How do you plan to make money with Monero?

I'm someone who doesn't care much about price predictions, to me it's all inflated anyway.

My dream would be to be able to earn monero via my skills,[which include English Comprehension skills, familiarity with creative programs and processes, and familiarity with streaming tech] but the obstacle to moolah is that most Monero users are not inherently interested in buying custom mediocre art or less mediocre streaming assets.
So, I'm basically setting myself up for total failure by not doing smart business (identifying a problem to sell a solution for)

I'm thinking of creating some ready to use assets to sell as downloads, though the issue of finding an audience is still quite tricky. Especially since I hate social media, still gotta make a portfolio, blahblahblah
Ie, it might be a pain point to pay an artist you actually want work from in xmr, so maybe I should offer proxy buying, but project management... not very fun...

A lot of people start out trying to sell things around the house, but the everlasting problem is that there are just not many buyers since most normal goods are easier to buy with fiat.
Marketing is also a challenge, though not impossible. But personally a challenge because I hate advertising and social media 🤡

I am a software developer 7+ years. I been doing some contract jobs last couple years but last years when I learn more about monero, I was ready to start doing something about that.

So this year, around February, I started working on my own software development services called monero.software. After getting my first client, I was ready to go with it full time. My contract expired April and I didn't renew it with my previous company.

I have to say that I am very thankful and lucky to start getting my client in the first month and I am happy to working my own, getting paid with monero all the time.

@avarice tbh almost all the businesses are not fun at all :) actually most boring businesses are mostly profitable. (from the book called The Sweaty Startup - Nick Huber) But you gotta do boring things to find clients all the time. If I lost my clients tomorrow, I had to start posting on reddit, forums or whatever my potential clients are. Btw, i believe that you have a potential to build some good business around monero.

PS, monero community very positive to small businesses who accept monero and you can meet with a lot of cool people while doing business. I met with @sepia like that :)

@monerica I'm a still in learning artist and I wanna draw stories that engage with emotion. I love dark and sexual stories and I have no limit on the genre that I like, basically NSFW art. There's a high demand for raw and uncensored comic/manga and I think the pain point for my customer is revealing their personal information when paying, I believe Monero will easily solve that.

There has been many cases where even normal artist get doxxed and their identity revealed just because someone jealous or want to harm them. Mind you these artist that get doxxed sometimes just drawing beautiful art and not touching sensitive genre like trauma or abuse. Also because of such news that my attention got locked on Monero. It vastly superior compared to normal bank that reveal your name.

If you're curious what kind of artist i'm gonna be like, if you read Berserk, Goodnight Punpun or Made in Abyss, you'll know what kind of thing that i want to make.

@nolan Thanks you for the shoutout. I'm also glad that I can make you a poster for your business nolan hehe.

1. Use xmr to cut the link between my identity and my crypto/ RWA portfolio. This is HUGE for personal sovereignty in the age of digital id. I want to build a wallet to improve the UX for this, but it will be donationware.
2. Make .io games. In game purchases. Crypto (not neccesarily xmr) is essential to cut out the payment processor racket. @sepia I need an artist to improve the graphics actually (evoverse.onrender.com). If you're interested I'll reach out when the time is right? (These are NOT web3 games, bs)
3. Trade xmr. As a consequence of its ability to sever identity and money, xmr has the most sustainable and predictable volatility in crypto making it ideal for trading.
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@Nebuchadnezzar_II I'm excited to join your project. Let me know the art direction that you want. But actually i never worked with games before so I don't have much experience in this department. As long as it's still on 2D I can work it out

@sepia Sweet :) Did you follow the link? I like the art style that it currently uses but it just needs improvement really to be more visually and stylistically cohesive. Yes its 2D, the only technicalities are making sure that the resolution of each sprite is consistent with surrounding sprites (this is currently NOT the case!) The other thing I'll need a lot of is grim reaper skins (for sale). I'm building the accounts/shop/database at the moment which will be done shortly, at which point I'll reach out again for your help! I love building games but my graphical ability / interest is very limited.

@nolan did you get any referrals from your listing (https://monerica.com/site/monero-software)?

@monerica yeah one of my customer found me from monerica, thank you for building monerica <3