• by iEchoic on 10/5/2023, 3:43:17 PM

    1999, created a Magic: the Gathering fansite on Geocities. Pretty sure I made a solid $13 or so with display ads, and would one day go on to make many dozens of dollars with my next Age of Empires II strategy fan site.

    Good times.

  • by jjice on 10/5/2023, 2:00:08 PM

    I made tee shirts on RedBubble when I was 14 or 15. Really low quality designs from a non-artist for niche communities. One really caught on. Another two or so got a bit of traction. The other 30 never sold. Ended up making probably around $1,000 total in the end which is great for a kid who can't legally get a traditional job yet.

    The market is super saturated now, and there are a lot of people with actual talent now too, which is a big win for the market as a whole so I'm glad!

  • by karlkong on 10/5/2023, 1:49:39 PM

    A friend of mine introduced me to affiliate marketing and SEO in 2012. After learning the ropes I challenged him on who could make the first dollar with a brand new site. I made a site about Bluetooth speakers, made my first affiliate sale a month later and won the challenge :-D

    My affiliate career wasn't very long lasting though. Right now I am trying to make my internet dollars with SaaS instead.

  • by antihoney on 10/6/2023, 9:03:16 AM

    I used to make planner templates and similar things of that sort for myself in high school. It wasn't anything special but I enjoyed making them.

    I had this guy contact me on Reddit about whether I could customize a daily planner for his kids and gave me a general idea of what he wanted. I delivered the design and he loved it, and commissioned three more.

    I charged him $2 USD per planner (didn't know how to price it + it took me an hour tops, but he insisted on paying more which was nice). Ended up earning $15/planner.

  • by ushercakes on 10/5/2023, 4:51:14 PM

    Most of my internet dollars in the past have come from ads and affilates on various blogs I run.

    My first real "somebody paying me for my product" dollar, came in January of this year. I launched IndexGuru - solves a super common issue I had been dealing with on my blogs. Posted it to show HN, and had two separate people sign up and pay me money :)

    Pretty great a-ha moment. Business is doing well, but nothing to write home about, I unfortunately do not have yacht money yet.

  • by cpach on 10/5/2023, 2:19:11 PM

    Been using Internet since 1996, never made any money directly from it. But it sure has been helpful when pursuing a career in tech.

  • by gwnywg on 10/6/2023, 2:49:04 PM

    Nothing to be proud of, but I once won $50 through betting on ice hockey. I had no clue what I was doing, I just picked a team and put bet for draw every time that team was playing, doubling previous bet. Once I won I took the money and never came back :)

  • by codegeek on 10/5/2023, 4:52:40 PM

    Bought a side project doing 2k MRR (4 months old). So technically it was already making money.

  • by thiago_fm on 10/6/2023, 2:43:15 PM

    Adsense, had a couple of websites in the 2000s that helped me fund my studies and eventually buy my first used macbook

  • by BjoernKW on 10/6/2023, 5:05:37 PM

    Back in 1997, with my first business, which was about hosting and - occasionally designing - websites for companies.

  • by mr_o47 on 10/5/2023, 2:35:41 PM

    I made my first dollar on internet by putting ads on my blog

    And also someone ended up sending me money since they found my content really helpful

  • by VoodooJuJu on 10/5/2023, 4:29:42 PM

    Selling shoes on ebay, new ones I'd bought online that didn't fit.

  • by ipaddr on 10/5/2023, 7:47:48 PM

    Spun a wheel and won 1 dollar. The internet was great in 2000.