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

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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 ^^)

did you make that developing games for someone else, or is it revenue garnered from a game you made?

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

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I make between $1,500 and $2,500 (used to be higher) on the App Store from two iOS apps (called OneVoice and Fluent). The rest of my income comes from design consulting.

Right now I am working on a new book that launches on Tuesday about designing iOS applications. If you are interested in iOS apps you should check it out: http://nathanbarry.com/inside-app-design-handbook

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

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We get anywhere from $50-250 per month from an iOS app called Basketball Shot Tracker HD (www.slyceapps.com/shottracker).

It tends to depend on how close it is to the basketball season. We found the in app purchase model to work really well for us.

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

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post #91
post #38

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 ^^)

did you make that developing games for someone else, or is it revenue garnered from a game you made?

not a game, an app we made for ourselves. Our first one and we only work on this one now due to lack of time (takes a lot of time to maintain a 500k monthly users app :p)

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I used make about €200 a month on hubpages until Google Panda hit.The majority of this came via Amazon affiliate sales. I still make a bit now, but it is way down.

I was making about $30/month from Amazon affiliate and Adsense on two different blogs. Once Panda hit, my Amazon affiliate blog died but the Adsense one (sports) does more like $150/month now

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

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post #94
post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

did you make that developing games for someone else, or is it revenue garnered from a game you made?

not a game, an app we made for ourselves. Our first one and we only work on this one now due to lack of time (takes a lot of time to maintain a 500k monthly users app :p)

sorry, i meant app in general. i just wasn't sure if you meant you made that developing for others or off something you made. that's awesome.

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

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-$20/mo from http://www.golfingstat.com . Can't get any traffic and the traffic I do get doesn't click on ads. FML

I had $200 of adsense free credit. Ended up getting users (like 100). Then I had $50 of Facebook credit and that turned into like 20-30 users. Just don't know what to do at this point. Don't want to spend more time adding features if it is not going to lead to anything. Was thinking of making it like $10 a year or something and trying to get paid users instead of ad users. Just not sure if anyone would even pay $10.

The beauty of golf is people spend a lot of money on it. I'd charge people a premium to use it. Couple recommendations: Lose the pop-up for Facebook sign-in. Optimize it for mobile (you're probably going to use this while you're in the cart). For marketing, try going directly to some clubs and getting in front of some of their members. Some exclusive clubs probably won't let you, but start small. Can't hurt.

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

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I see a lot of people mentioning passive income; i'm not a native English speaker; is recurring the same as passive? If you make $xxxx every month with a job it's recurring right? But that doesn't count here?

As I see some 'used to' posts as well; I used to make quite a bit from blogging (especially reviews I did, but real ones, not paid ones), however Google Panda tanked that. Even though it was nice content. It made over $10k/month. Dropped to around $100 which is just enough to pay the server.

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