Money making dreams and the reality

[patio11]

I really sucked at market size estimation back in the day:

http://images1.bingocardcreator.com/blog-images/hn/reality-b...

[ambiate]

That is absolutely creepy that we used the same colors and all. I was in mspaint trying to choose between green and purple as a 'dream color,' and green just seemed more like a 'start it' color.

I wish my reality charts were more like that. I scooped up a few iPad/Kindle dev/app sites and hope to find enough time to make something out of them!

[alanthonyc]

What causes the seasonal spikes around October?

[krmmalik]

Link doesnt seem to be working?

[ambiate]

something in the tubes went wrong! (100% cpu usage, 100% disk io), my linode got throttled

[gsaines]

This is pretty fun, I especially liked the iPhone graph.

[ambiate]

I'm hoping the Kindle will be the next gold mine!

[vishaldpatel]

No way man. The iPad is the next gold mine!

[aresant]

This mirrors the average money-making-misadventures in the online space so well it's scary, nice job to the author.

[vaksel]

isn't the whole "my hope for this post is $1.29 from adsense" against Google ToS? Kinda implies you want people clicking.

[ambiate]

wasn't exactly what I was aiming for, last time I posted I made 1.28 ;\

[DXL]

Would you mind writing up a piece about your offline affiliate marketing experience, since it seems to be the most successful thing you've done?

[ambiate]

I'll do a write up tomorrow, but I'm about to head to sleep. Been refreshing the statistics page and looking at ref urls for an hour and checking out some of these news sites I've never heard of!

email me at admin @ the linked website . com and I'll either email it to you or post it. The writeup will require quite a bit of time and tweaking :D

[tjoozeylabs]

Inaccurate

[corruption]

I really do wonder how people don't make money on the internet. It's trivially easy to make it to mid six figures. I've personally found it extremely difficult to make it to 7/8.

[staunch]

If it's so trivially easy why don't you have 20 people do it under your direction, and to your benefit? If it's so easy why don't you just do it 10 times simultaneously?

[sorbits]

Under the assumption that “it is trivially simple to make mid six figures” then to reach 7/8 figures just:

    1. Start new enterprise
    2. Increase profit to mid 6 figures
    3. Sell enterprise for 7 figures
       (only a couple of years profits)
    4. GoTo 1

Do that enough times, and you should be loaded — as they say, once you are lucky, twice you are good :)

[tbrownaw]

But unfortunately, two of those six figures tend to be on the wrong side of the decimal point. :(

[Mc_Big_G]

[citation needed]

[ericb]

What is your recipe to make mid six figures?