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Ask HN: Ways to generate income when you're at home without pay?
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#52Get rid of old stuff on ebay/cl/fb marketplace. Or buy stuff from ebay/cl/fb marketplace and sell on Amazon. and plugging a friend: https://www.flipmine.com/ scrapes arbitrage opportunities b/w ebay and amazon.
Interesting recommendation of flipmine.
I buy in to the idea of what they're selling - used goods arbitrage - they're just selling another form of a "get rich scheme". Follow the money.
If this niche were so great then the proprietors would keep this software platform to themselves to identify the opportunities and perform the work. Instead, they "offer" you the opportunity while they take in a $39 monthly fee for their service.
That's my take on almost the entire industry of "make money doing X, just use my service or take my course!" Bro, the real money is conning these suckers.
A fool and his money will soon part ways.
Re: Ask HN: Ways to generate income when you're at home without pay?
#53I run an affiliate blog, and they're definitely easy to get up and running. However, they're not "only 1 or two hours a day" type things as they are often claimed. But they can be fun and rewarding. I usually make around $200 a month with about 500 page views a day.
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#54There 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…
Thanks for the link. Where are you selling your finished product?
Re: Ask HN: Ways to generate income when you're at home without pay?
#55Amazon's Mechanical Turk market place (https://worker.mturk.com). Also google around for the forum and find insight and tools to help snipe higher value tasks.
Re: Ask HN: Ways to generate income when you're at home without pay?
#56DoorDash, GrubHub, Uber Eats, and the like make pretty decent money. About $7 per order before tip and in a busy area you might be able to snag two or three orders going the same direction making the $/hr a little better. It's basically the definition of not great money but it's not very difficult, not physically straining, and you don't have to interview or whatever for it. Grocery stores in my area are also hiring…
> 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.
Re: Ask HN: Ways to generate income when you're at home without pay?
#57If he or she has good sewing skills, making masks and selling them on Etsy.
Like 10000000000 other people there.
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#58The best way to start generating income is to change your mindset. Instead of asking other people, all of whom have found their own specialized niche that will never be applicable to anyone else, step away from the computer and look around. Just in the past week I have heard from so many friends that are looking for good people. They never post stuff on job sites - it's way more trouble than its worth. They ask aroun…
Asking on HN is the same (or better, given audience size) as looking around and talking to people.
It’s also not helpful to say “there’s an abundance of opportunity” without any examples.
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#59Learn programming while doing something like Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, etc. delivery in the mean time. Then start applying for roles.
What do you think the market is right now for totally green engineers?
Re: Ask HN: Ways to generate income when you're at home without pay?
#60DoorDash, GrubHub, Uber Eats, and the like make pretty decent money. About $7 per order before tip and in a busy area you might be able to snag two or three orders going the same direction making the $/hr a little better. It's basically the definition of not great money but it's not very difficult, not physically straining, and you don't have to interview or whatever for it. Grocery stores in my area are also hiring…
I watch some YouTube channels of delivery people (usually on bikes) just out of curiosity.
Most of them do it only part-time and see it as a work-out gamification. Looks like during the pandemic many restaurants also closed delivery options and the orders dropped according to some YouTubers in the UK.
The most important aspect: It does not scale. It's very hard to earn a living outside of the "surge pricing" rush hours.
In some regions "surge pricing" is not available or delivery platforms require full time with a fixed but low salary (e.g. in Germany).
Here's a list of YouTubers doing bike deliveries:
- Chicago, IL (US) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4hE0AhisGkRscjxSMudn-Q/vid...
- London (UK) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCruD32HAzsb9UN4KpOcSxZg/vid...
- Los Angeles, CA (US) https://www.youtube.com/user/impulsivewilliam/videos
- Bristol (UK) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZOtaF2WKa0wNysH4ZRH8-w/vid...