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

17 ideas

  • Services and freelancing
    Modern laundromat with commercial laundry
    A large laundromat with a commercial laundry operation and remote management technology, now offered as a franchise.
    Over $10kIn person
    The Koerner Office, 2026
  • Services and freelancing
    Custom AI assistant built on a client's own documents
    The operator gathers one client's documents, structures them, and loads them into a custom GPT or Claude project so a specific audience can ask it questions instead of the owner. The example was a business broker whose buyers queried the assistant about a listing.
    Under $100Hands-offOnline
    Corey Ganim (YouTube), 2026
  • Services and freelancing
    Fixed-price workflow automation builds for small firms
    The operator replaces a repeated manual process with an automation built on off-the-shelf tools such as Zapier, Make or Asana, usually after a short diagnostic. It is charged as a one-off project, with a walkthrough video and a how-to-fix document handed over.
    Online
    Corey Ganim (YouTube), 2026
  • 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
    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
    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
    Own a hair salon franchise run by a manager
    Owns a franchise hair salon that is managed day to day by someone else.
    Over $10kHands-offIn person
    Hacker News, 2019
  • Services and freelancing
    Payment processing reseller and gateway
    Sells payment processing services, runs a white-label payment gateway, and builds custom apps for payment terminals, alongside a do-it-yourself website builder.
    Online
    Hacker News, 2019
  • Services and freelancing
    Websites for wineries paid in barter
    Built web pages for local wineries and was paid in goods such as wine rather than cash.
    Under $100
    Hacker News, 2019
  • Services and freelancing
    Web design with ongoing hosting fees
    Designs websites for clients and hosts them on cloud infrastructure, collecting monthly web and email hosting fees.
    Hands-offOnline
    Hacker News, 2016
  • 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
    Buy and run a cleaning business
    Bought an existing cleaning company and is running it with a business manager, so it needs little weekly attention.
    Over $10kHands-off
    Hacker News, 2014
  • Services and freelancing
    E-commerce site built for profit share
    Built an online store for an acquaintance in exchange for a share of profits each pay period.
    Hands-offOnline
    Hacker News, 2014
  • Services and freelancing
    Rent out managed servers to tenants
    Administers rented servers, handling updates and small fixes for tenants who pay monthly fees after covering hosting costs.
    Over $10kHands-offOnline
    Hacker News, 2014
  • Services and freelancing
    Lease out a developer to a client
    Places a former lead developer with an overseas client and earns a margin on the arrangement, alongside personal consulting.
    Under $100Hands-offOnline
    Hacker News, 2011
  • Services and freelancing
    Community ad boards in restaurants
    The operator places ad boards in local restaurants, sells the slots to nearby businesses, and upsells those advertisers websites and AI services. Profit comes from slot sales per board.
    The Koerner Office
  • Services and freelancing
    Rank-and-rent local lead sites
    The operator builds search-ranked sites for local trades such as junk removal and auto glass, then rents the resulting phone leads to contractors for a flat monthly fee. Costs per site are small.
    Online
    The Koerner Office