How To Make Money Learning To Code

20 Ways to Make Money Online While Learning to Code

If you are a programmer and not making any money online then you missing a big opportunity

In this article, I will show you 20 ways to make money. You can earn a decent income while learning to code.

I will explain each of the ways and guide you on how you can start earning from that source. Everything depends on you how much effort you put into it. But your dream of earning with your favorite programming language is going to true today.

"Always Cash Your Skills"

1. Become a Programming Tutor

Do you know many new beginners around the world who need your help in the programming language you know? You can earn 15$ to 50$ per hour by helping the student programmers to learn a programming language. Below are some websites where you can start tutoring programming students.

Codementor.io
Preply.com
Teacheron.com
classgap
Tutor.com

2. Make and sell Web Plugins

If you had some web developing skills, especially in JavaScript, then you can earn a decent amount of money by making plugins and sell them in different marketplaces.

Always sell on different marketplaces rather one

You can make your own price for the plugins. Other developers and people need some plugins to solve their daily life problems or make their work easy. Below I mention top marketplaces where you can sell your plugins.

CodeCanyon
TemplateMonster Marketplace
WordPress Marketplace
Mojo Marketplace
Creative Marketplace
Codester

3. Online Courses selling

You can teach your favorite programming language to other students who are struggling to learn a programming language. There are many students around the world who are looking for some online courses to learn something new. You can earn up to $1000 a month or more by selling courses. Below I mention top websites where you can start an online course teaching career:

Udemy.com
Skillshare.com
Simplivlearning
Bitdegree

4. Coding Competitions

There are many websites that do free coding competition and let you earn a good amount of money through it.

If you are a master in any programming language then you should start participating in code competition and try your skills on it. Below are the top websites for coding competitions:

TopCoder
HackerRank
CodeChef
Codewars
LeetCode
Coderbyte

5. Freelancing

Freelancing is the top-earning source of every programmer right now. You can develop a program, app, or game for someone and they will pay hourly. Most top programmers are paid 30$ hourly. You can start your freelancing career right now:

Fiverr
Upwork
Guru
PeoplePerHour
Freelancer
Toptal

Use your skills to earn something for yourself

6. Develop Mobile Apps

You can develop mobile applications and upload them on a different marketplace like the play store, apple store and etc. By integrating ads on your mobile app you can earn a good amount of money. Topmost popular ad company which you can use is Admob from google.

Develop a useful mobile application for android or iPhone and upload it on any marketplace once you get some users you will get money when every user sees ads on your App.

7. Blogging

Blogging is another way of earning by sharing your skills with others while making money by showing them ads. In that way, you need Adsense to monetize your blog. You can earn $1000 or up to $10,000, which depends on the audience of your blog.

8. Develop a Game

Gaming is a billion-dollar business these days, due to the new smartphone technologies and mobile games. You can develop a 2d or 3d game using a game engine and place ads on it using Admob or Unity Ads.

Unity Store
Play Store
Apple Store
Steam
Itch.io

9. Earn with Quora

Quora is the top Question/Answer website where you can ask questions and top experts answer them. Do you know you can make money by asking questions and answering other people's questions? Awesome!

You can start your publication ( Spaces ) in Quora. Quora gives your the opportunity to start your publication ( Spaces ) and another developer will join your space and answer the other questions or publish articles on your space. Guess what? you can now earn with the space partner program which is recently launched.

10 .Write Articles

As a programmer, you can write some tech articles or programming articles and earn a lot of money with it. You just need a creative mind and then start typing and share your knowledge with the world. Below I mention my most favorite websites for article writing which pay you.

Medium
vocal.media
Longreads
Copyhackers
Listverse
Wow Women on Writing
Developer Tutorials

11. Design Websites Theme

If you are a web developer, then you are familiar with front end development. Do you know you can design websites theme and sell them for a good amount of money? There are many people around the world who need your themes for their websites. Below I mention some top websites for selling your website themes.

Theme Forest.
Templamatic
BuyStockDesign
Creative Market
Mojo Marketplace
Design Cuts
ThemePlanet

12. Sell Your E-BOOK

By the title, you understand you can write your own e-book on any programming topic and sell them online. Many programming authors are earning a full-time income by writing E-book.

Amazon Kindle
Blurb
Lulu
Nook Press
Kobo Writing Life
Scribd
Smashwords
Gumroad

13. Programing Channel

Youtube allows many creators to make their career on their platform. You can make programming videos and start your tech channel, and using Google Adsense, you can monetize your every video. Many Youtubers are earning a full-time income.

To start your channel you can check out some videos on youtube on how to start a youtube channel you can learn about the youtube policies for monetization.

14. Open Source Coding

You can start developing an open-source program or software and make it available free for everyone, and you can ask for support from your software users, and in exchange for their support, you can keep updating the software for them. Many programmers use funding and donation sites to collect payments from users and keep updating the code.

One of the examples I had is phaser.js which is a game developing in javascript framework and people who use that framework support the developer on Patreon. Below I mention some websites where you can collect donations and support.

Patreon
Buy Me a Coffee
Tribe
Memberful
Ko-fi
Liberapay

15. Build a Web App

These days mobile and websites take the place of desktop applications and everything is done in the browser. So why not create a useful web app and sell their subscription to your users. You can charge your users monthly or yearly.

16. Bug Bounty Hunter

Bug Bounty Hunters look for errors in the code of big websites and software and report to the developers of the respective software or websites and the owner of that software or websites pays them. Bug bounty hunters can earn up to $3,650 for just one error. Below I mention some websites for getting started on your bug bounty hunter career.

HackerOne
Bugcrowd
Federacy
WhiteHub

17. Podcast

Start your Programming Podcast and monetize your audience. Do you know the sponsor's company look for podcasters who have an audience, and you can earn passive income by podcasting your programming skills. Below I mention the websites where you can start your podcasting and even monetize them.

Anchor
Podbean
BuzzSprout

18. Sell the Ownwership of a Completed App or Game

You can create an app or game, upload it to any marketplace, and you can sell that app or game at a good price to anyone. That's right, many programmers who create apps and games just directly sell them to others. Flippa is a top website for selling mobile apps, games, websites and etc.

19. Sell SasS

You can develop software that will solve your user's problems. That means the user will buy your subscription in order to use the software.

For selling software with a subscription, you can start it by creating your websites.

PayLoadz
Amazon
eBay

20. Solve Programming Questions

Many students are struggling with programming questions. If you are a master of any programming language, then you can help that student in their studies in exchange for a decent amount of money. Below I mention some top websites where you can answer programming questions.

Chegg
PaperHelp

Conclusion

If you have programming skills, then don't waste your time by just sitting and waiting for your job letter. Why not start earning right now with the ways I mention. Feel free to leave your response. Till then Happy Earning!