How to sell software source code
How To Make Money With Code!
all right so today I'm going to go
through my best tips regarding how to
make money from code
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there are tons of ways to go about this
and that's the really cool thing about
learning how to code because you're
pretty much only limited by your
creativity and there's virtually no
limit to the earning power you can
create on your own we all know about
Facebook Google Amazon and even things
as simple as that flappy bird game these
were all developed by people who knew
how to code but telling you that you can
make money from creating the next
Facebook it's not super useful so let's
get to the ways that I believe are the
easiest and most profitable
first off freelancing freelancing
contracting whatever you want to call it
my advice here is not to use the classic
websites like freelancer comm off work
or fiber because even though you can
definitely make some money on there I've
rarely seen any offers out there that
great and that means that the hourly
rate for most of the projects that I've
seen is fairly low so there are two ways
to do this better in my opinion first
option is to ask your family and friends
and find a few people that have small
businesses and then build a new website
or improve their existing website for
them and if you do that for free then
you get a few real-world projects that
you can then put on your resume let's
show what you can do then ask them if
they know anyone else who owns a
business who might want a website built
for them and then that way you can build
up a network of clients that you can
then work with on a more continuous
basis updating their sites adding
features and changing things the second
way that you could do this is by going
around your local town and finding small
shops restaurants cafes etc essentially
find places with shitty websites and
then redesign or improve those websites
for them but don't ask them if they want
you to do this just do it for them and
then show up and show them what you've
created for them once you've done that
you can ask them if they'd be willing to
pay a certain amount for that new and
improved website and this would be a way
in which you can build up your own
contracting business you
essentially build a network of clients
that can then hopefully refer you to
other new clients and this process is a
bit tough to get started with but once
you've got it going it can be a bit of a
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that I have is a gold line if you get
really good at it
and let us to build enterprise software
and what that means is essentially
you'll spend your time analyzing
different companies and trying to figure
out ways in which you could potentially
improve something for that company by
building a system for them essentially
you try to automate tasks for them so
that you save the company time and money
an example of this would be something
that I noticed when I was working at a
supermarket here in Sweden in the fruit
and vegetable section every day they get
shipments of fruit that get scanned into
the computer the staff me in this case
then takes us out into the store and
places on the shelves
then at the end of the day one of the
staff goes around and estimates how much
should be ordered of each item for the
next day and then manually types this
into the computer but the system keeps
track of sold items ordered items and
also received items meaning that if you
can make a program that just subtracts
sold items from received items then
you'll get a way better idea of how much
to order for the next day and if you add
in a bit of machine learning that uses
weather forecasts and previous year
stats to predict how much is likely to
be bought of each item in the coming day
then you'll have a software that could
potentially save the store millions in
terms of out-of-date products and that
also means that they wouldn't need a
person to go around and do the evening
checks so you could potentially save the
company from having to pay one employee
plus significantly lower the cost of
wasted fruit the reason for bringing up
that example is just to kind of showcase
that by building these systems it's
quite easy to then Rison or motivate a
certain price for that system because if
you can show that your system can save
that company ten thousand dollars in a
year then it's really easy to motivate
that they should pay you ten thousand
dollars for that piece of software
because yes in the first year they'll
still lose those ten thousand dollars
but in the next year they'll be making
or saving ten thousand dollars the next
year they'll save ten thousand dollars
and so on and so forth which means that
it's then pretty easy to motivate that
they should pay you that amount for that
piece of software I haven't done this
myself I've thought about it and I want
to do it but it is quite a lot of effort
that goes into it but again if you get
good at it then you'll be really well
off next is to develop apps and this is
something where it has crazy potential
to make you a lot of money but it comes
with a giant if statement and that is it
can make you money if you come up with a
good idea else it won't really amount to
much like I said previously look at
flappy bird even though that might be a
little bit of a
one out example by now it's a really
good example because a game like flappy
bird can be created by like a 12 year
old who's learning how to create games
and that's the first app that they
create and Navaro account talks about
the benefits of professions like this
where the inputs and the outputs are
highly disconnected and that's exactly
what this is creating flappy bird is
pretty simple but the potential of a
game like that in terms of the potential
money that can be earned from it is
pretty much infinite and that's kind of
the allure of this the fact that
something so simple can become so
valuable and in this case creating a
billion dollar app it's not have to be
difficult coming up with the idea for
that app though that's where the
difficulty lies I definitely think that
it's worth to dabble in app development
because it can have those outsized
results and if nothing else making
something that you yourself want is fun
also as an aside you can make a decent
living from having ads in your apps
given that you make a few apps and have
quite a few downloads on those apps
lastly a few honorable mentions creating
courses and as soon as I hear like
online course I straightaway think of
the get rich quick type courses and I
can't stand that I feel like that sort
of empty knowledge you're teaching
someone how to make money but you're
making money by teaching them how to
make money and it just doesn't feel
right to me but teaching someone how to
code is different because you're
equipping them with a skill that pretty
much infinitely increases their earning
power if they learn to code they'll be
able to make a great living its
quantitative knowledge as compared to
the get-rich-quick courses which teach
qualitative knowledge and then there's
also coding competitions which I guess
you can use to make some extra money
there's pretty much coding competitions
going on all the all year round so I
guess that can be a good way to make
some extra money
I haven't tried it myself so I don't
know too much about it so that's why I
kind of didn't want to bring it up this
one of my main ways to make money with
code and then there's also WordPress
plugins so you can make some plug-ins
for WordPress websites and they can have
a price on those so you can sell them on
the WordPress store sort of thing again
I haven't done this myself but I know
some people that do this and make a
little bit of money from this and it's
kind of one of those pretty popular ways
of making some extra money from code but
again I haven't tried it so I don't
quite know but yeah those are my tips
for how to make money from code and I
hope you got some new ideas for things
to try and that's it for this one I hope
I'll see you in the next one
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