Make Passive Income Programming — 5 Incomes for Software Developers

Grant Darling
The Startup
Published in
11 min readNov 12, 2020

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Wouldn’t it be beautiful to get paid to do something that you love? Better yet, what if that thing could passively generate you a hefty chunk of change every year? Well, if you’re one of the lucky souls that found a passion for programming then I have good news for you. There are a ton of ways for software developers to make passive income programming. While additionally reaping many other benefits for their career as well. As a self-taught software developer who has a Bachelor of Commerce degree, I felt obligated to share the knowledge I have with the community. So without further ado, here are five ways you can turn your coding abilities into another passive income stream.

1. Build Software

Hopefully, it doesn’t come as a surprise that building software is the first method on this list. I mean, this is what we do! The great thing about creating software is that once it’s built (and relatively bug-free), there isn’t much more work you need to put into it. Especially if that software only has one purpose and doesn’t require additional features to be implemented. So how can we turn software development into a passive income…

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