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Re: Who is living off their startup fulltime?

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Post by endlessvoid94 »

zackattack wrote: post #39
endlessvoid94 wrote: post #8

ThatHigh.com pays my rent in SF. Currently working on Djangy.com, hopefully that will "supplement" thathigh :-)

how many daily uniques do you receive? and what's your CPM?

I get about 10k and 15k uniques per day. I charge direct advertisers between $0.75 and $2 CPM. I fully realize this is a pretty low number (considering how targeted the audience is) but I've spent some time contacting businesses and the only companies that can afford to pay me can only afford $1 CPM rates.

I basically get around a million page views per month, which is the figure I use when I sell ad space.

Re: Who is living off their startup fulltime?

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Post by apike »

We are with Steam Clock Software (http://www.steamclocksw.com/). We're self-funded from day one and were profitable within three months.

We're doing iOS apps and consulting. Finding enough consulting to pay both the bills and the cost of developing our products has been straightforward. I've been working on product #2 this morning and having a lot of fun.

Re: Who is living off their startup fulltime?

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Post by jluxenberg »

apike wrote: post #42

We are with Steam Clock Software ( http://www.steamclocksw.com/ ). We're self-funded from day one and were profitable within three months. We're doing iOS apps and consulting. Finding enough consulting to pay both the bills and the cost of developing our products has been straightforward. I've been working on product #2 this morning and having a lot of fun.

Checked out your iPhone DJ software; how do you handle interruptions due to incoming calls or text messages? Whenever someone is using their iPhone to DJ they always occasionally get messages or calls and the noise is played over the loudspeakers. Does the SDK provide a way to turn those off?

Re: Who is living off their startup fulltime?

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Post by libpcap »

bearwithclaws wrote: post #11

Hacker Monthly ( http://hackermonthly.com ), self-sustaining so far and doing everything to keep cost really low: - Only 1 fulltime employee (um...me) + 3 remote freelancers. - Works from home. - Based in Penang island (somewhere between Bangkok and Singapore with its living cost much lower than both of them).

Do you speak the local language? Malay?

Re: Who is living off their startup fulltime?

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Post by TamDenholm »

apike wrote: post #42

We are with Steam Clock Software ( http://www.steamclocksw.com/ ). We're self-funded from day one and were profitable within three months. We're doing iOS apps and consulting. Finding enough consulting to pay both the bills and the cost of developing our products has been straightforward. I've been working on product #2 this morning and having a lot of fun.

Quick recommendation for you. Google "sticky footer", it'll make your site look better. :)

Re: Who is living off their startup fulltime?

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Post by apike »

jluxenberg wrote: post #43
apike wrote: post #42

We are with Steam Clock Software ( http://www.steamclocksw.com/ ). We're self-funded from day one and were profitable within three months. We're doing iOS apps and consulting. Finding enough consulting to pay both the bills and the cost of developing our products has been straightforward. I've been working on product #2 this morning and having a lot of fun.

Checked out your iPhone DJ software; how do you handle interruptions due to incoming calls or text messages? Whenever someone is using their iPhone to DJ they always occasionally get messages or calls and the noise is played over the loudspeakers. Does the SDK provide a way to turn those off?

Good question. The only way to do it is to detect and encourage them to turn both Airplane Mode and Mute on. There's no way for an app to prevent incoming phone calls, which is probably a good thing. We've considered enforcing Airplane mode, but that would be really annoying if you're just testing the app out.

Re: Who is living off their startup fulltime?

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Post by apike »

TamDenholm wrote: post #45
apike wrote: post #42

We are with Steam Clock Software ( http://www.steamclocksw.com/ ). We're self-funded from day one and were profitable within three months. We're doing iOS apps and consulting. Finding enough consulting to pay both the bills and the cost of developing our products has been straightforward. I've been working on product #2 this morning and having a lot of fun.

Quick recommendation for you. Google "sticky footer", it'll make your site look better. :)

Oh thanks, what a newbie mistake.

Re: Who is living off their startup fulltime?

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Post by StavrosK »

jluxenberg wrote: post #43
apike wrote: post #42

We are with Steam Clock Software ( http://www.steamclocksw.com/ ). We're self-funded from day one and were profitable within three months. We're doing iOS apps and consulting. Finding enough consulting to pay both the bills and the cost of developing our products has been straightforward. I've been working on product #2 this morning and having a lot of fun.

Checked out your iPhone DJ software; how do you handle interruptions due to incoming calls or text messages? Whenever someone is using their iPhone to DJ they always occasionally get messages or calls and the noise is played over the loudspeakers. Does the SDK provide a way to turn those off?

Airplane mode?

Re: Who is living off their startup fulltime?

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Post by bearwithclaws »

libpcap wrote: post #44
bearwithclaws wrote: post #11

Hacker Monthly ( http://hackermonthly.com ), self-sustaining so far and doing everything to keep cost really low: - Only 1 fulltime employee (um...me) + 3 remote freelancers. - Works from home. - Based in Penang island (somewhere between Bangkok and Singapore with its living cost much lower than both of them).

Do you speak the local language? Malay?

Yes (along with Chinese and its dialects: cantonese & hokkien). The national language is Malay (Bahasa Melayu), but most people speaks English here.

Re: Who is living off their startup fulltime?

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Post by barmstrong »

cabinguy wrote: post #30

When I started out in 1999 my business partner and I took $1,200 and turned it into $1M (revenue) in 12 months...100% online sales. We started out buying 3 beat up laptops, fixing them and selling them. Within 6 months we were buying containers (semi-truck loads) of off-lease laptops and shipping up to 150 a day. 60-70% profit margins. We grew for a couple of years and then we ran into our first wall. By 2003, our pr…

Awesome! What is the site doing $400k annually?
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