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Nine passive income streams generating $357,000 per month
Executive overview
Most passive income takes years of upfront work or capital before it pays off. The returns vary wildly by effort, risk, and starting point.
Software and business ownership dominate the income — $310k of the $357k monthly total comes from AppSumo and its products. The remaining streams are real investments that require capital, not shortcuts.
Passive income is real, but it's almost always the delayed return on earlier active work or invested capital.
Small and crypto-based streams
- Uniswap liquidity pools — $323/month; ~18% return on $19k; higher yield = higher risk
- Uniswap staking via zapper.fi; safer pairs yield ~4.8%
- Staked Ethereum (Coinbase ETH2) — 4.4% return; ~$10k/year on 100 ETH; funds are locked
- BlockFi (USDC, BTC, ETH) — $4k+ monthly interest; ~5.5% on USDC; funds remain moveable
- Blog/email list (okdork.com) — $65/month; high relationship value, low financial upside
Index funds and real estate
- Index funds — ~$10k/month; investing since 2004; contributed 50% of income for years
- Real estate syndicate — $300k invested in private building deals; ~10% return, ~$3,500/month
- PeerStreet — ~$200/month; 6.5–7% annualised; accessible without private connections
- AppSumo office space — $10k/month; company rents from him (landlord-tenant model)
- Airbnb — $10k+/month from two properties; one converted from personal home; property-managed
Digital products and YouTube
- YouTube ad revenue on old videos — $3,700/month from content made 12+ months prior
- Channel cost ~$400k/year to produce; passive revenue kicks in after break-even
- Kindle book (How I Lost $170 Million) — $100/month; written 8 years ago after Facebook exit
- Monthly1k course — $2,000/month; generated $1M in year one; zero ongoing cost to distribute
Software and business ownership
- Send Fox (AppSumo Original SaaS) — $27k+/month via lifetime deals on AppSumo
- Sumo.com (email capture tool) — $1.62M profit generated with minimal updates in 2 years
- AppSumo business — $80k/month; took 3 years to earn anything; ran hands-off for 5 years via hired CEO
- Software scales without marginal cost — each new customer adds revenue, not expense
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