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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.

37 minutes since posting and no one has yet mentioned OnlyFans? Come on Fedi-friends, we can do better.

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.

My Etsy used to pull about 3-5k a year, not bad as a tertiary income source. I had to shut down because of Trump though.

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!

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?

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.

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.

!flipping@lemmy.world

I hate to say it but if you want to make a living you kinda have to interact with other people a bit. I'm currently an independent contractor for one of my previous employees. I work when I want for as long as I want, my only requirement is to work less than 32 hours a week and of course to keep my client happy. I have a boss and I do attend some meetings but it's incredibly chill. I would however much prefer if they hired me on full time, but at this point I don't think that's happening.

Otherwise at home there's always some kind of service you can provide. Painting is easy to pick up and some landlords repaint every property between tenants. Any kind of converting trash into something with value is also a good option. For example I know of a guy in town who collects furniture people leave out for trash and refurbishes it to resell.

If you're handy you could even go the extreme route of house flipping, which usually is most profitable if you live in the houses you flip. I've seen a few run down houses bought from estates sell for way below market value then flip for much more, since families just want mom and dad's house sold, and buyers often don't want to do a ton of repairs before moving in. Alternatively buying up run down properties to repair and rent out might be a good path to a solid living too

Or just go all in with a small business. I've not seen sellers of affordable and decent looking Corsi-Rosenthal boxes for example, or if you can find some kind of furniture/device for special needs people there's usually a huge premium charged for those as "medical devices" which are often paid for by Medicaid so it would be very easy to undercut established brands that way. In a similar vein there's a huge hole in the market for durable furniture. The Amish famously make extremely high quality furniture that holds incredible value due to its high durability, and you don't have to be Amish to make high quality furniture. Or just find something else you can sell. I saw you mention some programming skills, maybe you can make some kind of B2B app. I've seen it said that anything that's a spreadsheet can be turned into an app and sold to businesses. Or just make a bunch of phone apps and see if any happen to take off.

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

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

When my wife was in university and had weird down times she would do Amazon MTurk. It was pre-pandemic, so I don't know how things are now, but I think she was regularly getting $200-400 a month (covered her car payment).

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.

Do you have skills you can freelance with? I’ve occasionally gotten work on Upwork and there are other platforms that might be viable, but it really matters to find jobs looking for skills you have, and having skills that are in demand. You have a client, not a boss, and whether or not you need to be in meetings depends on the kinds of jobs you go after.

https://app.prolific.com/ for pocket change. It's 99% academic surveys.

i sold feet pics to a guy I met on TF2 and made a couple hundred bucks. now he's going to be my best man at my eventual wedding I'm

A friend, not me. He used to do voice acting, people requested small scripts (3 or 4 sentences) and he sent them an audio. He was completely amateur, and without any equipment (besides his phone) he made like 10-20€ per week with no effort. I don’t know what app/website he used tho :/

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.

How big are your tits?

Do you mind me asking why do you want to avoid (what seems like) people in general?

Taskrabbit has lots of odd jobs that can be done for money if you're looking for gig work if you're not solely lookimg for 100% online.