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| Ask HN: How to start earning $500/month in passive income in next 12-18 months? | ||
| recommended by 2 users | 2014 | 288 points by rtcoms | bootstrapping | original thread | | ||
I am a Ruby on Rails developer from Bangalore, India. Currently working for a startup in Bangalore as a full time employee. Few months ago there were lots of posts on HN related to passive income. This gave me thought about having passive income which will give enough freedom to work on my own ideas/project fulltime. In India one can easily live on $500/month, so keeping that in mind I have setup a timeline of 12-18 months(which I think should be enough) to generate that much amount. Right now I don't have any savings which I can invest to earn and I've free time available around weekends.I am working on few ideas of my own, but those will not necessarily generate income. So what would you do suggest me to do? | ||
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| gedrap Jan 6, 2015 | on: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you… | context |
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apdinin Dec 13, 2015 | on: Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2015? | context
During my day job I run a full-time startup, but, as a weekend hack a couple years ago, I built an automated email sales tool called Autopest (https://autopest.com). I've never done any promotion for it, but it keeps growing on its own organically via word-of-mouth. About a year and a half ago I mentioned Autopest in an HN thread titled "Ask HN: How to start earning $500/month in passive income in next 12-18 months?" Since then, it keeps getting featured in Reddit and Quora lists for "best growth hacking tools" and "best sales hacks," and I've also seen it popup on sites like Inc.com and LifeHacker. I guess Autopest isn't technically passive in the sense that every few months I code a new feature or two based on user feedback, but I also go months without touching it, and more people just keep signing up. P.S. Here's the original HN thread... some good links to other passive income projects as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8246255 |
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| recommended by 2 users | 2014 | 323 points by ericthegoodking | original thread | | ||
There was a number of similar active threads over the years, some great ideas in them:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7094402
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8107588
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8246255
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4639271
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5903868
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2358111
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=387789