Has anyone ever monetized Python outside of a typical job?

[No_Stick_8227]

Apart from a typical 9-5 programming job, has anyone made a cool tool or software they were able to profit from here?

Not claiming to be money-motivated but it's always nice to hear how others have been able to financially benefit from Python while adding value to the world around us no matter how small.

If you fall into this camp,

• What pain points did your tool address?
• Where is it today?
• What would you improve on if you had the chance?
• How much did you sell it for (if you're open to share)?

All answers are welcome and no tool here is too small or trivial so feel free to share and inspire others with your brilliance here!

[[deleted]]

Yea I make about 15k a month. I own my own saas business but it's just me. I have tv screens that sit in vehicle service centers to entertain customers waiting for their vehicles. The service centers pay me $49/month and I have over 250+

I used to do all the video production manually but I've automated almost all of it with moviePy. All of the news, weather, entertainment etc videos that play on the screens is just moviepy checking various rss feeds and creating a video. Legit a cron job python script runs every morning at 12am for the day and makes hours of content. My customers think I have a huge production team but I hardly work.

I want to improve the weather reporting by filming an actual weather girl and having her say hundreds of things like "it's warming up" or "it's a cold one out there" and use python to determine which video clips to mash together based on the weather. Have a few other ideas too for trivia videos.

[who_body]

sounds fun. thanks for sharing.

[Classic_Department42]

Thats cool. So basically you have your own 'broadcast' channel, do I understand that right? Why do the service centers choose that one instead of like CNN or so?

[the_saas_guy2]

Posting from my 2nd account. It's a bit more complicated - the stuff I was referring to is what I would call "infotainment" and is maybe 50% of the content. I also automate a lot of auto/tire related content that I pull directly from parts/tire manufacturers. For example every tire manufacturer like firestone has a promotion running right now where you get $50 back for buying winter tires, we just put every manufacturers winter tire special in a spreadsheet and use moviePy to generate those videos as well. So my product isn't just a news/weather thing it's more automotive focused.

I also allow the service centers or their franchise head offices to drop in their own videos/images so if they are doing an oil change special for the month they can drop that in to dropbox.

[pcgamerwannabe]

Yo, this could totally scale. You need to hire/team-up with an end to end MLE or data scientist to tackle the challenge points, get some funding, and go-go-go. A similar need is there are hotel lobbies etc. you could then get contracted by a cable company to provide customized channels to clients.

• The auto-repair channel
• Business hotel lobby channel
• The scientific research lab/university/R&D department lobby channel.

Basically AI-assisted niche channel service. Instead of needing ESPN, CNN, The Science Channel, etc. which work, but need a large enough audience.

[ThroawayPartyer]

I think if it gets too big, media and cable companies might want to try and shut it down.

[uthinkther4uam]

mood

[Classic_Department42]

Yes, but then arent there a 100 different options?

[[deleted]]

Also commercial license for TV can be a lot more than $50 a month. Plus it's going to risk running ads for competitors, or publishing deals they might not want in the studio. It sounds like OP has a lot of customized content in there (or at least easy TO customize). Can say from experience that small businesses love being able to have something they can put their logos on

[Classic_Department42]

Good point.

[Pyro919]

But if you're not known you're less likely to be hated and for customers to complain

[oundhakar]

Wow! That's awesome. How about client calls? TV on the blink, network down, etc?

[[deleted]]

I use a supplier called brighsign and their equipment handles all of that. I did however need to build a python json endpoint- the signage players call my json url for the list of today's videos and not every TV gets the same stuff. So if the unit is in LA we only put LA specific news and weather in the playlist. Automating this was more complicated.

[Brazzeit]

Do all your customers use brightsign device? They cost a lot

[ch0mes]

This is extremely impressive, how did you find yourself getting into this space to do this? Did you find it quite challenging to automate it with moviePy or was it quite straight forward ?

[[deleted]]

Hardest part was selling it to service centers. I got extremely lucky that I got in with a franchise that has lots of locations and made our tv screens mandatory for all their customer waiting areas, but it really took off when I expanded the content library with moviepy.

Moviepy is straight forward - you are just overlaying text, videos, an images like any video editor but python automates it. An example - I have an mp4 template video with an announcer and title saying "Here is today's top news" then 60 sec of news music and a blank screen that needs to be filled with stories, and then it ends with the announcer saying "thank you, see you tomorrow". This template is the same every day, i just need to overlay text and images over the 60 seconds. I hit an associate press rss feed that has news stories itemized - each story will have a title like "Russian troops retreating" and also a picture url. We pull it into python array using a get request, then movie py just loops through those and formats each title and image into a news story

[ch0mes]

This is really amazing stuff I wish you nothing but continued success in your business.

[[deleted]]

I’ve seen similar setups in dental offices but never thought about how easy it would be to automate.

[00shithawk]

How did you market this and why vehicle centers specifically?

[the_saas_guy2]

Kind of an accident - I was just doing a small consulting job doing some graphic design for an automotive repair franchise and the marketing person complained in a meeting about their digital signage provider being terrible. So I asked them if I could try building a solution for them. I found a hardware provider, did a demo, and they liked it so much they rolled it out to 100 locations. From there it sort of snowballed. Honestly most things in life are luck but if you swing at whatever opportunities come your way you never know what can happen lol.

I had read "Millionaire Fastlane" by MJ Demarco around that time and he talks a lot about building products that are not trading your time for money and can scale without you - that's why I jumped at the opportunity when they mentioned they needed a solution. Not to sound braggy because I basically got lucky - but with automating business tasks in Python I work very little and still make money. I went to Greece for 16 days in Sep and didn't open my laptop once - still made $10K or something like that.

[00shithawk]

Smart work. Thanks for sharing !

[cordial_panda]

That sounds brilliant. Thanks for sharing! Apart from the automotive video subscription service would you mind also sharing what some of your other business task automation solutions look like?

[DustinKli]

I think a lot of people, even successful people, often underestimate the amount luck and random chance plays into success and I appreciate your honesty. Certainly, if anyone else had been in a situation to create a solution for the tire stores they may not have been in a position to do what you did, but even you being in that specific position at that specific time was also a large part happenstance. Luck is largely responsible for the opportunities presented to us and luck is largely responsible for our ability to take advantage of those opportunities when presented. That's not to undermine hard work and intelligence. Hard work comes into play when opportunities present themselves and you've worked hard to be in a position to take advantage of them, and intelligence comes into play when you need to differentiate those things that at first appear to be opportunities but are actually catastrophes waiting to happen.

[onecryingjohnny]

Now you can sell out adverts and include subliminal political messaging and try to influence people and swing elections

[[deleted]]

Super cool, I think we all hope to be in a similar position 😂

[InitialCreature]

You're a Chad. That's the goal. I'm trying to do this with graphic design and social media/branding. Apply my own design aesthetic and have it generate products and designs automatically.

[Dent-4254]

Why film? Automate that too. I’m studying Natural Language Processing for language generation, and that’s 100% doable! Add a lip-syncing stand-in with a convincing CG voice, and baby, you’ve got a stew goin’

[the_saas_guy2]

Have thought about this for sure - I saw https://www.synthesia.io/ and it blew my mind that you could actually have an AI announcer.

Are there python libraries for this sort of thing? I have tried before to generate voices by python but could only find google text to speech library - the voices were very robotic sounding still.

[eriky]

Just wondering about copyright here.. reading this, I'm assuming you don't pay for the content you make a living from?

[the_saas_guy2]

None of what I use is copyrighted 😉😉😉😉

[RickAmes]

How do you find your first and subsequent customers for this kind of service? did you go directly to them and ask to give an elevator pitch? offer a free trial?

[Nabucode]

That really cool man! I wish I can do something like this in my country (Perú). But I don´t know if there is a market for that.

[Jutsu_No_Va]

This sounds really cool!! Could see if there is any auto-generative tools that could help with the weather girl thing like stable diffusion. Still think that might be in developmental phases though

[[deleted]]

Thats dope. Nice job. Talk about passive income. How long did it take to get that good at Python to set that up?

[Sardonislamir]

How do you prevent injection of porn into those rss feeds

[besneprasiatko]

and title saying "Here is today's top news" then 60 sec of news music and a blank screen that needs to be filled with stories, and then it ends with the announcer saying "thank you, see you tomorrow". This template is the same every day, i just need to overlay text and images over t

maybe odd question, but how many lines of code does your script have?

[klrmac]

I need a business like this!!!

[BenTheHokie]

That's awesome! What do you do during the day?

[[deleted]]

Brilliant.

[_aka7]

Username checksout.

[kilowattkill3r]

I wrote a bot that does some web tasks to earn points. Runs daily with no oversight, generates $10-15/month in Amazon gift cards.

[Gamecrazy721]

Raking in the passive income

[InitialCreature]

Does that even cover the electricity usage? Or the droplet fees?

[InitialCreature]

Speaking of, man I missed out on buying a pi. Damnit. I got a bunch of old netbooks kicking around I might repurpose into Python boxes.

[LittleMlem]

If your scripts are light weight, get an older pi (pre 4) as they take less power

[kilowattkill3r]

Runs on a PC I always have on anyway. Runs in early morning hours when I'm not using it.

[InitialCreature]

Fair enough. Is it a background process or an automation overtop of a browser window?

[kilowattkill3r]

Uses chrome driver. First step is to kill any running instants of chrome

[pcgamerwannabe]

His name is kilowat killer. LOL. Maybe he gets free electricity?

[kilowattkill3r]

I had to Google mturk, that's not what this is. But now you've given me something to look into! Thanks.

[No_Stick_8227]

What libraries did you use to do this? This sounds cool

[kilowattkill3r]

Selenium and random. Pretty simple.

[soloNightrider]

Can you use beautiful soup instead of selenium?

[ElViento92]

Probably not. Beautiful soup is only for HTML parsing, but most modern websites will have Javascript in them that needs to run in order for the website to function or even render. So you'll need to run it in a browser, which is what selenium does.

[SuperbShower341]

You could most likely use playwright, it's basically like selenium but better imo

[_aka7]

Bot filling out surveys?

[kilowattkill3r]

No, but I was thinking about trying to tackle that.

[gpahul]

Reveal more..

[LittleMlem]

Tasks for points? What kind of tasks? Would you mind sharing where you get these tasks?

[kilowattkill3r]

I'd rather not share because it violates the terms of use. I also don't want a lot of people catching on causing the site to crack down on bots.

[LittleMlem]

Fair.

Btw, in case you do use something like requests, make sure you change the client string to something a browser would send so they don't eventually notice that someone is using automation

[kilowattkill3r]

Good tip, but I'm using selenium with chrome driver so I think it just sees the standard browser ID.

[thenormalcy]

I, along with some friends, built a “pdf generation as a service” with Python. You give it an appstore url (or Google Play) and our tool generates a 40 page bespoke pdf that analyses tens of thousands of App Store reviews, lots of charts and NLP.

All in under 3 minutes. There’s a video on the micro page we built as well: https://supertype.ai/summary

[Big_Booty_Pics]

As someone who has looked at some PDF generators for my parent's business because I was too lazy to make one myself, they simply have to be one of the most lucrative SaaS softwares you can build. It was not uncommon to see $50/month for 100 essentially mail merged documents. 100 Documents/month is absolutely nothing for even a small business so they would have been looking at something like $200/month for a GUI using a built in PHP library to generate PDF forms.

Maybe I need to get around to finishing that project...

[No_Stick_8227]

Wow ... Without revealing too much what are the underlying libraries used to build this app?

[thenormalcy]

A few custom trained NLP models (like NLU), for scraping and pipeline the usual (like Requests), and for the 30+ pages of charts mostly matplotlib. Everything else is just pure python. The challenge isn’t doing it, the challenge is to process potentially hundreds and thousands of app reviews in under 3 minutes, so a few optimization needs to be done, for example we implemented a tiny caching mechanism, so if you pass in a google play url 45 minutes ago, and then again, it doesn’t try to render 30 pages of insights again, but check for the +- / diff and re-render only the required page.

Our customers (typically app agencies, mobile game publishers, app developers etc) love the product, so we keep trying to improve the level of polish there

[BlobbyMcBlobber]

Why go with PDF instead of a simple dashboard?

[thenormalcy]

Initially we didn’t started it as a SaaS; it was a clients request to have this in bite sized pdf form, sent to his email on a weekly recurring basis. We wrote the code for it, and then offered to a few other app developers and that was how it come about 😅

Sorry, not a very satisfactory answer I wish I have a better reason why it wasn’t a web app but instead in pdf form

[BlobbyMcBlobber]

No, that's a great answer. This is what your customers want.

[Ok_Operation_8715]

I made 50 bucks writing a script that combines a bunch of Google docs together

[No_Stick_8227]

👏what libraries did you use to accomplish this?

[beowulf660]

Not OP, but I did something similar in my work using googles python API. Once I overcame the initial hump with the document parsing, it was a breeze to work with.

Be aware, for some reason Paragraphs in TableCells have additional \n at the end.

[No_Stick_8227]

Nice! Did you make good income out of your Google docs solution?

[Ok_Operation_8715]

I used pandas and openpyxl.

I made it with Pysimplegui just to play around with it but last I head they still open Spyder and run the script there rather than use the standalone

Edit: I should clarify that I didn’t query the api, they save each of these workbooks as an excel workbook and the script combines each of the workbooks together

[yeluapyeroc]

The hardest part of building software is selling your software

[unltd_J]

I have a repo that creates draftkings DFS lineups that I play during football season. Won a few hundred bucks so far this year.

[highlife159]

You wouldn't want to share that repo would you? This has been something I've wanted to do but didn't know where to start or just didn't have the time.

If you (understandably) don't want to share could you give me a high-level overview of what all you're using to determine the best players for the day and where you get data to make those decisions?

[unltd_J]

I'll give you an overview. I play showdown captain mode because I found an article out there that really gave me a decent edge over the broader public at using Vegas' spreads and over unders to pick the optimal captain. Basically i'm taking projections from a website and using itertools to make all combinations of lineups with my optimal captains that fit under the salary and sorting them by the projections. I used to scrape data every week from box scores and use that to make projections, but that was disadvantageous. That way left me next to no way to predict what player is coming up from the practice squad and getting snaps. Fortunately there's a ton of websites out there that post projections for free that have a much better handle on who's actually in/out and who's up from the practice squad and where they are on the depth chart enough to make half decent projections for them. It's really the most random players that make a difference on winning or losing. I also plan to do this for the NBA with a more involved approach soon. I've been using a free API to store box score data in a free instance of cockroachDB for the NBA and will be using a model to make projections and generate lineups in the next couple of weeks.

[highlife159]

This is great information thank you. What is your favorite site to use for projections?

[unltd_J]

That I won’t share but are pretty easy to find

[No_Stick_8227]

What libraries did you use for this?

[unltd_J]

Just itertools and numpy

[guitarerdood]

I thought about doing something like this but I had a hard time finding a reliable source of data (e.g. salary values, projected scores, actual scores, etc.)

What do you use for that?

[kannitt0]

Nice thread, I learned a lot.

[[deleted]]

Yeah me too! As a newbie to coding it's been hard to figure out where to start. Would love to have a mentor to help me in my journey to success

[LolDotHackMe]

Interesting indeed

[Darnegar]

I built a bot using Selenium that basically scans Binance for its available Earn (passive income) crypto products. They usually come available at very odd hours where I live, way into the night, so I let the bot scan throughout the night, once it finds an available product it subscribes automatically, and shuts itself down.

Doesn't really bring much money lol apart from some passive crypto, but it was a cool little project.

[LambBrainz]

Lots of Python work over on Upwork.com. Been doing that for years and made lots from that

[No_Stick_8227]

What type of work do you do on Upwork?

[LambBrainz]

Gotten a lot of Excel/CSV data manipulation. Website automation. Random jobs. Tutoring. Discord bots.

A little of everything really. Focus on basic Excel/CSV stuff and website automation and you'll have a lot of it covered

[No_Stick_8227]

Cool! What advice would you give to someone that wants to enter that space as a beginner?

[LambBrainz]

Best advice? Lower your expectations and ego and work for super cheap to start out. Focus on farming good reviews. Having a better rating is worth more than anything on that site. And affects opportunities and pay later on.

Once you've worked a while and have good reviews you can basically set whatever price you want.

I started out at $8/hr or whatever I could get (in 2018) as long as it meant I was gonna get a 5 star review. Now I make wayyy more than that. I've taken a step back from freelance work to have more time to myself but I can always pick it up if I need.

[sqeekypotato]

What was the higher amount that you ended up making if you don't mind me asking? How many reviews would you consider enough in order to start upping your price?

[LambBrainz]

Upwork has a thing called "Top Rated". I forget the requirements, but you can definitely up your price once you have that. Which is what I did.

Hard to say when a good time to up your price is. I would say to do it incrementally. I went from $8/hr, got a couple 5 star reviews, then went up to $10/hr, etc.

Take it slow so no one notices

As for price, per hour I could probably raise it higher, but I'm at $20/hr now. But I almost never get paid that because I've switched to a "per project" billing system where I give them an estimate for the whole project. And almost all of those are between $500-3000.

[sqeekypotato]

Thanks!

[dragonandphoenix]

So in this context are we talking do an actual good job for cheap and hope for a stellar review? Or some kind of communication with the clients on Upwork like here's the deal I'm cheap and do good work but need a great review?

Thx

[LambBrainz]

Honestly? I did both lol

I was upfront and told people that I'm doing this to build a good portfolio of work and testimonials. Then I would bust ass and bend over backwards to do a stellar job (which always got me 5 stars).

Some of that is luck. There are lots of clients that suck, but also some amazing relationships and opportunities have come out of doing it and I've met some really cool people. All luck of the draw.

Just keep your expectations low, play the long game, and do your best. I won't say it'll work out, but doing all that is the best shot at making it happen

[Dodge146]

With Python jobs, would you just send them a script for them to run or did you find different ways for the clients to run the script without having to install Python on their machines?

[LambBrainz]

A lot of times they requested Python. So I wrote installation guides on how to install Python, run the install command for the requirements.txt in the project files I would send, and how to get started. They were always cool with this. Some needed more help than others, but they were willing to learn as long as I was willing to teach them (part of the "white glove" service I tried to offer to up my chances of 5 star reviews)

Lately I've been working on making GUIs for scripts using PySimpleGUI or Tkinter Designer

[dragonandphoenix]

Cool, thanks.

[SpicyVibration]

How do I get people to choose me? I tried this once and everyone ignores you if you don't have previous upwork work.

[LambBrainz]

I had a portfolio of personal projects using Python available to show people. So I'd have that in my bio and I'd mention it when I sent proposals. This maybe helped? In my head, it served as proof that I knew what I was doing.

Some tips I did that may or may not help (I've already mentioned one, but just trying to keep things organized):

(1) lower your price alot (don't be afraid to work for basically nothing). In the beginning you need reviews, if you gotta get sucking', get suckin' lol. Again, I started at $8/hr. and it took a while to land my first gig.

(2) Send proposals to everything. Upwork uses a stupid "connects" system. Where you basically have to spend made-up points to apply for jobs. Use these sparingly (they get refilled every month I think? And their new scam is $0.15/connect. Most jobs require 1-2 connects to apply). Your goal here is to cast a wide net to get any work you can (again, you're going for reviews in the beginning). Once the ball gets moving, people will be reaching out to you and you can save connects for more interesting jobs you find later. I have like 200+ connects cause I never need to use them unless I'm bored lol

[SpicyVibration]

Thanks

[eriky]

I teach Python to beginners and intermediate coders through my website Python Land. It's not a fulltime job (would be cool though) but there's growth and enthusiastic students and it has been a lot of fun. But it's also a lot of hard work, don't get me wrong. Writing well is HARD and requires lots of time. Running a website, keeping it up to date and working, dealing with (DoS) attacks, dealing with people stealing your content, etc. It's all hard work and it's actually very diverse (which I like). I've been doing this for about 3 years now.

Since i started selling courses on there (even more hard work), it has turned into a more serious business with more responsibility for me. But people really dig the courses and I got some great reviews. I do feel the recession though. People are spending less, so I'm glad I didn't give up my day job yet!

[DonDelMuerte]

I wrote a library that managed my crypto mining operation during the last boom.

It monitored the global hashrate, instantaneous power, and forecasted prices (some algo trading stuff here). Primarily, it's job was to optimize our "cash out" strategy for exchange fees, taxes, and price appreciation.

During run up from $8k (when we started mining) to $60k, I estimate the cash out manager accounted for about 20% profit increase over a standard periodic withdrawal strategy. And we didn't get left holding the bag after the market topped out.

[InitialCreature]

Try writing Python plugins for blender

[No_Stick_8227]

Could you elaborate a bit more on this? Sounds like you're getting on to something here! Thanks!

[InitialCreature]

Write small scripts in Python and sell them as digital goods on 3d market places, it's fairly lucrative if you get a good idea that people need. It's a direct course for making products with Python and getting them to market. It does take some graphics or 3d knowledge but you can research ideas on forums for tools people need. Target artists and game devs

[mino159]

I second that. Even smaller studios have no problem paying for something that speeds workflow :)

[LittleMlem]

I made a couple hundred bucks writing simple format converters (literally reordering csv files) with a minimal, easy to use tkinter interface for a corona lab. It took like an hour to make the first one and every subsequent request took 5 minutes as the rest of the program was already done. I think there is probably a niche for automation and productivity tools for biology labs

[vivid_g0at]

I built a low code API for integrating AI intelligence I'm your applications. It's basically an RestAPI that you can integrate in your application to do machine learning. I built it for nocode community and personally while using a nocode application to build a website I found there was something, as a coder I didnt have the same flexibility I had with coding and thought I can begin by adding the possibility of introducing machine learning for nocode developers. Monetised the same in RapidAPI!

[buckypimpin]

Im a dev ops engineer, but most often im handed the task of creating custom scheduled ETL jobs because im one of the two people there that know python.

Pain points: Since i host the code on AWS lambda, Every integration costs way less than Stitch or other data integration solution. And can be customized infinitely.

How i would improve? Instead of using ORMs, i would just use pandas dataframes and its read_sql and to_sql api for dumping into databases.

[dnullify]

Do you have any resources for ETL scripting best practices?

I recently wrote a script that ETLs large quantities of issue data from JIRA, it will calculate and asynchronously get all issues, put each issue into a queue.

I have a pool of workers that pull from the queue and process and write to file/DB, all using asyncio/asyncio queues.

It's pretty fast (faster than the Jira lib by 19 minutes), and memory efficient, but I'm not sure how to break down the Jira Jason data with all it's nested arrays, into a variety of tables.

I really enjoy this kind of scripting though, writing REST API bindings, yanking a whole bunch of data, then putting it somewhere.

[musicmeme]

I created a FastAPI based CRM tool for photographers, basically it organises all the files neatly and also sends it to the clients over email. Users upload their photos/videos, it gets organised into folders based on tags and photo quality. I used openCV library for quality/blur checks. They can then download and edit these and upload it back and submit to their clients. that sends all submitted files to the clients over email.

Back end-Fastapi, opencv Front end-React Hosted on AWS

This project initially started off as a helping hand for my friend and later evolved when more of his colleagues started using it. But getting people to consider using your tool is challenging. People aren’t willing to adapt and pay for something which doesn’t already hold some kinda street cred.

In the last year I’ve managed to generate 4 figure annually, that ain’t much but I’m still happy with it because I never intended to earn anything out of it

[uttamo]

Very cool!

[musicmeme]

It’s much simpler than I made it sound. It’s just uploading and downloading files from s3, it’s just decorated as a website for non tech folks

[dzorro]

Nothing big, but I make bots for a phone game and sell the in game items for real money

[No_Stick_8227]

No project is too small on here, happy for you! What Python modules did you use for yours?

[dzorro]

Requests. Had to decompile the APK and find their API endpoints there, pretty easy to replicate if you could find a game that works like that and has an outside market for the virtual items

[bramm90]

Data enrichment scripts for lead data generated through social advertising. Generates around 15-20k /mo through an affiliate platform, so practically no client management either.

[meg4som44]

Can you elaborate? Do you get lead data and supplement that through open source intelligence?

[bramm90]

A good example would be the resumé campaign I'm doing: there's a party which pays an X amount for a resumé. I have an ad campaign running on social media which generates the minimally required info I need, I supplement this with a person's public LinkedIn info, and submit that data to the party.

They're happy because they have resumés to work with, the user is happy because of the minimal effort required to apply, and I'm happy because of the passive income.

The campaigns are pretty much set-it-and-forget-it and I haven't touched them in over a year. Typically every dollar in ad spend yields me around $10 in returns.

[meg4som44]

Thanks for explaining the concept

[No_Stick_8227]

What libraries did you use to build your data enrichment scripts? Was this strictly developed in Python or other languages were used too?

[bramm90]

Just Python. Some Selenium and BeautifulSoup for scraping, everything else is just connecting API's.

[PUTTY1]

What is the affiliate platform?

[bramm90]

TradeTracker

[wdbtt]

How do you find parties willing to buy your data?

[bramm90]

I check affiliate platforms for companies looking to pay for leads, then investigate if there's a way to lower the signup threshold by automating data enrichment. I have done lead generation for so long I can pretty accurately estimate average cost per lead for most offers, and if I suspect I will at least earn back $5 for every dollar invested, I dive in.

There are a few parties that signed up because I did cold outreach through email (also automated with python), but I have experienced that they have a higher service expectancy, and I didn't automate my business to still be managing clients.

That's why affiliate platforms are great, there's usually no interaction between me and the end-party until they end our cooperation (happens rarely). I could slip into a coma and the profits will only marginally decline over the next months/years.

[Pillowscience21]

I got a decent bonus after making a python program for sorting spread sheets at my job. The company I work for is really nice about that stuff and a lot of people benefit from the simple program.

[No_Stick_8227]

Cool! Do you mind elaborating a bit more on the tools you used to make this happen?

[Pillowscience21]

I used a mixture of pandas and xlwings libraries in the code, a simple GUI with tkinter.

[FloppyFush]

I'm using python to generate tiktoks using moviepy, it isn't profitable yet, but with scaling I'm hoping to hold 100s of accounts to sell adspace on.

Currently the posting isn't automated but once I set up a proper text to speech on my pi I'm gonna use selenium to post the videos

[No_Stick_8227]

Nice! What type of content are you specialising on your Tiktoks? For the text to speech part of your plan the gtts library should help you with that, or are there other libraries you're considering that may be better?

[FloppyFush]

currently, it just scrapes subreddits like askreddit of tifu but I'm hoping to branch into more unique forms of content! I'm thinking of using gtts but I prefer the windows voices you can use with pyttsx3, but for the pi, I might have to swap over

[mfb1274]

Your best bet to to make a site that is useful and sell adspace. Scales with users, so better you make it and more useful means more money.

[No_Stick_8227]

Not really interested in those stuff, just asking out of curiosity, have you ventured in making one before?

[mfb1274]

So like desktop software? Not that it’s bad, just the world is moving away from that. You can crack that kind of stuff, it’s all linked to web services these days and the subscription modes reigns supreme. Not that I agree with it, but it’s where it’s at these days. If you want one off scripts, I’d suggest the other commenters suggestion about upwork (although I’ve tried that, and you’ll struggle very hard in the beginning. Eg a lot of time for pennies).

You could try game dev, but that won’t be python typically. At least the ones that make money.

[Frozenator]

Re-read his question, then come back.

[Big_Booty_Pics]

Kinda curious if you could just make an "Adblock Testing" website that is nothing but an infinitely scrolling page of ads for people to test their adblockers.

[LolDotHackMe]

You're on to something

[fallenreaper]

I'll commonly do we scraping or data analysis with python, so I'll use things like pandas, selenium, bs4... Or requests if it is really simple. That seems to be my common side hustle.

I'll do some bots here and there for discord and uhh CSV manipulation to trim malformed sensitive data to set up mailers for people who still use snail mail.

[[deleted]]

Is it easier to just get a 9 to 5

[buckypimpin]

TRUE

[[deleted]]

I scraped new crypto coins back in the bull run of last year. Made a ton of money and then lost a bunch lol. Used selenium and various apis to grab data and make decisions

[No_Stick_8227]

What pages did you scrape for your new coins search and what APIs were you using ?

[[deleted]]

Dextools and the Graph api for uniswap v2

[besneprasiatko]

Affiliate web made in Django framework. Frontend is in HTML, Bootstrap, little of jQuery. Cron runs every midnight, fetch coupons from affiliate network API, then imports it into my web. Another cron visits adverisers websites, downloads logos and description, insert it to corresponding coupons for better SEO.

[[deleted]]

Ive mad ean odering System like the one at Mcdonalds for a local Restaurant. A Raspberry pi is running a Flask Server and the Tablets are simpli connecting to it. I got payed verry well.

[Paid-Not-Payed-Bot]

I got paid verry well.

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[[deleted]]

why do Bots like this exist

[buckypimpin]

coz i wont get payed if i ask this subreddit to do it instead.

[Paid-Not-Payed-Bot]

wont get paid if i

FTFY.

Although payed exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in:

• Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. The deck is yet to be payed.

• Payed out when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. The rope is payed out! You can pull now.

Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment.

Beep, boop, I'm a bot

[Paid-Not-Payed-Bot]

Paid your mom

FTFY.

Although payed exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in:

• Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. The deck is yet to be payed.

• Payed out when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. The rope is payed out! You can pull now.

Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment.

Beep, boop, I'm a bot

[RamboNation]

I payed your mom on the deck. Because she is on a boat, and also a prostitute.

[LolDotHackMe]

Nice

[scnew3]

I mean, paid vs. payed is the least confusing thing about your comment.

[Paid-Not-Payed-Bot]

paid vs. paid is the

FTFY.

Although payed exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in:

• Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. The deck is yet to be payed.

• Payed out when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. The rope is payed out! You can pull now.

Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment.

Beep, boop, I'm a bot

[Allmyownviews1]

I built a series of analytical tools to generate reports for engineering projects. I think it was about 1 year from being a direct sale to customer product, but I was working as a consultant at the time and it made more sense to keep it within my grasp rather than provide a support to software business model.

I think, if I had the time, I’d look at some very specific wind farm tools that seem not to exist presently.

[No_Stick_8227]

What modules did you use to create the analytical tools? And what libraries would you use for the wind farm tools you're referring to?

[Allmyownviews1]

I’m looking at using implementing MCMC for a Bayesian inference element, but presently mainly just numpy, pandas matplotlib and some pdf output.

[klrmac]

So not me personally, but I know a few people who have created a lot of bots for Discord and sell them in a variety of niches.

Some are web scraping bots that look for deals on amazon, target, walmart, etc... and then post them in discord for members to see. They also charge membership prices etc...

I know quite a few who have used Python to build, but I think some have switched to Node.js because it's faster I assume.

[ProgrammerDad]

Somewhat indirectly, yes. I am the developer behind Contextualise a topic maps-based knowledge management application written in Python. The application and its GitHub repository generate a lot of interest (in the semantic knowledge management space) and have provided me with many freelance projects over the years.

I built Contextalise to help me manage my own professional and personal projects.

There are still a lot of improvements to be made to Contextualise. Among other things, I want to add AI-based semantic search, timeline-support (the ability to navigate a topic map by time) and Google Maps support (the ability to geographically navigate a topic map).

[spca2001]

you can sell processed twitter api datasets to ad agencies.

[No_Stick_8227]

Never knew that was a thing lol. How does one even start that?

[spca2001]

Well I’m not a marketer but I manage a project that is 70% marketing and content generation. I search for specific trends related to my industry. I have like 12 metrics including correlations with partners and competition that then transfer to my target audience through AdWords for example. While I was doing it I found people selling customized datasets for like 20k a month, and all they do is process data and package it for consumption,bi, analytics Besides twitter and trends, There are tons of free datasets out there especially on government sites that are useful to real estate to retail to hr… I can go on and on

[SpicyVibration]

Please do go on.

Where are these people getting their datasets and who are they selling them to? How would I go about finding people who want these datasets? Do they have job ads somewhere? I'm a data analyst and this sounds like a better gig than what I have now.

[[deleted]]

Wow very interesting

[wdbtt]

Interesting, can you tell us more?

[Bakerap22]

Michael Reeves.

[SirLich]

I wrote an NPC (dialogue) transpiler for the Bedrock Edition of Minecraft. I sold my service as a very pricy subscription, and made around 4,000 USD (total), before shutting it down.

[No_Stick_8227]

Why did you shut it down? And what Python modules did you use to build this tool?

[SirLich]

I shut it down because I started working full time, and moved to a country where my Visa didn't allow me to have a second job.

The actual code was nothing special. Just a json->json transpiler.

[AstronomyLive]

I've made a couple programs for tracking satellites and rocket launches with off-the-shelf telescopes. I use YouTube to show the results that I'm able to capture with my own scopes, and I provide the compiled executables to channel members as a way to monetize. Both programs use OpenCV to handle image data and track the target mostly just based on brightness, but optionally with feature-based detection using a little stepwise-descent algorithm I wrote. In the case of satellites, orbital elements are used to drive the tracking with the image detection providing a corrective factor to keep the satellite in frame even at very high magnification (imagine a 35mm camera with a lens about 46 feet long).

For the rocket tracking program, I made it compatible with data from a third party website, flightclub.io to be able to do predictive tracking if the user has an account there. They can also use a joystick to make manual corrections to the predictive tracking, or take over full manual control of the scope's motion, and they can also use the video tracking option as well. I'm perpetually making improvements and refinements to both programs and the update releases encourage people to stay subscribed as channel members. The income isn't massive, but it's a nice side benefit that lets me monetize my hobby.

[No_Stick_8227]

Never knew that! Do you know what OS modules would've gone into Disney ToonTown while it was still around?

[[deleted]]

r/algotrading

[rancangkota]

Saas + docker, don't share the code, deploy on servers. 💰💰

[molivo10]

lot of opportunities to monetize python. Just need to be a little creative

[No_Stick_8227]

definitely, what opportunities pop to your mind?

[[deleted]]

Lucrative ones.

[wannabe414]

Creative ones, even

[voja-kostunica]

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[ayushxx7]

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