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Down For Everyone Or Just Me https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

Makes ~$1,000 a month gross, lot less after AWS costs.

I've had it for a long time, but haven't done much with it because of my primary business. After I sold that I spent the last year playing with some ideas and testing. I am working to get a new design up and just partnered with a friend to redo the arch and let him see what ideas he has to better monetize it.

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I use Down For Everyone Or Just Me a lot, it is a great little purposeful site :)

Thanks, we are trying to clean it up a bit now, both in look and simplicity as it has just been the same for a long time. The other owner is working on moving it to AWS and lambda stuff :). I bet he will publish something about it too.

What is the source of the income ? I mean what is the business model.

affiliate/ads. Nothing too fancy yet, we are starting to look at what else we could do.

I'd look at how websites like uptimerobot.com make money. Let people set up lists of sites to track and give them analytics about how often they're down.

We do a lot of stuff looking at what is being requested and serving hosting ads based on that, nothing has clicked yet.

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