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CommunityWriterPrograms
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Ask HN: What are some easy ways to earn some side money?
You could try writing blog posts for a company[1]. I haven't done this but I know people who have. It's crazy what some companies pay for such low-quality content sometimes.
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How to Get into Technical Writing: How to get Gigs, Jobs and start making money online with Technical Writing
Community Writer Programs
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Technical Writing 101: How to get Jobs, Gigs & Opportunities
Applying for jobs has to be the biggest headache for technical writers. There are lots of writing and guest author programs here for technical writers to apply to. There are also Paid Community Programs and Community Writer Programs carefully curated for writers.
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A Guide to Technical Writing
There are so many great resources to learn about technical writing. Such as Emy’s article about “Starting Out With Technical Writing”, Yuri’s curated list of technical writing resources and Bonnie’s own book and resources to technical writing and Daniel’s GitHub repo which contains lists of paid technical resources.
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Why I decided to write
Several platforms exist that pay developers for composing articles and or tutorials. A list of such writer programs can be found at here.
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Get Paid Writing
Community Writer Programs
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Why software engineers don't write documentation - it's bloody hard!
Definitely doesn't pay like software development does, but I've been doing it the past year and it's a nice change of pace. I started by doing blog posts for companies in this list: https://github.com/malgamves/CommunityWriterPrograms
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Ask HN: 5h-10h per week side gig?
To piggy back of what @mooreds said, here's a big list of community writing programs that pay software engineers to write blog posts: https://github.com/malgamves/CommunityWriterPrograms
Depending on your expertise and writing skills, they can pay pretty well.
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🧢 Stefan's Web Weekly #7
malgamves/CommunityWriterPrograms – A list of Developer Community Writer Programs.
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Ask HN: Advice for finding a remote entry-level job?
I don't think anyone has mentioned the option of freelance technical writing:
https://github.com/malgamves/CommunityWriterPrograms
In the process of doing this type of work, you surely will learn new things and probably will help you figure out exactly what you might want to focus on / become an expert at / etc. You'll come to understand systems from a user's perspective which always good for developers.
fossjobs
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Sponsor the open source projects you depend on
There are several similar services out there, some of them are listed in the patronage section of the FOSSjobs wiki:
https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/resources#patronag...
- Disabled and out of work for years, but need some side income, what can I do?
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Show HN: StackAid – fund 100s of open source dependencies with one subscription
The FOSSjobs wiki page tracks other types of open source funding, including the patronage model like StackAid:
https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/resources#patronag...
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The Flossbank Attempt
For those interested in working on FLOSS projects, FOSSjobs has a list of many of the different ways one can get paid for this, including the many employers that primarily work on FLOSS projects:
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Licenses Alone Do Not Govern Behavior in Open Source
A lot of FLOSS projects have commercial support, and the good ones even have an ecosystem of multiple companies who provide paid support and also contribute back to the project, for eg:
https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/resources#freelanc...
That can go wrong when the support companies are doing most of the work but not getting much out of it, for example Collabora's forking of LibreOffice Online.
https://lwn.net/Articles/833233/ https://lwn.net/Articles/692871/
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Ask HN: Advice for finding a remote entry-level job?
Since you mention Linux, you might be interested in paid internships in open source:
https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/Resources#internsh...
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Signal community: Reminder: Please be nice
There are a number of resources for getting paid to work on FOSS on the FOSSjobs wiki:
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