Title: We all know examples of paid online services that became profitable. For example Balsamiq, Tarsnap and Bingo Card Creator.<p>I love to build small tools that do something useful. But they do not offer enough value to charge for them. Imagine tools like &quot;When will the sun rise today in city X&quot; or &quot;How much taxes are in $X&quot; etc. Some of them are used by tens of thousands of people a month. And I get a lot of &quot;thank you, that&#x27;s cool and useful&quot; emails.<p>So far I&#x27;m not making any money from them. When I slap adsense on them, I only make a few bucks. Like $0.5 per 1000 visitors. Even if I optimized that to $2 per 1000 visitors, it still would be just around $150&#x2F;month for all my websites.<p>But since I love doing these little, interesting projects, I will probably make more of them anyhow. Most of the projects I have in mind are little tools that cater my own curiosity. Nothing people would pay for. Like &quot;find all xkcd comics related to a topic&quot; and stuff like that.<p>Do you guys think there is a way to make a living like this? Are there any examples of profitable websites, created by one guy that have some informative value but not so much that people would pay for it?
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