Would bots be a good source of income?
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chad362wiley
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- Dec 8, 2011
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Of course.
c0ntenth|ef
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look around to see what is in demand and make bots for that, look at how successful some bots here have been.
PhoenixAir
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This is a great thing. Even better than just selling bots is making exclusive bots for someone. Thats step 2!
If I would have more available money for bots right now, I would love to hire someone like you for exclusive custom made bots.
If I would have more available money for bots right now, I would love to hire someone like you for exclusive custom made bots.
cooooookies
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Using YA is definitely a good idea. And there is a lot of space to post them. But ... for you... in particular.
The missing point is: where and how to you want to post them? Posting e.g. about sweets in a diet forum might lead to removing your post. So how you choose the right platforms (which) and how to make choice on the right answers?(/questions)
The missing point is: where and how to you want to post them? Posting e.g. about sweets in a diet forum might lead to removing your post. So how you choose the right platforms (which) and how to make choice on the right answers?(/questions)
PhoenixAir
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I see more potential in more complex or custom software, cause simple bots you can make with ubot or zennoposter as well. So specialize your programmed Bots in things you cant do with those programs!
myloveishot
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Posting link in yahoo answers is a gold mine you could make money easily just throw some CPA offer links or affiliate.
christoss1959
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As an experienced bot programmer the answer is both Yes and No. Offering bot programming services is time consuming and people are not really willing to pay for quality (may prefer a cheaper ubot programmed bot)...
If you try to make something unique and offer it to the public its a matter of how good it is and how many people actually want this bot. However keep in mind that if you make a bot and a good quality bot already exists doing the same thing it's a really tough market to break into.
If you try to make something unique and offer it to the public its a matter of how good it is and how many people actually want this bot. However keep in mind that if you make a bot and a good quality bot already exists doing the same thing it's a really tough market to break into.
fatboy
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Is it worth it - yes, nothing better than getting something working after a few days of work.
Downside, support, people wanting something for nothing - people don't realise how much time it takes to go back and fix something after a site changes something (looking at you Tumblr and Pinterest!!
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As for people putting down Ubot, either they think its below them or its no good. I only ever use Ubot and its helping me make some good beer money. Not sure why everyone is down on it, it works, it produces a decent bot and it lets me get on with the job without learning all the ins and outs of .net coding.
Do people who buy from me not like Ubot bots? Nope, I am up front and tell them what I use and everyone is happy.
Horses for courses!
Sorry for going off track - however, if you think its quick money you are mistaken. If you are good at coding then go for it but don't take the cash and run, that makes people tar all coders with the same brush then!
Downside, support, people wanting something for nothing - people don't realise how much time it takes to go back and fix something after a site changes something (looking at you Tumblr and Pinterest!!
)As for people putting down Ubot, either they think its below them or its no good. I only ever use Ubot and its helping me make some good beer money. Not sure why everyone is down on it, it works, it produces a decent bot and it lets me get on with the job without learning all the ins and outs of .net coding.
Do people who buy from me not like Ubot bots? Nope, I am up front and tell them what I use and everyone is happy.
Horses for courses!
Sorry for going off track - however, if you think its quick money you are mistaken. If you are good at coding then go for it but don't take the cash and run, that makes people tar all coders with the same brush then!
DarthM
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Yep. Useful, good quality bots can bring in decent revenues. IM'ers love to buy tools that make their marketing lives easier. The drawbacks are the ones fatboy mentions: Having to provide tech support plus the constant need to update bots whenever the 'target sites' make changes, so that your bot continues to work.
Scritty
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Bots - the trick here is to code them to do something that other "off the shelf" bots don't do.
Something that needs doing.
I can think of loads of activities I do that daily that I wish were automated, and a subset of those probably could be automated by a decent bot.
Don't get caught in the cycle of thinking all bots have to be about account creation or content submission.
I built a crappy Zenno bot that hunted for places to put links, another that scraped about 30 media sites to see what was "trending" and then exported it to a keyword tool to see if there were any domains worth grabbing.
There's such a lot that can be done.
Something that needs doing.
I can think of loads of activities I do that daily that I wish were automated, and a subset of those probably could be automated by a decent bot.
Don't get caught in the cycle of thinking all bots have to be about account creation or content submission.
I built a crappy Zenno bot that hunted for places to put links, another that scraped about 30 media sites to see what was "trending" and then exported it to a keyword tool to see if there were any domains worth grabbing.
There's such a lot that can be done.