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Re: How much money are you earning from your software products?

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My side project http://www.browser-details.com is doing about $100/month right now. I haven't started to do any marketing yet as I want to give it a small makeover before. It started as a tool for my company so I know there's a need for it - not sure yet how to best market it, though.

Just a little note, your browser-dection page seems to be missing its Windows 8.1 icon (the icon image 404s).

Wow, thanks - I'll get that fixed up.

Re: How much money are you earning from your software products?

#84

Improvely ( https://www.improvely.com ) passed $10k/mo RR not too long ago and is about a year old. I run several other SaaS sites with a couple thousand a month in revenue each. It's enough that I never regret turning down the standing job offers I had at the end of college 3 years ago. Nothing really compared to the short-lived but very successful WordPress plugins I used to build and sell. A few days' work could t…

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Re: How much money are you earning from your software products?

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I make around 2-3000$ from my TSR product suite : http://www.tsr-soft.com

Started 3 years ago, have one part time employee working on these besides me. I only work part time one them too.

I have dialed up the revenue after I attended a conference resently by turning more 'pro'

Re: How much money are you earning from your software products?

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Improvely ( https://www.improvely.com ) passed $10k/mo RR not too long ago and is about a year old. I run several other SaaS sites with a couple thousand a month in revenue each. It's enough that I never regret turning down the standing job offers I had at the end of college 3 years ago. Nothing really compared to the short-lived but very successful WordPress plugins I used to build and sell. A few days' work could t…

Improvely looks amazing. No wonder it's pulling $10K MRR. I'm curious - how many people are on the team?

Re: How much money are you earning from your software products?

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I'm losing about $200 a month so far on https://blankpage.io , the subscription model took longer than calculated to implement.

Visiting in chrome and firefox yields me an issue with your certificate and a large warning about how your site is potentially unsafe. That may be an issue with your certificate.

It also may be a reason for poor returns if this has been going on for a long term.

Re: How much money are you earning from your software products?

#88

Symphony makes $2500/month ( http://www.symphonytools.com ). Launched 4 months ago. Back in December, my co-founder and I spent 3 weeks brainstorming and wrote 25 business plans for 25 ideas. And then chose this one. Started building it in January. It's written in Python. Hosting costs about $700/month on Google App Engine. It doesn't cover our costs yet, but it's growing. Hardest challenge so far has been to find wa…

Could you easily move out of GAE? I made a site on that platform a couple years ago for fun, and would get anxious every time I'd get an email from them with terms of service or API changes.

Re: How much money are you earning from your software products?

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Scanii.com (https://scanii.com) practical API for malware/virus detection. Low thousands/month and growing quickly, profitable from the beginning and we effectively spend $0 in marketing. Honestly, there hasn't been an easier time to do a startup or side project - I know that's cliché but it isn't. If you know how to consume cloud services you can keep your operating costs amazingly low.

Re: How much money are you earning from your software products?

#90

Symphony makes $2500/month ( http://www.symphonytools.com ). Launched 4 months ago. Back in December, my co-founder and I spent 3 weeks brainstorming and wrote 25 business plans for 25 ideas. And then chose this one. Started building it in January. It's written in Python. Hosting costs about $700/month on Google App Engine. It doesn't cover our costs yet, but it's growing. Hardest challenge so far has been to find wa…

Could you easily move out of GAE? I made a site on that platform a couple years ago for fun, and would get anxious every time I'd get an email from them with terms of service or API changes.

Not too easy, but not as hard as people expect either. The App Engine SDK is open sourced. This is the layer that connects your code to Google's infrastructure. There are a couple of projects that have taken that SDK and modified it to connect to MySQL, MongoDB, memcached, and so on. They allow you to run your GAE app on your own server, without changing your code. I tried typhoonAE a while ago and managed to get my app running on another server with about a day of work.
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