[herbst]

Millions of people wake up every day with their credit cards in their hands. As the day goes they spend a little here and a little there. Sometimes they spend money for necessaries, sometimes for luxury and sometimes to make their life easier (i.e. save costs anywhere else)

If the average human makes like 3 transactions every day (just gussed) how hard can it really be to be the transaction for at least one of those millions of people.

What i am saying is it is very possible and not even to hard to earn some money.

A site that makes me a few hundred dollar a year compares a few glasses retailers and took a weekend to make (affiliate). Just dont stop, create services and at some point they will start to generate some money

[2rsf]

It is also very easy to loose some money on the way, sometimes in unexpected ways.

A friend for example, who is a talented interior designer, had a few paid customers but that made taxes more complicated (not the US) and required an accountant that cost more than what was earned. Another friend built a small site trying to sell lectures about something he is good at, again nothing significant came out of it and the expenses were bigger.

[herbst]

I feel sorry for them. Taxes really should not be hindering oneself. However taxes should reflect a portion of your earnings, so if your price is right i dont really see how taxes could stop anyone from earning money.

Only about 1 of 3 or 4 of my projects work out financially. And this is after doing this for 15+ years, 5+ exclusively. What i am saying is you cant expect it to just work on the first time. It took me over 5 years to reach the minimum threeshold of an adsense payout.

IMO most people never get there because they stop WAY to early. Earning money is less about your actual skills but more about your specific online selling skills that you only get from doing

[jokethrowaway]

I moved from my country (Italy) precisely because of taxation (and the relative dead business sector).

You can have a side project in the UK for very cheap (for now, pre COVID tax hike).

Go where you're treated best

[herbst]

I am honestly curious what makes italian/eu tax so much more complicated. In Switzerland i basically just have to find the right column to declare additional income on my tax sheet. (And add some exports from my billing tools)

[missedthecue]

The problem for me isn't getting sales. It's getting sustainable sales in excess of costs

[herbst]

I mean this depends on your projects. But if you are bootstrapping and have high costs you are prolly doing something wrong. At least in my point of view.

My digital projects rarely cost more than the domain and server they are running on (plus time that is). But again i dont know your projects

[nurturelabs]

Try my growth list. Put your side project on top directories and you can expect a continuous high intent traffic. https://gumroad.com/l/promotionlist