Ask HN: What are your passive income sources?

Post by chad_strategic » Thu, Oct 27, 2016, 7:06 PM UTC

morgante wrote: post #120

chad_strategic wrote: post #119

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Based on your continued responses and the fact your feelings are hurt, I'm wining this battle. (I'm guessing you are millennial snowflake?) Where can I sign up for your fund! Oh I can end this fun... well because I do have better things to do: You are right and I am wrong, there you go do you feel better now?

You continue to lob ad hominem attacks instead of making any substantive arguments. I'm wasting my time arguing with you. Starting a discussion by "laughing" at my portfolio without even knowing what it is is not an adult thing do to. I really hope you listen to feedback and grow as a person. Right now you're carrying a lot of negativity around with you.

Post by shanecleveland » Thu, Oct 27, 2016, 7:27 PM UTC

ddgflorida wrote: post #116

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How did you spread the word in early days of your project?(Any platform in particluar helped or performed better for marketing?)

No marketing, all traffic came from search engines. I focused on SEO from the start and that helped with the rankings. I also made sure my site was more functional than the competition. 100% client-side code.

Post by kohanz » Thu, Oct 27, 2016, 8:49 PM UTC

morgante wrote: post #5

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…

Post by mylons » Thu, Oct 27, 2016, 9:44 PM UTC

eswat wrote: post #55

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if you've never consulted before, how do you "start"? cold emailing people for freelance gigs that you see on hackernews doesn't usually parlay into high paying consulting gigs.

This might sound hokey, but think of getting into consulting as phases of software releases. During alpha get to know people and the problems they face that you can potentially help out with (at this point you haven’t started consulting yet), in beta you drop whatever you were doing before, or cut down your time commitment enough, and getting into consulting (or more likely freelancing, where you’re doing more grunt…

Post by shanecleveland » Thu, Oct 27, 2016, 10:13 PM UTC

mjibson wrote: post #32

I run https://www.goread.io/ which is a subscription-based RSS reader. It's open source and runs on google app engine. It costs ~$2k per year to run and I make between $2k and $3k profit per year for nearly zero effort. Stripe handles payments and app engine keeps the servers running. I consider it a high success because for the amount of marketing I've done in the last 2 years (exactly zero), it still has paying use…