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Re:Your best passive income? (2014) by christiangenco on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @06:36AM (#7094629)
Oh wow, this looks like exactly what I've been looking for for my not-so-passive income project, textbooksplease.com, for tracking conversions.

...any chance of an HN discount? :D

Re:Your best passive income? (2014) by dangrossman on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @07:12AM (#7094766)
Sure, I happen to have programmed a discount into the billing system for one of the affiliates which I can repurpose. This link's good for 10% off any subscription for life. https://www.improvely.com/signup?perk=hn
Re:Your best passive income? (2014) by didyousaymeow on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @08:43AM (#7095123)
Hi, I was checking out your project. Do you mind if I ask where you got the list of universities and the URLs?
Re:Your best passive income? (2014) by QuasiAlon on Thursday January 23, 2014 @03:01PM (#7110798)
Hi Christian - textbooksplease looks great. nice job! I was wondering: 1 - how do you monetize? 2 - how does the post-stickers-get-tshirt marketing channel perform (and how do you know, as it's hard to track..)

cheers!

Re:Your best passive income? (2014) by christiangenco on Sunday February 02, 2014 @01:44PM (#7166947)
Thanks! :D

1. Affiliate links. Each time someone buys a book through my site, I make ~5% from the retailer.

2. You know, not very well, but I think its a cool perk to give to customers you interact with ("glad I fixed your issue - want some free stickers?"). My biggest ROI to date is from google adwords, but they're outrageously expensive, so I'm going to be focusing on natural SEO for this next semester.