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

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Post by europa »

peterjancelis wrote: post #230
europa wrote: post #180

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.

You only take 4% profit margin? Seems very low.

Yes . Most of the revenue coming in goes out as employee salary and vendor payout.

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

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Post by daniel-levin »

scrrr wrote: post #83
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. ;)

I read in Influence [0] by Cialdini that telling people you're going to do something actually makes it more likely you will because you feel consistency pressure

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cialdini

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

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Post by tankbot »

jsleuth wrote: post #193

Been earning a couple hundred per year with a time-tracking/report-generating site for therapists-in-training. I think one of the big downfalls of the concept was that I chose too small of a niche to serve (marriage and family therapists in training in the US). The most tangible benefit from building the service was the coding knowledge gained which serves my freelance work very well. http://www.therapyhourstracker.c…

You should consider expanding this to include other types of therapy workers. I know from doing tech work amongst mental health professionals that most are required to log x amount of hours doing y before they can obtain licensing as a z. Since you have the platform and domain knowledge you should be able to add features to widen your target demographic.

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

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Post by sharemywin »

scrrr wrote: post #83
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. ;)

I kinda look at it like a lean startup practice. If nobody signs up for his blog why start? if some people sign up there will be pressure to put something out.

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

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Post by jdlshore »

alecthomas wrote: post #229
jdlshore wrote: post #204

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! I have the videos on a geo-balanced CDN which is well overprovisioned, so it should be okay. I just tried it myself and everything seemed fine. Of course, because it's geo-balanced, there could be a problem I'm not seeing. If anybody else has problems, could you let me know?

It's unwatchable for me too. It appears to be buffering fine (I see the gray buffering bar quite a bit ahead), but just stalls and stutters quite a lot.

Hmmm... that's disturbing. It's stuff like this that keeps me up at night: not things breaking, but things breaking without me knowing. Thanks for chiming in. I've sent you an email to follow up.

If anybody else sees this issue, and you're willing to take a few minutes to help me troubleshoot it, please let me know. james@letscodejavascript.com . Thanks!

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

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Post by vldx »

oijaf888 wrote: post #226
vldx wrote: post #165

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not really into the industry - my main income is coming from working for major brands in the ("mainstream") ad industry. I saw the service of acquaintance of mine and what revenue he's making, so I though I can do better. Generally, in this industry there's massive shortage of talent, ideas and innovation. This is a big opportunity for people who are delivering value in the "mainstream" startup scene and that was…

Is technology really that behind? I mean redtube/et al are some of the largest websites out there and the blog posts seem to show a pretty high level of technology behind them although with a larger focus on cost than most startups.

True, but behind these tube sites stays [1] Fabian Thylmann and his [2] company. He is considered as the biggest disruptor who revolutionised the business. The whole story is something like Napster and the record labels, but slightly different.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabian_Thylmann

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manwin

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

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Post by tankbot »

jdlshore wrote: post #204
tankbot wrote: post #198

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your demo video is stuttering and unwatchable. I'm guessing it's getting hammered from this post. The site looks really nice, and appears to have really great content. Signup achieved.

Thanks! I have the videos on a geo-balanced CDN which is well overprovisioned, so it should be okay. I just tried it myself and everything seemed fine. Of course, because it's geo-balanced, there could be a problem I'm not seeing. If anybody else has problems, could you let me know?

I should clarify that the video quality was fine, but it would pause for buffering often at the beginning. Once I made it a few minutes in this cleared up. I'm in the Pacific Northwest, USA if that helps with troubleshooting.

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

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Post by WesleyJohnson »

ghc wrote: post #96

I generate about $900/month of semi-passive income from http://algorithmic.ly , but the initial setup cost is high. In the future I want it to be the goto-company for adding generalized algorithms to apps, products and services (provided as a service), but while I validate the market there's a huge initial setup cost (about 10 hrs), spent on data modeling, cluster deployment and secure key generation.

Closing out of your site crashes my browser; just a heads up. Windows 8, Chrome Version 29.0.1547.76 m.

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

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Post by jdlshore »

tankbot wrote: post #237
jdlshore wrote: post #204

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! I have the videos on a geo-balanced CDN which is well overprovisioned, so it should be okay. I just tried it myself and everything seemed fine. Of course, because it's geo-balanced, there could be a problem I'm not seeing. If anybody else has problems, could you let me know?

I should clarify that the video quality was fine, but it would pause for buffering often at the beginning. Once I made it a few minutes in this cleared up. I'm in the Pacific Northwest, USA if that helps with troubleshooting.

Thanks. I'm the Pacific NW as well (Portland), so we're probably hitting the same server. I'd guess the CDN had to adjust to the sudden influx of traffic. Let me know if you have any more problems (james@letscodejavascript.com) and we can dig into it further.
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