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Re: Ask HN: Your Passive Income Suggestions?

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Post by PaulRobinson »

tomarr wrote: post #85
orrinward wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

* Also UK focused - Matched Betting. Exploiting Bookmakers signup/recurring offers for a guaranteed profit. This is good for an early surge of ~£2k followed by a pretty easily achievable £200-£500 per month for <5 hours commitment per week.

Any guides or links to get started on this kind of thing?

http://bonusbagging.co.uk looks like a scam website, but I know a few people who have done it, myself included.

There is an upfront time element needed, and then to keep it rolling you'll need to take advantage of reload offers if you want a trickle, but if you're prepared to put the work in and use a site like this that does most of the "thinking" for you, it can work.

Re: Ask HN: Your Passive Income Suggestions?

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Post by helloguille »

vijayr wrote: post #143
lubujackson wrote: post #123

Some overarching takeaways: - niche sites with Google ads is a fading path, but still can work if you hit a good market or produce evergreen content - selling niche e-books through Amazon or direct seems to be a decent option, but is a lot of work unless you can produce quickly and have a feel for the topic - apps are dangerous because discover is nearly impossible. If you want to make apps, make quick little ones be…

My personal opinion is to make niche B2B tools. How does one find what to make? That is actually a harder problem to solve than making the tool itself

An easy way is to look for a company willing to solve a specific problem that may exists in similar companies. If you make the right contracts you can replicate the solution later.

Re: Ask HN: Your Passive Income Suggestions?

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Post by david_mitchell »

PaulRobinson wrote: post #151
tomarr wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any guides or links to get started on this kind of thing?

http://bonusbagging.co.uk looks like a scam website, but I know a few people who have done it, myself included. There is an upfront time element needed, and then to keep it rolling you'll need to take advantage of reload offers if you want a trickle, but if you're prepared to put the work in and use a site like this that does most of the "thinking" for you, it can work.

That website reminded me of parrotsecrets.com made & written about by cringely [1]. It is designed to slowly increase excitement in the reader as they progress through the page (that's why it repeatedly insists you slowly read the whole thing instead of skimming) as it leads them towards a sale.

[1] http://www.cringely.com/2009/03/14/parrot-secrets/

Re: Ask HN: Your Passive Income Suggestions?

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Post by mapmap »

CryoLogic wrote: post #24

Here's my experiences for last year in passive income: Total Gross Revenues: $20,000 or so. Mostly from a single high-traffic niche site which I promote almost exclusively through social media. My site offers a free version of what a few other websites in the same niche offer as a SaaS service. From that same site, most of the revenue (~80%) is from ads (ad revenue increased when switching to responsive units). Next,…

on the 35% plan (I can't use the 70% plan because someone stole it and uploaded it elsewhere

Can you go into more detail? Why are there different plans?

Re: Ask HN: Your Passive Income Suggestions?

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Post by notahacker »

PaulRobinson wrote: post #151
tomarr wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any guides or links to get started on this kind of thing?

http://bonusbagging.co.uk looks like a scam website, but I know a few people who have done it, myself included. There is an upfront time element needed, and then to keep it rolling you'll need to take advantage of reload offers if you want a trickle, but if you're prepared to put the work in and use a site like this that does most of the "thinking" for you, it can work.

That home page is awful even by the standards of actual scam websites.

I remember the now defunct site that showed me how to bag bonuses as a student a decade ago being straightforward about your pretty modest level of expected winnings (and for blackjack bonuses, modest level of risk) and focusing mainly on the actual maths.

For anyone that wants it as a passive income project, there's some very nice potential affiliate earnings (redirected through another domain, naturally) for anyone that wants to create a less scammy looking explanation...

Re: Ask HN: Your Passive Income Suggestions?

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Post by benologist »

jackfrodo wrote: post #120
benologist wrote: post #77

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It's not an App Store where someone could get a billion downloads, probably not even a million except maybe dragged out over a year. But I netted $8k last month on Underground against 38k downloads, that's pretty decent.

Pretty decent indeed! How many apps made up that 38k?

It's a line of jigsaw puzzles, an engine packaged with distinct content as separate apps. On average about one a week gets released.

Re: Ask HN: Your Passive Income Suggestions?

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Post by CryoLogic »

mapmap wrote: post #154
CryoLogic wrote: post #24

Here's my experiences for last year in passive income: Total Gross Revenues: $20,000 or so. Mostly from a single high-traffic niche site which I promote almost exclusively through social media. My site offers a free version of what a few other websites in the same niche offer as a SaaS service. From that same site, most of the revenue (~80%) is from ads (ad revenue increased when switching to responsive units). Next,…

on the 35% plan (I can't use the 70% plan because someone stole it and uploaded it elsewhere Can you go into more detail? Why are there different plans?

70% is if you sign a document promising not to publish your eBook on any other websites. Standard rate is 35%. Someone rebranded my most popular eBook and uploaded it to a bunch of small eBook websites. Amazons filters caught it, and I was told if I take them down from the third party sites I'll get full revenue share again - but emails didn't cut it with some of the little players (no responses), and it's not enough money to hire a lawyer over.

Re: Ask HN: Your Passive Income Suggestions?

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Post by geuis »

buf wrote: post #93

Niche website. I built Casting Call Club ( https://www.castingcall.club/homepage ) for the voice acting community. Roughly 13,000 voice actors currently use the site, but it only breaks even with all the costs associated with it, so I couldn't call it income.

You're probably already aware, but if not you should share this in https://www.reddit.com/r/VoiceActing/

Re: Ask HN: Your Passive Income Suggestions?

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Post by tamersalama »

shellerik wrote: post #99
edent wrote: post #17

* Apps with ads in them. Easy enough to churn out, but decreasing revenues and most of the high earning adverts are the scummiest. Low value and of low moral usefulness. * Solar Panels. In the UK, the government pays you per kWh generated. Needs an upfront investment, but stable income and you reduce your own energy bills. See http://shkspr.mobi/blog/tag/solar * Renting out property. Needs a much larger initial inves…

I have had some success in affiliate marketing using an approach that I think many on Hacker News could duplicate. I launched my Amazon affiliate site about a year-and-a-half ago and its earnings have increased by about $100 per month with December being the first time I earned over $2,000 in a month. The approach is to find a type of product where Amazon has thousands of listing but the specifications are not very a…

Do you mind sharing your site?
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