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What was your best passive income in 2014?

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Re: What was your best passive income in 2014?

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Bought a house 12 months ago which included a great tenant. Rent checks showed up early every month for the last year. So far the house has been such little work I sometimes feel confused then surprised by his hand written envelopes addressed to me in the mailbox.

Keep the rent low. A great tenant is awesome.

Re: What was your best passive income in 2014?

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Very proud of this, my first passive income ever: developed an add-on for a popular video game and it's been making me $60/mo. edit: to mention that it bounces around between $1.50 a day to $2.50 a day based on usage

I'm really interested in how you managed to monetise your addons. I've made some fairly popular addons in the past but I'd always considered them just free things I throw out into the world.

Re: What was your best passive income in 2014?

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I had a motorcycle which I had bought for 126K INR. I was not using it much except to commute from home to office. I was going to sell the bike, then suddenly this idea clicked. It took few hours to make and host indiarider.com(people can take the bike on rent). Its been two months now, I have made 15K till now, 7K last week.

Re: What was your best passive income in 2014?

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Embeddable shared whiteboard (jQuery plugin + backend service): https://awwapp.com/plugin/

Around $500/mo at the moment, with very little marketing and sales effort. Putting more effort into sales now, aiming to have it cover one full-time person on the project in the next few months.

Re: What was your best passive income in 2014?

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I had a motorcycle which I had bought for 126K INR. I was not using it much except to commute from home to office. I was going to sell the bike, then suddenly this idea clicked. It took few hours to make and host indiarider.com(people can take the bike on rent). Its been two months now, I have made 15K till now, 7K last week.

That's cool, but how do you deal with speeding fines?

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post #5

Websites. Totally autopilot. Only $300/mo. so its nothing compared to my regular income/job, but its a car payment - and it does beat working.

What sort of websites?

Blogs mostly, and ideas I come up with like http://codeht.ml although I don't put ads on all of em.

Would love any marketing ideas, as I don't know how to spread the word quickly and effectively.

Re: What was your best passive income in 2014?

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Built an iPhone app which is still featured by Apple in the new selfie category. 90$/mo with no marketing costs. :) The app called Picr. https://itunes.apple.com/app/picr-everyday-photo-reminder/id...

Congratulations! Sad though that even a featured app only pulls in $90/month.

My own iPhone photo app, Liquid Lens:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/liquid-lens-real-time-psyche...

actually briefly cracked the top 200 photo apps this month and pulls in more than $90 but is still only in the coffee money income bracket.

After four years of the indie iOS thing I'm tooling back up to do web dev again.

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