I am guessing that the $2M is from selling the usernames? Are the buyers individuals who want a good username, or bot farms who just need a large number of accounts?
I've never had a day job, I've spent almost two decades funding my lifestyle with silly projects like this. Everything from large scale world of warcraft botting to instagram registrations.
Are you not worried about running into legal trouble with these things? It seems like a gray area.
Also, what platform do you use to sell these things? How do you know the buyer won’t just take the credentials and not send payment? Or how do they know you won’t take payment and refuse to hand over the credentials?
> Are you not worried about running into legal trouble with these things? It seems like a gray area.
No, not really. I get the occasional nastygram from Hogan Lovells, but just shrug them off. I don’t do anything interesting enough for them to bother litigating.
> Also, what platform do you use to sell these things?
There are many, swapd.co is a good one.
> Or how do they know you won’t take payment and refuse to hand over the credentials?
Reputation, there are also a plenty of reputable escrow services available.
Very cool. I’ll echo what others have said, it would be very cool to see some sort of how to or read an AMA, about the strategies that maybe no longer work (since obviously you wouldn’t want to reveal something that is still making you money). I’d definitely read a blog post about how you used to make WoW bots or automate creating accounts
