Good times.
The market is super saturated now, and there are a lot of people with actual talent now too, which is a big win for the market as a whole so I'm glad!
My affiliate career wasn't very long lasting though. Right now I am trying to make my internet dollars with SaaS instead.
I had this guy contact me on Reddit about whether I could customize a daily planner for his kids and gave me a general idea of what he wanted. I delivered the design and he loved it, and commissioned three more.
I charged him $2 USD per planner (didn't know how to price it + it took me an hour tops, but he insisted on paying more which was nice). Ended up earning $15/planner.
My first real "somebody paying me for my product" dollar, came in January of this year. I launched IndexGuru - solves a super common issue I had been dealing with on my blogs. Posted it to show HN, and had two separate people sign up and pay me money :)
Pretty great a-ha moment. Business is doing well, but nothing to write home about, I unfortunately do not have yacht money yet.
And also someone ended up sending me money since they found my content really helpful
I decided to take blogging a little serious
Plus i enjoy it as well and I love people learn something new from my content
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