I make around $2000/month from two Mac apps (database tools). Revenue is falling as multiple competitors cloned my profitable app, so I have to do more client work again :(
Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
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Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#242Every year around Halloween I make $400-600 via adsense with http://trickortreattimes.com/ which lists trick or treat times for cities/towns. It felt like a good service to provide as you really have to hunt for the data. First year I did the aggregating myself, last year I added user submission which made it much more passive. It's time for me to update it for another year!
I make about $200-$300 per evening during Halloween. I go around to websites that list trick or treat times, I am short, dress like a ghost and collect candy for free than re-resell to convenience stores.
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#243Small stakes, but completely passive. About ~$500/mo from Adsense on what are essentially niche long-tail SEO targeted yellow-page-like regional sites for very specific verticals. Not a lot of money, but I haven't touched them since 2007 (when they were averaging closer to $800/mo). Initial investment was mostly time doing research, implementing, and SEO stuff. Also experimenting: abandoning failed sites or improving ones with potential. Now the successful ones are completely passive sources of income and the only expenses are hosting and domain renewal.
Right now I'm working on a more substantial side-project that will provide an actual service that hopefully people will actually want to use and subscribe to for their businesses. It will require more maintenance and time and monetary investment, but in the long run should be much more satisfying and potentially bring in more income.
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#244I'm not sure if my project counts; 'cause it's running at a loss? http://dressed.so I made it because it seemed like /r/malefashionadvice needed somewhere to host their fits with a little extra functionality. Every now and then I build a feature or two but mostly it just ticks over. For revenue I make a little via adsense but mostly try and focus on the affiliate products, for example on this page http://drsd.so/15Yx…
Neat, I've seen your site on /r/malefashionadvice.
Since your site is focused on men, you should try and filter out women's products in your shop section.
Example for a search on "sperry" topsiders: http://dressed.so/shop?q=sperry
I'm guessing that mixing in women's products will hurt your conversion rate for affiliate products. If your affiliate network can't filter like that, you may want to check out http://prosperent.com/ or http://www.cj.com
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#245I've made about $3k a month in semi-passive income from my codecanyon portfolio in 2013. I call it semi-passive income because I have to spend some time on support each day, but it usually doesn't take more than 30 minutes. EDIT: My portfolio http://codecanyon.net/user/23andwalnut/portfolio
How do you decide what sort of thing to make in order to sell well in a marketplace like this?
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#246Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you think ads are a better way to make money than charging for the app?
I am also wondering about this. I have an app selling at $0.99 and make a couple hundred per month in sales. It's hard for me to project how much ad revenue I could make, especially since I don't know how many additional people would use it if it were free.
The beauty of Android is how easy you can create a new developer account and test out some ideas.
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#247Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your demo video is stuttering and unwatchable. I'm guessing it's getting hammered from this post. The site looks really nice, and appears to have really great content. Signup achieved.
Thanks! I have the videos on a geo-balanced CDN which is well overprovisioned, so it should be okay. I just tried it myself and everything seemed fine. Of course, because it's geo-balanced, there could be a problem I'm not seeing. If anybody else has problems, could you let me know?
The website is working fine for me. Also, the videos convinced me to try the free trial.
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#248I gross just under $10K per month from http://www.letscodejavascript.com , a subscription-based JavaScript screencast for professional developers [1]. It's a full-time job: I put out two new episodes every week, plus a "special" every month that takes quite a bit more effort. That leaves me with about half my time for developing the business. I'm bootstrapping this, so it's just me. I don't plan to hire any employees…
I'm a PHP developer that's been looking to become better at JS. Right now I'm at the level where I basically can write some simple JS to do what I want, most of the time, but the code is a mess of spaghetti.
I am also a huge testing fanatic, and absolutely love that you're teaching using TDD from the first episode!
Consider me signed up and a paying customer!
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#249Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, and yes.
Care to elaborate? How much risk is there to the site owner which accidentally hosts the content?
You'll want to make sure all models are of legal age, and that the person submitting it has the rights to upload the material. Yes there's DMCA clauses to live behind that help make such tasks easier but in adult DMCA is so widely abused that it's best to make sure your stuff is 100% legal and legit to stay out of trouble. Not worth the returns in my opinion.
Source: I have just spent the last 12 years in adult and recently just severed all ties with the imploding industry.
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#250I generate about $900/month of semi-passive income from http://algorithmic.ly , but the initial setup cost is high. In the future I want it to be the goto-company for adding generalized algorithms to apps, products and services (provided as a service), but while I validate the market there's a huge initial setup cost (about 10 hrs), spent on data modeling, cluster deployment and secure key generation.
Is that 10 hrs per new customer?