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Re: Your best passive income? (2014)

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Post by kirk21 » Tue, Jan 21, 2014, 11:53 AM UTC

1) Selling Elon Musk t-shirts: http://www.zazzle.com/elonmuskspaceman Did not make that much but was great fun.

2) Helping my artistic friends selling their products. If you want to sell designer products, you can sign up here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1dmyfzRwBbpcKAyRplHs0i2RMqsC...

Re: Your best passive income? (2014)

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Post by guard-of-terra » Tue, Jan 21, 2014, 11:53 AM UTC

midas007 wrote: post #35

guard-of-terra wrote: post #26

Owning a flat in Moscow and renting it out? Easily 1000$/mo. You can live in Thailand on that money.

High-end flats in Oslo rent out pretty well IIRC. Just have to front some cash to buy the pad.

A lot of people inherited flats from after soviet union times (where you lived in, you now owned after filling some papers) plus some people bought them when prices were affordable (if you had influx of hard cash) plus people tend to buy flats because rent market is unreasonable.

Re: Your best passive income? (2014)

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Post by mhoad » Tue, Jan 21, 2014, 11:53 AM UTC

nader wrote: post #24

mhoad wrote: post #9

Just in the middle of getting this up (was a way of teaching myself Rails) that works as an Affiliate style site for gadgets and cool gift ideas. http://fmhgifts.com/

pretty cool. how do you syndicate products? through amazon's API or by hand?

Currently by hand but literally every single aspect of that site is entirely outsourcable to college students who would cost me much less than the cash that an affiliate site with even relatively low traffic would expect to make organically.

Once I have 200 or so products up there I will do some much more interesting stuff with it.

Re: Your best passive income? (2014)

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Post by mhoad » Tue, Jan 21, 2014, 11:54 AM UTC

atmosx wrote: post #33

mhoad wrote: post #9

Just in the middle of getting this up (was a way of teaching myself Rails) that works as an Affiliate style site for gadgets and cool gift ideas. http://fmhgifts.com/

I like the design and the idea is smart, but are you planning to monetize this?

Only makes money via Amazon affiliate links which aren't a horrible gig if you get even semi decent traffic.

Re: Your best passive income? (2014)

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Post by heumn » Tue, Jan 21, 2014, 11:59 AM UTC

My app and side project "lolipop". An "instagram for gifs and funny images"-niche app. 100k + downloads.

Gotten hugely popular in Norway. Released a revamped iOS 7 version to the US last week (?). Things are going slow over there. Not even reached 1000 downloads.

Traffic always spike during 23:00 - 03:00 when kids should be sleeping... 99% of users lurk and browse reddit/9gag/imgur some contribute (no account needed for browsing).

Link for the lazy: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lolipop-funny-images-gifs/id...

Re: Your best passive income? (2014)

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Post by jbrooksuk » Tue, Jan 21, 2014, 12:00 PM UTC

heumn wrote: post #45

My app and side project "lolipop". An "instagram for gifs and funny images"-niche app. 100k + downloads. Gotten hugely popular in Norway. Released a revamped iOS 7 version to the US last week (?). Things are going slow over there. Not even reached 1000 downloads. Traffic always spike during 23:00 - 03:00 when kids should be sleeping... 99% of users lurk and browse reddit/9gag/imgur some contribute (no account needed…

How does this generate income?

Re: Your best passive income? (2014)

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Post by TeeWEE » Tue, Jan 21, 2014, 12:05 PM UTC

cdaven wrote: post #40

I have a quite simple web site with some calculators for taxes and stuff, that I originally built in 2007. The Google AdSense and affiliate income has grown from about $1000 per year to almost $1000 per month. It is "passive" in the sense that I respond to the occasional e-mail (once a month), update the data once a year, and add another calculator when I feel like it. A few years back, I was in the same position wit…

Can you tell me which site it is?

Re: Your best passive income? (2014)

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Post by xsNzgw8 » Tue, Jan 21, 2014, 12:05 PM UTC

http://pressbulgaria.com - it is a SaaS for sending press release to the media. This tool gives the citizens a lot of power to ring the alarm on certain problems. Also my customers use it as channel for promoting books, exhibition, events, etc

We have a tor hidden service for anonymous submissions. We offer free service for whistleblowers, that want to stay anonymous (and can't pay us).

Re: Your best passive income? (2014)

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Post by namigop » Tue, Jan 21, 2014, 12:06 PM UTC

I started wcfstorm (http://www.wcfstorm.com) about 4 years ago. I started out with just 1 product and has now added 2 more. The income is pretty nice. It usually exceeds my monthly salary. I love it when some stackoverflow users recommend it to others when a question gets posted about WCF testing.

Re: Your best passive income? (2014)

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Post by vrikis » Tue, Jan 21, 2014, 12:06 PM UTC

I know this isn't entirely passive, but I occasionally rent my spare room on AirBnB. I'm quite clear that it's a basic room and if they use the kitchen etc. they need to clean up after themselves - this isn't a hotel I'm running... So there's basically no work to do other than cleaning the bedsheets, which I do as part of cleaning my bedsheets anyway... I do this for a maximum of 1week/month, which gets me roughly £4000/year and since it's tax exempt in Scotland (under lodger laws), it's the easiest money I've ever made.