Worst Income Streams Programmers Should Avoid

Manpreet Singh
3 min readMay 16, 2022

Welcome back! Programming is one of the best skillsets to have nowadays, so, let’s take a look at some of the worst income streams programmers should avoid!

Scam Crypto Projects

Starting off, the crypto/blockchain field is extremely important, it contains a bunch of value for the future, but there has been a bunch of crypto/NFT projects that have been coming out recently that are complete scams, because of this, I would avoid any programmer to create any sort of crypto/blockchain related project in the hopes of scamming out buyers.

Buying Inflated Apps/Websites

Another common income stream I see many developers fall into is purchasing a website or application with inflated views, what does this mean? Well, certain developers may create a website, throw a few articles into it, put some affiliate links inside of it, and artificially pump the website with views, the developer would then go around and sell that website (within a…

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