It kind of depends on what one means by 'making $500/month'. I operate damninteresting.com, and we receive a bit over $1600/month in donations. But a lot of tha

It kind of depends on what one means by 'making $500/month'. I operate damninteresting.com, and we receive a bit over $1600/month in donations. But a lot of that is used to pay authors for new submissions, pay editors, pay podcast narrators, pay residuals, pay for subscriptions to archives, pay for hosting fees, etc. As the founder my personal per-month profit is in the neighborhood of $600/month.