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

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Post by markdown »

petervandijck wrote: post #261
euroclydon wrote: post #190

I make $300-$500 per month with an online design tool for printable cupcake wrappers. I don't do any advertising. I get 80-100 uniques per day. I have very few quality inbound links. I do rank high for a few keyword combos, but their monthly traffic isn't that big. I spent quite a bit of time early on writing the website, and lost some hair recently trying unsuccessfully to upgrade the OSS libraries, but for the most…

A whole new world just opened for me.

Imagine all the cupcakes you could buy with the profits!!!

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

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Post by codygman »

sitkack wrote: post #128
andyakb wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please do blog about it. Freelancing while traveling is a concept that a lot of us are really drawn to, but most of the current blogs focus on the travel and only briefly mention the freelancing aspect. Maybe if you focused a bit more on the business side of things you could find a niche within the blogosphere.

Having just traveled around the world over 7 months but NOT freelancing, I would have to say that: * net connections are very very spotty, prepare to work offline * supplies are rare (usb devices, upgrades, etc), expect to pay more for less * desk conditions are poor, rarely did we find a place where I could get into the flow. Checking email and noodling on the net was fine, but getting real quality work done require…

1Mbps internet connection is what I'm used to mostly :/

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

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Post by jng »

jdlshore wrote: post #188

I gross just under $10K per month from http://www.letscodejavascript.com , a subscription-based JavaScript screencast for professional developers [1]. It's a full-time job: I put out two new episodes every week, plus a "special" every month that takes quite a bit more effort. That leaves me with about half my time for developing the business. I'm bootstrapping this, so it's just me. I don't plan to hire any employees…

Congrats on your service and success, and thanks for sharing. I'm offering training in games development, and your model looks interesting. Do you spend much time editing the videos? It seems like doing that must be a huge effort, even if they are recorded live. Thanks & good luck!

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

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Post by NovemberWest »

emhart wrote: post #154

I've usually read these threads without thinking about my own situation, but suddenly realized, I'm getting checks every month. It's not much, only $100-$250 per month, based on advertisements on my youtube channel, most coming from a 24 part series I made on locks & lockpicking a few years ago, but it's passive to the point that I literally forget about it. Unfortunately I'm the sort who is very uncomfortable asking…

I am a lot like you temperamentally and currently homeless, though the two things are not really directly related. I have thought a lot about it over the years. For me, part of it is that I was one of the smart kids in high school and got a lot of not subtle messages about how I owed the world benefit for my gifts and would be evil incarnate to try to, gasp, get rewarded for them. For me, I think gender also plays a role. I am female and a lot of my strengths have a social element which is routinely treated by other people like I owe them some free motherly love, I should be a total fucking martyr about it, and, to add insult to injury, making people feel good is not some sort of intelligent, valuable skill set or knowledge. It is treated like I am just cute and lovable like a tribble.

I have my own ideas on how to solve these issues for me. I sm not giving you advice here. Just saying it resonates, fwiw.

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

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Post by newppc »

ajaxguy wrote: post #210
newppc wrote: post #122

I make about $30 a month running a small coupon code website focused on cell phones. Again it's almost nothing but the upshot is if the site takes off in any way, it can bring in some ok money on the site. A lot of it can be outsourced once you get the system down, but there is a good amount of manual labor. Site: http://www.newphonepromocodes.com

would you mind sharing the source of these coupon codes. I am trying to come up something like this other niche area. But struck in getting the sources for these kinds of codes/deals. Thanks in advance.

No prob - a most of them are from the advertisers/brands themselves through the big affiliate networks. Almost all of them are on Commission Junction. The few left over are on Linkshare and even less on the others like Impact Radius, etc. Google shut down their affiliate network a few months ago and almost all of the brands went to Commission Junction and Linkshare.

For coupon codes you can't find from the retailers themselves, you can take a look at competitor websites.

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

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Post by codygman »

benhirashima wrote: post #164

i make around 1300 USD a month from this android app i made two years ago. i have to update it every time a new version of android is released, and i spend maybe 5 minutes a day on email support. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.benhirashi...

That's really cool :D

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

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Post by kephra »

- I'm doing between l$20k and l$30k per month on commissions on vendor systems that rent out shoutcast servers to musicians and DJs in Secondlife. oups thats only us$80-$120, but its game money, that I can drop into tipjars, if I like music, or use it pay graphic designers.

- I'm doing Linux maintenance for a dozen servers (Debian, Linux Container, Nagios, Make+M4 as management - hey puppet, chef and cfenginer are for quiche eaters) for Euro600/year each, basically for doing backup, apt-get, and having a nagios screen open.

- I have sold the 3rd w3dig.com installation, with an Euro1000 anual maintenance contract recently. This will hopefully become my next 'big' software.

- I still have 22 XML::Edifact customers, who pay Euro1000 twice a year for maintenance update, when the next UN/EDIFACT standard is published. A semi-passive income that requires a week work twice a year, and payed my lifestyle, free software experiments, slack, and procrastination for a 3rd of my life so far. Not bad for a software I published under GPL 15 years ago.

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

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Post by jdlshore »

jng wrote: post #293
jdlshore wrote: post #188

I gross just under $10K per month from http://www.letscodejavascript.com , a subscription-based JavaScript screencast for professional developers [1]. It's a full-time job: I put out two new episodes every week, plus a "special" every month that takes quite a bit more effort. That leaves me with about half my time for developing the business. I'm bootstrapping this, so it's just me. I don't plan to hire any employees…

Congrats on your service and success, and thanks for sharing. I'm offering training in games development, and your model looks interesting. Do you spend much time editing the videos? It seems like doing that must be a huge effort, even if they are recorded live. Thanks & good luck!

Thanks! Editing is a huge effort. I've gotten it down to a science, and I still spend about 60 minutes editing together a 15-minute video.

Part of the time is spent adding titles, notes, and transitions (such as when I zoom out to show a web page), but the majority of the time is just spent going through the episode with a fine-tooth comb to strip out pauses, ums and other filler, and to speed past necessary but uninteresting work.

The monthly specials take a lot longer. I typically spend a full week on a 15-30 minute video. Sometimes longer. Editing probably takes 2-4 hours and the rest of the time is on scripting/outlining, animations, coding the examples, and so forth.

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

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Post by benlarcey »

simonswords82 wrote: post #132
sleepyhead wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the info! Just a heads up: seems like your Twitter account is suspended.

Yeah we know, happened yesterday. Thanks for the heads up.. To explain: I was experimenting with an app that it turns out breaks the twitter rules and so they've suspended us. I'm talking to Twitter now about getting us unsuspended.

Followgen? Experimented with it and although provided some value it ultimately got our account permanently suspended.
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