Make money making drones?

Pcinacan · October 17, 2017

I have heard of some people selling racing drone for a profit. Is that still a profitable thing? or even a job/side job related to that.

Kobathor · October 17, 2017

If you get good at it and put your time and effort into making a business of it, maybe. But if you don't have experience and you just want to do it as a hobby, you might have trouble selling 'em.

Pcinacan · October 17, 2017

3 minutes ago, Kobathor said:

If you get good at it and put your time and effort into making a business of it, maybe. But if you don't have experience and you just want to do it as a hobby, you might have trouble selling 'em.

Yah thats kinda what i thought.

I already have a decent drone, but i kinda want to sell it to get a phantom 3 or 4. I just dont know the best place to sell it and to get the most money out of a kinda used drone and equipment for it.

Kobathor · October 17, 2017

1 minute ago, Pcinacan said:

Yah thats kinda what i thought.

I already have a decent drone, but i kinda want to sell it to get a phantom 3 or 4. I just dont know the best place to sell it and to get the most money out of a kinda used drone and equipment for it.

If you already know how to make them, you might not have trouble selling them. Kinda like PCs- if you're good at it, people might want it.

About the drone you have now - honestly, I have no idea how you could go about selling it. Sorry!

Pcinacan · October 17, 2017

Just now, Kobathor said:

If you already know how to make them, you might not have trouble selling them. Kinda like PCs- if you're good at it, people might want it.

About the drone you have now - honestly, I have no idea how you could go about selling it. Sorry!

I think the big issue is having to invest money to sell them. anyway thanks for the help.

Hackentosher · October 18, 2017

If you want to make money using an sUAS, the FAA requires you to obtain and hold a part 107 certificate. If you do not, you and you're clients can be massively fined for commercial use of a drone without the proper licensing.

Or did I misinterpret: do you want to build and sell multirotors? You could maybe make some money on that, but you'd be fighting against cloners and eachine who make super cheap aircraft. If you got really good at pid tuning, I know you can make some money tuning quads for local pilots.