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I started http://www.justunfollow.com http://www.justunfollow.com as a way to learn Google Appengine. Sent a tip to TechCrunch, @arrington seemed to like it and

I started http://www.justunfollow.com http://www.justunfollow.com as a way to learn Google Appengine. Sent a tip to TechCrunch, @arrington seemed to like it and profiled it. It started making profits but I did not quit. I finally had to quit after about 1 year of this product going live because it started making me more money in 2 months than my day job was paying me for an entire year! I quit my job around 9 months ago. Finding too much of time on hand I subsequently started work on a new app, got my friend to join me and we got into Start-up Chile. It's been a great journey but I'm so glad that I did not quit the moment we were profitable. It has taught me the most important thing you need to learn while starting up, being efficient. I always suggest everyone who has a product to not quit until it is virtually impossible to keep up with a day job. You then become a time management champ and know how to do more with less :)

roel_v 15y ago
Am I reading that correctly that that site is making 25k+ a month? How is that possible? Do people pay for the site or is it from ads only?
- nischalshetty 15y ago
  I did not put any numbers anywhere about our profits. We have a freemium model. Ads are just a small part of the revenues we make.
  - roel_v 15y ago
    "making me more money in 2 months than my day job was paying me for an entire year!" Day job of 50k / year, over 2 months, so per month 25k. 'Making money' = profit, otherwise I could be 'making' 250k / month by opening a BMW dealership and selling 2 per month - which in the real world would bankrupt me Very Quickly. So, maybe I'm misunderstanding, but didn't you say that you were making 25k or more?
    - nischalshetty 15y ago
      I'm from India, we make money in our currency which is Rupees (INR). I do know that 'making money' = profit and that is exactly what we are making. I'm not selling BMW cars. I write code which takes my time but needs no money, host it on GAE and AWS, which is not so expensive and so make a very good profit. Yes, you are misunderstanding what I said by pushing those figures.
      - roel_v 15y ago
        Oh OK, so then you were making in the magnitude of $250 - $500 / month back then, that seems plausible. I wasn't saying that you are selling BMW's, what you sell doesn't matter - my point was that people use 'make money' when they mean 'revenue', so the BMW is my standard example for illustrating the difference. I'm not sure why I'm being down voted - my numbers are quite plausible, I was just doing a sniff test. It would've been quite remarkable if a simple site like that would've been making several k / month after just 2 months.

roel_v 15y ago

Am I reading that correctly that that site is making 25k+ a month? How is that possible? Do people pay for the site or is it from ads only?

nischalshetty 15y ago
I did not put any numbers anywhere about our profits. We have a freemium model. Ads are just a small part of the revenues we make.
- roel_v 15y ago
  "making me more money in 2 months than my day job was paying me for an entire year!" Day job of 50k / year, over 2 months, so per month 25k. 'Making money' = profit, otherwise I could be 'making' 250k / month by opening a BMW dealership and selling 2 per month - which in the real world would bankrupt me Very Quickly. So, maybe I'm misunderstanding, but didn't you say that you were making 25k or more?
  - nischalshetty 15y ago
    I'm from India, we make money in our currency which is Rupees (INR). I do know that 'making money' = profit and that is exactly what we are making. I'm not selling BMW cars. I write code which takes my time but needs no money, host it on GAE and AWS, which is not so expensive and so make a very good profit. Yes, you are misunderstanding what I said by pushing those figures.
    - roel_v 15y ago
      Oh OK, so then you were making in the magnitude of $250 - $500 / month back then, that seems plausible. I wasn't saying that you are selling BMW's, what you sell doesn't matter - my point was that people use 'make money' when they mean 'revenue', so the BMW is my standard example for illustrating the difference. I'm not sure why I'm being down voted - my numbers are quite plausible, I was just doing a sniff test. It would've been quite remarkable if a simple site like that would've been making several k / month after just 2 months.