Ask HN: Passive income ideas?

Re:Ask HN: Passive income ideas? by ctek on Wednesday June 19, 2013 @02:49AM (#5904058)

I created a simple SaaS app, https://www.pageblox.com/ that makes $300 dollars a month. I think that in a year or slightly more it could break a thousand a month if I market aggressively. I think I was able to pull it off by targeting a very specific problem and its accompanying keyword phrase: "css layout generator". Over-simplifying, the steps are: 1. find a problem that people and have and its niche, low competition keyword that get about 5000-8000 searches a month 2. build a web based app that solves that problem 3. grow your traffic 4. a/b test and iterate

Marketing is by far the hardest part!

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Ask HN: Passive income ideas? by adventured on Wednesday June 19, 2013 @04:19AM (#5904354)

Have you thought about charging $3 / month, or maybe $12 per year for this instead of a one-time purchase?

If you're saving / hosting the layouts, in which users can come back and create new ones or alter old ones, it jives nicely with charging on a recurring basis.

Throw in another service or two on top of what you already do, and the value proposition just keeps going up.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Ask HN: Passive income ideas? by tmzt on Wednesday June 19, 2013 @08:46AM (#5905159)

If you've got it working well, there are (smallish) hosting companies that might be interested in white labeling it, assuming it can support templating as well.

[ Parent | on HN ]