How did you make your first dollar online? I'll go first! My story: I was 13 years old and someone in the mIRC chatroom #graphicdesign said they were looking for a logo. I messaged him and he agreed, I designed the logo and he sent me a check for $150 and my parents opened a bank account for me and deposited it. What's yours? |
Recently, I found the app again - source code included - on a website. Apparently I had given it away on a forum years ago, and someone kept a copy.
The code was adorably simple. It was not clever or clean, just the digital equivalent of a kid's drawing you put on the fridge. Software made for pleasure, using whatever works.
Nice hussle tho
There are still like 200~ users using the app even after 2 years since we stopped updating (and it crashes a lot).
I even found the page listing one of the themes I sold with Wayback Machine - "Winning bid: $125". Some people were buying these themes, change the "Theme by" link in the footer and give them away for free. Probably for SEO reasons.
I made a bunch of few bucks or two every x minutes or so, 24h/day. Details escapes me atm.
Though before that sifting through USENET articles for technical gems for a large client paid better...