Ask HN: How did you earn your first $100 and first $1k online?

Re:Ask HN: How did you earn your first $100 and first $1k on... by Sohcahtoa82 on Monday July 10, 2023 @12:40PM (#36668893)

First $100: Amazon referral account. I set up a stupid website which had a referral link. Also, occasionally I'd post referral links to reddit and Facebook when the product I was linking was highly relevant to the conversation.

First $1,000: Haven't made it yet. My referral account got banned after I stupidly sent a referral link to a finance person at work who was ordering more RAM for my system and wanted to know exactly what to order.

Someone paid me $150 to rewrite a Perl script in Python.

Maybe one day I'll finish writing this game I haven't worked on in a while and reach $1,000 with that.

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Re:Ask HN: How did you earn your first $100 and first $1k on... by xu3u32 on Monday July 10, 2023 @01:34PM (#36669817)

Why/how did that result in a ban?

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Re:Ask HN: How did you earn your first $100 and first $1k on... by Sohcahtoa82 on Monday July 10, 2023 @06:56PM (#36674144)

According to the e-mail:

"Purchases resulting from Special Links on your site have been for personal use, resale, or commercial use."

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Re:Ask HN: How did you earn your first $100 and first $1k on... by yyyyddmm on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @10:52AM (#36681855)

what the freak does this stuff even mean.

They bought something with your ref, you should have a piece of the pie, period.

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Re:Ask HN: How did you earn your first $100 and first $1k on... by xu3u32 on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @01:43PM (#36684512)

Thats what I was thinking

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