8 Creative ways to make money

Sell 477,000 apps in the App Store or 714,000 self-published books on Amazon’s Kindle; either could be the path to riches.

Launch a one-person blog, master Facebook's algorithm, and make multiple millions in eight months.

Average payment from Google ads: $2 per thousand views ($1 for each ad on the page)

Million-dollar maths: If a publisher generates 41,650,000 pageviews per month, they can generate about $US83,000, or $US1 million per year.

Who did it: Scott Young was able to launch his site and get it to 200 million monthly pageviews just eight months later. DeLong uses remnant ads (cheap ads, like Google AdSense). There are two ads on every page.

ViralNova's AdSense rate might be $US2 per thousand views, $US1 for each ad on the page, which would earn Delong $US400,000 every month he hits 200 million pageviews.

Be an UberX driver in NYC for 10 years.

Median income of an UberX driver in NYC: $US90,000

Amount drivers keep per ride: 80%

Million-dollar maths: According to Uber, the median wage for an UberX driver working at least 40 hours a week in New York City is $US90,766 a year and $US74,191 a year in San Francisco. That mean 10 years of work in NYC could earn UberX drivers $US1 million. It'd take 13.5 years in San Francisco. That's without the cost of owning an operating a car built in, however.

Who did it: N/A; Uber the company is only a few years old.

. or a Lyft driver for life. It will take you twice as long to make a million dollars as UberX, according to Glassdoor reviews

Dog-sit for 6,667 pups on DogVacay.

Average amount made per dogsitting: According to DogVacay, the average host could expect to make about $US150 for a five-day Vacay (which is the average length for a first-time booking). That's after the 15% cut DogVacay takes per booking. The average payment varies from city to city, however.

You keep: 100% of that.

Million-dollar maths: $US150 x 6,667 dogsits = $US1,000,000

Who did it: N/A

Create a frustrating, viral app like 'Flappy Bird' and keep it in the App Store for at least 20 days.

Payment from mobile ads: At its peak, 'Flappy Bird' creator Dong Nguyen says he was making $US50,000 per day on his free app by running a tiny mobile ad banner at the top of the game.

Million-dollar maths: $US50,000 per day x 20 days = $US1,000,000

Who did it: Dong Nguyen created 'Flappy Bird' last spring and claims he organically grew it to the top spot in the App Store. While 'Flappy Bird' was at the top, Nguyen told The Verge's Ellis Hamburger it was generating $US50,000 per day. After about a month, Nguyen removed the app from the App Store and Google Play because he felt his game was 'too addicting.'

Self Publish on Amazon

Average cost of a book sold: $US2

You keep: 70%

Million-dollar maths: For every $US2 book sold, you keep $US1.40. $US1.40 x 714,286 books = $US1,000,000.40

Who did it: 29-year old Amanda Hocking was the best-selling 'indie' writer on the Kindle store a few years ago. She was selling around 100,000 copies per month at $US1 to $US3 a pop, which set her on track to pocket a few million dollars.

Sell 10,262 business plans on eBay.

Cost per business plan: $US111 (£68)

Profits you keep: eBay charges a $US0.50 insertion fee, 15% of the initial $US50.00, plus 5% of the remaining final sale price balance, which leaves you with $US97.45 per business plan sold.

Million-dollar maths: $US97.45 x 10,262 business plans = $US1,000,031.90

Who did it: A few years ago, Samuel Katabaaz tried to sell 99,999 copies of his startup's business plan for £68 each. The idea was to fund his startup without giving up any of the equity. It's not clear how many items he actually sold.

Invent a really good idea on Quirky and rake in royalties like Jake Zien did with his product, Pivot Power.

What Quirky is: Quirky is an invention site that lets the community submit million-dollar ideas. It chooses the best ones, then sells them in partnering stores and online.

Cost: $US0 to submit an idea. If your idea gets selected for production, you'll have to split the profits with both Quirky and the website's community. The inventor gets a lifetime royalty of 30% of online sales (wholesale) and 10% of retail sales (in Bed Bath & Beyond stores) if Quirky decides to turn the idea into a product.

Million-dollar maths: A product like Quirky's popular power strip, Pivot Power, retails for $US30. More than 665,000 of the items have been sold. If you assume the inventor, 24-year-old Jake Zien, gets $US3 to $US9 per sale, the idea easily makes him a millionaire.

Who did it: Quirky founder Ben Kaufman told Inc that Jake Zien would be the site's first millionaire in December. 'Kaufman claims, in fact, that Zien should make $US1 million in Pivot Power royalties in 2013 alone, and then every year after, because the product is branching out into an entire line of Pivot Powers. There's a mini edition, a rugged version, and versions for various foreign power-outlet configurations,' Inc's Josh Dean writes.

Rent your Manhattan apartment through Airbnb for 10,309 nights.

What it is: Airbnb lets users rent rooms in their homes to strangers for an amount and length of their choosing. Hosts can set nightly, weekly, and monthly rates.

Average cost per rental: Hosts can charge renters whatever rate they want. Costs depend a lot on the host's location, though. The recommended nightly price for a private bedroom in New York City, for example, is about $US100. Airbnb takes a 3% host fee.

Million-dollar maths: $US97 x 10,309 nights = $US1 million

Who did it: A few years ago, a man named Daren said he made $100,000 on Airbnb off his London rental. A man named Jeff said he had made $US90,000 from his Paris rental. Here are a bunch of other people running six-figure businesses off Airbnb. There don't seem to be any Airbnb millionaires yet.

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