Passive Income Hacker vs Startup Guy

Re:Passive Income Hacker vs Startup Guy by jt2190 on Friday July 26, 2013 @11:03AM (#6108583)

  > Does Passive Income Hacker actually exist?

I think patio11 is the "poster child" of this:

  > Profits: $38,598 (up 66% from $23,230)
  >
  > Wage per Hour: Approximately $1,000, given that I worked
  > for approximately 15 hours integrating the new design and
  > spend approximately 20 minutes a week doing support.

(Source: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/12/29/bingo-card-creator-and-o...)

The reality is that it's a little more than "20 minutes a week" if you tally up all of the labor over the lifetime of the product, but then again, most people don't include how much they've worked in the past when they're asked: "How much time do you spend working each week?"

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Re:Passive Income Hacker vs Startup Guy by patio11 on Friday July 26, 2013 @11:15AM (#6108647)

I wouldn't self-identify with either of the two characters here, but then again they're characters. That said: yes, there are lots of small software businesses out there. Many of them do leave the owners pretty well off. Not all of them require huge amounts of work. BCC is very much not the most successful one out there.

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