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Re:Ask HN: Your best passive income sources? by ww520 on Thursday October 11, 2012 @12:12AM (#4639345)
It looks great. How do you market your webapp?
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Re:Ask HN: Your best passive income sources? by bdunn on Thursday October 11, 2012 @12:16AM (#4639359)
Content marketing mostly, and over delivering awesome, awesome support that gets customers to refer others.

You can also do really well by just optimizing the hell out of the visitors/expired trials you already have. SO MUCH EASIER than attracting more eyeballs.

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Re:Ask HN: Your best passive income sources? by shmageggy on Thursday October 11, 2012 @12:26AM (#4639385)
Doesn't all of the above take this out of the realm of "passive"? Or are you able to magically get all of that done in such a short time that you consider it negligible?
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Re:Ask HN: Your best passive income sources? by bdunn on Thursday October 11, 2012 @12:52AM (#4639456)
I spend about 2 hours a week total, so right - it's not totally passive... But I'm at the point now where I could outsource first tier support and maybe get away with no weekly involvement.

But I want more growth, so I'm still actively working on promoting Planscope.

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Re:Ask HN: Your best passive income sources? by gamelodge on Thursday October 11, 2012 @01:34AM (#4639583)
delivering awesome, awesome support would require lots and lots of time/effort != passive
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