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My wife and I were living on AgileZen ( http://agilezen.com ) before the company was acquired earlier this year.
Congrats. Your app looks beautiful.
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The design of your sites is great. Do you outsource that?
Yeah, I have a designer I use on contract. I would give you his info but I have him booked solid for awhile. :)
My part time app http://justunfollow.com rakes in wayyy more than my day job. I'll be doing the "obvious" in a few months time. The reason it's taking me long is the people I currently work with. They are all talented and something gives me a feeling I'll find a "co-founder" in one of my colleagues ;)
I actually started it for my then girlfriend whom I wanted to go snowboarding with me by buying a board to guilt trip her into coming along. We couldn't find a place with a lot of women's snowboards so I pulled up some datafeeds and scraped them just for the women's boards, some friends asked for the list, I got lazy emailing everybody so I made a site, threw up the affiliate links for funsies, and actually started making some money.
It's a seasonal earner which I don't recommend to anyone because my winter makes or breaks my year. It helps a lot that I don't live in the Western world anymore which reduces my cost of living, but Shanghai is getting more expensive by the day so I'm working on other revenue streams.
My part time app http://justunfollow.com rakes in wayyy more than my day job. I'll be doing the "obvious" in a few months time. The reason it's taking me long is the people I currently work with. They are all talented and something gives me a feeling I'll find a "co-founder" in one of my colleagues ;)
BTW, your app saved me a ton of effort. I spent a full afternoon wading through the API before I found your site, and at that point it was a no-brainer to pay the four or five bucks.
I live off of TekPub ( http://tekpub.com ) and Adzerk ( http://adzerk.com , http://theloungenet.com , http://rubyrow.net ).
Awesome! AdZerk looks like a great product - great presentation at the Internet Summit Demo btw.
S3stat ( http://www.s3stat.com ) brings in enough to live on, and funded me while I was traveling last year and bootstrapping the next thing. It also has the advantage of pretty much running itself on autopilot, so I can sometimes go entire months without opening the IDE or doing anything beyond responding to the odd customer email. I'd highly recommend building something like that (a low-maintenance income generatin…
http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/ I have been living full time on this since I launched paid plans in May this year. My annual revenue goal was surpassed in first two months. But to be honest, I was very scared the week paid plans were launched. Thoughts of what if I don't even make equivalent to my previous salary haunted me (I had left my full time job 2 months before launching paid plans -- so my family and frien…
Making more than I did as a full-time system engineer. http://www.glasscodeinc.com based off IT services alone. Soon to invest the profits into some software for managing enterprise infrastructure and hopefully grow from there.