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> This thread is great, every suggestion has a reply that says "This is terrible advice." That's good! Someone smart and driven will inhale every reply and pull out common tidbits for experimentation.
Where is the line between driven and desperate?
I'm probably biased, but you can build a Shopify app and have a very, very high chance at earning $1k or $1.5k per month within 12 months. Here's a list of ideas that I researched last year, if it helps. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Hnpcl1VAlPC9MuFvvsl2... If you do decide to go this path, I've written a guide from my experience that might help you get things off the ground. https://www.preetamnath.com/blo…
I see two options for you: -Try to emigrate to a country with a strong tech sector and get a day job there. -Build a web service that people love and will pay money for, because it does something very useful for them. Everything else probably isn't going to result in you making money.
Out of curiosity, can you build a service and collect payments from US customers while not being a US resident?
If a service is really that useful, and the person behind it is already demonstrating to me that they're trustworthy, I will bend over backwards to jump through hoops to pay them.
Otherwise I wouldnt be buying in the first place :)
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Interested to know who is paying you $1k for a blog post...
$1000 is definitely higher than many, but there are a lot of people who publicly offer to pay $500. I maintain a list of places that do on github [0] [0] https://github.com/sixhobbits/technical-writing/blob/master/...
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> I'd say 90% of the posts you read by a company CEO, CTO, or COO are in fact written by someone else and at least half the time in those cases they were written by someone that doesn't even work there. I'd love to see some kind of evidence to support this claim.
It's called Ghost Writing. If it's 90% or more or less, I have no idea, but it's quite common. From blog articles to books.
Your best bet is going to be freelancing/software dev contracting. There are many platforms other than Upwork and Fiverr. If you're on LinkedIn, post it to your network that you're looking for some consulting work. Talk about what you can build - focus on outcomes (how you can help clients deliver stuff). Join Slack communities focused around your skills. Find any community you can join and keep an eye out for work.…
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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.