Making a living from my own projects instead of client work

Not OP, but also have the same questions/desires...

Even if you don't have any good answers to post, additional examples of stuff that doesn't work (makes a loss) or doesn't work well enough (only about break-even) can be useful, to tell us what to avoid (or what might be worth looking into if some improvement can be added to the original idea).

Example of something that doesn't really work : MMO gold-farming bots. Can run roughly break-even, but regular banning and untrustworthy customers make it too much of a hassle.

You really have no clue what you're doing

I think you need to try a few more things first and learn some valuable real world lessons because you sound quite naive

>>1601215
I was a contracted programmer hired gun type, for big and small companies.
On the side I did abunch of shit, read a lot.

Ended up with 100 Amazon affiliate sites I made. Was getting $10k a month from it. Doing good domains, only targeted niches. SEO, was really easy with the domains. Just stacked money using amazon API to make my site look like real shopping sites but the checkout took them to Amazon, and all the products they added on my site were in their Amazon carts.

After a few years, get a Dear John letter from Amazon. Basically shutting me down for making too much and using too much API requests. Meh whatever.

Built a couple of cool sites/projects and sold them off easily.

Now contracted again but working on a free automated stock investment platform. Launch in a week, I'm getting 10% a day, should be a big hit.

Keep on going man, if you are good you will make something. But if you has specific questions, I'll try to answer. I have been in your boat.

>>1602283
How do you go about securing contracts? I'm doing some independent work at the moment on a currency exchange but i'm losing motivation as the development drags on. How did you go about advertising and acquiring new users? Can you make anything work if you are persistent enough with your advertising?

>>1602285
I'm not securing the contracts. I'm working with and online broker and their API. My platform will automatically invest their money based on their settings with my platform.

I had a stock pick newsletter for years, and a forum and amassed a good following. So expecting to be able to grow membership quickly. Which I hope so. I have about 50 servers running right now just to do real time data processing of our algorithms for all trader types we expect. But I have always had good results with adwords. But paid placement is usually big. Pay a few hundred to some decent sites to write articles about your site. Works wonders for short bursts.

Or write a kick ass email scraper by niche ;)

>>1602283
Would you mind sharing the automated trading website?

>>1602516
thiss

>>1602516
One good automated trading site in action: https://youtu.be/lNbesLS68GE
Link in the description!

>>1602283
10% a day? that's complete bullshit

>>1603859
this is a scam

>>1601215
I know I'll get the third degree here, but why not just become a wagecuck? If you have strong web development experience you can probably pull close to $100k in a city like Chicago where the cost of living isn't too high.

Live frugally and then you can take a few years off after you work for a few years.

A lot of these places only actually require a few hours of actual work a day, and it can be done from home most days of the week.

>>1603859
> I don't earn as much as i told you
> as a matter of fact i need the money
> pls click my affiliate link

Oh boy