I built https://dependabot.com to be passive, but ended up going full time on it (the startup I was working on feel through). Generates $9k/month passively, but I put my full-time energy into growing it (adding new languages / improving support for existing ones).
Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2018?
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#62I built https://dependabot.com to be passive, but ended up going full time on it (the startup I was working on feel through). Generates $9k/month passively, but I put my full-time energy into growing it (adding new languages / improving support for existing ones).
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#63Alright. I'll be that guy. I look at your list of side projects and I see nothing that's remotely passive. They all look like tons of work! My best passive income this year is my index funds -- for instance, the S&P 500 is up 3.9% year-to-date, and I've cumulatively spent under an hour this year thinking about it. Hard to imagine what else besides investments qualifies as passive. Maybe real estate? But how passive t…
I think it's pretty well understood that passive means without requiring on-going work, support or maintenance. Even investing takes up-front work in the form of research and to actually setup the investment.
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#64Re: Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2018?
#65I have an App on the PlayStore which generates around 400$ per month on average, liveable money when you're from India
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#66I have an App on the PlayStore which generates around 400$ per month on average, liveable money when you're from India
I should move.
On a serious note 400 USD us probably good enough for a fresher (to be honest its way more than average) but its quite less for a mid-level engineer.
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#67I sell erotic stories online through Amazon Kindle. Made more than $200K last year but it's hard on the imagination
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#68I built https://dependabot.com to be passive, but ended up going full time on it (the startup I was working on feel through). Generates $9k/month passively, but I put my full-time energy into growing it (adding new languages / improving support for existing ones).
Your pricing seems way too cheap for the value you're delivering.
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#69I built https://hnrecommends.com a little while ago. It's the start of a curated list of Hacker News recommendations. I'm adding recommendations and products daily. It's made a few dollars from affiliate links so far.
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
>>Authoring a book is very passive income. Authoring a book, sure. But the parent poster implied that he/she continuously writes these stories, i.e. many of them, hence why they said it is "hard on the imagination".
Each book is passive income. I'd consider a prolific author as someone that makes a series of passive income intellectual properties.
I mean I'm still getting paid for the features I wrote for my company's software two years ago!