I created/run a couple web apps (http://w3counter.com http://w3roi.com and a few more). Everything is profitable and I've lived off it for the past 6 years. All bootstrapped, no outside funding.
Who is living off their startup fulltime?
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#32S3stat (http://www.s3stat.com) brings in enough to live on, and funded me while I was traveling last year and bootstrapping the next thing. It also has the advantage of pretty much running itself on autopilot, so I can sometimes go entire months without opening the IDE or doing anything beyond responding to the odd customer email.
I'd highly recommend building something like that (a low-maintenance income generating business) as opposed to the sort of zero income "shorten urls then tweet them from your location on your camera phone" thing that requires 14 billion users and a Google buyout before you see your first dime.
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#33I live off of TekPub (http://tekpub.com) and Adzerk (http://adzerk.com, http://theloungenet.com, http://rubyrow.net).
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#34My wife and I were living on AgileZen (http://agilezen.com) before the company was acquired earlier this year.
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#35Making more than I did as a full-time system engineer. http://www.glasscodeinc.com based off IT services alone. Soon to invest the profits into some software for managing enterprise infrastructure and hopefully grow from there.
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#36I am, along with my cofounder and a dozen employees.
It's been 5 years though, so I'm not sure one could easily qualify us as a startup any longer.
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#38I think there are differences between an "aspiring startup" i.e. self-employment, small business, cooperative etc. and a startup. To me you are running a startup when you are ready to take funding that will mainly be used for growth. People can of course call their businesses whatever they want, but using a term like "seed stage startup" would be helpful for clarity.
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#39ThatHigh.com pays my rent in SF. Currently working on Djangy.com, hopefully that will "supplement" thathigh :-)
how many daily uniques do you receive? and what's your CPM?
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#40I am living off http://www.AwesomenessReminders.com and http://www.CustomerFind.com. For AwesomenessReminders, you can use the referral code HACKERNEWS to save money.