I mean, it's worth asking, but anyone with a good niche would be smart to not post it publicly unless the benefits of publicity outweigh the risk of competition.
Ask HN: What is your passive income 2019?
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Re: Ask HN: What is your passive income 2019?
#22Not exactly passive, but side hustle that I hope becomes main hustle: https://simplescraper.io
Tryna fill the gap that Kimono left.
Aim to post as a Show HN once I polish it a little more.
Re: Ask HN: What is your passive income 2019?
#23I post photos to pixabay.com and get Paypal donations
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#24I'd consider my work as an Amazon 3P Seller as semi-passive. It's been my "side hustle" for 2+ years now, with 2019 at $40K in YTD earnings. (Inclusive of all costs except my own labor, which I do not track) AMA?
Growing, stable or declining?
Stable or slightly declining, but that is a personal choice I made as I focused on my career.
Unlike many, I don't update or A/B test anything after a product launch, so once a product is out launched, it's done from my perspective.
With some more effort, I could be growing, either by launching new products (last product launch was in February) or by starting up my ad campaigns again (I cancelled most of them in April to improve profitability at the cost of slower turnover).
I was let go about two weeks ago, if I can't find anything I love working on, I'll take this full time and (hopefully) go back to growing.
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#25Stock photography
How did you get started with this? I remember reading somewhere that stock photography is a nickel-and-diming business given that almost anyone can produce a half decent picture with modern cameras.
Re: Ask HN: What is your passive income 2019?
#26Github sponsorship 750$ per month
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#27I run https://bannerjs.com which is a configurable banner announcement service for websites that currently brings in $220 MRR.
I also run https://www.junior-to-senior.com which is a career advice newsletter for programmers that currently brings in $0 MRR, mainly because I'm focusing on content and growing the audience right now and haven't looked into sponsorships or paid subscriptions yet. I'd like to get it to a point where I can run it as a publication with multiple authors.
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#28Not sure how to properly put an adjective to it, but I'm doing some side money on crypto trading.
I started with a rather small amount of money (~0.15 btc) that grew to around ~0.21 in two months before the shitcoin I was playing with went literally to shit (They are not called shitcoins for nothing) and was left with around ~0.12.
I'm testing the waters now with a more stable shitcoin.
FWIW mine is (seems to be, at least) a very stable brute force approach. That I'll make no comments about ;)
P.S.: I obviously have data to back up my claims - the transactions log of my crypto exchange account - but as well the "method" I'm employing can be inferred from there, as it's rather obvious.
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#29Stock photography
How did you get started with this? I remember reading somewhere that stock photography is a nickel-and-diming business given that almost anyone can produce a half decent picture with modern cameras.
I posted this as a top level response, but I've had far better luck getting money via Pixabay donations than I have on Shutterstock
Re: Ask HN: What is your passive income 2019?
#30I post photos to pixabay.com and get Paypal donations
Of what.. and does it amount to much in $?
Curious, because I've looked on pixabay for some things that were wildly under-represented, and I had half a thought to fill those gaps, mostly for fun and I'm... close to it.