Learn Python and Earn Money.. how to earn money using python?

What are some ways to make money as a python developer?

I’m sure most of my followers who actually care what I write already know what I’m going to say.

The following 2 projects are great if you are:

• learning a language
• want to monetize programming
• a python user

These 2 projects can be done in any language but best in python. And they make money! Only if you are smart though. There’s no way to make money onlyknowing how to code, unless you get a coding job. You need to know some marketing, some finances, some analytics, etc. Coding has absolutely nothing to do with money, so don’t assume one day things will just click and you’ll be able to code a tree made of money.

Here are the projects:

• Web Scraper - Data is the new gold. You can scrape anything off of any website and sell it to people. There’s plenty of public data sets, data etc. You could even scrape quora answers to see which words/phrases are more likely to get more upvotes. The possibilities are endless. Cant remember the library for python for http requests, i think its called ‘requests’
• Price Matcher - This is similar to a web scraper, but a little less scraping and a little more marketing. Find the same item on different sites and match the prices in order to find the cheapest deals. Send them to your subscribers. This gets difficult as stores have daily deals, customers live in different areas (meaning different shipping costs), etc.

Both of these can be monetized. Both will also prepare you for a straight up job writing python.

Answered by Ryan Gedwil on Quora.com