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To give you an idea of revenue, it’s about as much as I’d be getting paid as a junior-mid developer in London and requires a day or two of work a week unless I’m adding a new feature, redesigning etc.
https://screenjar.com is also making a small amount of revenue, but nothing meaningful yet.
I'll be starting a Youtube channel shortly about solo bootstrapping a tech business around a mobile app and everything that's involved, from idea validation to implementation, launch and marketing. Let me know if that's everything you're interested in
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I’m surprised that you can live off of history books! Very cool.
Believe me, I was surprised too. Very surprised. The stereotype of a famished author is pretty strong here :) Thing is, without middle-men (distributors, bookshops), most of the revenue accrues to you directly. Long live e-commerce.
I feel like the question is wrong. I used to run a profitable one-person online business. And I felt miserable every time I had to get up at night to fix server issues, or when I had to do customer support from my laptop while I was supposed to be on vacation instead. Now that we're a team, I feel so much better about the whole thing, even though profit margins are slightly lower than before.
https://www.perfecttableplan.com (2005)
https://www.hyperplan.com (2015)
https://www.easydatatransform.com (2019)
2020 wasn't a great year due to the effect of COVID on PerfectTablePlan sales. But I've been profitable every year.
[1] With a bit of help from my wife on the accounts and freelancers for web design, testing etc.
BeeLine makes reading on screen easier and faster. At first, most of the revenue came from B2C mobile apps and browser plugins, but in 2020 it hit a tipping point and most of the revenue now comes from B2B technology licensing.
Blackboard recently adopted the BeeLine technology, and there are several other large education platforms that are planning to adopt in 2021.
Licensing revenue is uncommon for startups, but it's nice because it's very high margin. I actually used to be a lawyer, so I can keep the main licensing cost (legal fees) under control.
I run a paid addon for local e-commerce platform(with 25k shops build on it). It all started about 15 month ago when i was still working in a web development company. The platform owners came to us and offered us a partnership. We would develop some new addons for them, run them, and split the profits(80% for us, 20% for them). As i was the one most interested in this i got the first project and developed and support…
I'll be starting a Youtube channel shortly about solo bootstrapping a tech business around a mobile app and everything that's involved, from idea validation to implementation, launch and marketing. Let me know if that's everything you're interested in
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Believe me, I was surprised too. Very surprised. The stereotype of a famished author is pretty strong here :) Thing is, without middle-men (distributors, bookshops), most of the revenue accrues to you directly. Long live e-commerce.
I can imagine that you have built some sort of strong followers community to promote your books? I mean how do readers find your books?
For every person who currently does X successfully, there will be a multiple of those who failed at the (nearly) same and aren't chiming in.