Ask HN: How can a startup entrepreneur make some extra cash?

I feel your pain... I have a fulltime job besides my startup. I can't afford to quit right now, but my backup plan is working as a taxi driver in the evenings. The pay isn't actually that bad, you meet some people, and they usually look for "older" (>25), responsible people. I found that the higher skilled job you're looking for, the more difficult it gets working part-time.

I found that the higher skilled job you're looking for, the more difficult it gets working part-time.

This reverses itself when it comes to consulting. If you're skilled enough, and high-priced enough, you can do quite well coming into a company for a very short term engagement. Hell, speakers often get paid for a single hour.

Im quite well skilled in IT Server support and related work but i cant seem to find any part-time contract work that i could do say 1 day a week that would tie me over beautifully

I currently have a need for a 1-day-a-week IT guy. If you're familiar with Amazon AWS (EC2,ELB,EBS), I could use you. Contact me at my HN username at gmail if you're interested.

If you could come up with a weekend project idea, it can save you the trouble.

Develop a small utility product over a weekend. Something that people will want to use and pay $10-$20 per month. Get few hundred users, and you will be able to make some regular cash to pay the bills.

It won't make a multi-million dollar company, but you can make a few thousand dollars per month.

I know several developers making $10,000 to $50,000 per month with such products.

If you've been running your own business for five years, surely you have marketable skills that would keep you out of the running for a frontline McDonalds position.

If I were you, I'd start by making a realistic assessment of your skills in as many different areas that you can, and then thinking about who those skills could be most valuable to.

From the sound of things, you're aiming too low.

Well, the easiest way perhaps is blogging. Blog about the stuff you like, include some ads into your blog and start earning. Earning might not be a lot (depends) but should enough to buy you a pretty good meal.

I started blogging few years ago and since last year I've stop blogging (to focus on my startup) but I'm still earning around $200/month.

I've had a fair amount of hits on my blog posts in the past, but something about putting ads on it always held me back. (Not its not the pride thing).

Alot of people in this space, just kept saying that putting ads on a blog is 'selling out', so that kind of held me back.

Delivering pizzas might make some quick cash.