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How old were you when you made your first dollar from your own business?

How old were you and how'd you do it?

on March 2, 2022
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      What's next then!?

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        I got accepted to a programming degree, so I will do that for the next two years and I willbuild small one time purchases products....like the one I am doing now, which I will soon launch.

        I build in public, feel free to follow my twitter 😁

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          Awesome!! Kuddos!

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            Muchísimas gracias!

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    I was 19, made some Alexa skills that ended up getting super popular, and got a bunch of monthly royalties from it. Ahh good times

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    19, with embedtables.com, and I sold it

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    I was 15 when a friend and I created a browser extensions that achieved 4M users in few months… it was in 2011 and the adv paid us quite bad, but great experience

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    when I was 18 years. I made my first puzzle game and got sell ; )

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    Technically not a dollar, but I did a deal to make a website in exchange for a full Microsoft package, including the amazing Front Page back in 2001 at 11.

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    12 when made my first 30 euros (and euro was not there yet) by making osdhotkey, a tool written in the awesome autohotkey language

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    Tenho uma agência de marketing e tecnologia e estou buscando alternativas para oferecer meus serviços fora do Brasil.

    Caso alguém queira conhecer: www.waboo.com.br

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      Are you hiring? I'm a junior developer, looking for the first opportunity.

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    When I was 14, I created a shop on SecondLife that sold t-shirts I designed on photoshop. I made some fake money, which I then converted to real money

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      Did you hold on to the domain? Now https://secondlife.com/ is like a huge VR place!

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        Oh, I meant a shop within secondlife, back when everyone was playing it. Didn't know they're still around and pivoted into VR, makes total sense though!

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    In 2001 I built a bot for diablo 2 which i used to sell in game items for cash. I was 9.

    It was written in Erlang (only book from the library) and was written entirely in a single file, it was perhaps the most awful code to have ever existed. CTRL+C was my design pattern of choice.

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      At the age, what kept you motivated to push through, build, be curious, and learn? As a teacher, who came from a background of teaching himself audio engineering, I did similar learning practices, but I am struggling to inspire my students to do the same!

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        Motivation wasn't really something I was cognisant about. It was fun.