At a glance, the blog didn't give me the impression that you're trying to earn money (I feel like most blogs aren't). Do you have a products section or something?
I recently developed/launched http://framestr.com. It's an online form software that I developed, originally, for a few lead generation websites that I own. It currently generates around $950 / month.
My site for learning tricks started making money last month: http://spellogram.com after around 2 years of existence. I didn't put a lot of effort though.
I have a small pile of SaaS products [1] that combine to bring in the equivalent of a nice Senior Dev salary (though far less than I would actually bring in were I to take a full time gig in the Bay Area).
I did a "passivity test" recently where I essentially took October off, just to make sure I still could. I'd do a morning email spin, then shut down and go bouldering or just play with the kids all day, averaging just shy of two hour weeks. Monthly Recurring Revenue grew on its normal path.
This month, I'm back working 6 hour days, 4 days a week, building the thing that will take up the slack [2] once those other products plateau. Fortunately, it's been raining a lot, or I might still be out climbing every day.
I'll reitorate once again that as a software developer, you absolutely should build one o' these SaaS things. It'll change your life.
I am front-end dev currently back to college for a masters. I really admire your drive.
I dream of having a similar income setup, I am in college and have more free time than ever; I must make most of this. I am reading through your articles on expatsoftware for some inspiration.
I have a few [1] Android Apps that bring home around £90 a month. Ironically, the ads from one app (I don't like ads as a business model that much) make as much as the other 4 combined.
I also wrote a book [2] about game development in Haxe, and self-published it on gumroad. That brings anything from £40 to £150 a month.
I have one project so far http://www.json-gen.com/ started one month ago.
It is service that provides mocking REST JSON response. Could be used in front-end testing. Current income is 5$
I just released beta version of https://test-api.net. Until now don't have any concrete plan for monetization but planning for adding new features so that i can monetize it.
Not software, but I have a rental property that earns me about $400 a month in mortgage principle paid. The renter is a relative who's been there for several years.
Currently ... I aim for $1/day :), but my site is only a week old. I need to figure out SEO for a site like mine, as I don't have content. Right now it is all AdWords traffic. It's amazing ... I literally submit my bids and I have clicks within 60s.
I'd love to know if users would pay for something like unlimited multi-day search or ... more data like UV Index.
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an ad on each page. I expect it to generate about $50-100/month
I did a "passivity test" recently where I essentially took October off, just to make sure I still could. I'd do a morning email spin, then shut down and go bouldering or just play with the kids all day, averaging just shy of two hour weeks. Monthly Recurring Revenue grew on its normal path.
This month, I'm back working 6 hour days, 4 days a week, building the thing that will take up the slack [2] once those other products plateau. Fortunately, it's been raining a lot, or I might still be out climbing every day.
I'll reitorate once again that as a software developer, you absolutely should build one o' these SaaS things. It'll change your life.
[1] https://www.s3stat.com & http://www.twiddla.com [2] https://unwaffle.com
In my current role I'm an Jr Dev, and have only recently graduated and started working full time but this sort of thing interests me.
I built things in the past. But they were the wrong things.
I dream of having a similar income setup, I am in college and have more free time than ever; I must make most of this. I am reading through your articles on expatsoftware for some inspiration.
I also wrote a book [2] about game development in Haxe, and self-published it on gumroad. That brings anything from £40 to £150 a month.
[1]https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=leoncvlt&hl=... [2] http://discover-haxeflixel.com/
I'd love to know if users would pay for something like unlimited multi-day search or ... more data like UV Index.
http://www.averageweather.io/