I started a little niche webshop in 2011. In 2014, the monthly revenue were around $2500/month. It's not passive income, but I only use ~ 1 hour a day on it (packaging etc.)
What is a "little niche webshop" if I may ask? What exactly do you do?
Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?
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Re: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?
#342Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for making that! Out of interest, are you willing to share a rough idea of how many emails have been created or how many are made a day?
40k-50k addresses are created, with about 80-85% of them receiving an email. I also get about 300k-500k email a day to expired addresses
> I also get about 300k-500k email a day to expired addresses
Ever had any ideas for monetizing the junk mail you receive? I'd imagine most of the mail filters do something similar to learn on, but it seems like there has to be some value from that volume.
Re: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?
#343Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for making that! Out of interest, are you willing to share a rough idea of how many emails have been created or how many are made a day?
40k-50k addresses are created, with about 80-85% of them receiving an email. I also get about 300k-500k email a day to expired addresses
> I also get about 300k-500k email a day to expired addresses
Ever had any ideas for monetizing the junk mail you receive? I'd imagine most of the mail filters do something similar to learn on, but it seems like there has to be some value from that volume.
Re: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?
#344Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for making that! Out of interest, are you willing to share a rough idea of how many emails have been created or how many are made a day?
40k-50k addresses are created, with about 80-85% of them receiving an email. I also get about 300k-500k email a day to expired addresses
> I also get about 300k-500k email a day to expired addresses
Ever had any ideas for monetizing the junk mail you receive? I'd imagine most of the mail filters do something similar to learn on, but it seems like there has to be some value from that volume.
Re: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?
#345I 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 ;)
What's the current situation with In-App Purchases and patent issues? I'd like to do fund a smaller project of my own but I'm put off by the problems other developers have had in the past.
A good question.
I didn't take this into a great deal of consideration - I haven't seen any press or heard anything about it since 2013, and I felt that publishing something good would have value beyond this concern.
This is the latest I can find: http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/01/03/ding-dong-patent-tro...
Re: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?
#346I 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 ;)
What's the current situation with In-App Purchases and patent issues? I'd like to do fund a smaller project of my own but I'm put off by the problems other developers have had in the past.
A good question.
I didn't take this into a great deal of consideration - I haven't seen any press or heard anything about it since 2013, and I felt that publishing something good would have value beyond this concern.
This is the latest I can find regarding Lodsys/in-app purchase patent: http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/01/03/ding-dong-patent-tro...
Re: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?
#347I 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 ;)
What's the current situation with In-App Purchases and patent issues? I'd like to do fund a smaller project of my own but I'm put off by the problems other developers have had in the past.
A good question.
I didn't take this into a great deal of consideration - I haven't seen any press or heard anything about it since 2013, and I felt that publishing something good would have value beyond this concern.
This is the latest I can find regarding Lodsys/in-app purchase patent: http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/01/03/ding-dong-patent-tro...
Re: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?
#348Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ya good idea. I'm a moderator there so if you need tips about promoting it correctly without being spammy let me know. Also, posting your picks to oddsportal picks (e.g. http://www.oddsportal.com/profile/DPT/ ), certain facebook groups, reddit, relevant forums and so on would be good to raise your profile.
Some great tips there. Thank you very much! Am deffo going to keep a close eye on the Reddit group so might shoot you an email about that in a couple of days
No worries, I like the idea, happy to help. Might pick your brains about it a bit if that's ok. Some traffic stats for that subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/SoccerBetting/about/traffic/
Email away!
Re: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?
#349An Android app I made in a few hours makes $500/m from ads, and has 1M+ downloads on Google Play. It claims to be a radar detector for your phone, but that's not even possible (it's actually just completely random). The description says that it is for novelty purposes, but the reviews show people believe it works and it has a placebo effect. Most reviews say things like "I drove past a police station and it went off!…
This app should be reported as having a misleading description or at least it should be in the "games" category not in the "transportation".
Re: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?
#350Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you intend for the text to blink on your site? Because it blinks for me. Latest Safari. I recorded what it looked like. You can see it here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/i9jpjzm7035bhg2/blinking.mov?dl=0
Interesting. It is not supposed to do that. I will look into it. Thank you for bringing it to my attention!
Whilst you're on it can you fix the LLR logo roundel not to have floating pixel cruft in the transparent areas (and poor cropping) and maybe provide a properly scaled WP logo - that anti-aliasing gives me the jitters ... just saying ...