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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 shubhamjain »

nitramm wrote: post #3

My experience is that hardest part is marketing. Yesterday I have launched https://submit-sitemap.com and I have shared link to it on various platforms. How much traffic I got: - reddit - side project - 4 - hacker news - 11 (+2 from different aggregators) - I have added link into 2 communities on Google+ with around 200k people - 3 - producthunt - 3 - Facebook where I have shared it in group with 5k people - 5 - Stum…

Are you sure sitemaps are important to website owners these days? I haven't heard anyone talk about them in a long while.

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Post by csixty4 »

https://statetable.com

~ $30/month from donations covers my Digital Ocean bill for the month.

I'm also trying to get some sales & affiliate revenue going with athletic wear designs on Zazzle. Starting with a niche to get rolling then probably expanding to more general designs. The biggest problem I've hit so far is their fulfillment times & prices.

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Post by vram22 »

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…

>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.

Interesting. What is the process for getting started and then doing it? Can you provide some links? And by flip I suppose you mean buy and then sell?

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Post by random_comment »

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?

Hello, I don't trade crypto and I never will.

I'll give you one tip.

Look at a graph of bitcoin, litecoin etc. that extends past the last bubble and collapse and ask yourself if you are willing to eat those kinds of losses if they occur again.

https://99bitcoins.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/bitcoin-ma...

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Post by avianbc »

random_comment wrote: post #27
calpas wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Hello, I don't trade crypto and I never will. I'll give you one tip. Look at a graph of bitcoin, litecoin etc. that extends past the last bubble and collapse and ask yourself if you are willing to eat those kinds of losses if they occur again. https://99bitcoins.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/bitcoin-ma...

Looks like your link is broken due to some hotlink prevention stuff. :(

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Post by nicholas73 »

random_comment wrote: post #27
calpas wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Hello, I don't trade crypto and I never will. I'll give you one tip. Look at a graph of bitcoin, litecoin etc. that extends past the last bubble and collapse and ask yourself if you are willing to eat those kinds of losses if they occur again. https://99bitcoins.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/bitcoin-ma...

Can you short sell bitcoin?

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Post by [deleted] »

random_comment wrote: post #27
calpas wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Hello, I don't trade crypto and I never will. I'll give you one tip. Look at a graph of bitcoin, litecoin etc. that extends past the last bubble and collapse and ask yourself if you are willing to eat those kinds of losses if they occur again. https://99bitcoins.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/bitcoin-ma...

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