Many nights outside of work, I still read and build ideas that get me excited about tech. As time grows, it would be nice to make some money on the side with the skills I have. How can I work toward this goal?<p>I'm a senior engineer at a large bay area tech company working in backend/distributed systems. I have experience with UI/UX as well (which I really love to do for fun!).<p>I started a Youtube channel and get a few hundred bucks a month from that, but am interested in building some stuff outside of videos/teaching.
Good question.<p>If you already make a few hundred bucks from making videos, I think you are on a good track.<p>Do you make money through Patreon or from advertisment?<p>Some things to think about:<p>* Can you generate leads from your YouTube channel, at least for consulting?<p>* Talk to your viewers. Understand their problems and figure out what a lot of them see as as problem. This could go hand in hand with consulting.<p>* Build something to address this problem and make it a product. You already have people likely willing to at least try and give feedback.
Make a newsletter so folks from YouTube can get your thoughts when <i>you</i> choose, not the algorithm.<p>Write a course/book about something you know that can help others do their job better/get promoted, and charge for its value.