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Comment by 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. ;)

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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.

    • kgtm  10 years ago

      Thanks for the reply. Does site creation involve pure content sites as well as simple web apps? Or maybe some kind of hybrid for SEO purposes?

      I would love to read more once you have something published. You should consider adding some contact info in your profile so that people won't go on a stalking expedition to find you (as i did) :)

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    • sbierwagen  10 years ago

      Automated site creation... what, you're taking some public domain content, loading it up with ads, then hoping it ends up higher in the SERP than the original source?

      How is this different than filling amazon with autogenerated kindle "books" made from Wikipedia articles?

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    • biot  10 years ago

      5 figures per day as in $10K+ every day? Impressive! How many of those tools require constant automation? Something like a CSS converter or JS beautifier should only need updating to fix bugs or due to updates of underlying libraries.