What should I do for online income?
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Life has been so hard lately, I'm going to school which means I'm working less hours and barely scraping by. I have all these art skills and backgrounds in animation and design, a plethora of computer knowledge and I'm pretty crafty. But I cant for the life of me seem to figure out what I should sell. I've tried Etsy, with a few paintings, some 3d prints I've designed, even a coloring book I made, but alas, I've got a total of 2 views and no sales.
Maybe I just don't know what people want, what would you guys buy online?
This may sound harsh, but the fact that you have to ask is already a barrier. Anyone in the arts making money from their art, is making money because they stand out. With so much easy access to programs that create, there is a surplus of artists and no enough consumers of art.
As for Etsy, they are going to start deprioritizing copycat pieces and getting behind more original content, because their website is flooded. Competition on that platform is about to get harder.
People famously say making money with 3D printing is hard. If you still want to try, then you’ll need to go around and try to solve for issues people haven’t thought to solve and go print those solutions.
If you want to do things like coloring books, your best bet may be to go around to daycares, doctor’s offices and other places children may get bored and ask them if they would want to buy from you. The problem you are facing there is that most little kids today just play on iPads.
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Life has been so hard lately, I'm going to school which means I'm working less hours and barely scraping by. I have all these art skills and backgrounds in animation and design, a plethora of computer knowledge and I'm pretty crafty. But I cant for the life of me seem to figure out what I should sell. I've tried Etsy, with a few paintings, some 3d prints I've designed, even a coloring book I made, but alas, I've got a total of 2 views and no sales.
Maybe I just don't know what people want, what would you guys buy online?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Use an AI coding tool to make an AI tool that just pulls from some other AI things and sell subscriptions to idiots.
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Life has been so hard lately, I'm going to school which means I'm working less hours and barely scraping by. I have all these art skills and backgrounds in animation and design, a plethora of computer knowledge and I'm pretty crafty. But I cant for the life of me seem to figure out what I should sell. I've tried Etsy, with a few paintings, some 3d prints I've designed, even a coloring book I made, but alas, I've got a total of 2 views and no sales.
Maybe I just don't know what people want, what would you guys buy online?
What a lot of people have been doing...
Buy junk at garage sales and thrift stores, then re-sell it on eBay. Mark up shipping to make added bank.
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Porn. Do porn. The furry stuff sells especially well.
I keep seeing this advice but nobody tells me where to find these furries hahaha. Where do they gather? is there like.. a specific platform?
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I keep seeing this advice but nobody tells me where to find these furries hahaha. Where do they gather? is there like.. a specific platform?
DeviantArt
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Porn. Do porn. The furry stuff sells especially well.
wrote on last edited by [email protected](I read this as 'funny' but I'm leaving it up lol)
"oh, hello pizza man"
'accidentally' drops the pizza straight on her tits
"oh no, I am so hungry, and who is going to clean this up?"
"today's sponsor, Dyson! With the Dyson washG1 you simply succ your problems away! Slutty Actress, can you get on the ground and demonstrate by laying on your back on the floor? Top off, of course."
"sure thing Sexy Hunk"
"that's my gal. Now we just lift and flips the switch-"
"screams my tits fuck OWOWOW"
canned laughter
"with Dyson, you never lose suction. And because of the noise generated by the vacuum, screams of pain and distress just get mixed into the high-pitched, ear-piercing whine. And look at how pristine those succulent titties are now?"
screams
[etc etc etc]
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This may sound harsh, but the fact that you have to ask is already a barrier. Anyone in the arts making money from their art, is making money because they stand out. With so much easy access to programs that create, there is a surplus of artists and no enough consumers of art.
As for Etsy, they are going to start deprioritizing copycat pieces and getting behind more original content, because their website is flooded. Competition on that platform is about to get harder.
People famously say making money with 3D printing is hard. If you still want to try, then you’ll need to go around and try to solve for issues people haven’t thought to solve and go print those solutions.
If you want to do things like coloring books, your best bet may be to go around to daycares, doctor’s offices and other places children may get bored and ask them if they would want to buy from you. The problem you are facing there is that most little kids today just play on iPads.
Following on this, I ran a successful Etsy store from 2019 to 2025 (I closed because of Trump). Etsy is terrible, and a lot of serious vendors move to their own site, usually via Shopify.
To give an idea, I used to sell a performance prop that was $90. I had to pay between $5 - $15 in shipping and lost about $25 to Etsy fees. At the end of the day, I was getting $60ish
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Porn. Do porn. The furry stuff sells especially well.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]For those of you who don't want to do porn, learn to draw instead. Practice until you get really good at it, and THEN do furry porn.
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What a lot of people have been doing...
Buy junk at garage sales and thrift stores, then re-sell it on eBay. Mark up shipping to make added bank.
Or buy simple stuff in bulk from Alibaba and ship it to Amazon warehouse for flogging at a markup.
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DeviantArt
Thanks I'm seriously considering it, work is work.
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Life has been so hard lately, I'm going to school which means I'm working less hours and barely scraping by. I have all these art skills and backgrounds in animation and design, a plethora of computer knowledge and I'm pretty crafty. But I cant for the life of me seem to figure out what I should sell. I've tried Etsy, with a few paintings, some 3d prints I've designed, even a coloring book I made, but alas, I've got a total of 2 views and no sales.
Maybe I just don't know what people want, what would you guys buy online?
If you have 3d design experience, along with doing 3d print files you could also sell assets on sites like CG trader or Turbosquid. You could make smartmaterials/gltfs or other asset bundles and list them and maybe start getting a passive income. Also consider offering a commercial license option for your 3d prints, I understand that's usually where artists end up making more 3d print sales because people will justify the cost by thinking they will sell the prints, and often they don't.
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Thanks I'm seriously considering it, work is work.
Np. It's been the place to commission your weird kink for the last 25 years.
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Life has been so hard lately, I'm going to school which means I'm working less hours and barely scraping by. I have all these art skills and backgrounds in animation and design, a plethora of computer knowledge and I'm pretty crafty. But I cant for the life of me seem to figure out what I should sell. I've tried Etsy, with a few paintings, some 3d prints I've designed, even a coloring book I made, but alas, I've got a total of 2 views and no sales.
Maybe I just don't know what people want, what would you guys buy online?
Background in animation and design sounds perfect for creating assets for streamers/vtubers. There always seems to be some demand for logos, "stingers" (animations that play between changing scenes), looping videos for idle screens (when the streamer isn't on camera, such a "taking a break" scenes), and emotes. Take a look around vgen.co and see if those types of things might be up your alley.
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I keep seeing this advice but nobody tells me where to find these furries hahaha. Where do they gather? is there like.. a specific platform?
Inkbunny.net and furaffinity.net are good places to start
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Life has been so hard lately, I'm going to school which means I'm working less hours and barely scraping by. I have all these art skills and backgrounds in animation and design, a plethora of computer knowledge and I'm pretty crafty. But I cant for the life of me seem to figure out what I should sell. I've tried Etsy, with a few paintings, some 3d prints I've designed, even a coloring book I made, but alas, I've got a total of 2 views and no sales.
Maybe I just don't know what people want, what would you guys buy online?
Have you tried selling pictures of your butthole?
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Np. It's been the place to commission your weird kink for the last 25 years.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]This is so odd to me cause when I was young (2005-2010), I'd use DA all the time and never ran into any kinky/furry/porn stuff. I just enjoyed cool art mostly. I guess maybe some fanfic, but nothing hardcore.
I'm not shaming anyone at all for it, it's just weird to me that I somehow managed to avoid it all.
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Life has been so hard lately, I'm going to school which means I'm working less hours and barely scraping by. I have all these art skills and backgrounds in animation and design, a plethora of computer knowledge and I'm pretty crafty. But I cant for the life of me seem to figure out what I should sell. I've tried Etsy, with a few paintings, some 3d prints I've designed, even a coloring book I made, but alas, I've got a total of 2 views and no sales.
Maybe I just don't know what people want, what would you guys buy online?
OF account, if you are saavy, people have hordes of accounts to earn income from reddit, yes it involves evading reddits filters.(using various things like new devices, proxies, anti-detection browsers.)
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Life has been so hard lately, I'm going to school which means I'm working less hours and barely scraping by. I have all these art skills and backgrounds in animation and design, a plethora of computer knowledge and I'm pretty crafty. But I cant for the life of me seem to figure out what I should sell. I've tried Etsy, with a few paintings, some 3d prints I've designed, even a coloring book I made, but alas, I've got a total of 2 views and no sales.
Maybe I just don't know what people want, what would you guys buy online?
The secret trick to earning online is faking it. Before you promote anything online, have an army of fake accounts to generate buzz, engagement, comments, reviews, to defend you and stuff. It'll not be easy, but that's how the world works now.
Start small and see where it goes. Use AI to your advqntagr to appear human, respond and stuff.
A lot of youtubers, gurus, and even agencies depend on it. First you prop up your accounts, catch the eye of the algorithm, then you get recommended to other people. Once you get to the million mark, dumb people will just repeat what you're saying without a shred of self-reflection.
Call any criticism haters, call it a joke if you do something bad, keep saying what the followers want to hear and it's smooth sailing from there.
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Life has been so hard lately, I'm going to school which means I'm working less hours and barely scraping by. I have all these art skills and backgrounds in animation and design, a plethora of computer knowledge and I'm pretty crafty. But I cant for the life of me seem to figure out what I should sell. I've tried Etsy, with a few paintings, some 3d prints I've designed, even a coloring book I made, but alas, I've got a total of 2 views and no sales.
Maybe I just don't know what people want, what would you guys buy online?
I made [email protected] for discussing this very thing. I wrote a beginners guide to eBay. I recently figured out that people on marketplace care more about PCs with a windowed case and rgb lights over system specs.
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I keep seeing this advice but nobody tells me where to find these furries hahaha. Where do they gather? is there like.. a specific platform?
My advice, pick a fetish and focus on it. Put a few pieces out so people watching those fetish tags get familiar with you then start dropping the "comssions open" in the description.
