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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 csixty4 »

shanecleveland wrote: post #32
csixty4 wrote: post #24

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.

Any revenue from the ad?

After 6 or 7 years I think I finally had enough for Google to drop a direct deposit in my account. That's, what, $100?

It's pretty unobtrusive up in the corner there. I'm sure it suffers from banner blindness. But I don't want to load the page up with ads. It's a tool for other devs, not really a revenue source. But the donations are nice.

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

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Post by shanecleveland »

shanecleveland wrote: post #32
csixty4 wrote: post #24

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.

Any revenue from the ad?

Nothing wrong with that. It's a nice tool. Glad to hear the donations help keep it alive.

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

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Post by random_comment »

meric wrote: post #38
random_comment wrote: post #31

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That's a shame. Good news is that any graph of bitcoin's historical price over the last 6 years will serve just as well :)

Yes, if the purpose is to make money as opposed to learning or for fun, I agree it's better to ride the trend. :)

> I agree it's better to ride the trend. :)

I think you haven't looked at a 6 year graph if you think the 'trend' is only ever going up. The point of my post was to highlight the risk of (another) crash.

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

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Post by vram22 »

rasmus1610 wrote: post #39
vram22 wrote: post #25

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>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?

Well I just looked around in my house for stuff I haven't touched for 3 months or so. I just looked it up on ebay and craigslist and posted it there. that was how I did my first 300€ bucks now. And then for flipping (buying and reselling higher), look for thrift stores, garage sales, yard sales and so on. If you want to know what to buy look for some youtube channels e.g.: Ralliroots, 10konthebay, rockstarflipper Jus…

Interesting, thanks for the tips.

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Post by _jdams »

faet wrote: post #44

I pay people to ghostwrite books for me. I then list them on Amazon and market them. I started 2 years ago and have been putting out about 1 book/mo. Last month I made ~$4.5k

Not expecting you to share one of the books with me, but I was looking to get into this as well. I am assuming they are small, niche-specific books.

Do you perform all of the keyword research ahead of time (before finding your writer), and build out an index/table of contents so that every chapter in the book is planned ahead of time, or do you leave all of the research, chapter creation, and writing for the ghostwriter?

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Post by faet »

_jdams wrote: post #47
faet wrote: post #44

I pay people to ghostwrite books for me. I then list them on Amazon and market them. I started 2 years ago and have been putting out about 1 book/mo. Last month I made ~$4.5k

Not expecting you to share one of the books with me, but I was looking to get into this as well. I am assuming they are small, niche-specific books. Do you perform all of the keyword research ahead of time (before finding your writer), and build out an index/table of contents so that every chapter in the book is planned ahead of time, or do you leave all of the research, chapter creation, and writing for the ghostwri…

Much of it depends on what I am looking to publish. I mostly focus on popular romance niches.

For instance I publish a lot of LGBT erotica/romances. I write up about 1-2 paragraphs of what I want the story to be and pass it to the ghostwriter. I have a few different pen names and each stick with one genre. Example: "Mary Sue" only publishes BDSM Gay Romances. That way if you find one of my books and like gay bdsm romance, you're more likely to buy the others or subscribe to learn when new books come out.

I have a simple wordpress site for each author with an email list. I provide 1 book free for signing up.

I've used the same ghostwriting service for ~2 years so they're pretty consistent.

I'm currently working on a nonfiction politics book. I basically provided a word doc of research (news articles/etc), and a theme. I only specified 2 chapters and a word count. The other chapters are up to them.

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Post by remarkEon »

nicholas73 wrote: post #29
random_comment wrote: post #27

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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?

Yes. I haven't done it myself but it's possible on several exchanges.
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