Good job! I've created gif meme creator and so far I've only received one 5 USD donation. :D https://gifmemes.io
You're also missing an obvious donation link. Might want to link to Patreon, Paypal, a *coin address. Something.
Show HN: I made a meme creator that makes around $4k a month
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#92For some time I wanted to make browser-based utils/time wasters in the same vein (think Photopea but simpler, or .io games) - to generate some passive income, even if it'd be $100 a month or so. Has anybody succeeded in that and can share what was key to achieve income? I mean, most savvy people have ad blockers these days.
I made a web game that has been played by around a hundred thousand people so far and net a few hundred dollars. Now that the idea is validated I'm releasing a huge update soon that will tie in with a Patreon page and I expect it to earn some decent monthly revenue.
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#93I enjoy seeing posts like these, good for you pal. Is it hard to maintain? Is this just side income? :)
Thank you! It doesn't take a lot of maintenance, mostly side income at this point. But I have put in a LOT of hours on it over the years. I will work on it in bursts, and take a few weeks and work on it 3-5 hours a day, and then not work on it at all for a while. I do need to keep the image library fresh, but that is pretty easy. To be honest, if I worked a bit more on it, I think it could do a lot better.
Thank you for all the info you shared in this thread, it is interesting.
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't trust whatever company is holding their informational profile of me to hold it securely. Or what the extent of the information they've gathered can indicate, no one is going to stop at "just enough"
Honest question, why do you care if it isn't secure? What would be the downside of one's internet activity being public?
> What would be the downside of one's internet activity being public?
Are you for real?
Want to know what your employer has you working on? Let's see what searches you've done.
Want to know what your employees are doing? Let's see what things they're buying.
Fuck that obnoxious bullshit.
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#95Nice work!
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same, but on the other hand memers do seem to take their craft seriously. While I wouldn't want to pay monthly for this app as I would use it a few times a year (I'll just fire up photoshop), I guess its not too much cash for users serious about creating. Apparently you can make some good cash focusing on a niche user market.
Something interesting I found is that the many of the 'power users' of the meme world have many different meme making apps and they pay for most of them!
What are some of the sites that the ‘power users’ initially seed with their memes?
Are there any patterns to (profiles of) the power users, or customer segments you know about the power users? Amateur versus professional?
Edit: I see you mention “a lot of my users run fairly large instagram pages (50k+ followers)”, so other sites or segments?
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1. You charge what people are willing to pay, not how much your product is worth. 2. When it's a subscription as a customer you have more trust that it will continue working. When it's a one time purchase, who knows how long it will last.
> When it's a subscription as a customer you have more trust that it will continue working. When it's a one time purchase, who knows how long it will last. Funny, for me this is the total opposite: subscription software may end any time and then you got nothing. One time purchased software you can just continue to use. Well, I guess in the games of rent-seeking, cloud-only, security and updates the viability of this…
It depends on the software. Is it an isolated thing? Then yes, you can continue to use it. But apps that read from APIs or scrape data are one version away from not functioning at all. Hence, regular updates. Hence, subscriptions to justify the ongoing modifications.
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You’re making a healthy revenue, any reason you don’t want to just contract out a few updates? I work full time but I've also run a small contracting business for years, happy to do it at a reasonable cost.
I have considered this, I don't see anywhere near the same purchase conversion on android that I do on iOS. But that could also be due to build quality. Do you have any insight on how successful pay models are on android apps?
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