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Re:Ask HN: What is the best income stream you have created t... by asicsp on Friday December 09, 2022 @10:36PM (#33929627)
Left my job in 2014. Tried a few things that didn't succeed before selling programming ebooks came to my rescue (2018). From the danger of draining out my savings completely, I'm now earning more than double my needs (which isn't really that much for my modest lifestyle, living alone in a developing nation - $150/month).

What's more, my ebooks are all free to read online. Only PDF/EPUB are sold, and I've always given them away for free during launch week.

List of my ebooks: https://learnbyexample.github.io/books/ (topics include Regular Expressions, Linux CLI tools, Python and Vim)

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Re:Ask HN: What is the best income stream you have created t... by l33tc0de on Saturday December 10, 2022 @02:18AM (#33930687)
Is this a side hustle or your main source of income?

$150/month seems less even for a developing nation (I might be wrong though)

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Re:Ask HN: What is the best income stream you have created t... by asicsp on Saturday December 10, 2022 @02:35AM (#33930766)
Main source of income. I've now saved enough for 3 years if ebooks stop selling (which is a real possibility - most of my readers are from America/Europe/Australia and they would be able to subscribe to AI tools instead of learning from books). I'll probably try in-person local tutoring, look for other options, etc.

And $150/month really provides a comfortable living for me in the outskirts of a city :)

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Re:Ask HN: What is the best income stream you have created t... by Pawka on Saturday December 10, 2022 @02:30AM (#33930744)
150$ from "thin air" every month is nice addition in developing nation. Not something what would change the lifestyle but something what you can easily spend on things you like - books, courses, etc.
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Re:Ask HN: What is the best income stream you have created t... by porker on Saturday December 10, 2022 @02:53AM (#33930838)
It can be enough to change the lifestyle. I'm working with a charity where we're increasing people's income by $90 a year and that makes a significant difference to their lives
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Re:Ask HN: What is the best income stream you have created t... by key_stroker on Saturday December 10, 2022 @04:08AM (#33931169)
Currently reading computing from the commandline, want to use it as a teaching aid in a series of videos.
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Re:Ask HN: What is the best income stream you have created t... by asicsp on Saturday December 10, 2022 @04:16AM (#33931205)
I'd be honored, have fun :)
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Re:Ask HN: What is the best income stream you have created t... by key_stroker on Saturday December 10, 2022 @04:26AM (#33931238)
Thank you!
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