<story><title>Is it hard to build a web app that makes at least $1000 a month?</title><url>http://www.quora.com/Is-it-hard-to-build-market-and-maintain-a-web-app-that-makes-at-least-1000-a-month?</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dotBen</author><text>Applying your startup skills to projects in the adult space will certainly help you wing your way to $1000/m v easily.&lt;p&gt;Big data/machine learning of all the meta data associated on tube sites, repurposing content for tablets, recommendation engines, social layers that are delineated/firewalled from the mainstream social graph, hosting/live streaming services for adult content -- are all opportunity spaces that come to mind.&lt;p&gt;Many of these projects can be kept on &quot;life-support&quot; and still bring in a healthy profit if set up correctly.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Please don&apos;t down-vote because it&apos;s porn - it&apos;s a legal and legitimate space&lt;/i&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jamesbritt</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Many of these projects can be kept on &quot;life-support&quot; and still bring in a healthy profit if set up correctly.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;How do you know this?   I&apos;m genuinely curious; is this  reasonable speculation (but still speculation) or do you have some concrete evidence of this working for people?&lt;p&gt;What I&apos;ve read lately about porn sites suggests that the days of easy money are gone, modulo a few outliers.</text></comment>
<story><title>Is it hard to build a web app that makes at least $1000 a month?</title><url>http://www.quora.com/Is-it-hard-to-build-market-and-maintain-a-web-app-that-makes-at-least-1000-a-month?</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dotBen</author><text>Applying your startup skills to projects in the adult space will certainly help you wing your way to $1000/m v easily.&lt;p&gt;Big data/machine learning of all the meta data associated on tube sites, repurposing content for tablets, recommendation engines, social layers that are delineated/firewalled from the mainstream social graph, hosting/live streaming services for adult content -- are all opportunity spaces that come to mind.&lt;p&gt;Many of these projects can be kept on &quot;life-support&quot; and still bring in a healthy profit if set up correctly.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Please don&apos;t down-vote because it&apos;s porn - it&apos;s a legal and legitimate space&lt;/i&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>getsat</author><text>I&apos;ve been wanting to build a niche video/picture site for a while (to deal with all the CDN/scaling issues involved myself), and I&apos;ve also been looking for a project I can use this &lt;i&gt;Programming Collective Intelligence&lt;/i&gt; book on.&lt;p&gt;Adult seems to be a good next project for me. The only initial unknown I can think of would be where content would come from unless it&apos;s user-supplied. Any other links/info/thoughts?</text></comment>