Some people make a lot of money from a very small amount of work. Maybe by taking advantage of a market trend or just getting lucky.
I'm sure plenty of people on here have done just that and I'd be really interested in hearing your stories.
Ask HN: What's the easiest money you've made?
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#2£150 for what was essentially 10 minutes of googling, 5 minutes compiling into a document.
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#3A few thousand trading on the stock market.
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#4Stories about making continuous income are preferred.
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#5Stories about making continuous income are preferred.
Continuous or not is not dependent on the amount of work.
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#6In 1994-1995 I used to charge $180 to put a "contact us" form on a website. It was a simple HTML form and Perl script. I could bang one out in about 30 minutes and I couldn't keep up with the work. Those were the days!
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#7"easy" for one person might be another's nightmare. Remember Tyson's knockouts? A few million dollars for less than a minute in the ring!!! Sounds so easy and lucrative, doesn't it?
However, I'm all ears for biz models that are repeatable and "easy" in today's environment.
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#8Cleaning viruses off computers for a flat rate. People will pay any amount of money to have their computer cleaned and you will seem like a god.
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#9> or just getting lucky.
Not sure about "lucky", but death of a parent landed me with tens of thousands of £.
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#10In 1994-1995 I used to charge $180 to put a "contact us" form on a website. It was a simple HTML form and Perl script. I could bang one out in about 30 minutes and I couldn't keep up with the work. Those were the days!
wow! how did you get people to find you then? You wouldn't have been the only one.