I made my first few dollars online by publishing a cheatsheet

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This is a personal account documenting how someone earned their first online income by creating and publishing a cheatsheet. It falls under life and fun content and was launched in March 2023. The resource appears designed for anyone interested in learning practical ways to monetize knowledge or content online, particularly through simple, structured formats like cheatsheets.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

From the sources

I recently published the Blender Python Cheatsheet on Gumroad a couple of days ago. In three pages, it is a collection of most frequently used functions and solutions to common problems you will encounter when writing scripts, macros or addons using the Blender API. I released it for free and I did not intend to charge anything for it. To my surprise, the free downloads went up to a hundred in a f

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