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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 pkamb »

mikebridgman wrote: post #168
pkamb wrote: post #162

$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…

I would love to see a live video example on your landing page. It took me a long time and several clicks to figure it out.

Thanks, definitely on my shortlist.

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

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Post by pkamb »

jdvolz wrote: post #245
pkamb wrote: post #230

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Exactly the kind of person I'm trying to reach! How did you manage while you were recovering? Did you search for any alternative layouts or guides?

I did and I found some options that have to do with alternative keyboard layouts, usually folding the keyboard in half using a hot key. I was lucky in that I had partial use of my hand and since my injury and surgery were so high up on my arm (as opposed to a direct hand injury) I wasn't as held back as I might have been otherwise. I also looked into hardware solutions, but those are expensive and more for a person w…

Cool. Undercutting (plus doing it better than!) the expensive hardware solutions is my main goal.

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

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Post by ohashi »

mcdowall wrote: post #215
ohashi wrote: post #90

At it's peak, I made thousands (not sure what the exact number was now) from domain parking/monetization.

How many domains were you managing to achieve this? Also, how did you monetize, ads or affiliates?

At it's peak... over 700 I think. ppc/lead gen/affiliates mostly.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

dennisgorelik wrote: post #284
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?

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

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Post by throwaway1074 »

dennisgorelik wrote: post #284
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?

I always use the term "we" often when describing the platform since the community as a whole is what makes things successful.

Our monthly expenses average around 10k month for everything (hosting, PAAS providers, outside services etc)

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

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Post by jag0 »

withoutfriction wrote: post #276
Hisoka wrote: post #155

Between 9K - 13K a month from affiliate commissions (CJ) promoting diet programs, and web hosts. 50% is from a network of sites. 50% is from a vastly successful Adwords campaign.

Thanks for responding to the thread. This interests me. Any chance you could shoot me an email? Email is in profile.

Interested in learning a bit more about this too. any way to contact you? Or you could shoot me an email?

Thanks!

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Post by joshu »

jashmenn wrote: post #234
joshu wrote: post #190

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FYI my dog likes to play this game too.

I'm thrilled that you've actually played our game.

I didn't play it, the puppy did. I'll try to catch some video.

Our other puppy prefers a sound board: http://www.flickr.com/photos/joshu/5702009514

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Post by sktrdie »

gregpilling wrote: post #239
sktrdie wrote: post #131

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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.

looks pretty interesting, but I think your homepage needs some more explanations. Is this for local networks only, or can I use it to install software across the internet? We have staff in 6 cities, many working from home with company supplied computers. I would like a solution like this to keep the virus software etc, up to date. You may want to look at a monthly charge instead ($9.95 per month) or a charge for an a…

This works for local networks only. You're the first business that I came across that needs to achieve installations across the internet. It could be done but it's not the scope of uDeployer.

What do you suggest to add as explanations? I figured the homepage is pretty exaustive in telling what the program does.

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

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Post by AmberShah »

dennisgorelik wrote: post #284
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?

Just a guess, but between his indep contractors and volunteer moderators (as well as all those members), I'm betting he doesn't feel too alone. I have a tendency to say "we" when talking about running a group I started and it has < 200 people :)
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