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

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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.

Yeah I use adblock too - even on my own site ;) I was thinking maybe I would make a tunes.io android app and sell it for a buck just to see what happens.

I'll tell you what will happen. I would pay for it! tunes.io is great!

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

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post #63

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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.

Thanks so much for the feedback, really nice to hear that people who haven't seen the site before think we're doing it right :)

For the record, if anybody thinks we've made a huge mistake on the site I'd love to hear about it!

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

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post #67

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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?

I've been considering selling on other sites (maybe Amazon) and/or doing some limited affiliate deals, but I haven't put any serious work into it yet. What sites were you thinking of?

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

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~$1000 a month. Designed, edited and published a book of Warren Buffett's letters to shareholders (see http://amzn.com/1595910778). An opportunity I stumbled into. But I suppose "get publication rights from Warren Buffett" isn't a repeatable business model :)

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

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About 400 - 500 visitors a day. CPM is ok compared to other sites I've run adsense on. People seem to like the site.

How are you attracting those visits, ads, word of mouth, etc? I run tubalr.com and have considered ads but am worried it will scare off the users I have. My traffic is a little more than what you're running... but its going down day by day.

My traffic is pretty much direct/word of mouth. I haven't done any advertising, just a few links on places like HN. The problem with a YouTube video site like tubalr is you can't use adsense unless you have a lot of added content and you are competing with the ads in the videos anyways. And in my experience other ad networks have really bad CPM rates. So you probably have to find another way to monetize the site, which is tricky. The sad fact is that music/video sites while fun to build are a hard way to make money (having built a few myself).

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

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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?

When people "install" the app from the Chrome web store it just puts a link in their browser. That's it.

In the Google marketplace it's a bit more advanced, and you can integrate with Google authentication for sign in, and with documents for document sharing and so on.

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Do you think ads are a better way to make money than charging for the app?

I am also wondering about this. I have an app selling at $0.99 and make a couple hundred per month in sales. It's hard for me to project how much ad revenue I could make, especially since I don't know how many additional people would use it if it were free.

Is your app for Android or iOS?

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

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post #98

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Ah yes, you guys refer to it as SMB I believe?

No, I don't use either of those terms often enough to have an acronym for it. (FWIW, apparently "SMB" means "Small-to-Medium Business".)

Or "Super Mario Brothers".

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

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post #83

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. ;)

Anyone recognize this phenomenon by name or have a link?
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