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

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Post by brador »

bdunn wrote: post #29

A little over $2700/mo with Planscope ( https://planscope.io ), my SaaS product that's been out since February. I'm averaging about a 8% growth rate month to month, so very excited about how things are going. * Bootstrapped * Raised my consulting rates to free up more time for products (= same amount of consulting income) * Most new customers come via referrals from existing users and organic traffic (via targeted bl…

I love the layouts on these SAAS products. Is there a central resource you guys all use for design? Any recommended reading? Websites/blogs?

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

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Post by bbayer »

anon_builder wrote: post #22

In august I made about $122,000 from display ads, mostly Adsense. 5-10% of that is spent on stuff like server space and freelance employees. I can imagine that this will not be taken seriously due to lack of details, but for anyone interested, I'm open to answering non-specific questions. Edit: I see 'from what' is also the question; I have a bunch of entertainment related sites.

How many sites did you mention? And how much unique visitor do you have in total?

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

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Post by bdunn »

brador wrote: post #31
bdunn wrote: post #29

A little over $2700/mo with Planscope ( https://planscope.io ), my SaaS product that's been out since February. I'm averaging about a 8% growth rate month to month, so very excited about how things are going. * Bootstrapped * Raised my consulting rates to free up more time for products (= same amount of consulting income) * Most new customers come via referrals from existing users and organic traffic (via targeted bl…

I love the layouts on these SAAS products. Is there a central resource you guys all use for design? Any recommended reading? Websites/blogs?

The winning formula: Headline that keeps people from clicking the back button; subheadline that briefly describes the product; a few bullet points, testimonials, or short blurbs of text describing the benefits of the product; supporting imagery (screenshot); clear call to action (sign up!)

I did my own design, but there are plenty of themes out there that could incorporate the above formula and do just as well (or better).

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

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Post by egypturnash »

In a couple months I'll find out of the first full year of my Tarot deck's publication[1] will have resulted in continuing royalties. It came out only a couple months before the end of last fiscal year, and came close to earning out its advance, so I'm hopeful.

Royalties: passive income 1.0.

[1] http://egypt.urnash.com/tarot/

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

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Post by rdm2234 »

Created an iOS dev company few months ago w/ a friend. We made $50k in August from a successful free iphone app. (around $40k in a regular month). We are only two in the company and we are still college students. Don't know what to say more about this but feel free to ask any question (except what is the app ^^)

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

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Post by timurtamerlan »

$25k in revenue, ~$15k in net income (at 12-15% monthly growth) from http://jivosite.ru (English version http://jivosite.com is yet work in progress). This is online chat for e-commerce web sites sold primarily to russian-speaking audience, USA & Europe sales start in 2-3 months. Bootstrapped, no office, 2 co-founders (1 business+tech, 1 tech), 3 employees (1 marketing, 1 customer support, 1 programmer).

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

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Post by tedmiston »

noirman wrote: post #14
the_bear wrote: post #6

A couple of years ago I started a food blog with my mom (www.theyummylife.com). She does all the writing, and I do programming, design, and monetization. I spent a lot of time setting it up originally, but now it only takes a few hours each week of my time. Right now we're making $5000-6000/month after expenses, and I get 40% of that. My main business (a bootstrapped SaaS startup) generates more than that, but the pr…

The food blog is awesome! http://www.theyummylife.com/Refrigerator_Oatmeal

The detail and personal experience make it feel more adventurous than a normal cookbook or recipe blog.

I have a few questions:

* Are you building on top of a blog platform, or is this mostly custom? (The BuiltWith page makes this site appear full of tech [1]).

* What % of the revenue comes from Amazon referral links?

* Are there other revenue sources?

* Can you discuss your visitor distribution (first time vs. repeat), and traffic sources?

1: http://builtwith.com/?http%3a%2f%2fwww.theyummylife.com%2fRe...

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