u/Swimming-Blueberry54

People always joke that everyone in Bangalore has at least one side hustle apart from their 9–5, and honestly, I'm starting to believe it's true.

I'm not looking for generic answers like "learn AI," "start freelancing," or "invest in stocks."

I'm curious about what people are actually doing that's making real money.

If you're comfortable sharing, it'd be great if you could mention:

• What your side hustle is (be as specific as you're comfortable with)
• How you got started
• How long it took before you earned your first ₹
• Rough monthly income/profit (even a range is fine)
• Hours you spend on it each week
• Whether someone starting today still has a good chance, or if the opportunity is saturated

I'm especially interested in unconventional or lesser-known ideas not the ones that get repeated in every YouTube video.

The goal isn't to copy anyone, but to learn what real people are building outside of their day jobs. I think a thread with honest experiences could help a lot of people who are trying to create an additional income stream.

No pressure to reveal anything you're uncomfortable sharing, but the more specific the answers, the more valuable this discussion will be for everyone.

If a startup or a company is not financially capable of paying a employee well should not be hiring!
Hiring low /unpaid intern and getting full time equivalent work out of them is pathetic because you failed as a business owner and a company executive to make profits and made a illogical decision of adding to workforce despite not being capable enough to give them full time opportunity with good pay or enough stipend as intern so that they can survive over it!.

Yes they may be less skilled and you need to train them yet they are giving 110% and doing alloted job for you. It was your as a company owner/ recruiter's decision to hire them thus making illogical reasoning to not pay them is pathetic because they are still working for you as your employee and you posted that job opening thus its your responsibility to pay the or give them good full time equivalent!

lately with the rise of ai boom and expansion of ai bubble, frontend developer was the one at most risk to loose their jobs to ai which indeed happened as for a ui which could have taken a week to be created by a dev with polishing now took few minutes by claude to generate.
But now with hallucinations and ai giving shitty code which is not at all scalable or high token consumption, I am seeing a shift as I am now seeing more frontend openings than backend more companies are now switching back to hiring actual devs than using a ai.

any startup founder or saas owner would like to share their experience?