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

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I built https://reviewsignal.com which aggregates twitter opinions about web hosting companies. It runs it through spam filtering and sentiment analysis to constantly give an updated view into what people think about these companies. It makes money with affiliates, most hosting companies have them, some don't (eg. amazon). I don't let affiliate program existence or pay influence the rankings, it's just pure data. It…

how profitable is it?

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

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Haha, I wonder what the market would be for that!

Yes, there is. My company does sound id among other things. https://www.sensory.com/sound-identification-scene-analysis/

Nice! In that case, I may want to pick your brain about automatic transcription of scream sounds...

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

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

Naked pics/videos and functional programming tutorials.

Would you mind sharing? I'm sure many people here are interested in functional programming tutorials.

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

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That's awesome! I saw on your original submission on showhn for vsual that you were trying to figure out the marketing. How have you done since then and what worked for you? Five figures is quite impressive

The short answer is no, we don't have it 100% figured out yet. But we have learned a few things: - The cost per sale of paid marketing targeting CUSTOMERS is just a little too high to be sustainable right now. Part of that, I think, is because the searching/tagging/categorization of VSUAL isn't great. We can create an ad with interesting art that causes a clickthrough, but if that piece isn't quite compelling enough…

Thanks for sharing what you've learned in so much detail! Sounds promising, hope all the best for you

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This is pretty cool, How much sales do you usually get? You have any marketing channels?

Well, the space ai art space is getting pretty competitive. I have seen many people starting and then quitting these kind of projects because they approached it purely from the money side. I make only few sales every couple of months and so far it is mostly coming from social media (@ai_art_supreme on Instagram) or word of mouth channels. I am targeting high end of the market so that is fine by me and also ready to p…

thanks for sharing!

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

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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.

Totally. This was a scrappy mvp. I’ve got a “redesign” in the works that’s react/go based instead of RoR and that’s all HTTPS.

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

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

Naked pics/videos and functional programming tutorials.

You do both at the same time? That would bring learning FP to a completely different level. I don't think anyone would mind if you posted a link here.

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

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I run three "optionally" passive projects that have combined to about $26k so far in 2020 ("optionally" passive meaning I can put them on autopilot anytime, though continue to work on them to grow them).

They are:

1. SaaS Pegasus: a SaaS boilerplate template for Django projects (https://www.saaspegasus.com/)

2. Place Card Me, a printable place card maker for weddings nad other events (https://www.placecard.me/)

3. Chat Stats: Analytics for GroupMe groups (https://chatstats.co/)

My goal - started three years ago - is to replace my day-job income with passive side-project revenue. Hopefully will do so by 2022 or so!

I publish all my data on profit (as well as time spent and hourly rates) here: https://www.coryzue.com/open/

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

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Naked pics/videos and functional programming tutorials.

You do both at the same time? That would bring learning FP to a completely different level. I don't think anyone would mind if you posted a link here.

I'm flattered! Wanna make sure everyone's aware I'm a cis-man. I've just gotten started honestly, so the only tutorial video on there is walking through a point-free JS solution on Codewars using Ramda. If I put up some more FP content then I will actually link it, promise!
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