All Side Hustle Ideas

Digital products side hustle ideas

Files sold online: templates, printables, ebooks, stock photos, fonts, presets, plugins, recorded courses.

Startup cost
Under $100$100 to $1k$1k to $10kOver $10k
Time
Hands-offA few hours a weekPart-timeNear full-time
Where
OnlineIn personOnline and in person
Earns from
AdsAffiliateSubscriptionsOne-time salesService feesRentMarketplace cutSponsors and donations
Coding
No coding neededNeeds coding

12 ideas

  • Digital products
    Co-authored tech e-book and online course
    Co-wrote a Spring Boot and AWS e-book with a companion online course, sharing the income among authors.
    Hands-offOnline
    Hacker News, 2024
  • Digital products
    DevOps online course for small teams
    Created an online course teaching DevOps to small companies and self-hosters, which keeps selling even against bigger instructors.
    Hands-offOnline
    Hacker News, 2024
  • Digital products
    Online algorithmic trading courses
    Sells online courses on algorithmic trading through its own site and Udemy. Maintenance is mostly answering student emails.
    Online
    Hacker News, 2018
  • Digital products
    Online courses sold on Udemy
    Created video courses on Udemy that keep earning money after the initial work.
    Hands-offOnline
    Hacker News, 2018
  • Digital products
    Video course and book on Flask web development
    Produced a video course and a book about the Flask framework. Earns ongoing royalties from sales.
    Hands-offOnline
    Hacker News, 2018
  • Digital products
    Online UX design course on Udemy
    Created a user experience design course with a friend and sells it through Udemy. Profit is split between the two creators.
    Hands-offOnline
    Hacker News, 2016
  • Digital products
    Growth marketing book and video course
    Co-wrote a book on user acquisition and built a video course to go with it, funded through crowdfunding backers. Income comes from sales of the book and course.
    Hands-offOnline
    Hacker News, 2016
  • Digital products
    Swift programming book and exercise platform
    Teaches people the Swift language with a self-written book and an online coding exercise platform. Money comes from selling these products.
    Hands-offOnline
    Hacker News, 2016
  • Digital products
    E-commerce extensions for Opencart and WooCommerce
    Developed payment gateway and product feed extensions for online store platforms and sells them.
    Hands-offOnline
    Hacker News, 2014
  • Digital products
    Niche WordPress themes
    Sells WordPress themes for specific niches, with a small ad budget and a little customer support.
    Hands-offOnline
    Hacker News, 2014
  • Digital products
    Printable cupcake wrapper designs shop
    A website selling cupcake wrapper designs, with new designs needed to keep sales up.
    Online
    Hacker News, 2014
  • Digital products
    Programming book royalties
    Wrote a PHP book and still receives small royalty payments from it.
    Hands-offOnline
    Hacker News, 2014