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What's the most profitable programming hobby?

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Re: What's the most profitable programming hobby?

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depending on your skills (obv)... You can try your hand at security bounties. Sites like https://www.hackerone.com/ is basically companies daring you to break their stuff, for money.

Not trying to discourage you but bug bounties are one of the easiest ways to get depressed . Especially when you don’t find any bug and then go on Twitter to see “yay, i was awarded XXXX bounty on hackerone “ . Some take that as a motivation but for most it’s depressing

Re: What's the most profitable programming hobby?

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post #37

Companies are making big bucks making apps for small business but they are relatively expensive. Write one app that is useful for one business type,you need to focus, and reuse the same over and over again using the original as a template. Charge a one time fee and an on going maintenance fee. So MAYBE, 5000 for the app plus 750 yearly fee. You'll need to define what you will do for the 750 otherwise you will end up…

750 per what unit of time? 1 year that’s not enough to even get me to answer the phone.

750 per year for doing mostly nothing. That's what the client pays to access the $5k CRUD app you wrote on a weekend and never update.

Re: What's the most profitable programming hobby?

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post #8

Besides pump and dump altcoins on PancakeSwap? Flipping websites using online marketplaces. Especially if you can develop a private network of buyers. On iOS for example, I've heard of like basic functionality TikTok clones that took 6 weeks to build going for $500k. Best of luck ;)

I came to say this. Also programming bots to buy, pump and dump altcoins.

Re: What's the most profitable programming hobby?

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post #5

Consulting your programming knowledge out is a very high ROI per hour (more so than coding). Some people build plugins for ecosystems like Wordpress and that's pretty profitable. I have a Slack marketplace app that is ramen profitable. Write code to solve a problem and charge for it is probably the best way to monetize your programming hobby.

hey cool use of ramen profitable !!

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post #11

If you want to work on machine learning problems, you can try your luck at winning AICrowd/Kaggle competitions. Some have cash prizes: https://www.aicrowd.com/ https://www.kaggle.com/competitions

What do you think the expected return is that good on these competitions? Especially since the number of hours required to do well can be extremely high.

Re: What's the most profitable programming hobby?

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post #47
post #11

If you want to work on machine learning problems, you can try your luck at winning AICrowd/Kaggle competitions. Some have cash prizes: https://www.aicrowd.com/ https://www.kaggle.com/competitions

What do you think the expected return is that good on these competitions? Especially since the number of hours required to do well can be extremely high.

It's definitely not guaranteed income (the competition is stiff if you're not on top of your field).

But it's an option.

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