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Ask HN: What is your side hustle? How much money does it make you?
Just curious and wanting to learn how you started and scaled.
- Artlav 9y agoMaking various things, explaining various misconceptions, playing with blockchains. Makes me zero money and some knowledge.
- nitramm 9y agoMy experience is that hardest part is marketing. Yesterday I have launched https://submit-sitemap.com https://submit-sitemap.com and I have shared link to it on various platforms. How much traffic I got: - reddit - side project - 4 - hacker news - 11 (+2 from different aggregators) - I have added link into 2 communities on Google+ with around 200k people - 3 - producthunt - 3 - Facebook where I have shared it in group with 5k people - 5 - StumbleUpon - 1 And I think that I can subtract 1 from these numbers since I have clicked on them myself to test if those links works. :)
- nitramm 9y agoExplanation for StumbleUpon is, that I am sending X-Frame-Options DENY, so it never loads there. This explains no traffic from there.
- shubhamjain 9y agoAre you sure sitemaps are important to website owners these days? I haven't heard anyone talk about them in a long while.
- meric 9y agoTrading cryptocurrency - in stock markets charting, Elliot wave don't really work as well (or not easy to use), you're trading against hyper experienced investors. In Bitcoin, ethereum, there is broad participation by less experienced investors and speculators, and there is much more emotions in the chart. It makes technical analysis very easy, because the patterns are obvious, easy to spot, much less likely to be manufactured. The transaction fees are also low allowing small positions. So when I see an opportunity I just put $500. Next thing you know I'm up $200 and I cash it out. One more thing is if I'm ever wrong, cryptocurrency is in a bull market, and the position would always get rescued as long as I am patient. Of course I do have discipline and do cut my losses. Transaction costs is cheap, and opportunities are frequent, so it's easy emotionally to do it. I have a few grand this year which is nice. I do have a lot of money in stocks and with those I don't do nearly as well but clearly I learned enough to make a quid or two in crypto markets.
- calpas 9y agoHello meric, where can I learn to trade cryptocurrency? Do you have any advices for learning?
- meric 9y agoI'd suggest getting an account and put in $500 you can afford to lose and start by googling for stock chart price and volume patterns and explanations and understand the idea behind them and evaluate whether the current crypto price and volume patterns match or not. And if so, what is your best guess for the next move? Have a read at Mr. Livermore's texts they are immensely useful.
- calpas 9y agoAlright thank you for your answer dude! :)
- asidiali 9y agoHi calpas - founder of Cryptonnect.com here. Feel free to reach out to us for help on how to get started investing, trading, and learning more about crypto. Contact info is on the site.
- calpas 9y agoHey asidiali, I registered :)
- random_comment 9y agoHello, I don't trade crypto and I never will. I'll give you one tip. Look at a graph of bitcoin, litecoin etc. that extends past the last bubble and collapse and ask yourself if you are willing to eat those kinds of losses if they occur again. https://99bitcoins.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/bitcoin-market-value-chart.png https://99bitcoins.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/bitcoin-ma...
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- bradknowles 9y agoI'm curious as to why you call it a "side hustle"? Is the term "hustle" not extremely negative to you? Merriam-Webster defines "hustle" as to push or shove someone in a rude way. Urban Dictionary says "Anythin you need to do to make money... be it sellin cars, drugs, ya body. If you makin money, you hustlin." Obviously, you don't seem to think that the word "hustle" has negative connotations, so I'm wondering how you came to that view?
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- toptalkedbooks 9y agoI don't like "side hustle", I'm really working hard.
- quickthrower2 9y agoIt's the colloquial term now. Hussle can mean just making money.
- le-mark 9y agoI hired some movers once, these guys really 'hustled'; they moved quickly and worked efficiently. You can say this of a sports team as well. It is a colloquialism with good and bad connotations. Someone who has hustles can be seen as getting things done. The negative is a 'hustler' someone who gambles on games of skill pretending they're worse than they are to draw people in[1] ie crooks or con artists. [1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054997/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054997/
- rasmus1610 9y agoI flip stuff on ebay and/or craigslist (or the german equivalent). I want to experiment a little bit with retail arbitrage on amazon fba too. It is really easy to get started (just sell stuff that you can find in your house and don't need anymore) and I really like this treasure hunt feeling when entering a thrift store or looking for clearance. made me so far around 300€ in less than 30 days and still have inventory left for about 150€. and I'm still learning what might sell and what not.
- sd_sangit 9y agoAwesome. I'm trying to get into flipping stuff on amazon. There's an awesome site www.qikflips.com which lists details about products which are on discount. You should check it out.
- vram22 9y ago>It is really easy to get started (just sell stuff that you can find in your house and don't need anymore) and I really like this treasure hunt feeling when entering a thrift store or looking for clearance. Interesting. What is the process for getting started and then doing it? Can you provide some links? And by flip I suppose you mean buy and then sell?
- rasmus1610 9y agoWell I just looked around in my house for stuff I haven't touched for 3 months or so. I just looked it up on ebay and craigslist and posted it there. that was how I did my first 300€ bucks now. And then for flipping (buying and reselling higher), look for thrift stores, garage sales, yard sales and so on. If you want to know what to buy look for some youtube channels e.g.: Ralliroots, 10konthebay, rockstarflipper Just one tip for eBay: don't do auctions. You will usually get low-balled. research the market price and price the item accordingly.
- vram22 9y agoInteresting, thanks for the tips.
- richardknop 9y agoTrading forex CFDs (contract for difference), gold, oil, grain futures.
- ryan21030 9y agoI do freelance coding work in my spare time and try and combine it with some open source stuff too as a way of boosting my web presence. I recently made £500 in a month doing work in my spare time, not a huge amount but add on a full time job, it's nice to have the extra income. Link to my latest project - https://github.com/DrRoach/DynamicImage https://github.com/DrRoach/DynamicImage (It's a dynamic image generation library if you're interested)
- malux85 9y agoNice work Ryan - This is how I started too! Keep going my friend!
- le-mark 9y agoA rental property, earns about $400 a month in principal paid down.
- angryasian 9y agoNL holdem live only. This month I'm at about +$80 an hour.
- mod 9y agoStakes? Rough location?
- cdiamand 9y agohttps://oppslist.com/subscribe https://oppslist.com/subscribe Started charging this month. ~ $40 / mo
- csixty4 9y agohttps://statetable.com https://statetable.com ~ $30/month from donations covers my Digital Ocean bill for the month. I'm also trying to get some sales & affiliate revenue going with athletic wear designs on Zazzle. Starting with a niche to get rolling then probably expanding to more general designs. The biggest problem I've hit so far is their fulfillment times & prices.
- shanecleveland 9y agoAny revenue from the ad?
- csixty4 9y agoAfter 6 or 7 years I think I finally had enough for Google to drop a direct deposit in my account. That's, what, $100? It's pretty unobtrusive up in the corner there. I'm sure it suffers from banner blindness. But I don't want to load the page up with ads. It's a tool for other devs, not really a revenue source. But the donations are nice.
- shanecleveland 9y agoNothing wrong with that. It's a nice tool. Glad to hear the donations help keep it alive.
- SirLJ 9y agoalgo trading and I am pretty happy with the profits...
- faet 9y agoI pay people to ghostwrite books for me. I then list them on Amazon and market them. I started 2 years ago and have been putting out about 1 book/mo. Last month I made ~$4.5k
- _jdams 9y agoNot expecting you to share one of the books with me, but I was looking to get into this as well. I am assuming they are small, niche-specific books. Do you perform all of the keyword research ahead of time (before finding your writer), and build out an index/table of contents so that every chapter in the book is planned ahead of time, or do you leave all of the research, chapter creation, and writing for the ghostwriter?
- faet 9y agoMuch of it depends on what I am looking to publish. I mostly focus on popular romance niches. For instance I publish a lot of LGBT erotica/romances. I write up about 1-2 paragraphs of what I want the story to be and pass it to the ghostwriter. I have a few different pen names and each stick with one genre. Example: "Mary Sue" only publishes BDSM Gay Romances. That way if you find one of my books and like gay bdsm romance, you're more likely to buy the others or subscribe to learn when new books come out. I have a simple wordpress site for each author with an email list. I provide 1 book free for signing up. I've used the same ghostwriting service for ~2 years so they're pretty consistent. I'm currently working on a nonfiction politics book. I basically provided a word doc of research (news articles/etc), and a theme. I only specified 2 chapters and a word count. The other chapters are up to them.