Web development was always a hoppy to me more than a profession and I know if you love to code you will never mind spending more time on coding after your day job. So if you know how to code, you really can make extra money and build your own online business. Here are some examples of side online/work-from-home projects you can explore today.

10. Create an App

Developing your skills is one thing, but getting your app out there is another. The surest way to do this is by creating an app or website. The ever-increasing App Store (there are 700,000+ apps there) means that you’ll be competing with amateurs for attention, but there is potential for serious business. The key is to ensure your app is well-designed and that it offers a unique and useful service.

9. Graphic Design

Really good graphic design skills are hard to find but if you’re an expert in this field you can always create new designs and sell them on an online platform like Creative Market. You can design markups for different types of products so many businesses can benefit from your designs for their business and maybe they will offer you a job after they buy your designs.

Check out the below artists in Creative Market. You can buy fonts, graphics, elements from them for commercial use and recreate different designs with those assets.

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8. Sell Your Code

If you have a cool little app, but can’t bring yourself to monetize it, for the time being, you could use it for your own purposes and sell the code to other developers. Some of the bigger apps like Instagram and Snapchat are kind of the biggest code-selling goldmines right now.

7. Teaching

For many years I have been teaching computer coding classes in the university. You could offer online classes or courses, you could offer study groups for university students and teach them your skills in coding and Web development. You will make a decent amount of money by offering something you enjoy.

6. Offer mentorship programs

There are a hundred developers out there who recently graduated or started learning how to code but they still need your help in guiding them on their projects. Offering mentorship to them would be really helpful and at the same time, you will make some extra side income. There are already platforms that offer mentorship programs. You can check them out and join them if you don’t have an audience or you don’t know where to start.

5. Build Websites themes and sell them online

It can be fun, too! You can make a nice amount of extra cash on the side by coding themes for people. Specially backend web developers, need ready themes for their frontend, so if you are interested in frontend development you can consider this option.

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4. Get Freelance Projects

So you can code, you need to get some freelance projects. You can offer your skills in coding as a freelancer on Freelancer or Fiverr. Both these websites have a thousand traffic every day of people who are looking for someone to help them to get their ideas to life.

3. Create a YouTube Channel

When you start working on content for your own channel you might be taken in for a courtesy visit for explaining to potential clients what you do. You start building a following and in a few months, your reputation and channel start growing. Now when you reach a certain level, you start receiving paying gigs to make your channel popular, sponsored and you become a brand ambassador for various websites. After you reach 1K subscribers you can also apply for a YouTube monetizing program to earn money while google ads are playing on your videos.

2. Sell WordPress Plugins

Learning WordPress is easier than you think. You can build your own plugins for WordPress and sell them online or using the WordPress marketplace.

1. Find Bugs and Report Them

One of the best ways to make money is to find bugs in software and services and fix them. If you know some computer science or programming skills and experience with the relevant coding language (PHP, Ruby, Go, Perl, JavaScript, etc.), you are ready to find bugs. You can try sites like BugMuncher or Bugcrowd to see what kind of bug reporting job you can find. If you want to earn money on weekends and have little time in the day to spare, you can also use hacking or bug bounty platforms (like Bugcrowd) to find out how much someone will pay you to find and fix a bug. Tip: You do not have to sell your whole soul to bug-finders. It is not a lucrative business at all if you do not know how to code for it or if you are not very technical.

Finally,

The opportunities are up there, you just need to get yourself ready to do what you love and enjoy making money.