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Re: How much money are you earning from your software products?

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Neptune's Pride 2, an online strategy game is only doing $2500 a month. http://triton.ironhelmet.com I'm looking for remote work if you're hiring.

Hi, How are you making money form this? ~ curious

I sell premium accounts that let you create your own private games with custom settings.

Re: How much money are you earning from your software products?

#142

Around $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!

just checked out your site, i think its decent it would be great if you made it easier to tick the words, its difficult to pin point and click too many check boxes

You can use tab + space instead of clicking.

Re: How much money are you earning from your software products?

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Visiting in chrome and firefox yields me an issue with your certificate and a large warning about how your site is potentially unsafe. That may be an issue with your certificate. It also may be a reason for poor returns if this has been going on for a long term.

Ditto, definitely makes the site feel less "legitimate".

Thanks guys, it's apparently a problem with how parse.com handles SSL certs.

Re: How much money are you earning from your software products?

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I'm losing about $200 a month so far on https://blankpage.io , the subscription model took longer than calculated to implement.

Visiting in chrome and firefox yields me an issue with your certificate and a large warning about how your site is potentially unsafe. That may be an issue with your certificate. It also may be a reason for poor returns if this has been going on for a long term.

Thanks, something with how parse.com handles SSL certs generates this crap. :(

Re: How much money are you earning from your software products?

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Sorry about the throwaway account. Would rather not link the numbers to the site at this point. Revenue about $60k/month; fairly even mix of affiliate programs (mostly a couple big ones) and advertising (mostly adsense/ad exchange). Earnings before taxes and my draw ~ $500k/year.

Have tried out many alternate ad networks and exchanges, and the only other one I've found worth taking space from google so far is AOL's new Advertising.com. Individual relationships and niche affiliates can be worthwhile too, but come with more overhead. I'd generally rather optimize UX and try to attract more users than worry about managing a bunch of advertiser relationships. For a larger or smaller site that would probably change though.

Re: How much money are you earning from your software products?

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I hope it's useful! It seems to have a small number of dedicated users right now, a number of whom have said they'd like to support the site. I think I'm going to aim to get subscriptions in within the next month. I must admit that one reason why I've been putting it off is having to finish setting up the business side of things. I probably can't put off figuring out my accounting much longer :D

It feels like I've seen photographer.io for a while now. It isn't my bag but I'm honestly surprised you aren't making anything yet. It seems long overdue, honestly. I think the other advice is perfect and to some users, they may not see value until you put a price on it you can live with.

I must admit that it has mostly been my laziness, mixed with a variety of real-life situations (girlfriend finishing her PhD, me having a tonsillectomy etc), which have delayed me adding paid account support. I'm finally back into the swing of updating it now and I'm aiming to get paid accounts in within the next couple of months at the latest. I'd be happy if the site just made enough to keep itself running, to be honest.

Thanks for the advice!

Re: How much money are you earning from your software products?

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I am running http://www.versioneye.com . Currently don't earn much with it. Most people are using it for open source projects. Still thinking about how to monetise it right. Any ideas?

As it is, I find it hard. If you stick to bundler/npm/etc would there be benefit it not only notifications but an automatic update feature? Tie it to git where possible to have a "newest" branch that keeps this out of master and/or tie it with the likes of Travis CI to make sure things didn't break. There's almost too many moving parts but I see high value in keeping a project on the latest dependencies without much…

Thanks for your feedback. I know what you mean. VersionEye has already a pretty good GitHub integration. Currently we are working on automated change logs. And I want to work together with TravisCI and CodeShip to run tests against newest versions. I think together with automated testing it can be very valuable. I maintain a couple open source projects by myself. And I don't release new versions just for fun. Releasing a new version is a lot of work. If I do it than there is always a very good reason for it. For example BugFixes, SecurityFixes, New Features or Speed & Memory Optimisation. And I think if somebody else is releasing a new version of an open source project he has the same reasons. And that are all good reasons for me to update. That's why I started VersionEye.

Re: How much money are you earning from your software products?

#148

Currently https://www.photographer.io is costing me about £100 a month to run, as its income is only via referrals to Digital Ocean until I add a subscription model. I've been holding off for a few months as I don't feel happy charging for something which I still feel is incomplete; at what point do other people feel happy charging users for their products? I'm thinking of offering early adopters a significant discou…

The product looks pretty good imo. You should start charging soon. Btw, which one of DigitalOcean's cloud servers are you using? Did you find it reliable for a startup? Also, do you mind telling how many users you have?

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I'm losing about $200 a month so far on https://blankpage.io , the subscription model took longer than calculated to implement.

Noticed a minor bug: clicking "sign up and write" and then the "X" on the popup still has the spinner going on the signup button

Thanks Aturek!

Re: How much money are you earning from your software products?

#150

I make about 100 Euro/mo with PhotoSlim ( http://photoslimhq.com ), a simple windows software to reduce the size of pictures. I built it although there are lot's of apps for image resizing. But they all had either too many options or were too complicated. So i tried to build the simplest possible solution for this problem. I didn't really believe, that anyone would buy it, since there are a lot of free alternatives.…

Interesting, how did you market it? Also, did you try different pricing?
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