What are some ideas as developer where I can turn my skill into passive income.
I write blogs but I’m not sure if its a good idea to monetize it
Ask HN: Ideas on creating passive income streams
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Re: Ask HN: Ideas on creating passive income streams
#2I'm a designer-turned-developer and created a nice-looking solitaire card game website: https://online-solitaire.com/. It's making me around $1500 a month.
My approach was to find a nice of apps that where already popular and then see if I could make it better.
Re: Ask HN: Ideas on creating passive income streams
#3I'm a designer-turned-developer and created a nice-looking solitaire card game website: https://online-solitaire.com/ . It's making me around $1500 a month. My approach was to find a nice of apps that where already popular and then see if I could make it better.
It's a beautiful game, but I wonder what part of the game is monetized?
Thanks!
Re: Ask HN: Ideas on creating passive income streams
#4What does passive income mean to you? Is it passive income when a YouTuber gets paid whenever someone views a video, but spends hundreds of hours making great content and building an audience? Is SaaS MRR passive income after you've spent hundreds or thousands of hours building a product and acquiring customers? Is it passive income when an author receives royalties after spending months writing, publishing, and marketing a book? Is advertising revenue passive income after you've spent hundreds of hours writing blog posts and building an audience?
If you want to leverage your time to make money when you sleep, you need to do the work to acquire income producing assets.
Here's some ways you could monetize your skills as a developer:
- Provide value for free (blog posts, code, videos, whatever) to grow an audience, then sell courses or paid content to that audience.
- Create open source software that other people need, then sell training videos on how to use it.
- Build an audience for your blog, and join a developer/tech focused advertising network.
Re: Ask HN: Ideas on creating passive income streams
#5baseline suggestion for truly passive income is invest in the stock market: do dev work for people in exchange for money --> invest the money in the stock market (e.g. low cost passive index funds) --> expect roughly 5% real return on capital invested for long term buy & hold stock investment
Re: Ask HN: Ideas on creating passive income streams
#6baseline suggestion for truly passive income is invest in the stock market: do dev work for people in exchange for money --> invest the money in the stock market (e.g. low cost passive index funds) --> expect roughly 5% real return on capital invested for long term buy & hold stock investment
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Re: Ask HN: Ideas on creating passive income streams
#7Sites like https://www.indiehackers.com/interviews/page/1 are full of examples on what has been done. You can't do the same idea twice usually, but you can spot lots of patterns there.
Re: Ask HN: Ideas on creating passive income streams
#8I'm a designer-turned-developer and created a nice-looking solitaire card game website: https://online-solitaire.com/ . It's making me around $1500 a month. My approach was to find a nice of apps that where already popular and then see if I could make it better.
How is it earning money? I don't see any ads or premium versions for sale.
Re: Ask HN: Ideas on creating passive income streams
#9I'm a designer-turned-developer and created a nice-looking solitaire card game website: https://online-solitaire.com/ . It's making me around $1500 a month. My approach was to find a nice of apps that where already popular and then see if I could make it better.
Any tips on becoming a developer turned designer? I'd be interested in that.
Re: Ask HN: Ideas on creating passive income streams
#10I'm a designer-turned-developer and created a nice-looking solitaire card game website: https://online-solitaire.com/ . It's making me around $1500 a month. My approach was to find a nice of apps that where already popular and then see if I could make it better.
cool! I opened it just to check it out and ended playing my first solitaire game in (probably) a decade.