How I wanted to cut the dough from the corporation of good

I have a wonderful IT job in the Russian province.
In addition, a decent salary. Even by metropolitan standards.

Despite this, I dream before bedtime. Among the greedy dreams is to get some small money for nothing-not-doing.
Well, so I slept, and the money went.
Dollar for the day.
And a dollar overnight. You look, for the year you can put another iPad under the Christmas tree (= 365 * $ 2).

It is clear, for the realization of the dream you need to have Xcode + iPhone. Or Eclipse + Droid. Or VS + Mozart.
Dreams Come True.
But not at once.

Lyrical digression

I warn you, I'm a terrible gamer. Played everything that moves.
In football, perl, hockey, BlockOut2, tennis, Descent, php, preference, objective-C, bridge, mysql, deberts, toto Euro 2012.
I put on Italy against Spain 100 rubles, who accepts?
')
However, I didn’t have enough solitaire to play at the workplace. For relaxation and brain training. Fast, interesting, and to compare your IQ with others.
So I came up with the Sarov Towers and for the first time made a site for a collective in-person correspondence game.
The programmer from me is no on the part of accuracy, and here I am afraid to wake the real Habra-hunters for memory leaks.

I already got it from them. Please keep it down, guys.

As a result, on my page appeared about 100 fans of the game, with whom we have been hacking towers for the fifth year already.
I did not think about monetization, or thought lazily.

How I joined Google

In 2008, I suddenly received a free certificate from Google for 1200 rubles.
For this money, Google offered to advertise a site or lifestyle or something new-owner-needed.
Wow, I thought, and got 400 rubles. Because to activate the certificate to your Google AdSence account, you had to put money.
A small divorce. And I forked up.

Moreover, besides advertising, Google offered to place banners on the site.
“Here!” I thought. I will play my 400 rubles on advertising other people's services and I will be happy.

A couple of weeks of scrolling banners to my account fell $ 2.

- Hurray! - I was dreaming about the box of beer.
-Horseradish! - Said Google and banned my account.

Type I cheater. And unfairly I click.
I was offended and took off the banners.

The phone broke into my life

After 2 years, I made Towers for the iPhone and earned a lot of money on iAd advertising.
Apple made no claims to me. Just asked to rearrange the banner at the top of the screen.

Despite the financial and moral success, I held a grudge against Google for those $ 2 and $ 400.

Another year has passed. I wrote a Soviet toy Chapaeva.
Free of course, it is in Russian.
It played 100,000 people. iAd did not bring money - it does not work in Russia and Europe.

And you did not know? Strange. Where did you get the invitation to Habr?

And I again started an account in Google AdMob.
Placed banners in the game. Unobtrusively. In February 2012.

And babosy went. From 5 to 10 bucks a day.

Statistics from Admob

In April 2012, more than 500 dollars accumulated. I paused. Google could not resist and sent a letter.

Babosy went

Congratulations! We have begun processing a payment for you, totaling $396.45. This payment is for all unpaid earnings accumulated through the end of March 2012. You will notice that $396.45 has been deducted from your pending earnings to reflect this payment. If you are an international publisher being paid by check, please allow up to 5 weeks for your check to be delivered. All checks are sent by standard US Postal Service mail,and there can be some delay in international delivery. Given the additional processing time that checks require, we strongly suggest that publishers switch payment methods to either PayPal or ACH/Wire. Because payment processing has now begun, it is not possible to stop this pending payment or to change your payment information. If there is an error in the payment information you've entered that needs to be corrected, please contact us through the Contact tool on admob.com. Regards, The AdMob Team 

-Hooray! - I whispered.
-Horseradish! - Said Google and banned my account the next day.

Hrenase

 Your account has been disabled for invalid activity or repeated policy violations. Some examples include recurring manual clicks or impressions, violation of our content policies which can be found here, robots, automated click and impression generating tools, third-party services that generate clicks or impressions such as pay-to-click, pay-to-surf, autosurf, and click-exchange programs, or any deceptive software. 

I was surprised. But he was not offended, but switched to another advertising platform. Smaato.

It took 2 weeks to approve the new version of Chapaya in the appStore.
4 more days for Smaato approval.
Another 2 weeks of collecting statistics and received 400 rubles back to the desired.

SMAATO Statistics Week

From Smaato falls daily $ 2.
The money is small.
But I'm not greedy.
In addition, these applications I have 50 pieces. I translate them to Smaato, and I hope everything will be tip-top.
What you want.

And Google will still reconcile with me. After all, he is a corporation of good.

PS Gone to watch Spain-Italy. Forza ragazzi.

PSS Here is a bunch of Chapaevs in the appStore . My - with a star.