Uh huh-huh. Huh huh-huh huh-huh-huh.
Actually, that's Butthead's laugh.
Ask HN: My wife needs something to do from home to make money...
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Re: Ask HN: My wife needs something to do from home to make money...
#32On TV they always do this phone sex thing :-)
Re: Ask HN: My wife needs something to do from home to make money...
#33This might be right up her alley: http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/how-to-build-a-niche-site/ It's not HN-ey, but I can see it working for her. Best of luck!
This site promotes horrible spammy paractices such as "article spinning" (automated word substitution) and cross-posting the same (spun) article to numerous sites to with links to the niche site to enhance google-rank. Every link here is an affiliate link for another marketing site in the dense web of self-referential marketing guru sites. Not HN-ey is one way to put it!
Re: Ask HN: My wife needs something to do from home to make money...
#34Elance, textbroker, mechanical turk, etc?
Mechanical Turk has a terrible person hours:revenue ratio if you live in a developed country. Not as familiar with the others, but I think Elance tends to pay pretty poorly too.
Last I was on (which was a couple of years ago) you could get a good hourly rate (>$20/hr) if you knew how to sort the HITs properly. There were a lot of tasks where the payoff per task was very low, and if you believed their estimate of how much time it took per task the hourly rate was very low, but the task was actually much quicker than they estimated.
For example, a "which of these things is not like the other ones" type task might be estimated as taking 15 seconds, but if you're in the zone you can do them in 5 seconds, netting you 3x the hourly rate.
Re: Ask HN: My wife needs something to do from home to make money...
#35This might be right up her alley: http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/how-to-build-a-niche-site/ It's not HN-ey, but I can see it working for her. Best of luck!
This site promotes horrible spammy paractices such as "article spinning" (automated word substitution) and cross-posting the same (spun) article to numerous sites to with links to the niche site to enhance google-rank. Every link here is an affiliate link for another marketing site in the dense web of self-referential marketing guru sites. Not HN-ey is one way to put it!
So are there better resources you would recommend?
Thanks.
Re: Ask HN: My wife needs something to do from home to make money...
#36This might be right up her alley: http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/how-to-build-a-niche-site/ It's not HN-ey, but I can see it working for her. Best of luck!
This site promotes horrible spammy paractices such as "article spinning" (automated word substitution) and cross-posting the same (spun) article to numerous sites to with links to the niche site to enhance google-rank. Every link here is an affiliate link for another marketing site in the dense web of self-referential marketing guru sites. Not HN-ey is one way to put it!
True, this kind of thing still works though. Google updates are slowly trending towards hitting low quality stuff like spun articles though.
Re: Ask HN: My wife needs something to do from home to make money...
#37On TV they always do this phone sex thing :-)
Not the most appropriate response to a husband. This isn't Reddit.
Re: Ask HN: My wife needs something to do from home to make money...
#38I'm getting ready to start an online forum, but I don't relish the prospect of having to monitor it for spam/abuse. It seems like having one person casually scan 10, 20, 50? forums throughout the day could easily keep the spam at bay, and each of those forums owners would probably be quite happy to pay $100+? per month to keep their forum spam free.
Most of the forums I've seen have a "report spam" feature that could be made more prominent, but human moderators are also valuable.
Along the same lines, I know there are independent product developers (iOS apps, Android apps, web apps, etc.) who are tired of doing email support themselves, but find it hard to find competent contractors to do thoughtful first-level support for them. This usually doesn't require advanced technical skills, mostly just being able to interpret vague descriptions, escalate important reports, and respond with polite standard English. I imagine building up a good reputation on a public Q&A site (the Apple discussion forums or something) could be a helpful first step for this, and then using connections to get an initial client or two who can vouch for you.
Re: Ask HN: My wife needs something to do from home to make money...
#39Maybe drop shipping? You have to make an effort in finding a !crowded niche but there's money to be made if you got your act together. Check out this Reddit IAmA http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/se78n/i_make_over_100k...
Drop shipping can be harder than it looks, you need a quiet diverse skill set. You need to be across marketing, seo etc. You need to have a site (or ebay or something) that works well and keeps current with your suppliers products and their stock levels. You need to accept payments and deal with fraud.
You need to field questions from your customers as the merchant, without generally being able to have access to the products you are selling. You need to deal with shipping companies and angry customers questioning the legitimacy of your products. (Because they are cheap and coming from another country and they were slightly different to the last one they brought.... they must be fake).
Affiliate marketing is a lot easier place to start, you send s customer, get a commission and don't have to deal with the rest of the process. In terms of products I think the greater opportunities are in drop shipping, as long as you can do everything mentioned. There are people though making a fortune on leads without having to worry about everything else.
Re: Ask HN: My wife needs something to do from home to make money...
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mechanical Turk has a terrible person hours:revenue ratio if you live in a developed country. Not as familiar with the others, but I think Elance tends to pay pretty poorly too.
From what I gather, it depends in part on the person. I never figured out elance but at one time was making over $200/week on textbroker. Yes, I felt the ratio amounted to slave labor but I was also clear a lot of the difficulties were on my end, not theirs. I am currently trying to develop my own sites, which have never made anywhere near $200/week. I remain torn between going back to those slave wages and continuin…
Contract programming? Try advertising on Kijiji/Craigstlist. There's always people out there who will pay you to make a website. Takes away the risk of not making anything from the site.