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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?
#52Created 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 ^^)
Any tips on getting traffic to an app?
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 be…
Thanks, And how about for the Saas software itself? I note a lack of pure black text, it's always a dark shade of gray...softens the look nicely. Little touches like that, anywhere those tips come from? Any blogs, forums or such to follow on the design of saas software, specifically webapp deaign?
Check out theme forest, as a coder with very little design skills I generally grab a design from there Then once you are sure people want the product hire a design er to overhaul and improve your design (or you can do it yourself)
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#54In 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.
Few questions, if you dont mind :) 1. How long did it take to reach this level of income? 2. What is the total monthly traffic that generates 122k? 3. How much time does it take to manage the whole thing in its present state?
1) 6 years
2) 8 million monthly uniques
3) Hard to say. I can take a month off and it'll probably go fine. If it crashes, I'm on it 24/7 (if I care for my wallet). I do work on it full time, but that's working on growth as well as managing the present state. I try to outsource as many chores and secondary tasks as possible, leaving the multi-disciplinary work for me.
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#55A 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 don't have any questions, but I'd just like to say I'm an avid follower of your project and blog, and I truly appreciate your transparency.
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#56A 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…
great job! These are the sort of success stories from you regular joes that are more common than the typical "1 billion dollar acquisition" startup. A couple of questions if you don't mind: a) What technology stack are you using/did you use to develop planscope? b) How did you deal with scalability? c) Are you doing everything by yourself? Support, Development, Marketing, etc. Thanks in advance!
a) Ruby/Rails on the backend, Backbone.js on the front
b) I really don't have any scaling issues. I have about 120 paid customers, and on a given workday half of them login at some point. It probably takes quite some time for the average B2B product to run into scaling issues (unless you're doing some sort of extreme number crunching or something)
c) I do everything. 20% of my product time is spent coding, the rest is marketing. Support whenever I need to (usually less than 30 mins response time if I'm awake)
Feel free to drop me a line with any other questions, I'm pretty much an open book :-) brennan at planscope.io
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#57In 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?
A few dozen sites, with a couple doing about 80% of revenue. About 8 million uniques.
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#58In 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.
What's your backup revenue plan in event of an adsense ban?
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#59I launched http://bestattendance.com 20 months ago working solo while holding a full time job. Profitable and bootstrapped. Growth was slow at first, but things are really starting to take off now. It still does not support a full time income but I project that it will soon(ish).
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Few questions, if you dont mind :) 1. How long did it take to reach this level of income? 2. What is the total monthly traffic that generates 122k? 3. How much time does it take to manage the whole thing in its present state?
1) 6 years 2) 8 million monthly uniques 3) Hard to say. I can take a month off and it'll probably go fine. If it crashes, I'm on it 24/7 (if I care for my wallet). I do work on it full time, but that's working on growth as well as managing the present state. I try to outsource as many chores and secondary tasks as possible, leaving the multi-disciplinary work for me.
Good job you've done there! Thanks for the info and good luck!)