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Even when there was a member of our cycle club who openly worked in world of niche online entertainment, it never occurred to me to ask if there was a club discount….
You know what they say - shy bairns get heehaw. Or rather pay full price
I’m a “beer educator”* once a month, earns me a few quid and I get free beer and some people that pretend to like me for an afternoon.
*I present beer tastings with a ridiculous quiz alongside.
also knew a guy who composed lift music for fancy hotels.
Tough game to be in. Always up and down.
OK what I want is app or service which connects people with stuff to get rid of to people who like going to boot sales. I like the idea of boot sales but cannot be bothered to do it myself.
So I put a job lot of stuff on the app, you come to my house and collected it agreeing a minimum price I want. The boot seller can agree or disagree to take the stuff if the price is too high.
Then they get x% PLUS anything they make on top of the minimum agreed.
So can you provide this service? Or write me the app called "BootSaleMyStuff"?
also knew a guy who composed lift music for fancy hotels.
Tough game to be in. Always up and down.
I tried to get into that once, but apparently I wasn't at the right level....
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also knew a guy who composed lift music for fancy hotels.Tough game to be in. Always up and down.
I tried to get into that once, but apparently I wasn’t at the right level….
It's a long way to the top if you want to rock n roll
My mate (who built my bike frame) designed a bike set-up tool, for replicating bike set-ups across multiple bikes. He 3d prints the bits at home and wrote the phone apps it uses to make the calculations.
It's done quite well - he also has people printing the parts and selling in the US and Europe.
This is some guy reviewing it:
I've done promotional work on day rates for big consumer brands, free samples at festivals etc. Pay is good, you get free entry and it's fun/easy work. Downside is travel costs not always paid.
There's a constant need in my industry for (good/reliable) video editors, and also very much so motion graphics people
Easily bill yourself out at 300-500/day
Metal detecting.. once you've spent around 100 hours figuring out how to use it properly there's bound to be gold just lying around all the beaches and Roman hoards in the fields. You'll be rich in no time.
Metal detecting.. once you’ve spent around 100 hours figuring out how to use it properly there’s bound to be gold just lying around all the beaches and Roman hoards in the fields. You’ll be rich in no time.
Ring pull. 83. Tizer.
Used to 3d print some stuff and sell it. Can't be arsed now, my standards are too high and the market's standards are too low and that makes it all very hard work. You can make good money selling shite but I don't want to do that.
But out of that, I became a nerf gunrunner- I buy big bundles, split 'em, tidy them up, fix broken ones if I can (or bash differently broken ones together into one) and sell them individually. It's kinda ideal for me- I have the time, I mostly enjoy it, but also it's not really scalable- there's no temptation to try and go bigger, I've got it at a natural sustainable size and that's easy to sustain.
Had a couple of other things like that over the years- basically any time something annoys me that I can't get it easily, I put that in the back of my brain and see what happens. Some product that doesn't exist, or that's in some way stupid to obtain (like, for years my best ebay seller was something that I wanted 2 of, that cost £8 to buy 4 of in Maplins, or £8 to buy 70 of online. So I bought 70 and sold packs of 2 for £3. Eventually someone noticed and copied me, and so we price warred a bit and he got to the point that he was making literally no money but apparently hadn't realised so I dropped out)
I tried to get into that once, but apparently I wasn’t at the right level….
Your problem was trying to walk in on the top floor. You need to work your way up from the bottom.
Is that talking about OnlyFans again? Can't tell for sure...
A mate of mine used to play online poker as a side hustle, was very good at it so made a decent amount of cash and ended up becoming a pro and his full time job. BUT... The market for him was the US and it really forced him to play at their peak times if he wanted to earn money. It really hurt his relationship. I think it was also a late 90's/early 00's phase. so not sure how much money he actually makes from it now.
I don’t do but pay for:
App Translation - just checking that Google translate is correct / co text is right for buttons etc.
Content writing for Apps
Help page and instruction writing
App video guide creation
App creators are terrible at the above. Dev agencies offer the above but charge £££ and are useless at it. Most freelancers are overseas and also terrible despite 5* reviews on various platforms.
Side hustle? There’s not enough time in the day. Plus, the tax would make any return negligible. 🙁
Plus, the tax would make any return negligible.
Only if you have a very successful side hustle.
The flip bike video to me almost proved the opposite of what it was meant to.
Bought bike for $800 and sold for $900.....after spending hours meticulously cleaning, bleeding brakes, servicing gearing, changing grips, getting up for golden hour to photograph, post process photos, doing a better job on the description and then driving to a shop to do the deal.....for $100. Who's the mug - the dude 'missing out' on $100 sale price by putting minimum effort into the bike advert or the one valuing his time at a lot less than minimum wage to extract every last cent?
As for a side hustle - if your grammar and spelling are better than mine copy checking / proof reading can be an option and you can do the work at a time to suit.
MrsL marks GCSE exam papers at this time of year. It's a lot of extra work for a few weeks but pays reasonably well. I couldn't do it as I suffer from procrastination too!
If you've got a degree in a relevant subject (you might not always need a degreee, I'm not sure tbh) then I think most exam boards are always looking for people.
The flip bike video to me almost proved the opposite of what it was meant to.
Bought bike for $800 and sold for $900…..after spending hours meticulously cleaning, bleeding brakes, servicing gearing, changing grips, getting up for golden hour to photograph, post process photos, doing a better job on the description and then driving to a shop to do the deal…..for $100. Who’s the mug – the dude ‘missing out’ on $100 sale price by putting minimum effort into the bike advert or the one valuing his time at a lot less than minimum wage to extract every last cent?
4hrs work total, maybe - £80 profit. Minus a little for fuel. Since when was £20 an hour minimum wage?
The flip bike video to me almost proved the opposite of what it was meant to.
Completely agree, it was desperately tedious video spam to keep 2.4m subscribers clicking.
TBF, I think a lot of people who flip things for money basically don't do all the maths, or ignore the risks. It only takes one expensive broken part, or one item that sells for a low price, to wipe out some people's profits I'm sure and others will be optimistic, or forget about storage or opportunity costs, or consumables ("I already have it so it's free") or the fact that they've got money tied up for long periods sometimes, or overlook things like postage or ebay fees.
I mentioned up the page but I used to have an item that I sold regularly... I was priced out of the market by someone like this, who hadn't done the maths properly and after fees would be selling for a very small loss. It's so easy to do. My own thing is about as safe as it gets but it took effort and care.
I think copy reading etc you need the exact right sort of brain. I have the skills, and I have whatever it is that makes mistakes jump off a page like a missed note, but I haven't got whatever the bit of brain is that puts that all together and turns it into useful output. I've done it for pocket money but it's way harder graft for me than it is for people with the full combo and that made it not a great option. People who can do it tend to assume that everyone can but it's a real skill.
(and so I became that guy who looks at the galleys, declares it all fine, then once the final printed copy arrives can glance at it for 2 seconds and instantly see the one mistake in the whole document. Most rightly hated of all error spotters)
4hrs work total, maybe – £80 profit. Minus a little for fuel. Since when was £20 an hour minimum wage?
Minus a pair of grips (and a touch of mineral oil). And all the nonsense with the multitool, gloves and bottle - but I guess that was for the vid so maybe can be ignored.
The stripping it to clean it, spanner it, photograph it and advertise it is just the start. 2 hours driving to buy the bike. No idea how far to sell the bike, but more time. Then the hours spent answering and sifting through the other potential buyers. That's more than 4hrs all up.
Yep - I'd say under minimum wage once you take all that into account.
But as Northwind suggests, there are enough innumerate folk around who can't appreciate the full picture of many a 'flip'.
^^ As Northwind says, I have an online business plus I sell at local markets as well as doing some B-2-B stuff. Knowing how much my stuff costs to produce, I’m staggered at how little money some people are prepared to make on places like Etsy or eBay, particularly when you consider the costs of fees, postage, breakages.
Look, it's an idea - obviously if you buy crap 3 hours away then it's not going to be profitable, but buy cleverly and locally and I'm sure you could make a bit extra. Much like every other home business you can do in your spare time, there's no easy money options, if there was everyone would be doing it!
Amazon flex might be worth looking into as well OP, I think you choose the hours you want to work and pay doesn't seem too bad.
I’ve recently built 2 hifi stand things out of new scaffold planks.
The finished articles have the bonus of being sold as ‘rustic’ and as such you can get away with rough cuts and edges.
I was quite amazed that the £40 per unit I spent on wood from Facebook marketplace, legs from Amazon and some stain and about 2 hours to build per unit could actually sell for £300 ish on Etsy and the like.
Have no real intention to do anything myself, but there has to be a good return for something so easy to make.
Only advice I’d give (if anybody fancied a go) is to make sure the wood is inside and shrunk all It’s going to before building.
could actually sell for £300 ish on Etsy and the like.
Have no real intention to do anything myself, but there has to be a good return for something so easy to make.
So did you sell the crude scaffold plank stuff or not?
Advertised price does not equal sold price. There is loads of upcycled rubbish for sale on gumtree near me, but it never seems to shift.
Nope, made them for my own use with no intention of selling.
Have no doubt they do sell for a fair chunk though. There are loads for sale and the chap I bought the wood from says he can’t get enough of it and sells mainly to furniture makers.