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

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Post by tokenizer »

KamiCrit wrote: post #69

~$130 from ads on YouTube videos ( http://www.youtube.com/user/YTBYlover )

Hey really cool videos thanks for sharing the link.

I've been extremely interested in starting a youtube channel and ones that are currently similar are somewhat similar to your youtube stats.

An example:

5,000 subscribers

1,000,000 views

Joined 2011

So my question is how did you monetize your channel? I have a few more months to go before I can get good equipment for recording and editing so I'm unfamiliar with youtube's monetization for niche channels. Thanks.

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Post by ChrisNorstrom »

jeffwilder wrote: post #158

Every year around Halloween I make $400-600 via adsense with http://trickortreattimes.com/ which lists trick or treat times for cities/towns. It felt like a good service to provide as you really have to hunt for the data. First year I did the aggregating myself, last year I added user submission which made it much more passive. It's time for me to update it for another year!

Your countdown timer is broken. Holloween is not -328 days away.

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Post by hanley »

jonstjohn wrote: post #284

About $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).

Why would someone use this instead of Weather Underground, Weather.com, WeatherSpark, Forecast.io, etc.? It doesn't seem very specific to climbing and there doesn't seem to be much room for growth since Mountain Project is already the go-to site for route and community information.

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

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Post by emhart »

NovemberWest wrote: post #294
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…

It's worth a lot, and while I am not female, and can't fully empathize, I would like to say that I at least sympathize and that I see and try to speak against what you are describing. Women in particular seem to be taught not to profit. In fact, I think on the other side of the equation it is part of what has been awkward for me. Many of my closest male friends see profit as part of their self-identity and it wasn't until your post here that it clicked for me that it may be related to gender identity.

So, like I said, worth a lot. And making people feel good, caring for people, it's the most valuable skill so far as I'm concerned. Glad there are other people who value it.

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Post by logicallee »

mansigandhi wrote: post #43
ape4 wrote: post #33

It seems the big winner is Apple and Google. They passively collect 30% on the apps we spend months making.

Nothing about what Apple and Google provide for developers/App Store is "passive".

Look, the fact that these two companies happen to be be geographically located in resource-rich land is in no way a merit. Apple pretty much did a survey and struck the iPhone, which has been guzzling up ever since. Google bought some land from Herman J. Android and it turned out to have a large natural deposit of everything that has been coming up ever sense in the form of its mobile offering.

But make no mistake: if you had put a stick in the ground you would have seen the same result, provided you were as geologically fortunate as these two lucky suckers.

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

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Post by ChrisNorstrom »

This is one of the greatest motivations for young and budding entrepreneurs. Even more so than aspiring speeches or conference talks.

I'd like to thank everyone that posted links and revealed your numbers. People usually don't do that because it invites competition but it's amazing to see how nice and inviting the HN community is. I'm also AMAZED at the familiar faces. I've seen and bought a lot of code from some of you guys without realizing many of you visit HN.

Here's my crap:

http://dayonepp.com - Maybe $100/month (down season) then I think $500/month (up season) NOT passive. Lots of work. I handle fulfillment.

http://affordabl.es - $0, just launched

http://residentevilradio.com - $0, (ran Amazon affiliate links)

http://timeforzen.com - $0, needs redesign, will monetize later this year.

BTW, where's http://CandyJapan.com guy? Last I heard he told us his project was successful at around $3,500/month in revenue.

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

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Post by morphar »

I have a simple IP lookup site (http://showip.net) that I created many years ago. I created it because I needed it (but mainly too learn at that point ;) Since then it has gotten better and better indexing on Google until it reached a steady level at around 100.000 - 130.000 visitors / month.

The ads has been fluctuating quite a bit, but overall it has been going steadily up. Currently I earn somewhere between $250 - $500 / month.

I haven't done much but a bit of tweaking now and then since the initial version, though I have had plenty of plans... I have changed the GEO IP location DB a couple of times, but the only major change was a rewrite from PHP/MySQL to Node.js and a GEO IP database directly in NginX.

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Post by acconrad »

Since this thread didn't specify that the recurring income has to come solely from technology, I make $400-$1k/mo DJing. Technically it's work because it's not passive, but it is recurring and it is a hobby that requires little to no work - I have a LOT of fun doing it and it pays well by the hour. I'm only posting this because I think it's important to also point out that you can turn hobbies into passive, recurring income and that is a surefire way to getting the most out of your passive income.

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

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Post by prepaidcc »

Created http://www.canadaprepaidcreditcard.com in June last year. Traffic has grown steadily to 3000+ unique / month. A large Canadian daily newspaper included link to site in a story on prepaid credit cards which spiked traffic for a week. Otherwise traffic is almost all organic search. Adsense revenue grew steadily and is up to $120+ / month. I have one affiliate ($35 per sign-up) that has paid once. Have to look into this some more.

Created http://www.australiaprepaidcreditcard.com, http://www.usprepaidcreditcard.com and http://www.ukprepaidcreditcard.co.uk sites recently. So far only UK site is following steady growth pattern. Apparently no one is interested in Australian cards and US has trillions of similar sites so mine is drowned in search.

I did Canada site card research myself. But didn't have time for Australia, UK and US site research. So I created 3 Fiverr jobs with template Excel workbook asking person to search internet and fill with as many cards as they could find. I got 4 people per card so between them I got good detail though had to clean it up and fill in the blanks.

Sites requires minimal ongoing maintenance. Actually I have had customers and several card companies contact me to make corrections and updates.

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