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Ask HN: How would you make quick money?

by spark3k on 5/21/22, 8:19 PM with 20 comments

• by Drblessing on 5/22/22, 6:38 AM

  Fun thought experiment, if I had to absolutely make money in 168hrs:

  - Buy drugs from darknet rush shipping and go to sktechy area, sell for 50% markup while trying not to get robbed. Look for local customers on reddit, nightclubs, parties, college campuses, etc.

  - Sex-work, apparently even men can make decent money camming for other dudes

  - Pan-handling

  - Get a job at local chipotle/mcdonalds/etc, would be interesting to see how fast you could get a paycheck

  - Try to get some contract work for software on fiverr

  It ain't much, but it's honest work

• by altdataseller on 5/22/22, 11:38 AM

  I would buy something semi-expensive from Amazon, lie to them that someone stole it, get a refund and then resell it to someone else.

  I would sign up for the most profitable affiliate program, get a friend to sign up for something with free trials, cancel it, and then get a commission. I would ask multiple friends to do this in exchange for a split of the money.

  I would spam Redditors with affiliate links in threads where they are looking for recommendations to buy something.

  All shady stuff that wouldn’t benefit me in the long term but hey, you said I got 7 days to make $$$.

• by happyopossum on 5/21/22, 8:26 PM

  Sell everything that’s not nailed down.

  There’s no good, legal way to make a living in 7 days. Manual labor can get you quick cash, but not much, and depend where you live you may have a lot of competition for unskilled labor.

• by julianeon on 5/22/22, 2:02 AM

  I’d probably haunt expired domains websites, buy one that looked promising, update it w new content, then try to sell it. And repeat until I either had real money or went broke.

• by jstx1 on 5/21/22, 8:49 PM

  > If you had your current skills, but were starting from scratch, and had exactly 7 days until your cash ran out completely, what would you do?

  Nothing special? Use my credit card, perhaps be late on a few bills until my next salary payment. Or if your premise is that I don't have a job either, then the same thing but for a bit longer until I find one.

  I feel like the title and the text inside don't match - I don't get why starting from zero means that you need to make money fast.

• by giantg2 on 5/22/22, 2:48 PM

  Some places pay for plasma donation.

  Day labor.

  Sell your stuff.

  Hustle people at something you're good at.

  Not making money, but if you need money then a loan or charity.

  Otherwise it's mostly illicit stuff for fast cash.

• by smarri on 5/22/22, 7:37 AM

  Sell belongings online at places like eBay, Amazon, Craigslist (or equivalent), Facebook market place. Take on short term loans/debt from banks, lenders, friends, family to get a cash base. Use that to buy and sell something, e.g. could BBQ food or make coffee to sell to people, at an event or crowded places.

• by roschdal on 5/21/22, 8:51 PM

  I would visit www.nav.no

• by Group_B on 5/21/22, 8:24 PM

  Drugs

• by f0e4c2f7 on 5/22/22, 11:31 AM

  Knock on doors and mow lawns until I have a enough to fly to Vegas and play poker.

  Play for 6 days and hopefully don't go bust.

• by Gtex555 on 5/22/22, 3:59 AM

  Apply to rev.com and outsource all the work to a 3rd world country.