considering cheap Android apps, that is cheap as in 2 week dev time, are easy to do..that may be an option to consider.. or as someone else has suggested take a well known CMS and start developing themes to sell for it..
Ask HN: Fastest way to make $300-400 a month online?
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#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
"I dunna about that, information is pretty FREE these days" Yet, it's pretty expensive. The most used resources of information are schools/uni and they are the most expensive. Books, videos, tutorials, Seminars... are also paying. There are free valuable information, but it's rare.
Universities sell credentials, not information. To prove this, go to your local university and ask how much it costs to take a class by examination (no classtime, simply take the final exam).
I wish this were possible everywhere. Most of my final exams were worth somewhere between 30-50%. Taking this will only guarantee a maximum of failing the class.
Re: Ask HN: Fastest way to make $300-400 a month online?
#83I normally write at least one article a month for ~$100 each, I could easily write more if I felt like it, but I'm not really in it for the money, since I have a well paying day-job.
An article for an online programming 'zine normally takes me between 4 and 8 hours to write well (2000-4000 words).
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#84I earned about that much, completely passive, within 2 mos and it's been recurring with no extra work, doing some basic SEO and adsense work, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1merER1zVFg , skip to minute 2:40 to see my business model in work
Interesting. I've been considering a digital nomad lifestyle for a few months now. Watching your video has just given me another nudge.
A few questions. Your Reliance Wireless Broadband stick.. What speeds can you get upto on it? Can you stream youtube videos smoothly?
About your 4hww model. If you're outsourcing all your writing, editing, seo marketing.. does that leave any profits left for you?
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#85Creating something that is viral is very ideal. I created http://AskJud.com in a week or so and the viral nature and mystery behind it encourages people to click on ads that generate around $500-$1000 a month.
Can you explain how this web-ified Magic 8 Ball is viral? I'm surprised not to see any Twitter / Facebook / Digg links anywhere..
Also, is this $500-1000 / mo sustained over a long period of time, or is it more like the flash-in-the-pan Facebook apps that briefly go viral, peak, and then collapse after a few weeks?
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
It usually is free if space is available and you don't annoy the professor. I've had several non-paying students; the only time I ever kicked one out of class was because we ran out of seats. MIT is actually well known for making information free, but the credential is expensive. http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm
That's interesting because I wanted to sit in on the computational photography course at NYU and the registrar said it was impossible. Maybe I should have avoided talking to the administration? However, I did email the instructor and he did not return any of my email. How do you even get into the buildings without an ID?
At my university (Carnegie Mellon) the buildings are unlocked during the day. Just walk in.
Re: Ask HN: Fastest way to make $300-400 a month online?
#87* Create Wordpress Plugins that do small tasks and sell them inexpensively. * Create small sitescripts that do only one small task and sell them for like $70. For instance, paid and free listing directory scripts, a twitpic.com clone, etc. * Create really nice XHTML/CSS and/or WordPress themes. I used to think those themes didn't make money, but then I heard that WooThemes pulled in $2M in 2009. So, that sent me for…
Some good ideas here. One note - WooThemes is making money by being a host for theme makers. Big difference.
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Python, ruby, php, scheme, c, c++, java. Any ideas how quickly I could make the money off of something like elance (or how quickly you could, since we don't know our relative coding speeds)? Likewise for Mechanical Turk?
Get paid for doing open source code. It'll give you good karma and internet points. Definitely give you the 400 a month you need. We just started our open source task site but there are two notable tasks for the languages you listed: Fix Audio Sync against Video in live555.cpp, $500 http://nextsprocket.com/tasks/fix-audio-sync-against-video-i... Nokogiri pure-Java version for JRuby, >$600 http://nextsprocket.com/task…
Wow, I had been wishing for a site just like that - because I want to use it! Happy to see I don't have to build it : )
Re: Ask HN: Fastest way to make $300-400 a month online?
#89I earned about that much, completely passive, within 2 mos and it's been recurring with no extra work, doing some basic SEO and adsense work, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1merER1zVFg , skip to minute 2:40 to see my business model in work
Very cool video.
How long have you been at this?
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I like this route. I can write well and I'm well-educated, so I feel like I have information that MUST be valuable. I just don't know how to identify / sell it. I know it's probably hard to give specifics without knowing what I want to sell, but can you give me any advice on how long generating such a product might take (how long it took you in the beginning, perhaps?) and how you might pick such a product?
"I feel like I have information that MUST be valuable" I dunna about that, information is pretty FREE these days
If you truly feel that way then you should question the quality of the information you're consuming. Information is categorically not free; the people who are paying for it are the ones who need it before everyone else. They are also the people who are making money by having that information first.
Being that we live in an information age, it's the new currency. If you think that it's free, then you're only seeing the castoffs.