Your best passive income? (2015)

[ericthegoodking]

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6661536

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4639271

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7094402

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8107588

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8246255

[lemcoe9]

I'll answer this, even though I think it's just karma-bait.

My best passive income is a piece of software I made in one week that processed payments for school events (field trips, clubs, etc). I've made over $120,000 in two years with it.

[HarryN → lemcoe9]

Great job! What made you make it in the first place? Did you know there was a need for it?

[mtmail]

There is also "Your best passive income? (2015 Edition)" from 30 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8822151

[neostim]

http://www.rippedrecipes.com My cousin and I started this site a couple years ago, revenue is steady around $250/month, we get on average 4,600 unique hits/day ... reading other people's revenues I feel like we could do better with the traffic we get, so if anyone has any comments or thoughts, they're more then welcome!

[taphangum → neostim]

Check out this interview on Mixergy: http://mixergy.com/interviews/lindsay-ostrom-pinch-of-yum-in...

You can pretty much follow what she did step by step (she lays it out pretty much). Her blog does about $20k/month.

[JohnLen]

Perhaps you can share yours so that we can emulate your success if any.

[socialight]

I have a cellphone site I bought from flippa for 4k that generates from $400-$1000 every month.

Tried buying other sites but they were all duds. This one has made over 25k since I bought it.

[wanliqun]

I build a website (http://www.iprank.tv), a hub for fresh and funny pranks, which makes me about $1k per month.

[asafdav2]

http://www.interviewbits.com - a blog dedicated to job interview questions and solutions

[mattwritescode]

Another one of these posts. Seriously!

[fuj]

For God's sake, these sort of threads pop up every week. No one has a magical formula that you can just copy. There are thousands of ideas in the other 200 threads about passive income. Please just stop... really.. stop.

[markyc → fuj]

actually I'm always very inspired by what people are working on, and these type of threads are one of the few reasons i still come to hn regularly.

so please, by all means keep sharing. if others don't find it useful they can just ignore these threads