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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 Phlarp »

vldx wrote: post #31

It might sound kind of obscene here on HN, but I'm making about 3500 euros per month, semi-passive from adult related site/community. It's subscription based and the content is user submitted (that's why it's semi-passive). Some moderation is necessary, as well basic user support, but overall - not so much hustle.

How did you break into this industry? I've done random work as a freelancer for a few different adults sites, but I've always felt like running my own was the real "money shot" as far as passive income goes. Can you elaborate on how you got started and how you keep an edge in such a competitive space?

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

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Post by epoxyhockey »

jey wrote: post #63
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…

Apparently "SME" means "Small & Medium Enterprises".

Thanks for this clarification, as I'm used to SME meaning Subject Matter Experts (which also applies to the product).

BTW, the Staff Squared homepage is really impressive! My eyes are directed to all of the right places on the page to sign-up and learn more. I also like that clicking the Roadmap link on the footer leads directly to the Trello project page.

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

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Post by scrrr »

drpancake wrote: post #70

I'm making roughly $300/month from three iPhone apps. They're all quite simple and I'd estimate that I've put in less than a month's actual work building them; although as a disclaimer, this is my day job so I can put these together relatively quickly. My fourth app was a larger time investment and gets quite a lot more downloads. It makes no income now, but I'll add In-App Purchases soon. I'm freelancing for ~45 hou…

Telling people that you should blog makes it actually less likely that you will actually do it. Read that on some psychology website once. ;)

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

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Post by 23andwalnut »

simonswords82 wrote: post #71
blparker wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

We're currently number 1/2 for "HR software" (at least on google.co.uk) and so we get a lot of traffic from that. I'm working on getting us to rank for HR Systems which gets just under half the amount of traffic as HR Software. We have a limit of £30 per day on PPC. It drives traffic to the site but I'm still getting under the hood of whether it delivers real ROI. We get a lot of interest in our app from the Chrome w…

The chrome web store is a great idea. Does the chrome app provide any additional functionality? Or is it primarily a link to the web app?

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

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Post by nish1500 »

winslow wrote: post #77
nish1500 wrote: post #58

21, drop-out, profit ~ $7k a month, working part-time, and no partner. Up from $31/month last December. Comes from sale of plugins. Not recurring, but stable.

What types of plugins?

form builders, mostly

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

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Post by terhechte »

zrail wrote: post #67
terhechte wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do / did you market it? As it seems as if you're only hosting it on your personal website? How do people find it?

I set up a mailing list right at the beginning (there's a signup link way at the bottom of the landing page, need to make that more prominent) that generated quite a bit of interest. My website by itself generates a decent amount of traffic as well. It's also been featured in a few podcasts and email newsletters which generate traffic and sales.

Thanks for the info! Did you ever consider also selling it via a couple of ebook sites?

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

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Post by peacemaker »

nish1500 wrote: post #66
23andwalnut wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds great. What kind of plugins? Where do you sell them?

;) http://codecanyon.net/user/nCrafts

Really like your plugins on CC. I sell on there too but don't get close your number of sales. Do you have any tips or advice on how to increase visibility?

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

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Post by AliEzer »

pa5tabear wrote: post #46
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?

It took me maybe 3 weeks (3 to 5 hours a day) but I experimented many solutions (APIs, sharing, Vine...). I used RubyMotion and I had prior experience with the iOS environment.
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