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Re:What's the most profitable programming hobby? by acconrad on Thursday July 01, 2021 @10:28AM (#27699367)
Consulting your programming knowledge out is a very high ROI per hour (more so than coding).

Some people build plugins for ecosystems like Wordpress and that's pretty profitable.

I have a Slack marketplace app that is ramen profitable.

Write code to solve a problem and charge for it is probably the best way to monetize your programming hobby.

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Re:What's the most profitable programming hobby? by metaphyze on Thursday July 01, 2021 @10:46AM (#27699541)
Was that an autocorrect error: "ramen profitable"? I like it, but I'm looking for more than ramen money. I'm guessing you meant "really profitable".
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Re:What's the most profitable programming hobby? by bluejellybean on Thursday July 01, 2021 @11:40AM (#27700280)
It's a reference to PG's essay titled "Ramen Profitable"[0]

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/ramenprofitable.html

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Re:What's the most profitable programming hobby? by fhffbirrrer on Thursday July 01, 2021 @11:41AM (#27700294)
I believe ramen profitable means, it generates enough profit for the person to be able to subsist entirely on ramen.
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Re:What's the most profitable programming hobby? by gremlinsinc on Thursday July 01, 2021 @04:09PM (#27704057)
To piggy back on another person...I'd say "ramen profitable"....means maybe something like 2-3k per month recurring income, with maybe 5-10 hours of maintenance required to run the application.
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Re:What's the most profitable programming hobby? by blackarck on Friday July 02, 2021 @07:46AM (#27710241)
hey cool use of ramen profitable !!
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