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

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Post by tropin »

ja27 wrote: post #34

Over the year I average $30 a month - but only with about 30 minutes of work a month. It's sad, but I bet I spend more time checking on that income than I do making it. These are mostly old learning experiences and playgrounds for me and I rarely update them. 60% is from Adsense on a sports-related niche website. I make most of that during a couple bursts related to sports seasons - playoffs, spring training, opening…

>> If I really did the SEO

I'm in a very close situation. What would you do, exactly? Pay for an Adwords campaign? Canonical URLs? Improve the load times of the web?

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

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Post by Periodic »

dpcan wrote: post #61

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.

Could you elaborate on the "hosting websites" bit? What scale and size of sites are you talking about and what sorts of clients are you hosting? Are they all just your consulting clients?

I work with another developer to do web development projects, and I always felt like hosting would be an easy way to get some additional income from our clients. He maintains that it's just too much of a systems administration headache to be worth it.

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

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Post by endlessvoid94 »

flyosity wrote: post #39

I generate about $1000/mo from an iPad app I wrote (that I haven't updated in a long, long time) and then between $5-10k from iPhone user interface design/development tutorials that I sell.

Which ones, if you don't mind me asking?

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

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Post by jdvolz »

Until about 2 weeks ago I was the largest creator of stores on CafePress. I was earning decent residual income on existing stores that I had put up, but due to some external forces (some in my control, some out of it) I got my accounts shut down by CafePress. I still expect to earn some residual income for the next couple months on things I had already sold.

I had just started to seriously follow this path but I was earning between $100 and $375 per month in commissions from the test runs of my software that creates stores. I am in negotiations with them concerning turning my accounts back on.

I plan to expand this into a series of blog posts about lessons learned both business and technological. Upvote if that sounds like something you want to read.

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

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Post by endlessvoid94 »

DaveChild wrote: post #26

I set up a web dev blog in 2003, at ILoveJackDaniels.com, and after a few months of rubbish blogging starting doing free cheat sheets to download. At its peak, from AdSense and text link ads, it made about $1200 per month. I had to move domain (trademark heat), and moved to AddedBytes.com. Lost lots of traffic and links, unfortunately. Ad revenue dropped over time (around $100 at its lowest), and I recently ditched t…

Got any spare invites to carbon ads?

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

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Post by Periodic »

throwaway9898 wrote: post #22

Short Version: Hosted Web App making just under $10,000/mo. Using a throwaway account for this because I'd rather not share our numbers publicly yet, but in about 2.5 years since our hosted web app went live, we're generating just under $10,000 per month in revenue. That's working on it part-time for the first couple of years and, more recently, full-time. It's targeted at developers/designers, and the growth has bee…

You say "our" numbers. Is that $10k/mo split among a larger team? $10k/mo for eight people is very different than for two.

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

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Post by dpcan »

Periodic wrote: post #92
dpcan wrote: post #61

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.

Could you elaborate on the "hosting websites" bit? What scale and size of sites are you talking about and what sorts of clients are you hosting? Are they all just your consulting clients? I work with another developer to do web development projects, and I always felt like hosting would be an easy way to get some additional income from our clients. He maintains that it's just too much of a systems administration heada…

I host a couple hundred sites on dedicated servers. Mostly local business sites.

Hosting was hands down the dumbest move I ever made. I pay tons for servers, I'm fielding "I get too much spam" support requests several times weekly. Managing backups is a nightmare, then there's the endless responsibility of keeping the sites up and running. It's like jail I pay to live in.

That being said, I'm SLOWLY moving everyone to Rackspace Sites. Once everyone has moved, I think many of my headaches will be gone. Their email system is great and gets rid of 75% of my support requests.

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

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Post by spoiledtechie »

forsaken wrote: post #84
ryanmarsh wrote: post #65

$1,000 per month from two ATM's I own. The money is easy, but finding good locations that don't already have one is a complete bitch.

I'd be curious to hear more about how this works. Do you just contract out the work/money stuff to a bank?

ditto
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