How did you make your first $ on the internet?
Sydney Cohen
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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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Rahul@rahulmfg
Product Hunt
FB Bug Bounty program :)
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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 :)
@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 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 $300/month
@chnsydney Please create a contact link, confirm your email and then share the link here or send it to me via my contact link
I'll then upgrade it to "sydney" :)
Licensed clicks which I shot while learning photography to National Geographic Traveler magazine for single use.
@bbsusheelkumar Pretty cool ! how did you manage to get on National Geographic traveler ?
Wait... you guys are making money???
designstripe
In 2010 with a streetwear brand I started while at university 🤓
Helpdesk by LabiDesk
Freelance on oDesk :)
Formspector
In 2006 with Google AdSense :)
Formspector
@chnsydney Not really proud of it 😅 Just some spammy SEO things with high volume keywords.
@chnsydney 12 years ago i made my first dollar with firefox download, Google was paying one dollar for every firefox download plus 2 dollar for every google satellite map software download. Then i learn adsense, after one year i was making 6 figure a year with 100k monthly unique visits 20cents to 1$ cpc. The search ranking was easy to trick on that time then came the panda on 2011 and my website was hit by 2012. Adsense still active you may give it a try.
95Travel Kit
Freelance writing! Still makes me money haha
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!
BlockchainNote.live
Fiverr - web development.
aiCarousels.com
Back in 2018 shortly after launching ResumeMaker.Online 2.0
Marshmallow Icon Kit
Selling icon on iconfinder.
Next step is making illustrations :)
@jacquelinclem As a designer this is pretty cool. Which Icon did you sell first ?
Marshmallow Icon Kit
@chnsydney a classic icon pack about web development (arrow, logout, cart, user ...)
@jacquelinclem pack work great ! I've seen a friend do that for drone videos as well
Docswrite
In 2019, from https://watchnetspeed.com/
Premerge
In 2013 iOS in-app purchases I was making $500-$1000 per month https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ca...
Drop-In CSS Generator
Built a macOS app!
https://www.producthunt.com/post...
Open Bulk URL
In 2015 earned 299 INR by just creating an account on website during initial launch period of website.😀 https://imgur.com/a/6HxKyoB
By some freelance website offers, and launched my first iOS app (for the crossfitters)
I was looking for my 1st Freelance gig. It took me a month to get a single client. But it was great, huge, and amazing. I had to rewrite CSS for a web app 160 pages. I posted 100 bids (that's the limit at freelancer.com for 1 month in some xyz membership i took). Only 2 of the replied and hired me.
@vishwajeet_raj11 I feel become gig freelancer is hard because the price is too cheap, so I focus on my product to hire them
I wrote blog and got the a paid subscription via Substack.
Advertising freelance dev work on Craigslist in 2008, first client was a patent troll... :D