I wrote some Minecraft mods and uploaded them to CurseForge. I still get about 5 USD every week. It used to be every 3 to 4 days but I seldomly upload new stuff now. For reference, my projects have 1.6M total downloads combined, 2k weekly.

It’s nowhere near enough for sustaining life, but it’s like pocket money for me to buy games and renew my domain.

I have. I have a site that at its peak was getting around 2.5k views a day, with an audience in a high affinity category for spending money.

I would do better than any other site at answering the search intent of my audience, and would direct people to where they could buy what they were searching for.

I used eBay and Amazon affiliate links to earn a commission whenever people bought things after clicking through my links.

At its height it used to bring in about 7k USD per month in profit. 2.3m in overall credited sales in it’s best year.

Sadly, this model is being completely destroyed by ai search engines that intend to redirect all search traffic to their walled garden of paid advertising.

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I’ve made about $20 from the sale of my album , I thought people would like it more. Oh well, it’s not putting me off from making more music!

Kind of, but not much, certainly not anything like a steady income.

I gave one of those apps a try that give you rewards for installing and playing games. After a couple of years I earned up enough points to get about a $50 gift card. None of the games on it are amazing, but some of them are passably entertaining when you just need to kill some time. They’re all, of course, loaded with ads.

This is more of theoretical money at this point, but years ago I bought a small quantity of Bitcoin (like less than 0.1 BTC) and I’ve just kind of been sitting on that. It was about $20 when I bought it, it’s worth quite a bit more than that now. If I were to cash out now, it wouldn’t exactly be life-changing money by any stretch of the imagination, but it might get me a crappy used car, or maybe offset the cost of a nice vacation for me and my wife.

I do the Google opinion reward surveys, which basically pays out as credit for the android app store. Every so often it adds up to enough for me to spring for some paid app I wouldn’t have bought otherwise, or maybe a book or movie or something.

If you want to count it as online, for a while I did taskrabbit, basically an app to get hired doing odd jobs for people, putting IKEA furniture together, yard work, hanging shelves, etc. That wasn’t a bad side gig if you’re handy, but I don’t have the free time for it these days and it was kind of a pain figuring it out on my taxes at the end of the year.

Not me, but I have a friend who was a stripper for a while, when she got out of it, she actually made a decent little chunk of money selling her used stripper heels because some foot fetish people are all about that. She figured out that it could be feasible to just buy some heels, wear them around for a few weeks, and sell them for a profit. She decided it was more trouble than it was worth for her but something like that is potentially an option as well, pretty sure used shoes aren’t the only thing with a weird fetish secondary market you could take advantage of if you know where to look to sell them.

No calls, no meetings, no boss.

That limits you to ad-hoc work or personal projects.

You could hunt bug bounties or make something creative such as art or games.

https://bughunters.google.com/

https://graphicdesignresource.com/krita-for-beginners-a-step-by-step-guide-to-digital-painting/

https://dev.epicgames.com/community/unreal-engine/learning

You can create designs and upload them to redbubble (stickers printed on demand)! I have some that are basically just anime screenshots and I get like…a couple bucks a month lol. If you actually tried though, you might be able to make some actual money.

edit - I looked and it turns out I get a couple bucks a year. xD But I only really have two designs that sell, so yeah. If I made more designs I’d do better.

Just about the only way I’ve ever made real money has been online in the manner you’re talking about.

I enjoy thrifting and flipping, which is harder than it might seem to be successful at. It requires familiarity with what a good quality item is, a robust knowledge of the kinds of prices you might get for those things and some knowledge of refurbishment. Most flippers will pick one or two things that they specialize in, usually based on an existing hobby, because they already have a baseline knowledge of it by being interested in it. Being willing to clean, replace parts, paint, fix or otherwise renew the item is usually the most consistent way of making a return on investment that might make it worth your time. However, there really are some golden opportunities which sometimes appear and another needed skill is being in tune to where those show up. The estate sale of some eccentric artist who has an amazing antique collection, or the office that’s liquidating a bunch of computers or furniture, will be advertised briefly in some narrow window of view and time unique to your location and to catch it you need to be quick to act and decisive. I made a ton of mistakes early on and learned to be a lot more careful about impulse buying, but I also got good enough at it to make rent.

The other part of being self employed is the dual edged sword of freedom. You are never at work and yet you’re always at work. There’s no time “off” anymore, any day or any hour you might find yourself working and it’s unrelenting. Unless you are remarkably disciplined you will probably never have a “weekend off”. There’s no meetings or bosses to answer to but that also means that if you mess up there’s nobody else to blame but yourself. It has its own challenges and drawbacks, so don’t let yourself be fooled into thinking you wouldn’t find new things to piss you off.

Yeah, by investing it through an online broker.

But also a few focus group questionnaires.

My wife buys and resells furniture and clothing quite a bit. She doesn’t turn a profit but we also spend almost nothing on either as a result.

I work remote, and my company is a remote first company. But I still have talk to people and go to meetings. I take it these are deal breakers for you? Can you code?

Only by luck. Got asked to build logic for an online quiz, $200. Occasional focus groups pay $50 or so.

Not even diet coke money but yes.

I don’t think that there is much in the way of unskilled boss free, meetings free, online money making because the supply worldwide of people willing to do that work so far exceeds the supply. The average earnings on onlyfans is like $3 a month.

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100 dollars on YouTube when I was a child on a crappy Ben 10 animation channel. Good times.

I’m a network engineer for a large telecom company. So technically, yes?

Back when the first SD Card adapter for the PS Vita was released it only came with some CAD files. So I ordered like a hundred PCBs from a Chinese manufacturer, alongside the MicroSD slots, soldered them at home and sold them for five bucks a pop on eBay. Cost me less than one buck per piece in parts. I didn’t make a lot, but it was some nice money for a broke student