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SimpleCrew ( http://www.SimpleCrew.com - a mobile photo app for businesses, real estate investors, marketing street teams, etc...) is earning $1,600/mo RR right now... ~35 customers averaging just under $50/mo per customer. The number isn't enough to support us in the US yet, but it excites us regardless because of its implications. Between the revenue and usage (weekly photo totals are consistently up and to the rig…
About $350 in the first month of Double Dynamo ( http://doubledynamo.com/ ), a memory and rhythm game for iOS. I haven't put significant work into viral features, which could probably substantially increase installs, but at this point I've put the project on the back burner.
About $15 a month from a military reading list site ( http://militaryprofessionalreadinglists.com ). That's $14 affiliate, $1 from ads. It's on a $40/month Rackspace VPS, so it's halfway to covering its costs.
Re-investing all profit into advertising.
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Hosting SHOULD NOT cost that much with GAE. What's the bulk of your cost (I'm guessing DB writes)?
I was able to get my GAE costs way down by focusing on minimizing DB writes. Some tips: - Instead of storing an array in the database directly, store it as a json string. storing an array uses a DB write for every array element. - Don't index things if you can get away with it (indexing doubles writes). In my case I was using about 600 writes for every user action when I only needed two. This may be common knowledge,…
Also storing objects that don't need indexes as pickled blobs in a parent model helps a lot. The advantage over JSON is that you don't need extra code to parse, (de)serialized and validate the object.
I love these posts. They are super inspirational. I'm a relatively new developer and have some saas ideas geared towards restaurants and bars. I'm hoping 18 years of domain knowledge and great customer service skills will trump any lack in developer skills that I have. Congratulations to everyone that's found success doing this. And a huge go for it to those of you on the fence of writing your own product.
If you have customer service skills that rival development work, there's a lot of people who are precisely flipped, myself included. I would suggest finding a Yin to your Yang, but only if you felt inclined. Its not to stick you with the customer facing parts only. It could be a mentor/partnership where you build that up in someone while they mentor/partner your developer chops. This may be unmanageable and hard to f…
About $15 a month from a military reading list site ( http://militaryprofessionalreadinglists.com ). That's $14 affiliate, $1 from ads. It's on a $40/month Rackspace VPS, so it's halfway to covering its costs.
Well here is my journey. A few months ago, I built a vertical jobs board platform, free for developers and paid by companies announcing their job offers (yes another one). The numbers: I launched during summer and have made around $200. Have 1125 developers subscribed to daily alerts Have processed around 1500 applications for 81 jobs posted (most of them through 100% discount tickets given away) The idea was not ver…
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!
http://www.postjobfree.com ~$19K/month revenue -- mostly premium subscriptions from recruiters for job advertising and resume contacts, but also job alerts, revenue from sending job applications to job network and AdSense (in declining revenue order). If it looks inspiring, keep in mind that: 1) It's revenue, not profit. 2) PostJobFree took about 4 years part-time + 2 years full-time. 3) I'm not doing it alone. 4) I…
I am curious, on how are you posting the jobs? Have you made an agreement with these websites, are they willing to provide an API at some cost? Or, simply, pretending being a human and submitting form POST requests?
Great job on the service, not only it looks promising, but is essentially improving lives of many people.