How to Make Money From Coding | Top 5 Ways to Earn Money From Coding
Alright so today I'm going to go through my best tips regarding how to make money from code, there are tones 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. These were all developed by people who knew how to code. But telling you that you can make money from creating the next Facebook is not super useful.
So Let's Get to the Ways That I Believe Are the Easiest and Most Profitable.
1. Freelancing, Freelancing Contracting
First off, freelancing, freelancing contracting, whatever you want to call it. My advice here is not to use classic websites like freelancer.com, Upwork, or Fiverr, 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:
- The first option is to ask your family and friends.
- The second is to 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 that show what you can do. Then, ask them if they know anyone else who has 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.
2. Create Website For Small Shops And Restaurant
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 snowball effect.
For Example- 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 it 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 an away 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's 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 say 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 can potentially save the company from having to pay one employee plus significantly lower the cost of wasted fruit.
3. Creating Courses
Creating courses, and as soon as I hear like an 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, it's quantitative knowledge as compared to the get-rich-quick courses that teach qualitative knowledge.
4. Coding Competitions
There are also coding competitions which I guess you can use to make some extra money. There are pretty many coding competitions going on 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 is one of my main ways to make money with code.
5. Making WordPress Plugins
There are also WordPress plugins so you can make some plugins for WordPress websites and then you can have a price on those that 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 at the next one.