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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?

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Post by jaymzcampbell »

Around $40-50 from admob and amazon affiliate links. It pays for my netflix. I originally set myself a goal "just to see" of buying myself one pint of ale from a pub over the course of a year for app sales/ads - not exactly ambitious but I thought i'd end up at best shifting a few cents a month.

I had already an app on android with ~3000 active installs for doing simple shopping look ups. I changed it to throw in some affiliate codes and fixed a crash and updated it approximately 18 months ago now and haven't made a single update.

It's next to nothing but it encouraged me to look more into at least trying things out for myself - I would never have thought (and still can't) it would be any more than a personal exercise. If I look at it as "free netflix for 2 years" then it's a real thing to me and "means something".

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

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Post by joshdotsmith »

jaytaylor wrote: post #15

Previous 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

Thanks for sharing the past discussions. The more often we can talk about this, the better off the community can be.

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

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Post by blparker »

simonswords82 wrote: post #26

TL;DR: The top of our funnel is fine, and our app is making money, but it's not "easy money" and our trial to paying customer sign up needs some serious attention. I run a HR app for SMEs called http://www.staffsquared.com . We're making a comfortable 5 figures each month. We're reinvesting this income back in the product either in the form of new functionality (paying programmers) or advertising (paying Google Adwor…

How do you market StaffSquared? You mentioned SEO and ads; is this your main source of customer acquisition?

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

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Post by pa5tabear »

AliEzer wrote: post #37

I make enough to buy a Frappuccino from day to day, mostly from a reaction gifs application on the App Store : https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/my-reaction-when/id632831985... By the way, all in-app purchases are free today and tomorrow...

How long did it take you to make this app?

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

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Post by widdershins »

I make around £400 per month on tutorial videos for music production applications. It used to be more like £1000, but I've neglected the site in favour of pursuing programming (so I can make my own music applications, instead of talking about other peoples').
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