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first $1000+: built a shop selling silk scarves (100-odd) I collected myself from Laos/Cambodia/Thailand to balance trip budget (25yo back then, mad travelling). Sold all scarves, closed shop.
Both $100 and $1000: Way back in the dial up days, there used to be companies that paid you by the hour to run an always-on-top ad bar on your computer while you browsed the web. I wrote a simple little program in Visual Basic to move the mouse, browse sites, and click links. Wrote another program to reload the adbar if it stalled or crashed. I started to give friends and family a 60/40 split to run my setup on their…
The days of free dialup internet with the advertising bar oh man
First $100 = Trading TF2 Hats and then selling them First $1,000 = Created an 'imaginary' local concrete company on Google and sold the lead(s) to a friend.
First $100: Ads, mainly Google AdSense First $1,000: Ads, mainly Google AdSense
First $100: Placed Google Ads and Amazon affiliate links on my blog. First $1000: Still waiting. (Unless you count selling old stuff on Craig's List)
Alternative cryptocurrency (shitcoin if you will) trading. I also lost my first $100 and $1k online too. I'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.
First $100 affiliate links/adsense on my blog. First $1000 after the 2008 tech bust I automated a process to look for expiring domains, analyze them for interest (either as a business idea or potential to build out a website) and got a few banger domain names that I had no interest in using that I resold for $1K+. I started doing this because my ex-wife insisted we spend quality time together, which was us watching r…
Good for you prioritizing family time.
First $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…
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 "…
First $100: Thirty copies sold of Video Hub App First $1,000: Three hundred copies sold of my Video Hub App https://videohubapp.com/ Though I do donate $3.50 of every sale to a cost-effective charity so in theory I made no money for a while until I bumped the price to $5 / copy. Now sold over 5,000 copies - but it's also MIT open source: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App
How do people find your website?