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What was your best passive income in 2017?
What is your best source of 'passive' or recurring income?
- joebaf 9y ago2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13150144 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13150144 2015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10879529 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10879529 2014 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8201392 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8201392
- fiftyacorn 9y agoim guessing its going to be bitcoin this year
- Random_Person 9y agoMy YouTube back-catalog nets me $2-5k each year. One video in particular has repeatedly paid for my children's Chirstmas presents as it tends to "go hot" around this time of year.
- randomdata 9y agoHow many videos are found is said catalog?
- Random_Person 9y agoBetween 400 and 500. That number is super-misleading though. I only have 3 or 4 videos that have earned me any countable money. I have a "dear diary" type series that I do every weekday. I have uploaded 433 episodes on that series and it generates nearly no views. It's not the type of content people look for on YouTube.
- antjanus 9y agowhat's your channel?
- arjunrc 9y agoIt’s in his profile. https://youtube.com/cheveedodd https://youtube.com/cheveedodd
- cholantesh 9y agoThat makes me all the more eager to see it. I would like to do this but I'm not the biggest fan of having a discernible social media presence. Bisquit is similar I guess, in that he picks super obscure topics that interest him and vlogs about it. Lots of programming, but also a ton of esoteric Christianity, folk dancing, etc. Interesting guy.
- kjullien 9y agocrypto
- kjullien 9y agojust invest what you can in the top 10. cash out only what you need when you need it and simply watch the rest rise over time to heights most mortals would never dream of.
- SirLJ 9y agoStock market trading robots, being doing it for years and earning more than my "real job" - systems/security team lead in big telco... still have time till the end of the year, but so far this looks like to be my first triple digits return year, (which I don't expect to repeat anytime soon, but still it is a quite an achievement in my book...)
- ariejan 9y agoWhat kind of software/tools are you using? I'm curious to get into this as well.
- SirLJ 9y agofew VPS scattered around the world, python and the API from your stock broker... initial setup very cheap + a lot of time to develop and test...
- 1024core 9y agoWhy do you need VPS scattered around the world? And which broker do you use?
- SirLJ 9y agoEverything is automated and redundant... to start you can do it on your own laptop... I'll keep my broker secret for security reasons, but you can take a look at Interactive Brokers, their API looks pretty good... https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=5041 https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=5041
- 1024core 9y agoI'm just curious about which brokers offer APIs. I've thought about automating some stuff, but never seriously enough to explore brokers.
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- Hoasi 9y agoa bunch of InDesign templates
- aparadja 9y agoMy native Mac app, sold outside the App Store: https://radiosilenceapp.com https://radiosilenceapp.com I was really afraid that Apple’s new policy on making kernel extensions harder to install would cut into the profits, but sales have actually gone up since. Perhaps other firewalls are even harder to get up and running.
- codesternews 9y agoReally great!! Are you working in some company or just living happy life from your side projects and games.
- aparadja 9y agoI was happily unemployed for a while, living off the app income for about 15 months. However, I just joined an AI startup two months ago, not out of necessity, but because I found their idea super interesting and had the chance. (Also, the marginal value for a day off wasn't that high anymore.)
- codesternews 9y agoMay We know how you get the idea of this app? Was you aware of Little Snitch at the time of making and how you thought about to overcome the competition etc and what was in your mind while creating this? I some time feel scare of competition. I am happy customer of Radio Silence :)
- aparadja 9y agoLittle Snitch was actually the inspiration to build Radio Silence, but in a what-not-to-do kind of way. I had just bought my first Mac, and was really impressed with how easy everything was. It really was a joy to use. Little Snitch instantly turned it into an obnoxious, interrupting mess where almost every app was broken by default. I'm sure Little Snitch is the right app for many people, but not for me. I basically learned Objective-C just to build an alternative for myself. That turned into Radio Silence.
- maxencecornet 9y agoMy cryptocurrency information website is finally taking off the ground, after months of netting $30-40/month, it's going to reach 500$ this month. Weirdly enough,I'm not even adding content right now, as I am working on a freelance project
- anonyx69 9y agoWhat's your site? Would love to take a look.
- galfarragem 9y ago$1k/y. Mostly from a direct ad on my niche blogs (invisible to adblocks) and the rest from Amazon affiliates. Adsense is almost dead, I'm just waiting to reach the money threshold to close my account. Blogs are not exactly passive but I would do this research anyway.
- deegles 9y agoI built an Alexa skill that makes about $4k/mo. I'm adding more functionality this month and applying for access to further monetization. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B017OBJI46 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B017OBJI46
- metahost 9y agoCurious, how do you monetize?
- candiodari 9y agoI'm guessing it'll be this: https://developer.amazon.com/alexa-skills-kit/rewards https://developer.amazon.com/alexa-skills-kit/rewards
- marcandre 9y agoIIC, Amazon pays for skills with sufficient engagement: https://developer.amazon.com/alexa-skills-kit/rewards https://developer.amazon.com/alexa-skills-kit/rewards
- thisisit 9y agoWow. This is amazing! Skills look so difficult to monetize. Couple of apps I checked seem to interject ads between the skills.
- vidyesh 9y ago
- synicalx 9y agoA whole bunch of tongue-in-cheek "Is $xyz down?" type sites. Simple footer ad, maybe an affiliate link or two for a competitor and also my web hosting provider, some sort of social media affiliation like a pre-canned tweet with a complaint in it - they all pay for their domain name and hosting, some turn $100+ monthly in ad and affiliate revenue as well. I'd estimate about $450ish on a good month, but it has taken a while to get to this point. I've stopped actively promoting any of them now, but the most profitable ones I'd probably invested 30-40 hours each in promoting.
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- nztomas 9y ago$2k a year, book price comparison search http://www.librarist.com/ http://www.librarist.com/ - don't have much time lately so sales are declining, I'm using it as a proof-of-concept + new technologies playground ti skill myself up... would love to take longer holiday and fix/enhance the site...
- mohitmun 9y agoHackathons. Won 8 hackathons. made around $14607(900000 INR)
- RepressedEmu 9y agoDo you have any strategies for winning hackathons?
- mohitmun 9y agoI just keep following things in mind while building product. avoiding mainstream ideas working demo/prototype creativity feasibility and viability Making sure it adds value to what organizers wants