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Re:Ask HN: What is your passive income 2020? on Friday October 23, 2020 @08:05PM (#24875715)

$625/mo minus utilities (minus some pandemic/nice landlord skips) - Parking pad/yard with utilities to a tiny house

~3k/mo split between the following:

OLD content site in a specific niche - affiliate earnings* Domain earnings via ads (this is a loss for sure though because I spend more than this in domain renewals) 2 sites in various drug niches (affiliate) Adsense from a network of ??? sites Fiverr gig (article on a blog) * A variety of affiliate sites (amazon mainly)*

*split with a partner

Probably cover my domain expenses by selling a domain every once in a while too.

Some of these used to be full time projects that I stopped caring about. Very nice to have spitting out money still. I have been cranking crap out for 20 years and rarely shut any of it down completely unless it is does not cover the $10/year for the domain/hosting and even then I usually keep them going if I like the domain.

Re:Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2017 – Show an... on Monday September 11, 2017 @02:16PM (#15220752)

I will show my wife. She is a theatrical lighting designer. Seems like the go to for that is vector works, so an alternative would be welcome.

Re:Google and Facebook ad traffic is 90% useless on Friday January 20, 2017 @01:21PM (#13445742)

If you have watched the SERPS (search engine results pages) over the years you have seen that a number 1 organic ranking has gone from # 1 to something like #20 after all of the ads and what not that are shown above the first organic rank these days.

Some evolution images and stories: http://searchengineland.com/evolution-google-serps-three-key...

It is still "free" but takes a lot of work to get there, and it is worth less than it used to be. Lots of SEO's have gone the way of paid.

Re:Google and Facebook ad traffic is 90% useless on Friday January 20, 2017 @01:15PM (#13445681)

14 Year PPC guy here. I have built businesses using PPC traffic.

With Google - Turn off search partners and content network and try running the numbers again.

Re:Show HN: Truebill – Find and track paid subscriptions, cancel with ... on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @05:18PM (#11121935)

I have to ask... what was charging you 500/mo?

Re:Show HN: BillingMe – Invoicing for folks with more than one project on Thursday May 21, 2015 @01:49AM (#9581166)

Thanks voyweb. It does some other cool stuff that we should probably mention on there too... like it can send a message to slack when you get a payment. And you can put a tracking code on the payment thank you page so you can track all the way to sale if you have a funky process and do sales outside of ecomm.

Re:Show HN: Pixel Stickers – Removable Pixel Art for Your Wall on Friday October 17, 2014 @02:53PM (#8472727)

Nice work on the designer. http://www.pixelstickers.com/lab/?id=3178