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Re: Ask HN: What is your side hustle? How much money does it make you?

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Post by rasmus1610 »

I flip stuff on ebay and/or craigslist (or the german equivalent). I want to experiment a little bit with retail arbitrage on amazon fba too.

It is really easy to get started (just sell stuff that you can find in your house and don't need anymore) and I really like this treasure hunt feeling when entering a thrift store or looking for clearance.

made me so far around 300€ in less than 30 days and still have inventory left for about 150€. and I'm still learning what might sell and what not.

Re: Ask HN: What is your side hustle? How much money does it make you?

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Post by calpas »

meric wrote: post #9
calpas wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hello meric, where can I learn to trade cryptocurrency? Do you have any advices for learning?

I'd suggest getting an account and put in $500 you can afford to lose and start by googling for stock chart price and volume patterns and explanations and understand the idea behind them and evaluate whether the current crypto price and volume patterns match or not. And if so, what is your best guess for the next move? Have a read at Mr. Livermore's texts they are immensely useful.

Alright thank you for your answer dude! :)

Re: Ask HN: What is your side hustle? How much money does it make you?

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Post by ryan21030 »

I do freelance coding work in my spare time and try and combine it with some open source stuff too as a way of boosting my web presence. I recently made £500 in a month doing work in my spare time, not a huge amount but add on a full time job, it's nice to have the extra income.

Link to my latest project - https://github.com/DrRoach/DynamicImage (It's a dynamic image generation library if you're interested)

Re: Ask HN: What is your side hustle? How much money does it make you?

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Post by quickthrower2 »

bradknowles wrote: post #6

I'm curious as to why you call it a "side hustle"? Is the term "hustle" not extremely negative to you? Merriam-Webster defines "hustle" as to push or shove someone in a rude way. Urban Dictionary says "Anythin you need to do to make money... be it sellin cars, drugs, ya body. If you makin money, you hustlin." Obviously, you don't seem to think that the word "hustle" has negative connotations, so I'm wondering how you…

It's the colloquial term now. Hussle can mean just making money.

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Post by malux85 »

ryan21030 wrote: post #14

I do freelance coding work in my spare time and try and combine it with some open source stuff too as a way of boosting my web presence. I recently made £500 in a month doing work in my spare time, not a huge amount but add on a full time job, it's nice to have the extra income. Link to my latest project - https://github.com/DrRoach/DynamicImage (It's a dynamic image generation library if you're interested)

Nice work Ryan - This is how I started too! Keep going my friend!

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Post by le-mark »

bradknowles wrote: post #6

I'm curious as to why you call it a "side hustle"? Is the term "hustle" not extremely negative to you? Merriam-Webster defines "hustle" as to push or shove someone in a rude way. Urban Dictionary says "Anythin you need to do to make money... be it sellin cars, drugs, ya body. If you makin money, you hustlin." Obviously, you don't seem to think that the word "hustle" has negative connotations, so I'm wondering how you…

I hired some movers once, these guys really 'hustled'; they moved quickly and worked efficiently. You can say this of a sports team as well. It is a colloquialism with good and bad connotations. Someone who has hustles can be seen as getting things done. The negative is a 'hustler' someone who gambles on games of skill pretending they're worse than they are to draw people in[1] ie crooks or con artists.

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054997/

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Post by asidiali »

calpas wrote: post #7
meric wrote: post #4

Trading cryptocurrency - in stock markets charting, Elliot wave don't really work as well (or not easy to use), you're trading against hyper experienced investors. In Bitcoin, ethereum, there is broad participation by less experienced investors and speculators, and there is much more emotions in the chart. It makes technical analysis very easy, because the patterns are obvious, easy to spot, much less likely to be ma…

Hello meric, where can I learn to trade cryptocurrency? Do you have any advices for learning?

Hi calpas - founder of Cryptonnect.com here. Feel free to reach out to us for help on how to get started investing, trading, and learning more about crypto. Contact info is on the site.

Re: Ask HN: What is your side hustle? How much money does it make you?

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Post by sd_sangit »

rasmus1610 wrote: post #11

I flip stuff on ebay and/or craigslist (or the german equivalent). I want to experiment a little bit with retail arbitrage on amazon fba too. It is really easy to get started (just sell stuff that you can find in your house and don't need anymore) and I really like this treasure hunt feeling when entering a thrift store or looking for clearance. made me so far around 300€ in less than 30 days and still have inventory…

Awesome. I'm trying to get into flipping stuff on amazon. There's an awesome site www.qikflips.com which lists details about products which are on discount. You should check it out.
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