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

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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…

So this makes them the zuckerbergs of ipad cat games?

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

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$3000 from ads on Iconfinder.com

Oooh, this is the first icon site I've seen that doesn't suck! :) I think you should definitely market this more, there are probably many other people who could benefit.

Thanks a lot :-D

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

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$3000 from ads on Iconfinder.com

Oooh, this is the first icon site I've seen that doesn't suck! :) I think you should definitely market this more, there are probably many other people who could benefit.

I agree. At my last job I used iconfinder extensively, easily the best icon site I've come across.

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

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$3000 from ads on Iconfinder.com

Oooh, this is the first icon site I've seen that doesn't suck! :) I think you should definitely market this more, there are probably many other people who could benefit.

Yeah, the potential is bigger for creating revenue streams. I'm working hard on getting there.

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

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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?

About 2 years in my case, but I didn't have ads in the first year or so.

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

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I made $162 from an iphone app called Tank! last month, and it has been on the store for about 4-5 months. It is a simple clone of Atari Combat that was built with phonegap and Canvas + Javascript. I charge $2.99 per app sale, and that seems to be the sweet spot. http://robkohr.com/iphone/tank/ (pricing is wrong on this page)

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

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post #40

roughly $50/month for a news aggregator: http://www.iphone2die4.com/ Bear in mind it's been flying solo since 2007 with only a single facelift about 6 months ago. No marketing or anything. Pays for the server, but that's it.

IF you don't mind me asking, what autoblogger do you use for it?

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

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$300-$500/month for a Windows desktop application. I wrote it to help out my mother-in-law since she found Photoshop too complicated to do what she wanted: placing text on pictures. Turned out to be a great learning experience on how to sell things online. See it here: http://www.pmesoftware.com

How do you market it? Adsense?

Did you mean "How do you monetize it?" (if you meant AdSense) or, did you mean "AdWords" if you really meant "market it"? AFAIK, AdSense is for making money from your content, while AdWords is for marketing your products / services.
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