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Re: Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2018?

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I set up https://sketchpads.co as a simple shopify site and I've been selling mobile and browser sketchpads to rapidly iterate on your wireframe designs.

I did some initial marketing and it's been bringing in steady income of about $200 every month. I've sold out of inventory multiple times and keep ordering bigger and bigger batches of sketchpads each time.

Re: Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2018?

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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).

Looks awesome - great job. Just a heads up that the "View pull requests" buttons in your Trusted By section all 404 at the moment

Re: Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2018?

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Started an online course on algorithmic trading at https://algotrading101.com and some Udemy courses 4 years ago. Revenue peaked at $20k/month 2 years ago and is less than half of that now. That's probably because my SEO rankings plummeted this year, and that people seem less and less eager to pay for online courses. Maintaining the course is quite passive (answering students' questions by email) but growing revenue…

Where I can find your verified track record? Thanks!

Re: Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2018?

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I developed a trading model on https://www.portfolio123.com for my own personal use but that I later decided to open to subscribers. P123 calls them Designer Models and they're offered under a publishing model were subscribers assume responsibility for whether or not actual trades are made. Subscription revenue is about $500/month.

Where I can find your verified track record? Thanks!

Re: Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2018?

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I translated some well-regarded public domain works into English. I make around 2-3k a month from the ebook sales. If you find niche areas of interest or research it can be quite lucrative. Of course you invest the time to translate but I find it rewarding and less like actual "work"

You just search for them and translate them by yourself? Or do you have some kind of publisher?

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post #163

Started an online course on algorithmic trading at https://algotrading101.com and some Udemy courses 4 years ago. Revenue peaked at $20k/month 2 years ago and is less than half of that now. That's probably because my SEO rankings plummeted this year, and that people seem less and less eager to pay for online courses. Maintaining the course is quite passive (answering students' questions by email) but growing revenue…

Where I can find your verified track record? Thanks!

I didn't list my trading records online. I worked at a trading firm and a hedge fund so that performance is confidential. Mostly dealt with bond futures. We did decent, nothing too fancy. After which I trade my own money. Turned 5-digits to 7-digits in 2+ years. Take that with a pinch of salt because a lot of the returns came from cryptocurrencies.

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I translated some well-regarded public domain works into English. I make around 2-3k a month from the ebook sales. If you find niche areas of interest or research it can be quite lucrative. Of course you invest the time to translate but I find it rewarding and less like actual "work"

You just search for them and translate them by yourself? Or do you have some kind of publisher?

I often have specific authors or periods in mind - such as when I am reading a book and come across a reference to an untranslated author or piece - and so I just search for the source text (usually on wikisource or gutenberg) and make sure its public domain.

I publish them myself, yes - there is a "press" I put them under but its just me. I have a few friends who do reviews and I am also on several academic mailing lists

Re: Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2018?

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post #164

I developed a trading model on https://www.portfolio123.com for my own personal use but that I later decided to open to subscribers. P123 calls them Designer Models and they're offered under a publishing model were subscribers assume responsibility for whether or not actual trades are made. Subscription revenue is about $500/month.

Where I can find your verified track record? Thanks!

P123 maintains a record of simulated trades. Those trades are recorded at a price of trade day (High+low+2*Close)/4. They also make a slippage adjustment. Trade commissions are added under their Book system.

There isn't a direct link. You may find my models under Models->Designer Models (https://www.portfolio123.com/app/r2g) and then filter by my username - wwasilev.

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