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A comment on Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?.

Re:Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and fr... by alexkearns on Friday May 20, 2011 @10:05AM (#2567679)
I launched TikiToki Timeline Software (http://www.tiki-toki.com) in March. It is currently making about $250 a month from subscribers. This month I have also sold a $1500 single timeline license. Hopefully more of them in the future!

I am currently operating TikiToki as a side project from my main business as a freelance web developer. Aim to go full time with TikiToki at start of July.

This will be a bit of a gamble, given that what I earn from subscribers via TikiToki for a full month is less than what I would earn in half a day as a freelance developer!

We do it for love as much as the money!

Edit: If we want to go into detail, I should also add that I also earn about $80 a month from Adsense for a blog my wife and I run (http://www.casualgirlgamer.com) and about $25 a month via Big Fish's affiliates scheme. Peanuts really but it all adds up...

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Re:Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and fr... by BasilAwad on Friday May 20, 2011 @01:16PM (#2568542)
Man, that's great. I'm guessing the big clients would be news organizations. I would aggressive argue that this should be on their homepage as their updated news feed and then have the timeline move by the hour.
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Re:Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and fr... by designsourced on Friday May 20, 2011 @11:54AM (#2568172)
Beautiful timeline software is right. Great stuff.
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Re:Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and fr... by aklemm on Friday May 20, 2011 @10:14AM (#2567719)
Great looking site and good niche! Can TikiToki connect to Flickr or Facebook and create timelines from media in those sites?
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Re:Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and fr... by alexkearns on Friday May 20, 2011 @10:17AM (#2567729)
Yes, we have Flickr integration. So you can add your Flickr images to your timeline. Facebook integration is in our roadmap, though not as yet a top priority.
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Re:Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and fr... by stevelaz on Friday May 20, 2011 @10:33AM (#2567792)
Yeah this is bad ass, the site looks awesome. Great job! I'd totally pay for this service.
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Re:Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and fr... by autalpha on Friday May 20, 2011 @10:17AM (#2567726)
what blogging platform are you using for casualgirlgamer.com?
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Re:Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and fr... by alexkearns on Friday May 20, 2011 @10:19AM (#2567735)
Something I rolled myself using Symphony CMS (http://symphony-cms.com/), a neat open source XSLT driven content management system.
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