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How much money are you earning from your software products?
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Re: How much money are you earning from your software products?
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I don't feel happy charging for something which I still feel is incomplete It's not so much a question of what you feel happy charging for, as what your customers are happy paying for. The only way to find out is to add paid tiers and see what happens. You can always round out the feature set by adding additional 'premium' features to the paid tiers - free upgrades for paying customers!
Aye I have a number of features planned which will need subscriptions. One of them is the ability to host your own portfolio site on the platform, which I'm planning to add fairly soon as I need it for my brother's and father's websites :D
Always charge and set your price high unless your running a freemium model. Its much easier to lower your price than raise it. And if your customers pay and are upset you can always refund them.
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#43My side project http://www.browser-details.com is doing about $100/month right now. I haven't started to do any marketing yet as I want to give it a small makeover before. It started as a tool for my company so I know there's a need for it - not sure yet how to best market it, though.
Just a little note, your browser-dection page seems to be missing its Windows 8.1 icon (the icon image 404s).
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#44Fan of the Week plugin for Facebook pages. It chooses one fan each week and highlights them, kind of like an employee of the month. http://www.fanpageapps.com/
Last month made $474.85 from premium upgrades, $152.53 from ads. The servers cost $144.63.
The app has been added to 601,409 Facebook pages so far. For each of these pages I do a weekly dance with FB to look at their feed, see if access tokens are still valid for automatic posting etc., so it makes for a pretty interesting server usage pattern. http://i.imgur.com/Q1WylAY.png
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#45- Just sold my wordpress plugin business for $4k. - Run hosting company that just became slightly profitable. ~$110/mo fully passive affiliate commissions for referrals to recurring membership businesses. - Looking to enter into personal development niche.
How long have you been running the hosting company? What level of input does it require from you?
Re: How much money are you earning from your software products?
#46Worked on VineTube(https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appsinthe....). It was turning in $2000/mo in revenue before we sold it for $7000.
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#47I'm losing about $200 a month so far on https://blankpage.io , the subscription model took longer than calculated to implement.
Curiosity -- what are your costs? $200 seems quite high to be solely your hosting.
Chose bad backend provider. Thought I'd use Parse.com for a quick start. Ended up rewriting the whole thing to plain node. But until I have time to write it all, parse is cashing in on me. After that, It'd probably go down to around 30 bucks.
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#48Around $150-300/mo. with http://testyourvocab.com from Google AdSense. Tells you the size of your English vocabulary. And it was HN which popularized it in the first place!
I really like testyourvocab.com. I use it from time to time to check my progress.
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#49Bugrocket (https://bugrocket.com, since March 2011, bug tracking for small dev teams) is subscription-based and grows slowly, currently around $500/month in revenue.
CourseCraft (https://coursecraft.net, since December 2012, e-course creator tools + we handle transactions for 5%-9% of sales) is a lot less consistent but growing faster, currently $300-$400/month in revenue.
Re: How much money are you earning from your software products?
#50Worked on VineTube( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appsinthe.... ). It was turning in $2000/mo in revenue before we sold it for $7000.
If it was making 2k per month why did you sell it for just 7k, seems to low. You should have asked for a higher price.