Ask HN: How can I make 1M dollars?

4 roschdal 13 7/3/2025, 8:17:42 PM
I want to make my family proud.

Comments (13)

throwawayffffas · 14h ago
Save until you can get a 1M dollar loan, buy a house, pay off house.
roschdal · 14h ago
Faster, please
mathiaspoint · 13h ago
Sell a million dollars + cost to you worth of stuff.

Oh wait only sales matters and everything else just exists to support that? I kind of have to rethink things now.

bigyabai · 14h ago
Find something that someone pay you $10 for, and automate it 100,000 times.
fragmede · 14h ago
whats your current balance sheet, your PnL, your skillset, your morals? Who are you? Give us anything to go with.
roschdal · 14h ago
My net worth is 0,5M dollars. Skillset: engineer and can do anything. No morals. I am 43 years and live in Norway. I love to travel and have been many wonderful places on earth. I have worked as a software developer for 20 years.

Must be legal, of course.

mac3n · 13h ago
> I want to make my family proud.

> No morals.

What kind of family you got?

Lots of opportunity in FinTech - see https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/

fragmede · 13h ago
What's your tolerance for risk?
roschdal · 13h ago
I love high risk. I don't like casinos.
fragmede · 13h ago
In that case, it's easy. Liquidate everything into cash. Go to Vegas. Find a high roller roulette wheel. Bet it all on black. There's a small chance you walk away with 1M, but there's also a chance you don't.
ben_w · 14h ago
Start with two million and send half of it my way. ;)

More seriously, why are you aiming so low if your goal is to use money to induce pride? Caring about dollars suggests the USA*, where a mere one million can be earned the boring way by working as a software developer for, like, 7 years or something.

Also more seriously, find a better way to make people proud. Money is an endless treadmill of anxiety and one-upmanship if you don't have a specific end in mind.

* but could also be Canada, Australia, NZ, or a few other places

roschdal · 14h ago
I live in Norway, but can do anything, anywhere, to get 1 million dollars. (Must be legal)

1 million dollars or more, in one year.

ben_w · 14h ago
Have an idea worth investing in, and contact a venture capitalist. I'm sure there's at least few on this website…

(But I get the impression that a million might be a little on the low side for many VCs, as you can't run any team for very long on that).