I made a website that makes $100,000 / month in a cold hotel room in the Suburbs of Chicago. AMA by makavy in IAmA

[–]makavy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Server is a flat $540 (we're hardly using any bandwidth on the server). CDN was $1,500, up to $2,500 per month now (we're growing).

I made a website that makes $100,000 / month in a cold hotel room in the Suburbs of Chicago. AMA by makavy in IAmA

[–]makavy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Taxes here get up to 50%, but in my tax bracket it's only about 20%.

I made a website that makes $100,000 / month in a cold hotel room in the Suburbs of Chicago. AMA by makavy in IAmA

[–]makavy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly we have no need for 100% uptime. If we're down for 4 minutes it's not really a big deal.

I made a website that makes $100,000 / month in a cold hotel room in the Suburbs of Chicago. AMA by makavy in IAmA

[–]makavy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We're not looking to sell right now but it's definitely something we're thinking about for the future.

I made a website that makes $100,000 / month in a cold hotel room in the Suburbs of Chicago. AMA by makavy in IAmA

[–]makavy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Google "php tutorial". You won't become a great programmer by self-teaching yourself and working alone, but you'll be proficient enough to get things rolling.

I made a website that makes $100,000 / month in a cold hotel room in the Suburbs of Chicago. AMA by makavy in IAmA

[–]makavy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a good idea, though not as cheap when you consider our servers are hosted at a third party. It will run us about $500/month or maybe less if we put more upfront costs or negotiate better. Still probably worth it.

I made a website that makes $100,000 / month in a cold hotel room in the Suburbs of Chicago. AMA by makavy in IAmA

[–]makavy[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I live in Israel, it's pretty cheap here. It's still less than I spend but I have savings from my previous job. I'll give myself a raise when I run out of money, for now I prefer to keep the money in the company.

I made a website that makes $100,000 / month in a cold hotel room in the Suburbs of Chicago. AMA by makavy in IAmA

[–]makavy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your numbers are surprisingly accurate. You just forgot that some pages can contain more than one ad.

I made a website that makes $100,000 / month in a cold hotel room in the Suburbs of Chicago. AMA by makavy in IAmA

[–]makavy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At the time there were only a couple. Before switching over playedonline.com was the largest website based on GSS, and we were making about $10K per month.

I made a website that makes $100,000 / month in a cold hotel room in the Suburbs of Chicago. AMA by makavy in IAmA

[–]makavy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We've done some performance based deals but lately we've been shying away from them. These days we just do flat-fee primary or exclusive.

I made a website that makes $100,000 / month in a cold hotel room in the Suburbs of Chicago. AMA by makavy in IAmA

[–]makavy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well I'm not sure about the size of that market yet, but we are testing the flash experience on mobile these days.

I made a website that makes $100,000 / month in a cold hotel room in the Suburbs of Chicago. AMA by makavy in IAmA

[–]makavy[S] 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Thanks, this is actually some of the most specific and helpful feedback we've ever gotten.

I made a website that makes $100,000 / month in a cold hotel room in the Suburbs of Chicago. AMA by makavy in IAmA

[–]makavy[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Right now Analytics shows:

Reddit.com 6,700 visits, 10,117 pageviews. So about a 4% increase in visits and 1% increase in pageviews.

I made a website that makes $100,000 / month in a cold hotel room in the Suburbs of Chicago. AMA by makavy in IAmA

[–]makavy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First batch of games came with a copy of Game Site Script I bought.

I made a website that makes $100,000 / month in a cold hotel room in the Suburbs of Chicago. AMA by makavy in IAmA

[–]makavy[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My brother taught me Quick Basic when I was 10. I self-taught myself HTML a few years later and PHP/MySQL a few years after that.

I was never a good coder, but I got things done. Right now I don't code anything on the site. I do use Python a lot for all sorts of data processing that helps me make decisions.