I have a game on the iOS app store. http://itunes.apple.com/app/river-cross-logic-puzzle-game/id... It brings in $100+ per month. I'm pretty happy with it.
How do you advertise it? Or just SEO?
Ask HN: Are you working on any side projects that make "small/passive" income?
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Re: Ask HN: Are you working on any side projects that make "small/passive" income?
#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why was this down-voted? a request was made for people with successful/profitable passive income sources to chime in. I believe the author responded to that.
While the answer is technically correct, its not very useful. If this entire thread just consisted of just Yes and No answers there would not be much value in it.
I see your point.
I was keeping in mind this comment - "Just to test this out, if anyone is staying quiet about their project for fear of attracting competition, could they please reply to this comment and say so? Don't worry, your silence is totally understandable :)" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2358309
After reading that comment, I felt a simple yes/no answer seemed a viable answer (at least to me). I agree though, that this response would detract from the general trend and usefulness. (Although getting a neg score seems a bit harsh). Thanks for the response.
Re: Ask HN: Are you working on any side projects that make "small/passive" income?
#123I just bought a few domains recently and thought, "Why haven't I done this sooner?"
It's still hard working on these things with a full time job, but I'm hoping one of them will come through and I can start a business of my own. I used to freelance, but got tired of it pretty fast. A small business would be nice.
Re: Ask HN: Are you working on any side projects that make "small/passive" income?
#124Yes.
Why was this down-voted? a request was made for people with successful/profitable passive income sources to chime in. I believe the author responded to that.
The OP added clarification after I posted my answer to the original Yes/No question. I was the first to comment so it now looks as if I didn't read the full question. That said, my reply hardly added to the conversation and I regret it.
Re: Ask HN: Are you working on any side projects that make "small/passive" income?
#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't know about you, but I don't think $25/mo is worth cheapening my blog by plastering tasteless ads on it. I'd have to be pulling significant income from it before I would even consider putting ads on my blog.
http://kennethfinnegan.blogspot.com/ Text ads, top banner and bottom of right bar. $300 a year; as a college student, yeah, that's worth it.
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Re: Ask HN: Are you working on any side projects that make "small/passive" income?
#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't know about you, but I don't think $25/mo is worth cheapening my blog by plastering tasteless ads on it. I'd have to be pulling significant income from it before I would even consider putting ads on my blog.
http://kennethfinnegan.blogspot.com/ Text ads, top banner and bottom of right bar. $300 a year; as a college student, yeah, that's worth it.
Damn bro, Looks like you just stepped out of the 1970's Microsoft pic. Bro hit up my site for a makeover at alphamal.es
Re: Ask HN: Are you working on any side projects that make "small/passive" income?
#127Just launched my Guy's Lifestyle site. Q&A and advice from Alphas. Expect it to be HUGE bros. I will be building it up in my spare time.
Re: Ask HN: Are you working on any side projects that make "small/passive" income?
#128A couple years ago I created a small international proxy service. The service was targeted at advertisers who wanted to advertise in other countries but didn't have an easy way to see international ads or landing pages from competitors(most landing pages in this niche were geotargeted and would redirect based on your IP). It probably took less than 10-15 hours to hack together in PHP. I didn't have a freemium model o…
The coup de grace: I was approached by several of the people who didn't win the auction but were still interested in the site. I ended up selling a few white-label versions of my (very simplistic) software for $1000 each.
Note to self, if I ever buy a site on Flippa, make sure to get a con-compete too.
Re: Ask HN: Are you working on any side projects that make "small/passive" income?
#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
The majority of my blog income is from existing content. If I stop posting for a month or so, as I have in the past, about 90% of the revenue will still be there. I'm currently posting about one post per week for each blog, and this relaxed pace is enough to increase the revenue of my blogs. If I stopped blogging altogether, it would probably take years before my revenue figures would be hugely impacted. That's passi…
10% is a huge impact if you depend on the money. And you're likely to lose 10% every month if you stopped blogging, not just the first month.
10% is a lot but given that we are talking about extra money, it wouldn't impact me. If I stopped blogging, the blogs would progressively earn less and less for sure, but the majority of the income comes from posts that are from several months to several years old. So no, they wouldn't lose 10% revenue per month.
The gist of what I'm saying is that the majority of the revenue (which we may define as the baseline) is, for all intents and purposes, passive income akin to having self-published an ebook or an app in the past.
Besides, even if we disagree on the definition, the original question was about "small/passive" income. The OP clearly wanted to know about extra income on the side, more than limiting the field to 100%, strictly passive income sources.
Re: Ask HN: Are you working on any side projects that make "small/passive" income?
#130Not typical HN fare, but the wife and I started a business together that has (almost) nothing to do with the interwebs. It's a photography business.. We started it about 3+ years ago, and in most senses it's done quite well. She's been able to quit her day-job. It's what HN folks would call a 'lifestyle' business, I guess. You know, cause we're not rich . I have to say, it's pretty rad. Software startups don't have a…
I'd like to hear more about this. I've been thinking of getting more into photography myself. It seems like wedding photography is a bad idea as it's way overdone. I was thinking architecture or portrait photography. What did you all end up doing?
Wedding. Yeah, it's totally overdone.. but there's a ton of opportunity there. Tens of thousands of weddings every year in a major metro area, and as a wedfog depending on how you price yourself you're usually looking for around 30 (we try not to shoot more than 24 or so).
Another huge advantage wedfog has over commercial if you're getting into it while you've got a 9-5 is the hours. You shoot on Saturdays, and edit at nights. It's still grueling to do while you've got another gig (the year before my wife quit we shot about 20 weddings, which each take 6-8hrs to shoot and 20-40 hours to edit)... but it can be done.
Many other genres are going to be difficult to start doing seriously if you have a 9-5... the business models are all different. Much more to say than fits in a comment. I've been meaning to write some stuff up, but meanwhile feel free to drop me a line and I'm happy to share anything you'd like to know. famousactress [at] gmail