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Good point. The product won't deal with daily deals at all.

Clickable link: http://dealora.com

$15k a month. 90% through Adsense. Could make more with AdExchange if hey accept me. Difference of 68/32 vs 80/20 is pretty major.

Give him access if he's a co-founder. Just read-only access so he doesnt go breaking things.

Tell them. If you can't win the market by being better than them, exploiting it to make them fail means you already have.

If you make an investment into a company of $50k with no terms than do no ask for nor expect a repayment greater than your investment. It is your responsibility to lay out terms as part of an investment rather than make the assumption of your return based on their perceived worth.

Why not just invest? If you're in your 30s and have that much runway then why worry about coding when you could more easily invest in startups?

Most dev people I know, including myself tend to get more done when everyone else is asleep.

Are you sure it's GA? Our numbers differ between GA and quantcast because google isn't tracking opera mini on feature phones but quantcast is. We are running 450m pageviews a month through ga and its typically a day behind processing. Outside of that its missing feature phones, but I don't believe it's because of our numbers.

What do you consider small? Generating less than 100k a year or more?

https://www.wetransfer.com/ is really slick

First $10k was made almost 14+ yrs ago when we were asked to build a website for a music artist. We had never built a web site before nor had we any knowledge on the backend. But we spoke well and seemed to know what we were doing. We spent the first 2 weeks learning how to make it and luckily it turned out decent. That led to about 5 years of consistent work from the same client and launched our new web dev business.

Google analytics real time showed 22-25k during its peak daily

Here are a few problems with this.

1. Starts off with "working on a profitable side project" but then goes into "see what happens."

2. You quit your day job, work 10-20 hrs a weeks with the goal of $500 a month within 3 months. Doesn't sound like a sound biz move if that's the goal.

3. "A side project" denotes lack of commitment to turn it into a business.

I think the process of pulling together a team to make and launch a product from here makes a lot of sense. There's a lot of really smart people on here and that creates a lot of good possibilities.

Would love to do something like this as well. However I'd start it in a different direction. Keep your day job, lets make it into a real business, and we may fail, quite a few times and it may not succeed. Me: Cofounded a web dev company in business for 14 yrs. started a little photo sharing site. Cofounded one of the largest sites in the SEA region. Looking to start other businesses with other like minded folks when the time and product makes sense.

Easiest would be to use Wordpress

Let me know how we can help.

Google AdExchange is 80/20 in your favor

That's good. I think people look at responsive sites as that's all they need to do and for the most part I haven't come across many discussions about taking it further.

Isn't optimized for mobile phone much better than a responsive website on mobile? It would seem that unnecessary things are downloaded in a responsive site that may in fact be hidden. Whereas a mobile optimized site is loading less JS, CSS and graphics/artwork/template files.

"You need to accept the fact that for whatever reason, people choose to label you as a foreigner because you cook ethnic food, so you lose branding credibility. "

The comment lost its value with that one statement. Was there even info stated by the OP that this was the case? I know a few very high priced restaurants in NY that serve high priced "ethnic" food and the owners are both foreign but NOT from the region the food is from. They're branding is pretty strong.

For 99% of the Internet users this will be outside of their knowledge scope.

1. Not a good idea in my opinion. 2. Large companies would prefer to be pitched on the value of your site than to have fake profiles setup in their brand image/likeness without their approval. 3. You could create a fictions profile of a company that doesn't exist as a demo of how your service works to help them visualize it being them.

Correct. It may be 20, 30 and 40 hrs a month with each for a flat fee. They receive detailed accounting of how that time was used and if they no over that time it's X per hour.

Created a bunch of bad designs that haunt me to this day on the Internet archive. I don't think I've gotten really good at design over the years but I make less crappy sites now. Being able to design and code whether your a dev or designer is important to have. Helps you understand how to semi talk to the other half.

We typically only do 15 or 30 day post launch warranties at no cost especially with native mobile apps as things can break with OS upgrades that may be unforeseen.

For our retainer (maintenance) agreements, it's based on a black of time per month. We usually have a few options proposed with one of them recommended. The client determines which tier they go with based on their budget. Otherwise we charge a flat per hr fee (rounded to nearest 15 min). Hourly is more expensive since it may fluctuate from month to month. For our clients having a fix fee means no surprises for them and they get faster support. For us, it's a guaranteed rev per month.

As far as structure it will vary per customer based on their needs.

Set some time that you are working on your own thing. That might mean staying up 2-3 hours after your mate has went to bed. See if you get get up 2-3 hours before her. Use the "real" time for real life stuff. Work around it. I've done it for years and launched several successful products while maintaining a happy life of a husband and father of 2.

Running a web dev shop for over a decade, as longs as you break down why it costs as much as it does then you are doing the right thing. If their budget is lower than what you need to be happy, cover costs, etc than walk away. The worse thing is working on a project knowing you got low balled. It affects productivity and can create tension.

PayPal is not as crooked as people say they are. Just start a company with someone in he US. Payments go,to their company and they pay you. Assuming its a legit business "don't know how I made" 200k doesnt sound legit.

If you mean in setting up a company, try legalzoom.com