A weekend file converter earns $600 a month

Three years of building small online tools produced no clear link between complexity and income. The most polished service, with a neat design and , earns about $40 a month.

A rough tool built in one weekend does only one job—changing one type of file into another—but consistently earns around $600 a month. This suggests that simple, practical tools may have stronger earning potential, although it is still unclear whether this is a repeatable or simply the result of unusually good in search results.

Key points

  • The polished service with earns about $40 per month.
  • The weekend-built file er consistently earns around $600 per month.
  • The higher-earning tool performs only one simple task.
  • It is not yet clear whether usefulness or favorable search caused the difference.
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