Ask HN: How would you make quick money?

Drugs

> If you had your current skills, but were starting from scratch, and had exactly 7 days until your cash ran out completely, what would you do?

Nothing special? Use my credit card, perhaps be late on a few bills until my next salary payment. Or if your premise is that I don't have a job either, then the same thing but for a bit longer until I find one.

I feel like the title and the text inside don't match - I don't get why starting from zero means that you need to make money fast.

From what I've heard of the drug trade, this is not a get rich quick scheme. A lot of it climbing the drug lord career ladder, and pays out terribly early on. It's probably analogous to working at a seed stage startup that has sales figured out.

I’d probably haunt expired domains websites, buy one that looked promising, update it w new content, then try to sell it. And repeat until I either had real money or went broke.

Fun thought experiment, if I had to absolutely make money in 168hrs:

- Buy drugs from darknet rush shipping and go to sktechy area, sell for 50% markup while trying not to get robbed. Look for local customers on reddit, nightclubs, parties, college campuses, etc.

- Sex-work, apparently even men can make decent money camming for other dudes

- Pan-handling

- Get a job at local chipotle/mcdonalds/etc, would be interesting to see how fast you could get a paycheck

- Try to get some contract work for software on fiverr

It ain't much, but it's honest work