There is no doubt that the internet has changed the world.
It destroyed many jobs but, at the same time, provided opportunities that no one ever thought
possible just a little over 20 years ago.
In fact, internet created world's richest people starting from Bezos to Zuckerberg.
And year after year, it starts to play an even more important role in our lives.
However, billionaires aren't the only one who took advantage out of this new technology,
it created possibilities that no one could imagine possible and some people made a fortune
in ways that might be shocking because they are simply too dumb to think about! in this
video will discover 5 dumbest way people are making a fortune on the internet.
Number 1 Get paid to walk.
If this sounds confusing, then hear me out because there are literally ways to earn money
just by walking.
Yes, you heard it right, you get paid for getting out of bed and taking a walk.
Just pull out your phone and open the AppStore or Play Market.
You will find multiple apps that provide such a service such as Sweatcoin, Runtopia, Lifecoin,
and others.
You download the app.
With every mile you walk, you get awarded by a certain amount of coins, and once you
reach a certain threshold, you can convert these coins into real US dollars and cash
them out.
They will either send it to you via PayPal or wire transfer them to you.
The question that you are probably wondering about is, why would anyone pay you to walk.
That doesn't make sense in any universe, you are not doing anything that brings value to
anyone but yourself.
However, that's not the point.
The app is filled with multiple ads, so every time you pull out your phone to see how many
steps you have taken, you will come across an ad.
Whatever you want to check out in the app, you have to watch an add first.
That provides a steady income for the business.
The homepage of the app is usually filled with products or services that you can buy
using the coins that you earn by walking.
However, these products are more like ads such as free samples to attract customers.
So the app is earning money both ways, by showing you ads every step of the way, then
when you use your coins to buy these free samples.
They also offer the latest iPhone or a smartwatch but to get enough coins to buy them.
You need to walk for a few years at least to collect that many coins.
No one, of course, would do that; that's what they are counting on.
While it might be an extremely inefficient way to earn money, it seems like its earning
the founders of the app a lot of money.
Getting paid to walk sounds like a brilliant marketing strategy to get people to download
the app and make a ton of money out of ads.
2.
iFart
It is as the name suggests.
It's about Farting.
The app allows you to hear different types of farts, I can't believe that I am saying
this, but that's what the app claims.
You can find out how Trump's fart sounds like.
Whenever you feel like you want to hear a fart, pull out your phone and click fart.
Whoever came up with this idea is both genius and dumb because I would never believe that
such an app exists.
It costs 2 dollars on the app store.
It has a rating of 4.3, that's not bad, that's higher than google.
It's not the only app that can fart.
While doing the research for this script, I came across an entire industry of weird
apps that made their creators a lot of money.
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Number 3, a professional cuddler When I heard about it for the first time,
I couldn't believe my ears that you can earn a living by just cuddling.
And I am not talking about the intimate type of cuddling.
Of course, earning 40K in that industry is peanuts.
But professional cuddling has turned today into a therapy.
Cuddlers earn about 80 dollars per hour, significantly higher than the minimum wage or around 40K
annually.
In a world where every other person is depressed for one reason or another, all we need seems
like a genuine hug, to give us the feeling that we belong to someone.
I know that it sounds insane to some of you, but there is literally a website called cuddlist.com,
where you can find a certified cuddler, I don't really know what that means, but it
sounds unbelievable.
Number4, The Million dollar page
A wise man once said: if you want to make a million dollars, all you have to do is to
sell a one-dollar product to a million people or a 10 dollar product to a hundred thousand
people or 100 dollar product to a 10K people.
Alex Tew took this advice and earned a million dollars.
Back in 2005, Alex was a student, but he couldn't pay for his tuition, so he tried different
ways to make some money on the side to be able to afford his tuition fees.
Tew decided to sell a million pixels on a website for $1 each; purchasers would add
their own image, logo or advertisement, and have the option of including a link to their
website.
Because individual pixels are too small to be seen easily, pixels were sold in 100-pixel
"blocks" measuring ten × 10 pixels; the minimum price was thus $100.
Three days after the site began operating, the first sale was to an online music website
operated by a friend of Tew's.
He bought 400 pixels in a 20 × 20 block.
After two weeks, Tew's friends and family members had purchased a total of 4,700 pixels.
The site was initially marketed only through word of mouth; however, after the site had
made $1,000, a press release was sent out that was picked up by the BBC.
The website became an Internet phenomenon.
The web traffic peaked at 40,044.
On 1 January 2006, the final 1,000 pixels were put up for auction on eBay.
The auction closed on 11 January with a winning bid of $38,100 that brought the final tally
to 1,037,100 dollars.
That's probably one of the most creative ways to make a million dollars.
5.
Auctioning domain names.
Back in the early days of the internet, people made fortunes in outages ways.
At some point, a pet's website had a valuation of 300 million dollars.
Elon Musk, back in the days when he was developing on an online payment platform, paid million
dollars to buy the domain x.com.
Domains were real businesses.
It might be difficult to find a proper domain today, but back in those days, people just
bought the domains just to resell them later for a fortune.
One of the people who took advantage out of it is Chris Clark.
Pizza was popular way before the internet was developed, so Clark, back in 1994, purchased
the domain for 20 dollars since he thought that at some point in the future one of the
largest pizza companies might be interested in purchasing the domain.
After almost two decades of maintaining the domain, in 2008, he put the domain on an auction.
Things turned pretty good for him.
The bit kept rising and rising.
First, it crossed a million than 2 million dollars and finally was sold for 2.6 million
dollars.
How the domain is doing today, well, the website is dead, much like vodka.com that Was sold
for over 3 million dollars.
And now, it's your turn to tell me what your favorite one is out of this list?
The fact that you can get paid for walking or you can enjoy listening to different kinds
of farts?
Let me know in the comments below.
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