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Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024) by bsenftner on Monday October 28, 2024 @06:36AM (#41969669)
20 years ago I met a young woman in her mid 20's. She's setup coloring book pages with google ads by the thousands, in pretty much every language. Her income from that was around $8K a month, and this was late 90's?
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Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024) by tecleandor on Monday October 28, 2024 @06:57AM (#41969781)
Just to be a bit picky, I guess it was Doubleclick or some other thing instead of Google Ads, as Google AdWords started working in 2000
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Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024) by grepLeigh on Monday October 28, 2024 @01:48PM (#41973951)
Similar story, but for the mobile era: I knew an indie app developer who built a portfolio of early mobile apps. His top-earners were a coloring book app, bead animal patterns, and a no-essay college scholarship app. Those three allowed him to pay himself and a partner salary and drop contract/client work.
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