Ask HN: What is your proven way for making money online?
It can be blog.
1. Product
2. Service
3. Ads
4. Affiliate commissions
Basically, most online money making involves one or more of the steps above. Let me expand a bit more:
Product
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- You can build a SAAS and charge a subscription fee.
- You can sell code such as themes, plugins etc for variety of platforms including WordPress, bootstrap etc either on your own website or through marketplaces such as themeforest, wrapbootstrap etc
- You can create and sell desktop apps. E.g. Text editors such as Sublime etc.
- You can create and sell apps on smartphones/ipad/iOs/Android.
- Create "tutorials" and "how-tos" and charge for them. E.g. laracasts.com
Service
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Service can be anything really but for the HN crowd, it could be things like:
- Provide managed hosting services. E.g. Host WordPress sites for clients, provide maintenance for a fixed fee
- Become a freelancer and offer your services on fiverr.com or freelancer.com etc.
Ads
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- Create a niche blog and start writing quality articles.
- Sign up with Google Adsense and/or buysellads.com and hopefully, get a decent amount of quality hits on your blog and make money.
Affiliates
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- Signup with Amazon Affiliates and start writing about their products on your blog. You could make money by referrals
- Do you use a software product you really like ? Check if the company offers affiliate program. Signup with their program. E.g. Affiliate program through themeforest etc.
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