Have a SaaS product I built a few years back. Still churning and profitable but for a niche audience.
Wanting to pick up another passive income stream.
Ask HN: What is your passive income 2019?
261–270 of 306 posts
Re: Ask HN: What is your passive income 2019?
#262Not exactly passive, but side hustle that I hope becomes main hustle: https://simplescraper.io Tryna fill the gap that Kimono left. Aim to post as a Show HN once I polish it a little more.
I just used it to scrape some camera data from Adorama. Pretty, pretty good! I'll tinker with it more later today.
Re: Ask HN: What is your passive income 2019?
#263I'm working on a website that calculates the unit prices on Amazon products. Hoping to help save people some money, since there are a surprising amount of times where buying in smaller quantities actually saves you money. The website is https://unitprice.org/browse if anyone is interested! It's still very much in its infancy, but I plan on doing a "Show HN" soon! Based on the last two weeks, I have only made about $1…
Do paper towels & toilet paper please :)
I've added some initial paper towel and toilet paper listings, FYI! More to come, so expect an even better deal later this evening! https://unitprice.org/categories/home
Re: Ask HN: What is your passive income 2019?
#264I wrote a paid Chrome extension that tests websites for SEO, speed and security best practices: https://www.checkbot.io/ It currently has 30K active users of the free version and 100s of paid users.
What kind of breakdown do you see between monthly and yearly subscriptions?
Re: Ask HN: What is your passive income 2019?
#265I wrote a paid Chrome extension that tests websites for SEO, speed and security best practices: https://www.checkbot.io/ It currently has 30K active users of the free version and 100s of paid users.
What kind of breakdown do you see between monthly and yearly subscriptions?
About 30% for yearly and 70% for monthly. I'm still experimenting with the pricing plans. I only started the monthly plan recently. I had a quarterly plan in its place before which don't seem that common with other SaaS products.
I found quarterly appealing in that it probably reduces billing related support requests, the higher price tends to attract customer that are less demanding in terms of product support, and customers aren't pressured to evaluate if they want to continue their subscription so often.
Re: Ask HN: What is your passive income 2019?
#266Earlier quoted context omitted.
What kind of breakdown do you see between monthly and yearly subscriptions?
About 30% for yearly and 70% for monthly. I'm still experimenting with the pricing plans. I only started the monthly plan recently. I had a quarterly plan in its place before which don't seem that common with other SaaS products. I found quarterly appealing in that it probably reduces billing related support requests, the higher price tends to attract customer that are less demanding in terms of product support, and…
Very interesting. It some kind of sense to me that the noisiest customers are those paying less, even if they're only making up something like 20% of actual MRR.
Are a lot of the support requests related to yearly billing or do you mean a quarterly option would theoretically preempt those kinds of requests?
Really great extension, site and all-around product, by the way.
Re: Ask HN: What is your passive income 2019?
#267Not exactly passive, but side hustle that I hope becomes main hustle: https://simplescraper.io Tryna fill the gap that Kimono left. Aim to post as a Show HN once I polish it a little more.
Fails to scrape article previews from https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/
Re: Ask HN: What is your passive income 2019?
#268Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’ve become increasingly curious about things like owning a ____ franchise (mostly from watching this fantastic location by my house go through a revolving door of poorly-run franchises and wondering “I bet you could make some money if you just ran the place right”). So this doesn’t sound silly to me in the slightest. But I am curious if you would indulge my curiosity, how’d you come to decision to pursue such invest…
I just know that I needed to diversify what I had -- and, it was between buying a Great Clips franchise or opening up a pizza joint.
My conversation about owning a similar "utility" store with SO came to grinding halt at "We'll talk once you find someone who's actually done this".
Well, now I do! Thank you !
Would you please share some details; how you started, what it took time and money wise, what to avoid, what really matters.
It may seem silly to you but I really need this. I'm willing to communicate offline/in-person/chat/phone whatever works for you. You will not believe how hard it is to find someone who's done what you have.
Re: Ask HN: What is your passive income 2019?
#269Not entirely passive, but I'm a Nominet registrar and buy/sell domains as my side gig. For the most part, this involves taking preorders for domains which have expired and are about to drop, then trying to catch them when they do. I also hold my own domain portfolio which currently consists of just over 200 domains. I generally have an idea for how to develop most of these, but I'm mostly just holding them until I ge…
Mind u share how do u register the domains ? API ?
Manual ?
Re: Ask HN: What is your passive income 2019?
#270Not exactly passive, but side hustle that I hope becomes main hustle: https://simplescraper.io Tryna fill the gap that Kimono left. Aim to post as a Show HN once I polish it a little more.
Fails to scrape article previews from https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/
Works for me: https://www.kapwing.com/videos/5db9feb530c3d00013d47ded