Below you can find a list of ways you can make money as a developer. I’ve wrote these items a while back and I thought that people might find it valuable so I decided to share it with you. :smile:
- The most common is to have a job at a company or work as a freelancer for multiple clients
- Create and sell digital products (plugins, components (in React, Angular, Vue, Bootstrap, etc), themes, etc)
- build a SAAS (Software as a Service)
- create web, mobile and/or desktop apps where you can have ads or in-app purchases
- Create a blog and monetize it via:
- ads (Google Adsense, carbonads, etc)
- sponsorships
- become an affiliate and promote other people’s products
- promote your own products
- get paid to write articles for publications
- write and sell ebooks and/or physical books*
- create a YouTube channel (on topics like: tutorials, developer lifestyle, tips & tricks, news in the field, etc) and monetize it via:
- YouTube ads
- sponsorships
- affiliate marketing
- promote your own products
- create online courses and/or online programs
- live stream (on Twitch, YouTube, etc) and monetize it via:
- donations
- monthly subscriptions
- create a podcast
- sponsorship
- promote your own products
- work on Open Source projects and get donations and sponsorships
- create a Patreon page where people can support you
- create a job board and get paid by companies to connect them with developers, designers, etc…
- sell swag
- sell a newsletter
- have 1-on-1 coaching sessions
- create a trading bot
- participate in paid coding challenges
- participate in bug bounty programs
Conclusion
If you found this list useful, share it with your friends!
In the future I’m planning to create an eBook in which I’m going to describe in more details these items.
Stay tuned for that! 😄
In the meantime… Happy Coding! 😇