Ask HN: Blogging?
I am looking for some serious way to make money. I have seen lots of people are producing videos posting online, blogging and writing stuff about anything. Can blogging make serious money? How should I start to earn living online?
The typical revenue source are ads. You need massive amounts of traffic to make even small amounts of money (think tens of dollars per month). You can't get massive amounts of traffic "blogging and writing stuff about anything".
Rate for ads are getting worse, adblockers are getting more and more popular and you're competing with polished operations like buzzfeed that suck the air out of the ecosystem.
This is not to say that no one ever made money from blogging, just that there are easier and more reliable ways of making money, like writing utility software.
As a blogger you will have to produce content interesting enough to a large audience. You will have competition in pretty much every niche.
Some people make hundreds of dollars per post.