Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?

<a href="http://www.bingocardcreator.com/stats/sales-by-month" rel="nofollow">http://www.bingocardcreator.com/stats/sales-by-month</a><p>These days BCC is in maintenance mode (i.e. I respond to emails, cut checks, and put out fires, but I don't do active development or marketing). It works out to a bit more than my old salary for roughly 69.5 less hours of weekly work.<p>I have two other businesses: I do consulting and I have Appointment Reminder. Appointment Reminder pays its own way now, but doesn't put a meaningful amount of money in my pocket. Consulting does (egads), but distracts quite a bit from working on AR.

I make ~$2,000 a month with an iPad game for cats. My co-founder and I were working on a "more serious" game and it was taking a long time. We needed a quick win, so I agreed to do it if we spent less than 4 weeks on it.<p>We completed the game from idea to app store in 3.5 weeks and it is now, by far, our most popular game. * face palm *<p>EDIT: We split the revenue 50/50, so the revenue (after apple's cut) on this game is around $4k/mo.

I launched TikiToki Timeline Software (<a href="http://www.tiki-toki.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.tiki-toki.com</a>) in March. It is currently making about $250 a month from subscribers. This month I have also sold a $1500 single timeline license. Hopefully more of them in the future!<p>I am currently operating TikiToki as a side project from my main business as a freelance web developer. Aim to go full time with TikiToki at start of July.<p>This will be a bit of a gamble, given that what I earn from subscribers via TikiToki for a full month is less than what I would earn in half a day as a freelance developer!<p>We do it for love as much as the money!<p>Edit: If we want to go into detail, I should also add that I also earn about $80 a month from Adsense for a blog my wife and I run (<a href="http://www.casualgirlgamer.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.casualgirlgamer.com</a>) and about $25 a month via Big Fish's affiliates scheme. Peanuts really but it all adds up...

I'm using a throwaway account here to protect my privacy.<p>I'm currently making between 90k and 110K a month in revenue as a sole employee running a fairly large active Web community (&#60; 2500 Quantcast). The focus of the community is a niche market with very little competition but we fare well by providing good value to our community.<p>Our revenue sources breaks down as follows:<p>* 40/50K/month in subscription revenue<p>* 25K/month in adsense revenue<p>* 4k/month in other ad revenue (Ebay, Amazon, Viglink etc)<p>* 30K/month in license and royalty revenue<p>As the sole employee, my primary responsibilities are all of the development of the platform, all system administration, all marketing and business activities, financials, and I also provide all the primary user support for the site. We have approximately 120 administrators and moderators who are volunteers, and we also have 4 individuals who are independent contractors who receive a set amount every month to lead different parts of our site and lead those volunteers.<p>Our platform is primarily based on Amazon Web services but includes physical servers from other hosting platforms. Platform as a service providers that we use include Cloudkick, Chartbeat, Geckoboard, Dynect, and SendGrid.<p>The reason why we have been so successful is we cater to a hobbyist market and operate on a very generous freemium model. Our subscription revenue is solid and predictable, and we experience very few chargebacks because we have consciously decided not to do automated renewals. Our license and royalty revenue is due to licensing agreements we have with third parties who utilize our content and services and APIs, as well as mobile device makers who serve our content (primarily to the Android and iOS market).<p>All of the above is a full time job and I rarely ever have a day off, although I have a tremendous amount of flexibility with my schedule.

I set up a web dev blog in 2003, at ILoveJackDaniels.com, and after a few months of rubbish blogging starting doing free cheat sheets to download. At its peak, from AdSense and text link ads, it made about $1200 per month. I had to move domain (trademark heat), and moved to AddedBytes.com. Lost lots of traffic and links, unfortunately. Ad revenue dropped over time (around $100 at its lowest), and I recently ditched the text links and adsense to go with CarbonAds.

Over the year I average $30 a month - but only with about 30 minutes of work a month. It's sad, but I bet I spend more time checking on that income than I do making it. These are mostly old learning experiences and playgrounds for me and I rarely update them.<p>60% is from Adsense on a sports-related niche website. I make most of that during a couple bursts related to sports seasons - playoffs, spring training, opening day, March Madness, etc. I absolutely stumbled upon that niche from seeing traffic on a related blog post I made. If I really did the SEO and worked on the site I could probably make 5-10 times as much, but I couldn't really grow to other niches.<p>39% of that is from Amazon affiliate links on a niche gift shopping site. That occasionally lands a sale throughout the year, but it booms from October to early December. This is something I could easily grow to lots of other niches - if I built out the automation. It doesn't really excite me, but shoveling Amazon affiliate links onto dozens or hundreds of niche shopping blogs should be lucrative. I would only focus on the Christmas shopping season though, unless you targeted different holidays like Mother's Day.<p>1% of that is from a few photos on iStockPhoto. That's where I actually want to put more of my effort going forward. I like the challenge of taking good photos and I like the idea of making my photography hobby self-supporting. But I also think the stock photography (and video) I produce will have a longer sellable life than anything else.

Until about 2 weeks ago I was the largest creator of stores on CafePress. I was earning decent residual income on existing stores that I had put up, but due to some external forces (some in my control, some out of it) I got my accounts shut down by CafePress. I still expect to earn some residual income for the next couple months on things I had already sold.<p>I had just started to seriously follow this path but I was earning between $100 and $375 per month in commissions from the test runs of my software that creates stores. I am in negotiations with them concerning turning my accounts back on.<p>I plan to expand this into a series of blog posts about lessons learned both business and technological. Upvote if that sounds like something you want to read.

Until 5/1 I was making about $1,440/mo from google adsense on my site dodgit.com and a network of other sites I had purchased from flippa. Then I received an email 'your google adsense account has been disabled' and Google seized about a thousand dollars from my account. I had been using a personal account and a brand new account I set up for a business I wanted to build and sell (acceptable, per google's TOS) but they shut down both. Google's claim was that the website content was lousy and the multiple accounts were forbidden.<p>To be honest, the blogs did have some crappy content. I would be happy to pull the ads off the bad blogs and put them back on dodgit, a service I have lovingly maintained for 7 yrs. Sadly there appears to be no way to appeal to Google once they drop the axe.<p>I'm pondering next steps. I know a few people who work at Google but haven't contacted any of them yet. I've played around with adbrite and some other ad networks, but none of them seem to generate money the way adsense can.<p>I've also created a number of websites that generate revenue over the years, that aren't dependent on adsense in any way. I'll definitely make more!

$1,000 per month from two ATM's I own. The money is easy, but finding good locations that don't already have one is a complete bitch.

Short Version: Hosted Web App making just under $10,000/mo.<p>Using a throwaway account for this because I'd rather not share our numbers publicly yet, but in about 2.5 years since our hosted web app went live, we're generating just under $10,000 per month in revenue. That's working on it part-time for the first couple of years and, more recently, full-time.<p>It's targeted at developers/designers, and the growth has been very slow and steady. There's never been a break-through moment as revenue has grown at an average rate of about 3.5% per month since we launched.

Are you referring to business income/revenue or personal income from those businesses?<p>Of the 4 businesses I've founded or co-founded (BIG Folio, APF, NextProof, and 2 Tablespoons), the first two generate approximately half of their revenue from recurring fees (we also have setup fees). That adds up to high 5-figures per month for each (more in a good month). Of course, they both have the highest overhead in terms of labor and servers. For me personally, the recurring revenue results in a monthly draw/dividend that is now higher than my (good) salary. I spend most of my time (40 hours between the 2) on these two.<p>NextProof is a purely recurring/transactional revenue business. It currently makes in the low 5-figure range per month on subscription fees + about the same in transaction fees. User base is growing at about 3% per month. Overhead is fairly low (mainly hosting at EngineYard) and I work about 5-10 hours/week on it. I take a quarterly draw/dividen on this (not too big). As someone else said, if I really worked on some SEO and properly ran some campaigns/tests, it could probably grow at 10% or more.<p>2 Tablespoons is my newest venture and, so far, generates about $30 a month from one iPhone app (epic, I know). Launching a restaurant website service this month. Hoping to take everything I've learned from these other businesses–and from HN–and generate some solid recurring revenue without too much overhead. Haven't thought about goals, but getting to $2k/month by the end of the year sounds reasonable.

I generate about $1000/mo from an iPad app I wrote (that I haven't updated in a long, long time) and then between $5-10k from iPhone user interface design/development tutorials that I sell.

I started a ROM site when I was 14, it eventually got really popular and thus got quite a few youtube videos and good search engine rankings. These days the ROMs have been long removed so traffic has obviously fallen, however due to the links and still decent search engine rankings it gets roughly 100k page views per day. End result is that the ads give me around $2k to $3k a month. Pretty happy with that since I no longer work on it and it's basically just rotting away.

About $7K per month in Android app sales.<p>(EDIT: Was at $15k per month last October before the competition started getting crazy)<p>About $2.5K per month hosting websites.<p>Then consulting income - I keep consulting because I feel like at any moment, the Android Market ranking algorithm will change or competition will wipe me out, etc, it's just to day-to-day to walk away from good old consulting.

$300-$500/month for a Windows desktop application. I wrote it to help out my mother-in-law since she found Photoshop too complicated to do what she wanted: placing text on pictures. Turned out to be a great learning experience on how to sell things online. See it here: <a href="http://www.pmesoftware.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.pmesoftware.com</a>

Roughly $1,000 a month in revenue from <a href="http://isitnormal.com" rel="nofollow">http://isitnormal.com</a>. Expenses add up to around $300 a month for hosting on linode and paid moderators. Given traffic levels, I feel I should be able to do better than this somehow. Still searching for the best way to monetize all the super-weird (but interesting!) UGC content.

Last month my revenue was shy of $35,000, pretty minor expenses, and it's basically passive.<p>I sell a combination of e-books and physical books, I have a few dozen titles.

I co-own a web app which makes about $70k a year total, which I split 50/50 with my partner.<p>Living in a relatively expensive place, I'm satisfied with that for now as it enables a modest yet comfortable standard of living. The usual benefits - flexible hours, can work in any location with internet access, complete choice of technologies, etc. go a long way.<p>We could do a lot better, though and I'm aiming to do that. The current business I have can't grow due to the unique situation (it's based on another company's API, and that company is atrocious in every way imaginable - including developer hostility). It's been a blessing, though and I'm looking to build some great new stuff this year.

$0 per month for my one-hand keyboard layout software, blah. Recently switched from a 'branded' domain to a exact-match domain, looking forward to seeing how that improves my results. Blog + regular content is next on the list.<p><a href="http://www.onehandkeyboard.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.onehandkeyboard.org</a><p>It's based on the same muscle memory as two-hand typing, so any two-hand typist can learn to type with one hand in minutes. Good for a programmer with a broken arm, for example.

I had a total of one customer until now, and that is not recurring so, 3 bucks. I was happy that day, though.

<a href="http://thathigh.com" rel="nofollow">http://thathigh.com</a> pays my rent. I haven't touched in quite some time, either.

About $2K-$6K a month from my blogs. (Plug: I'm writing a book that will help people do the same: <a href="http://technicalblogging.com" rel="nofollow">http://technicalblogging.com</a>)

I was earning approximately $10-15k annually from affiliate marketing from 2002-2006 (formerly giftsforaguy.com), but I didn't spend the time I needed to stay up-to-date with my search rankings.<p>When I tried to start over with a more general gift affiliate site in 2009, I found that the game had changed so much that it would likely take over a year to get back to the earlier level using organic SEO.<p>So I've put it on hold, hoping to relaunch using social discovery for customer acquisition.

I make a few thousand a month from <a href="http://www.w3counter.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.w3counter.com</a> (freemium) and <a href="http://www.w3roi.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.w3roi.com</a> (no free plan).<p>The sites have similar revenue despite the freemium one having over 1000 times more total users.

My web games portal <a href="http://fstr.net" rel="nofollow">http://fstr.net</a> earns about $5 per month. I put in a couple of hours a week looking through the games list and picking a few to become 'features'<p>If I put hours in I can do better - If I submit links to gaming sites it can earn a few dollars a day :)<p>I couldn't figure out how to scale the traffic, so I've left it on autopilot while I try building other sites. I have a blog that earns about the same and am working on a new idea now that I hope will be 'the one'<p>My overall goal is to build an autopilot site (or portfolio of sites) that earns ~$90/day. Then ... become a sci fi author.<p>(LOL ... damn you Tim Ferris! I wasn't miserable in my work-a-day life until I read your damned book - two years later I'm still trying to achieve those dreams of freedom!)

About $100 per month for <a href="http://giftyweddings.com/" rel="nofollow">http://giftyweddings.com/</a> -- a website that lets you make your own wedding gift registry/list (not tied to a specific store). At this point my maintenance consists of answering about one email a month.

I was making around $1,800 a month in AdSense revenue from The Online Slang Dictionary (and thesaurus) - <a href="http://onlineslangdictionary.com/" rel="nofollow">http://onlineslangdictionary.com/</a><p>The site was collateral damage in Google's Panda update (which was hoped to reduce the prominence of content mills, etc. in search results) so that number has been greatly reduced the past 2 months.

About $10k a month from an old Facebook quiz app. I haven't touched the codebase or worked on said app in 8 months.

<a href="http://ridewithgps.com" rel="nofollow">http://ridewithgps.com</a> is signing up around $4k a month of recurring (yearly and monthly) users. Exciting to see what happens when we start promoting our premium services, and, excited to see the yearly people get rebilled starting in 10 months...

I have 4 apps on the Mac App Store. It took me a total of 2 months to develop. I make roughly $3300 in sales per month. After taxes and Apple's 30% cut I make roughly $2000.

I generate about $700/month from a web-based timeline tool called Preceden that I built in about six months in my spare time [1].<p>Preceden's been in maintenance mode for about a year now, as most of my free time is spent working on a new web design tool called Lean Designs (formerly jMockups) [2]. Lean Designs isn't profitable yet, but it's getting there. Preceden, meanwhile, continues to grow organically. Lean Designs is more of a swing-for-the-fence project, but I've got high hopes for it.<p>Plan is to transition to full time sometime in the fall of next year.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.preceden.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.preceden.com</a><p>[1a] <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1114834" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1114834</a><p>[2] <a href="http://www.leandesigns.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.leandesigns.com</a><p>[2a] <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2497266" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2497266</a>

6k-8k a month through small-time consulting. I've got one big customer, and two smaller ones. Good work, but it doesn't scale well.

I average about $300 a month from app sales of a paid app and an ad-supported app. (This month is looking better, for some reason)<p>[Edit: I didn't actually say it, but these are iPhone apps]<p>On average, almost all of my income is from app sales, and not from ads or In-App Purchases.<p>I had a Lite version of the paid app, but that seemed to do more harm than good.<p>I have In-App purchases (both to unlock some extra content and remove ads in the ad-based app, and to unlock each feature of the paid app into the free app), but these have been rather slow to sell (maybe 1 or 2 a week?)<p>My best paid app sales month was about $900. (This was actually Christmas and a strong early January, which was all reported as January) No other months have come close (although I've only been up since December, really)<p>I DON'T advertise of any kind. Even my official website gets zero traffic, so I don't bother to keep it up to date.<p>P.S. I honestly expected my apps to spike in sales and then drop down to a couple a week. In fact, all of my apps continue to be very steady. Even my highs and lows tend to be distributed across all three apps, implying (but not proving) that it's the market itself moving up and down, rather than anything I'm doing.<p>[EDIT: Responding to replies:] [EDIT: Responded to wallflower]<p><i>statictype</i><p>-I don't openly connect myself to my apps, mostly because they are a little embarrassing. Maybe I'll write a blog post tell-all.<p>-They started earning steadily from the beginning, almost entirely through searching for solutions in the app store. I should point out that the paid app is actuall $2.99 so $300/month is really only an average of 4 sales per day or so.<p><i>hello_moto</i><p>-As for getting started in the iPhone business, I came into it as a young but seasoned programmer who had an idea for a market that was somewhat established, but under-served. Since then, my opinion on that market and my initial idea have completely changed, but I don't have any better ideas for iPhone apps at the moment.<p>As for rules and regulations? I haven't registered a business yet, so Apple treats me as an individual developer. I tried to hide my real name when I set it up, which half-worked, but took like a week.<p>I've run into IP infringement cases for my apps, and have even had a DMCA take-down against it, which was resolved very quickly by both sides (at the expense of my app becoming hideous). Apple actually reviewed and approved my changed app within 2 hours of me submitting it, which was awesome. I actually only had a single day of zero sales through all that.<p>I had an app take about 2 and a half months to get through review. Apple is MUCH slower with free apps than paid apps.<p><i>wallflower</i><p>The graphic design/presentation was absolutely awful for a long time. Now the app itself is decent enough looking (no where near "Apple" pretty, but the logo is still awful).<p><i>none</i> Completely unrelated to your responses, I'm planning on submitting my fourth app this weekend (which is an optimistic estimate, to say the least).

<a href="http://fuckyeahnouns.com" rel="nofollow">http://fuckyeahnouns.com</a><p>Generates about $125/mo from 30-60k pageviews per day.

Between 3000 to 5000 a month USD spending about 10 hours a month on support. Last year, made about $40K. Nothing to sneeze at, but nothing to get too excited about either.

I make close to $1k/month on a few iOS apps and games, as well as an OS X app that I released a few months ago. One is a meditation timer, and the game is an elf bowling clone.<p>We're working to improve both products and fix bugs. It's not easy to stay on top of it as an indie shop, especially in between consulting gigs and new product development.<p>I also make another 300-500/month from ebooks and other digital products. Working on some software that I hope will make this number triple.

I once had a collection of poker-related software that did in the low 6 figures per month. Unfortunately recent government actions kicked that in the nuts.

I make a couple thousand a month selling affiliate iPod transfer software on a popular post on my blog.<p>An online dating tips blog that I started over 3 years ago under a pseudonym very recently started bringing in a few thousand a month from affiliates as well. SEOFTW.<p>There's lots of potential to bump up the revenue on the online dating blog, but I'm finishing up my book on design, so that's more important.

I used to make about $1,200 a month from a website with dating advice on it, via affiliate sales of dating products.<p>It started off as a Digg-esque site for the vast quantity of dating-related articles on the net based on some custom Perl I hacked together, but I quickly realized that while that was getting me linked by 'dating experts', the traffic it was bringing in didn't convert, where traffic to very generic articles ("How to meet girls at the gym") converted much better.<p>I tried to make sure it was updated every day, and finding, sourcing, and writing the articles took an hour a day. I ended up selling the site for ~ $16k when I needed some money to pay a tax bill quickly.<p>There are now so so so many sites farming this kind of content, I think it'd be very hard to reproduce in this field. That said, the affiliate commissions are pretty good - one guy would pay you $40 for every $20 ebook of his that was sold as a result of you (because he figured you'd sent him a paying customer who'd end up spending a lot more with him).

Getting about 60$ a month with <a href="http://udeployer.com/" rel="nofollow">http://udeployer.com/</a> - considering the amount of work I put into it I'm definitely opting for more than 60 dollars, but better than nothing... at least I can have a fancy dinner once a month :).<p>Continuously expanding with some marketing, hoping to reach the $500/month mark someday.

$3000 from ads on Iconfinder.com

$7k/month in salary

Make about $40/mo on a couple iPhone apps (one paid, one free with a pay what you want in-app purchase). Mechanical engineer but taught myself iOS programming in my spare time for fun.<p>For those curious, the apps are "US Tax Receipt" (free) and "Candy Counter - The Candy Jar Estimator" ($0.99)

Around $350/month<p>$100-$200 a month selling virtual weapons in SecondLife (Used to be around $800 a month a few years ago)<p>$200 a month with my two iOS apps developed using Unity3D. Each took around 1 week to make! Seriously was worth the $300 license, I doubt anybody could match the development speed natively.

Just hit $200/mo from <a href="http://weddinginvitelove.com" rel="nofollow">http://weddinginvitelove.com</a>. App launched in January, and I launched paid accounts in mid-April. Not the best for one month, but not the worst either.

I have a blog on environment and green living (<a href="http://www.connect-green.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.connect-green.com</a>) which brings in around $20 a month from adsense, have a tutorial aggregating service (<a href="http://tutmash.com" rel="nofollow">http://tutmash.com</a>) which is pretty new and haven't started to make any thing considerable.<p>I do freelance web development. Even though not consistent, it's my main revenue source.<p>I believe there are very good opportunities to make a good income from online businesses but in my case, my acute procrastination issue is preventing me from making anything considerable.

About $300/month from a GPL script. A PHP class, quite popular, about 7 years old and still going strong. I am surprised nobody in this thread gets recurring income for sharing open source code. I mostly receive donations. I also sell licenses, from a few dollars to hundreds. I publish about three releases a year, and don't spend that much time working on it or supporting it. I shall not forget to mention that publishing this code got me a lot of freelance gigs. Bonus fact: it is rather enjoyable to go to a contract interview where the interviewer has actually used my code.

I made between 12k-20k a month for a little more than 3 years as an online poker player. And that was only "working" on average between 4 and 5 hours a day.<p>Sadly I am an American and that is no longer possible.

Basically zero for me. One question though is at what point do taxes become an issue, in terms of (in the US) the IRS becoming interested and ultimately how much they affect income?

bliss (<a href="http://www.blisshq.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.blisshq.com</a>) hovers in the $1k - $1.5k bracket at the moment. It still is under active development though.<p>The main sales channel is SEO, but I have also had success by trying to integrate, both technically and marketing-wise, with other products and services. Referrals from blog reviews and forum posts also help a little. Adwords is very low, and is something I'm trying to improve all the time (thanks patio11 for the blog posts).

<a href="http://tweetclaims.com" rel="nofollow">http://tweetclaims.com</a> pulls in around $100-$200 per month. If we get big press (like a blog post), we will get a spike and triple that. I literally haven't updated the code in a year. Runs like a champ and does what it's suppose to.<p>I would love to expand on it or market it more, but time does not permit right now. I've started playing with Google Adwords, so we will see how that goes. We are also working on getting the site redesigned.

None. ;-)

Revenue:<p>1) 377 * $20/month subscriptions <a href="http://www.postjobfree.com/premium-membership" rel="nofollow">http://www.postjobfree.com/premium-membership</a><p>2) ~$1000/month in AdSense<p>Expenses: ~$4000/month

I average $30 month on a fishing blog, I'm pretty passionate about it too so i don't really consider it work. All the revenue is via google adsense. I've been trying google affiliate but in 6 months have made zero on it.<p>The site is built on wordpress so i've been thinking about some kind of amazon affiliate plugin but i haven't pulled the trigger yet, haven't read any outstanding reviews on amazon plugins either.

I made $162 from an iphone app called Tank! last month, and it has been on the store for about 4-5 months. It is a simple clone of Atari Combat that was built with phonegap and Canvas + Javascript. I charge $2.99 per app sale, and that seems to be the sweet spot. <a href="http://robkohr.com/iphone/tank/" rel="nofollow">http://robkohr.com/iphone/tank/</a> (pricing is wrong on this page)

Around $1000 a month from Android app sales: <a href="https://market.android.com/details?id=com.dozingcatsoftware.WireGoggles" rel="nofollow">https://market.android.com/details?id=com.dozingcatsoftware....</a>. (After Google's cut, before taxes). A few weeks ago I applied the common HN advice and raised the price from $0.99 to $1.99, which so far has increased revenue by about 50%.

SAAS company, 2 people, no funding. $6k/month after paying the support person. completely passive income, e.g. i don't check email any more.

Hey guys, awesome to see such a successful thread.<p>I'd like to set up some sort of group where we get ~10 people together and then each week set things we need to do, and then next week we make sure the other people completed their goals.<p>If you are in, post your email as a reply to this. I'm going to use a posterous group to accomplish this - though if there is something else that would work better let me know.

I make about $900 on a social website that I wrote and admin by myself. The site helps local communities stay connected. A couple of years back revenue was around $1200 a month ive had the site for about 11 yrs and is currently on top 3 search results on google and yahoo.I'm adding several sister sites in the next few months just waiting for urls to become available.

Back when I was 13-15 I did some freelance web development (before everyone and their grandma was a freelancer) and made about 300USD a month. This was also back when the American dollar was great, the Canadian dollar sucked, and therefore profit. I made more money doing this than a shitty McDonald's job that I couldn't get because I was too young.

I make ~$500/mo recurring income designing custom email marketing pieces.<p>Also, I see there are a lot of app developers here. I mainly do logo design <a href="http://www.designsourced.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.designsourced.com</a> and have worked on a few apps. Any HN folks that want a custom app icon designed for a good price or % of future sales let me know

I make about $500/mo in AdSense from <a href="http://www.snapspans.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.snapspans.com/</a>.

I get about $100 (sometimes more, often less) from my iPhone/iPad game, Battle for Vesta: <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/3d-space-combat-battle-for/id348434008?mt=8" rel="nofollow">http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/3d-space-combat-battle-for/id...</a><p>More would be nice, but I have done a terrible job at marketing it.

So I run <a href="http://tweethopper.com/" rel="nofollow">http://tweethopper.com/</a> and we are up to $300 a month in paying accounts. I also have <a href="http://webpulp.tv/" rel="nofollow">http://webpulp.tv/</a> which brings in around $1200 a month in ads.<p>Nothing major, but certainly room to grow!

At it's peak, I made thousands (not sure what the exact number was now) from domain parking/monetization.

About $30/month from a very small free iPhone app with iAd. Thinking about making it a paid app and seeing how it does.<p>If you're curious: <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nations/id386514813?mt=8" rel="nofollow">http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nations/id386514813?mt=8</a>

I'm happy to say that I make a solid $2k-$5k with a bunch of niche Apps in the AppStore, see http.//010dev.com<p>Although this requires a good amount of time, I'm still able to do some freelancing on the side which makes a pretty sweet addition to the above, works out just great.

About $350/month in affiliate earnings/advertising from an image gallery site. It's been up for about 1.5 years. Traffic has been up lately, but earnings seem to have plateaued.<p>I see a lot of posters making over $1K/month. How long did it take to reach that level of income?

$200/month from dumb flash anti-games a friend and I made 3 years ago in over a weekend each.<p>rrrrthats5rs.com

roughly $50/month for a news aggregator:<p><a href="http://www.iphone2die4.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.iphone2die4.com/</a><p>Bear in mind it's been flying solo since 2007 with only a single facelift about 6 months ago. No marketing or anything. Pays for the server, but that's it.

9 months since posting my first android app I'm making 200-300/m from two apps. It took me a good 6 months before I was able to get above 100 though. Not too bad considering I'm competing against free alternatives but a long way to go.

Around 400-600 euro a month selling subscriptions to people and schools who do exercises to improve their Dutch language skills. We offer free exercises for everybody and people can get extra features with subscriptions.

In the thousands per month from iPhone app downloads and web apps subscriptions.

I make ~$300/month from a couple of iOS apps. 99% of the revenue comes from an iPad App that came out the day the iPad was released. I'm surprised that the app still makes money, I haven't updated it for a year.

Myguestmap.org generates around 300usd in ads and 10-100usd in donations a month since 2005. Last touched it in 2006. Donations tend to get higher on christmas :-)

0 &#60; monthly income &#60; $1000<p>That is from rental properties I own.

videolla currently generates between $1-2k/month. we spend more on development (its still in active dev) so not reached breakeven, but growing..

www.giftcertificatefactory.com $40 from Adsense (for 1 month). Traffic is building up (website is only 3 months old), so I have hopes it's going to increase :-) The website provides gift certificate templates for businesses and not businesses alike. I've tried to sell the templates in the first 3 months but had no luck with it. Still trying to figure out better monetization.

somewhere around $100/mo from an adwords/affiliate thing, and less than $50 on a web app i'm slowly working on. in the future, web app will generate more income, and i'm working on a niche piece of hardware that ought to also produce a few bucks on the side.<p>edit: on the "takes money to make money" front, i make several hundred bucks on dividend-returning stocks.

250ish affiliate sales 400 hosting 15 mobile app ads 50 mobile app sales (should grow decently when i launch my first ios game)

I make about $1000 a month from Whiteboard Capture Pro and more than that from consulting. Plus I have a day job.

~$2500-$3000/mo from boutique dedicated server hosting.

Between 9K - 13K a month from affiliate commissions (CJ) promoting diet programs, and web hosts. 50% is from a network of sites. 50% is from a vastly successful Adwords campaign.