19f here, parents arent willing to provide basic shit so i wanna earn some money by myself. Any advice/job? Im pretty good with ai(video,images,audio),basic video editing. Dont send any sur.vey craps cause ik most of em are fucking fake.
Edit: im indian,irl jobs are not hourly or weekly. You’ll get max 60-100$ monthly since youre just a student.
I'll keep this short because I know everyone's tired of vague income posts. Real numbers, real timeline, nothing held back.
A few months ago I picked up a small pet blog from NicheBlogHub for $199. It had some content, a bit of existing traffic, nothing impressive. I almost passed on it, seemed too cheap to be real. Kept the existing content mostly as-is, and they replaced the Amazon affiliate tag with mine.
Here's where April landed:
First time I've crossed $1k in a calendar month. I genuinely didn't expect it to happen this fast.
The Creator Rewards seems to be calculated on shipping revenue from referred sales and I don't fully understand the formula. I fell just short of one of the milestones but still got $375. Not complaining.
Commissions were actually higher this month than last ($647 vs ~$550 in March). The bonus was lower, but the total crossed the threshold I'd been watching.
Running totals:
Bought a second site this week. Same niche, similar profile. Curious whether the results are repeatable or if April was a fluke. I'll post an update either way soon.
a customer messages your instagram store at 11:47pm.
they want to know if the hoodie comes in XL. if you have fast shipping. if you can hold it for them.
by the time you wake up and reply, they've already bought from someone else.
this is the problem we kept hearing from merchants using Stacks. so we spent the last 10 weeks building a Messenger Agent, AI that replies to instagram DMs, WhatsApp messages, and Facebook messenger automatically, 24/7.
it reads your product catalog, answers questions, and drafts the order for you to confirm. you stay in control. it just never sleeps.
we're in beta, keeping it tight - looking for 20-30 store owners to test it and give us honest feedback before we open it up.
if you run a store and lose sales to unanswered DMs, drop a comment or join the waitlist here
what's your current system for handling messages after hours?
I built AppXpose after realizing that Google’s Data Safety labels, the things supposed to tell you what an app collects, are entirely self-reported.
Four peer-reviewed studies later confirmed what I suspected: there’s a massive gap between what apps claim and what they actually do.
So I built a scanner that looks inside the APK directly.
Some highlights from the data:
• Instagram: 68/100 HIGH risk
• Most “free” apps embed 5-15 tracker SDKs you’ve never heard of
• Signing certificates that don’t match what they should
• Apps flagged in MalwareBazaar that are still live on the Play Store
The tracker detection runs fully on-device. Nothing gets uploaded. ~140 SDK signatures, growing via community discovery.
2,000+ installs, 4.6⭐ so far. Still early.
Happy to answer questions about what I found or how the scanner works.
Website for all infos -> https://appxpose.app
App dowloandlink -> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appxpose.app
A lot of people think publishing ebooks is dead.
But I don’t think the opportunity is dead.
I think the problem is that most people publish the wrong type of books.
They create random books with no real search intent, no clear audience, and no reason for someone to buy.
If you want to make money with ebooks, the goal is not just to “write a book.”
The goal is to create a book that solves a specific problem people are already searching for.
That’s where passive income can start.
Not overnight.
Not guaranteed.
But if you publish the right books, in the right niches, with the right title and cover, they can keep selling after the work is done.
Here are some of the best niches I think are worth looking at:
1. Self-help
This is one of the strongest niches because people are always trying to improve their life.
Good angles are overthinking, discipline, confidence, habits, self-love, boundaries, focus, anxiety, and procrastination.
People don’t usually search for “self-help book.”
They search for a solution to a pain.
Example: how to stop overthinking, how to become disciplined, how to stop procrastinating, how to build confidence.
2. Money and personal finance
This niche is powerful because people buy books hoping to improve their financial situation.
Good angles are budgeting, saving money, beginner investing, money mindset, side hustles, financial discipline, and escaping bad spending habits.
The best books here are simple and beginner-friendly.
People don’t want complicated financial theory.
They want clear steps.
3. Business and online income
This works well because people want to learn how to make money online or start something on the side.
Good angles are freelancing, AI tools, digital marketing, selling online, productivity for entrepreneurs, and beginner business systems.
This niche can work well because the buyer sees the book as an investment.
4. Language learning
This is a very underrated niche.
People are always trying to learn English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, and other languages.
Good formats are short stories for beginners, travel phrasebooks, conversation practice, vocabulary builders, and grammar made simple.
The best angle is to target a specific audience.
For example: English for Italian speakers, Spanish for travelers, French short stories for beginners.
5. Health, fitness, and weight loss
This niche is always in demand.
Good angles are meal prep, walking plans, home workouts, high-protein recipes, weight loss for beginners, fitness after 40, and simple healthy habits.
The key is to make it specific.
A generic “fitness book” is too broad.
A book for a specific person with a specific goal is much stronger.
6. Cooking and diet books
Cookbooks can still work, but generic recipe books are weak.
The best ones combine food with a clear outcome.
Examples: healthy meals, cheap meals, high-protein recipes, air fryer recipes, Mediterranean diet, meal prep, beginner cooking, student meals.
People buy cookbooks when the promise is clear and practical.
7. Relationships and dating
This niche is strong because it connects to emotion.
Good angles are breakups, anxious attachment, dating confidence, self-respect, communication, toxic relationships, letting go, and rebuilding confidence after heartbreak.
Books in this niche can sell because people often buy when they are going through emotional pain.
8. Kids books
Kids books can work, especially if they have a clear theme.
Good angles are bedtime stories, confidence, kindness, emotional control, sharing, fear of the dark, school anxiety, and learning good habits.
Parents buy books that help their children learn something or feel something positive.
9. Journals and workbooks
This is good for KDP because workbooks and journals are simple to produce.
Good angles are gratitude journals, anxiety workbooks, habit trackers, goal planners, shadow work journals, manifestation journals, and self-care planners.
But the niche is competitive, so the cover and title need to be very specific.
10. AI and digital skills
This is a newer opportunity.
People want to learn how to use AI tools, ChatGPT, automation, prompts, and online productivity.
The best books are beginner-friendly and practical.
Not theory.
People want examples, templates, prompts, and step-by-step use cases.
The main lesson is this:
Don’t create a book around a broad topic.
Create a book around a specific search intent.
Bad idea:
“Self Help Guide”
Better idea:
“Stop Overthinking at Night”
Bad idea:
“Fitness Book”
Better idea:
“30-Day Walking Plan for Weight Loss”
Bad idea:
“Learn English”
Better idea:
“English Conversation for Italian Speakers”
The more specific the book is, the easier it is for someone to understand why they should buy it.
Publishing books can be passive income, but only after the active work is done:
Research the niche.
Create a strong title.
Make a good cover.
Write useful content.
Optimize the description.
Publish consistently.
Test what sells.
It’s not magic.
But it is a real digital asset model.
One book probably won’t make you rich.
But a portfolio of useful books in strong niches can become a long-term passive income stream.
The opportunity is not in publishing random books.
The opportunity is in publishing books people are already searching for.
I am trying to build something for myself and family, something that can continue to earn money. Give me pointers. I want to get out of the blue collar profession (currently a nurse) and do something that I can enjoy. I know it will take time to make money off of it because the mortgage needs to be paid off.
How do people do it?
Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I think a lot of the community - and especially TikTok and YouTube - have turned "passive income" into a buzzword that lets people ignore the real numbers.
If I have to be available every day for customer messages, keep posting content or my traffic dries up, drive around to refill vending machines, or constantly hunt for new products because yesterday's winners are dead, that is not passive. That is a second job with unstable pay.
I work in the Midwest and get paid biweekly. I started following this sub because I wanted to smooth my cash flow so bills stop feeling like landmines. What I keep running into is advice that basically says: trade your evenings and weekends for a maybe-income, then call it passive because you can do it from your couch.
Here is how I think about it: passive income should mean (1) most of the work or capital goes in up front, (2) ongoing maintenance is low, predictable, and schedulable, and (3) the income does not collapse if you stop "feeding" it for two weeks.
Seen that way, the boring options start to look better than the flashy ones: automated investing, simple digital products that sell without daily posting, or small niche websites that keep earning even if you take a week off.
So where do you draw the line? What stream has actually stayed stable for you with under 1 to 2 hours a week of maintenance after setup?
I feel like every time I search “best AI video generator for faceless YouTube” I end up watching the same recycled videos from people clearly trying to sell something.
So I started testing a few tools myself this week.
Not gonna lie… I genuinely didn’t expect how weird this whole faceless YouTube space is.
Some AI video generators look insane in ads, then you open them and realize the workflow takes longer than editing manually. Others make decent videos but the voices sound robotic after 30 seconds. And some are actually good for shorts but terrible for long-form content.
What surprised me most is that a lot of smaller faceless channels seem to be using super simple setups.
Like:
- AI script
- stock footage or generated visuals
- AI voice
- basic captions
- repeat consistently
That’s it.
Meanwhile YouTube is flooded with “make passive income with AI” content that makes it sound way easier than it actually is.
Right now I’m mostly experimenting with:
- AI video generators for YouTube automation
- text-to-video tools
- faceless channel workflows
- AI voiceovers
- short-form vs long-form content
I still can’t tell what’s actually worth learning long term though.
Part of me thinks the best AI video generator is just the one that lets you publish consistently without making you hate the process after a week.
Curious what people here are actually using for faceless YouTube channels in 2026.
Are you guys using one all-in-one AI video tool… or mixing multiple tools together?
12 months running a solo B2C app, what I learned, and one structural thing most founders miss
Solo founder, bootstrapped, built a habit-recovery app in 2025. Just crossed 12 months. Not posting numbers in detail (this sub isn't for that) what I want to share is what actually worked, what didn't, and one structural advantage Indian founders rarely talk about.
The structural thing nobody mentions
If your app earns mostly from international users (Apple/Google payouts from US, EU, etc.), this counts as export of services under Indian GST and is zero-rated when you're properly registered with an LUT. My CA set this up before launch. It means I pay 0% GST on app revenue. For a B2C app this is the difference between a real margin and a fake one. Most solo Indian founders I talk to don't know this exists, register late, and lose money to GST they didn't have to pay. Talk to a CA who actually knows SaaS exports before your first revenue lands. Not after.
What actually moved revenue
What didn't work
- Paid ads. Haven't cracked them. Would be testing this soon.
- Chasing viral. Weeks wasted on trends. The boring channels won every time.
- Reinvesting too late. I held back early because I was scared of running out. Wrong call. Reinvesting earlier into the one channel that worked would have compounded faster.
The honest part
Monthly revenue is not flat. There's a month in the middle of this 12-stretch where I lost most of my numbers ranking shifts, creator videos went cold, a competitor launched. Climbed back. Anyone who tells you their solo B2C app under 12 months in is a "steady $X/month" is either very lucky or rounding heavily. Plan for variance.
Happy to answer questions on B2C mobile, UGC creator mechanics (how I pick them, what the DM looks like, what I pay, how I track ROI), pricing, the Indian export-of-services setup, or App Store / Play Store ranking. Not sharing the app itself keeping this tactical.
(For the inevitable DM: yes, open to selling or partnering with the right person. Not the point of the post.)
I have a full time job with good pay. My wife also earns well. We can afford rent and our living expenses for the month and every last bit goes to savings which isn't a lot. I want to figure out a way to make some extra spending money so our salary can go fully towards savings for emergencies and then we can use the spending money for other things. I've tried Facebook marketplace flipping but its not reliable and way too slow. What could I do after work hours to make some extra cash? Im open to any ideas. But trust me I've tried many different things but just can't find something that actually works
Body: Been researching niches for a while and put together a list of 100 that actually have demand but aren't completely saturated. Sorted by difficulty so you can see which ones are easier to break into.
Free to download, no email required: https://drive.google.com/file/d/16b9FOgDtmIAcsHwWx418hFXuAbfd-vRN/view?usp=drive_link
Hope it helps someone!
Hello everyone, I think I have found building Facebook pages with AI content to be quite easy. One reason is that I know how to study what other successful pages are doing and understand what is working for them.
Over the past few months, I have created 5 Facebook pages, and they have all grown quickly using my AI content strategy. The challenge, however, is that I am not monetized yet because the pages grew so fast within a short period of time.
Now, I am thinking of possibly selling Facebook pages or starting a service where I help people grow their pages to an agreed number of followers and get paid for it. I create the AI content, manage the posting, and help the page grow.
What do you all think about this idea?
Also, I would really like to know other ways I can make money from the followers I already have. I am simply making inquiries and open to suggestions.
Thank you all in advance. Feel free to check out one of my drama pages, (Zethium Studios) it is only about 1–2 months old.
Started this about 3 months ago. My dad runs a dental clinic and his usual ad guy was charging him $1500 for a single Instagram video. I'd been messing with AI video tools and figured I'd try to make him something for free.
The first one was rough but it got more bookings than the $1500 video had. So I made him a couple more. Then his friend who owns a med spa asked if I'd do one for her. Then it kind of kept going.
Here's one of the recent ones (this one ran on Meta last month for a local pizza place):
https://reddit.com/link/1tj8251/video/gnahdfl5re2h1/player
Where I am now:
I'll get this out of the way because Reddit will bring it up otherwise. Yes, some of these ads look obviously AI. That's actually fine for the businesses I work with. Their previous ads were stock footage of a different dental office in a different country. AI video that's specifically about their location, their service, their offer outperforms generic stock every time, even when you can tell it's AI. I'm not pretending it's the next Spielberg. It's a $30 ad that books appointments.
What I've learned:
The hard part is sales, not production. I can make an ad in like 90 minutes. Finding a business that will say yes takes way longer. I cold-message local businesses I find on Google Maps. About 1 in 15 of those replies, maybe 1 in 30 closes.
Lead with a free spec ad. I make the ad first, then send it to them. "Hey, made this for your business, here's the link." Conversion on this is way higher than pitching the service abstractly. Most of my closed clients said yes because they already had the ad in their hand.
Go for businesses that already advertise. Don't try to convince a small business to start running paid ads. Find the ones who are already running mediocre ads and offer to replace them. The pitch writes itself.
Tools I use:
That's the whole stack. People assume there's a complicated workflow behind it but it's three tools.
The actual workflow inside Bonzi for one of these ads looks like this:
Each ad is basically: pick a hook scene, lock the location/product reference, generate 3-4 cuts that build on each other, then assemble in Capcut and a CTA card at the end. Sounds more complicated than it is. Once you've done a few you're mostly just swapping the hook and the offer.
Cons / what I'd do differently:
Not passive income. It's a service business and you have to do client work. But the production speed of AI lets one person handle way more clients than a traditional video freelancer, which is where the margin lives.
Happy to answer specifics on outreach scripts, pricing, the ad style itself, anything.
I'm 18 and w studies I wanna do something that minimum pays me 20$ a day is there a genuine way online which works ?
Over the past few months, I decided to experiment with a couple of side projects to see how small streams of passive income could fit into my life without interfering with my main job. One project was a mobile app for reading novels, and the other was a dropshipping store.
The novel app was my first foray into digital content. I wanted to see if I could turn casual readers into paying users. The strategy was straightforward: offer free content with an option to unlock more chapters through a small payment. Initially, I wasn’t sure how well people would convert, but the app has started to bring in a small trickle of income. It’s not life-changing, but the feedback has been encouraging, and I’ve learned a lot about user engagement and retention in the process.
For the dropshipping project, I explored several suppliers and eventually settled on one that seemed reliable by using tools to compare options. I set up a basic store around their products. Sales haven’t been huge, but the store is already producing a bit of revenue. What I like about this setup is that it’s mostly hands-off once orders are placed, so it doesn’t interfere with my main work.
Both projects are still small, and the income they generate is modest, but that’s exactly what I was aiming for. I wasn’t looking to replace my main job or make a fortune overnight. Instead, these experiments have been about learning, testing ideas, and gradually building small revenue streams that could grow over time. It’s satisfying to see even minor earnings come in without adding stress, and it gives me confidence to explore more side projects in the future.
I’d love to hear from others who have tried similar experiments. How do you decide which side projects are worth your time, and how do you balance learning from them while keeping your main career on track?
So I'm thinking of selling feet pics the problem is how do I recieve money without them knowing my identity ...how do others do that? Any suggestions?
If you don’t have Kalshi this apply’s to you. Right now if you sign up on Kalshi with the link below me and you BOTH make 25 dollars if you deposit 10 then buy and sell 3 times. No you will not loose money doing this just pick something with 75% plus odds buy and sell it three times to get to 25 dollars in trading volume. You will instantly make 25 dollars. You can either withdraw everything or keep trading with your free money, up to you. CHEERS 🍻
The dream is to set up a pinterest funnel that runs itself and generates affiliate revenue while I sleep. The reality so far is that I spend like 8 hours a week creating pins, writing descriptions, refreshing keywords and dealing with random pinterest weirdness. That's not passive, that's just a part time job with extra steps
Did anyone actually crack the automate pinterest posting and step away model? or is everyone selling that dream just selling courses about the dream? Im not trying to be cynical but I've spent 14 months on this and "passive" is the most aspirational word in the english language at this point.
Hi everyone, I just finished my undergrad with a degree in biochemistry. I have a new lab job, but would really like to bring in a little extra money to start slowly paying off some credit card debt and save up for grad school applications (~1 year to do this). I would like to couple most of the prep work to things I'm already doing / have already done, if possible as I won't have a ton of free time moving forward.
I have a TON of notes from undergrad handwritten on my iPad in Goodnotes. I know they're good quality and they look great too. I took great pride in the concept maps and the review materials I made for my students when I was a TA. I also have a lot of general topic info maps I've added to over time from various classes and MCAT prep sources, which many friends, lab partners, and coworkers have asked for. I have written plenty of my own original test questions and flashcards, and all notes are written in my own words. However, I worry about the legality of selling these for profit outside of an academic setting. I also feel like this is an area where people still find AI useful. Does anyone have any experience selling study materials they've made/designed? Which sites are best?
I spend several hours at a time studying for the US MCAT. I come across a lot of 1-4 hr long "study with me" videos on YouTube that have hundreds of thousands and sometimes even millions of views, so I'm thinking that could be a good niche. I think I have a visually good set up for this. I get the impression that most people do faceless youtube by generating short-form content, but I could be wrong. Do people have success with long-form faceless youtube? I also see lots of people do study live streams, how does that work in terms of monetization?
