Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by DaveChild » Sat, May 21, 2011, 8:34 AM UTC

ohashi wrote: post #88

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…

I LOVE jack daniels. Your site was incredibly helpful, I think I have 100 copies of various cheat sheets across all the computers I've used over the years.

Strangely enough, I don't drink JD any more. I prefer Bulleit and Jura these days. And I do miss having a domain that memorable.

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

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Post by pbiggar » Sat, May 21, 2011, 10:16 AM UTC

jashmenn wrote: post #265

happyrichpinoy wrote: post #261

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looks like you've got some competition -> http://gamesforcats.com/

True story: I emailed friskies about this in November last year. I sent them a video of our game and asked if they wanted to work together. I had a few phone calls with them and they told us they loved the idea. Then one day: silence. They wouldn't return my calls or emails. Now just this week they release this game, same idea, almost same domain. (I would guess the reason they didn't use the domain gameforcats.com i…

I'd try to create a big stink about it in the press ("BIGCORP steals indie company's idea!!"), but not actually sue them or anything. This would have the benefit that people would hear about your product, which would benefit you both (though I assume you more because you'll have higher SEO and ranking in the App Store?).

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

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Post by getsat » Sat, May 21, 2011, 12:22 PM UTC

DaveChild wrote: post #278

getsat wrote: post #45

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Dude. Your cheat sheets were amazing back in the day (2004) when I was first getting into LAMP. The HTML entities sheet and CSS sheet were lifesavers. I had them all printed out and hanged up on the wall above my monitor. Do you have a Paypal donate button/email? :)

Thanks :) - glad they were useful! I've got a paypal thing on the cheat sheet download pages ... http://www.addedbytes.com/download/subversion-cheat-sheet-v1...

Great! Have a beer or two on me. :)

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

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Post by dennisgorelik » Sat, May 21, 2011, 3:14 PM UTC

throwaway1074 wrote: post #209

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…

1) Why are you saying "we" if you are the only employee? 2) What are your monthly expenses?

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

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Post by burke » Sat, May 21, 2011, 3:14 PM UTC

ra wrote: post #279

burke wrote: post #271

http://fuckyeahnouns.com Generates about $125/mo from 30-60k pageviews per day.

Nice. So is the money from the mobile app?

Yeah, it was built by a couple friends of mine. They started advertising there when AdSense kicked us off for being apparently-pornographic.

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

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Post by dennisgorelik » Sat, May 21, 2011, 3:18 PM UTC

Revenue:

1) 377 * $20/month subscriptions http://www.postjobfree.com/premium-membership

2) ~$1000/month in AdSense

Expenses: ~$4000/month

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

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Post by billrobertson42 » Sat, May 21, 2011, 5:09 PM UTC

brk wrote: post #66

~$2500-$3000/mo from boutique dedicated server hosting.

If you don't mind, would you explain that a bit more?

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

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Post by kalid » Sat, May 21, 2011, 5:15 PM UTC

rawsyntax wrote: post #237

kalid wrote: post #116

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Yes, I can't wait! [I make about $800 - $1200 / month on my blog, hoping to increase it with Antonio's help :)]

how are you making money with it?

I'm selling an ebook on math -- more details about the process here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=870015

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

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Post by DaveChild » Sat, May 21, 2011, 5:29 PM UTC

getsat wrote: post #283

DaveChild wrote: post #278

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Thanks :) - glad they were useful! I've got a paypal thing on the cheat sheet download pages ... http://www.addedbytes.com/download/subversion-cheat-sheet-v1...

Great! Have a beer or two on me. :)

Thanks very much - I will!

I love the internet :)

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

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Post by brk » Sat, May 21, 2011, 5:55 PM UTC

billrobertson42 wrote: post #287

brk wrote: post #66

~$2500-$3000/mo from boutique dedicated server hosting.

If you don't mind, would you explain that a bit more?

I host dedicated servers in a data-center that I helped build out a long time ago. I still have a good relationship with the company that runs it, so I get cut-rate wholesale space and do anything from 1U ($50/mo) to half-cabinet, full-cabinet, private-cage, etc. space.