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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?
#12I 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/
This is fascinating. It took me a while to discover the purpose of subscribing to this data, and I finally found it at https://www.hhsmithy.com/tour
"Finding the best tables to play on is impossible without up to date statistics and data on the player pool and consistently playing pots against opponents with no reads or statistics is a sure fire way to lose your bank roll fast."
How do you harvest this data? Do you use player bots?
Also, you have a typo on that page: "Your on the cut off with AJo and a player under the gun has opened". Should be "You're".
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#13I 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?
My site got slapped by Google Penguin update, lost 90% of its traffic and never really recovered. It's going down steadily now for some time.
As for the Google penguin update drop in rankings, it might have been a stale content penalty, or a devaluation of spammy links - I wrote manually lots of articles for supposedly respectable article directories pointing back to the template website to go up in search engine rankings and it worked well for some time.
The idea was to extract myself of this process at some point since it was painful to write not very interesting articles. But didn't get around doing it, or outsourcing it.
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#14I 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!
Nice. I don't see any ads though.
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#15Previous discussions:
Sep 3, 2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4467603
Sep 4, 2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4470293
Sep 24, 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3029771
May 21, 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2567487
Mar 9, 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2300599
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#16A better question I'd like to read is "Good ideas for recurring income".
And the only sensible answer you would ever receive should be "anything that people want to pay repeatedly for" :)
My point being. I don't think anyone would give you a specific idea for recurring income cause then they would go ahead and do it themselves.
I might be wrong but I doubt it.
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#17Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#18Nil.
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
My site got slapped by Google Penguin update, lost 90% of its traffic and never really recovered. It's going down steadily now for some time. As for the Google penguin update drop in rankings, it might have been a stale content penalty, or a devaluation of spammy links - I wrote manually lots of articles for supposedly respectable article directories pointing back to the template website to go up in search engine ran…
My site got slapped by Google Penguin update, lost 90% of its traffic and never really recovered.
It's funny how you don't really build websites anymore (did we ever?), you build sites for Google's search engine.
Even thought websites are conceptually different from writing a Photoshop plugin, in reality? Not so much. You're just as dependent on Google as you are Adobe, it's just hidden.
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#20I 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!
I was about to post, "How do you make money on this?" And then I remembered that I use AdBlock. D'oh! I paused it and refreshed a couple times.