Name: 被動收入。我如何無所事事地賺取40 000美元/年(軟件工程師版) (Passive Income: How I make $40,000/year doing nothing (software engineer edition))
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Today I wanted to talk about passive income and about how I'm generating about $40,000 per year just on side income.

And this is income where I'm basically just not doing anything.

I'm getting about low over $100 just for doing nothing.

Now, I wanted to talk about this video, not actually because I think it's important for software engineers to build additional side income streams.

I would say that even $40,000 per year isn't really going to be that meaningful necessarily, but, um, but I would say it's a very fun happy to have.

It can help you get deeper into South for engineering.

As you're building these side projects, it can help build up your resume.

And what I hope to do is tell you about the ways that I generate side income.

And I'm not really sure if all of these are going to be completely useful for you, because it may be difficult to replicate what I've done.

But it can help inspire you, maybe give you some ideas.

So for me, most of my side income comes from four projects that I'm doing now.

The 1st 1 is this photography software that I created is called panel APS 360 dot com.

It is for time lapse photographers, and this project is a very niche project that, um, I began when there was a big time lapse boom like there were time lapses all over YouTube and I was into time lapses as well, and people needed a way to add special effects to these time.

Lapse is to process the time life is, and there weren't many good time life software.

There was one software that was retailing for over $200 I thought, you know, that's really expensive and that I could build something better not the sulfur I built did two things.

The first thing it would do was I would allow you to add motion to your time lapses, using actually perspective, correct math and this involved really understanding the math behind lenses like a 24 millimeter camera.

What does that actually mean in terms of field of view and what's like 100 millimeter camera?

And this was very fun for me to learn and figure out and find the exact math behind it, and I also apply some of my computer graphic skills to get this going.

I built the cell for using Adobe Action Script, which is like flash technology.

That's pretty funny because action script is not a very popular language these days, but the great thing about it was it was cross platform across Windows and Apple, and I wanted to make sure that the software I wrote a target both platforms and they needed to be desktop software because I didn't want users to have to upload their photos just together processed, unlike some Web software.

So I've looked around for the appropriate technology for this, and I could have chosen either Java or Adobe Air Action script.

And I really wasn't keen on getting back into Java.

And it seemed to me that action script and flash technology could be something interesting is something that already been doing a bit of, um, I was able to just build out the software pretty quickly.

It took, like, two weeks or so to build out.

I know this at the time that a lot of Timelapse photographers were tried to add motion to their time lapses, using very expensive hardware rakes that would be based on timers, and it was slowly like rotate the head and I realized that you didn't really need these hardware timers and rotational motorized has to do all this stuff like you could do with on software using perspective, correction and just a bit of math and image distortion.

There was a very small niche message board community of time lapse photographers.

I was part of it, and I knew that if I built a software, I could just go there, announce it and everybody would see that message.

And within the first day or two of me launching the software, I was already getting, like $500 every day in sales Over the years, I continue to build up features into the software.

Another big feature was allowing you to capture time lapses across sunset or sunrise when the scene exposure would change quickly.

And for this I would use math to calculate the exposure of a scene based on the Exposure triangle, which is based on aperture I, Esso and shutter speed.

And using these three pieces, you're able to calculate how bright a scene is and then interpret what Brendan is.

Each frame should be as the cameras changing exposure quickly to try to capture the scene.

I also added some other interesting features, like I had that support to do fish I time lapses, which is a very unique and strange effect.

And it literally took me like a month to work out the calculations for how they threw a fish eye protection and then build like fish.

I geometry into the program, so I'm not sure if this was that well received.

So I'm I don't know if it was a really good use of my time to spend the whole month building out this feature, but it was really fun for me to do at least, and I had to get into like, Ah GPU Shader is to actually do it.

So I had to teach myself that stuff and with the self or something that I'm still maintaining these days, I sell it for a pretty high price, about $80 apiece, and I think that's actually a very worthwhile price.

And also, I just think that the economics is the for desktop software.

You can just charge more, and I was pretty happy that I did not make this like iPhone app.

Where the standard is, every app needs to be like a dollar or $5.

Like like here's a nap time selling for $80.

But I still managed to make about one cell every day, and it also helped when I managed to translate the whole website into Japanese, and this self became quite popular in Japan as well.

There's another side project that I've been running for the past 10 years or so It's called human pets dot com is kind of, AH, social network, and this was very popular back in the day, like there were two million users and it was generating, like, $2000 every day or something for a while.

These days, the website has lost a lot of popularity from its heyday.

Um, it's still pushing out about, say, $100 per month, and the way it generates money is generally through memberships take off the issues, so I feel like I probably should be trudging more for membership.

I charge like $6 for a monthly membership, which is probably too low.

When you become a member, you gain a bunch of additional features and another great thing about this.

That ad that was that you could buy or give the memberships to other people so A lot of people would be doing that, because often people seem to tree others better than they may treat themselves.

But this eye has been operational for the past 10 years or so, and it's just been spilling additional income for me that whole time.

The third project was a set of iPhone games Web, RPG, APS, really, where people could just progress a character through a game and there would be levels a story line to push the player through many items to collect, monsters to fight, and you just click buttons and kind of move your character through.

I think the key to this was there was a story line that was just very engrossing for two player, and the other thing was, I had high limits for purchases like you could buy items that were like $20 in the game.

There's a statistic that 90% of your income will come from the top 10% of players in the game, and those players are considered the whales.

They're basically people who have either a lot of money or don't mind spending a lot of money on gaming.

Um and so I think that was one mistake I made with my first website, which was a limited so that you could only pay a maximum of about $6 per month for membership.

Amanda, how much you loved the app or game.

And what I wish I did was add higher thresholds for spending.

The fourth project I did was very interesting, and this was actually photography.

And you can sell ah, stock photography or stock videos.

Now stuck photography doesn't pay very well because it's so cheap.

It's like 25 cents or something like my bestselling further was a photo off the Brooklyn Bridge.

A New York just happens to sell very well because it's so iconic and this further so the about 50 100 copies and each copy was a dollar.

So me just standing there taking one shot what that was like a $1500 shot right there with video.

It's even better because each video you can sell for about $50 apiece or so.

Um, and these days I think people are looking really for four K video, like they need to be extremely high quality.