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Re: Ask HN: What's the easiest money you've made?

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Post by jnorthrop »

codyguy wrote: post #10
jnorthrop wrote: post #6

In 1994-1995 I used to charge $180 to put a "contact us" form on a website. It was a simple HTML form and Perl script. I could bang one out in about 30 minutes and I couldn't keep up with the work. Those were the days!

wow! how did you get people to find you then? You wouldn't have been the only one.

I used to help a lot of new-to-html coders on usenet. A handful of them would recommend me or contract me for the more complicated stuff like shopping carts, contact forms and other data driven functions.

Re: Ask HN: What's the easiest money you've made?

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Post by leejw00t354 »

jnorthrop wrote: post #6

In 1994-1995 I used to charge $180 to put a "contact us" form on a website. It was a simple HTML form and Perl script. I could bang one out in about 30 minutes and I couldn't keep up with the work. Those were the days!

This kind of thing still happens quite a bit now. I'm always hearing of cases where someone has made a few hundred pounds creating someone a website that's been copied and looks like it was originally designed in MS Word for a small business that wants to get an internet presence.

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Post by mapster »

jnorthrop wrote: post #6

In 1994-1995 I used to charge $180 to put a "contact us" form on a website. It was a simple HTML form and Perl script. I could bang one out in about 30 minutes and I couldn't keep up with the work. Those were the days!

I was making bumper stickers of people's email addresses in 1994. What a dumb idea, but demand was high, though in hindsight what I did was spammy in what was then listserve topics. Then I went onto make printable business cards for your newfound email address. It said 'Net Citizen' with a nice logo/graphics -during the templated printer paper craze.

Re: Ask HN: What's the easiest money you've made?

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Post by Donito »

Easiest: Back when I was in school and not many had internet, and even fewer had a 2x CD Burner, I'd create playlist for people at school. They give me a paper with ~10songs, download them, burn them, sell the disk. -_-

Fastest: Invested ~10k in Apple stock during afterhours before they froze trading before announcing their earnings. 30minutes later, sold those with an 8% ROI. 800$ (-commission/tax) in 30minutes.

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