Ways to make money as a developer

Below you can find a list of ways you can make money as a developer. I’ve wrote these items a while back and I thought that people might find it valuable so I decided to share it with you. ?

• The most common is to have a job at a company or work as a freelancer for multiple clients
• Create and sell digital products (plugins, components (in React, Angular, Vue, Bootstrap, etc), themes, etc)
• build a SAAS (Software as a Service)
• create web, mobile and/or desktop apps where you can have ads or in-app purchases
• Create a blog and monetize it via:
  • ads (Google Adsense, carbonads, etc)
  • sponsorships
  • become an affiliate and promote other people’s products
  • promote your own products
  • get paid to write articles for publications
• write and sell ebooks and/or physical books*
• create a YouTube channel (on topics like: tutorials, developer lifestyle, tips & tricks, news in the field, etc) and monetize it via:
  • YouTube ads
  • sponsorships
  • affiliate marketing
  • promote your own products
• create online courses and/or online programs
• live stream (on Twitch, YouTube, etc) and monetize it via:
  • donations
  • monthly subscriptions
• create a podcast
  • sponsorship
  • promote your own products
• work on Open Source projects and get donations and sponsorships
• create a Patreon page where people can support you
• create a job board and get paid by companies to connect them with developers, designers, etc…
• sell swag
• sell a newsletter
• have 1-on-1 coaching sessions
• create a trading bot
• participate in paid coding challenges
• participate in bug bounty programs

Feel free to suggest anything else that should be added to the list!

Credit @Dev.to