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Re: Ask HN: My wife needs something to do from home to make money...

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Not HN-ish but has she considered Avon? My wife sells Avon and it's a not half-bad way to make some income on the side.

Avon is not only a pyramid scheme but a terrible way to make money.

a terrible way to make money.

Depends on one's situation. As the poster described his wife, it sounds - to me - like a valid opportunity.

Avon is not only a pyramid scheme

No, it's not.

Re: Ask HN: My wife needs something to do from home to make money...

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SEO consulting - it can be learned relatively quickly, is not that technical for the basics, and is a great complement to your programming/web expertise for your projects

Do you have any recommended resources?

SEOmoz ties in with a lot of the most high profile SEO resource points.

Re: Ask HN: My wife needs something to do from home to make money...

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I'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.

Forum spam is a generally solved problem. And a non-issue for a forum with no traffic.

If you are ever getting hit with xrumer blasts, you just need to rotate your "What is 5+5?"-type registration questions because someone hard-coded your registration process into xrumer.

Beyond that, if you have any users at all, you'll be able to cultivate an armada of volunteer moderators to help you out.

Re: Ask HN: My wife needs something to do from home to make money...

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My partner spent the last couple of years travelling around a lot between countries and couldn't maintain a normal job. She ended up finding an academic essay editing/proofing service that would send her jobs to do. They gave her some training via skype to start with, and she's enjoyed the work. Look here: http://www.uni-edit.net/
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