How did you make your first dollar online?

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Post by laksmanv » Tue, Apr 09, 2024, 2:52 PM UTC

I'll go first! My story: I was 13 years old and someone in the mIRC chatroom #graphicdesign said they were looking for a logo. I messaged him and he agreed, I designed the logo and he sent me a check for $150 and my parents opened a bank account for me and deposited it.

What's yours?

Re: How did you make your first dollar online?

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Post by DamonHD » Tue, Apr 09, 2024, 3:03 PM UTC

Ad sales on a Web site probably late 90s?

Though before that sifting through USENET articles for technical gems for a large client paid better...

Re: How did you make your first dollar online?

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Post by annor » Tue, Apr 09, 2024, 3:11 PM UTC

Google was paying $1 to put Mozilla Firefox on a computer.

I made a bunch of few bucks or two every x minutes or so, 24h/day. Details escapes me atm.

Re: How did you make your first dollar online?

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Post by Bvlynicole » Tue, Apr 09, 2024, 3:14 PM UTC

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Re: How did you make your first dollar online?

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Post by transformi » Tue, Apr 09, 2024, 3:53 PM UTC

as participating in an online game. earning 70$.

Re: How did you make your first dollar online?

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Post by kody » Tue, Apr 09, 2024, 4:16 PM UTC

$50 to skin my buddy's band's MySpace page. $200 for an actor friend's portfolio website shortly thereafter.

Re: How did you make your first dollar online?

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Post by runjake » Tue, Apr 09, 2024, 5:19 PM UTC

Helping people on Reddit with tough problems and getting tipped. They would send me whole bitcoins (long ago). I lost the hard drive with the wallet which had several bitcoins. No backups. So, I guess that doesn't count.

Re: How did you make your first dollar online?

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Post by roosgit » Tue, Apr 09, 2024, 5:31 PM UTC

I don’t remember exactly how much it was the first time, but I used to sell WordPress themes (design and coding with full reselling rights) on SitePoint.

I even found the page listing one of the themes I sold with Wayback Machine - "Winning bid: $125". Some people were buying these themes, change the "Theme by" link in the footer and give them away for free. Probably for SEO reasons.

Re: How did you make your first dollar online?

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Post by leros » Tue, Apr 09, 2024, 6:00 PM UTC

I built a SaaS for hosted GitLab runners and got a subscription.

Re: How did you make your first dollar online?

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Post by sivel123 » Tue, Apr 09, 2024, 9:15 PM UTC

Are there ways i can make even 20$ a day currently?I am a junior software developer with less than a year of experience.I have worked with, javascript,react.js and python.And the usual html and css