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

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Post by cjstewart88 » Mon, Sep 23, 2013, 6:10 PM UTC

jamesgagan wrote: post #105

cjstewart88 wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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, whi…

Sadly :(

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

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Post by xoail » Mon, Sep 23, 2013, 6:12 PM UTC

Phlarp wrote: post #91

xoail wrote: post #48

Few years ago I wrote a solution manual to one of my text books (half of it was part of the assignments). I sell it on Amazon for $30 for pdf download. Been making around $200/month.

How much time did you put into this upfront? Seems like the most "passive" item in the entire thread so far. Can I ask what book this is for? whats the lifespan of a solutions manual like this? Have you been selling it for several years or does it obsolete itself in sync with the aggressive textbook versioning schedules?

I guess I am lucky that the text book still gets prescribe in some universities. I also think there is no other version of the text (I need to check that) I do not maintain it at all. And like I said, I solved most of the questions as part of the assignments and later worked out the left over ones, packaged it into a pdf.

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

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Post by bmcd » Mon, Sep 23, 2013, 6:12 PM UTC

I make under $1,000 per month with a Salesforce.com application: https://appexchange.salesforce.com/listingDetail?listingId=a...

I'm working on a few more to try and supplement this.

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

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Post by gurvinder » Mon, Sep 23, 2013, 6:13 PM UTC

About $400 per month from websites ( ads) and iPhone apps. Used to be 2k per month but has dropped low because of lack of time for attention.

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

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Post by vldx » Mon, Sep 23, 2013, 6:14 PM UTC

victorf wrote: post #93

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.

I've been curious because I was thinking of doing something that would host content; is it a legal nightmare if someone uploads illegal material? Is it common?

It depends, but overall it might be risky if you don't pay the necessary attention.

In my case - I've kind of outsourced it, but every user submission is being reviewed before it's published.

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

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Post by eob » Mon, Sep 23, 2013, 6:15 PM UTC

trevorcreech wrote: post #38

$2500/mo from AdSense on http://coverphotofinder.com/ Zero-maintenance, which is nice.

.. but where are the ads? I don't see any.

EDIT: Oops. I've had an ad blocker installed so long I forgot it even existed. :-) Leaving my comment up though to save this discussion thread in my history. Nice site!

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

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Post by chromaton » Mon, Sep 23, 2013, 6:16 PM UTC

I'm at around $12000/month REVENUE from my side business doing online machining. Unfortunately, it's neither as passive as I'd like it to be, and much of the money goes back out as expenses.

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

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Post by PanMan » Mon, Sep 23, 2013, 6:16 PM UTC

maxprogram wrote: post #104

~$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 :)

Interesting! I saw the book a few weeks ago and wondered who put it together. I assume the letters are public? How did you get the extra material? And do you share any income with Buffet? (That would feel strange, but would also make sense)

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

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Post by vldx » Mon, Sep 23, 2013, 6:16 PM UTC

agilord wrote: post #135

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.

Which payment provider are you using? AFAIK most of them are very picky on the subject.

CCBill, SegPay and Achbill.

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

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Post by europa » Mon, Sep 23, 2013, 6:19 PM UTC

Making $4000 + / Month profit . Running a consulting firm. I have two direct employees and few pass-through 's . Revenue is much bigger a number at $100,000 + /Month . Effort is very less to maintain this profit as only spend few hours /month to run payroll , invoicing clients and make timely payment out to the vendors.

pass-through : Consultants not employed by my company but work for my clients.