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Re: How much money are you earning from your software products?

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Post by raelmiu » Sun, Nov 03, 2013, 5:11 PM UTC

I'm losing about $200 a month so far on https://blankpage.io, the subscription model took longer than calculated to implement.

Re: How much money are you earning from your software products?

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Post by sumang » Sun, Nov 03, 2013, 5:22 PM UTC

Making 500 Euro per month and after expenses I am making 450 euro . My first customer and 110 customers in beta list which I am going to starting releasing beta next week . here is the product . http://bit.ly/HDcvfA

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Post by dannowatts » Sun, Nov 03, 2013, 5:25 PM UTC

have a few side projects. here's a fun one:

http://ShouldIDrinkThisFuckingBeer.com

it is making absolutely zero money (yet), but the engagement on the site is INSANE. also, the site itself, and the people who come to it (and email/tweet/blog/instagram/vine/smoke signals/carrier pigeon/etc about it) are passionate and willing to support craft beer.

besides the benefit of interacting with super cool, kick-ass people who love craft beer, i've also been in touch with some breweries who are wanting to partner on a multitude of things, and i've been invited to come brew a batch at a few of them, with the head brewers!

so to summarize:

• making no money on this side project.

• not losing any money on this side project.

• over 75 million hits since launch, over 1 million people and over 50 million suggestions every month.

• fuckloads of fun interacting with the craft beer lovers and the craft beer world.

• the amount of engagement the site has will help support the next phase which will make money :)

• ...

• profit!!

Re: How much money are you earning from your software products?

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Post by jtheory » Sun, Nov 03, 2013, 5:27 PM UTC

raelmiu wrote: post #21

I'm losing about $200 a month so far on https://blankpage.io , the subscription model took longer than calculated to implement.

Curiosity -- what are your costs? $200 seems quite high to be solely your hosting.

Re: How much money are you earning from your software products?

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Post by habosa » Sun, Nov 03, 2013, 5:27 PM UTC

Zero now. Was a time when I was making $100/mo from ads on my free Android app (took the ads off, now it's just free as in free) and I sold another Android app for $2.5k. Those were my first two software projects ever so it was some awesome feedback, convinced me to get a CS degree.

Re: How much money are you earning from your software products?

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Post by KevinUK » Sun, Nov 03, 2013, 5:27 PM UTC

I make on average £330 a month from a WordPress plugin https://www.getmecooking.com/wordpress-recipe-plugin

The idea was to get content for the main website so that it would make money. I've got over 2000 recipes now but traffic is still under 1000 hits a day so I've still not tried to monetise the main website.

I've now started to develop a job recruitment website as I can see that earning money a lot easier. Other sites in the niche have 10 job postings a day each and charge on average my prices which would mean £1000 a day. I just need to solve the recruiter / applicant traffic problem... http://www.platejobs.com/

Re: How much money are you earning from your software products?

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Post by KevinUK » Sun, Nov 03, 2013, 5:34 PM UTC

euroclydon wrote: post #3

I make $300-$500/mo. with http://www.makecupcakewrappers.com I started it three years ago with a single web page and an email-me-when-it's-ready form. I barely got enough emails (50-60) in the first couple months to justify moving forward. But I did, with three designs and a simple design-by-form interface. Fast forward to today and I have dozens of templates and a custom drag and drop interface done in canvas. I hav…

It's interesting that you have adwords on your homepage. Does it bring in any revenue? To me it detracts from the overall look of the site. I just Googled custom cupcake design and you are 4th, maybe there just aren't that many people after the service?

Re: How much money are you earning from your software products?

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Post by ericthegoodking » Sun, Nov 03, 2013, 5:37 PM UTC

sumang wrote: post #22

Making 500 Euro per month and after expenses I am making 450 euro . My first customer and 110 customers in beta list which I am going to starting releasing beta next week . here is the product . http://bit.ly/HDcvfA

This is inspirational! are you working on it alone or do you have a "team"?

Re: How much money are you earning from your software products?

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Nov 03, 2013, 5:41 PM UTC

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Re: How much money are you earning from your software products?

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Post by dangrossman » Sun, Nov 03, 2013, 5:44 PM UTC

Improvely (https://www.improvely.com) passed $10k/mo RR not too long ago and is about a year old. I run several other SaaS sites with a couple thousand a month in revenue each. It's enough that I never regret turning down the standing job offers I had at the end of college 3 years ago.

Nothing really compared to the short-lived but very successful WordPress plugins I used to build and sell. A few days' work could turn into the equivalent of a year's salary. One had over $250,000 in sales in 18 months before I sold rights to it for another $90,000 to another company. I don't work with WordPress much anymore, and don't have much motivation to force myself back into that ecosystem to sell more plugins. It just wasn't as fun as running live services that handle lots of users and lots of data.