Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Is it hard to build a web app that makes at least $1000 a month?

quora.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

21–30 of 127 posts

Re: Is it hard to build a web app that makes at least $1000 a month?

#21

Post by mootothemax »

I think saying, however sarcastically, that if it was that easy, everyone would be doing it is kinda pointless. The most important step is to get started in the first place.

Even if you don't make huge amounts of money (disclaimer: that's my blog post linked at the bottom of the answer), there's a huge gulf between those that spend their days thinking about possibilities, and those that get up and start their projects. If you're in the latter group, you stand a much greater chance :)

Re: Is it hard to build a web app that makes at least $1000 a month?

#22

Post by naner »

dotBen wrote: post #11

Applying your startup skills to projects in the adult space will certainly help you wing your way to $1000/m v easily. Big data/machine learning of all the meta data associated on tube sites, repurposing content for tablets, recommendation engines, social layers that are delineated/firewalled from the mainstream social graph, hosting/live streaming services for adult content -- are all opportunity spaces that come to…

Legal - yes, but for a lot of us not really justifiable. I'd rather flip burgers.

Re: Is it hard to build a web app that makes at least $1000 a month?

#24

Post by yeahsure »

getsat wrote: post #20
dotBen wrote: post #11

Applying your startup skills to projects in the adult space will certainly help you wing your way to $1000/m v easily. Big data/machine learning of all the meta data associated on tube sites, repurposing content for tablets, recommendation engines, social layers that are delineated/firewalled from the mainstream social graph, hosting/live streaming services for adult content -- are all opportunity spaces that come to…

I've been wanting to build a niche video/picture site for a while (to deal with all the CDN/scaling issues involved myself), and I've also been looking for a project I can use this Programming Collective Intelligence book on. Adult seems to be a good next project for me. The only initial unknown I can think of would be where content would come from unless it's user-supplied. Any other links/info/thoughts?

Several years ago I thought about building something in the adult market (never got to it). Your best bet is to go to the adult webmaster's board: http://gfy.com If you're looking for affiliate programs, if I recall correctly, they gave you tons of content for free.

Anyway... hope this helps - good luck!

Re: Is it hard to build a web app that makes at least $1000 a month?

#25

Post by yeahsure »

maxklein wrote: post #14

I have many products that make more than $1000 a month. Tip - use the app stores to cut away the pain of having to market to users through vague means. App stores are a godsend if you are a good developer but bad marketer.

But that wouldn't be a web app. How about a web app? Anything else other than AppSumo?

Re: Is it hard to build a web app that makes at least $1000 a month?

#26

Post by maxklein »

yeahsure wrote: post #25
maxklein wrote: post #14

I have many products that make more than $1000 a month. Tip - use the app stores to cut away the pain of having to market to users through vague means. App stores are a godsend if you are a good developer but bad marketer.

But that wouldn't be a web app. How about a web app? Anything else other than AppSumo?

Why must it be a web app? To me web apps are only useful for a specific sort of software, not for all types of software. People who want everything to be web apps are just mentally inflexible.

The app store for web apps is twitter and facebook.

Re: Is it hard to build a web app that makes at least $1000 a month?

#27

Post by hnhg »

naner wrote: post #22
dotBen wrote: post #11

Applying your startup skills to projects in the adult space will certainly help you wing your way to $1000/m v easily. Big data/machine learning of all the meta data associated on tube sites, repurposing content for tablets, recommendation engines, social layers that are delineated/firewalled from the mainstream social graph, hosting/live streaming services for adult content -- are all opportunity spaces that come to…

Legal - yes, but for a lot of us not really justifiable. I'd rather flip burgers.

And a lot of people would rather consume porn rather than those burgers. It's all subjective and down to personal taste. He makes a good point about not being downvoted simply for the market he's chosen.

Re: Is it hard to build a web app that makes at least $1000 a month?

#28

Post by jasonlotito »

maxklein wrote: post #26
yeahsure wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But that wouldn't be a web app. How about a web app? Anything else other than AppSumo?

Why must it be a web app? To me web apps are only useful for a specific sort of software, not for all types of software. People who want everything to be web apps are just mentally inflexible. The app store for web apps is twitter and facebook.

> Why must it be a web app?

Because that was the original question asked, as well as the topic here. Stay on topic, stay on topic.

Re: Is it hard to build a web app that makes at least $1000 a month?

#29

Post by csomar »

maxklein wrote: post #14

I have many products that make more than $1000 a month. Tip - use the app stores to cut away the pain of having to market to users through vague means. App stores are a godsend if you are a good developer but bad marketer.

Could you give examples?

Re: Is it hard to build a web app that makes at least $1000 a month?

#30

Post by VB6_Foreverr »

antirez wrote: post #23

I think it is harder to go from zero to $1000/month than from $1000/month to 100,000$/month. What is sad is that instead to create a spam engine, adsense powered, doing $1000/month is pretty straightforward.

OK I've done the first part, but I've been a bit stuck on the easier second part for a long time. :)
Post reply on HN