All Side Hustle Ideas

Services and freelancing side hustle ideas

Doing work for clients for a fee: freelance, consulting, done-for-you services, repairs, local services.

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

9 ideas

  • Services and freelancing
    Custom AI image model training commissions
    Trains custom image generation models for customers on request using an automated pipeline, charging per commission.
    Online
    Hacker News, 2024
  • Services and freelancing
    Open source file manager with paid plugins
    A file manager supporting many storage protocols. Earns by building custom plugins such as authentication layers.
    Online
    Hacker News, 2024
  • Services and freelancing
    Network automation runbooks and platform
    Writes custom automation runbooks for networks and provides a web platform where customers run them.
    Part-timeOnline
    Hacker News, 2021
  • Services and freelancing
    Business automation services for small firms
    Builds and schedules automations for small businesses, using knowledge gained in a day job about common business pain points.
    Online
    Hacker News, 2019
  • Services and freelancing
    Software consulting for a former employer
    Does software consulting for a previous workplace after leaving it, adjusting the rate each year for inflation.
    Under $100Part-timeOnline
    Hacker News, 2019
  • Services and freelancing
    Spreadsheet data cleaning for businesses
    Cleans messy Excel data for companies and sometimes builds simple web apps to replace the spreadsheets. Bills per row, flat fee or hourly depending on the project.
    Under $100Part-timeOnline
    Hacker News, 2019
  • Services and freelancing
    Webshop deployment system with per-shop fee
    Built an automated system for deploying webshops for a web agency owner, in exchange for a fee on each shop deployed. The income ended when the client retired.
    Hands-offOnline
    Hacker News, 2016
  • Services and freelancing
    Convert websites into WordPress themes
    Did site-to-WordPress theme conversions for clients, finding them through targeted AdWords ads.
    $100 to $1kPart-timeOnline
    Hacker News, 2011
  • Services and freelancing
    Messaging service helping startups explain what they do
    Offers a service that helps startups write short, clear descriptions of their product for sites and their own pages.
    Online
    Hacker News, 2011