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Discussion on: How To Make Side Income As a Web Developer in 2024?💸

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It varies from person to person. There are many developers who in their free time develops games or apps and earn. So, in the end it depends on person what they consider as passive income source.

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Nikola Stojaković

Passive income is earnings derived from a rental property, limited partnership, or other enterprise in which a person is not actively involved.

If you need to actively work on it, it's not a passive income but an active income.

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Aaron Reese

I think a more appropriate way to define it in this context is trading time for dollars. All of the methods mentioned have a loose correlation between work and revenue. Spend 1000 hours building a course and you might sell 10 subscriptions or you might sell a million.

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Muhammad Hasnain

I agree with you though, I sometimes TRY to code games for fun. I'm not good at it because I'm not good at math. I don't understand basic matrices or trig, lol. I also agree with Nikola. These are active incomes rather than passive incomes.

Regardless, thank you for posting this. It is people like you who keep the community running. I realize that this website has mostly beginner level developers, which is a really good thing because people share and interact a lot!

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Ben Sinclair

Yes, but I'm sure there are also many developers who are good watercolour painters who could paint portraits as a side job!