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What is the main source of revenue for Indie Hackers? Congrats on hitting 1k/month.

by stockkid 10y ago

csallen 10y ago
Sponsorships account for 97% of my revenue right now. I send out a weekly newsletter, and in the first couple weeks I asked if anyone was interested in sponsoring the site. At least 4 or 5 companies have reached out to me since then. I've also dabbled in Amazon affiliate links, but those don't seem to be quite worth it yet.
- stockkid 10y ago
  I am going down a similar route with my project RemoteBase. But I am realizing that my scalability is limited because I can have only so many sponsors on the site. If there are too many sponsors at the same time, they start to lose value. I think it might be worthwhile to diversify the revenue source from sponsorships in my case, and perhaps yours too.
  - csallen 10y ago
    Right, I've been concerned about the same thing. I can make roughly $1k/mo from every extra 100k pageviews/mo, and I have a lot of room for traffic growth, so I'm focusing on that right now. But eventually I'll hit a ceiling beyond which it's hard to grow traffic, and I'll have to find out what to do from there. Hopefully that won't be before I can pay my rent etc from the revenue! I'm going to be writing about all my decision-making in a lot more detail on the blog pretty soon (https://IndieHackers.com/blog https://IndieHackers.com/blog). Indie Hackers is all about transparency, after all. RemoteBase is cool, btw! I'd love to feature you on Indie Hackers this week if you're interested.
- vsax 10y ago
  How do you evaluate what to charge the sponsors? My site http://thelogo.site http://thelogo.site showed up on the front page of HN and then ever since traffic has been growing. I have been just making money off of leads through the site asking for custom logos(on average about $2000 per month). But some people have enquired about sponsorship.

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What is the main source of revenue for Indie Hackers? Congrats on hitting 1k/month.

by stockkid 10y ago

What is the main source of revenue for Indie Hackers? Congrats on hitting 1k/month.

csallen 10y ago
Sponsorships account for 97% of my revenue right now. I send out a weekly newsletter, and in the first couple weeks I asked if anyone was interested in sponsoring the site. At least 4 or 5 companies have reached out to me since then. I've also dabbled in Amazon affiliate links, but those don't seem to be quite worth it yet.
- stockkid 10y ago
  I am going down a similar route with my project RemoteBase. But I am realizing that my scalability is limited because I can have only so many sponsors on the site. If there are too many sponsors at the same time, they start to lose value. I think it might be worthwhile to diversify the revenue source from sponsorships in my case, and perhaps yours too.
  - csallen 10y ago
    Right, I've been concerned about the same thing. I can make roughly $1k/mo from every extra 100k pageviews/mo, and I have a lot of room for traffic growth, so I'm focusing on that right now. But eventually I'll hit a ceiling beyond which it's hard to grow traffic, and I'll have to find out what to do from there. Hopefully that won't be before I can pay my rent etc from the revenue! I'm going to be writing about all my decision-making in a lot more detail on the blog pretty soon (https://IndieHackers.com/blog https://IndieHackers.com/blog). Indie Hackers is all about transparency, after all. RemoteBase is cool, btw! I'd love to feature you on Indie Hackers this week if you're interested.
- vsax 10y ago
  How do you evaluate what to charge the sponsors? My site http://thelogo.site http://thelogo.site showed up on the front page of HN and then ever since traffic has been growing. I have been just making money off of leads through the site asking for custom logos(on average about $2000 per month). But some people have enquired about sponsorship.