How Much Does It Cost To Start A Niche Blog? (In 2024)

"We have built and managed Failory spending only a few dollars, which is one of the reasons we aren’t growing too fast."

Rich Clominson is the co-founder of Failory, a community platform where failed startup owners share their stories and lessons learned to help future entrepreneurs avoid similar mistakes.

"The startup cost was low. I bought a domain and that was pretty much it."

Thomas Oppong is the founder of AllTopStartups, a blog that shares resources for starting and growing a startup, which has grown into a significant income source over the years.

"I realized that I needed to upgrade from shared hosting to a dedicated server which would give me more resources. This was my first big expense… instead of paying $10 per month for hosting, I had to now pay $58.88 per month."

Tony Florida is the founder of The Diamond App, an online diamond price tracker and search engine that helps users save money on their engagement rings by comparing diamond prices and setting up price alerts.

"As I mentioned earlier the blog was made to help myself. So early on there was no cost other than the domain. I had hosting through Bluehost already for my portfolio so it was shared. I created a WordPress site using a free theme and I was off the ground."

Jodi Carlson is the founder of Leader Connecting Leaders, a profitable blog that began as a hobby and evolved into a resource for leaders, teachers, and parents.

"The MVP took just 2 weeks to build and cost only $400. I registered the domain and it cost $12.99. It really didn't cost much."

Sireesha Narumanchi is the founder of Crowdworknews.com, a blog and resource site for remote job seekers, that helps people find legitimate online jobs and side hustles.

"The first MVP took around 6 months, with a couple of months of refinements. We built the entire platform from scratch."

Matt Gibbs is the co-founder of Recruiterly, a lead-generation platform and marketplace for recruitment professionals and businesses designed to increase the discoverability of recruiting professionals.

"Because we built MM from scratch, our startup costs were very low, literally nothing more than a $12 USD domain registration fee and about $0.50/month of infrastructure costs."

Aleksey Weyman is the founder of Millennial Moderator, an online publication that shares valuable tips across various topics, attracting an average of $500/month in revenue and about 3000 monthly readers.

"My startup costs have been minimal. I paid a lawyer to form an LLC, paid for a website to be designed and hosted for 3 years. Also working with a marketing agency to produce the content for my IG page. I would say my overhead is less than $750 per month."

[Founder Name] is the founder of Moneypicks, a sports analytics business that uses proprietary systems to determine the outcome of sporting events and turn a profit through membership subscriptions.

"Beyond my personal living expenses, the business is incredibly lean and takes around $50/mo to run."

Phil Strazzulla is the founder of SelectSoftware, an expert online review site for HR software that has been growing rapidly and achieved its first month of revenues in August 2019.

"In these early days, costs were low. It helped that plain text takes up so little space -- Write.as saw thousands of posts, and everything could still fit on a small server that cost about $10 per month. Besides that, I only needed to pay for domain names."

Matt Baer is the founder of Write.as, a digital tools business that helps creative people get their work online while prioritizing simplicity and privacy.