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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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Post by sktrdie »

dualogy wrote: post #112
sktrdie wrote: post #19

Getting about 60$ a month with http://udeployer.com/ - considering the amount of work I put into it I'm definitely opting for more than 60 dollars, but better than nothing... at least I can have a fancy dinner once a month :). Continuously expanding with some marketing, hoping to reach the $500/month mark someday.

Experiment with 10x the license fee just for one month. This is clearly targeting bigger teams / enterprises / SMEs rather than home users. $19 -- what were u thinking?!

I just started this in January so I thought I would give it some time to spread the word out with the low-pricing, then maybe make it more stable with a monthly fee.

Unfortunately I was selling this for about $200 and I wasn't getting any buyers at all, so I was forced to switch to a lower price.

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Post by cullenking »

satanIsMyCpilot wrote: post #122

About $350/month in affiliate earnings/advertising from an image gallery site. It's been up for about 1.5 years. Traffic has been up lately, but earnings seem to have plateaued. I see a lot of posters making over $1K/month. How long did it take to reach that level of income?

Three years, with the last year being the most intense. We were making $1000 a month in donations all last year, our third year, now we are on to direct sales. Takes a while to build trust!

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

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Post by riskish »

udfalkso wrote: post #50

Roughly $1,000 a month in revenue from http://isitnormal.com . Expenses add up to around $300 a month for hosting on linode and paid moderators. Given traffic levels, I feel I should be able to do better than this somehow. Still searching for the best way to monetize all the super-weird (but interesting!) UGC content.

how did you promote/market this initially?

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Post by detst »

dpcan wrote: post #99
Periodic wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 t…

So your issue is mostly with email-related support issues?

I'm working on something and considering if hosting will be a bigger headache than it's worth and if I can get away without offering it. I'm thinking I can't and that it won't be bad anyway.

I expect to keep things limited in scope so don't anticipate the issues you're having but I'm concerned that I might be overly optimistic.

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

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Post by hnsmurf »

charlesdm wrote: post #79
hnsmurf wrote: post #58

I once had a collection of poker-related software that did in the low 6 figures per month. Unfortunately recent government actions kicked that in the nuts.

Is it because you're US based?

Unfortunately it's more because my customers are. If I could just move I would have to have maintained that level of income. It's hard to pass up a few hundred grand a year for not much work.

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

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Post by akamaka »

dangrossman wrote: post #77

I make a few thousand a month from http://www.w3counter.com (freemium) and http://www.w3roi.com (no free plan). The sites have similar revenue despite the freemium one having over 1000 times more total users.

These look great, and I'm surprised I've never heard of them. How do you market them?
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