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

#1

Post by marioluigi » Mon, Sep 23, 2013, 3:27 PM UTC

The last two threads by the same name got a lot of attention (and a lot of love from patio), but seeing how its been over a year since then it would be interesting to hear from new people (HN userbase is ever growing) and also get updates from some people who posted in the previous threads.

Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4467603

Previous to Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2567487

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

#2

Post by toumhi » Mon, Sep 23, 2013, 3:41 PM UTC

I didn't post on the last threads I think, but I have had some modest success with passive income, was making up to 700 euros a month 2 years ago, this is down to 130 euros a month now. Still not too bad considering I haven't really touched the site for almost 2 years. But my heart isn't in that kind of projects anymore. Passive income is a bit overrated in my experience.

Still nice to get a small check at the end of the month.

The site in question is http://www.giftcertificatefactory.com, it provides printable gift certificate templates.

EDIT: I should add the money comes in from Adsense. I tried other monetization schemes as described there http://www.sparklewise.com/my-first-passive-income-project-o...

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

#3

Post by marioluigi » Mon, Sep 23, 2013, 3:50 PM UTC

toumhi wrote: post #2

I didn't post on the last threads I think, but I have had some modest success with passive income, was making up to 700 euros a month 2 years ago, this is down to 130 euros a month now. Still not too bad considering I haven't really touched the site for almost 2 years. But my heart isn't in that kind of projects anymore. Passive income is a bit overrated in my experience. Still nice to get a small check at the end of…

Nice site. Has the income come down due to a reduction in traffic spend or just a loss in rankings due to reduction in freshness metric wrt SEO or any other reason?

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

#4

Post by clone1018 » Mon, Sep 23, 2013, 3:51 PM UTC

marioluigi wrote: post #3

toumhi wrote: post #2

I didn't post on the last threads I think, but I have had some modest success with passive income, was making up to 700 euros a month 2 years ago, this is down to 130 euros a month now. Still not too bad considering I haven't really touched the site for almost 2 years. But my heart isn't in that kind of projects anymore. Passive income is a bit overrated in my experience. Still nice to get a small check at the end of…

Nice site. Has the income come down due to a reduction in traffic spend or just a loss in rankings due to reduction in freshness metric wrt SEO or any other reason?

He mentioned it's probably seasonal. All the traffic he gets during non-events are people who have friends with a birthday soon.

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

#5

Post by kbelbina » Mon, Sep 23, 2013, 3:55 PM UTC

I generate around $2,500/mo. I operate a company which mines poker data and have a couple of partners, plus some large server / tech / support costs. No-one is full time on the business any more as after Black Friday there isn't a lot of $ in poker: http://hhsmithy.com/

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

#6

Post by anovikov » Mon, Sep 23, 2013, 3:56 PM UTC

$800 a month for support of a few scripts i written 3 years ago. Drop in the bucket but still keeps me very motivated doing any work for that customer (and this is the only work at all that i still do myself, not my employees).

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

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Post by 23andwalnut » Mon, Sep 23, 2013, 3:57 PM UTC

I've made about $3k a month in semi-passive income from my codecanyon portfolio in 2013. I call it semi-passive income because I have to spend some time on support each day, but it usually doesn't take more than 30 minutes.

EDIT: My portfolio http://codecanyon.net/user/23andwalnut/portfolio

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

#8

Post by jamesgagan » Mon, Sep 23, 2013, 3:58 PM UTC

I make around $5 to $10 a day from my site http://tunes.io I haven't put any effort into marketing it or trying to monetize it other than adsense. Maybe I should be trying harder!

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

#9

Post by myleshenderson » Mon, Sep 23, 2013, 4:00 PM UTC

kbelbina wrote: post #5

I generate around $2,500/mo. I operate a company which mines poker data and have a couple of partners, plus some large server / tech / support costs. No-one is full time on the business any more as after Black Friday there isn't a lot of $ in poker: http://hhsmithy.com/

Typo: Playing multiple limts and games.

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

#10

Post by pmtarantino » Mon, Sep 23, 2013, 4:02 PM UTC

A better question I'd like to read is "Good ideas for recurring income".