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How did you make your first $ on the internet?
Personally, putting aside e-commerce transactions (ebay etc), I did my first dollar on the internet by promoting Udemy courses on a blog I created yeaaars ago: http://elearnhero.com/. So the very first time I made money online was through affiliate marketing !
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@roy_outgrow I identify SaaS business as my niche. While I worked on this piece, I was mostly writing about cloud-based inventory management process.
I did my first dollar on the internet by consulting people about their Instagram accounts (what kind of content they should post)
Selling custom URLs on https://contact.do generated my first income, back in 2018. To this day, the site still brings in ramen money and delivered lots of spam free messages :)
@tonixx So simple yet so efficient. Pretty cool ! did you ever share how much money you made from this project ?
@chnsydney Thx! Yah, made it to scratch my own itch :)
A custom link is $19, so that's how much I made initially. These days it brings an average of $300/month
@chnsydney Please get in touch if you want a custom contact link: https://contact.do/toni
All of these are still available: sydney, cohen, chnsydney :)
PS: I can hook you up for free
@chnsydney Please create a contact link, confirm your email and then share the link here or send it to me via my contact link
I'll then upgrade it to "sydney" :)
Few years ago an app named hike was introduced to me , it was a messenger app , quite interactive than WhatsApp , they started a campaign to get more people on hike. They sent messages to user that they can earn money if they get new users to download and register for their , I earned few buck. That was my first money from internet. I recharged my brothers phone 2 times and my father's one time.
@saviomartin amazing ! I've seen many successful startups who initially met at hackathons
Somebody unexpectedly bought a YouTube video from me, for a few hundred dollars. I had big plans to sell more, but it never really happened 😆
I was a domainer in 2000 at 15 year old, buying and selling domain names. ( back then there were mostly just top level extensions .com .net .org and the iPhone didn't exist, and although I was a ui/ux designer in training and did generate income from various websites in my portfolio most of my revenue came from my portfolio of over 5,000 domain names that I registered, bought and sold at a very high profit margin. - Ha good times.
@appledev86 so interesting. What kind of prime domain did you sell ?? Do you still own some ?
@chnsydney Ha so many I was working on brokering fire.com and marriage.com at one time, years later on I focused on something called back ordering of expiring domains but my primary focus was on going to registers marketplaces and buying about to expire domain names for pennies and selling them for hundreds if not thousands of dollars before they expired and I had to pay the yearly registration fee. Additionally I also would actually travel to supermarkets in 2000 and check packages of actual products to see if the domain names were expired by the co's and register them and park them or try and sell it back to the co's.
I had Adsense on my blog. It was back when I didn’t know much about digital products. Now http://www.gumroad.com/eisabai is where I make internet $$ by selling digital products
2017 — organized a 2 weeks online crossfit competition in south america.
gathered 350+ ppl in from 2017 to 2019.
Just yesterday actually - built a tool that I thought would be useful as a side project, and decided to sell it online: https://www.producthunt.com/post...
Learnt a bunch about marketing and positioning in the process :)
In 2010 I launched a game called "Bionic Battle Mutants" on Kongregate (when the Flashplayer was still a thing) :)
Asides from selling Rubik's cubes in the web, I think the major first hit was developing a website for an armouring company. I had designed a couple of websites in my first portfolio for very low and probono.
Created a haircut salon management application for somebody on the internet as a freelancer. That's when I thought "I better get to building a product cause freelancing is hard :D"
Licensed clicks which I shot while learning photography to National Geographic Traveler magazine for single use.
@bbsusheelkumar Pretty cool ! how did you manage to get on National Geographic traveler ?
I put my Psychology notes and book summaries from some of my Bachelor degree courses on an online platform for students. It's not as frequent now but I still get a few sales before the exams start!
gold tribute on Age of empires multiplayer mode when I was a kid :D Seriously though it was on upwork
In 2015 earned 299 INR by just creating an account on website during initial launch period of website.😀 https://imgur.com/a/6HxKyoB
I've been building things online for other people for around 20 years. This month I launched my own product for the first time and it is *incredibly* rewarding to see it generating money! Keep your eyes out on Product Hunt for it!
Very excited to say that my answer is launching on Product Hunt today! I've been making money building tech for other people for nearly 20 years but seeing those first few dollars arrive in Stripe from Remotely is a feeling I've never had before!
https://www.producthunt.com/post...
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