Ask HN: How would you make quick money? If you had your current skills but were starting from scratch, in that you couldn't use any existing stuff you've built or any of your connections, and had exactly 7 days until your cash ran out completely, what would you do? |
- Buy drugs from darknet rush shipping and go to sktechy area, sell for 50% markup while trying not to get robbed. Look for local customers on reddit, nightclubs, parties, college campuses, etc.
- Sex-work, apparently even men can make decent money camming for other dudes
- Pan-handling
- Get a job at local chipotle/mcdonalds/etc, would be interesting to see how fast you could get a paycheck
- Try to get some contract work for software on fiverr
It ain't much, but it's honest work
I'm not into this, but I am into making money. Any numbers on what the earning distribution might look like?
I'm rethinking if you could get this going in 7 days, though. Might take a few weeks to build up an audience and cashout the tips.
I would sign up for the most profitable affiliate program, get a friend to sign up for something with free trials, cancel it, and then get a commission. I would ask multiple friends to do this in exchange for a split of the money.
I would spam Redditors with affiliate links in threads where they are looking for recommendations to buy something.
All shady stuff that wouldn’t benefit me in the long term but hey, you said I got 7 days to make $$$.
There’s no good, legal way to make a living in 7 days. Manual labor can get you quick cash, but not much, and depend where you live you may have a lot of competition for unskilled labor.
Nothing special? Use my credit card, perhaps be late on a few bills until my next salary payment. Or if your premise is that I don't have a job either, then the same thing but for a bit longer until I find one.
I feel like the title and the text inside don't match - I don't get why starting from zero means that you need to make money fast.
Day labor.
Sell your stuff.
Hustle people at something you're good at.
Not making money, but if you need money then a loan or charity.
Otherwise it's mostly illicit stuff for fast cash.
You can avoid some of the supply chain and quality control issues by manufacturing certain products yourself - just like Jobs and Woz in their garage!
Payment terms are tough as well - your suppliers will demand Net-right-this-effin-second, while your customers will often be Net-I-don't-have-it-right-now-will-you-take-a-broken-VCR-instead.
Play for 6 days and hopefully don't go bust.