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Re: Ask HN: Are you working on any side projects that make "small/passive" income?

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Post by biot »

rorrr wrote: post #23
SeoxyS wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know about you, but I don't think $25/mo is worth cheapening my blog by plastering tasteless ads on it. I'd have to be pulling significant income from it before I would even consider putting ads on my blog.

That's $300/year. Why would you throw it away?

This was on HN recently: http://www.sebastianmarshall.com/we-dont-get-out-of-bed-for-...

TL;DR: the cost of that extra 82 cents a day is having your site cheapened by advertising that you don't necessarily control and that negatively impacts your credibility. If the spare change isn't going to make a big difference, the perception that you don't need the money is of more value.

Re: Ask HN: Are you working on any side projects that make "small/passive" income?

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Post by user24 »

I run a few wallpaper sites which make profit on the domain registration fee (eg http://geekwallpapers.com ) and also the adverts on my blog make me some pocket money :)

The blog I've been growing for six years, the wallpaper sites are pretty much instantly profitable for me. But we are talking about £40 per year. So like I said, profit on the domain name, probably not profitable when you take into account time spent developing them.

Re: Ask HN: Are you working on any side projects that make "small/passive" income?

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Post by bigbang »

lachyg wrote: post #35

I started a company this January based of a product I saw in a book that I knew would become incredibly popular. It brought it in quite substantial income for the following 2 months, and I sold it in the third :-). I do this quite often!

Cool. Could you give more details? Not about the particular site(though that helps), but how do you sell sites often? Do you sell it in places like flippa?

Re: Ask HN: Are you working on any side projects that make "small/passive" income?

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Post by misio »

intended wrote: post #52
systemtrigger wrote: post #2

Yes.

Why was this down-voted? a request was made for people with successful/profitable passive income sources to chime in. I believe the author responded to that.

Agreed, the conversation further up even specifically requests people who have done it, but don't want to give their idea away.

Re: Ask HN: Are you working on any side projects that make "small/passive" income?

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Post by JoachimSchipper »

VladRussian wrote: post #86
JoachimSchipper wrote: post #59

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Are your customers spammers? I'm having some trouble thinking of a legitimate use for this service...

it may be the sites themselves doing "pentest" on their own captchas

Charging by the captcha doesn't make much sense if that's what they are doing, though...

Re: Ask HN: Are you working on any side projects that make "small/passive" income?

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Post by consultutah »

perlgeek wrote: post #80
allenbrunson wrote: post #53

i wrote an iOS card game that makes me about 300 bucks a month. i do almost no maintenance on it anymore. it would probably do a whole lot better if it had any kind of marketing behind it, but it's not really in my nature.

> it would probably do a whole lot better if it had any kind of marketing behind it, but it's not really in my nature. I've read quite some remarks like that here and in other places, and I've said it about some pages of mine too. Maybe it would be a good idea to build a marketplace where developers and marketing people can get together, and share the additional profit that the additional marketing generates. If anyb…

Yes please! This is something that I've wanted for a lo g. Long time.

Re: Ask HN: Are you working on any side projects that make "small/passive" income?

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Post by lachyg »

bigbang wrote: post #94
lachyg wrote: post #35

I started a company this January based of a product I saw in a book that I knew would become incredibly popular. It brought it in quite substantial income for the following 2 months, and I sold it in the third :-). I do this quite often!

Cool. Could you give more details? Not about the particular site(though that helps), but how do you sell sites often? Do you sell it in places like flippa?

I find Flippa and similar sites to be much too much hassle. I just work my network and ask if anyone would be interested / if they would know anyone that might e interested. Theres usually a match :)

Re: Ask HN: Are you working on any side projects that make "small/passive" income?

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Post by nhebb »

danssig wrote: post #61
famousactress wrote: post #18

Not typical HN fare, but the wife and I started a business together that has (almost) nothing to do with the interwebs. It's a photography business.. We started it about 3+ years ago, and in most senses it's done quite well. She's been able to quit her day-job. It's what HN folks would call a 'lifestyle' business, I guess. You know, cause we're not rich . I have to say, it's pretty rad. Software startups don't have a…

I'd like to hear more about this. I've been thinking of getting more into photography myself. It seems like wedding photography is a bad idea as it's way overdone. I was thinking architecture or portrait photography. What did you all end up doing?

I think an avatar photo business would be a good idea. Think of all the twitter users with resized photos of themselves that are unflattering, cryptic, or just plain bad.

Re: Ask HN: Are you working on any side projects that make "small/passive" income?

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Post by taphangum »

wiradikusuma wrote: post #76
taphangum wrote: post #68

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What's your email address?

if you don't mind, can you drop your email in http://www.lelanggokil.com/do/feedback it'll be automatically forwarded to me. please ignore the language (it's Bahasa). my website is i18n ready, but i'm just too lazy to make English version (only less than 20% Indonesians speak English).

OK. Sent it. :)
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