How do I make money without leaving my seat? [Archive]

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SupSuper

5 Feb 2009, 22:04

Because frankly, I feel pretty damn useless not being able to raise a single penny for whenever I need until I'm done with college/a job/etc.

Anyone got any suggestions? Putting my skills to good use? Filling out surveys? Clicking silly ads? Something?

Error404

5 Feb 2009, 22:10

FutureWorm

5 Feb 2009, 23:07

MtlAngelus

5 Feb 2009, 23:20

Keep making them pr0n sites, son.

:p

Error404

5 Feb 2009, 23:32

Play MMORPGs until your ass fall out and then sell the characters... :p Or.... don't...

bonz

5 Feb 2009, 23:52

My company I work at, recently got their new homepage from a friend of a co-worker.
When I heard that we need a new one about a half a year ago, I immediately thought about you, but it was already too late and the other guy was hired. :-/

After school I worked at this (http://www.cam-security.at/index_en.html) security company for several years, doing security stuff at several Formula 1 Grands Prix around Europe.
(I never got the chance for any of the overseas and middle-east ones.)
Most of the staff came from around their HQ here in Austria, but there were also some Germans working at the German Grands Prix.
So, maybe you want to call them up to work at the Spanish Grand Prix.

SupSuper

5 Feb 2009, 23:58

Coding websites seems to be the best choice here. I've been pretty much busy doing this back in the days and the market here in Brazil is pretty wide for non-professional webdesigners so i guess you could get some gigs without much effort.

If you have the skills, webdesigning/programming is a good way to go. ;)Those are my skills, but:

1. Customers on freelance sites are tits (and have given me a bad rep as Angelus proves :p). I've only had luck with friends and friends' friends.
2. Not a lot of demand for knowing how to program a site without making it look good.

Unless you know someone who meets those requirements. Maybe I need a duo. :p

Play MMORPGs until your ass fall out and then sell the characters... :p Or.... don't...Sadly that requires me to pay first. :p

Error404

6 Feb 2009, 00:30

Hmm.... i use to get a lot of requests when i was active - compulsively - on one of the top programming forums 'round here.... maybe you could do the same. It's great to make some contacts and then get some stuff to develop. On these situations, you'll probably be in contact with other sections of the forum such as the design one and recruit some nice people from there.

I'm not saying it's easy, but surely better than filling surveys - which doesn't work, btw.

You may also put your brains to work and figure out a site that would draw sufficient attention to earn you some money from advertising. But that, aside from dedication, requires a very nice idea... and those are rare even for great thinkers. Detect some sort of service that a specific community requires and that isn't suplied by no one yet and put your heart and mind into it. I know some friends who got lucky which such sites. Worth a try. :p

thomasp

6 Feb 2009, 12:21

You could develop iPhone/iPod Touch apps and sell them on the App store - people have made up to $9k per day with the top-selling apps, after Apple's cut!

bonz

6 Feb 2009, 13:53

You could develop iPhone/iPod Touch apps and sell them on the App store - people have made up to $9k per day with the top-selling apps, after Apple's cut!
Or $10k with one sale. :D
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/8/apple-s-iphone-app-approval-mouse-falls-off-treadmill-buy-the-1000-app-that-does-nothing-aapl-

thomasp

6 Feb 2009, 14:59

Or $10k with one sale. :D
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/8/apple-s-iphone-app-approval-mouse-falls-off-treadmill-buy-the-1000-app-that-does-nothing-aapl-
You mean $1k :p

SupSuper

6 Feb 2009, 16:18

I have considered getting into the indy business with iPhone/XBLA/Wiiware/Facebook/Flash/etc. But first I'd need:

1. The hardware in question. (ironically, my uni gives me a free license to make XBLA games, but I'd still need an Xbox 360 to publish them)
2. A money-making idea.
3. Convince a company that I'm developer material. :p

I know, whine whine whine, not meaning to diss your ideas or anything. I'll work something out. I guess if there's something you'd guys like to see on those platforms, I might work something out.

thomasp

6 Feb 2009, 16:22

For point 1, I believe Apple offer an iPhone Simulator in their software developer kit. And for point 3, you don't need to worry about that if you focus on iPhone/iPod Touch apps and do it yourself and submit it to the app store

bonz

6 Feb 2009, 18:30

2. A money-making idea.

Think about the games/apps from the past that you liked best.
Think what aspects of those you still disliked.
Make a blatant clone of the old game/app, remove the bad things, add some innovative new ones and add funky, up-to-date graphics.
Deliver the whole thing at a reasonably low price.
...
Profit.

Also, don't neglect the PC and through Steam.

Paul.Power

6 Feb 2009, 19:09

Also, don't neglect the PC and through Steam.This is Daniel "PCs are the best thing ever" Albano we're talking about here ;).

SupSuper

6 Feb 2009, 19:40

I think you're all forgetting I'm not a secret one-man development company posing as an university student. :p

MtlAngelus

6 Feb 2009, 21:50

"Eat and run". You are eating in a restaurant and your objective is to escape without paying. :cool:

M3ntal

7 Feb 2009, 06:24

I have a mate who does clinical trials, it pays pretty well.

bonz

7 Feb 2009, 10:19

"Eat and run". You are eating in a restaurant and your objective is to escape without paying. :cool:
How does that get you money?
Dan can't buy computer hardware with semi-digested food he smuggled out of a restaurant.
I have a mate who does clinical trials, it pays pretty well.
That may end up fatally though. :-/

Error404

7 Feb 2009, 16:14

On the clinic subject, he can sell blood... and... other bodly fluids... :rolleyes:

Vader

7 Feb 2009, 16:26

Fix a dynamo to your chair, spin on it all day, power your PC with it and claim the money you saved the bill-payer back in expenses. If you're the bill payer, just set aside the money you would have spent.

bonz

7 Feb 2009, 20:34

On the clinic subject, he can sell blood... and... other bodly fluids... :rolleyes:
Oh that's right.
Here in Austria you can "donate" blood plasma and get €20.- per donations, with a maximum of 3 donations every fortnight. That makes about €130.- every month.

(The money actually is a "time compensation" and not a payment, because selling your body and its fluids is illegal. Those companies are run by pharmaceutical corporations like Baxter, who produce medications from your plasma.)

I tried it two times but stopped, because the second time I nearly blacked-out because I barely had any breakfast before.
They tapped 800ml of my plasma, which was calculated based on my weight.

Conclusion:
Eat more and regularly before donating or lose some fat to get into a lower category. :P

Edit:
Also, I didn't like that the process isn't really sterile at all.
The sterile tubes are put into a contact-less peristaltic pump, but the ends are hanging there freely during the time the assistant needs to put in the tubes and plug in the needles.

All this in a very small location where human blood is handled with a high fluctuation of patients scared me a bit.

MtlAngelus

7 Feb 2009, 20:53

How does that get you money?
Dan can't buy computer hardware with semi-digested food he smuggled out of a restaurant.

No, that's an idea for a game.

Squirminator2k

7 Feb 2009, 20:56

Hey Daniel, why not try and code an iPhone Cannon Fodder clone? :)

SupSuper

8 Feb 2009, 02:02

That's actually a very plausible idea. Sadly, after looking it up, the iPhone SDK is only available for Macs.

FutureWorm

8 Feb 2009, 05:26

That's actually a very plausible idea. Sadly, after looking it up, the iPhone SDK is only available for Macs.
get a mac then, l.o.l.

bonz

8 Feb 2009, 09:44

only available for Macs.
get a mac then, l.o.l.
Or this:
http://lifehacker.com/348653/install-os-x-on-your-hackintosh-pc-no-hacking-required