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Re: Ask HN: What is your passive income 2020?

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Post by dheera »

I created this online graphing tool in 2007 and haven't updated it in years: http://fooplot.com/

It's still generating a small amount of ad revenue every month. It used to generate 5-10X what it does now before the days of mobile apps. Back then it was a very meaningful addition to my grad student salary. I had 250K MAU at one point, many of which seemed to be coming from middle and high schools in lower income places that had common computers but presumably not graphing calculators for every student.

It's SORELY out of date with current web tech. Problem is it's not generating enough ad revenue for me to want to go and rewrite it (over working on all my other side projects), and it's not generating little enough for me to want to shut it down -- it's still profitable even if it's just a little.

Re: Ask HN: What is your passive income 2020?

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Post by falco925 »

gangstertim wrote: post #23

I co-run http://vsual.co . We make five figures of monthly revenue, and generally my partner and I work 8:30-10 AM before our "regular" jobs. We're growing at a moderate pace—for now this is passive(ish) income, but one day we may dive all in.

This is a really cool site. Will buy some art from here! Congrats man

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Post by surround »

derwiki wrote: post #10

I have a side project [1] that I haven't monetized, but some folks like it enough that they Paypal me for additional credits [1] http://www.postcardmailer.us

You need to require HTTPS for all requests on your website, and redirect all HTTP requests to HTTPS in order to protect users’ personal information and passwords.

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Post by doctoboggan »

I launched a website where my customers can designs rings for 3D printing in gold or silver: https://lulimjewelry.com

Once I get my drop shipping and white labeling agreement with the 3D printing company it will be much more passive, since now I am receiving and shipping all the rings.

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Post by desireco42 »

1-more wrote: post #13

Riding a nice bike is an exercise in something that costs $20-$40 always needing fixing every so often. So I do Uber Eats when I ride every so often to offset that. Almost time for new rims though. It's not passive exactly, but it's getting paid to do something that's 80% the same as what I was going to do anyways. My onlyfans makes way less so far, but hope springs eternal.

I am curious what content on onlyfans you are posting? I thought it is good platform for offering additional access to expertise.

Re: Ask HN: What is your passive income 2020?

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Post by capnorange »

This might be controversial for HN but here goes.

A couple months back, I got into reading and learning about Ethereum. I never liked it, still don't get the value in blockchains except for Bitcoin.

I have a couple of bots/alerts and some manual strategies to execute on opportunities in some of the DeFi apps, mostly arbitrages. All of my strategies only takes in smart contract risks.

It's surprising how inefficient the market still is. It has made me around a years worth of my work money.

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