40 profitable side hustle jobs to start in 2026

Looking for extra income? There are many side hustles you can start in 2026 from private tutoring and community management to video editing and graphic design. Read our guide to find out more.

Side hustles are increasingly common, and many options offer a great extra source of income, including creating an online course, online coaching, tutoring, user-generated content, and clipping.

Everyone wants more money — but no one wants more burnout. That’s why side hustles have become the go-to solution for millions. In fact, 54% of people in the U.S. picked up at least one extra gig last year.

But side hustles don’t have to drain your energy or steal your sleep. Today, there are more ways than ever to make extra cash without clocking extra hours.

Below, we’ll walk you through smart, low-effort ways to boost your income without burning out.

40 side hustle jobs that you can do alongside your day job

Knowledge-based side hustle jobs (teach, coach, or consult online)

Got skills? Turn them into side hustle jobs by teaching, coaching, or consulting people from anywhere — online, offline, from home or from the beach.

1. Teach a language  

20% of Americans are now able to speak 2 or more languages (United States Census Bureau). So, if you more than one language, make money online by tutoring others.

List your language tutor services on a website like Preply, Italki, or Verbling. Some websites require teaching experience, so find the one that fits your skills.

Or, create a language course and earn sweet, passive income.

• Time it takes: Flexible schedule
• How much you can earn: $10-$70 per hour
• How to package knowledge: Offer 1:1 online tutoring, build a structured language course with videos and worksheets on Whop, or write an ebook with grammar tips and speaking exercises.
• Where to find first clients: Whop, Preply, Italki, Reddit (e.g. r/LanguageExchange), Facebook language-learning groups

2. Offer crypto advice

All those leveraged trades, shorts, and altcoins you're already keeping tabs on—why not tell others about them and make some extra cash? Crypto advice is incredibly sought after, and so it makes for a good side hustle.

There's plenty you can do in this field. With Whop, you can set up subscription tiers, letting users pay more or less based on what they get - such as ebooks and newsletter access.

You can also grow a private community with other experts and trade predictions.

• Time it takes: Depending on what path you want to follow (creating communities, courses, etc.), you should at least invest 10 to 15 hours per week
• How much you can earn: $10-$500+ per membership sold for communities and $50-$2,500+ per course sale
• How to package knowledge: Build a crypto course (beginner to advanced), start a paid whop, offer a weekly newsletter or sell an ebook with trading strategies
• Where to find first clients: Whop, Twitter/X (crypto sub-niches), Reddit (r/CryptoCurrency, r/BitcoinBeginners), Discord servers

3. Trade stocks (or teach others how)

If you have the right kind of knowledge, stock trading can be really profitable. By studying the market trends, you can aim for immediate profit day trading, or try swing trading if you want to invest more time to your strategy.  

Mike Poarch (in the video above) sells trade alerts on Whop. Mike started trading with $20 and kept depositing a little more 'here and there' with each paycheck, never putting in more than he could afford. He says:

"The easiest thing to do is find a company that you have faith in for their long-term success and growth and invest every time the stock takes a downward hit."

- Mike Poarch, stock trader

Just remember that stock trading comes with some dangers, too. This is a high risk high reward type of side hustle, so make sure you're alright taking a hit if you make a wrong call. Never buy more stock than you're alright losing.

• Time it takes: 2-10 hours per week
• How much you can earn: $20-$1000 per hour, depending on the experience
• How to package knowledge: Build a technical analysis course, offer 1:1 coaching sessions on trading strategy, write a downloadable “how to start swing trading” guide
• Where to find first clients: Whop, Reddit (r/WallStreetBets, r/Stocks), StockTwits, YouTube, trading Telegram or Discord groups

4. Offer nutrition advice

If you have the certifications needed to offer nutritional advice, then selling diet plans can be a great side hustle.

Nutrition plans are a fantastic example of a flexible and popular digital product. You can create specialized meal plans based on fitness and weight goals, dietary restrictions, or just preferences, and sell them as downloadables or ebooks. 

• Time it takes: Flexible schedule, 5-10 hours per week
• How much you can earn: $30-$70 per hour
• How to package knowledge: Sell custom or general meal plans as PDFs, create video coaching or check-in calls, host a health-focused community on Whop
• Where to find first clients: Whop, Reddit (r/nutrition, r/loseit), Instagram wellness hashtags, Facebook groups for health goals

5. Share your sports picks

The sports betting industry is exploding — it was valued at $48 billion in 2025 and is set to rise up to $88 billion by 2030.

If you're someone with a strong understanding of sports and the betting market, you can make a lot of money selling sports picks. Trevor, in the video above, shares his sports picks in the Juiced Bets community. Trevor says:

"It's important to start understanding the odds and the odds movement. Remove the emotions and start learning what odds mean".

- Trevor, Juiced Bets

Whop is the perfect platform to help you build this side hustle. With Whop, you can build up a whole sports betting empire even if you're short on time.

You can set up a paid whop community, run a newsletter, offer one-on-one consultations, and run a forum for enthusiasts like you, then charge a subscription fee (or a one-time fee) for your help.

• Time it takes: Around 20 hours per week
• How much you can earn: $100-$500+ per hour, depending on the size and cost of your community
• How to package knowledge: Start a paid newsletter with daily/weekly picks, sell ebooks with betting strategy breakdowns, offer exclusive picks in a paid whop
• Where to find first clients: Whop, Reddit (r/sportsbook, r/SportsBetting), Twitter/X (sports picks threads), Discord communities

6. Get ordained

Here's a side hustle that's less common: get ordained! In most states, getting ordained is as simple as filling out and submitting an application online. Once you're ordained, you're legally able to perform wedding ceremonies. 

You can be ordained through organizations like the Universal Life Church or American Marriage Ministries. The cost to obtain copies of your ordination certifications and other materials is usually under $100, and an ordained officiant can charge up to $500 per ceremony.

This makes for a very tidy profit, and you may just get some free wedding food for your trouble, too. Although technically you can't marry people from your home, you will mostly work at home to reach and connect with clients - then leave the house for just a couple of hours to oversee the 'I Dos'.

• Time it takes: Around 5 hours per event
• How much you can earn: $100-$1,000 per ceremony
• How to package knowledge: Build a “wedding script starter kit” as an ebook, create an online listing for officiant services with customizable ceremony templates, sell add-ons like vow-writing help
• Where to find first clients: WeddingWire, Facebook wedding groups, Reddit (r/weddingplanning), Whop (for digital assets/templates)

7. Become a coach

If you're the type of person who finds it easy to encourage other people, consider coaching as a side hustle. Pick a niche that suits your specialty, like life coaching, financial coaching, career coaching, or health and wellness coaching. 

There are a lot of good coaching platforms, but Whop has all the features you need as a coach, like chat channels, video calling capabilities, private DMs, file sharing, and even built-in online courses.

• Time it takes: 20-30 hours per week
• How much you can earn: $40-$250+ per hour
• How to package knowledge: Offer 1:1 sessions, record a signature program or masterclass, build a whop for live coaching
• Where to find first clients: Whop, LinkedIn (for professional coaching), Reddit (r/selfimprovement, r/financialindependence), Instagram Reels and TikTok for visibility

8. Tech Coaching

Now, we mentioned coaching, but this niche deserves its own shoutout.

Why? Because if you can use a computer, phone, or tablet and navigate social media, then you can make money as a tech coach.

"You don't need to be an expert— you just need to be a few steps ahead."

— Online tech coach and business owner

This could be teaching someone how to use their new iPhone or coaching someone through using Zoom for the first time. You just need to know more than your clients do, have patience, and be able to explain things in plain English without jargon.

• Time it takes: 5-20 hours per week
• How much you can earn: $30-$100+ per hour
• How to package knowledge: Offer 1:1 sessions, build a whop for live coaching and taking bookings
• Where to find first clients: LinkedIn, Nextdoor, Facebook groups for seniors or small business owners, Upwork, word-of-mouth

9. Work as a private tutor 

As a private tutor you can work online or invite students to your home so that you can help them out, be it with specific subjects or with test prep. Some of the most popular tests that students need tutoring for include the SAT, ACT, GRE, GMAT, and high school standardized tests. 

You can advertise your services locally through schools or universities and do in-person tutoring. Or, you can make money online by tutoring students through Zoom or a platform like Tutor.com, or you can even use Whop.

With its video call capabilities, online courses, downloadable PDFs, and private chats, you can create your very own whop to run your online tutoring business.

• Time it takes: 25-30 hours per week
• How much you can earn: $20-$100 per hour
• How to package knowledge: Create a test-prep course, record lessons per subject, sell a PDF question bank, offer live weekly review sessions via your whop
• Where to find first clients: Whop, Tutor.com, Preply, school bulletin boards, Reddit (r/SAT, r/GMAT)

10. Host a webinar

Webinars are a good one-and-done type of side hustle. You can either script out and pre-record a lecture on a topic you have expertise in and charge people an access fee, or host a live webinar and sell tickets to let viewers tune in.

With either option, you can build up a backlog of webinars that people can still access after the fact.

• Time it takes: 15-25 hours per week
• How much you can earn: $25-$500+ per ticket sold
• How to package knowledge: Host a live session (free or paid), record and sell access via Whop, turn your webinar into a downloadable mini-course
• Where to find first clients: Whop, LinkedIn events, Reddit (topic-specific subreddits), Eventbrite, Instagram ads targeting niche audiences

11. Offer AI consulting to small businesses

There are countless businesses all over the world that would benefit from AI in one way or another, and they need people with extensive knowledge on AI tools. But we're not talking about just ChatGPT for copywriting or Google's Nano Banana for image generation.

If you know and have tried a lot of AI tools, you can probably come up with solutions to a lot of problems. Maybe a business wants to automate their email campaigns or they're looking to create an internal chatbot that employees can talk to for quick information.

Offering AI consulting services to small businesses has a big market, no matter where you are in the world. If you have the time and knowledge, you can make some serious money by doing this.

• Time it takes: 10-25+ hours per week
• How much you can earn: $250-$2,000+ per consultation
• How to package knowledge: Provide quick and easy cheat sheets to small businesses, upsell your personal assist, and retain customers by offering updates on services
• Where to find first clients: Whop, LinkedIn, Google Maps, Upwork, and Fiverr

Side hustles for creators: monetize your content, ideas, or audience

Turn your content, ideas, and audience into income through digital products, subscriptions, and exclusive offers.

12. Start a podcast

"So any form of podcasting is very high leverage because if you make an episode, you can post it on social media and get thousands of views month and month out on autopilot.

And this is really important if you want to scale a business."
-Brett Malinowski, Head of Marketing at Whop

A podcast is a way to turn any special interest into a side hustle. Popular podcasts can make you money through ad revenue and sponsorship deals.

If you have a niche podcast topic that doesn't attract as many advertisers, you can sell merch or create a subscription through Whop so that listeners can contribute directly.

• Time it takes: 20-30 hours per week
• How much you can earn: $50-$5,000+ per month
• Best for: Storytellers, educators, entertainers, or anyone with a unique voice and niche
• How to monetize: Sponsorships, affiliate links, ad revenue, paid subscriptions, merch sales, early-access episodes

13. Write an ebook

Jeremie Lander has published three ebooks and makes passive income by sharing his ebooks on social platforms.

"I have an Instagram reel or a TikTok or a YouTube short that's relative to the information of the book, give out a little bit of knowledge that's in the book and then have a call to action to purchase this book in the caption."

- Jeremie Lander, three-time published author

If you have knowledge to share or a creative idea to talk about, you too can make great passive income by selling ebooks. This goes for fiction, non-fiction, guidebooks… anything that you can imagine, there is a market for. 

Once an ebook is written, it can make you money almost indefinitely. You can sell your ebooks through Whop at a one-time fee or as part of a subscription service.

• Time it takes: 10-40+ hours per ebook
• How much you can earn: $10-$150+ per ebook sold
• Best for: Writers, teachers, coaches, and creatives who enjoy writing
• How to monetize: One-time sales, bundled packages, course add-ons, or gated content through Whop

14. Make money as a streamer

Streaming makes a great side hustle if you love gaming or know how to keep an audience entertained. And with enough dedication, who knows? Maybe you'll be the next Propernator, who has over 20,000 followers on Twitch.

With Twitch, viewers to subscribe to you and to donate directly using a tip-like system. With a large enough audience, you can also work with brands and make money promoting games and products, or sell access to a private community to watch you stream. As Propernator tells us,

"It doesn’t specifically take a long time, you just have to know what you’re doing."

- Propernator, Twitch streamer

But it's not just Twitch — you can also livestream on TikTok and Whop.

• Time it takes: 30-40+ hours per week
• How much you can earn: $200-$5,000+ per month
• Best for: Gamers, entertainers, and creators with engaging personalities
• How to monetize: Subscriptions (Twitch, Whop), tips/donations, affiliate links, brand sponsorships, access to private chats or replays

15. UGC (user-generated content) creation

"I'm Gen X, a Dad, and not your typical UGC creator — but new brands needed something different."

- UGC Creator

As of 2025, the UGC market is worth over $7.6 billion and is expected to surpass $27 billion by 2029. There's a huge demand for UGC, and this is the right time to jump on the train.

UGC, at its core, is content that natural users create — not influencers, not celebrities. When brands and businesses want to promote their products or services, some hire influencers, others hire people like you.

Here's the cool part — a 2024 study found that 91% of people are more likely to buy something if they see real user photos and videos.

As a UGC creator, you create content like reviews and unboxings, featuring the service or the product of the brand you're working with. So to become a UGC creator, all you need is the skills to create content, whether that's video editing skills, knowing how social media works, or how to talk in front of a camera.

• Time it takes: 15-30 hours per week
• How much you can earn: $100-$3,500+ per month
• Best for: Aspiring creators, social media users, and video editors
• How to monetize: Direct brand deals, content packages, video bundles, and Whop

16. Sell online courses

By selling courses online, you can turn your knowledge into a profitable side hustle. Once a course is created, it can earn income for months or even years with only occasional updates.

As career expert Edward Huang says:

"Freelancing, selling digital products, and online tutoring are seeing growth as more people look for flexible, location-independent income streams"

- Edward Huang

Platforms like Whop make it simple — with built-in course features, you can start selling your expertise in just minutes.

• Time it takes: 20-40 hours per course, depending on its complexity and length
• How much you can earn: $20-$2,000+ per course sale
• Best for: Experts, educators, or niche creators with teachable frameworks
• How to monetize: Per-course sales, course bundles, gated add-ons (e.g. coaching, bonus materials), subscriptions

17. Sell fitness plans

"99% of fitness creators fail to monetize their community, so if you're not running a community, you're losing business."

- Fitness content creator

Do you know what's harder than getting fit? Getting fit if you don't have a clue what you're doing.

This is where you come in — as long as you have an interest in fitness or sports, you can offer personalized (or not personalized, but specific) advice to those of us who could really use it.

You'd be hard-pressed to find a better platform to sell fitness programs through than right here on Whop, by the way.

You can offer one-on-one calls, set up a fitness community (complete with goals and awards), or record yourself and charge for your exclusive courses. Plus, you can complement this with downloadable worksheets and guides.

• Time it takes: 5-20 hours per week
• How much you can earn: $20-$200+ per sale
• Best for: Fitness lovers, trainers, and health influencers
• How to monetize: One-time plans, video workouts, membership communities, check-in calls, and merch or supplements

18. Run a life hack blog

You'll never meet a person who would turn down a way to make life easier. This can cover everything from budget tips to DIY projects and productivity hacks. 

If you want to really drill down into a niche, you can do something like a recipe blog or travel deals. People will pay a small amount of money for the potential to save more, so you can charge a subscription fee for regular new posts and tips or a one-time fee for more of a life hack guide format.

• Time it takes: 25-30 hours per week
• How much you can earn: $50-$1,500+ per month, depending on marketing, ads, brand deals, etc.
• Best for: Writers, researchers, and hobbyists with a knack for simplifying life
• How to monetize: Ad revenue, affiliate links, product guides, digital downloads, and gated tips via your whop

19. Sell coloring pages

Market research has shown that the adult coloring book industry is a multi-million dollar industry, expected to reach $350 million by 2031. That's a strong opportunity, and if you have any skill with art and design, you can take a slice of that pie. 

You can use Whop to sell your designs, as well as all sorts of other downloadables. Etsy is also a popular option for all things creative.

• Time it takes: 20-30 hours per book
• How much you can earn: $5-$50 per sale
• Best for: Artists, graphic designers, and digital creators
• How to monetize: One-time PDF downloads, themed bundles, coloring book subscriptions, memberships

20. Write travel guides

Travel and tourism is a $1.9 trillion industry. If you're a world traveler—or even someone who's traveled to cool or interesting places within their own country—you can make money from it.

People love to seek out information about places they want to go to, so you can make travel guides to help them out.

You can market these travel guides as one-off publications like ebooks, or you can post regularly on a travel blog with advertising revenue coming in through ads and affiliate links.

• Time it takes: 10-20 hours per week
• How much you can earn: $50-$1,500+ per month, depending on marketing, ads, brand deals, etc.
• Best for: Travelers, bloggers, and photographers
• How to monetize: Ebook sales, affiliate links, destination bundles, ad revenue, subscriptions for exclusive updates

21. Clipping content

"Today I'm going to give you the exact blueprint to go from 0 to making $1,000 a week on TikTok without original content, because with Whop Content Rewards you don't need to."

- Clipper on Whop

You've probably seen streamer clips while scrolling social media. Maybe a video where KaiCenat invites a celebrity to his stream, or maybe IShowSpeed racing with other influencers. Those videos are called 'clips.'

Clips are short videos extracted from long-form content like YouTube videos and streams. Because they're short and engaging, they tend to get millions of views and hundreds of thousands of likes.

Of course, they need clippers to do this - and they're ready to pay. You post clips, the content creator gets promoted, and you get paid - it's a win-win situation.

• Time it takes: 5-10 hours per week
• How much you can earn: $5-$3,500+ per clip
• Best for: Video editors, TikTok creators, and social media marketers
• How to monetize: Per-clip payments, content bundles, Whop

22. Develop and monetize apps

If you're one of the lucky (and smart!) ones and you know what you're doing when faced with a line of code, why not make money off of your skills?

By developing apps that offer unique features, you can monetize them per usage or per install.

Of course, developing apps can sound scary at first, but if you have the right skills or the right tools you can bring your ideas to life.

You don't even have to worry about things like user authentication or payment processing systems. Using Whop's software development kit, you can develop apps that take advantage of Whop's authentication and payment systems.

• Time it takes: 10-50+ hours per app
• How much you can earn: Depending on the monetization method, from $500 to tens of thousands of dollars if you sell the app and $50-$2,000+ per month for subscriptions
• Best for: Developers, coders, and product-minded builders
• How to monetize: Subscription tiers, paid downloads, usage-based pricing, premium features, or B2B white-label options

23. Create and sell websites

If you have experience with coding languages like JavaScript, CSS, and HTML, you can create websites and sell them to clients.

Of course, knowing the languages doesn't cut it - you need to be good with UX/UI (user experience and user interface) basics and SEO, too.

Using tools like WordPress, Squarespace, and Wix can help you build websites. Reach out to businesses, brands, or creators who need websites (or want their current site improved).

You can also find clients on freelance platforms like Upwork, Fiverr, and Freelancer, getting in contact with local businesses.

Or directly create a store page (on Whop) for your work so that people can discover your talent and work with you.

• Time it takes: 15-25 hours per week
• How much you can earn: $25-$100+ per hour
• Best for: Web designers, front-end devs, and freelancers
• How to monetize: Per-project pricing, monthly retainers for maintenance, design templates for passive sales

24. Start a graphic design business

Every business, creator, and personal brand needs some strong visuals to make them pop. That's where graphic designers come in.

You can make a lot of money by selling things like logos, social media graphics, thumbnails, banners, branding kits, and more. Those can be pre-made white-label graphics that other people can edit, or you can make them based on orders from your clients.

There's ongoing work for graphic designers, too. Creators need things like YouTube thumbnails or Instagram posts on a weekly basis. Once you find a good client, money will follow.

"First thing you need to do is create a portfolio, don't wait for perfect pieces, upload your favorite work."

— Karina Egle, PR specialist at Whop and freelance digital artist

Start by putting together a portfolio of your work. You can use tools like Canva or Adobe Photoshop (the latter means paying a monthly subscription). Create some mockups, upload them to your own whop or on a platform like Etsy, and start looking for gigs.

• Time it takes: 5-40 hours per week
• How much you can earn: $10-$500 per project
• Tools to get started: Whop (to host your graphic design business), a laptop or a smartphone, and graphic design tools like Canva, Figma, Adobe Photoshop

Freelance side hustle jobs you can do from home (with just a laptop)

Work from anywhere by delivering digital services — and get paid no matter where your clients are.

25. Become a virtual assistant

With a few hours a week, you can list yourself as a virtual assistant through an agency like Zirtual, on a gig marketplace like Upwork, or by creating your VA business on Whop.

As a virtual assistant, you can help businesses or people with tasks like scheduling appointments, making travel arrangements, making phone calls, or anything an administrative assistant would normally do. 

The great part of being a VA is that you can work from anywhere in the world. As experienced virtual assistant, Matthieu tells us in the video above,

"I get flexible hours and I get to work from home."

- Matthieu Ratrimoson, virtual assistant

The downside? There's no such thing as "passive income" as a virtual assistant—you get paid per hour.

• Time it takes: 20-40 hours per week
• How much you can earn: $10-$30+ per hour
• Tools to get started: Whop (to own your own business, take bookings, host calls, send documents and take payments), Google Calendar, Notion, Trello

26. Provide transcription services

With transcription work, you can make extra money by converting audio files into a written text format. Having a transcript is useful for people like journalists or podcasters.

A lot of legal professionals also hire transcribers to have written court records, so if you have legal experience, you can charge a premium for that. 

You can search transcriber-specific platforms like Rev or Appen to find transcription work.

• Time it takes: 30 hours per week
• How much you can earn: $10-$25+ per hour
• Tools to get started: Rev, Appen, TranscribeMe, Otter.ai (for drafts), Express Scribe, Grammarly, Whop (to offer freelance services)

27. AI prompt engineering

One of the hottest side hustles right now is something that didn't even exist two years ago: AI prompt engineering.

As more businesses adopt AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Midjourney, they're realizing that getting good results requires skill.

That's where you come in. AI prompt engineers craft the perfect instructions to get AI tools to produce exactly what's needed, whether that's marketing copy, code, images, or data analysis.

"I know what you're thinking — I know nothing about AI prompts. Well, you don't actually need to"

- AI prompt creator

You don't need to be a programmer. You just need to understand how AI thinks, experiment with different prompting techniques, and know how to structure requests for the best outputs. And, you don't even need to create the prompts yourself - simply buy a pack of prompts and resell them!

• Time it takes: 10-20 hours per week
• How much you can earn: $50-$200+ per hour
• Tools needed: ChatGPT Plus or Claude Pro (for advanced features), Midjourney or DALL-E (for image prompts), prompt library tools (PromptBase, FlowGPT), Google Docs or Notion (for documenting prompt templates), screen recording software (Loom) for client demos, Whop (to sell)

28. Manage social media

Managing social media can be a side hustle that pays a lot for a relatively small time commitment. Writing the posts for a week and sourcing or creating graphics can be done in 1-2 hours, with customer engagement being done in five-minute chunks throughout the week.

This is ideal for someone with a few minutes to spare every day, but you'll need to know the basics of digital marketing and SEO. 

• Time it takes: 20-40 hours per week
• How much you can earn: $15-$70 per hour
• Tools to get started: Canva, Buffer, Hootsuite, Later, Meta Business Suite, Whop (for client packages), Upwork, Fiverr

29. Online community management

"It's worth becoming a community manager in 2026 - a great community manager is basically heart of the business."
-east, from Whop

If you've ever visited a subreddit, a whop, a Discord server, or a Telegram channel, there's a very high chance you've seen someone who moderates the community. They are called 'community moderators'.

A community moderator's job is engaging with the community, making sure no one is breaking the rules, addressing member concerns, and keeping the community alive and well. A good community manager has strong communication skills and understands the platform they're using very well.

If you believe in your communication skills and you have experience using a platform that supports communities, you can join existing communities or freelancing platforms (like ModSquad, Upwork, and Fiverr) to find community management gigs.

• Time it takes: 10-20 hours per week
• How much you can earn: $10-$30+ per hour
• Tools to get started: ModSquad, Discord, Telegram, whops, Slack, Upwork, Reddit mod tools

30. Offer video editing services

YouTube and TikTok continue to dominate the social media field, and there are countless videos being posted on those platforms every day — you probably watch some.

The videos that rank higher than others tend to be professionally made — good footage, good editing. This is why many content creators look for people to edit their videos so that they can perform better.

Video editing is done with software like CapCut, After Effects, and Premiere Pro. If you have experience using these programs or if you're willing to learn, you should consider offering video editing services online.

After building a portfolio of your work, you can set up a store on platforms like Whop or sign up to freelancing platforms like Fiverr and Upwork to find new gigs.

• Time it takes: 10-40 hours per week
• How much you can earn: $5-$500+ per video edited, depending on the form of content
• Tools to get started: CapCut, Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Canva (for social cuts), Whop (to host your portfolio and packages), Fiverr

31. Become a copywriter or blog writer

"People want to see experience, and if you don't have a portfolio, you're not going to get jobs. The focus at this point is just to build that portfolio."

– Keisha Singleton, freelance writer and Senior Editor at Whop

You can make money writing without writing your own ebooks (although it's a good side hustle, too).

Copywriters create marketing copy – things like landing pages, product pages, newsletters, and press releases. The point is to be persuasive and highlight the pain points of the reader so that you can address them (and get them to buy whatever your clients are trying to sell).

You don't have to go into marketing, though. You can be a freelance writer, a journalist, an SEO specialist, a blogger, or a technical writer.

You'll need a portfolio of work first. You can write a few pieces for imaginary clients if you haven't landed any gigs yet, and then upload those on your whop, your own website, or even just a Google Doc. Clients will want to see your writing skills before they hire you.

• Time it takes: 5-40+ hours per week
• How much you can earn: Writers get paid per word, per project, per article, or per hour, so pay varies. You can earn over $2,000 if you spend some time doing this every month.
• Tools to get started: Google Docs or Microsoft Word, Grammarly, and content planning tools like Notion

Ecommerce & reselling side jobs: sell products without quitting your job

From dropshipping to flipping collectibles, start earning extra income while keeping your current gig.

32. Become a reseller

The business plan for a reseller is simple: buy something at a lower price, and sell it for more. Some of the popular areas for reselling include clothing, sneakers, electronics, and collectibles. 

There are a lot of platforms that exist solely for reselling. Depending on what it is you want to sell, you can check out the market on websites like eBay, Depop, Poshmark, and Mercari.

• Time it takes: 10-20 hours per week
• How much you can earn: $20-$400 per hour
• What you need to start: Initial inventory (thrift finds, retail arbitrage, or liquidation pallets), basic product photography (smartphone + good lighting), packaging and shipping supplies
• Where to sell: eBay, Depop, Poshmark, Mercari, Facebook Marketplace

33. Join the Amazon Affiliate program

Joining the Amazon Affiliate program is a great side hustle because it requires almost nothing from you upfront. You'll just need to convincingly advertise a product and get the buyer to click your link, and then, like magic, you'll get a percentage of the profit.

Keep in mind that to make money through this, you'll need a following of people who are interested in hearing what you recommend. This is a great source of passive income for those who run a blog, a popular social media profile, a newsletter, or a YouTube channel.

• Time it takes: Around 20 hours per week
• How much you can earn: $20-$40+ per hour
• What you need to start: Amazon Associates account, blog, newsletter, YouTube channel, or TikTok profile with active followers
• Where to sell: Your blog, YouTube description box, TikTok bio, Instagram Stories. Email newsletters, Discord groups, or whops

34. Sell through Amazon FBA

"With Amazon FBA we don't have to deal with marketing, we don't ever have to do with spending on ads or PPC. This is because we're already selling branded products like Nike, Stanley — any products that you see that market themselves."

— Jasmine Green, FBA seller and online educator

With Fulfillment by Amazon, you source products from wholesalers and use Amazon to list them for sale. It's not as hands-off as dropshipping, but it's kind of a halfway point.

Amazon handles the packaging and the shipping, as well as the customer service; you just source the products and manage inventory.

• Time it takes: 20-25 hours per week
• How much you can earn: $15-$100+ per hour
• What you need to start: Amazon Seller account, wholesale supplier or product source, product research tools (Jungle Scout, Helium 10), barcode printer and inventory prep materials
• Where to sell: Amazon (via FBA)

35 Get into dropshipping

You probably scroll through ads on Facebook and Instagram all the time. You ever wondered who's actually making money from those? It's people like you and me.

— Ronnie, Savage Ecom

Do you fancy yourself an ecommerce master, but you don't want to deal with all the hassle of managing inventory and shipping? Good news: dropshipping still nets you a profit while cutting out some of the annoying parts of running a store. 

As a dropshipper, you source products (often from overseas) and list them for sale on a platform of your choice.

You're the link between the customer and the store or manufacturer; you don't have to do anything related to order fulfillment, but you still manage customer service.

• Time it takes: 10-15 hours per week
• How much you can earn: $100-$5,000+ per month
• What you need to start: Shopify store or ecommerce platform (with plugins like DSers or Spocket), product research (AliExpress, CJ Dropshipping, Zendrop, dropshipping whops)
• Where to sell: Shopify, WooCommerce, Etsy (if handmade or print-on-demand)

Flexible gig economy jobs (perfect for weekends or evenings)

Work as much or as little as you want — perfect for fitting around your life.

36. Become a Flex driver

Amazon hires part-time delivery drivers through its Flex program, making between $18-25 an hour before your standard driver expenses like gas and insurance.

You use your own vehicle and work on a flexible schedule, picking up delivery blocks based on the time you have available.

That means if you have a few hours free on weekends or in the evening after your day job, you can just pick up a shift or two and bring in some extra cash without needing to commit to a whole second job.

• Time it takes: Around 8 hours per day
• How much you can earn: $18-$25 an hour
• Platforms: Amazon Flex (primary), Roadie (for local deliveries), Walmart Spark

37. Complete paid surveys

"Focus groups are a great way to earn cash on the side, pay unexpected bills, or cover rising grocery expenses. You give opinions and feedback on purchase history and experiences."

- Keisha Singleton, Whop

How's this for a low-commitment way of making some extra cash? Companies like Swagbucks and Survey Junkie will pay you to give feedback on products and services. Also, keep an eye out for research surveys from universities or educational resources, which might take longer but often pay a little better—Prolific is one platform to watch. 

As a side hustle, this is more geared toward people who want some extra money to cover their Starbucks every week than people who want a viable income supplement.

But if all you want is a few extra dollars, it can be a good return for only minutes of your day.

• Time it takes: 1-3 hours per week
• How much you can earn: $1-$10+ per survey completed
• Platforms: Swagbucks, Survey Junkie, InboxDollars, YouGov, Pinecone Research

38. Rent out a room through Airbnb

Airbnb can be a great way to earn some extra money, especially if you live in a city that hosts popular events or has a lot of tourism appeal. People will pay a premium for a convenient location and positive reviews, so just make sure the space stays clean and you offer what amenities you can.

With Airbnb, you can choose the dates that your room is available to fit with your own schedule, opting out of renting during times when it may not fit your lifestyle.

• Time it takes: Around 3 hours after customers leave
• How much you can earn: Depending on the type of room, $100-$200+ per night
• Platforms: Airbnb (primary), Vrbo, Booking.com

39. Pet sit

If you enjoy the company of furry friends, you can actually get paid just to take care of someone else's cat, dog, chinchilla, or turtle… you get the idea.

People routinely pay to have someone come and check in on their pet while they're gone, but you can also run a little pet daycare at your own home. To find pet-sitting jobs in your local area, you can use sites like Rover or Sittercity.

• Time it takes: Flexible schedule, ranging from a couple of hours to multiple days depending on the customer
• How much you can earn: $20-$100 per day
• Platforms: Rover, Wag!, Care.com, Sittercity, PetSitter.com

40. Become a rideshare driver 

With your own car and a clean driving/legal record, you can join a rideshare app as a driver. Companies like Uber and Lyft employ drivers but allow their drivers the freedom to set their own schedules completely. You can choose to only work during peak hours to make the most money, or just pick up a few riders when you happen to have the time. 

Along the same line, most of the rideshare services have a branch that specifically does food delivery. That may be a great option if you don't enjoy the people aspect of being a driver or want to ensure more personal safety.

• Time it takes: Flexible schedule, ranging from several hours to 8 per day
• How much you can earn: Around $20 per hour
• Platforms: Uber, Lyft, Uber Eats, DoorDash, Grubhub, Instacart (for groceries), Shipt

How to find a side hustle that works for you

Finding the right side hustle job isn't about picking the one that sounds coolest or pays the most. It's about finding something that actually fits your life, your schedule, your skills, and your goals.

Here's how to find your match.

Start with the big three: time, talent, and target

Before you dive into any side hustle, get clear on three things:

1. How much time do you have?

Not how much you wish you had - how much free time exists in your week right now?

Be brutally honest here. If you're already juggling a full-time job, family commitments, and trying to maintain some kind of social life, claiming you have 20 hours a week for a side hustle is setting yourself up to fail.

Match your time to the hustle:

• 1-5 hours/week: Paid surveys, user testing, pet sitting, selling digital downloads
• 5-15 hours/week: Freelance writing, virtual assistant work, tutoring, rideshare driving
• 15+ hours/week: Building online courses, coaching business, dropshipping store, content creation

Some hustles require more time upfront but become more passive over time (like creating an online course). Others pay you per hour, every hour (like driving for Uber). Choose based on your current situation and your future goals.

2. What are your talents?

The best side hustles use skills you already have or interests you want to develop. When you're working on something you're naturally good at or genuinely curious about, it doesn't feel like a second job.

Match your talent to the hustle:

• Creative skills: Graphic design, content clipping, photography, coloring pages, UGC creation
• Tech skills: Web development, app development, video editing, IT consulting
• Teaching skills: Online tutoring, creating courses, coaching, webinars
• People skills: Virtual assistant, community management, social media management, event planning
• Physical skills: Fitness training, handyman work, pet sitting, delivery driving
• Writing skills: Freelance writing, resume writing, editing, blogging, ebook creation

If you don't have obvious skills yet? Start with low-barrier hustles like transcription, data entry, or customer service, then level up as you learn.

Also, keep in mind that there's always new fields, tools, and business types to learn. Not having a skill doesn't mean you won't make it - you can always learn new ones.

3. What is your target?

What's your actual goal here? Because "make money" isn't specific enough.

Are you trying to pay off debt fast? Save for something specific? Test out a potential career change? Build a business you can eventually quit your job for? Your goal should shape which hustle you choose.

Match your target to the hustle:

• Quick cash (this week/month): Rideshare, delivery driving, pet sitting, freelance gigs, selling stuff you own
• Steady side income ($500-2,000/month): Virtual assistant, freelance writing, tutoring, social media management
• Passive income (build once, earn ongoing): Online courses, ebooks, affiliate marketing, digital products, YouTube channel
• Test a career change: Freelancing in your target field, coaching, consulting
• Build a real business: Content creation, coaching business, ecommerce store, SaaS development

If you need money right now, don't start with "build a YouTube channel" (takes months to monetize). If you want passive income eventually, don't just drive for Uber (pure time-for-money).

Still not sure? Pick 2-3 hustles that match your time/talent/target. For each one, ask:

• Can I start with under $100?
• Can I make my first dollar within 30 days?
• Will I learn something valuable even if it doesn't work out?

Pick the one with the most "yes" answers and commit to 30 days.

Start your easy side hustle with Whop

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Whop allows you to start all kinds of side hustles, right from the comfort of your home. Want to start a clipping business? What about a graphic design agency? Whatever you're thinking, you can do it on Whop.

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FAQs

How do I choose the right side hustle for me?

There are dozens of side hustles you can pursue, but finding the right one starts with considering your skills, availability, investment capability (for some side hustles), and the area you want to work in.

How can I find side hustle opportunities?

You can start by using platforms like Rover (for pet sitting), Rev (for transcription), or Italki (for tutoring). But the most flexible and rewarding side hustles are the ones you create yourself.

By building around your skills and interests, you can earn on your own terms — and even work toward passive income. Tools like Whop make it easy to launch your own digital hustle in minutes. You can also browse Reddit for ideas and inspiration.

Can I start doing side hustles with no investment?

You absolutely can. While there are side hustles that require an investment, like reselling, you can find side hustles that require no investment as well, like clipping or selling online courses.

Should I quit my full-time job to pursue my side hustle?

At the start, no. Once you've been running your side hustle for some time and the income you generate reaches a sufficient level, you should consider whether you can scale it or not. If it can be scaled and you'd rather work on your side hustle, you might want to consider leaving your full-time job.

But remember, a job is better than none, so don't give up on your full-time job too early.

How much can I earn from a side hustle?

The amount of money you can make from a side hustle depends on what you do. While completing online surveys can make you pocket cash for little effort, creating and selling comprehensive online courses can make you a lot if you build the course well and market it right.

What are the best side hustle jobs?

The best side hustles offer high reward with low effort — especially ones that sell digital products or services. They’re flexible, low-cost to start, and can earn you passive income over time.

Think: eBooks, online courses, stock photos, SaaS, design assets, or even digital communities. With platforms like Whop, you can create, list, and sell your digital content in minutes.