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This is the quick (1 min video) version of how I did it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0y28HmcqUo&feature=youtu.be
This is the longer version: http://blog.quickmail.io/category/journey-to-1k-paying-custo...
I made http://bankofamericaroutingnumber.com It took less than a day and makes about $150/month. Not quite the 1k but not bad for minimal work.
I wrote an Android app based on a blog post of mine which got popular: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jasmcole.w... http://jasmcole.com/2014/08/25/helmhurts/ It reached the reddit front page for a day, and earned £3,000 during that day. Since then, it's averaged ~£150 per month, with only small input from me (minor updates)
I wrote a puzzle app for iOS - https://itunes.apple.com/app/id906543727 It's free to download and try it out, but then I charge for additional puzzles. I was keen to give a complete version of the app for free (without ads) so that people understand clearly what I'm offering. This strategy seems to be working with good and returning custom. Not $1k yet but some reason for optimism ;)
I wrote a book and video series on Sublime Text - https://SublimeTextBook.com It's done about 80k in sales in 3 months - I'm in the process of writing a blog post about how I did it, what worked and what didn't. It's not inexpensive, but it pays for itself quickly so people are fine with spending the $45 on the book + videos. Feel free to ask questions here so I have content for the post.
How did you get into writing? I tried to write blogs and had to write papers for university, but I always struggle. I have the feeling that some people can produce much text from nothing, where I put my ideas into a few sentences...
Something to think about: Based on the answers here and in the related Reddit thread it seems that information products (e-books, targeted blog posts, link collections) still generate better revenue (either sales or ad revenue) than pure software products as side projects.
A lot more people who write books talk about their experience than those who run a niche profitable SaaS app for obvious reasons (competitive advantage). In my experience, it's much easier to have a stable recurring revenue from a SaaS app than a book. Books go out of date much faster.
Small niches are cool, but you probably can't live from ads. Choose a lame subject with lots of users and make a clean and easy to use website. I have a small directory website. It's pretty boring stuff, but it is a good source of almost passive income. Never published it. I just created the website and sent the sitemap to Google Webmasters. It's 8 months old and I have 400k pageviews/month. I have lots of projects i…
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OK, that is a lot! What sort of hardware do you need for that kind of load?
That's approximately 2 hits per second. If you're serving static content (or heavily cached) you could handle that with a Raspberry PI. Heck you could probably do it with an arduino. Edit: this depends heavily on your traffic pattern, of course. Super bursty traffic from Reddit, TechCrunch, etc is going to swamp your IO, but CPU will never dominate the equation.