Was pulling ~$600/month from iOS apps but yanked them all off the market in response to Apple's patent bullying. I plan to port the ones that make sense to Android.
Since you won't be selling them on the app store, what are the names of the apps?
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Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#222We run a couple of short URL and disposable e-mail websites like http://melt.li/ or http://www.fakeinbox.com/ that make around $280 per month. That's not much, obviously, but there was one month last year where we made $3.400 due to a traffic surge caused by someone using one of our short URL domains for spamming.
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#223I generate about $1K-$2K a month in passive income. I spend approximately zero hours on maintenance every week, and I bootstrapped it while holding down a full-time job. It took an extra 5-10 hours per week for about a year. Here's what I did: a) Got a job at a major software company for very high comp. b) Spent an extra 5-10 hours a week working intelligently at my full time job; got promoted. c) Invested the salary…
Very interesting! I've been wanting to investigate this kind of thing for a while but just don't know where to start. Can you point me to any resources that will give me a good grounding in investment? In what way did you invest in real estate? How do you choose what to invest in? Would love for some direction here, would be very much appreciated
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#224Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't love the kingmaking economics of App Store distribution and don't know how to work them to my advantage. Price points for mobile apps are two to three orders of magnitude lower than software I routinely sell. The stores seem to be dominated by design, something that I am not good at. I prefer writing Rails to Java or Objective C. My consulting clients largely sell B2B software, and fairly little of that is cu…
Good answer. I've been doing mobile for the last 18 months or so but I'm strongly considering going back to my roots on the web for a lot of the reasons you describe. The lack of insight into user behavior and acquisition is really crippling. It seems to me that people have gotten a little too caught up in the momentum of mobile. Certainly it's a very important and rapidly growing platform but I also think, as you sa…
Do you feel that there is more value making a desktop web app and making it responsive to work with mobile devices, rather than making a straight mobile app?
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#225Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't love the kingmaking economics of App Store distribution and don't know how to work them to my advantage. Price points for mobile apps are two to three orders of magnitude lower than software I routinely sell. The stores seem to be dominated by design, something that I am not good at. I prefer writing Rails to Java or Objective C. My consulting clients largely sell B2B software, and fairly little of that is cu…
Good answer. I've been doing mobile for the last 18 months or so but I'm strongly considering going back to my roots on the web for a lot of the reasons you describe. The lack of insight into user behavior and acquisition is really crippling. It seems to me that people have gotten a little too caught up in the momentum of mobile. Certainly it's a very important and rapidly growing platform but I also think, as you sa…
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Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#226-$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 can't speak for other countries, but in Australia there is an 'official' handicap tracking system already in existence:
http://www.golflink.com.au/index.aspx?from=menu
To the best of my knowledge, every registered club golfer is allocated a Golflink number, and the result of each competition round is recorded for calculation handicaps. I don't recall what detailed information is recorded - it might be nothing other than the round result - but for many people this would be 'enough'. I had thought about developing such a system too, but thought that without creating an 'official' relationship with Golflink my semi-parallel system would (in Australia at least) go nowhere. However, I still think it is a very good idea, as many golfers really love to track all sorts of stats and info.
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#227$8 a month from http://pillsoftware.com, but I just launched, so I'm hoping to get more traffic soon.
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#228In 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.
Great to hear anon_builder. I absolutely think I can be of great help to you. Could you get in touch with me by any chance? Protoweek at gmail
You've got nothing to lose :) but I can guarantee gain.
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#229Earlier quoted context omitted.
Good answer. I've been doing mobile for the last 18 months or so but I'm strongly considering going back to my roots on the web for a lot of the reasons you describe. The lack of insight into user behavior and acquisition is really crippling. It seems to me that people have gotten a little too caught up in the momentum of mobile. Certainly it's a very important and rapidly growing platform but I also think, as you sa…
Do you feel that there is more value making a desktop web app and making it responsive to work with mobile devices, rather than making a straight mobile app?
I don't feel particularly qualified to answer this question, but my opinion is that these questions should be secondary. The most important thing is identifying your target market and figuring out how to most effectively meet its needs and if you understand that well then that will probably dictate the details of your strategy.
What I think is pretty overdone at this point though are approaches that revolve entirely around a mobile app. Unless you're going for an aqui-hire or your potential customers just happen to all be entirely on one mobile platform I'd think twice about betting the farm on an app.
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#230Was pulling ~$600/month from iOS apps but yanked them all off the market in response to Apple's patent bullying. I plan to port the ones that make sense to Android.
Since you won't be selling them on the app store, what are the names of the apps?
The major ones are on my site: