I mean for side projects that's not making any profit. I'm setting a budget of $800/year, including hosting cost like heroku, domain name purchase, etc.<p>If you have multiple projects, can you please say the average and max cost.
I'm currently spending about £50 on server costs and an average of £200 on advertising, which will end soon as I'm switching to other methods.<p>I also spend money on designers and developers. Even for a side project, there are places I don't have time / skills to go to :) and I rely on external -paid- help.
I don't look at projects in terms of profit, I look at them in terms of interest and thus motivation, learning potential, and possibly maybe way down the line something like profit. The most valuable input is always time, money is pretty much irrelevant.
$100/month sounds about right. Side projects are hobbies, for which $100/month is not too bad. Just compare that to the cost of operating a motorcycle, a set of golf clubs, owning a horse, building RC cars etc.
Hmm... hosting costs are around $150.00 / month. Github account is $50.00 / month. Hoovers subscription is $100 / month or so. Co-working at American Underground @ Main is $200 / month. Domain names are probably $100.00 / year counting the occasional purchase of some speculative new domain.<p>So, whatever all that adds up to. We don't have any customer revenue yet, so I sustain things out of my "day job" salary.
Domain costs, now a day I use github pages for hosting so I usually don't have to pay for hosting the domain. A subscription for Photoshop. Sometimes I pay for other software. Might have to start paying for IntelliJ soon.
All of mine are profitable or have been stopped.<p>Couple websites net ~$1000 adsense a year, after $8/mo hosting costs.<p>Smart mirror raised $4k (lol) seed from university accelerator.<p>Personal website somehow got a random donation that payed for hosting.
Zero, not including time. This include profitable projects. There might be the occasional software purchase like Sketch (like $99). I guess I also pay for my webhost and domain.
5$/mo for DO droplet
7$/mo for private Github repos (could be free if you use bitbucket, but the UI/UX is horrific :()
12$/yr for the domain<p>that's about it