Out of curiosity, how do you have 350k users for AnExplorer and only earn $50k/yr if it's selling for $10/copy?
(I'm just wondering if there are some unseen costs or something to selling an app for a fixed cost like this.)
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#92How do you make most of your money on visalist? Is it affiliates or ads? I have a solitaire website myself (https://online-solitaire.com/) that has ads, but I haven’t tried out affiliate links yet.
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#93Can you please share how do you setup your web application for example your visalist site .
i mean how do you handle the scale and how did you setup the hosting
thanks
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#94How many people are there in your team to manage 3 projects? Are you solo? Can you share how you allocate for the projects?
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#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
3 possibilities I can think of: - automatically scrapping websites - paying someone to do the work manually - who knows, there might be a database that someone else maintains, free or paid, and the website just displays the information Or a mix of all that.
Or the information isn't up-to-date ... This is the kind of thing you always should check on an embassy or other government page.
Finally, the visitors will go to the official site to verify the visa requirements. When the covid is around, the visa requirements are changed by the gov frequently
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#97There has been a few posts recently on HN where people tell us about their success with side projects/small products that actually make them a decent living. It's inspiring to say the least. What's most attractive to me is the claim that the creators now spend little to no time on maintaining or fixing the products, and it just sits there and makes money. Is this actually a realistic representation? If I just think a…
I made a fortune off two web sites that sat there and basically did their thing. I essentially did about an hour's work a week for 5 years and took home about $150,000 a year. The first was a mortgage web site. I bought a domain for $6000 that matched a top mortgage search term. The front page of the site scraped the latest mortgage rates, and the rest of the site was well-written mortgage advice written by me and Fi…
Is it getting harder these days to come up with new similar ideas, maybe due to legal pressures?
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#98There has been a few posts recently on HN where people tell us about their success with side projects/small products that actually make them a decent living. It's inspiring to say the least. What's most attractive to me is the claim that the creators now spend little to no time on maintaining or fixing the products, and it just sits there and makes money. Is this actually a realistic representation? If I just think a…
I made a fortune off two web sites that sat there and basically did their thing. I essentially did about an hour's work a week for 5 years and took home about $150,000 a year. The first was a mortgage web site. I bought a domain for $6000 that matched a top mortgage search term. The front page of the site scraped the latest mortgage rates, and the rest of the site was well-written mortgage advice written by me and Fi…
> The other site was a private TV torrent tracker that closed in 2013 due to legal pressures. Barely touched the code in 7 years. It made a total of over $13m.
I was under the impression that most private trackers run without a profit, at least the reputable ones. Are you telling me PTP/BTN/HDB sysops are loaded?
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#99I miss the days when visalist wasn't full of hostile anti-patterns.
Back in 2019, it was easy to recommend to fellow travelers as an accurate source of information. Not so much, now.
I'm sad to see that it funnels users away from official government sites. eg, a US citizen traveling to India is eligible for a cheap e-Visa which generally issues in ~72 hours here:
https://indianvisaonline.gov.in/evisa/tvoa.html
The big green "APPLY FOR VISA" button on visalist sends traffic to iVisa.com, which is much less useful.
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
I made a fortune off two web sites that sat there and basically did their thing. I essentially did about an hour's work a week for 5 years and took home about $150,000 a year. The first was a mortgage web site. I bought a domain for $6000 that matched a top mortgage search term. The front page of the site scraped the latest mortgage rates, and the rest of the site was well-written mortgage advice written by me and Fi…
Is it getting harder these days to come up with new similar ideas, maybe due to legal pressures?
Mostly due to intense competition… from people inspired by post like this and information marketing courses.
That said, there is always opportunity for someone with a bit of drive and some specific domain knowledge.