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This is still on the front page of Ask: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9941005 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9941005 Not many replies this time ar

This is still on the front page of Ask: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9941005 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9941005 Not many replies this time around, which is too bad since I love reading these threads. There are links to the previous posts in there. I usually talk about the same projects of mine, so this time I'll talk about a few smaller projects instead that also make money on the side. http://www.daterangepicker.com http://www.daterangepicker.com -- a JavaScript widget for choosing date ranges, like hotel reservations or dates for a report. Initially it was just a post on my blog and a zip file. It got so much traffic I put it up on Github and gave the thing its own site. That site gets over 1000 daily uniques. I put one small banner ad in the sidebar, and that generates $200-400 per month. http://www.websitegoodies.com http://www.websitegoodies.com -- A site I started in the mid-1990s to share what I learned as I taught myself web design. All the articles and tutorials became outdated, but the tools still had some popularity, so I rebuilt the site around them one weekend. A banner ad or two on each page generates $50-100 per month. I have a few very old sites that resell another company's advertising services. Almost all the customers are new site owners, small businesses, that sort of thing. After checkout, there's a "resources" page in the customer area of the site with links to SEO services, payment processing services, and other things a new site owner might need. Those are all referral links, and I earn $200-300 per month in commissions for the business those links generate.

panorama 11y ago
First of all, I never get tired of seeing you post in these threads. Keep it up and thanks for being so transparent every single time. Second, I'm surprised that ads work to such a significant degree for DRP. My assumptions off the bat would've been a. 1000 uniques is too few to generate significant income, b. a tech savvy crowd (developers) wouldn't click on ads/are more likely to have adblock. Am I missing something?
- dangrossman 11y ago
  The products targeted to developers are SaaS (huge lifetime value) or business priced ($$$+ per purchase), which means there's a ton of money for customer acquisition. The ads I'm getting on my sites are paying over $1 per click, so 1000 daily uniques generates a couple dollars a day even with a CTR under 1%.

panorama 11y ago

First of all, I never get tired of seeing you post in these threads. Keep it up and thanks for being so transparent every single time. Second, I'm surprised that ads work to such a significant degree for DRP. My assumptions off the bat would've been a. 1000 uniques is too few to generate significant income, b. a tech savvy crowd (developers) wouldn't click on ads/are more likely to have adblock. Am I missing something?

dangrossman 11y ago
The products targeted to developers are SaaS (huge lifetime value) or business priced ($$$+ per purchase), which means there's a ton of money for customer acquisition. The ads I'm getting on my sites are paying over $1 per click, so 1000 daily uniques generates a couple dollars a day even with a CTR under 1%.