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

5 ideas

  • Services and freelancing
    AI search visibility agency for software companies
    The agency helps software firms get recommended by AI chat tools by cleaning up a source-of-truth site and getting listed on the pages those tools cite. Clients are mid-size SaaS companies.
    Online
    The Side Hustle Show, 2026
  • 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
    Art commissions, licensing and print-on-demand
    Sells commissioned art, licenses existing work from a large catalog, and puts designs on print-on-demand sites for low-effort extra income.
    Online
    Hacker News, 2021
  • Services and freelancing
    Bought a site selling YouTube intro videos
    Purchased a website that sells custom YouTube intro videos at a low price per order, and aims to grow it and hand off tasks.
    Online
    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