I got like $10 for the whole year selling books with literally only the poop and alien emoji in them. Pretty sure it's just book reselling bots though, but I can't be sure.
It's two separate books, each ~150 pages long with just that emoji repeated. Completely useless, made em as a joke a few years ago, they still bring in money during the holidays.
I made an Adsense plugin for Angular and if you copy and paste the doc's use example with my ad code (it says to replace) it shows you my ads (duh). Several people have for some reason used it in production, maybe hoping to get their own adsense account/code later. It earned $140 last month.
100-200/mo from YouTube this year. Down from nearly a grand at it's peak. Algorithm is worse, ad rates are terrible and demonetization for no real reason is very rampant.
If yt/g isn't careful they are going to start bleeding out users even faster than they already are. I've seen a huge uptick in comments like yours the last few months. To go from 1k/mo at peak down to 100-200 largely due to their arbitrary algorithm fuckery is... really fucked up.
Bought a couple cheap condos near the biggest university in a flyover state, got a property management company to take care of everything (finding tenants, collecting payments, handling service calls, etc). It's a few hundred bucks a month on top of other people basically buying houses for me.
Yes, the figure I gave was profit after all expenses. Since they’re condos, the association covers the heating/cooling system and everything exterior. I guess we’ve been lucky on the repair front, because the only thing we’ve had to pay for (in ~6 years) was a cheap dishwasher and toilet fix and occasionally repainting between tenants.
Not really, but like I said in response to other comment, we’ve had very few repairs. There’s never been more than ~1 week gap between tenants — near university housing is always hot, and the management company only gets paid if the place is occupied. They usually have the next tenant signed before current one leaves. In one, we’ve had the same tenant for the whole time.
Mostly passive: Managing rental properties. There is some work involved occasionally when things break or new tenants need to be found, but for the most part I just collect my fee each month.
Do you worry about renters you'll have to evict? That's what scares me about getting into this -- the thought of losing thousands when it can take months and months to get someone out. Plus the emotional toll of having to do that; not sure I'd want to, although from watching some TV shows on it it seems there's quite a few people who do it on purpose. Still, if those people have kids...
Yeah, it's always a concern. My mitigating factor is that the properties I manage are very close to a University, and students at top Universities tend to not want to mess around, especially as finals approach. In 18 years I've never had a missed rent payment, other than a couple times that were truly "I was thinking about finals and I forgot".
You can use a property manager, they will take 10% of gross rent. If the margins aren't good enough to support that, then the property isn't a good buy.
Did you purchase a long time in the past? Are you getting free cash flow (ie after all expenses) from your properties?
When i've looked I havent found deals where one is actually making money (unless you count the equity on the property) and usually are eating cash flow monthly.
It's way easier to do in low house price areas. If you are small time (e.g., 9-5 worker looking to buy an income property). it's hard to find a passive income property in, for example, NY/NJ/CA.
Yup. This resonates with me as well for stocks and properties. Takes a long time to build and quite underwhelming to own. Nothing to brag about as people pretty much roll eyes and move onto talking about sexier ways of making money.
Guessing this means more than 1, or even 2. How were able to finance these purchases? Asking cos most lenders (that I've talked to) require a large down-payment, like 30% + or more.
I make ~$200-250/month with Find-me[1]. Essentially a database with statistics and contact information for content creators actively looking for advertisers/sponsorship opportunities.
Had a lot on the road map (creating more of a platform) but have pivoted to other projects since this doesn't seem to be getting the traction I was hoping for.
[1] www.find-me.co
Also make ~$1.5k/year from old Udemy courses on pretty basic topics (beginner-level SQL, Google Sheets, etc).
Public market stocks.
I know this isn't exactly what you're asking but I mention because it's worth considering in your personal decisioning framework (and is my honest answer)
Just to put it in perspective, you can make ~$500 per month from having $150,000 in mutual funds if you assume that you make an average of 4% per year after inflation. VTSAX made almost 15% last year, but last year was unusual.
$10k gets you $32 a month, roughly. And that's not even an especially safe rate of return - true fixed income would be closer to 4% before inflation, i.e. 2.5% after inflation.
I know of it, and I think it's optimistic. You have to factor in the chance for inflation to go up and general equity returns to go down. I think 7% nominal returns is an outlier in the history of the world.
For example, the 30 year TIPS return at the moment is ~1% - I would consider that a truly "safe, real interest rate" return. By that standard, taking out 4% in real dollars has a significant chance of depleting your principal over time.
Picketty's "Capital in the 21st Century" gives ~5% as the historical rate of return of capital after inflation, which is remarkably consistent across countries and decades.
a robo-adviser I am using "assume[s] a return of 5.1-5.45% on stocks and 0.74-1.05% on bonds after 0.5% fees". I do find these numbers a bit pessimistic but at the same time, I would expect the robo-adviser to give more optimistic numbers than pessimistic ones.
Got a cheap HostGator shared hosting and host low traffic websites for some clients (static/WordPress).
As a designer with no advanced knowledge in hosting/IT/domains/backend, it was pretty easy and no complications, I can't complain.
Now planning to move from HostGator to DreamHost because HTTPS is expensive in HG and free in DH (also using the free Netlify plan for static sites, HTTPS free).
How much to people pay you for hosting one such site? The idea to design and host simple sites sometimes crosses my mind when I go to some restaurant that doesn't have a working site.
A game that had 2mm++ downloads free / paid since 2012. It's an online game with players still playing although well beyond it's peak.
Since 2013 we pivoted from making games to it services and had not much time to make significant changes other than updating to newer iOS.
It still generates about 2-3k yearly revenue which is a good bonus in central Europe.
I offer up a weekly printable office football pool sheet for the NFL season. I've had it running for a few years now, and I find that it ends up doing better each year. It's mostly automated/passive, but I spend about 15 minutes each Monday night updating it for the next week.
I mention this one because it's one of those things that I just did, mainly for my own needs, and put out there. And it mainly just sits there but does better year-over-year.
Once I worked for a forestry industry company and they forced me to be in the union. After a month of working with them I had accrued like $300 in pension (total value, not monthly). They actually tracked me down and paid it out to me like 4 yrs later when I had completely forgotten about it. Probably cost them $300 to get it into my hands.
Got lucky with a Kickstarter project that has evolved into a business which finances my life/interest in programming+design. It was definitely the most lucky thing to happen to me in my entire life.
Debatable, but I've hired a few people and do next to nothing—maybe an hour or two a week. Plus, aren't all profitable side projects technically 'businesses'?
I'd consider spending time organizing and planning my finances a "side project" since I'm a spreadsheet geek and enjoy doing that sort of thing.
As a result, I realized I was an idiot and had let too much accumulate in my checking account that gets abysmal interest. Moved it to a savings account with slightly better interest and I get a little more money from it. Nothing worth writing home about, but definitely worth the few minutes it took me to make that change.
I don't share that information, but I'd suggest you check sites like Bankrate or other comparison sites (warning, they are all affiliate sites) to check out savings rates.
Suffice to say, I went from something like .01% APY to considerably more than .01%.
I make ~300/mo off of a peer-to-peer loan management software I created for lenders off of 0 marketing (just word of mouth sales). I have some residual revenue along those same lines for a book I wrote in 2015 on helping junior developers get hired at their first job (link in bio if interested).
100 bucks about every 2 months from Youtube ads. Aboot 10 bucks a month from adsense. Can't be arsed to do more aboot my Youtube and webpage. 's fine for now. Maybe down the road sometimes in the future. There's definitely potential, definitely an audience with need tho.
Made http://historio.us, a full text search engine for bookmarks, nine years ago. It's been making a few hundred dollars a month with zero marketing ever since.
iOS app “Leap Second” made about 2k a month last year this year 5-10k. Required some initial upfront work to create the app but since then Ive been putting in about 2h per week.
Are you targetting a specific coin you like for the featureset or are you diversifying and just spreading it out and focusing on the volatile liquidity at play?
Where can you buy those now? I remember they existed, but I thought that was basically a registrar bug that was fixed. The last time I searched around, I couldn't find any registrars that permitted emoji domain names.
Are there many part time cleaning jobs out there for men? It seems like an interesting way to make side money but it strikes me as a job people prefer to hire women for (sort of like nanny jobs).
