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One small geography site, bringing "only" like 600-700$ a year, but it is passive. https://random.country/ I made few more similiar sites, but they all failed.
I built https://dependabot.com to be passive, but ended up going full time on it (the startup I was working on feel through). Generates $9k/month passively, but I put my full-time energy into growing it (adding new languages / improving support for existing ones).
Salary from the employment contract.
I built https://dependabot.com to be passive, but ended up going full time on it (the startup I was working on feel through). Generates $9k/month passively, but I put my full-time energy into growing it (adding new languages / improving support for existing ones).
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That doesn't sound very passive to me.
Authoring a book is very passive income. Passive income is defined as high upfront work and very low maintenance work. Other than possible marketing tasks the author's job is done once the book is published and collects money on every sale.
Authoring a book, sure. But the parent poster implied that he/she continuously writes these stories, i.e. many of them, hence why they said it is "hard on the imagination".
I built https://www.docsapp.io/ while learning new programming language. Now DocsApp generating passive income for me, not a lot, but small profit. Next step is to build content around my product to generate more traffic. Anyone know where to find good technical content writers?
If you're going to buy a first house, it's worth it to go for a multifamily; up to four units you can still get in under FHA, you just have to live in one for a couple of years.
- Membership fees and sponsored posts on https://thefootytipster.com (I maintain the WP site, but no real ongoing work) (roughly £300 per month)
- Advertising on my tech blog https://tosbourn.com (roughly £30 per month)
- Advertising on https://howoldistheinter.net (roughly £15 per month) - zero effort put into this once made and one redesign
I'm hoping to grow https://cbdscores.com over the next few months and add it to the list.
One small geography site, bringing "only" like 600-700$ a year, but it is passive. https://random.country/ I made few more similiar sites, but they all failed.
Can I ask how you bring in site visitors? For such a niche site, I imagine you didn't do any advertising-- or did you do some based on search keywords on Google? I have a lot of ideas for small interesting websites like this, but I've no clue how to popularize them at all. Maybe a Show HN or something, but that seems like a short burst if the site is more of a novelty.
In first year, I maybe leaved link on one or two subreddits, with not too many subscribers. I had little bit of traffic from reddit.
I had this url also in signature in 2 discussion boards, but boards were in Croatian language. So only little bit of traffic from there.
Then after some time I got better Google ranking. (there was no too much similiar sites there, so it was easy to get better ranking).
Once someone on 4chan or similair chan site posted link.
Basically, it has grown without marketing/advertising. But still, it is small site.
After making next to nothing with Google ads, I was approached by another site that sold help packages for the licensing process and we struck up an affiliate deal. It didn't work right away and had to build up, but nowadays it generates anywhere from $200 to $800 per month in completely passive revenue (haven't written a new post in years). The revenue has been growing too. It will have done about $5k in 2018.