 Hey everyone, hope you're doing well today. We got an interesting video We're gonna be going over ways to improve your income while learning to code So how can you make money while still learning now some of these ideas are not gonna pay your rent? But they're gonna give you some extra cash in case you want to buy a new computer or maybe upgrade some things in your office Or just have some extra money in the bank if you're wondering where I've been for the past week Then you're gonna want to check out grind real calm and grind real academy I put out two new products on the store. They're free one of them is a front-end roadmap And one of them is templates html templates that you can use for your personal projects or website I also made a course with Josh about chrome dev tools and how to use them We show you how to use all the tabs and had what you can do with each tabs and some of the hidden settings And it's just a really good course, and it's also free So there's no downfall and taking it think I've got about eight ideas here eight ways of making money a while Making projects and learning towards getting a job or either running your own company But how can you make money and learn at the same time the first one and one that I actually tried to do But it didn't turn out successful is get coin get coin is a website where you can solve issues Bugs whatever you want on github in return for money pretty much you go on this big Explorer where you can search up a bunch of issues and bugs You just find one that makes sense to you like this one looks really good. It is expired But let's pretend that's not there you need to fix a bunch of these functions They even gives you instructions and he tells you this one's a top priority And if you finish it you'll get rewarded a hundred fifty US dollar now What's cool with this is if you finish part of something and someone else finishes part of it Then together you will split it or you figure it out with the guy who opened the issue What's also cool is people can fund other people's issues So if you're running a project and someone really likes it instead of donating they can fund issues to Force more programmers to work on that project Another version of this is bounty source But I think bounty source is a bit more for professionals as you can see here There's big rewards over $5,000 US, but these issues are not very small. I mean this one's optimizing numpy That's not gonna be easy and that's not gonna be something you're doing as a beginner But there are some good ones in here But you gotta really search for them and you're gonna have to make sure that you're first in line to solve These issues because there's gonna be so many people looking to solve these bugs and return for money If that doesn't work for you and you want a little bit more risk a little bit more money And there's code competitions out there, which is really cool. You can put that as a hackathon I guess in your resume say oh in 24 hours. I've built this project and Nearly won $200 or I want $200 or whatever whatever it is So here you go and there's different marathons different hackathons like this one right here Something to do with insurance block you click on that tells you the instructions and what happens and then how much you win First place wins $28 if you're not into those and you want to take your time and not rush and not fight other people for it Then freelancing might be a better option now with freelancing you have in person and online Let's go over online. What I would do is hit freelancer.com up work I'm gonna put a link below for about 50 freelance websites and go and find a Issue that someone posted that has no one on it already because the problem with freelancing online is anyone from any country from any place In the world can freelance and fix that that problem So you're stuck with this issue of people who can charge 30% less than you and still make the same profit someone living in a third world country versus in Los Angeles they could both someone in Los Angeles is gonna need a lot more money to turn a profit Then someone living in a third world country And that's the problem with online freelancing is that you're most of the time gonna get beat by someone who's willing to take less than you But if you can find private clients online, that's ideal and that's best But you do need a bit of a reputation So it's gonna be tough if you have no projects or no previous experience and to do that to get that previous experience To get that first client the best thing you could do is go locally I'm gonna show you exactly what I would do and exactly what I've tried to do myself First thing I do is pull up Google Maps and search a bunch of businesses in my area. So we got this one right here and They don't have a website. So what I would do is go to their address, which is shown right there Maybe even give them a phone call and say hey, my name is Mike I'm an aspiring developer and I need to build a portfolio to get some clients for my freelancing company Would you guys be interested in a free website or maybe a website at a very low cost so that I can build myself a portfolio And maybe they'll tell you yes, but they're probably gonna tell you no because they don't know you and you're some stranger And you're gonna go and you're gonna find another one. So we're gonna go here We're gonna click on this one and oh they have a website. Let's see if it's really bad. No, it's a pretty nice website All right. So next let's go to another one that has a bad website Oh, so these guys don't actually have a website. They just have a Facebook link. So there you go There's a possible client. So you go to their door you walk in you say Hey, can I talk it to the CEO or to any marketing person and see if you guys are willing to work together and then do the whole story I'm an aspiring deved developer. I'm trying to run my own freelance company Or I'm trying to make some money before I get a job explain to them situation Maybe they'll tell you yes, this benefits you in many ways you learn to sell yourself You learn to talk to clients to be professional and build these relationships It's a good amount of networking because maybe they know a friend who works out of IBM or Facebook or whatever and they can Put you through them and they can give you some advice or maybe recommend you or something like that So those things are usually good going out to people that you don't know when a stranger is and breaking through that Like that scared bubble. It's really good One thing I've tried once and I think I made like a dollar off of it is to monetize your Projects either using AdSense or making it a sass. So one example. I really like is the app. I used to script my videos It's called storyline creator and as you can see here, it looks really clean It looks really professional, but I'm really convinced that it's just one guy who made this for fun because they charge about a Two euros a month for the service and I'm sure this guy makes a little bit of money on the side Maybe it was just a project. He was getting towards a job, but it works really well and I love it The route I went was to put AdSense on my project Which didn't really work out well because I had maybe like a thousand people check out the website But those are both good possibilities and they have pretty effortless and you can add that to your resume something a lot of you don't actually think about or maybe you do but don't actually do is Write a blog and maybe a YouTube channel and document your journey of trying to get a job One of my friends out there shout out to Craig Wadding. He's doing this He's not doing it for money, but he's doing it and he's doing really well He made a YouTube channel where he posts a bunch of videos on his journey And now he's posting a bunch of videos of these like calls where he's helping people out Anyways, he makes some good content. I hope this video was valuable. It was a really quick one I wanted to run through all the ideas and see if I can get everything for you guys Let me know if you've done any of these or got more ideas or think any of these are bad I would love to know below. I have not done everything here, but I know that if I had to start again I probably would have tried all these