are your passive income sources?

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I get paid to sleep on overnight shifts, does that count?

Not unless you can do it from anywhere AND you are not expected to be available during overnight if the situation demands :)

Oh I see, now we're moving the goalposts ;)

Re: Ask HN: What are your passive income sources?

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I run https://IndieHackers.com where I interview developers/entrepreneurs about how they make money from their apps and projects. There are tons of examples there that fit into the "passive income" category as you define it ("making something that makes you money while you sleep"). A couple of good examples from the site: - park.io (from Mike Carson) makes $125,000/mo taking domain backorders; he essentually wrote to…

You're going to write a blog post on your site about how to make passive income, which you are doing by hosting your site about how to make passive income! I don't think it can get more meta than that!

Re: Ask HN: What are your passive income sources?

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post #7

I have a card game business that's aimed towards women, PoCs & the lgbtq community - groups who aren't traditionally served. Every couple of weeks I ship product to an Amazon warehouse and do a bit of advertising on Facebook. It brings in around $40k/mo and 3-4x during the holiday season.

Is that net or gross?

Gross.

Re: Ask HN: What are your passive income sources?

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if you hire the right people anything can be a passive income.

Passive income: something that makes you money while you sleep(read it somewhere). Any examples, what type of businesses you are talking about?

owning real estate that someone else manages or really owning any business that someone else fully manages for you.

i know a gentleman that owns storage units up and down the north east, never steps foot in the states for years at a time.

AirBNB & rentals can be hands free too, as another example,

Re: Ask HN: What are your passive income sources?

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A stock portfolio that I've built through consulting profits is my main passive income source. Anything else is not really "passive." This probably isn't the answer you're looking for, but in my view the average developer is much better off simply selling their time at the maximum rate and funneling the profits into a well-managed portfolio. The median outcome for this is much better than the story on most passive-in…

For 100% passive, you really can't beat this. Funnel your cash into dividend stocks and now you have a stream of income that's taxed at a favorable rate too. Even if you were to go with an S&P 500 index fund you get a near 2% yield.

Re: Ask HN: What are your passive income sources?

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Not unless you can do it from anywhere AND you are not expected to be available during overnight if the situation demands :)

Oh I see, now we're moving the goalposts ;)

What about "money that would get into your account even you were recently dead" ?

Re: Ask HN: What are your passive income sources?

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I've got a savings account. Interest on that baby is getting me upwards of 30 cents a month.

I make about 50cents a month.

But I hope to double it with a better investment strategy.

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I just looked at my depot and it seems like I made about 4€ last month. Well, guess retirement is near :)

Re: Ask HN: What are your passive income sources?

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post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Passive income: something that makes you money while you sleep(read it somewhere). Any examples, what type of businesses you are talking about?

owning real estate that someone else manages or really owning any business that someone else fully manages for you. i know a gentleman that owns storage units up and down the north east, never steps foot in the states for years at a time. AirBNB & rentals can be hands free too, as another example,

> owning real estate that someone else manages or really owning any business that someone else fully manages for you

If you've ever owned real estate or a business you'd know it can't be 100% passive. Even with a property manager, there are always things to fix, change, or update, and the associated decisions to make about it. One bad tenant or a property manager with bad judgement, and you're 100% back in full-time landlord mode to clean up the mess (literally or figuratively).

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