21 year old makes 12k/day selling CS:GO skins
Original article link : http://www.lesaffaires.com/blogues/julien-brault/ce-montrealais-de-21-ans-fait-12-000--par-jour-en-vendant-des-fusils-virtuels/579654?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=16-06-2015&utm_campaign=montrealais-12000-dollars-par-jour
The text is in french thoses are the highlights of it :
* Artur Minacov 21 co-founder from Montreal
* website : OPSkins
* 120 000$/day selling volume takes a 10% cut -> 12 000$ / day
* The website is selling Counter Strike GO skins which are only a design for a gun no added value
* 340 000 users plan to get all of the 6.5 millions users of CS:GO
* He will sponsor the next ESWC for a total of 100k$
* Dropout from Cegep (college) at 19 years old
* Failed a few startups (2) before OPSkins
* Refused VC funding (6% for 50k)
Sorry if there is mistake it is a bit late and not my native language.
(
11 comments
| 27 points
| on HN
)
I had a few friends on this game called APB (All Points Bullet In), These guys were making legit money selling MOD cars, guns and tattoo designs.
However, in their case, they became an actual known group that some of their design and tattoo's were sold outside of the game.
No VC money, no nothing, just a few 17 years olds from Chicago and Poland making around 5k each in a month to create this whole design entity for unique products. + Their YouTube channel doing videos tutorials for the game.
I can't really link to them or anything, due to some of their restrictions, but that's just another way similar to this person doing the CS:GO thing and turning it into a business.
It is impressive to see that kind of money for virtual goods in my opinion.
And yes, it's pretty cool tying a part of that virtual world to real money in this way.
Accounts get banned? Trades get reversed? Hackers using your site to liquidate game items?
Outta luck.
They were actually banned by Steam and got unban thats what I saw on the facebook of the founder.
I'm interested in creating a web app that allows auth via Steam account too, but I'm not seeing any docs about how to make that happen.
Anyone know how that's done?
[follow up edit] This seems to be it → https://steamcommunity.com/dev
Looks like there's a Steam Web API that allow auth via Steam OpenID. Likely workable. :D