What was your best passive income in 2014?

Re:What was your best passive income in 2014? by gaeappthrowaway on Wednesday July 30, 2014 @09:36AM (#8107986)

I have an AppEngine app that brings in $7k/mo with very little work, with about $2k/mo in server costs. Roughly 50 users paying between $30/mo and $500/mo

There's about 10 minutes of support work per day, but besides corporate customers occasionally needing some phone salesmanship and some manual tweaking, everything else is automated.

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Re:What was your best passive income in 2014? by timjahn on Wednesday July 30, 2014 @09:39AM (#8108008)

Can you talk more about what the app is and what it does? Curious.

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Re:What was your best passive income in 2014? by gaeappthrowaway on Wednesday July 30, 2014 @09:43AM (#8108036)

I wouldn't be on a throwaway account if I felt comfortable mentioning its name. But, basically, it's an analytics API.

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Re:What was your best passive income in 2014? by nicholas73 on Wednesday July 30, 2014 @10:06AM (#8108164)

I love App Engine, but why use it in this case? You've got a lot of background processes, but few concurrent users. Couldn't you use a regular server, since you don't have to worry about a spike in traffic?

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Re:What was your best passive income in 2014? by gaeappthrowaway on Wednesday July 30, 2014 @10:22AM (#8108285)

The API serves nearly 1 billion calls per month, with lots of variations and spikes. That, combined with my lackluster ops skills, makes AppEngine's autoscaling a perfect fit for my use case and skill-level.

Yes, it's probably more expensive than if I used EC2, but I've never been awoken in the middle of the night to need to reboot a server, troubleshoot a memory issue, or scale up my instances.

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Re:What was your best passive income in 2014? by MobileAppVault on Wednesday July 30, 2014 @09:38AM (#8108006)

Sounds good! Congratulations! Can you share a link?

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Re:What was your best passive income in 2014? by gaeappthrowaway on Wednesday July 30, 2014 @09:44AM (#8108043)

Not comfortable sharing a link in the context of talking about the revenue (hence the throwaway), but it's an analytics API.

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Re:What was your best passive income in 2014? by bru on Wednesday July 30, 2014 @09:39AM (#8108007)

Nice. Link, details?

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