Ask HN: What's the easiest product to make that can sell for $500+?

Can you elaborate on this question further? It may be more interesting if you can give more details.

What does 'efficient' mean to you? Why is $500+ considered the 'highest possible price tag'?

What are you really trying to get at?

Of course, the 'most efficient' way to sell something for $501 is to sell something worth $502. If efficiency is meant as something you can sell quickly.

If your definition of efficiency means efficient use of capital, then selling something for $500+ that costs you nothing is the best way to go. Does that make it easy? You could probably easily and quickly sell all sorts of illegal things, and for more than $500, and you could steal them, which means you are capital efficient.

So without further context of what you are trying to accomplish, the question isn't very valuable as it stands.

The other thing that comes to mind is, why? You'll get the most satisfaction not from the easiest/efficient/expensive item you can sell, but rather from something you are best suited to be selling.

"For highest profit always lean towards the less regulated areas of commerce." and "Big man pay big bucks for big talk." My grandpa always said.

Not really. But off the top of my head luxury car after market parts might be a good advanced setting. Selling art? Solving a problem that rich people have?

What do you have lots of access too? Sell that. Rocks? Clean 'em up and put 'em in a cardboard box.

Oh, wait are you talking about software? Month rentals seems to be the soup du jour. Give away the milk for free, but charge for some really cool glasses to drink from.

Stay honest, stay engaged with your community. Because what you're selling is kinda less important than how you sell it. A good salesman can sell anything. A mediocre salesman can sell a terrific thing. But a poor salesman can't sell anything.

If you can aggregate data that is otherwise hard to find and put it in an easy to use format, businesses will pay big bucks. My last company paid $2k a month for a daily feed of coupons and deals from over 200 sites (e.g. Groupon, LivingSocial). There is also https://www.aggdata.com/data which found a niche selling lists of company locations (e.g. the addresses, phone number, etc for every Jiffy Lube in the U.S.). They have a premium option which gives you access to all their data sets for a monthly fee.

An online course on how to make money.

It won't be easy in that at $500 it better had be comprehensive. And you may need to contactable via slack or something.

The question of what product to make that people would buy is already an incredibly hard one.

Now you are asking for the most efficient?

You wont find any useful responses.

Some artists are paid thousands for paintings, although your chances of becoming one of them are pretty minimal.

I'm thinking cow.