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React Dev? Sell Tiny Tech Zines Instead

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Sick of building dashboards for SaaS apps you don’t care about?
Here’s how to turn your skills into weird, printable money.

😵‍💫 The Problem: You can code, but you’re broke (and bored)

React devs often fall into one of three traps:

  1. Client work pays the bills, but kills the soul
  2. You keep starting projects that never launch
  3. You want passive income, but hate marketing

You want to build a product — but everything feels overdone.
The world doesn’t need another expense tracker.
You’re not trying to be the next Notion.

What if you built something physical, weird, and way easier to ship?

✨ The Solution: Make Tiny Tech Zines

Zines are short, self-published booklets.

They’ve been around since the 1930s — punk bands used them to spread ideas.
Now, devs are using them to make real money off niche content.

And with React, you can automate a zine machine.

⚙️ How It Works

You build a React site that:

  • Displays tech zine PDFs
  • Collects payments (Stripe or Gumroad)
  • Emails the buyer the zine instantly
  • Lets you drip new issues monthly (with a cron job or Airtable trigger)

Zines can be:

  • 5–15 page PDFs
  • Printable or digital
  • Super niche and weird

Topics? Oh, I’ve got plenty.

🕳️ Zine Topics that Actually Sell

You want stuff that doesn’t show up on Hacker News every week.

Like:

You can buy a pack, remix it into a zine, and sell it next weekend.

🔨 Tech Stack (Keep It Stupid Simple)

  • Next.js (because you already know it)
  • Tailwind CSS (for clean, fast styling)
  • Stripe or Gumroad (payment + delivery)
  • EmailOctopus / Resend (email buyers)
  • Optional: Notion or Airtable to manage issues

You don’t need:

  • AI
  • Firebase
  • A “growth loop”
  • User accounts

Just build the page, upload the zine, and post it online.

💰 Monetize Like This

  1. Sell individual zines (\$5–10 each)
  2. Bundle them into “season packs” (\$20–30)
  3. Offer a zine subscription (recurring income!)
  4. Sell licensing rights to other creators
  5. Add affiliate links (even back to those prewritten packs)

It’s a low-effort, high-quirk way to make your first product money.

🧠 Why This Works

  • People love tangible, curated knowledge
  • Nobody wants to read 5,000 SEO-fluff blog posts
  • Zines are cool again — they feel personal
  • React devs are sick of overbuilding and under-launching

And with ready-made content packs, you skip the “staring at a blank doc” part.

📬 Real Talk: Who’s Buying These?

  • Collectors of hacker lore
  • People bored of Medium
  • Curious devs who want something real
  • Tech historians
  • Fans of retro, dystopian, cyber-y internet culture

You don’t need a million users.
You need 100 nerds who love your stuff.

🤓 TL;DR

  • You don’t need to build a SaaS to make money
  • Zines are the coolest lazy product you’ve never tried
  • Use React to automate the sales + delivery
  • Use weird content packs to get started fast
  • Niche is power. Embrace the weird.

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