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Your best passive income? (2014)

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Re: Your best passive income? (2014)

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My iOS app that teaches you what a tesseract is and lets you manipulate it in 3D and 4D. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-fourth-dimension/id50420... It blows my mind that people still find out about this app and happily buy it every day even though it occupies such a small geeky niche.

Nice! WRT to the icon, you should add stereoscopic imaging (red/green style) to geek out even further!

Re: Your best passive income? (2014)

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Facebook Stock. Now do you realize how stupid you sound?

He may be mining Bitcoin. If you're able to issue Facebook stock, let's talk :)

Is mining Bitcoin still proficient (except for ASIC makers, huh)?

Re: Your best passive income? (2014)

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Do some freelancing during office hours & double the income.

While not doing anything might be immoral, doing something else is most likely in violation of the contract and the work done would (again, most likely) be owned by the employer. Along with the income.

You're risk adverse, aren't you?

Re: Your best passive income? (2014)

#125

Not much has changed since the last thread. Improvely ( https://www.improvely.com ) is still in the 5-digit monthly RR range and growing, and I do no outbound marketing other than some PPC ads that don't need much active management. Everything that can be automated has been automated (onboarding, lifecycle mails, dunning mails for billing issues, etc), leaving me free to spend all my time on support and improving the…

Oh wow, this looks like exactly what I've been looking for for my not-so-passive income project, textbooksplease.com, for tracking conversions. ...any chance of an HN discount? :D

Hi, I was checking out your project. Do you mind if I ask where you got the list of universities and the URLs?

Re: Your best passive income? (2014)

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I'm convinced this is the best type of passive income. A job with minimal work (perhaps some kind of security guard or IT support) sitting at a desk. I would use the opportunity to work on my own projects that would actually make me money, all the while getting paid.

Yeah I want this.

I had this, it got boring real fast. The money wasn't great. I could live on it but there was no future prospect. A slow career death if you will. So I took a harder job, with higher pay.

Re: Your best passive income? (2014)

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Why does everybody list books, webapps and mobile apps as passive income? I hope you created them yourself. Then they are not passive income but a product. Like every product they have a lifetime, then you need a new product. Therefore you actually have a first or second active business and not a passive income. "Passive income" is rent for condos you own, or having shares in your friend's profitable business that yi…

I can assure you as my wife and I are starting into the rental business that leasing a residence is not passive.

Re: Your best passive income? (2014)

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Sure, but the site is in Swedish: http://rakna.net

Any reason why you haven't done an English version?

It looks like it has some Sweden-specific stuff, and adding in English-speaking countries would require knowledge of their tax systems. I suppose you could do an English version for English-speaking people living in Sweden who don't speak Swedish, but it would likely be a tiny niche market.
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