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Passive income sources (summer 2015)

30 points by kirk21 11y ago

What is your source of passive income? Context: http://goo.gl/0zjoKp My sources: automated Twitter/Facebook pages about popular TV shows and am working on a tool for freelance devs (http://www.recurvoice.com) Earlier editions of this topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7094402 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6661536 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4639271 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=387789 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5903868

ancymon 11y ago
How automatic Twitter/Facebook pages give you income?
- kzisme 11y ago
  I'm curious as well...
  - pki 11y ago
    You can "sell" tweets to followers for money.
    - ancymon 11y ago
      That doesn't seem to be passive.
  - mtmail 11y ago
    I imagine (but don't know) a tweet whenever an episode is aired and a link either going to a product or affiliate page. E.g. https://twitter.com/hashtag/tvshowtime?src=hash https://twitter.com/hashtag/tvshowtime?src=hash
    - kirk21 11y ago
      Yup, that is it. Affiliate links include T-shirts, books and posters. Only makes me +-40 USD a month but it is something.
andersthue 11y ago
Base income from http://www.watermark-image.com http://www.watermark-image.com - it makes some thousands every month. I am using the income to build a SaaS app for my new working method called TimeBlock that helps Makers & Managers work better together and deliver a better product to their customers while being transparent and sleeping better. Currently it is making 490$ in MRR from 4 customers with a total of 10 users. Read more at http://timeblock.com http://timeblock.com
KG1 11y ago
Could you go in further detail about the automated social media pages?
- kirk21 11y ago
  Affiliate links including T-shirts, books and posters. Only makes me +-40 USD a month but it is something.
endriju 11y ago
In 2014 I have worked on http://exmerg.com http://exmerg.com but it wasn't until recently for it to start generating some passive income. Still, the infrastructure costs (AWS) are higher than the revenue, so money wise the balance is passive (not counting the hours spent building the service which I could use for client work). The positive side effect of building it was having additional source of motivation to learn new things in various fields like UI/UX design, cloud services, business operations and other SaaS related stuff. The main lesson it taught me was how much hidden work needs to be done to attract users and monetize a web service. I think a start-up that would make it easier to deploy, maintain and monetize web services would be an interesting one.
kabalweg 11y ago
My site http://www.tattoofontgenerator.net/ http://www.tattoofontgenerator.net/ currently make $2/day in Adsense revenue. The site is a year old and traffic is growing.

30 points by kirk21 11y ago

ancymon 11y ago

How automatic Twitter/Facebook pages give you income?

kzisme 11y ago
I'm curious as well...
- pki 11y ago
  You can "sell" tweets to followers for money.
  - ancymon 11y ago
    That doesn't seem to be passive.
- mtmail 11y ago
  I imagine (but don't know) a tweet whenever an episode is aired and a link either going to a product or affiliate page. E.g. https://twitter.com/hashtag/tvshowtime?src=hash https://twitter.com/hashtag/tvshowtime?src=hash
  - kirk21 11y ago
    Yup, that is it. Affiliate links include T-shirts, books and posters. Only makes me +-40 USD a month but it is something.

andersthue 11y ago

Base income from http://www.watermark-image.com http://www.watermark-image.com - it makes some thousands every month. I am using the income to build a SaaS app for my new working method called TimeBlock that helps Makers & Managers work better together and deliver a better product to their customers while being transparent and sleeping better. Currently it is making 490$ in MRR from 4 customers with a total of 10 users. Read more at http://timeblock.com http://timeblock.com

KG1 11y ago

Could you go in further detail about the automated social media pages?

kirk21 11y ago
Affiliate links including T-shirts, books and posters. Only makes me +-40 USD a month but it is something.

endriju 11y ago

In 2014 I have worked on http://exmerg.com http://exmerg.com but it wasn't until recently for it to start generating some passive income. Still, the infrastructure costs (AWS) are higher than the revenue, so money wise the balance is passive (not counting the hours spent building the service which I could use for client work). The positive side effect of building it was having additional source of motivation to learn new things in various fields like UI/UX design, cloud services, business operations and other SaaS related stuff. The main lesson it taught me was how much hidden work needs to be done to attract users and monetize a web service. I think a start-up that would make it easier to deploy, maintain and monetize web services would be an interesting one.

kabalweg 11y ago

My site http://www.tattoofontgenerator.net/ http://www.tattoofontgenerator.net/ currently make $2/day in Adsense revenue. The site is a year old and traffic is growing.