Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2018?

Re:Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2018? by greysteil on Sunday November 18, 2018 @07:40AM (#18480076)

I built https://dependabot.com to be passive, but ended up going full time on it (the startup I was working on feel through). Generates $9k/month passively, but I put my full-time energy into growing it (adding new languages / improving support for existing ones).

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Re:Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2018? by hbhakhra on Sunday November 18, 2018 @08:09AM (#18480188)

This looks awesome and obvious in hindsight, but as patio11 would say, you need to charge more. Especially on the higher end, let people that want to pay more, pay more.

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Re:Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2018? by konschubert on Sunday November 18, 2018 @07:43AM (#18480096)

One of those things that make you jealous because they seem so obvious in hindsight.

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Re:Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2018? by jw1224 on Sunday November 18, 2018 @07:52AM (#18480137)

Just wanted to say, that's a beautifully designed site. The colours, typography, and layout are fantastic. Really nice!

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Re:Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2018? by leogiertz on Sunday November 18, 2018 @07:44AM (#18480101)

Love Dependabot! Worth every penny.

Happy you can work on it full time.

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Re:Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2018? by rasikjain on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @07:13AM (#18493249)

Awesome product Grey. I also watched the youtube video shared by other user (thanks for sharing). Very good demo there and they even discussed on how the changes and release notes are fetched from the git repos.

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Re:Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2018? by insomniacity on Sunday November 18, 2018 @10:27AM (#18480749)

I would love to use this. Sadly, on-prem 'enterprise' git platform.

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Re:Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2018? by eloff on Sunday November 18, 2018 @08:32AM (#18480279)

Your pricing seems way too cheap for the value you're delivering.

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Re:Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2018? by greysteil on Sunday November 18, 2018 @08:48AM (#18480348)

Haha, thanks, I guess that's one place where Dependabot shows its side-project roots - I just want as many people to use it as possible, and am less fussed about capturing the biggest share of value.

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Re:Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2018? by ezekg on Sunday November 18, 2018 @02:07PM (#18481943)

You can still get that benefit with the lower tier. I would definitely raise the prices for your higher tiers, because those are going to be for businesses, and they have money to spare. You might see your ARPU go up considerably. :)

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Re:Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2018? by tevlon on Sunday November 18, 2018 @04:13PM (#18482567)

I just found out about dependabot from Scott Hanselmann: https://youtu.be/LiTUML8tG_Y?t=695

I really like the idea! Keep up the good work :)

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Re:Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2018? by mightymosquito on Sunday November 18, 2018 @08:11AM (#18480194)

How long did you work on it before it started making any money?

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Re:Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2018? by greysteil on Sunday November 18, 2018 @08:20AM (#18480231)

About 6 months and it was tough!

2 months of that (part time) was the initial build and the rest was hustling to get initial users. GitHub wouldn't put it in the GitHub Marketplace (which drives pretty much all signups now - I don't do any marketing or sales) until it had 250 users and it was a struggle getting the word out to that many people. In the end I did it by commenting on relevant open source PRs on GitHub asking if they'd be up for giving it a try (being really careful not to be spammy).

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Re:Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2018? by SergeAx on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @10:22AM (#18494405)

Wow, there is a (year older) copycat: https://renovatebot.com/

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Re:Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2018? by jcme on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @02:00PM (#18496631)

Looks awesome - great job. Just a heads up that the "View pull requests" buttons in your Trusted By section all 404 at the moment

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Re:Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2018? by hultner on Sunday November 18, 2018 @08:29AM (#18480267)

Very cool service, might try this out!

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Re:Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2018? by dana321 on Sunday November 18, 2018 @09:08AM (#18480424)

That is awesome, well done.

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Re:Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2018? by moretai on Sunday November 18, 2018 @08:29AM (#18480269)

Your logo is beautiful

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Re:Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2018? by gghyslain on Monday November 19, 2018 @07:44AM (#18485985)

Well done grey!

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Re:Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2018? by umen on Monday November 19, 2018 @08:16AM (#18486169)

is it revenue or profit ?

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