Your best passive income? (2014) • Hacker News Board

Re: Your best passive income? (2014)

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Post by r4pha » Tue, Jan 21, 2014, 5:14 PM UTC

tybro0103 wrote: post #244

r4pha wrote: post #219

I'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've had this problem with every single side project. The only thing that seems to work "out of the box" is my rhythmbox plugin/android app, but I guess I'm just piggybacking on people's search for "rhythmbox".

Re: Your best passive income? (2014)

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Post by ElongatedTowel » Tue, Jan 21, 2014, 5:17 PM UTC

Judson wrote: post #270

I may have posted about this before, but http://askjud.com , a simple trick that you can play on your friends makes around $300/mo. Its hosted on github, and costs $8/yr for the domain name.

How does something like this make so much money? If a friend send me the link I would demand reparations.

Re: Your best passive income? (2014)

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Post by GameOfTrolls » Tue, Jan 21, 2014, 5:21 PM UTC

driverdan wrote: post #231

I'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.

Are you moving away from BitCoin and into others? or vice versa. I'm curious about the trending of BTC mining.

Re: Your best passive income? (2014)

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Post by rgbrgb » Tue, Jan 21, 2014, 5:23 PM UTC

eo34 wrote: post #201

astral303 wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

$5 is not cheap by app store standards. It's a fair price for an app in that class. As to whether you're entitled to support or feature requests, you can make an argument both ways. One could generate some word of mouth by following up on (simple) feature requests. In one of the apps, Fourier, the reviewers say that the horizontal frequency scale is off by a factor of 2 (but the frequency display elsewhere is accurat…

First, wow, I didn't expect any HN readers to actually know about, much less have bought, my work! Thanks. Second, I understand your frustration. I love building things, and sometimes I wish I could do that full time, but grad school is a 70 hr/wk commitment for me. If the app is not useful for you without the missing feature, Apple does allow returns. I'm not quite sure how it works, but I see a few returns a year o…

I've used novocaine on a hackathon project. Very fun little library, thanks! It was 10,000 times easier than setting up the audio unit chain, etc. I had done it the old fashioned way for my first app but there was an incredible amount of error-prone boilerplate code when all I really wanted was a callback function to populate output buffers.

This thing also looks pretty cool: http://theamazingaudioengine.com/

Re: Your best passive income? (2014)

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Post by elbear » Tue, Jan 21, 2014, 5:24 PM UTC

At the end of 2013 I launched http://www.comedylib.com/. It's a site with curated Youtube videos of comedians, comedy shows and comedy movies.

I built this out of my passion for comedy and because I wanted to have only comedy videos in one place and not the mix that Youtube offers. It's not making any money yet, but I haven't put much effort into promoting it so far.

Re: Your best passive income? (2014)

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Post by arca_vorago » Tue, Jan 21, 2014, 5:24 PM UTC

driverdan wrote: post #231

I'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.

Asic/FPGA's? Or just GPU/CPU? Which currencies? I was one of those that mined a few blocks of bc and spent it all before it was worth anything, and then thought that fpga's and asics took it out of my price range. Have considered trying my hand at it again.

Re: Your best passive income? (2014)

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Post by easymovet » Tue, Jan 21, 2014, 5:25 PM UTC

http://PrimalPal.net

5 $digits/mo

Re: Your best passive income? (2014)

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Post by sgribley » Tue, Jan 21, 2014, 5:30 PM UTC

I'm going to toss this out there - I've considered building an affiliate site in the porn space. I've looked at a couple API's and it looks easy. However, I have never built anything in this space - I just hear that there's money to be made so have been tempted. Let the flogging begin!

Re: Your best passive income? (2014)

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Post by sgribley » Tue, Jan 21, 2014, 5:31 PM UTC

sgribley wrote: post #288

I'm going to toss this out there - I've considered building an affiliate site in the porn space. I've looked at a couple API's and it looks easy. However, I have never built anything in this space - I just hear that there's money to be made so have been tempted. Let the flogging begin!

Oh - if anyone has any info on this please email me via my profile. I'm open to reason not to do it as well as I don't have my heart set on it, more of a curiosity than anything.

Re: Your best passive income? (2014)

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Post by nicholas73 » Tue, Jan 21, 2014, 5:33 PM UTC

joliss wrote: post #154

My 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.

Hey joliss, I'd like to ask how you pick up your traffic? I've got a similar project as yours, and it has the same problem - it's a remake of a popular game with lots of high ranking webapps on Google. None of the SEO and social media did the trick for me. I even built a plug-in widget. So far a handful of links send most of my traffic, and I don't get in a month what you get in a day.

My project is: http://sudokuisland.com

How would you go about it? Thanks.