For all those iOS developers out there who been desperate to make money as a side hustle, this is
the list you've been waiting for. But as always there are fine details that you have to work
through that impact not just how much money you will make as a side hustle but also how are you
going to earn that money. What are the best five hustles for programmers? Let's find out. Before I
jump into the five side hustles for programmers let me remind you about Cyber Monday, the link
is in the description. 50% of all of my products go ahead and check it out. So of course
you want to get a job as a developer. That is your aim and maybe you do have a job, maybe you don't
but if you most probably if you clicked on this video you are looking a way to make some more
income with side hustles. Now if you do have a job, don't quit your job of course, this is a side
hustle. Of course if you don't already have a job you can also make money with these side hustles
but that will be your main hustle. Believe me if you have a job that's much more easier than you
don't have that stress on yourself. So let's find out what is another way of getting some money
without, well besides getting a job. Well before we get into those five
side hustles I want to pay the payment for you what you actually need to do beforehand
you even can't get paid for those side hustles. Basically you want to run your own business and
there are two ways of doing this. You can either become an indie dev, which could be of course a
full-time job or a side hustle, or you can become the go-to developer. So this is what
I have been through all of these stages, I've been an indie developer. I then transitioned
to become the go-to developer and hopefully because you are watching this you know that
I'm the go-to developers for SwiftUI or at least for many people. So how can you become the go-to
developer? Well you have to market yourself. And of course this will take a lot of time till you
get to that point where you are going to get paid. So you are going to put in a lot of effort, a lot
of time beforehand. That's kind of the downside of this. That's why I told you at the beginning that
it's kind of much, much easier if you already have a full-time job. So what do you have to do before
you even get to those five side hustles that I'm going to talk about? Well there
are three things that I would like to highlight here. I've been through all of them and it's not
like you just go through these three things and then you forget about it and then you get paid
you go to those side hustles, no this is an ongoing thing that you have to maintain because, again you have
to market yourself. The first thing is that you have to learn, because you want to become the
go-to expert. You want to become better at your craft and of course you have to learn for that.
You know you have to learn new stuff that's coming out of course maybe you have maybe you
want to learn some things that you don't already know, so first thing first you have to learn.
And while you are learning you want to teach along the way. So that also takes a lot of time, again this
is not paid, you can of course kind of you know teach here and there for a little bit of money
but because your aim is to market yourself to become the go-to developer on this or that niche
you want to teach this for free. Now this could be in the blog or you can use Twitter for this
or as I'm doing it you can you leverage YouTube. YouTube is really, really powerful but of course
this takes a lot of time and it requires another skill. You have to learn besides development you
have to learn how to communicate. You have to learn how to teach, how to convey all of that knowledge
that you already have and by the way if you teach you will learn even better. That's that's what I
found out. And first you have to have a presence as a social presence. So it's not enough to just
simply post a YouTube video and that's just it. No! You have to be on the social networks, be it
on I know YouTube, Twitter, Tick Tock, Instagram. You name it. You have to be active on that, you
have to engage with your audience, you have to guide them, you have to teach them of course all
of this you know the social presence has to be of course free and it will take a lot of time.
So learn, teach and have a presence and that will take a lot of time. Of course you have to
make this presence really on purpose. So you are just not just going to scroll Tick Tock or
Twitter 30 minutes a day, you have to be active, you have to post, you have to engage, you have to
comment on other people's and of course you have to help. Now after you learn that you have to learn
teach and be present on social then you can incrementally add in these five side hustles that
I'm just going to go through from least effective to the most effective. So let's just
start off with number 1 and that is freelancing. Of course you know, you most probably heard about
freelancing. Maybe you did consider doing that. There are tons of sides doing that but there's a
huge downside here. While you can get work they're most probably always be somebody who is going to
outbid you. So this is kind of a race to the button on the pricing end and actually you don't really
want that. Also I want to note that there's an upside for this. And the upside is that if or
when you are going to win a project then you are going to have experience and of course you
are going to communicate with the client, you are going to build that project out and also you will
be able to have or build this portfolio. Of course we can just build your own portfolio on GitHub but
that's another way of creating your presence. So freelancing is one side hustle that you can take
a look at but it will take up a lot of time and it does not give you that much earning at least
at the beginning. Maybe you're going to build up a huge brand for yourself as a freelancer but at
the beginning it's really, really hard because the competition is much, much, it's really, really huge.
Second is mentoring. Now you already know that I do have a mentoring option. So you can just go to
rebeloper.com/mentoring and then you can just book a one hour Zoom call with me and then I will just,
well basically do whatever you'd like about SwiftUI, if you have a question about your code or maybe you
have a bug. I can most probably fix it because I have a lot of experience, again this is why
you want to learn and teach and have a presence because and of course build things because now
you will be able to mentor other people. Now this could be like teaching one-on-one lessons or you
could just also have a counseling session, so maybe other companies will just hire you because
of your expertise. Again you have to be the go-to developer on that certain niche. You will just give
them some feedback on their, I know their project. How they would like to build out their next app
and so on. So number 2 was mentoring. Number 3 is courses. Now why is courses a
little bit better than mentoring? Well while you are going to create your course only once and
then just publish it and market it, your mentoring sessions will be always live it, will always take
up that chunk of time. So you want to automate that. And courses is a really good way of doing that.
You are going to do the same kind of teaching stuff but always make sure that you kind of ask your
audience what is it that they want to learn inside courses and then what they are struggling with you
are going to provide the course for that. Number 4 is Products. Now maybe video courses like
teaching stuff is not what your audience will want. Maybe they will want products and as you
already can see on my site store.rebeloper.com, you will see a lot of products like StoreKitPro or
Navigation Stack and just to name a few. There are a lot more, go ahead and check out
Cyber Monday deal, the link is in the description, so you can purchase these codes or in the other
hand you will be able to build these codes that makes other developers lives easier and
then you can just sell it. So that's number 4. Products. Number 5 is the most efficient in
my opinion and that is to build a community and then have a paid version of it meaning that you
are going to have a subscription. Now this is a little bit, well not a little bit a lot
more than just a one-time purchase of a course or a product. It's an ongoing. So you will get a
monthly recurring revenue, which is really, really nice. What you need to know right over here is
that you have to cater your community. You have to take care of your community. You have to know
what your community wants and then provide it inside that paid wall and of course you have to
make sure that your community is nice and clean. There are no bad apples in there, so yeah it's
a little bit different than just publishing the course and maybe marketing it and then somebody
pays for it and that's it. It's a monthly recurring revenue and also please note that there will be
churn so people will unsubscribe but as you are just marketing it you are going to get better at it.
So there you have it, you have 5 of the best side hustles that a programmer can have. Now if
you like this video go ahead and check out again Cyber Monday link is in the description 50%
all of my products, my courses. It's down there, go ahead and check it out.