~$500+ per month making custom-designed handbags; not just sewing bags, mind you, but one-offs for individuals : word-of-mouth, facebook, friends, etc. Can't afford to advertise, couldn't handle the demand without hiring, don't want it to get too big.
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#92Started https://dotlayer.com like 2 years ago, it was initially called wpzoan, I started it when my friends would message me about issues they were facing with WordPress, at that time I totally hated WordPress, I guess that was the developer in me. But I later saw all the issues people were facing and it's worked out well.
So how does this work. Do I give your anonymous "expert" access to my server for them to do the fix? Or do I provide database and codebase dumps? Where is the security in your service to not have my code stolen along the way?
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#93I've been working on my app Leap Second, it generates somewhere around 1-3k per month. https://www.leapsecond.co
I created the app after using 1 Second Everyday crashed on me and deleted a few years videos. The app stores everything in the Photos app which made it very fast and easy to develop (a weekend). Now I spend a few hours a month mostly improving the UI and doing bug fixes as I find them. Initial traction was very slow as I didn't do any marketing. I started using App Store ads and it gave me a good help of getting small user base that could grow on it's own.
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#94I have an accounting tutoring website for students at specific colleges. You can see one of them here: https://acct229.com. It makes > 500 a month, but the bulk of it (obviously) comes in two waves: middle of fall semesters and middle of spring semesters. There is no activity at all during summers and christmas breaks, which really is quite nice.
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#95I've been working on a side project that sends startup ideas to developers and entrepreneur for the past year. Revenue high point has been $4k/month. https://nugget.one Within the next few months I'll be pivoting to The Nugget Startup Academy and will focus on training entrepreneurs instead of sending out ideas.
That sort of has a "those who can, do. Those who can't, teach" ring to it :)
I enjoy your podcast Justin. I'd keep swinging for the fences unless you just have a passion to teach.
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#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
30, ~125k household income for two adults no kids, IT and teacher. Our income made it a little easier to get here but the $200k hole of combined student loans we started with (now fully paid off) probably counters that pretty evenly.
Is there more to the story? Started with -200k and now sit on +300k with a 125k salary? House? Came into a windfall of cash in addition to salary?
In a LCOL area and putting out 50% of income over 8 years would do it. FIRE people are a lot more aggressive than that.
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#97I made ~500 euro a month by running ads on my a visualization website[1] I made a few years back (in a weekend). I've earned that until a month ago, when I changed the Google AdSense ads to a static ad (which I don't get commission for). [1] https://blocks.wizb.it/
The IP always 0.0.0.0 or 127.0.0.1, looks like you may have a bug.
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#98DocsApp https://www.docsapp.io/ - Started ~ 2 years ago but only profitable since few months ago.
I built DocsApp to provide platform to publish documentation easily. Instead of spending time to build your documentation site, DocsApp allow you to start publish documentation in minutes.
The challenges to build a profitable SaaS is marketing, especially for people with only technical background.
No extensive marketing done yet so users growth slowly. A lot improvement to be done especially on UX side.
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#99I screen scrape camping reservations and send out notifications when a campsite becomes available. http://reserve.wanderinglabs.com/ Currently working on integrating the new CA reserve website. It is a shit show.
Awesome tool. But I wish your site monitored Zion NP. One of the busiest parks in the US. I can never score a campsite, and the first-come ones fill up by 7am.
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#100https://statusgator.com StatusGator aggregates the public service status pages for all the cloud services you use. You can get automatic notifications when services go down and up, and you can query the service status from things like Slack. It makes about $1,000 month right now.
Out of interest, what made you choose the fixed-price tiers? $80/mo is a big jump to go from 30 to 31 services. What made you rule out pricing per service?