Ask HN: How do I earn money as a teenage programmer?
Don't use UpWork or similar. The rates are low even for a teenager.<p>The best projects and rates are through your network.<p>Family friends, businesses your family uses like you mention.<p>So start asking around who needs a website or web application. Those will be your best gigs, projects and clients.<p>Look for ways to setup recurring revenue. Maybe a business needs a website offer to build them a basic website, maintenance, hosting, backups and updates for $99/mo set it up with Stripe or Paypal recurring payments. Increase the cost as pages grow. Offer to include once monthly limited updates, usually clients will only update a page every month or so but you can adjust pricing accordingly.<p>Or if you build a web application for a client offer a maintenance plan that includes hosting, maintenance, database backups, etc.<p>This podcast has some great information to start building your own products and apps.<p>Startupsfortherestofus.com<p>And like others have mentioned patio11 has tons of great info.<p>Good luck.