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Ask YC: passive income?
I'd really like to hear how any hackers have developed a stream of passive income. Things like ads on your blog, open source libraries/apps (donations?), maybe even a side project that users pay for.
I'm getting ready to release a self-hosted web application for free (open source!) and was hoping I could pull off some passive income from either ads or donations (I'd be happy if it'd pay my VPS bills).
- ubudesign 19y agoif you have the project hosted on sourceforge you could ask for donations. also you could charge a fee for installing setup of your open source app. so sell that as a support package. lots of companies would rather pay for a license and get support even for open source. google ad used to pay well but now I don't think it would be worth it.
- pchristensen 19y agonerds/geeks/hackers don't click on ads.
- ubudesign 19y agounless its about nerds/geeks/hackers :)