Ask HN: What is your passive income 2019? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What is your passive income 2019?

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Post by ricky1477 » Thu, Oct 31, 2019, 1:38 PM UTC

g2ah5z wrote: post #256

sourc3 wrote: post #209

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I am in a similar position and would like to know how you got started with rental units. Are you using a property manager like it was mentioned in a previous comment? Do you recommend AirBnB vs. long-term rentals?

I self-manage since my properties are in the same small city that I live in. It's not the much work. I love AirBnB but you have to be careful with it - a lot of towns and cities have outright banned short-term rentals or at least made it very difficult to operate them legally.

A coworker who lives in PA sold his unit after laws were changed that would no longer allow his AirBnB to be profitable. He would have to add a sprinkling system and other things that cost 30k+

Re: Ask HN: What is your passive income 2019?

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Post by siscia » Thu, Oct 31, 2019, 2:24 PM UTC

Jleagle wrote: post #240

melenaos wrote: post #229

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It would be great if it could help to find the next game, something like the most popular games or the trending games etc

@melenaos Hi, I think the page you are looking for is here: https://gamedb.online/apps/trending . It could be more accurate with a higher sample rate, but would cost more.

How does this API works? You are charged for API call?

Re: Ask HN: What is your passive income 2019?

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Post by amerkhalid » Thu, Oct 31, 2019, 3:39 PM UTC

kinow wrote: post #124

amerkhalid wrote: post #92

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That is amazing, I have gifted your first book, "Experimenting With Babies" to almost all of my friends who had babies. Going to buy "Experimenting With Kids" now.

I feel like I heard about this book somewhere. Big Bang Theory?

I think I found it accidentally while searching for gifts for new parents in Google or Amazon.

Re: Ask HN: What is your passive income 2019?

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Post by ImpressiveWebs » Thu, Oct 31, 2019, 4:10 PM UTC

rhlsthrm wrote: post #242

ImpressiveWebs wrote: post #182

My primary frontend blog/website ( https://www.impressivewebs.com/ ) is mostly passive, I post maybe one article per month, usually not even that much. The blog has been active for about 10 years, so I get lots of SEO traffic, which brings in about $400-500 per month. I also sell ebooks that are compilations of articles and tips from my newsletter (see below) on Leanpub and Amazon. ( https://leanpub.com/b/javascriptd…

This is awesome stuff. This is exactly the type of content I want to start creating (development blog, newsletters, etc). Do you think it's better to build your own blog site if you were starting now as opposed to using Medium or something?

Yes, I think your own site is best. You can do Medium too for promotional reasons but it’s good to have your own brand and own your own stuff.

Re: Ask HN: What is your passive income 2019?

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Post by ImpressiveWebs » Thu, Oct 31, 2019, 4:11 PM UTC

Nadge wrote: post #236

ImpressiveWebs wrote: post #182

My primary frontend blog/website ( https://www.impressivewebs.com/ ) is mostly passive, I post maybe one article per month, usually not even that much. The blog has been active for about 10 years, so I get lots of SEO traffic, which brings in about $400-500 per month. I also sell ebooks that are compilations of articles and tips from my newsletter (see below) on Leanpub and Amazon. ( https://leanpub.com/b/javascriptd…

Spent an hour on impressivewebs.com before I realised! Great blog, thanks for sharing.

Thanks! Glad you liked it. I wish I had time to post more on there, but I’m happy with heat I’ve produced over the years.

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Post by ImpressiveWebs » Thu, Oct 31, 2019, 4:13 PM UTC

yitchelle wrote: post #280

ImpressiveWebs wrote: post #182

My primary frontend blog/website ( https://www.impressivewebs.com/ ) is mostly passive, I post maybe one article per month, usually not even that much. The blog has been active for about 10 years, so I get lots of SEO traffic, which brings in about $400-500 per month. I also sell ebooks that are compilations of articles and tips from my newsletter (see below) on Leanpub and Amazon. ( https://leanpub.com/b/javascriptd…

Impressive numbers on your newsletter projects. My newsletter project on Project Management is not working well at all. Congrats on the success!

What’s the URL for your newsletter?

Re: Ask HN: What is your passive income 2019?

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Post by Havoc » Thu, Oct 31, 2019, 9:03 PM UTC

zapstar wrote: post #215

Havoc wrote: post #194

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>I'm working on a website that calculates the unit prices on Amazon products. Oh hey. Actual built a prototype around this. And even bought some domains that sounded similar. I abandoned it when Amazon blocked my cloud scrapper. Also seemed quite manual labour intensive since the quantities displayed are so inconsistent.

Yeah, you can’t sneak past Amazon too easily. I am using their official API, so I’m trying to follow all of their rules and policies. Otherwise, I lose my affiliate status, and beyond having fun with this data, those affiliate fees are a significant motivator.

Good stuff. May I ask what route took you to affil? Blog?

Re: Ask HN: What is your passive income 2019?

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Post by yitchelle » Thu, Oct 31, 2019, 9:30 PM UTC

ImpressiveWebs wrote: post #286

yitchelle wrote: post #280

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Impressive numbers on your newsletter projects. My newsletter project on Project Management is not working well at all. Congrats on the success!

What’s the URL for your newsletter?

The landing page is here.

https://mailchi.mp/8e0622427dd5/prjmgrwkly

TIA for any hints you could give.

Re: Ask HN: What is your passive income 2019?

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Post by rfdavid » Fri, Nov 01, 2019, 4:16 AM UTC

I’m making around $1,500/month of passive income. Here is what it worked for me: I created a web tool for stock technical analysis but instead trying to acquire clients by myself, I contacted some players with a solid distribution channel who lacks some tools to sell. So I offered them white label to sell inside their website, splitting the profits by 50/50. No cost for me to acquire users, sales, marketing or even support. I believe it can work with any kind of product. Pretty much the same as selling your app in a marketplace, but I would say it is easier to sell having a brand on top of it.

Re: Ask HN: What is your passive income 2019?

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Post by TheGrumpyBrit » Fri, Nov 01, 2019, 9:22 AM UTC

umen wrote: post #269

TheGrumpyBrit wrote: post #247

Not 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 ?

A combination. For any preordered domains, I poll the domain until it drops and automatically register it using the API. Each day I'll review upcoming drops for the next day for anything I want to chase myself, and also review the drops from the previous day for any that weren't worth chasing but are worth manual registration.