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Re: Is it hard to build a web app that makes at least $1000 a month?

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Post by dotBen » Sat, May 14, 2011, 8:55 AM UTC

Applying your startup skills to projects in the adult space will certainly help you wing your way to $1000/m v easily.

Big data/machine learning of all the meta data associated on tube sites, repurposing content for tablets, recommendation engines, social layers that are delineated/firewalled from the mainstream social graph, hosting/live streaming services for adult content -- are all opportunity spaces that come to mind.

Many of these projects can be kept on "life-support" and still bring in a healthy profit if set up correctly.

Please don't down-vote because it's porn - it's a legal and legitimate space

Re: Is it hard to build a web app that makes at least $1000 a month?

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Post by braindead_in » Sat, May 14, 2011, 8:58 AM UTC

"The first 3 years of any startup is very hard. After 3 years you just get used to it".

Re: Is it hard to build a web app that makes at least $1000 a month?

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Post by nametoremember » Sat, May 14, 2011, 9:07 AM UTC

dotBen wrote: post #11

Applying your startup skills to projects in the adult space will certainly help you wing your way to $1000/m v easily. Big data/machine learning of all the meta data associated on tube sites, repurposing content for tablets, recommendation engines, social layers that are delineated/firewalled from the mainstream social graph, hosting/live streaming services for adult content -- are all opportunity spaces that come to…

Where does the money actually come from? Other adult businesses advertising on your site?

Re: Is it hard to build a web app that makes at least $1000 a month?

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Post by maxklein » Sat, May 14, 2011, 9:16 AM UTC

I have many products that make more than $1000 a month. Tip - use the app stores to cut away the pain of having to market to users through vague means. App stores are a godsend if you are a good developer but bad marketer.

Re: Is it hard to build a web app that makes at least $1000 a month?

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Post by tjogin » Sat, May 14, 2011, 9:35 AM UTC

I would not take business advice from anyone attributing all of Apple's success to their image and none to their products.

Re: Is it hard to build a web app that makes at least $1000 a month?

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Post by dotBen » Sat, May 14, 2011, 9:36 AM UTC

nametoremember wrote: post #13

dotBen wrote: post #11

Applying your startup skills to projects in the adult space will certainly help you wing your way to $1000/m v easily. Big data/machine learning of all the meta data associated on tube sites, repurposing content for tablets, recommendation engines, social layers that are delineated/firewalled from the mainstream social graph, hosting/live streaming services for adult content -- are all opportunity spaces that come to…

Where does the money actually come from? Other adult businesses advertising on your site?

Affiliate deals with content sites - which are more than just advertising because they tend to have insane revenue sharing deals for the lifetime of the lead - often 50% split of membership fees for the life of the subscription.

So from just a single user signing up for a $30/month subscription, you would make over $180/year.

My partner enjoys a healthy secondary income (way way above the monthly figure mentioned in the original question) from such activity.

If you do big-data analysis and/or curation of content you can probably sell this to other sites too as many in this space are cash rich and tech-ability poor.

Re: Is it hard to build a web app that makes at least $1000 a month?

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Post by Keyframe » Sat, May 14, 2011, 9:37 AM UTC

Is it hard to write a story or make a film that people will watch? Same thing, just a bit different. "Everyone" seems to know the answer, but the truth is nobody knows. Because everyone would do it then.

Re: Is it hard to build a web app that makes at least $1000 a month?

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Post by mcdaid » Sat, May 14, 2011, 9:39 AM UTC

maxklein wrote: post #14

I have many products that make more than $1000 a month. Tip - use the app stores to cut away the pain of having to market to users through vague means. App stores are a godsend if you are a good developer but bad marketer.

Would you care to elaborate on which app stores. I can see how people can make money developing mobile apps, but is it possible to get a decent revenue from say Chrome Webstore.

Re: Is it hard to build a web app that makes at least $1000 a month?

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Post by maxklein » Sat, May 14, 2011, 9:43 AM UTC

mcdaid wrote: post #18

maxklein wrote: post #14

I have many products that make more than $1000 a month. Tip - use the app stores to cut away the pain of having to market to users through vague means. App stores are a godsend if you are a good developer but bad marketer.

Would you care to elaborate on which app stores. I can see how people can make money developing mobile apps, but is it possible to get a decent revenue from say Chrome Webstore.

Mac app store, android app store. Windows App store is coming soon, but till then, locations like download.com

Re: Is it hard to build a web app that makes at least $1000 a month?

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Post by getsat » Sat, May 14, 2011, 9:49 AM UTC

dotBen wrote: post #11

Applying your startup skills to projects in the adult space will certainly help you wing your way to $1000/m v easily. Big data/machine learning of all the meta data associated on tube sites, repurposing content for tablets, recommendation engines, social layers that are delineated/firewalled from the mainstream social graph, hosting/live streaming services for adult content -- are all opportunity spaces that come to…

I've been wanting to build a niche video/picture site for a while (to deal with all the CDN/scaling issues involved myself), and I've also been looking for a project I can use this Programming Collective Intelligence book on.

Adult seems to be a good next project for me. The only initial unknown I can think of would be where content would come from unless it's user-supplied. Any other links/info/thoughts?