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Ask HN: How do I reach making $1-1.5k/mo in 13 months?

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Re: Ask HN: How do I reach making $1-1.5k/mo in 13 months?

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Post by agustif »

goatherders wrote: post #97
reroute1 wrote: post #71

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Interested to know who is paying you $1k for a blog post...

I'm not telling you specifically who, obviously, but we have 3 clients that order a post from us about once a month for at least $1,000. The posts typically are: - 2000 to 2500 words - FAST (48 hour) turnaround - ready to be published without more than a simple read through - voice consistent with other posts that we may not have written for them - well cited or referenced The clients are - b2b environment selling in…

As someone who has been thinking about doing some ghost writing for b2b/enterprises/startups as a nice side-income but never got to actuallly do it.

This is a great footprint for me to try and crack something to submit (monday) ideally.

I already applied to a great SaaS which I see an open call to write blogposts for in their newsletter. The CEO asked which topics I would like to write about and I submited 2-3 rough ideas, and he thought they were OK and asked for a draft.

I never followed through.

I don't have any blog although I think I could do it.

Would you mind emailing you for some more specific advice or editorial peer review in the moonshot case I finally get to write some shit?

Thanks again for your great (free) advice

Re: Ask HN: How do I reach making $1-1.5k/mo in 13 months?

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Post by garmaine »

mcharezinski wrote: post #273
garmaine wrote: post #257

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Because he develops a tool that other google developers use daily. If hiring him and directing his efforts leads to even a 0.1% productivity improvement in those developers, it would be Worth it.

Google devs dont use homebrew.

The author of homebrew seems to think they do. I was quoting him.

Re: Ask HN: How do I reach making $1-1.5k/mo in 13 months?

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Post by kelnos »

fxtentacle wrote: post #58
wokwokwok wrote: post #54

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I would argue work for peanuts and work for free are not significantly distinct on many freelance sites. Unless you're suggesting that there's a meaningful difference in doing 40 hours of work for 5 bucks and working for free?

There is if you get non-monetary benefits such as a 5 star review pushing you up in the rankings, thereby making it much easier to get future bookings at higher prices. Edit: conceptually, it's nore like an unpaid internship. I know someone who got a highly paid job by first doing it for free for 3 months to prove his skills, as he was lacking formal certifications Edit2: I honestly don't get why this is being downvo…

> conceptually, it's nore like an unpaid internship.

People should get paid for work they do. If a task is worth $0 to a company, then they can do without it.

The whole "you're getting paid in valuable training/experience/exposure" thing is bunk, IMO.

Re: Ask HN: How do I reach making $1-1.5k/mo in 13 months?

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Post by dennis_jeeves »

dpweb wrote: post #140
pc86 wrote: post #119

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The problem is that people are conflating "one guy got lucky and got a $500k remote job" with "here is a repeatable process to generate a full-time income by working on open source on spec." Even getting a $50k remote job is not a guarantee, and telling people to work for free on open source is the Hacker News equivalent of telling a designer that you'll pay them if you like the logo they make you. Only this is much…

People attend college and spend enormous money & time with no guarantees. The unpaid time spent is not throwaway. If I was 19 today - and wanted to code for the most $$$ possible. I wouldn't be in college. I'd be building up skills + know people. Know people even tougher I'd argue for technical people who are often introverts.

>People attend college and spend enormous money & time with no guarantees. The unpaid time spent is not throwaway.

It is throwaway for most people. 'Most' being >75%. Just my guesstimate.

Well there is another way to look at it if you wish, if you want to bolster your self-esteem and confidence by having a college/university degree, then do it. My observation is that most people who do not have a degree suffer a life long I-do-not-have-a-degree self esteem syndrome, despite being just as capable as everyone else.

Re: Ask HN: How do I reach making $1-1.5k/mo in 13 months?

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Post by Google234 »

neil_s wrote: post #214
3pt14159 wrote: post #70

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Not true. One of the people I'm referring to was under 25 when he landed a $500k USD remote job at a FAANG company. I'd share more, but too many people would figure out who it is. He didn't get that offer by applying directly. The point is not that OP is going to make $500k a year. The point is to be smart about the language and project that you pick and to be reliable, professional, and open to learning quickly and…

As a 26-year old at Google, this example sounds surprising to me. I'd rule out Amazon, Apple and Netflix, and you'd have to be ~L6 to get $500K at Facebook or Google, which I don't see any of them hiring fresh grads at no matter how good/famous they are, and definitely not remotely.

L6 is damn hard to get also, especially as an engineer.

Re: Ask HN: How do I reach making $1-1.5k/mo in 13 months?

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Post by dennis_jeeves »

jodrellblank wrote: post #263
3pt14159 wrote: post #125

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I know many people that did this. Not all of them are making $500k a year, but here is some more examples: - Multiple Rails contributors, one that turned core. Those folks are making well north of $200k a year. - Ember contributors or contributors to projects around ember-data or similar. Multiple people making north of $200k a year. - A guy that dove into contributing to Postgres. He wouldn't even share how much his…

Your story is carefully tuned for "No True Scotsman" in advance. What are you going to say when OP spends 3+ months of their limited runway and ends up in the same place? "I said a real project, you didn't contribute to a real project" or "I said be smart with your choices , you must not have been smart", or "I said be professional , you must have been rude" or "I said network with experienced people, you must not ha…

Upvote for you, I wish 3pt14159 quantified the probability of getting a $200 k for an average dev after having spent x month on an opensource project.

Re: Ask HN: How do I reach making $1-1.5k/mo in 13 months?

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Post by skinnyarms »

WesleyJohnson wrote: post #184
3pt14159 wrote: post #125

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I know many people that did this. Not all of them are making $500k a year, but here is some more examples: - Multiple Rails contributors, one that turned core. Those folks are making well north of $200k a year. - Ember contributors or contributors to projects around ember-data or similar. Multiple people making north of $200k a year. - A guy that dove into contributing to Postgres. He wouldn't even share how much his…

This frustrates me a bit, personally. I've been a professional developer (as in getting paid to do it) for 15 years, full time. I know a lot of tech terms are overused and misused, but I consider myself full stack. Frontend, Backend, Database, some devops. I've worked, in depth, with MSSQL, .NET, C#, Apache, Nginx, MySQL, PHP, Python (Django/DRF), JS, NodeJS, React, Flash/Flex. I've dabbled in Java, Clojure, ClojureS…

Fellow Orlandonian here, the salaries are not great. I haven't seen the ODevs salary survey from 2019, but if you look at 2018 you're good for the area: https://orlandodevs.com/blog/salary-survey/

I recommend working remote.

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