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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?

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After doing a lot of listening in forums, on my email list, etc... I launched http://jfdi.bz as a response to a common pain I kept seeing: there's so many people building products by themselves (alone in their basements). They want a social connection with other folks who are doing the same thing (more here: http://jfdi.bz/guide.pdf ) Did a small launch in August. It's now just over $1,000/month in revenue. I use WPE…

> Registration will be open until Friday, November 6th.

Uh? Is it Friday today? I am unsure whether I shall hurry, or the site wasn't updated for years.

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

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$100/mo from http://assembleyourpc.net - a simple tool for assembling pc online.

I bet you could easily increase the revenue by simply localizing the currency. As I have no clue of the current currency being used, it drows the pricing feature useless to me :(

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

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post #132

$100/mo from http://assembleyourpc.net - a simple tool for assembling pc online.

I bet you could easily increase the revenue by simply localizing the currency. As I have no clue of the current currency being used, it drows the pricing feature useless to me :(

Thanks! Actually, the prices are lot different in some countries, so it gets little tricky, but I'm working on it.

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

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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…

That's funny, for a few years, I had gisjobbers.com registered but never got around to building the site. I think I got the idea from an open source "jobbers" codebase. Was this your inspiration too?

Not really, it was just the result of twisting a few related words until finding a non registered domain not sounding too bad :-)

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

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Making around 500$/month from a carbon ad on my http://bootsnipp.com (free Bootstrap snippets), plus a couple hundred from affiliate income that I link to from the site... Time spent originally was 4 days. Released a new improved version of the site two weeks ago (the rewrite took about 60-80 hours total but has bigger potential for the site). Now thinking of selling templates or skins on the site too - that would be…

I think you site is the second best thing that happened to design challenged after bootstrap. Thanks for all the work. I have a feeling that if you set up an online course which teaches how to design using bootstrap, it could sell pretty well.

Thanks for the warm feedback =) I will be speaking about Bootstrap at Socal Code Camp this Saturday, maybe will do a quick poll about what people would pay for, course or videos or skins/templates, etc :)
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