I'm looking for an easy way to pay for school that I can do part-time, that aren't scammy.I'm not looking to build a monster business, I'm looking to cover my costs of going to school. Got any bright ideas?
Ask HN: Fastest way to make $1000 a month online?
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#2What are your skills and interests ... i.e. why not get a part-time job?
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#3The fastest way would be contracting. Creating a webapp to earn that much a month could take a long time. I've had my webapp for a while and I'm not earning that much a month yet. Building a webapp is the easy part, marketing and getting paying customers is where the hard work is.
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#4The fastest way would be contracting. Creating a webapp to earn that much a month could take a long time. I've had my webapp for a while and I'm not earning that much a month yet. Building a webapp is the easy part, marketing and getting paying customers is where the hard work is.
I second contracting, but I was asking him to find out what we should recommend he contract at.
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#5I'm on the same road as you. I'm attending my second year at my uni and I only need ~200-300 per month to manage transportation to and from each month. I'm a programmer/designer/philosopher/bioinformatics nerd. My schedule varies too much to get a regular part time job.
I started down the path of niche sites. Devoting a ridiculous amount of time into writing articles for them. A quick glance of webmaster tools has me ranked 1-4 on some 200-1.4k+ searched keywords each day. Generally, I went whitehat on the Adsense to assure my account stays alive. Generally, I receive a click every 4000-9000 views because I try not to fool/force people into clicking ads. This hope doesn't even cover the cost of my linode. I strayed away in Feb and venture back to check in on it every once in a while.
I figured I would write an ebook and sell it through ClickBank and self advertising (twitter/facebook). My ebook was too much like a real book. The information was too specific, required too much non-general knowledge, and users strayed away once they saw the preview. Looking back: the price was too low too (gasp). I wrote nearly 300 pgs and ended up with maybe enough to cover the coffees I inhaled while writing it.
So, recently, I joined the Fiverr community. I offer up a few shady SEO techniques. I've completed 3 offers and made a whopping $12. After those initial 3, all positive feedback, I've received 0 interest.
I considered offering tutoring of some type, but that's really not my field. I'm not social enough for that nonsense. My patience with what appears obvious is also described as a short fuse.
I ended up just craigslisting most of what was important for me to make it through Aug/Sep. It really hurt to sell my server, my hedgehog, and my world of warcraft account.
What I'm trying to say is this: there are many roads to achieve money. Not all paths will work out. Most will flop, or we would all be doing it. Even if you build a webapp of some type, you still need users. Even if you write a book, you need readers. Even if you build a niche site, people ignore ads for the most part (except the people who have used Adsense and realize its somewhat beneficial). Find a basic need, fill it, they will come (if they can find it); and if your product/service is worth it: you will profit. Otherwise, prepare to sell yourself to survive for now. As in Amazon turk, some kind of free lancing, craigslist, ebay, etc.
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#6I'm on the same road as you. I'm attending my second year at my uni and I only need ~200-300 per month to manage transportation to and from each month. I'm a programmer/designer/philosopher/bioinformatics nerd. My schedule varies too much to get a regular part time job. I started down the path of niche sites. Devoting a ridiculous amount of time into writing articles for them. A quick glance of webmaster tools has me…
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#7do you know objective c? I have a few iphone ideas, I have been meaning to get developed and would be willing split the revenue. email me if you are interested. steve at Stevederico.tld
also if you are in dire need for cash, you could sell a website on flippa.
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#8This will sound silly, but it's not that hard to make $1k per month playing online poker... if you're moderately mathy and have good self-control, you can make a bunch of money.
If you don't have good self-control, then yeah, pick something else.
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#9I'm on the same road as you. I'm attending my second year at my uni and I only need ~200-300 per month to manage transportation to and from each month. I'm a programmer/designer/philosopher/bioinformatics nerd. My schedule varies too much to get a regular part time job. I started down the path of niche sites. Devoting a ridiculous amount of time into writing articles for them. A quick glance of webmaster tools has me…
I see that you had tried a lot of things. why didn't you stick to it till you make it a success? how long had you been working on each before you decided moved on? to get from a beginner to novice is a short trip but from novice to expert is a long way, and the money is in the expert's pocket.
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#10private events/parties are and still bring quite a bit of money, and it dun take much to get started. you just need to be a bit of the social animal, fairly good at writing todo list and able to use software like eventbrite.com and wepay.com i dun see why you can't make $1k per month. just get started and perfect your skills. this may take time... :-)