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

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Post by davetong »

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…

I really like what you are doing, but after seeing what happened to RailsCasts I am a worried what will happen to this business model once it hits 400+ episodes. Hopefully your "other plans" have this part worked out?

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Post by NicoJuicy »

mflanagan wrote: post #90

I make 1-2k/month from WindowTabs (windowtabs.com), I've been neglecting it, I think I could make a good bit more if I put some time into it. It's hard to say no to the consulting work...

Actually, that's an awesome app :P

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Post by kristianp »

anonymous1983 wrote: post #277

I gross approximately 75k a month in RR, split between my business partner and I. 60k from IPhone apps and 15k from Android apps.

That sounds great! Can you expand on that? For instance, did you develop the apps, how many apps, what niche? Were you first-to-market?

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

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Post by callmeed »

I have 2 companies in the professional photography space: http://bigfolio.com and http://aphotofolio.com. The first serves wedding and portrait photogs and the second high-end editorial, commercial, fashion. We provide website designs and a custom CMS for managing galleries. We get a setup fee (though that is going away soon) and monthly hosting. They aren't exactly equal but each is making in the low six figures per month.

On the wedding side we also have http://nextproof.com which is sort of a "shopify for wedding photos". It makes around $30k/month in subscription + transaction fees.

On the commercial photo side, we have http://editdrop.com which is a feedback/collaboration tool for photographers and their clients. It makes about $2k/month at the moment since we haven't done much marketing yet.

Overall, I'm bearish on the professional photo space so we are actively looking into other verticals and doing a lot of customer dev/research.

My wife and I also run http://cheergram.com in our spare time. Right now we are making a few hundred bucks a month in sales but we did almost $3k in Instagram Christmas cards last year between thanksgiving and Christmas. I'm hoping we can top that this holiday season.

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Post by kngspook »

TamDenholm wrote: post #272

Bit 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…

Also very interested in this story... Where would you put it up once you write it? (So I can start monitoring...)

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

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Post by kngspook »

xur17 wrote: post #209
Nord20 wrote: post #203

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hmm. Lovely concept, but when I put my address in, it says there are no results - mainly because it thinks my UK address is just between Tuvalu & Tokelau in the South Pacific (so technically, the results were correct - Papa John's are unlikely to deliver there).

Unfortunately it's US only right now. It appears to default to 'just between Tuvalu & Tokelau in the South Pacific' if no results are found - I'll fix that. Thanks for the feedback.

On the East-to-West axis, it's probably defaulting there because it's the International Date Line. No idea how it's picking that spot on the North-to-South axis though.

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Post by kehers »

Ologn wrote: post #50

Between $1450 and $1650 a month from ads on Android apps. One app does about $1100 a month, another does $325 and the rest collectively maybe $150.

Can you possibly share a little of the stat (impressions maybe) that generates the $1k+ ?

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Post by kehers »

ChrisNorstrom wrote: post #316

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…

This may be off topic but I'd love to where you registered your domain affordabl.es. Last I tried registering a .es tld, I got some "Syria residents/biz" restrictions.
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