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I made an almost-full-time income off programming content in 2016 (through my Rails performance course at https://www.railsspeed.com ). I'm writing up a big blog about how I did it right now, but the gist is: 1. Treat blog posts like miniature products - opportunities to test, measure, learn. 2. Have a unique voice and viewpoint. 3. Write about a growing or mature field. (early to late majority) 4. Main distribution…
I've been running Bowtiful Ties ( http://www.bowtifulties.com ) as a side project for the last 4 or so years. Everything is vertically integrated and hand made by myself, from the bow ties, to the packaging, to the website and all processes. Bootstrapped from the start, it's pretty low volume, but nicely profitable.
I farm out most of the production process but handle customer service. I originally got into all of this to be a side income to supplement web consulting. I have since concluded I hate all of the baggage that comes along with dealing with small town local businesses. I have been fortunate enough to be able to move into a bigger facility for production now and intend to do some work in house now along with hiring an employee or two rather than farm out.
A few of my sites:
Image Generation API - https://ionapi.com Boat Decals - https://boatdecals.biz Race Graphics - https://racegraphics.com
I made an almost-full-time income off programming content in 2016 (through my Rails performance course at https://www.railsspeed.com ). I'm writing up a big blog about how I did it right now, but the gist is: 1. Treat blog posts like miniature products - opportunities to test, measure, learn. 2. Have a unique voice and viewpoint. 3. Write about a growing or mature field. (early to late majority) 4. Main distribution…
It is a simple tool that lets you create custom maps of the World, USA, Europe, UK, France and more. I treat is as a side-project, but I am constantly adding new maps or expanding some features.
The biggest advantage is that it costs almost nothing to maintain it, as it is completely client-side, so the only cost is the basic hosting plan. I launched it almost 2 years ago and right now it is the no.1 search result for queries related to creating maps and gets an occasional boost from Reddit posts or other blogs.
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Why people share their revenues? Every product can be copied. If you know revenue, you know what product you should copy.
Patio11 was blogging about his old Bingo Card software for many, many years and became one of the most high-profile members of Hacker News because of it. I don't think a flood of competing Bingo Card software came in. A lot of the time, finding a good enough niche, a small enough niche, and understanding customer acquisition for that niche is all the "moat" you really need. Remember, your competitors likely don't kno…
Probably, revenues started to decline after bragging about them.
Indie Hackers is my full-time job now. Is it "successful"? I think so! I've done over 90 interviews, and they've been read over one million times in the past 5 months, largely by you guys! I also made $2239 in December and hope to grow revenue another 50% in January. (As I do every month, I just blogged about that here: https://IndieHackers.com/blog)
I'm working on a podcast as well that I'm really excited about, as I've found it's a bit easier to get famous founders to agree to that format and to speak transparently about behind the scenes details.