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Ask HN: What is your passive income 2020?
Any side projects, Game, OSS, Hacks.
- fwip 6y agoNone. My side projects are free.
- person_of_color 6y agoYou are playing yourself
- AlchemistCamp 6y agoI've continued running my Elixir screencast business, and added on a 2nd product, which is a starter template for apps built with the Phoenix Framework. Neither is 100% passive. The screen casting business means continuing to make a few new tutorials per month and making occasional improvements to its site. It sure pays a lot more per hour of my time than it did 18 months ago, though! The starter kit is still in alpha, so there's a considerable amount of work to do. I'll be raising the price as it hits various milestones, though. Once it's "done", it will be mostly passive other than updating libraries. Elixir is a rough market since it's very niche but still has a surprising number of authors, conferences and screen casters in its ecosystem who are also creating educational materials. My MRR is fairly low, but it's just enough to cover my expenses living in Taiwan. When I have the bandwidth, I'll launch another product which will be still more passive and it won't be limited to only Elixir devs. After that, the plan is to spend some money on outsourcing the editing of my videos and some routine social media tasks. 1) https://alchemist.camp https://alchemist.camp 2) https://phoenixigniter.com https://phoenixigniter.com
- desireco42 6y agoI like AlchemistCamp. Hey I should've thought of your PhoenixIgniter, I kind of developed and still working on project just for me that solves same issue, I call it Phundation. I guess you are not selling it just yet anyway. Anyhow, since I have multiple projects, going through the setup is hassle and I created started project essentially.
- AlchemistCamp 6y agoThanks! I appreciate the kind words. About two dozen people have bought it so far and will get the updates as I build it out. I also gave access for free (at least up through the beta version) to all the people who bought annual Alchemist Camp memberships at the end of last year. That said, if you've watched all my tutorials there will be nothing new in it except the front-end components that still aren't done.
- tmaly 6y agowhere was the pricing, I did not see a link on the sites.
- AlchemistCamp 6y agoThe screencast site is $21/month or $210/year (listed at the bottom of the /start page). I don't put it front and center since my first goal is to get people to check out the free content, which is most of it. Eventually learners will usually try clicking on a premium episode, which is where the paywall shows up. The reason I do it this way is so that people will know exactly what they're getting when they sign up. Also, even getting people learning from the 100+ free screencasts is a plus for me. The other product is in alpha and the pricing is going up as I hit various milestones. It will probably max out around $250.
- seanwilson 6y agoI run https://www.checkbot.io/ https://www.checkbot.io/ myself while doing consulting. It's a Chrome extension that checks multiple pages at a time for common SEO, speed and security issues. I started working on it initially to automate checks I was often doing manually while developing websites for others. Developers I worked with found it useful so I spun it out into its own product. I wrote the online guide on the website too that explains all the web best practices Checkbot tests which I'm trying to turn into an ebook as well.
- maximp 6y agoHey, I remember when you launched on Indiehackers! Glad to see you're still going, and hopefully growing?
- seanwilson 6y agoThanks! It's growing and getting high reviews but it's true about how indie hackers needs to focus more on marketing than features.
- frompdx 6y agoWell, I recently received a payout of $11.99 for products sold via Amazon affiliate links. It nearly covers my domain registration fees.
- tjchear 6y agoI made a web app that turns Google sheets into beautiful web pages in 3 easy steps. https://sheetUI.com https://sheetUI.com it's still lacking in many ways, but I'm working on a V2 with paid features that'll be launched soon.
- 247yak 6y agoWe selling private equity financial models online at https://privateequitymodels.com https://privateequitymodels.com Expanding to full acquisition toolkit / training with established entrepreneurs.
- bobobob420 6y agoLooks super cool. If you want some help or anything software related HMU
- cowllin 6y agoWas passive earlier in 2020 but am now full time on watercoolertrivia.com — not taking a salary yet though. It’s weekly trivia quizzes via Slack or email for work teams to build connection!
- Jpoliachik 6y agoI love this
- cowllin 6y agoThanks! Happy to answer any questions or give you "the pitch" if you'd like :)
- tachibana 6y agoI am a serious practitioner of the FIRE (Financially Independent, Retire Early) philosophy. Over the years, I have accumulated assets in a very conservative portfolio. This portfolio has reached a point where it has consistently generated over 150% of my base salary for more than 5 years.
- pmiller2 6y agoSounds like you are already FI. Have you RE yet? Do you intend to?
- nunodonato 6y agodo you mean monthly? that's impressive. care to share any tips?
- three_legs 6y agoThat sounds like really great returns. Where did you start?
- sandeshbhusal 6y agoTell us more please. :P
- tachibana 6y agoYou give me too much credit -- it's a really boring approach. My portfolio used to be about 50/50 in fixed income securities and real estate. I got lucky with the real estate, and I got out because I didn't think my luck would last forever. Now my portfolio is made up entirely of fixed income securities and blue-chip stocks that pay dividends. The dividends and interest payments are laddered such that I recieve at least 2 payments a month. I didn't choose securities based on payout dates, so the amount does fluctuate from month-to-month. However, the portfolio generates enough monthly income that the "leanest" month is greater than my paycheck's monthly gross income. Being a software engineer myself, I don't qualify for the Roth accounts so most of my investments are done in a standard taxable account. I don't buy any particular funds -- just a variety of boring bonds and stocks. I did try the RE (retire early) part a while back. It lasted about 6 months before I got too bored out of my mind. I still continue to work because of the mental stimulation and the social connections.
- derwiki 6y agoI have a side project [1] that I haven't monetized, but some folks like it enough that they Paypal me for additional credits [1] http://www.postcardmailer.us http://www.postcardmailer.us
- surround 6y agoYou need to require HTTPS for all requests on your website, and redirect all HTTP requests to HTTPS in order to protect users’ personal information and passwords.
- derwiki 6y agoTotally. This was a scrappy mvp. I’ve got a “redesign” in the works that’s react/go based instead of RoR and that’s all HTTPS.
- testcase_delta 6y agoInvent or license things and sell them on Amazon. It's amazingly passive after the first production run. I just re-order and re-supply Amazon occasionally.
- miguendes 6y agoOut of curiosity what kind of things? Do you have any example?
- testcase_delta 6y agoSo far I have focused on consumer goods for parents.
- cardamomo 6y agoThis just launched, but I imagine I'm soon to be rich in other people's screams. https://justscream.baby https://justscream.baby
- jnorthrop 6y agoBrilliant! I hope it does make you rich. It certainly made me laugh.
- cardamomo 6y agoThanks! My goal right now is just to keep it humming along and polish it off
- hinkley 6y agoHave you watched Letterkenny by any chance?
- worldmerge 6y agoI love it! This is great!
- merqurio 6y agoI love the idea of providing a platform to share rage/frustration or whatever in such a raw mode, without the destructive/negative comments. Just pure emotions.
- 1-more 6y agoRiding a nice bike is an exercise in something that costs $20-$40 always needing fixing every so often. So I do Uber Eats when I ride every so often to offset that. Almost time for new rims though. It's not passive exactly, but it's getting paid to do something that's 80% the same as what I was going to do anyways. My onlyfans makes way less so far, but hope springs eternal.
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- desireco42 6y agoI am curious what content on onlyfans you are posting? I thought it is good platform for offering additional access to expertise.
- 1-more 6y agoNaked pics/videos and functional programming tutorials.
- desireco42 6y agoI know about first, but second is what I think would be interesting.
- 1-more 6y agoI'm definitely not the best at it. I'm in the middle of job applications right now so I'm not going to push all my chips in on marketing myself in case a hiring manager finds it distasteful. And it's almost certainly not the best way to get FP content: there are definitely monetized youtube channels that have a lower barrier to entry for viewers. And of course there are pornographers producing more and better content. But I'm having fun. Kinda at a weird midlife crisis point so I might as well take my shot right?
- desireco42 6y ago
- pmiller2 6y agoJust my modest investment portfolio, and credit card rewards (not technically income, per se, but it's money the card companies give me just for being cool and using their cards, so I'm counting it). I'm looking around for some slightly less passive ways of making a modest income that don't turn the slider all the way to "start and run a business."
- tamiral 6y agoare you just buying things with the cc and reselling just to keep the points ??
- modzu 6y agoi made a virtual golf caddy so i could play with some friends despite having no idea what i was doing. it worked! https://stanthecaddy.app https://stanthecaddy.app
- nurgasemetey 6y agoI loved app
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- gangstertim 6y agoI co-run http://vsual.co http://vsual.co . We make five figures of monthly revenue, and generally my partner and I work 8:30-10 AM before our "regular" jobs. We're growing at a moderate pace—for now this is passive(ish) income, but one day we may dive all in.
- falco925 6y agoThis is a really cool site. Will buy some art from here! Congrats man
- gangstertim 6y agoThanks for the kind words! We'd love if you bought some art from us :) Our artists would too!
- ackbar03 6y agoThat's awesome! I saw on your original submission on showhn for vsual that you were trying to figure out the marketing. How have you done since then and what worked for you? Five figures is quite impressive
- gangstertim 6y agoThe short answer is no, we don't have it 100% figured out yet. But we have learned a few things: - The cost per sale of paid marketing targeting CUSTOMERS is just a little too high to be sustainable right now. Part of that, I think, is because the searching/tagging/categorization of VSUAL isn't great. We can create an ad with interesting art that causes a clickthrough, but if that piece isn't quite compelling enough to sell, we don't do a good job showing similar pieces. We're working on improved tagging and categorization right now to make finding curated, related artworks easier. - Many of our best selling artists do quite well attracting their own traffic to their store. They already have IG/FB followings significantly greater than our own. So, we're investing in tools to help those artists with marketing (such as markup generators) and to help tools specifically for artists with distribution. For example, those artists who already have distribution want to link people to their shop, not to an entire platform. We're working on building whitelabeled shop pages without the platform nav bar for those partners in particular. - Finally, I believe that with the amount of UGC on the site, we're currently not taking full advantage of the power of SEO. Creating landing pages specific to art styles and techniques is high on my to-do list after our upcoming tagging improvements are launched. I'm hopeful that moderate SEO improvements can drive our traffic up significantly.
- jbuss 6y agoI co-run a blog[0] that gets a few hundred hits a day. We sell a handful of products per week at $40 a piece. [0] https://www.chessgoals.com https://www.chessgoals.com
- ydnaclementine 6y agoGood content, really enjoy your study plans + book recommendations based on rating
- jbuss 6y agoThanks! If you (or anyone else reading) want a study plan for free, fill this out out https://chessgoals.com/contact-us/ https://chessgoals.com/contact-us/, mention HN, and we'll send you whichever one you want.
- tsumnia 6y agoI make about $0.05-$1.25 a day from my YouTube channel. All my old lectures from various CS courses are hosted there. I'm not sure if the algorithm's changed or if some of the videos have gotten traction for Berkeley's CS50, but I'm now one of the top results for "cs50 credit" and "luhn algorithm".
- jgotti92 6y agoI am running na online art gallery specializing in AI art. Recently, instead of just printing the art on canvas I started using even real robots to paint it down [1]. Still it is only a small passive income but looking forward to make it really big as I believe this thing is a historic moment in time where art and tech started to converge into one. 1) https://art-supreme.com/ai-art-with-robotic-arm/ https://art-supreme.com/ai-art-with-robotic-arm/
- ackbar03 6y agoThis is pretty cool, How much sales do you usually get? You have any marketing channels?
- jgotti92 6y agoWell, the space ai art space is getting pretty competitive. I have seen many people starting and then quitting these kind of projects because they approached it purely from the money side. I make only few sales every couple of months and so far it is mostly coming from social media (@ai_art_supreme on Instagram) or word of mouth channels. I am targeting high end of the market so that is fine by me and also ready to play this for the long term as I wholeheartedly believe this is an monumental moment in art history. These kind of artworks are going to be worth a ton of money in 20-30 years when we get super AI.
- ackbar03 6y agothanks for sharing!
- GusRuss89 6y agoI'm in the same space as the founder of NightCafe Creator [1]. It's been running at a (substantial) loss for the last year until September which was my first break even month. I'm hoping to turn it around and have made great strides so far. The biggest expense (95%) is GPU compute time. It runs on Algorithmia which was super convenient to get up and running with, but is now very expensive. Switching compute providers is a big opportunity. Unfortunately I suck at devops. 1. https://creator.nightcafe.studio https://creator.nightcafe.studio
- falco925 6y agoI built a webapp with hundreds of SQL and python questions to help aspiring data scientists practice for their interviews. It's not really passive because it was a massive undertaking to write the questions/solutions and create the app. Now I got to market it by creating video solutions and posting it on Youtube. But I created it to help with my other side job which is teaching data science in the evenings at a university. https://platform.stratascratch.com https://platform.stratascratch.com
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- sideproject 6y agoDid many side projects over the years, never having monetized any of them, so monetizing was indeed my goal in 2020. I monetized 2 of my projects. First one was Newsy (https://www.newsy.co https://www.newsy.co) - which allows people to turn their un-used domains into something useful - a tool I built for myself first and slowly let others in. It's been a little slow since I'm not doing much marketing, but getting the first ~10 customers was an awesome experience. Second was my long-term project - SideProjectors (https://www.sideprojectors.com https://www.sideprojectors.com) - a market place for selling & buying side projects - monetized with some standard elements - ads, pro membership, sponsors - all of them turned out to be great way of getting some side income.
- merqurio 6y agoI really like the idea of a Marketplace for side projects. I have had a couple of side projects myself and sometimes they died because of the lack time or resources even if they had some traction.
- dheera 6y agoI created this online graphing tool in 2007 and haven't updated it in years: http://fooplot.com/ http://fooplot.com/ It's still generating a small amount of ad revenue every month. It used to generate 5-10X what it does now before the days of mobile apps. Back then it was a very meaningful addition to my grad student salary. I had 250K MAU at one point, many of which seemed to be coming from middle and high schools in lower income places that had common computers but presumably not graphing calculators for every student. It's SORELY out of date with current web tech. Problem is it's not generating enough ad revenue for me to want to go and rewrite it (over working on all my other side projects), and it's not generating little enough for me to want to shut it down -- it's still profitable even if it's just a little.
- jmnicolas 6y agoWhy would you rewrite it? Unless its stack isn't supported anymore just make it work with the latest update so that it has no known security hole. Perfect is the enemy of good.
- dheera 6y agoA couple of potential reasons to rewrite it: - The site is NOT mobile friendly (it wasn't a consideration in 2007), and the specific segment of the population that appeared to be the majority of users (people who had access to computers but didn't own graphing calculators) now have phones and look to their phones for graphing calculator functionality - There are competitors with better UIs (http://desmos.com/ http://desmos.com/) that sprung up later and seemed to have sweeped up a bunch of users from mine. Mine was, to my knowledge, the first web-based graphing calculator that you could click and drag the graph around with the mouse, and zoom with the scroll wheel. - There are lots of new features in web browsers that could make it faster, snappier, and also support 3D graphing, which was a popular feature request - I could base it off React and also release both mobile apps as well as a webapp, since people today seem to prefer native apps to webapps - It looks outdated compared to modern graphing apps available for iOS and Android That said, no motivation to do the above unless I had a guaranteed payout. Making graphing calculators isn't what I want to be spending my time on now considering the site is <1% of my income now. Back when I was a grad student, back when it had a lot more users, it was >30% of my total income. If someone gave me 30% of my income now to modernize its UI, I'd do it.
- galkk 6y ago$0 except mutual funds returns
- mbielski 6y agoI have a rental house that does not cover the mortgage on it. Real estate investing is where I am focusing, but I also have two software projects that I am working on in addition to my regular job. Not a lot gets done on either one these days.
- newswasboring 6y agoIf I think really hard about it, only the few dollars I get for using Brave which I give away anyways.
- doctoboggan 6y agoI launched a website where my customers can designs rings for 3D printing in gold or silver: https://lulimjewelry.com https://lulimjewelry.com Once I get my drop shipping and white labeling agreement with the 3D printing company it will be much more passive, since now I am receiving and shipping all the rings.
- person_of_color 6y agoWho does the metallic 3d printing?
- doctoboggan 6y agoShapeways
- capnorange 6y agoThis might be controversial for HN but here goes. A couple months back, I got into reading and learning about Ethereum. I never liked it, still don't get the value in blockchains except for Bitcoin. I have a couple of bots/alerts and some manual strategies to execute on opportunities in some of the DeFi apps, mostly arbitrages. All of my strategies only takes in smart contract risks. It's surprising how inefficient the market still is. It has made me around a years worth of my work money.
- twox2 6y agoDo you have any practical DeFI resources you can share around this? I imagine you need to be brave enough to have a fair amount of $$$ tied up in ETH to take advantage of these opportunities as well. Are there not substantial risks with that?
- capnorange 6y ago> Do you have any practical DeFI resources you can share around this? I would suggest reading about the popular Defi apps directly from website, use Twitter. bankless.substack.com is popular among this crowd. > I imagine you need to be brave enough to have a fair amount of $$$ tied up in ETH I only maintain exposure to USDC stable coin most of the time except during executing opportunities which usually completes in a couple of transactions. DeFi also allows for capital less trades, eg: you can borrow $100,000 worth of USDC with no collateral for $90 using flash loans. One strategy is described here - https://blog.instadapp.io/six-percent-instant-return/ https://blog.instadapp.io/six-percent-instant-return/
- twox2 6y agoThanks!
- UncleOxidant 6y agoRental income on a fully paid for house. Pays the mortgage on the house we currently live in.
- notimpotent 6y agoMy Android app, Gamers Database, entered its 3rd year of operation in 2020. It's in maintenance mode, but thanks to automated hourly updates and crowd-sourced data, it stays relevant. ~$120 / month in passive income between adverts and the $3 option to buy the ad-free version. The only real effort is keeping up with Google's constant deprecation of their libraries. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.roobr.retrodb https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.roobr.retr...
- jastr 6y agohttps://PopcornNotify.com https://PopcornNotify.com - API for sending email and text messages. About 3 weeks of work, making a little money. https://CSVExplorer.com https://CSVExplorer.com - Web app for opening big CSV files. Months of work to build, but now just a few hours of support a week. https://TheSimplePostcard.com https://TheSimplePostcard.com - Send Postcards via text message. A few weeks of work, now mostly passive.
- justiceforsaas 6y agoI'd be curious if people here also mentioned HOW their app/SaaS/online tool stays passive. I've been analyzing successful founder interviews for over 2 years now [1] and noticed for 'passive income' projects, usually they either: a) Stay on top of Google for a few keywords b) For mobile apps, they get a good ranking on AppStores c) Are mentioned in some high-authority website as a resource, and that high-authority page ranks for some main keywords on Google Word of mouth is rarely mentioned and that confirms various research studies [2] that the WOM effect is negligible if you're small. [1] https://www.firstpayingusers.com https://www.firstpayingusers.com [2] https://business.linkedin.com/marketing-solutions/b2b-institute/b2b-research/trends/the-loyalty-lie https://business.linkedin.com/marketing-solutions/b2b-instit...
- sourcex 6y agoI profit from arbitrage by buying things for people on Amazon via purse.io. I buy discounted gift cards, and order for others they pay me in bitcoin. Net margin is around avg. 10%. I have fulfilled around $8k, netting me $800 easily. However, there are some risks such as amazon taking away your gift card or locking the account. It isn't for everyone, but can be a good side income occasionally
- moose333 6y agoI built an Alexa app a few years ago for an Amazon-sponsored hackathon. Apparently it has a bit of a user base still, and for some reason Amazon sends me about $50/quarter. I don't know how the app is being monetized, it certainly wasn't something I did. Also, because my app uses API Gateway and Lambda as a backend, Amazon gives me a $100 credit on my AWS account every month to cover the costs. My costs for the app are about $10/month, so the other $90 are used for various other activities.
- dreamworker 6y agoThe second part of your comment made me curious, cause I use AWS Lambda a lot. No extra credits for that... was that a limited time event or regional?
- oneandonly1 6y agoI built a fun little site[1] that "prank" texts your friends cute animals, memes, jokes, and some other stuff! It's not much but at least it's something. [1] https://pranktexting.com/ https://pranktexting.com/
- jeremymcanally 6y agoOpened a truly passive income Etsy shop that's printable cards[0] and another of Christmas ornaments that's largely passive (I just have to run the designs through my laser cutter and package them)[1]. I anticipate that one to ramp up in the coming month (if favorites/views are any indicator). My biggest income maker has actually been the least passive: dollhouse furniture[2]. Even then it's only like a couple hours of work a week, and I cleared four figures my first month open (this past month). Plus, it's really fun to design and build tiny furniture. [0] http://printyay.com http://printyay.com [1] http://treeyoself.com http://treeyoself.com [2] http://rathersmall.com http://rathersmall.com
- person_of_color 6y agoArent laser cutters like 5k? Have you recouped that? Also, did you create the designs
- jeremymcanally 6y agoOh, totally. I have a Glowforge that was about $4k I think, and we're a member of a makerspace that has like a $40k laser cutter we use. But we've easily re-couped that through my stuff, my wife's business doing laser cut/engraved signs, and custom work for folks (e.g., signs for businesses, putting artists' works on ornaments, etc.). And yep I do all the designs using a mixture of Illustrator and Procreate on my iPad. :)
- BigBalli 6y agoAn app to manage your book library https://MyBookList.club https://MyBookList.club Trading bot based on dividends https://BigBalli.com/dividend https://BigBalli.com/dividend
- Jeremy1026 6y ago$0
- irvingprime 6y agoI wrote a primer on speculative poetry. Made $12 last quarter from sales on Amazon. It's going to my retirement fund. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B086Y6MM72 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B086Y6MM72
- syedmeesamali 6y ago30 dollars a month from crypto mining (real on my own pc not some scam or online BS) 1.5 dollars a month watching ads 2 dollars a month surveys 0.5 dollars a month for saving account due to walking Total = 34 dollars
- XCSme 6y agoWith only $30/mo from mining, don't you pay more in electricity and hardware?
- giantg2 6y agoStocks/funds like 401k, IRA, etc. Doesn't earn much but should compound over time. All my software is free. I am trying to publish a children's book. I am also trying to sell a mother's day card idea. So overall, I'm very unsuccessful. Maybe your execution of these ideas might be better.
- soheilpro 6y agohttps://pikaso.me https://pikaso.me
- unshi 6y agoAn iOS app to check the border wait times crossing to the United States from Canada and Mexico, with historical data available. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/borderr/id1469575317 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/borderr/id1469575317 Was a fun exercise to learn SwiftUI
- chad_strategic 6y agohttp://www.strategic-options.com/insight http://www.strategic-options.com/insight makes a little bit of money. and https://www.bestoftheinternets.com/ https://www.bestoftheinternets.com/ send videos and amazon affiliate links to facebook. I have always used both sites as a sandbox to test out new ideas and practice new programming techniques. Oh and my biggest passive income comes from Class Action Lawsuits. What I have learned in the last year or so, is really just focus on what your good at. I wasted so much time silly side projects / unfinished. Figure out what your good and stick with it, in my case it's stocks and algos not connecting to Facebook API to send out silly cat videos. :)
- giomasce 6y agoNot completely passive and not really a side project, but my wife's business is teaching Latin (the language; I mean not the programming language, the language people actually speak; well, some people speak) on the Internet. She has an evergreen funnel which actually converts a few sells per month. I do the programming, hosting and server maintenance for that thing. She creates the actual content. Of course this is not completely passive: she periodically publishes free material to keep attracting people to the funnel. But it's quite rewarding every now and then to have an email saying that some random guy bought the videocourse. The name is Satura Lanx: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJCYCaXUERhY93xEWC8Cojw https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJCYCaXUERhY93xEWC8Cojw
- 303motorman 6y agotook a leap into the Fix & Flip housing market and closing on my 3rd house in 30-days. Used 1st home buyer for first house and only put $4000 down, My brother is a General Contractor and fronts all Labor and Material and agreement is some type of % split at sale of house. Remodel and we split profit 50-50. after paying taxes ended up with $26500, 2nd house paid taxes and net was $3600. I get the tax benefit and he gets side income as well. Not my full-time gig but trying to save up for down-payment on my own house and make a little on the side.
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- hnthrowaway536 6y agoa few thousands dollars this year from a linkedin course I made
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- android2222 6y agoTrying to get https://seemyresume.io https://seemyresume.io off the ground and gain some users.
- Glench 6y agoI've made a few hundred bucks over the past 6 months commercially licensing Fuzzyset, a fuzzy string matching library: https://github.com/Glench/fuzzyset.js https://github.com/Glench/fuzzyset.js
- ohashi 6y agoI built https://reviewsignal.com https://reviewsignal.com which aggregates twitter opinions about web hosting companies. It runs it through spam filtering and sentiment analysis to constantly give an updated view into what people think about these companies. It makes money with affiliates, most hosting companies have them, some don't (eg. amazon). I don't let affiliate program existence or pay influence the rankings, it's just pure data. It updates itself and has for almost a decade now.
- plantel 6y agoNiche e-commerce site for a health product I import. I am only one of two people who sells the product in my entire country. I make about 75% margin on each order, $50-200 per month. It's just a handful of trips to the post office every month. I think its fun.
- TruffleLabs 6y agoPassive income means you do no work, other than put money somewhere. Bank interest would count. Real estate does not. SaaS does not count either. If you have to do anything that requires your time then it’s not passive.
- jkchu 6y agoIsn't that a bit overly pedantic? I agree that some of these examples are far-from passive, but this wouldn't be much of a thread if everyone just listed some form of passive investing. I think the heart of this thread is near-passive income sources, like 1-2 hours per week.
- czue 6y agoI run three "optionally" passive projects that have combined to about $26k so far in 2020 ("optionally" passive meaning I can put them on autopilot anytime, though continue to work on them to grow them). They are: 1. SaaS Pegasus: a SaaS boilerplate template for Django projects (https://www.saaspegasus.com/ https://www.saaspegasus.com/) 2. Place Card Me, a printable place card maker for weddings nad other events (https://www.placecard.me/ https://www.placecard.me/) 3. Chat Stats: Analytics for GroupMe groups (https://chatstats.co/ https://chatstats.co/) My goal - started three years ago - is to replace my day-job income with passive side-project revenue. Hopefully will do so by 2022 or so! I publish all my data on profit (as well as time spent and hourly rates) here: https://www.coryzue.com/open/ https://www.coryzue.com/open/
- lurluberlu 6y agoI sell a binary clock I created with my brother and my wife : https://boutique-the-city-clock.com/product/the-city-clock/ https://boutique-the-city-clock.com/product/the-city-clock/ We just sold our 1500th clock ! Apart from that I'm a french full time software dev
- aknosis 6y agoI cover the costs of domain / hosting with sponsored jobs @ https://www.phpjobs.app https://www.phpjobs.app. If I get an actual sale for a featured job it covers a few months worth of hosting. I haven't spent much time on it lately and there are a few things I need to fix but I have been too busy. While I am not in the black with the project (even if I consider my time as free) it still helps be think about other streams of income that maybe aren't passive but can be tied into my hobbies so will feel much less like work.
- jventura 6y agoI do about 5€/month on an astrology app on the Play Store [1], and I did 50€ once on my SaaS astrology web app [2]. The rest of my web apps [3][4][5] give me 0 (zero) per month.. I'm now planning on starting a python development blog, and I hope I can sell some courses if I'm able to drive an audience. I teach CS (next year part-time) on a local college and I have some tutorials and lab exercises for my students (some of which I shared at the full-speed python ebook [6]).. Edit: forgot that the fine guys at educative.io send my a monthly payment of about ~100€ for the full-speed python course at their platform [7]. I guess I'm much better at coming up with programming tutorials than with business ideas.. Some day my luck will improve! :) [1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flatangle.charts&hl=en_US&gl=US https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flatangle.... [2] http://elements.flatangle.com/ http://elements.flatangle.com/ [3] http://mockrest.com/ http://mockrest.com/ [4] https://cronbeats.com/ https://cronbeats.com/ [5] http://mailaday.com/ http://mailaday.com/ [6] https://github.com/joaoventura/full-speed-python/ https://github.com/joaoventura/full-speed-python/ [7] https://www.educative.io/courses/full-speed-python https://www.educative.io/courses/full-speed-python
- hamfisted 6y ago$625/mo minus utilities (minus some pandemic/nice landlord skips) - Parking pad/yard with utilities to a tiny house ~3k/mo split between the following: OLD content site in a specific niche - affiliate earnings* Domain earnings via ads (this is a loss for sure though because I spend more than this in domain renewals) 2 sites in various drug niches (affiliate) Adsense from a network of ??? sites Fiverr gig (article on a blog) * A variety of affiliate sites (amazon mainly)* *split with a partner Probably cover my domain expenses by selling a domain every once in a while too. Some of these used to be full time projects that I stopped caring about. Very nice to have spitting out money still. I have been cranking crap out for 20 years and rarely shut any of it down completely unless it is does not cover the $10/year for the domain/hosting and even then I usually keep them going if I like the domain.
- blakbelt78 6y agoI built and run a stock market email that is fully passive earning around $60mo https://bullish.email https://bullish.email. Probably can earn a lot more if I put the effort in doing marketing but I have more fun writing code.
- ninjavis 6y agoI make use of a company trading on behalf of us. This translates to daily compounding income. They are helping around 200 000 people currently. Truly thankful for this automated income as I am able to support my parents with this. My dad is unable to find work due to so much uncertainty in the economy.
- ornornor 6y agoNot sure I understand what you’re talking about. Do you mean a stock broker?
- ninjavis 6y agoPardon me, what I mean is the company trades on the Crypto market on behalf of us. If they make a profit, we make a profit, if not, we also don't. They execute more than 1000 small trades per day, some of which, of course, are losses. However, they aim to end the day on a positive. Since Apr 2019, we've had one small negative day :) This is how we make our money work for us.
- jmg721 6y agoI have started a blog about sleep products https://tuckme.in https://tuckme.in Currently, building the content and figuring how to best monetize, apart from ad space. Eventually, would be great to grow it into subscription service -> e-comm
- tamiral 6y agolots of brands have affiliate programs or you can do a reach out email to get some products on the site.
- caviv 6y agoI make around $2000 USD p/month so it is around $24K USD per year from websites such as dream interpretation online https://understandmydreams.com https://understandmydreams.com and I recently added more websites translated to Portuguese https://teusonho.org https://teusonho.org - so using Google Ads and Pay per dream analysis help me to make some money. I also sell Gematria database on https://www.gematrix.org/gematria_database.php https://www.gematrix.org/gematria_database.php
- timtas 6y agoBack in 2013 I created http://slotted.co http://slotted.co. It's a general purpose signup sheet app. Common use cases: - college professor office hours - open enrollment consultations - comedy open mics - auditions & interviews - startup accelerator mentor meetings - any kind of one-on-one meetings - potluck parties - volunteer signups - pizza orders I started monetizing in 2015 and now earn 5-figures averaging < 5 hours or effort per month. Now and then I do a batch of work to add a new feature.
- orliesaurus 6y agoAlthough it's not really passive I started a YouTube channel [1] where I give some feedback to people who are starting their businesses online. Whether it's an e-commerce, SaaS or even if you are a live-streamer there are things that might not be obvious to YOU about why people don't converted. I created a bunch of checklists and I give those out for free. I also am working on an e-book that has a framework that you can follow to achieve the same outcome as one of my analysis. [1] https://youtube.com/c/landingfeedback https://youtube.com/c/landingfeedback