My blog at http://erica.biz makes more than $1,000/mo in advertising and affiliate commissions.
I built the blog after I bootstrapped and sold my first tech company. I talk a lot about growing your business/startup, and especially about all the failures I had while building my businesses. It became popular (1.2 million unique visitors last year alone.)
I've now been blogging there for just over 6 years. Today I'm more focused on my startup, so my blog isn't bringing in as much income as it used to (though it's still over $1,000/mo.) My best month was over $24,000 in income.
http://rebrickable.com - a LEGO database that does some number crunching and tells you what you can build by combining parts from all your sets. Lots of user submitted content that is also searched and can be built, everything with instructions.
I started a bag company, https://www.missionarybag.com/, for a niche market (young adults who leave home for 18 months to 2 years). A contract sewer here in the US makes the bags and my stay-at home wife does the shipping/handling. This is our first month to hit $1,000 profit in a month in under 6 months. After spending 12 years in software development, I wanted to create something tangible. And all the ecommerce/SEO/marketing I have helped others with over the years has come in handy - learning a lot in the process. We are looking to fill some larger orders with an overseas manufacturer.
My goal was to break $1k / mo by the end of this year. Last month I not only broke that goal, but more than doubled my next highest month.
I made a nest egg of $150,000 through advanced use of the "spend less than you make" framework. I invest passively with index funds. I average about 6% annually, but this year was significantly more than that. Easily $1k/month.
A good old fashioned web site which ranks high for a resort town which has a lot of tourists who don't know where to eat so they search in the Google. My next venture is a run on sentence shortening service.
I run http://postertext.com. We design art prints for bibliophiles. All illustrations are made entirely out of text.
I've been running it while traveling the world for 3 years non-stop now. Check out my AMA on reddit if you're interested: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1rneli/ive_been_travel...
I run a forum (historic vehicles) members donate to see additional content, mainly old posts and bigger images, this is the primary income. Our recurring income is in that range.
Certainly not hi-tech but valuable to our membership and increases by at least 10% each year.
We don't run any keyword advertising but in the past year I we started selling advertising space in 12 month plans which has supplemented income.
Facebook has taken a bite out of our daily posting figures but it has made no difference to traffic/income. Facebook can't compete when it comes to delivering old content.
There are several associated niches to ours which don't have a centralised web site, much potential, you do however need a good knowledge of the subject matter and time to build the community.
I made an Android app, Unlock With WiFi, three years ago. It has brought in about 64K over that time. The app unlocks your phone when you're connected to your home wifi. I'm currently working on a complete rewrite that will support patterns and face lock for root users.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.benhirashi...
http://www.shipadick.com - no joke. They sell themselves.
I built and sell a collection of plugins for the Delphi IDE at http://www.twodesk.com. (Yes, people still use Delphi), for a consistent single-digit multiple of $1K each month.
https://coderpad.io is a SaaS product I built that provides the highest fidelity experience out there currently for interviewing other programmers over the phone.
I got to my current rev with a mix of self service plans and enterprise deals.
I built and run the internet sales for my fathers and friend company and both produce over $1k a month for me: http://bluebidet.com and http://naturalsinsonline.com
In my spare time i make more than $1,000/mo designing and building Android Native Applications for companies and businesses. Is hard to balance your time between your day-day job and your personal projects but i think is possible with a good management of time.
My mobile app, Routesy (http://routesy.com), falls into this category through a combination of sales of the paid version and advertising in the free version. It was one of the first 500 apps in the App Store when it launched in 2008 and has been pretty consistent in its earnings ever since then.
It is a shopping cart service developed for developers and web design agencies.
This is the a side project we have with the team @ spektrummedia.com.
We are up and running since last August, we won the site of the day on Awwwards.com back in August and then we have a lot of traffic and we are getting new customers everyday.
A music album I made fits that description, although it is winding down, as to be expected: http://lifeformed.bandcamp.com/
Via album sales, Spotify streams, iTunes, etc, all done through TuneCore (https://www.tunecore.com).
I make quite a bit more than $1k a month from Duet - http://duetapp.com
It's a project management app for freelancers and small businesses. Hopefully one day soon it will be more than a side project.
http://www.supportfu.com - SaaS. bootstrapped.
I was making ~$3k/month with http://myapptemplates.com. Recently sold it. Now working on an ad tech startup.
I make ~$2.5k a month from my simple iOS apps http://www.bytesizeapps.net/
Kickstarted a Python course (now 2, soon to be 3 courses) - RealPython.com
Adult comics - http://www.8muses.com
This is my brand new project: http://metrics11.com/ It helps you find profitable keywords niches you can use on your site to get free traffic from Google. It shows you how many people search for given term per month in chosen country, what is competition for that term, and other metrics like trends or domains availability. We focus mostly on competitors metrics. I think it is the most comprehensive keyword research tool on the market right now. Try the demo on the front page.
getsentry.com - saas
My first software product I launched on the side 5 years ago still makes quite a bit more than $1k/m (and that's in non-recurring revenue). Its best month was more than $15k while I was working full time. I was able to quit my corporate job back in February to focus on some new products.
A service that helps businesses recover from Google Penguin penalty. The number of websites using poor link building and seo practices is unbelievably high. I help them undo the poor practices and recover/prevent from Penguin penalty.
Have you thought about some kind of drop shipping business? Find a vendor, make a store on Shopify/Volusion/BigCommerce, whatever. A lot of items can have 50%+ margins while still staying within range of competitors.
My side project : http://html5portfoliotemplate.com is generating some revenue. (not closer to above mark but in next few months it may reach there)
http://www.visadoor.com Visadoor lets you search through employment based green cards petitions and H1Bs. I make a couple of hundred dollars from adsense.
1. Niche music site monetized with apparel sales
2. Network of content sites monetized with ads
It's a SaaS providing A/B testing for mobile apps that started out as a side project.
I started http://buildtracks.com as a side project. Now working on it full time.
I made a course and documentation management, and grading system for speech pathology students. Netted me >12k last year (before tax).
I made a service where I find leads for other freelancers. Something I desperately wanted for my own freelance biz.
I wrote a short book on Ruby (http://dmtri.com/posts/65/just_enough_ruby_to_get_by) for beginners. I wanted to publish it via LearnPub originally and earn some money, but I decided to release it for free instead.
Personal blog: http://ashishb.net/ Makes money from adsense. No where close to 1K/month but growing towards that.
A tiny Zombie Shooter (www.snipezombies.com)
builtwithbootstrap.com
I now blog at http://ta.gd/mypost no ads no nothing, it really just a feed for all things tech, also original post. About 3 years ago I had a news blog called alternative news daily which I sold for about 7 times revenue. My best day ever I took down 800 and change in a day.
It was during the bp oil spill ordeal, I heard Lindsey Williams on a talk radio show talking about all the toxic chemicals and gas the spill would produce, and how the worker were getting sick from it.
up until then I had never heard of anything like this in main stream news, so I wrote a lengthy article on it. A few days later guess what... The story was a hot item in main stream news! Not only did alternativenewsdaily.com have the top position in search, the distribution channels I submitted the story too made up the rest of the serps. Traffic poured in by the thousands and my ads were catching clicks like crazy. Later on the momentum wore off and I was drowned out by NYTimes, huffpost, and others, but that short time I was on top was freaking awesome.
I still have decent ranking blogs that I will try to post breaking news on as soon as I hear about it to try to get a jump on mainstream outlets, I monitor drudgereport for that, but I doubt I'll ever get anywhere close to that day traffic surge.
for a good laugh you may be interested in my post http://ta.gd/boyband how to start the ultimate boy band in 5 easy steps (no ads)
- I will like to thank everyone for their contributions. I have learnt so much from Hacker News.
http://iOSapps.com and http://Vineos.net bring me about $1,000 per month. My aim is to make $3,000 per month by the end of next year
http://www.brombone.com
It's a service that solves SEO for javascript driven websites.
For the most part, Google can't crawl sites that manipulate the DOM using javascript (AngularJS, Backbone.js, Ember.js, etc). The solution is to use a headless browser to make html snapshots for all your pages and serve those to Google instead of the page that requires javascript.
This turns out to be a bit of a pain in practice. So, BromBone does it for you. It generates, hosts, and updates the html snapshots. When Googlebot visits your site, you proxy the snapshot from BromBone and serve it to Google. Now Google can see the same thing your users see.