First $100: I built a SaaS that monitored GraphQL APIs really well, before anyone really used GraphQL in production. I ended up shutting the project down after only having one customer for a year. A few years later, I rewrote it from scratch and made it a website and API monitoring service ( https://onlineornot.com ), and it's doing significantly better now. First $1000: After building a few SaaS projects that made "…
Ask HN: How did you earn your first $100 and first $1k online?
31–40 of 75 posts
Re: Ask HN: How did you earn your first $100 and first $1k online?
#32I'd say freelancing WordPress sites for small business, but despite being 99% online/remote I did meet all those people in person at least one.
Re: Ask HN: How did you earn your first $100 and first $1k online?
#33First $1000 = affiliate commission from selling colon cleansing products
Re: Ask HN: How did you earn your first $100 and first $1k online?
#34First $100 = selling PhpBB skin
First $1,000 = website contracting
Re: Ask HN: How did you earn your first $100 and first $1k online?
#35First $100: I built a SaaS that monitored GraphQL APIs really well, before anyone really used GraphQL in production. I ended up shutting the project down after only having one customer for a year. A few years later, I rewrote it from scratch and made it a website and API monitoring service ( https://onlineornot.com ), and it's doing significantly better now. First $1000: After building a few SaaS projects that made "…
How much is your saas doing now?
Re: Ask HN: How did you earn your first $100 and first $1k online?
#36First $1,000 = A data editor for the Mac. (Late 1990s)
Re: Ask HN: How did you earn your first $100 and first $1k online?
#37First $100 = Writing scripts and doing the odd jobs
First $1k = Working on a web application.
Re: Ask HN: How did you earn your first $100 and first $1k online?
#38First $1,000 (and first $100, since it was a $1k contract): I made multiple semi-popular icon sets for KDE over 1999-2000, posting them all as FOSS-licensed artwork on kde-look.org. About a year into that I got an email from a random small startup, praising my work and offering me a fixed rate contract to do a novel icon set for their product, a GUI-ified backup client for Linux desktops. Amazingly, they persisted ev…
Edit: I suppose one of these: https://store.kde.org/u/Doches