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Help Pay My Bills: A HN Experiment

74 点作者 bendauphinee超过 14 年前

14 条评论

skowmunk超过 14 年前
Have you tried odesk.com, elance.com, rent-a-coder.com?<p>You might find some good competition from East European, Russian and Asian Coders on these sites- some of them are terrific coders/developers, but you also have some inherent advantages.<p>From experience of working with contractors/programmers on odesk.com, in my opinion these would be your inherent advantages that you can use to market yourself:<p>1) working and being avalable to work with, during sane hours (for North Am.) - working with somebody from half way across the world, even if they are very good, can be tiring in the long run<p>2) Cultural acquaintance - Many programmers from the developing world have not been exposed to the day to day life here in the more developed western world. when websites are dealing with making the day to day life easier, dealing with those whose awareness of it is next to nothing could be a big challenge sometimes. (There are some who really good at understanding, though)<p>Other problem here is, from experience, even if they could speak english, not eveybody can catch the nuances and subtleties of langauge which does have a bearing in good comprehension/communication. (to be honest, even my english is not upto the mark of an equally educated American, though I have lived in the US for almost 1/3rd of my life)<p>3) The understanding of confidentiality is next to nothing in many countries. Even if the understanding is there, the enforceability of related laws is very poor or next to nothing. So, thats a big biz risk you can market yourself on to North American customers on these sites, especially when dealing with unique ideas.<p>Good luck.
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jacquesm超过 14 年前
Maybe you need a more structural employment to balance the need to pay your bills?<p>After all you can't post this sort of thing every day, and if the first day is successful you will still have the same problem on the next.
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lachyg超过 14 年前
Have you tried selling stock photography on iStockPhoto? Collis from Envato said he made something like $6k a year without even touching it. Why not upload all your photos there?<p>He also has a site called CodeDen or something, where you can sell PHP scripts. Why not do some work and upload your stuff there?<p>There are lots of large communities specialising in the stuff you list there!
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RBr超过 14 年前
Here is what I think you should do:<p>1) Do some research online about legitimate ways to make money. Make a very long list with no fewer than 100 entries. These don't need to be things that you're interested in, but each one needs to result in some form of income. None of these things should cost any money to make money <i>or</i> require you to pimp out your friends and family for referrals. Don't limit yourself online either, remember that people earn money in easy ways offline as well and that something as easy as personal shopping for an elderly person in your neighborhood can bring in $50 a week for something you're doing anyway. Be creative and constantly add to this list.<p>2) Create profiles, sign up or apply to each one of these money making methods. In some cases, you'll need to create basic websites (storefronts), etc to facilitate income. Do not spend any more than 4 hours of a single day stetting up any single method.<p>3) Start thinking about a portfolio. It doesn't matter what life goals you have, you need a portfolio - especially if you're going to be earning money this way. Think about what your "perfect" job / gig / startup looks like and carefully collect items for your portfolio that support your expertise in your target area. Opportunistic portfolio work is the only type of work you should ever do cheap or free.<p>4) I bet you have already started to do these things. You've identified 4 very general things on your website that you can do. However, you've put out a general call for work in common areas. Think about your skills (starting with the 4 you've listed) and look at the looong list of money making opportunities.<p>5) Once you get a couple of bucks in your pocket and you get the bill collectors (if any) off of your back, a really fun experiment is to have your bills paid by passive income. One-by-one, if you can slowly discard one bill at a time using things like affiliate programs, ad income from your blog, whatever... you'll really start to have fun. The only rule in this "game" is to define a small number of maintenance hours per week to maintain your passive income. The natural progression of passive income using this strategy is to take an item from your looong list of income sources and modularize / mechanize it to reduce the amount of labor it takes to complete the task to the absolute minimum. Sometimes, leveraging the low cost labor of others to preform tasks that are easy to repeat is a great way to move a task completely passive.<p>6) Above all else, keep your chin up. Remember the setbacks and failures but don't let them put you in a bad mood. Staying upbeat and creative is the key.
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dalore超过 14 年前
Sorry, but if that site is anything to go by I don't think I would be asking you to help design a web site.
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nailer超过 14 年前
If you want customers, give them some value. I didn't read your link because paying your bills is nit in my interests. Perhaps you do something else that is, and would make a better headline?
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midnightmonster超过 14 年前
"not have to move back into my parents place while I job hunt"<p>In your position, I would strongly consider moving back into my parents' place. I got married right out of college and my wife worked in resident life while she was a grad student so we could live on campus for free. But if I had been single and struggling to make a freelance career work (instead of married and...), I probably would have moved right back home. Saves a bunch of money (don't forget food savings), which gives you time to build the life you want.<p>FWIW, I did end up 'giving up my freedom' and took a full-time job in retail so we could get decent health insurance and have a baby. I did that for a year and a half, then split work and childcare with my wife for a couple years, and for the last 2.5 years I've been supporting my wife and three kids solely with my freelance work. So even if you have to give up freedom for a while, you can bank the experience and work your way back.
wenbert超过 14 年前
I can relate to this post. I live in the Philippines have a good steady job but still not enough money to live comfortably and save at the same time.<p>I sell my extra time at night to do websites and design as well. I have been doing it for a few years now (&#62;4years). I sometimes take breaks from it though.<p>I never tried odesk or similar sites. I tried to look for a small job there but there are too many uncertainties. Over the years I have about 1 or 2 clients that come back regularly so I just stuck with them. Although more would be better because I still have more time left. lol
kilomanamolik超过 14 年前
I don't get it. Your website looks like crap, your writing is poor, and the color scheme you chose looks like it came out of the 90's. This is pretty pathetic. What makes you think that anybody would hire you over someone else with better, more impressive, credentials?
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jason_tko超过 14 年前
Sure, I'll throw in.<p>I need a nice, clean PDF report done up with good typography that will be offered as a free report on the main MakeLeaps site.<p>I was planning on hiring a freelance designer for this, but if you're able to do this, please contact me and lets talk.
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joey_bananas超过 14 年前
&#62; Rebel XSi, so quality is not a problem<p>Because the camera is all that matters, right?
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adnam超过 14 年前
Seems a bit lackadaisical.
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jw84超过 14 年前
You can give TaskRabbit.com a try.
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zackattack超过 14 年前
send me an email, i will have php work for you
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