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How Much Money Do Indie Hackers Products Make? (220724)
- Most of the products don't make any revenue at all.
- Success in the world of indie developers is an outlier business
- Around 5 percent of the products we analyzed generate a monthly revenue exceeding USD 8,333 (around USD 100K/year), which is relatively easy to earn as a software engineer in a full-time job.
How BuiltWith generates USD 14 million a year while having zero employees
- USD 14 million annual recurring revenue
- No idea like this had existed, and the domain BuiltWith was somehow not taken already
- For instance, certain pieces of code can be used to identify if Adsense is used vs. Adzerk or some other advertising method
- AboutUs was an internet domain directory containing information about millions of businesses. Gary showed Ray BuiltWith, and Ray immediately loved it. He added a BuiltWith.com link to every record in their index to provide BuiltWith information regarding each business
- This added tens of millions of links; for those who aren't SEO experts, backlinks (pages that link to your site) are the key to ranking high. And BuiltWith just exploded with traffic
- BuiltWith's value comes down to a straightforward concept.