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Ask HN: Anybody supported themselves through blog earnings?
I was wondering if mythical live-on-blog-earning thing really exists except for really famous bloggers... anybody here earned enough from blogs at any point in time to support themselves financially?
- hockeybias 16y agoI've been going at it only one year with http://hockeybias.com http://hockeybias.com and am not even close at this point.
- saundby 16y agoNot I. But then, those famous bloggers are famous for managing to do so, in part, right? I think part of the idea is that you also earn money off of products that result from the blog, as well as the blog itself. If your articles roll nicely into books that can sell, for example. Or sell t-shirts. Or if you have a webcomic with characters you can sell as plushies. All the little things add up to a living when you use the blog properly. If that's what you want to do, those really famous bloggers are worth looking into, at least the ones who earned their fame as bloggers, but the ones who earned fame then became bloggers will have to do the right things, too, to make blogging pay off enough to keep doing that, as opposed to earning money off their fame in some other way.
- petercooper 16y agoYep. For two years or so, my /personal/ blog was bringing in 2-5k a month on Adsense, with one month even almost hitting 10k. Now? A couple hundred bucks at best. Entirely luck. Now, my programming blog makes enough through advertising and job listings to support me and my family, though I do have other revenue streams.
- jws 16y agoIn two years of AdSense on my blog I have accumulated $5.04. At this rate, some time in 2030 or so Google will cut me a $50 check. I suspect I am near the median.