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.
thats quite a lot of money in india !!
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Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#282Bit late to the boat but: Around $700/mo from a themeforest account. And the more interesting story, about £4.5k/mo from a cleaning business that i bought. I will at some point write the story up, but the TL:DR is: Spotted vastly under valued cleaning business with complete staff. Turnover of previous owner £190k a year. Profit of previous owner £18k. Yup, £18k.... Bought it for £13.5k. Still in the early stages and…
Cleaning. Like house cleaning, dry cleaning? I'm intrigued.
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#283Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I like yous site. Do you have a white label version of your site? I want to build one for a completely different vertical.
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#284About $100/month on http://www.climbingweather.com
It was ad-free for years, finally put some ads up last year and now it's covering my expenses. Haven't done much development in a couple years, but working on an updated Android app. A bit skeptical that I'll make much money from it, debating pay-app vs ads vs free-free. Now trying to pick up some real advertisers (currently adsense).
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The data is used with 3rd party tools that scan tables, find the best seats, display statistics etc. The most popular tool is holdem manager ( http://www.holdemmanager.com/ ). After buying data off our site you can import hundreds of millions of hands and have detailed info on almost every player on a poker site (how often they raise, fold, call etc etc). If you also scan tables and sit with the "fish" (recreational…
It's crazy to me that online poker companies make this information available. Shouldn't tables be private or something to stop this?
Yeah, a few sites have made it so you can't observe tables but most sites allow it. You'd have to ask them why but I assume that casual players like to observe before depositing and they don't want to scare away the casual players (who are the life blood for a poker site).
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#286Bit late to the boat but: Around $700/mo from a themeforest account. And the more interesting story, about £4.5k/mo from a cleaning business that i bought. I will at some point write the story up, but the TL:DR is: Spotted vastly under valued cleaning business with complete staff. Turnover of previous owner £190k a year. Profit of previous owner £18k. Yup, £18k.... Bought it for £13.5k. Still in the early stages and…
Would love to read the story. Buying and modernizing traditional businesses (cleaners, laundromats, etc) is something that I think is really interesting.
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#287Bit late to the boat but: Around $700/mo from a themeforest account. And the more interesting story, about £4.5k/mo from a cleaning business that i bought. I will at some point write the story up, but the TL:DR is: Spotted vastly under valued cleaning business with complete staff. Turnover of previous owner £190k a year. Profit of previous owner £18k. Yup, £18k.... Bought it for £13.5k. Still in the early stages and…
Cleaning. Like house cleaning, dry cleaning? I'm intrigued.
House cleaning primarily, yup. 104 clients, 10 of them are offices, 9 cleaners.
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#288Been 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.
Thanks, that's a great idea.
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#289I make between 5-10k a month on my apps and book. (It depends on the season. Summer and Christmas are best.) http://buildanappbusiness.com/ https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/30-south-llc/id331245760
Derek I've used your Debt Snowball app and it's been immensely helpful in getting my financial house in order. I've signed up for your newsletter and will be checking out the sample chapter of your book so you may help even more!
Awesome, that's great to hear. Glad it's helped.
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#29021, 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.
thats quite a lot of money in india !!
Money was the primary motivation, but I soon realized how little it changes anything. I end up saving 90% of what I make, excluding taxes.
The joy of creation is the most rewarding part :)