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Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?

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Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?

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About $7K per month in Android app sales.

(EDIT: Was at $15k per month last October before the competition started getting crazy)

About $2.5K per month hosting websites.

Then consulting income - I keep consulting because I feel like at any moment, the Android Market ranking algorithm will change or competition will wipe me out, etc, it's just to day-to-day to walk away from good old consulting.

Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?

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I'm in the same boat, it's a comfortable way of life but I always struggle with how to bring it to the next level.

Make a product.

Would like to eventually, just need to have an idea pop that I really believe in and that I see a future in.

Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?

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I don't own a hat, but if AR doesn't become larger than BCC, I will buy a hat so that I have one to eat. Aside from being owned by me, though, those two businesses are as alike as a kitten and a kumquat. (e.g. AR could take external investment, something which I am kicking around doing later. BCC would be an extraordinarily poor candidate for it.)

I'd be surprised if you don't do well with AR too. You could probably benefit from an active sales force a lot, though I could certainly understand why one wouldn't want to go down that route. The place I get my hair cut at, for instance, makes dozens of these calls a day yet would probably never hear of your service without a cold call.

Or a referral

Hey Patrick, any chance for an affiliate account with your service (as opposed to your white label)? I'd gladly refer my barber, dentist, plumber, etc. As a stats junkie, Id like to see how many of my referrals actually sign up. Getting a reward for it would also be pretty sweet.

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less than a thousand from rental propertie'S'?

Assuming income = revenue - expenses, he should be glad it's not negative. Many people lose money on rentals.

Cheez, don't hate. Rental property is great. You just have to follow a few common sense principles. It's not magic. The people that get fked are the ones that speculate and flip houses, that's not real estate investing, that's gambling.

Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?

#67
I was making around $1,800 a month in AdSense revenue from The Online Slang Dictionary (and thesaurus) - http://onlineslangdictionary.com/

The site was collateral damage in Google's Panda update (which was hoped to reduce the prominence of content mills, etc. in search results) so that number has been greatly reduced the past 2 months.

Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?

#68

I launched TikiToki Timeline Software ( http://www.tiki-toki.com ) in March. It is currently making about $250 a month from subscribers. This month I have also sold a $1500 single timeline license. Hopefully more of them in the future! I am currently operating TikiToki as a side project from my main business as a freelance web developer. Aim to go full time with TikiToki at start of July. This will be a bit of a gamb…

Beautiful timeline software is right. Great stuff.

Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?

#69

$300-$500/month for a Windows desktop application. I wrote it to help out my mother-in-law since she found Photoshop too complicated to do what she wanted: placing text on pictures. Turned out to be a great learning experience on how to sell things online. See it here: http://www.pmesoftware.com

How do you market it? Adsense?

Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?

#70
I make a couple thousand a month selling affiliate iPod transfer software on a popular post on my blog.

An online dating tips blog that I started over 3 years ago under a pseudonym very recently started bringing in a few thousand a month from affiliates as well. SEOFTW.

There's lots of potential to bump up the revenue on the online dating blog, but I'm finishing up my book on design, so that's more important.

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