Ask HN: How much ad revenue you make from your side project?

14 points by umen 2 years ago | 9 comments

I try to understand if it's still good business idea for simple web apps . from your experience is it ? can you give examples and numbers ? thanks

fullstick 2 years ago |

$0. My side projects are for me first and I want to provide ad free experiences for those who happen to use them. Be the change you want to see.

toader 2 years ago | |

I'm sure your users appreciate that. How does your change you want to see ideology align with news outlets or other 'free' but funded by advertising services?

whatamidoingyo 2 years ago |

I've disabled adsense because it brings in like $0.60/wk. When I first got approved, it was like $8.00/day, but that slowly died down. Not sure why exactly. Adsense revenue isn't worth slowing down a site and angering users.

I think it might be worth it if you had a few projects all running Adsense, like 10 sites, or something. Correct me if I'm wrong?

Invertigrate 2 years ago | |

Most ads load asynchronously now so it won't really slow the site down. As for your revenue, it depends a lot on your traffic and where it's from.

admissionsguy 2 years ago |

$400 / mo at 40-50,000 monthly UU. It's not a web app, just static website with lots of data.

caspg 2 years ago | |

How do you make money? Google Ads?

admissionsguy 2 years ago | | |

One of the many monetisation networks alternative to Adsense, though I imagine much of the inventory comes from Google in any case.

umen 2 years ago | |

in what field ?

admissionsguy 2 years ago | | |

college applicants