I've got a job where i do almost nothing. It's my passive income.
Do you have to show up at any particular place every day?
Your best passive income? (2014)
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Re: Your best passive income? (2014)
#252A silly project for playing with Unicode (sıɥʇ ǝʞıl) and ASCII Art. About 900 visits per day, 10€ per month income. Almost pays for the server.
Re: Your best passive income? (2014)
#253I'm currently earning around $45-60 a day mining cryptocurrencies with a little over $5000 in hardware. Once setup it's completely passive. Edit: ROI could be improved a bit on this too since I intentionally bought hardware that was good to experiment with rather than optimizing ROI.
Is that net of energy costs?
Re: Your best passive income? (2014)
#254Earlier quoted context omitted.
You got the copyright holders' permission to use those gifs, I take it?
I’m genuinely interested: do you have any example of a GIF/LOL website which owns the rights on the published content?
Lol, touché! and how about google? does google have permission to show gifs jpegs/whatever video/.. online when people do a search on any term in particular?
Guess there are loopholes for big companies only ;)
You either have no money to pay for a lawyer and go bust or you buy all the lawyers so that no-one will be left to sue you... sort of kind of... doesn't make sense but you catch my drift right? :D
Re: Your best passive income? (2014)
#255Im currently building a client proposal service specially for designers: http://nusii.com Not getting much passive income yet but I hope 2014 will be our year :-)
Cool app - good luck mokkol - that's my approach - micro business apps.
Re: Your best passive income? (2014)
#256Earlier quoted context omitted.
While not doing anything might be immoral, doing something else is most likely in violation of the contract and the work done would (again, most likely) be owned by the employer. Along with the income.
You're risk adverse, aren't you?
Yeah, what are you, chicken?
I'm not a chicken. You're a turkey!
Re: Your best passive income? (2014)
#257Running Hammer for Mac (hammerformac.com), our web-development OSX app. On a good day we might hit $100+ profit (after Apple's cut). Some days we don't get anything. It's rewarding to know that people are using it.
Hammer is a nice, well designed product, kudos to you and congrats on it. I was actually surprised it doesn't net you a larger income.
Do you think you guys are missing on marketing, or that you're hitting a niche that's too small (frontend osx owning developers that can code, but not enough to set up small dev environments)? I'll admit that I'm mostly a frotnend dev / designer myself, but since I have enough ability to set up things like git, bower and grunt myself hammer seems to aim at a skill curve just lower than myself. That said I bet I'm underestimating the amount of people that still use php includes for simple static sites. My guess might be that their might be more in the Windows world, though that could be a prejudice.
Good luck on your work and continue building cool software!
Re: Your best passive income? (2014)
#258I'm making negative 15 USD/month hosting two side projects: http://srctree.net - A pastebin with version control http://blocksim.net - A poor man's online simulink-like thingy I am aware that there is a _lot_ of room for improvement in both services, but the fact that nobody uses it at all is not very motivational.
Same here for me with http://timebot.io/ I just have no clue how to go about getting customers.
I would suggest focusing on how you're different from your competitors. At a first glance from your site, I have a hard time distinguishing you from say, Freshbooks.
Re: Your best passive income? (2014)
#259Let's see. There's a few somewhat passive channels for us.
We just launched our product Blogvio (http://www.blogvio.com) which is yet break even. Right now we're only partnering with platforms to white label our Editor and widgets, but we'll soon release a pricing plan for all users of the website.
Our 2008 marketplace Flabell (http://www.flabell.com) (flash products... I know) is still going strong, although we too think Flash is dead. People still buy those components, so we still provide support for them. We stopped advertising though a few years back. :-)
Same goes for our Flash Components on ActiveDen, these still sell a couple of hundreds every month. So it's still passive income after 6yrs+. :)
Re: Your best passive income? (2014)
#260My free-to-play Solitaire web app, at http://www.solitr.com/ . It's making a bit over $1,000 in monthly ad revenue. Traffic is at ~3k dailies. I did this as a weekend project 2 years ago, and at some point migrated my blog to it to pick up DomainRank. Other than that I've mostly left it alone.
That's impressive. How do people find your site? It isn't on the first page of google results for 'solitaire'.