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How much Passive Income do you make?

8 points by fogonthedowns ↗ HN
How much income do you make from apps? From your web apps? How did you do it?!

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jonaphin
Instimage.com here.

I make nothing. How I do it? It's fairly complex.

Step 1: Build a kickass website, take 6 months

Step 2: Deal with Paypal

Step 3: Rework

Step 4: Deal with Paypal

Step 5: Launch

Step 6: Recurring Step. Post Blog post, spam your FB friends until you lose them.

Step 7: It's built and they don't come.

Step 8: Move onto next idea? Or repeat Step 6/7 until you're ready to move on...

cprncus
Awesome. I'd be so into this thread if it turned into "how you fail to make money passively."
fogonthedowns
I took your advice and created a thread. This could be more interesting.
AtTheLast
I think it's important for people to realize that there are tons of projects that never generate income or workout as planned.
smartician
I think I get your business idea, but I find the site quite confusing. For example this page:

https://www.instimage.com/quests/diving-with-sharks

Did you shoot a photo matching the quest's description?

What description? There's just title, but shouldn't there be a detailed description of what the client wants?

This photo was taken by good friend from La Parguera, Puerto Rico.

What photo? I don't see a single picture on that page.

On the homepage there's a button "Recent Quests" which does nothing when I click it. Maybe that's because it's already showing recent entries, but why is there a button in that case?

Find the picture you want

When I do a search, I get other people's "quests", which may or may not have submissions yet. Maybe I don't get it, but why would showing what other people are looking for get me the picture I want?

zachlatta
I'm working on a Bitcoin trading bot. I won't go into the details of how it works, but it's capable of making a few hundred per day, depending on how much money it's given to work with.
fogonthedowns
Thats pretty cool. but are you afraid of government regulation and not being able to convert the bitcoin into cash?
zachlatta
It's still profitable after taxes and whatnot. It actually takes advantage of how Bitcoin is converted into cash ;-).