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Comment by biot

10 years ago 

  > a startup idea based on emoji passwords that encodes/decodes
  > emojis into their hex/binary equivalent.

Is "startup" now synonymous with "thing that I built in 2 hours and have no ability to monetize"?

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j42  10 years ago

Well, "startup" is a poor choice of words, but he actually has a half-decent idea.

As someone who owns dozens of little "tool" sites (think less/scss converters, meme generators, JS beautifiers, etc), I can tell you each is probably 1-2 pages, took an hour to build and thankfully due to some domain squatting (kw in domain) and a low bounce rate I don't have to worry much about SEO.

As for the Adsense revenue, I think you'd be quite surprised.

One is an afternoon, not a startup idea.

50, on the other hand, could be passive income for a very long time.

Just something to consider before jumping to negativity. ;)

  • kgtm  10 years ago

    Interesting. I would love to hear more details, like how much traffic you are bringing in total from these mini-apps and how much income from Adsense.

    • j42  10 years ago

      I have two books in my queue actually, and this is one of them.

      There are parts of my content-property model I'm not ready to share, but most of it has been structured into a cohesive framework of how I:

      1. find niches 2. automate site creation 3. optimize w/ gpt (google publisher tag)

      I'm sorry to say I won't be releasing that first... The first is due within the next 12-14 days, after which it should take me 1-2 months to finish writing & editing the adsense-property-model guide.

      To leave you with something tangible, it's very feasible to produce 5-figures per day with only hosting cost as your overhead ($300/mo).

      [edit] without automation tools though, it would obviously be very tedious to produce the number of properties required to have that kind of income by hand. process flow & site generation/management is the crux of this strategy.

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