$1500/Month from a 3-Year-Old Directory Site

FedFounder of Hive Index $1500 estimated monthly revenue
Published July 31, 2023 by Fardeen KhanReviewed and edited by Niall Doherty

Hive Index is a directory of online communities.

The founder (Fed) recently tweeted…

Got the first site sponsor for @thehiveindex! 

New revenue streams are always fun

The sponsor he is referring to is a site-wide sponsor. They pay $500/month for a banner link at the top of every page of the site (example).

Fed has been building Hive Index on and off since 2020 along with consulting as a software engineer.

He has been busy curating and adding communities to the site, tweeting back in June…

Just passed 2000 communities on @thehiveindex!

Not stopping yet, this site will be THE spot to discover online communities for ANY topic

Programmatic SEO has been key to growing traffic

But Fed had been working on the site for almost 3 years without really monetizing it.

In April he introduced a paid membership for community owners which allows them to have more control and traffic to their listings.

Looking at the site, there seem to be 50+ paid listings at $197/year, which was $10/month in earlier days. Either way, that’s $500-800/month.

Fed also offers community promotion, which costs $99/month.

So three ways he’s started monetizing…

Site sponsorshipGold Membership (for community owners)Community promotion

Overall, I expect the site is now earning about $1500/month

Fed tweeted back in March…

Fun fact: @thehiveindex was a “warm-up” project

I built it just to get in the habit of taking ideas to completion

Without much intention to keep growing it, I launched after 2 weeks

Now it’s 2 years later and it’s stronger than ever, opening up new doors every day!

Funny how these kinds of projects can bear fruit if you stick with them long enough.

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