I made this list for those looking to make roughly $800 a month which is enough to matter without being a second full time job. Me and my friends did these while we were in tetr college where running these projects was part of our curriculum. I personally did 6 of these

I have roughly ranked them by time taken to earn your first dollar.

1. Fixing broken automations : Many small businesses are using  a broken Zapier or Make workflow. You can audit and fix the workflow and also charge monthly to watch it. Easy to pitch as the client already knows there is a problem.

2. Rebuilding Landing pages : In my experience, early founders focus more on product landing pages instead of customers. It can be done in one day and the  deliverable is visible, which makes it easy to pitch and add into potential portfolios

3. Notion or Airtable systems for small teams : Most early stage startups are messy and want theur operations in one place. A single well built client tracker is a few hours of work and the service can be renewed every month.

4. Data cleanup and migration : companies moving from one CRM to another have large records with  inconsistent formats. The client pool is smaller, but pays well if you find the right customer.

5. Niche Chrome extensions : Building a niche tool that removes a thing  or solves a single that is annoying. Free with a paid tier, or one-time price, built with a good and easy UI. Its also pretty easy to scale if demand rises.

6. Repurposing long video into clips : Podcasters and streamers produce hours of footage and are constantly looking for clippers, Especially now many small podcasts are opening and a lot of them have ability to pay. I have personally done this so I can make money while listening to my favourite podcasts xD

7. Technical fixes for Shopify stores: There are ton of shopify stores and their website is hilariously slow, you can reach out and fix it.  You can try Image compression, app cleanup, theme bloat. The result is measurable which makes it one of the easiest things to sell because you can screenshot the proof.

8. Booking assistant for local service businesses: Target local Clinics, salons, tutoring centres, repair shops. They miss a lot of clients because of mismanagement. You can build an AI agent for them, charge a setup fee or maybe a subscription model. You can let them use the product and watch their growth first.

9. Technical writing and documentation: . If you can read code and document properly, this is one of the highest per hour freelance rates available online

10. Teaching AI tools: Non technical companies pay a lot right now to teach their employees about AI. A two hour workshop for a marketing team is a good chunk of change. You might need some reputation / personal branding or even some contacts to pull this off though.

11. Localisation with a human pass: Fix AI translations then change what doesn't land culturally. Works best if you're properly bilingual in languages that aren't oversupplied.

12. Selling templates: A good source of passive income, you can build an auth setup, dashboard starters, deck templates, financial models and sell it to others again and again

13. Discord and Slack bots for communities: Most communities die down in a week because of not proper operations. You can build onboarding flows, moderation, event reminders.

14. Programmatic SEO sites: This is a long shot and takes time but is good for passive income. One data source, a template, and a few thousand pages that each answer a specific long question. It may take months to earn but then it earns passively without any effort.

15. Niche Directory sites: Pick something specific enough that there's no organized place online. You can charge for listings once you have traffic. It is mostly for people who have hobbies and turn it into some income. The work is mainly  the initial data collection and getting some users.

16. A paid data newsletter: Write newsletters with data reports like  hiring in one sector, price movements in one category, new launches in one niche, something that people can find online. A bit mundane and boring but its good money especially on platforms like substack.

17. Micro SaaS wrapper: Pick one small problem and API. Define your tool’s speciality clearly and target a set of audience. Set price low so it doesn’t affect them much. DO NOT go behind the unicorn startup dream.

18. Redesigning onboarding flows: Take a product's signup, screen record yourself using it  and send the founder the video with three fixes or ideas. This works as free outreach and converts into paid work. Again might require some personal branding/ reputaton for this

19. QA and bug hunting on pre-launch products: Early stage founders do not have much test coverage.  You can help with structured bug reports with fix and steps that make their product more secure and efficient.

20. Internal tools for local businesses: Pitch small tools like a booking sheet, an inventory tracker to local businesses. Something that saves their cost. Again, works best if you have some local credibility or contacts.

I've been thinking about doing something similar for a while. Apparently, this is becoming pretty popular as a fixed or secondary income. I was working on my startup and saw a YouTube post that said CalBubby reached $80k MRR in 12 months, another example of this is Stella, which crossed $300k MRR in 2 months, reaching 12k customers.

There are ways to distribute these, with UGC you can test, or with Ads. AI told me that starting with $300–500 is a good starting point for testing ads. Another method I mentioned and that worked was rev share + creators promoting it.The niche usually seems easy, although after researching the market a little, it seems pretty saturated with vibecoded apps.

I'm doing this as a side project. My idea was to start in trading/crypto, although they're pretty messed up legally. AI told me that I need a permit to run ads, and there are also the typical legal problems with trading. Although I'm still just exploring.

So, in your opinion: is this a good business to experiment with? How much capital do you think you would need to start, and how would you do it?

Hey! I’m getting ready to move in November or December and I could really use some help earning more money. Preferably I’m looking for something remote, but I’m open to any suggestions. Sky is the limit, but if anyone has any ideas to pull in a few hundred extra $$ a week I would be so open to it!

Note: it doesn’t have to be a side hustle in the truest sense of the word. It would be job like phone support, freelance writing, etc. just looking for some help and ideas. Thank you!!

Okay, How can I realistically plan to become a millionaire starting from the very basic level?

Right now, I am a corporate employee But being a corporate employee, I feel like it is hard to become a millionaire. I don't know if I'm right about that

What skills should I build that would help me increase my income and build wealth over time? How should I actually plan for this from the beginning?

Also, how important is the environment around you? What kind of people should I surround myself with? Should I be around entrepreneurs, business owners, investors, people who are financially successful, or people who are much more ambitious than me?

And realistically, how much time would something like this take?

I also feel very late when I see all these kids on Instagram making money and becoming successful at 18, 20 or 22.

What skills should Ilearn?
What would i focus on?
Thankss.

Hey everyone, I’m looking to increase my income and make some extra money on the side in Ireland.
Ideally, I’d be interested in some kind of cash-in-hand/paid work, as long as it’s legitimate and above board, but I’m open to other ways of making extra income too.
I’m happy to do physical work, evenings/weekends, odd jobs, deliveries, labouring, cleaning, hospitality, online work, or pretty much anything that’s worthwhile.
For those of you who make decent extra money outside of your main job, what do you do and how did you get started?
Any suggestions for reliable side work or places/websites to look would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

A lot of people write about their success stories, or try to sell you some service while pretending to share their “secrets”.

I just want to share one of my failure storie.

A few years ago, I decided to create a Facebook page about the capital city of one of the small European countrie. I posted local news, event announcements, and UGC from people living in the city.

Basically, it was a small local media outlet focused on one city with around 650,000 residents.

The idea was pretty simple: build a large local audience and eventually make money from sponsored posts from local businesses.

I started working on it and initially used Facebook targeting to grow the audience. Facebook was giving very good reach to this type of content at the time, so the page grew relatively quickly and became recognizable.

At one point, our content was reaching practically every Facebook user in the country at least once a month.

Larger news outlets started quoting our content, and people started recognizing the page as a brand associated with the city.

At our peak, all of our publications combined could generate around 4 million views per month.

For a country with only around 1.8 million people, that a pretty good result.

Then I decided it was time to start monetizing it.

I offered the first advertisers free posts, or posts in exchange for small barter deals, just to test whether this could actually work for local businesses.

And that's where the problem started.

The sponsored posts, even without links in the text, would get extremely low reach — sometimes only a few hundred views.

As soon as Facebook recognized the content as commercial, it seemed to distribute it much less.

As a result, the offer was no longer very interesting to advertisers, and they weren't willing to pay for it.

So I ended up with a large audience, millions of views, and even some media attention — but no real business model.

However, I learned several very valuable lessons from this project.

1. A large audience does not necessarily mean you have a business

I had an audience, millions of views, and media attention. From the outside, it looked like this thing should obviously be making money.

But only when I actually tried to monetize it did I realize that a large audience doesn't automatically equal a business.

You need to think about this from the beginning:

Who exactly is going to pay for access to this audience?

And is the platform you've chosen actually suitable for the business model you're trying to build?

2. Test monetization as early as possible

I spent too much time focusing on building the audience and only started thinking seriously about monetization afterwards.

If I were starting again, I would test the business model much earlier.

Even if the first result was only $10 or $20, it would still be a signal that some kind of business model works.

The results can be tiny, but there should be some results.

That way, you can at least see that as the side hustle or project grows, the potential for profit grows with it.

If you don't know whether your idea can actually make money, you can spend a year or more looking for a needle in a haystack.

3. Don't build your entire business on a platform you don't control

This is probably one of the biggest risks.

If your entire business lives on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, or any other social network, you're completely dependent on their algorithms and rules.

The algorithm can change, and content that reached 100,000 people yesterday might reach 1,000 today.

Your account or page can also get banned, and you can suddenly lose access to an audience you've spent years building.

You need to move your audience somewhere you actually control.

A website, email list, community, or some other channel that isn't completely dependent on someone else's algorithm.

Overall, I don't consider this project a complete waste of time.

And I definitely haven't given up on it completely.

I still think there might be a way to transform the project into a different business model. The brand name is still remembered by people, and the audience itself has also remained.

So if anyone has ideas or experience with turning something like this - an established local brand + an existing audience - into a successful small business, I'd genuinely appreciate your suggestions.

Maybe someone looking at this from the outside will see a business model that I don't see myself right now.

What would you do with this kind of asset?

Needing to make extra cash!

I’m due in 5 weeks and haven’t been able to find a job so my next best thing is finding something I can do from home.

Problem is, any time I try to research different side hustles it’s always the same answers. “Download this app to do surveys!”, “Do Instacart or DoorDash!”, “Set up a Pinterest page and do affiliate marketing!”. Except the surveys are time consuming for $0.50 per, I don’t feel safe driving while pregnant or being out by myself, and affiliate marketing is a hit or miss/only works when you already have an audience.

I could use some help with other things I could do.

I work full-time in pharma and have a PharmD/MBA, but I’m looking for something I can do on the side to bring in consistent extra income. Ideally I’d like to eventually get to around $2–3k/month, but right now I mostly want something I can start making money from within the next few weeks.

I’m not really interested in DoorDash/Uber, surveys, affiliate marketing, mowing lawns, or making stuff to sell on Etsy. I’m willing to work and learn something new, but I’d rather do something that pays reasonably well for my time.

I’ve tutored before and I’m trying to get that going again. I’ve also thought about refereeing hockey, soccer, or basketball since I grew up playing sports and that actually sounds fun. Even something like bartending/making cocktails for private events sounds interesting.

Longer term I’m very interested in real estate, rentals, or possibly Airbnb, but I don’t have a lot of startup capital right now.

I’m curious what people here are actually doing that makes money consistently.

What do you do, how much do you realistically make, and how long did it take before you started getting paid?

I’m especially interested in the random/unusual side hustles that I probably haven’t even thought of yet.

Im 20F, want to start earning to support my lifestyle 🎀😭, i need a new phone, have been using redmi 9 since the past several years, rlly need an upgrade. my father wants to buy me a new one, but i want to get it myself! my requirement is a good camera, storage and battery . im in my 3rd year, bcom hons. looking for remote work, and yea that's all

I’m a 30 F and I currently work m-th and Saturdays as an LpN. Due to unforeseen circumstances my mother in law is fired from watching my 8month daughter. With that being said, I have to pay for daycare twice a week .
Between daycare, medical bills (type 1 diabetic here) and a new house I feel like I’m drowning. I don’t want to pick up more shifts and worry about my daughter/ finding care for her.
Any good side hustles online?

You’ll likely need experience in insect breeding for my question.

About ten years ago, my family had 2 reptiles so we bred mealworms (not super well, but we tried) and kept crickets around to see if they would slowly breed as we fed them away. With how things are looking recently, I needed a side job that was more flexible on hours and paid however much work I put into it. I’ve been reading and reading on crickets and discoid roaches, and people talk about how it was so cheap to get started and the maintenance cost isn’t that bad, but I’m thinking between egg cartons and buying small amounts of coco coir so that the bottom of the bin is easier to clean, I’m thinking just in substrate it may be $50-$100 monthly, then you need good food, not just table scraps, then any cleaners and other things that are not quite a monthly basis but are regularly used may add more.

So am I overthinking everything compared to small time typical roach and cricket breeders or what am I missing? Additionally if anyone is currently breeding discoids or crickets and are passionate enough to lend advice from time to time, I’d appreciate to start a dm with someone who’s already experimented around.

Hi everyone,

I am just starting out as a freelance copywriter.

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Focused on on Beauty, fashion and lifestyle brands I've built my portfolio and practiced writing email copy, product description, landing page, social media ads, or a website copy for fictional brands.

And I'm continuously improving my skills through my practice, research and feed back.

I'm eager to work with startups, small businesses, or anyone who needs clear, persuasive copy that connects with their customer.

Since I'm just Starting out, I'm open to Constructive feedback and committed to delivering my best work, and eager to connect with business owners, founders or anyone who needs copywriting support.I'm now looking for my first client and would love the opportunity to help business improve its marketing.

If anyone is looking for a beginner copywriter or knows someone who is, feel free to DM me.

I'd really appreciate the opportunity.

I have attached my Portfolio for anyone who'd like to take a look.

Thanks in advance for any advice!