I have a free website/webapp in the education space that does about $90k/m right now (2012-2013 school year) while school is in session, and grows about 2.5x each year. Revenue is 100% Adsense. I'm happy to answer any questions that don't give away what the site actually is.
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?
#102I 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 mad…
"passive" means "not active", as in "I didn't do anything." Here people are talking about projects that, after they are set up, continue to generate income with minimal continued work being put into it. This is in contrast to a product that you continue to invest work in maintaining, supporting or selling.
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#103About $150 per month with http://www.catgifpage.com (growing fast) and 10 bitcoins per month with a speed logo design service, I really enjoy earning money this way!
How about after hosting costs? I took a look at some image sharing sites today, some of the financials are painful to read. Key point is they're hoping for a buyout on the traffic rather than generating revenue themselves. We're talking break evens at 20mb per ad click. Possible for a blog, a balancing act for image sharing.
I do not lose money. My Outlay are low and will stay as my host bandwidth is unlimited.
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#104I've generated over $200k in the past 6 years with a website I started in high school in 1997 called hawkee.com. It's always just been a coding playground for me to experiment with new technologies and to hone my coding skills. I coded a product price comparison to help pay for the server costs and it has more than paid for the server costs over the years.
I do freelance coding, but I do come back to the site every couple months to play with new technologies and improve the user experience.
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#105I 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 mad…
Passive income means you built a method of generating income while you're doing minimal to zero work, example, built a website that require maybe an hour of work per week/month, or built a biz where operations have been/can be delegated to someone else.
Having income from a "job" is active income where you actively have to work (or pretend to work if your work can actually be automated and you've managed to fool your boss otherwise).
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
Does your mom snap the photos herself? They're - dare I say - a big part of what makes the site so great. Top-notch design.
Thanks! Yes, she takes all the pictures herself. It's incredibly time consuming, but pictures are such an important part of any food blog that it's definitely worth it. One of her friends is a professional photographer and gave her some pointers when she first started which helped a lot. Even still, if you look at her older posts, you can tell that the photos weren't nearly as good back then as they are now. Practice…
Hey the_bear, I really like The Yummy Life. Just wanted to let you know I added it as a default subscription to the NewsBlur iPad app. This just means that if new users subscribe to the Food category, they'll get TYL. There's only 8 categories, so I'm sure this will net some new readers.
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#107$0, but hey I just launched. Asked again in a year. (For those interested, it's a security plugin for Wordpress: http://www.panic-press.com )
This is smart. Kudos.
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#108-$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 built something similar to this back in 2007 and while it did ok for a few years it eventually fell off of a cliff. It's difficult to compete now against free alternatives and cheap mobile apps.
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#109$700 to $3000 a month running 2 job boards. UXJobs and MusicGigs.
http://uxjobs.org - this is a site I've had for about 4 years and slowly dominated the search term "UX Jobs". It's powered by SimplyHired (jobamatic) but using my own framework for pulling in jobs. The revenue from this site is 60% job postings and 40% clicking on other SimplyHired jobs.
MusicGigs http://musicgigs.org is using the standalone jobamatic platform. It's revenues are 80% simplyhired clicks and 20% job postings.
No advertising, just a good SEO strategy and time.
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#110I haven't gotten very far into passive income. So far, I get 10.00/quarter in sparse CafePress sales and ~60.00/quarter from dividend investments. CafePress has been a rough ride. I've put up a good number of designs I think should do well, but have yet to sell. That being said, I'm not really putting time into all of the other aspects of doing well with CafePress. At this point, dividend investments seem to be an easier route to consistent passive income.