Programming may be one of the most important skills to learn for the future, but let's say you're about to finish a project and you don't know how to make money with it. If you are (or will soon be) in tis situation, than hopefully this post will help you.

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What have you programmed?

The probably most important part on deciding how to monetice your creation is what you've actually programmed.

If it's a Windows Application you have the following options:

• Make a Website for it that has many Adds on it
• Post it on an Adverticed Software Download site
• Make people pay for the software (only works if you 're software is really high end, like Adobe etc. and you want to target the enthusiast market) 
• Only make people pay for certain features (like noise reduction in Video editing)

If it's a Phone Application you have the following options:

• Put Ad bars on the bottom or top (like the ads that play while a youtube Video is running)
• Make people pay for it (not more than 5$ people on app stores are pretty gready)
• In-App purchases (only for features that aren't necesary)

If it's a Game

• Put ads in it
• Make people pay for it
• In-Game purchases

So hopefully this could help you out deciding what kind of monetization you want to use. Good luck and have fun programming.