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How much money would a site like FunnyJunk take annually? I mean is this thing a hobby or is it paying the kind of money you could live on in New York (which I
by keithpeter 14y ago
How much money would a site like FunnyJunk take annually? I mean is this thing a hobby or is it paying the kind of money you could live on in New York (which I assume to be expensive)?
- pavel_lishin 14y agoNew York isn't quite as expensive as people make it out to be. It's not cheap - but you can sacrifice things like square footage, or short commute times to save on rent, which is most of the expense.
- keithpeter 14y agoI take your point, but do we think this bloke is seeing $10k or $100k a year, or just enough to pay for the server/bandwidth?
- pavel_lishin 14y agoThe article seemed to mention him complaining about money, but that could just be an indirect way of asking for donations, or re-inforcing the need for funding drives. (I've done this before, when we were hosting a VBulletin forum when we didn't really have jobs or much spare income in college.)
- cluda01 14y agoDepending on who hosts your content, these sites are fairly cheap to make and maintain. I have a few friends who make these sorts of websites and use imgur and other free services to host content. They cost on the order of tens of dollars a month. As for profits just look at their visitor stats and compare it to adwords.
- vijayr 14y agoRent is the biggest expense in NYC. If you are in the suburbs, or live in NJ and commute to NYC, then NYC is not as expensive as it is made out to be.
- arn 14y agoThe answer is probably a lot. Certainly enough for one person to comfortably live on, and probably much more than that. http://siteanalytics.compete.com/funnyjunk.com/ http://siteanalytics.compete.com/funnyjunk.com/ Compete's analytics aren't great, but give you a ballpark (big, small). It's a pretty big site. Monetization against funny pictures probably isn't great, but given the traffic, it's probably doing very well.