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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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What exactly is an iPad game for cats? Edit: Is this something for the untapped Crazy Cat Lady market?

http://www.ipadgameforcats.com/

Your kidding, right? If this app makes $4,000 a month, I'm teaching myself iOS development this weekend.

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

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less than a thousand from rental propertie'S'?

I assume it's because he's running his rental business right. You've got to consider the following things, which greatly reduce the actual "income" you're getting out of them. The obvious ones are mortgage payments, insurance payments, and tax payments. Then you've also got a vacancy allowance, because you assume that units will be vacant at least some of the time between leases. This can vary between 5-20% depending…

I couldn't have said it better myself.

I also only invest in a city with outstanding economic fundamentals. I could invest in more depressed areas and have higher cash flow but the risk is not worth it to me.

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

They're at http://designthencode.com

I would love to hear more about this as well. How do you advertise? Do you just have the one free tutorial and the two paid tutorials (also sold as a bundle), or do you have others that I'm not seeing?

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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…

How do you acquire NextProof users? 5-10 hours a week is great for a website that generates 5 figures a month. I would love to hear more about this - do you blog?

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$0 per month for my one-hand keyboard layout software, blah. Recently switched from a 'branded' domain to a exact-match domain, looking forward to seeing how that improves my results. Blog + regular content is next on the list. http://www.onehandkeyboard.org It's based on the same muscle memory as two-hand typing, so any two-hand typist can learn to type with one hand in minutes. Good for a programmer with a broken a…

As a programmer who tore my right distal radial biceps tendon and had surgery to repair it, I approve this message.

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

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I co-own a web app which makes about $70k a year total, which I split 50/50 with my partner. Living in a relatively expensive place, I'm satisfied with that for now as it enables a modest yet comfortable standard of living. The usual benefits - flexible hours, can work in any location with internet access, complete choice of technologies, etc. go a long way. We could do a lot better, though and I'm aiming to do that.…

Please share more details!

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

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I'm using a throwaway account here to protect my privacy. I'm currently making between 90k and 110K a month in revenue as a sole employee running a fairly large active Web community ( Our revenue sources breaks down as follows: * 40/50K/month in subscription revenue * 25K/month in adsense revenue * 4k/month in other ad revenue (Ebay, Amazon, Viglink etc) * 30K/month in license and royalty revenue As the sole employee…

Sounds absolutely perfect! Well done.

Do you enjoy the community? Could you keep running it indefinitely?

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