How to make an extra $1000 writing technical articles
Have you ever fantasized about writing technical articles for a living? How would you react if I told you that some companies would pay you up to $300-$500 for an article you write?
If you want to earn for writing technical documents, then this article if for you.
This article will show you the list of companies that pay you for writing. Earning money from writing as a software engineer is very good because it will make becoming a documentation engineer’s journey easier. In addition, you get paid to grow and hone your skills in their product/tool.
I will list a few points that will make it easy for you to get a freelance technical writing gig.
- Have at least two in-depth technical articles hosted on a writing platform like Medium, Dev.to, Hashnode, and LinkedIn.
- Know how to use Grammarly.
- Know the basics of Markdown
- Know how to work with static site generator
The points above are very relevant when you are applying for a freelance role as a technical writer because every company or writing agency wants to hire the best.
Back to the reason for this article, I have worked with a few writing agencies and companies that pay you for writing about their product, and I can tell you for free that you will learn a lot and grow more in software development.
Companies/ Agencies that pay you for writing
1: Draft.dev
They pay up to $500 per article.
2: CircleCI
They pay $300 per article.
3: Bird Eat Bug
They pay $100-$300 per article.
4: Codemagic
They pay up to $300 per article.
5: Adeva
They pay up to $200 per article.
6: Airbyte
They pay up to $900 per article.
7: Ambassador Labs
They pay up to $300 per article.
8: Hashnode Web3 blog
They pay up to $150 — $400 per article.
9: Linode
They pay up to $400 per article.
10: Strapi
They pay up to $200 per article.
11: Vonage
They pay up to $500 per article.
Conclusion
As a software engineer, you can make an extra $1000 for writing for any of the above companies and it will be of an advantage to gain more experience about the product/tool you are writing about and make money out of it.
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