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Re: Ask HN: Ways to generate income when you're at home without pay?

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Post by erikig »

pkiv wrote: post #66

Have they considered teaching their skills online for money? If they worked in a call center, they probably know how to deal with some really hard things. I'd love to learn how they have patience when dealing with angry customers. At http://joinstream.io , we're building a super easy way to host a monetized livestream using Zoom. We generate a marketing page for you, handle billing, attendee management, and notificat…

You can also create courses on https://udemy.com and on https://youtube.com. A great way to identify good targets is explaining newly launched platforms and how they worked for you and what you learned. There's no guarantee that they'll make you a living wage immediately but they have a decent residual value.

Re: Ask HN: Ways to generate income when you're at home without pay?

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Post by ornornor »

jsamuel wrote: post #97

If you have even a little experience with Linux or are looking to learn, we've built https://hostlaunch.io/ to make it very easy to start a managed cloud hosting company. Just drop in your DigitalOcean, ServerPilot, SendGrid, and Stripe API keys, set your prices, and you've got a hosting company.

Honest question: why would anyone want to buy from a reseller rather than DO directly? Are DO’s tools so bad?

Re: Ask HN: Ways to generate income when you're at home without pay?

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Post by djsumdog »

MiroF wrote: post #56
djsumdog wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> it's not very difficult, not physically straining eh ... I've never been a driver, but I kinda doubt this right now. A Chicago driver just ran over this women: https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2020/5/16/21261241/ms-ts-... We don't know the full story as the video starts with her blocking his car. He shouldn't have run her over obviously. There's no excuse for that. But if he's operating on very small margins, he…

Or, some people are just assholes. I find it very odd to read a comment here basically defending the driver - they were obviously going to call the police as soon as you started committing property damage to their store.

I'm not defending the driver. We also don't know what the 'property damage' was ... maybe he just kicked the door in frustration. He should go to jail, but the underlying thing I'm getting at is that EVERYONE IS ON EDGE.

This whole thing has made humanity more scared and dumb than anything. People are worried about their jobs, paying bills, etc. I don't think what this drive did was right, but there is a whole context being lost as to what led to this point.

Re: Ask HN: Ways to generate income when you're at home without pay?

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Post by posix_me_less »

cpach wrote: post #88
posix_me_less wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you do something for a friend ... and take money, is it really fair to call it a favour?

If it’s below market rate; sure, why not?

Is $20/hour below the market rate in U.S.?

Re: Ask HN: Ways to generate income when you're at home without pay?

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Post by madcaptenor »

jefftk wrote: post #26

With daycares closed, there are a lot of people working from home and trying to watch their kids at the same time. You'd need to sort out with them (and any housemates) about what level of contact to have outside your (now expanded) bubble, but people need childcare badly.

Seconding this. When our day care closed we originally sent our 2-year-old to her grandparents; when they couldn't take it any more (she can be a handful!) we brought her back. Since her teachers from day care were also out of work we called the one she gets along with best, and that's working splendidly. Unfortunately this costs more than day care, but we're spending less normally just because there aren't as many opportunities to spend money, so it's okay.

Licensing might be an issue, as some people have mentioned. More importantly, though, I wouldn't trust my kid to someone who doesn't have experience with kids. So this may or may not be an option for your friend.

Re: Ask HN: Ways to generate income when you're at home without pay?

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Post by soared »

econcon wrote: post #50

There is shortage of 3D printing filament because of virus, so I've been creating filament and selling it. https://medium.com/endless-filament/make-your-filament-at-ho... This activity also help recycle waste plastic. Production cost of filament is $7.5 per 5kg and filament roll has 850 gram filament and can be sold for $20-30 per spool It's trivial to get the quality right. You can sell rolls on Amazon, eBay and Ets…

I don’t think someone working at a call center has the technical aptitude and financial resources to source and build there own extrusion machine.

Re: Ask HN: Ways to generate income when you're at home without pay?

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Post by madcaptenor »

posix_me_less wrote: post #104
cpach wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If it’s below market rate; sure, why not?

Is $20/hour below the market rate in U.S.?

It feels above-market to me, but it probably depends on the number of kids and where you are. We're paying $17/hour for daytime child care for one two-year-old in the north Atlanta suburbs. We've historically paid evening "date night" babysitters $60 for 4-5 hours, so $12-15 an hour, but that's an easier job because the kid's asleep a big portion of the time.

Re: Ask HN: Ways to generate income when you're at home without pay?

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Post by jsamuel »

ornornor wrote: post #102
jsamuel wrote: post #97

If you have even a little experience with Linux or are looking to learn, we've built https://hostlaunch.io/ to make it very easy to start a managed cloud hosting company. Just drop in your DigitalOcean, ServerPilot, SendGrid, and Stripe API keys, set your prices, and you've got a hosting company.

Honest question: why would anyone want to buy from a reseller rather than DO directly? Are DO’s tools so bad?

There's a huge market of people who want to purchase managed hosting, not be responsible for their own servers. Think of the customers (such as WordPress developers) of any traditional hosting company like DreamHost.

The purpose of HostLaunch is to make it extremely easy to start your own managed hosting business to sell web hosting services in that same market.

Re: Ask HN: Ways to generate income when you're at home without pay?

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Post by madcaptenor »

jefftk wrote: post #95
LanceH wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Daycare may require state certification (just beware). With so many kids homeschooled, tutoring the last couple of months was probably a gold mine. Many parents run into a hard wall with respect to math and science and can no longer help their kids.

Watching the kids of a single family is being a nanny, not a daycare, and at least in the US doesn't require a license or certification.

I would guess this varies by state. (IANAL.)
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