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

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Post by nooneelse »

callmeed wrote: post #118
jashmenn wrote: post #78

I make ~$2,000 a month with an iPad game for cats. My co-founder and I were working on a "more serious" game and it was taking a long time. We needed a quick win, so I agreed to do it if we spent less than 4 weeks on it. We completed the game from idea to app store in 3.5 weeks and it is now, by far, our most popular game. * face palm * EDIT: We split the revenue 50/50, so the revenue (after apple's cut) on this game…

Wait a second, the iPad app is free. Are you making money from cats clicking on ads ? If so, I salute you.

From the perspective of the advertiser that would be, at least, on the border of being a con job.

But the fine print on http://www.ipadgameforcats.com/ says that one level/theme is free and another is $1.99 as an in-app purchase.

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

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Post by jlind »

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?

I think he's referring to some of the recent domain seizures from a handful of major gambling sites.

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

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Post by JonLim »

callmeed wrote: post #114

Are you referring to business income/revenue or personal income from those businesses? Of the 4 businesses I've founded or co-founded (BIG Folio, APF, NextProof, and 2 Tablespoons), the first two generate approximately half of their revenue from recurring fees (we also have setup fees). That adds up to high 5-figures per month for each (more in a good month). Of course, they both have the highest overhead in terms of…

Is this your site? http://2tablespoons.com/

If so, Cilantro sounds interesting. One of the things I keep reading is that the restaurant industry is super resistant to change and adopting new technology. Or it seems that way.

How are you going about circumventing that issue? Or minimizing it, at least?

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

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Post by LokiSnake »

jashmenn wrote: post #78

I make ~$2,000 a month with an iPad game for cats. My co-founder and I were working on a "more serious" game and it was taking a long time. We needed a quick win, so I agreed to do it if we spent less than 4 weeks on it. We completed the game from idea to app store in 3.5 weeks and it is now, by far, our most popular game. * face palm * EDIT: We split the revenue 50/50, so the revenue (after apple's cut) on this game…

Were you at the LA iPad hackathon event right after the iPad's release? There was a team that worked on something similar.

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

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Post by johnconroy »

BasilAwad wrote: post #113
alexkearns wrote: post #4

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…

Man, that's great. I'm guessing the big clients would be news organizations. I would aggressive argue that this should be on their homepage as their updated news feed and then have the timeline move by the hour.

Good idea. Embeddable widget. The thing looks fantastic

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

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Post by johnconroy »

BasilAwad wrote: post #113
alexkearns wrote: post #4

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…

Man, that's great. I'm guessing the big clients would be news organizations. I would aggressive argue that this should be on their homepage as their updated news feed and then have the timeline move by the hour.

Good idea. Embeddable widget. The thing looks fantastic

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

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Post by doyoulikeworms »

rabbitonrails wrote: post #73

SAAS company, 2 people, no funding. $6k/month after paying the support person. completely passive income, e.g. i don't check email any more.

Is the $6k/mo for you? Or the two of you? What's the product like, OOC?

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

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Post by gohat »

strick wrote: post #104

Until 5/1 I was making about $1,440/mo from google adsense on my site dodgit.com and a network of other sites I had purchased from flippa. Then I received an email 'your google adsense account has been disabled' and Google seized about a thousand dollars from my account. I had been using a personal account and a brand new account I set up for a business I wanted to build and sell (acceptable, per google's TOS) but th…

I had something similar happen to me.

It took a while, but I've come to realize that affiliate/product marketing can make a lot more money. Think about your audience, can you sell them a book explaining how to do something, and what existing affiliate products like those on Clickbank could you sell them?

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