Blog articles turned into a sold book
Wrote helpful articles, collected them into a book sold on Gumroad, and also builds a monitoring SaaS on the side.
At a glance
Estimated by a classifier that read the source. The bar shows how sure it was.
- Category
- Digital products65% surex
- Earns from
- One-time sales82% surex
- Startup cost (estimate)
- Under $100Low confidence54% surex
- Time it takes (estimate)
- Part-timeLow confidence40% surex
- Where
- Online98% surex
- Coding
- Needs codingLow confidence57% surex
Source
Hacker NewsComment by rozenmd in “Ask HN: Software developers, what is your side income?”, April 2, 2021
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