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I wouldn't listen to the advice of anyone that thought they could make 50% return in a year just based on "nothing magical, just solid and practical value investing advice". They're either too naive to realise it was luck, or trying to scam you.
50% investment return in a year sounds like just running a business?
I had an affiliate marketing website when I was a kid, mostly for fun and learning with some friends, that made some money off backpack recommendations and Amazon links. We didn't feel too good about it after a while so we shut it down. I now hate SEO powered advice blogs. More recently, I've started making adult videogames, one of which being an interactive fiction that had a lot of traction, but is now on hiatus du…
> how much both Apple and credit card providers have a chilling effect on freedom of nudity in entertainment - it's appalling As in good or bad? they're blocking/enabling?
For a while I wrote a bot that would scrape ebay for textbooks and send me an email when it found a textbook that I could buy and resell to a third party (chegg, amazon, whoever) and make more than $10. At one point I was buying like 5 textbooks a day, many of them I sold for $20-$30 more than I purchased them for. And I had it all automated to the point where if the all the parameters were met the code would actuall…
I did a similar thing to what you're saying, buying (not textbooks) on amazon, selling elsewhere.
I had an affiliate marketing website when I was a kid, mostly for fun and learning with some friends, that made some money off backpack recommendations and Amazon links. We didn't feel too good about it after a while so we shut it down. I now hate SEO powered advice blogs. More recently, I've started making adult videogames, one of which being an interactive fiction that had a lot of traction, but is now on hiatus du…
how did you manage the difficulty with payment processing? are you still able to put up ads (Google AdSense?)
I wanted to learn iOS dev, so made the simplest game I could think of: a card game where you just draw a random card and win if it's between two values. Then I made another app that just transliterates your name into Japanese characters and displays that. That one made $33 / year. Together they almost covered the Apple Developer fee :-) Things continued like this for years, until one day Apple started getting harsher…
Out of curiosity, did you make those apps paid or chose to show ads within app UI?
For now, it is completely free, not even registration required. I am thinking of making a paid professional version, as I see that it is useful and used by other teams despite the lack of marketing. But still, need to work on better marketing as well as adding more features...
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I paid an Italian guy experienced in the fashion industry. He organized all of the bikinis for one upfront purchase price, which also included service fees for him. But that was a pity later on when I ran out of bikinis and didn't manage to hire him again.
This guy sounds like the key angle on your business. How did you find him in the first place?
I work ~4 hours a week making aircraft add-ons for X-Plane, releasing one product every 3 months, net profit ~$5k a month total. It's fairly simple: 1) Commission Russian 3D artist to make model of aircraft -$1000 2) Commission Audio Engineer to do sound - $500 3) Tweak model to work well with simulator + animation - 12 hours 4) Paint model in Substance - 12 hours 5) Set up flight model in X-Plane's "Plane Maker" - 8…
It's not a zero-sum game, and it doesn't easy at all :)
I've probably been promoting it too much lately, especially on here. I'll pass on this one, but just wanted to say thank you to everyone who shares a project. It really does help others to see what is possible. Sidequestion: Does anyone have any recommendations on simple guides to SEO? I'm realizing the power of search traffic to bring in visitors to sideprojects.
You can sign up for a 7-day challenge to publish one excellent, SEO-optimized blog post:
(Oh, and if I need to qualify myself, I grew traffic on one of my side projects (a content website) to over 100k per month primarily via SEO)
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In terms of sources for SEO information and just getting started, I'd check out Brian Dean's guide (I haven't read through it thoroughly myself, but he's very known in the SEO world):
https://backlinko.com/seo-this-year
Another useful way of looking at this is to see the factors Google actually use to rank your content:
https://backlinko.com/hub/seo/ranking-factors
The Ahrefs blog (a tool for doing keyword research and competitor analysis) is also chock full of resources:
SEO changes all the time, I'd also recommend plugging into some communities or following SEO professionals on Twitter. Barry Schwartz is a great example of this:
https://twitter.com/rustybrick
These are just a few things off the top of my head.