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Ask HN: What are some side jobs/gigs to make some extra money?

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Hey everyone, I'm kinda between a rock and a hard place. Without elaborating too much, I kind of need to make some extra money within the next couple months. Not looking for a get rich scheme, but something that could help bring in extra money to help around.

Thanks for taking the time to read, and respond. I'm very grateful for your help.

EDIT: Also sorry I forgot to include I'm not in the US.

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I am in a small country there are 6 sport betting sites. I made a bot with selenium which got the betting dáta and found betting arbitrage opportunities regularly. Made some money before i got banned.

this actually sounds really interesting, how'd the find you out though?

find what ? i read the idea but came up with my own technical solution.

obviously pairing bets is not easy and take some computation time but whatever.

Dont know OP but it can be build in a week or so.

Keep in mind betting sites have conditions for when you can take out money and they will make it hard sometimes.

It could be a business if one has enough government Ids (to impersonate) <- which i dont have so i had to give up on the main idea.

ah yes! sorry I did mean 'they'. Apologies for that.

That sounds pretty interesting, but sounds like there are some legal things that need to be considered. I'll look into it.

Thanks for taking the time to respond.

or perhaps you meant how they (sport betting sites) find what i am doing, well not sure i assume once you make some decent money its not relevant how you did it, they just wont allow it further..

You can try handyman work. I just had to hire someone to do some work in the house, they charged me by project but my estimate is their hourly rate was close $100.

I don't have any handyman experience, but it something I think I could probably look into, for small stuff at least.

Uber/Lift/Grubhub etc

Restaurant industry and basically any retail are hiring like mad

Amazon

Public transit/bus drivers

Do you have a truck? Snowplow drivers are making upwards of 200/hr in the northeast this year

can you elaborate on the Amazon one?

I don’t know what I could tell you that a quick google about “Amazon part time jobs” couldn’t

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