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Julia Furst Morgado on July 11, 2022

The internet is a place with endless possibilities to make money. You just need to know where to look for it. I’ve put together a list of websites...

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Colin McDermott • Jul 20 '22

Hi Julia, I would like to add our site to the list if possible: searchcandy.uk/insights/ - Can pay up $50-200 for articles related to NLP, information retrieval, or ecommerce. Is there a list I should be looking for somewhere to add our site to?

Julia Furst Morgado • Jul 20 '22

Hey Colin! I'll add it to the post :) Are you looking for more technical content? And where should people send their pitches? Just reaching out to info@searchcandy.uk?

Colin McDermott • Jul 20 '22

Thank you! Yes, or via here. Yes technical content and tutorials related to NLP, information retrieval, or ecommerce. Thanks!

Dendi Handian • Jul 19 '22

whoa, I never thought it could be this many.

Julia Furst Morgado • Jul 20 '22

And I'm sure there are many more!

Rustam Apay • Jul 20 '22

Julia, thank you for the great article!
I am just finishing a code tutorial, and planned to post it here.
But now I'll send it to LogRocket first, to get $350 :-)

Julia Furst Morgado • Jul 20 '22 • Edited

Yes!! Let me know how it goes :) I'm also just finishing up a technical article and hope to get some $ for it.

Rustam Apay • Jul 20 '22

on LogRocket: We’re not accepting new applicants for our guest author program at the moment. Check back soon!

I will send my tutorial to Tutorials Point.

Julia Furst Morgado • Jul 20 '22

Thanks! I'll update it on the post.

sara john • Dec 10 '23

LogRocket has so many good articles that I've come across. So much so I created a note file to keep track of the ones I read to keep track of how useful they've been. So far my notes have this one link about a beautiful and light web framework called Hono: blog.logrocket.com/build-web-appli...

z2lai • Jul 19 '22 • Edited

Wow, what a list, that's a lot of research! Thank you for sharing this valuable information.

Do you know if most of these businesses stop you from cross-posting your article to your own blog or other communities?

Julia Furst Morgado • Jul 20 '22

From what I saw they allow it. The only requirement is that your post includes a canonical reference meta tag back to the company's post.

Abhinav Kulshreshtha • Jul 12 '22

Thanks for the list, Do they really pay at the range you mentioned there. I tried some local publications in past, but never got paid close to what they mentioned.

Julia Furst Morgado • Jul 13 '22

Did you try one of those in the list? I don't see why they would lie about it...

Abhinav Kulshreshtha • Jul 14 '22 • Edited

Yes, I recognize 2 in your post from past, one of them was clear from the start that they only accept writings that can be backed by few years of industry experiences. Since I was relatively fresher, they won't accept my submissions. So no issues there.

There were two more, they published my submissions and didn't pay me. Only one of them replied back that they considered me guest writer and my payment was in form of networking recognition I would get because they published my posts, Other never replied back.

Anyways, these are ancient history for me, I never wrote again until lockdown made me get bored. After reading your post, I contacted few of them, Corbin from coderpad replied back and has shown interest. I hope my experience would be better this time. All in all, your list is quite large and well laid out. I appreciate the hard work that went into compiling this list.

Julia Furst Morgado • Jul 14 '22

Hi Abhinav, I'm sorry you had such bad experiences.

Could you tell me what companies published your submissions but didn't pay you? (you can send me a DM on twitter if you prefer). I am curious because I'm starting to write as well and don't want to do business with companies like those.

Thanks!

Abel Lifaefi Mbula • Jul 19 '22

Hello @juliafmorgado,

Thank you for this list. It's helpful. As per the issue Abhinav mentionned here, I think it would be intersting to let people know about them so that they can't work with them.

Julia Furst Morgado • Jul 20 '22

Hi Abel, I agree with you. I'd like to know the companies he mentioned so I can make a note on the blog post.

Pradeep Bhadani • Jul 20 '22

Thanks @juliafmorgado for sharing the extensive list. I checked StackOverflow link (stackoverflow.blog/2020/01/27/blog...) but it doesnt talk about the payment for writing the blogs.
Would be worth sharing the references for the article that references to payments?

Julia Furst Morgado • Jul 20 '22

I'll check and get back to you. Thanks for bringing it up :)

Richard Leddy • Jul 19 '22

Thanks.

Just about now I was needing this.

I have been fairly busy developing my stack for just my website (maybe should have used something more canned?) But, so I wanted a web3 login. So, I wanted to make streaming available so that people who upload content can share it. etc. etc. ...
copious-world

So ... yes ... I want to take care of IoT and build a DAW with the same stack. Other lofty goals...

Need an army, but am hoping to buy coffee.

I wrote for Smashing once. Nice experience! Got groceries just in time. I might write for them again. I have moved beyond Vue to Svelte and I might use yet another. Trying to keep the front of the front very agnostic. Trying to keep the backend in very replaceable pieces. Maybe some node.js parts can be in the V lang or in C++ or in Rust. But, node.js now, no typescript just ... just needs to work. Perhaps something is there for Smashing and other things.

Great to get help in finding sources... thanks

Julia Furst Morgado • Jul 20 '22

Awesome!! Looks like you're very busy, you should try getting some extra $ from these companies :)

ContentLab • Jul 22 '22

Thanks for the mention of ContentLab! We're always looking to grow our pool of tech writers.
Great list. :D

Julia Furst Morgado • Jul 26 '22

Awesome!

Junaid • Nov 21 '23

Do you still take writers?

Teodor Kulej • Jul 20 '22

Hi, how is your list related to this list? github.com/malgamves/CommunityWrit...

Julia Furst Morgado • Jul 20 '22

Not related, I added a few more that aren't on this repo. I'll probably make a PR :)

Ben Read • Jul 12 '22

Thanks for the mention @juliafmorgado 🙌

If anyone has any queries about writing for Webiny Headless CMS, please get in touch with me!

Julia Furst Morgado • Jul 13 '22

Awesome!! Thanks Ben :)

Angeline Wang • Jul 20 '22

This list was super comprehensive and insightful. Thank you so much for sharing!

Julia Furst Morgado • Jul 20 '22

My pleasure Angeline! Let me know if you end up getting some $ from any of these companies :)

Francisco Zapata • Jul 20 '22

This list is brutal!!!
Thanks a lot for sharing Julia. Blessings

Julia Furst Morgado • Jul 20 '22 • Edited

Glad you liked it Francisco!! Are you planning on writing to any of these companies?

Francisco Zapata • Jul 20 '22 • Edited

Probably... I like to write and I do it, but only in spanish. My english grammar is not enought yet.
I don't know similars to them in spanish. If you know, tell me... please. ;)
I want to learn anymore about JS, Vue and React, and then maybe.
You can read my first two articles here (in spanish) in my profile.
Greeting and blessings from Venezuela.

Assis Zang • Jul 11 '22

Wow, perfect!!! This is very useful 👏👏👨‍💻👩‍💻✍💰

Louise • Aug 6 '22

Checked out the Coderpad link but Corbin has left Coderpad. Do you know of an updated link for them?

Julia Furst Morgado • Aug 7 '22

Oh wow, didn't know that. I'll check that and get back to you :)

Ryan Hunter • Jul 26 '22

Thanks for the deep research and sharing your knowledge Julia. Much appreciated.

Julia Furst Morgado • Jul 26 '22

My pleasure Ryan! Hope these tools are helpful to you :)

Chris Jarvis • Jul 19 '22

Thanks for this extensive list. I did not know all of these.

Julia Furst Morgado • Jul 20 '22 • Edited

My pleasure! Hope you get some $$ :)

MakendranG • Jul 20 '22

Thanks a lot for sharing @juliafmorgado

Julia Furst Morgado • Jul 14 '22

Thanks for letting me know, I'll make a note on the post.

Mark Edosa • Apr 12 '23 • Edited

DOWNLOAD this cool content as a CSV File. The file includes the company name, link, pricing, and areas of interest.

I like how you wrote this article in a consistent manner. It made it easy to extract the content.

Here's the CSV file. You can add other fields in case you want to keep track of your application(s) to any of the platforms.

Here's the code just for fun :)

// taken from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21012580/is-it-possible-to-write-data-to-file-using-only-javascript
var textFile = null,
  makeTextFile = function (text) {
    var data = new Blob([text], {type: 'text/plain'});

    // If we are replacing a previously generated file we need to
    // manually revoke the object URL to avoid memory leaks.
    if (textFile !== null) {
      window.URL.revokeObjectURL(textFile);
    }

    textFile = window.URL.createObjectURL(data);

    // returns a URL you can use as a href
    return textFile;
  };


function download(content) {
    const link = document.createElement('a');
    link.setAttribute('download', 'get-paid-to-write-technical-articles.csv');
    link.href = makeTextFile(content);
    link.click();
}

let csv = 'Company,Link,Price,Area\n';
let headings = document.querySelectorAll('h2');

// deviated from the pattern.
const excepts = ['codingsight', 'cohesive'];

function extractDetails(heading) {
   // Each heading has two <a> children
    let aTags = heading.querySelectorAll('a')
    if (aTags?.length === 2) {
        // The second <a> tag contains the company name and link
        let h = aTags[1];
        let company = h.textContent.trim();
        let link = h.href;

        // Extract content
        let content = heading.nextElementSibling;
        let els = content.querySelectorAll('li');

        let price, area; 
        if (excepts.includes(company.toLowerCase())) {
            price = els[1]?.textContent.trim();
            area = els[2]?.textContent.trim() + ' ' + els[0].textContent.trim();
        } else {
            price = els[0]?.textContent.trim();
            area = els[1]?.textContent.trim();
        }

        return (price && area) ? `${company},${link},${price},\"${area}\"\n` : '';
    }
    return ''; 
}

// build csv
headings.forEach(h => {
    const details = extractDetails(h);
    csv += details;
})

// console.log(csv);

download(csv);

To run the code yourself, do the following on this page:

open your browser dev tools
go to the sources tab or anywhere you can paste and run the code well, run it :)

Open the downloaded CSV file in a spreadsheet and add other columns to keep track of your applications.

Consta Chain • Mar 6 '23

I applied the first 20 projects on the list one by one, (some projects are outdated, some are unreachable.), but got no responses of any companies in my email inbox.

Most projects of the list are product-oriented, you must use their products for a long time then you are able to write an 'experience report' to match their demands. But most of their products are not free to use.

If you really need to find a short term income source to cover your gap-year shortages, I don't think this list will do you a favor.

Mark Edosa • Apr 12 '23

Hi Julia, I created a CSV containing your article's companies and links. Do you mind pinning the comment so others can easily get the file? Thanks.

Here's the link: dev.to/medosa/comment/262im

Corbin Crutchley • Jan 29 '23

What a wonderfully comprehensive list!

I'm the Corbin currently listed on the CoderPad listing. If possible, could I be removed from this list? I no longer work for them.

That said, last I heard their guest author program is going strong and they're a fantastic team to work alongside. I'd suggest DMing their primary Twitter account instead of mine.