Digital products side hustle ideas

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

7 ideas

Digital products
Self-published science fiction romance
Writes and self-publishes science fiction romance books on the side.
Under $100Online
Hacker News, 2022
Digital products
Improved JavaScript image cropper for CodeCanyon
Found a popular product category on a code marketplace and built a better JavaScript image cropper and uploader to sell there.
Under $100Online
Hacker News, 2022
Digital products
Self-published fiction with newsletter
Self-publishes fiction and is growing a backlist and an email newsletter to increase sales.
Online
Hacker News, 2022
Digital products
Blog articles turned into a sold book
Wrote helpful articles, collected them into a book sold on Gumroad, and also builds a monitoring SaaS on the side.
Online
Hacker News, 2021
Digital products
Erotic fiction sold on Kindle
Writes and publishes erotic stories as Kindle ebooks and earns from sales.
Under $100Online
Hacker News, 2018
Digital products
Paleo diet guides and meal plans
Sells paleo diet guides and a meal plan service online.
Online
Hacker News, 2016
Digital products
Online course sales
Sells online courses, with income varying by how much promotion is done each month.
Online
Hacker News, 2014