Help me out here

Hey people,

Some of you might have seen me in and around the MM forums, as well as programming forum with a few neat little projects I've been working on for some time.

Problem is, they aren't making me any money.

I program for a living and have a full time job, but I really want to have a secondary stream of income with programming BH things, but have no idea how to implement a system by which I'm actually going to recuperate costs I incur.

Scanning over the Hire A Freelancer section makes me cringe, and I don't think I have the propensity to be a freelancer designing "bots" for my secondary stream.

So, I guess, programmers that frequent this forum, have you ever made a dime off of just programming an idea that you found on here?

Following this. Would want to know about it too. Would be very much glad if someone could help us.