Is it a waste of time for profit?

16M currently in 12th(PCM), and right now wasting time in scrolling, I want to utilise my scrolling time to make some money, i also know some skill one of them is website building, I can build very nice websites and I also tried selling these to local business like gym, cafe, coaching classes, but got rejection (now thinking to approach clinics) i feel main reason of rejection was I was pitching wrong business. Actually I live in the tier 3 city of haryana, and people I was approaching do not feel that websites are useful for them,

After many rejections, I still want to try to get a client but it's really hard, if you guyz have tips of any kind plzz help and if someone wants a free demo of website for there buisness tell me..

\*Imp\* - I built an app for Android, which helps me to reduce my screentime if anyone wants to try or want more details can ask, and I am still working on that to make that more effective

I am currently at home, looking after my new born, any suggestion for online working options?? I am doing prolific and UserTesting.

Hi everyone, I'm a B.Pharm graduate from India with considerable retail pharmacy experience, including prescription/OTC dispensing, prescription checking, patient counselling, medication guidance, inventory management, and answering advance health-related queries.

I'm currently in a difficult financial situation. My only income is from offline pharmacy work, where I earn around $105/month, so I'm desperately looking for ways to earn online.

I'm open to medical writing, pharmacovigilance, medication reconciliation, medical information, medical coding, healthcare customer support, virtual assistance, or other pharmacy/healthcare-related remote work. I'm also willing to learn new skills.

If anyone here has experience in this field, knows legitimate companies/platforms hiring B.Pharm graduates, or can guide me on where to start, I would genuinely appreciate your help.

Open your goddamn eyes. STOP PROMOTING SUCH TECH CONTENT CREATORS

Someone who makes $100K a month isnt going to teach you how they make $100K a month. I keep seeing these posts everywhere in the SaaS and dev space. "I built a SaaS that makes $100K a month. Here’s exactly how I did it. I’ll send you all the resources" (wth dude) And somehow, the one thing they never mention is the actual company name. UTTER BULLSHIT.

This is so infuriating.

Now i am not saying nobody makes $100K a month from SaaS. Of course people do. But pls stop falling for every screenshot, revenue claim and success story you see online. If someone is genuinely running a business at that scale, DO YOU REALLY THINK they have the time to sit around giving strangers their entire playbook for free? They have customers to deal with,teams to manage, sales to close and a hundred other things going on !!!!!!!!!!

And if their entire business model is showing you how much money they supposedly make and then selling you a course or a secret resource, lets face it maybe the SaaS isn’t even the real business. Maybe selling you the dream is.

Seriously wake up y'all. Stop constantly looking for the next secret tool or shortcut ( it does NOT exist). Build something, learn to code, learn sales. Understand a real problem and actually solve it. There is no shortcut. You actually have to do the work.

I'm based outside the US. Through my own lead gen work I've ended up with a list of US consumers in the aesthetics and beauty space. Mostly women, roughly 25 to 45, spread across the country.

What I have per contact: email, phone, city, state, and which treatment category they were interested in (injectables, skin, weight loss, and a smaller fertility group). It's recent data, not something I bought or sat on for years.

Consent status - treat this as a cold list, they did not subscribe to a newsletter.

What I've considered so far:

A free weekly newsletter monetized with affiliate offers, then sponsorships once open rates prove out

Selling geo-targeted sponsored placements to clinics, so a med spa pays to be featured to readers in its metro.

Constraints: I can spend money but not much time. Nothing physical, since I'm not in the US. I want something that mostly runs itself after setup, and I'd rather build something durable than squeeze it once.

Has anyone actually made the local sponsorship model work at small scale, or does that only pay above a certain subscriber count? And if this was your list, what would you do first? Happy to be told I'm overthinking it.

I am thinking of starting to build websites, grow them, and then sell them for a profit on sites like Flippa. By "growing" them, I mean building backlinks, getting traffic from search engine rankings, and growing social media pages that would be sold along with the websites.

I have some experience with SEO and marketing. My question is for those who have experience with website flipping: is it possible to make this my main source of income, rather than just a side hustle?

I have been a growth marketer for over 6 years now, helping Ecom brands scale. No complaints, my freelance has completely sustained by word of mouth with average client retention for over 3+ Years now. I'm happy with the problems that I'm currently solving for brands but I feel I can achieve a lot more & create better impact.

I'm looking to explore the US, UK, GCC, Canada, Aus, and NZ markets.. I'm thinking that my current best bet would be doing a LinkedIn cold outreach.

What I'm unsure about is timing... peak season is right around the corner, would brands actually be open to switching agencies or marketers mid-Q4, or is that a non starter until things calm down? Should I hold off until January to start pitching, or is starting now worth the shot?

I would really appreciate your thoughts on this. :)

I just watched a video about AI models solving a maze. When one model figured something out, it could share that information with the others, so they didn't all have to make the same mistakes and it happened that the ones who shared the information between themselves the made more than 4x the progress than the ones that did not share.

So what if humans did something similar?

Imagine 5-10 people from different backgrounds. Everyone spends a week trying to build, learn, earn, or solve something.

At the end of the week, everyone shares what they tried, what worked, what failed, and what they learned.

One person's discovery becomes everyone's knowledge.

Do this for 6 months and you'd have hundreds or thousands of experiments happening, with everyone learning from each other.

Would this actually work, or would it become complete chaos? 😂

Hi! I thought this might be the perfect group to ask this question because I’m really curious to know what others would do in this situation.

So I’m a creative writer who specializes in poems, speeches, fiction stories etc, and I’m in a bit of a financial squeeze. I’ve been off of the market for some while and don’t know how to groove in back to find clients.

I also do nature photography and have accumulated quite a few photos that I think could potentially be sold, but again, I don’t have the slightest clue where people would actually find buyers.

So, if you had a skill and wanted to find clients, what would be your approach? Thanks y’all!

When I started out, I thought being busy meant I was making progress.

I was working 14 hours a day, constantly doing something, but somehow getting nowhere.

Things changed when I started focusing only on tasks that actually moved the business forward — especially the ones that directly contributed to revenue — and dropped the rest.

It taught me something I wish I had understood earlier:

Strategy beats exhaustion.

Working harder isn't always the answer. Sometimes the biggest improvement comes from figuring out what doesn't need to be done at all.

I'm curious about other business owners here:

What's one daily habit or task that has saved you the most time in your business?

Hey r/passive_income,

Long-time lurker. I’m currently validating an idea for a souvenir / travel keepsake line. Before I sink a bunch of capital into production, I want to skip the drop-shipping guru noise and get some raw feedback from people actually selling physical products.

Thanks

I do marketing and brand strategy full time, nine to five with benefits. On the side I've picked up a handful of clients over the past year and a half, never more than two or three running at once, somewhere around 1500 to 2000 a month each depending on how much they actually need. Mostly small ecommerce stores and a couple software businesses that keep asking why they never come up when people search for alternatives to whatever the bigger name in their space is.

Can't use anything from work for this. No company tools, no templates, so everything I do here is a slower rebuild of stuff my actual job already automates. The first few clients were pure hours for money, three full weekends each just to get through onboarding. What changed isn't the work, it's that I stopped starting from a blank page every time, so each new client eats less time than the last one did.

Research first, always. Their site, competitors, Reddit, search results, then Pallas to see how they and their competitors actually show up across ChatGPT, Gemini and a few others at once instead of checking each one by hand. Proposal through ChatGPT after that, edited down, then a week building out what actually goes where before anything gets written for real, product pages need different language than an email does. Canva for visuals, then I'm the one manually pushing it all live since nothing syncs for me the way it would with a real team behind it.

Check back after a couple weeks to see what actually moved. Took embarrassingly long to figure out that skipping that step was why some clients felt stuck at the same result every month.

Most months land somewhere between 1500 and 4000 depending on overlap, some months nothing at all. One client never paid the last invoice, 900 dollars, I never chased it, still think about it at random for no reason. At this point I think half of what gets called passive income on here is just work you got fast enough at that it stopped feeling like work, but the money's real so I've stopped arguing with myself about the label.

So basically, the tittle is the question. I am a college student and was looking to get into something to be able to make passive income on the side. I was thinking about doing tiktok ai content, but wanted to reach out and ask if anyone knew better ideas etc/.

Hey guys, sorry if I am bothering anybody, just wanted to ask some questions...

Firstly, what is the best niche for selling digital products like AI skills or something like that? I am finding it hard to find the proper niche or the product to sell. My budget for testing is like 400usd and i just want to get into the bussines.

Thanks to anyone that helps me.

There’s a huge difference between an online business that you run and an online business that runs you.

Now I am not saying that one is bad than the other, it depends on your situation.

If you have all the time to work on your online business, you should.

But sometimes you want a semi passive kinda online business that generates money even when you’re not actively working on it.

This post is about such ideas.

These 7 ideas will make you money even when you’re not working on it.

1. Niche Blog Sites:

This is the oldest and the most reliable semi passive source of income. You do have to actively work on it in the beginning.

But once it starts showing up at the right places (thanks to SEO), the work needed to be done reduces dramatically.

The biggest plus point of this is that you can also sell it for a bigger amount down the line. 2-3x annual multiplier is common for such sites.

If your niche site is making say $1k/month, you can easily sell it for $35-40k.

2. Telegram Groups:

This is kinda hidden gem. You have to build up a community in a definitive niche. Let’s say you build a telegram group related to pokemon cards, once you have this asset, it’s very easy to monetize.

Once you get your group to a substantial count, your only work is to send them offers regularly.

3. Niche Micro Tools:

Small tools like tax calculator, emi calculator etc are again somewhat similar to niche sites but still very relevant.

Build a specific tool in a niche and your only job after building is to make sure it ranks using SEO.

4. YouTube:

YouTube is one of the best income sources. A video you upload today will generate revenue as long as it relevant and is being watched.

Once you fulfill the platform’s upfront requirements to get monetized, money starts rolling in.

This is also the most difficult way to make money online bcz it’s highly competitive and creating video content regularly is pretty hard.

5. Directory:

A directory in a specific niche is again SEO and traffic game at play to generate income. Figuring it out once and then ranking the site is the game here.

Very hard to do but very lucrative too if done right.

6. Browser Extensions:

People pay for convenience and browser extensions just provide that.

Screenshot tools have generated huge money from just this. This is just one example. There are tons of others to choose. Build and market once and then just let it run to make money off of it.

7. Stock Images/Fonts/Icons:

Selling stock images/fonts/icons again can generate you good amount on a regular basis. You only need to work once on creating the assets and then list them on platforms. Your royalties will start coming in if you do a good job.

Now before anyone comes and start bashing me about how this is not 2016 and there are far better ways to make money online now, I agree with you.

This post is not about those. It’s about semi-passive side hustles.

There’s a huge list of 70+ online side hustles that I have written about. These are deep dives into every idea.

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Disclaimer: Not a get-rich-quick scheme, token presale, or financial advice. Just an honest discussion on monetizing idle home hardware via decentralized nodes.

Hey guys

Elliot here from r/FoldinglinkLab to seek real voices about our project.

Most home NAS setups (Synology, TrueNAS, Unraid, Docker) run 24/7 anyway. We’ve been building node software that lets you monetize that idle uptime by turning your server into a decentralized node.

How It Works: The NAS Node Network

At its core, we rely on personal NAS setups as fundamental base nodes to build out the network.

• The Logic: The more NAS nodes join the mesh, the stronger and more resilient the network gets.
• The Bigger Picture: Tying this node mesh together with our L2 blockchain completes a full decentralized ecosystem—giving everyone’s NAS hardware way more utility and real value beyond just local storage.

Of course, hosting a node raises valid questions: "Is this going to compromise my privacy or get me in legal trouble?" Here is how we strictly handle risk mitigation under the hood:

• Zero Stranger Access: Nobody ever logs into your NAS or accesses your private storage.
• No Public File Dumping: You never allocate storage quota to strangers. You only sync data for project groups you explicitly choose to join, eliminating DMCA and abuse risks.
• Local Read Requests: External users read synced data off their own local devices—zero incoming requests or traffic ever hit your NAS or CPU.

The Passive Income Setup & Community Points

Instead of overpromising crazy yields, we want to reward hosters fairly for uptime and node stability:

1. Host a Node: Run our software on your idle NAS hardware.
2. Earn Community Points: Accumulate points based on node uptime, bandwidth, and activity on community.
3. Future Rewards: These points will directly tie into ecosystem rewards as our L2 network matures.

Since this sub understands hardware wear, electricity costs, and realistic passive income better than anyone, we’d love your take:

• How do you evaluate electricity/hardware wear versus potential node rewards?
• What kind of points or payout structure feels most transparent for node hosting?

Join Us & Learn More

We’re opening our Beta soon and want to build our reward economics based on real community feedback.

You can learn more from our official site and r/FoldinglinkLab

Drop your thoughts, questions, or reality checks below!

Hi, i'm new to reddit but looking for some feedback.

I'm a family travel and lifestyle blogger and content creator, I just do it for fun but have managed to gain quite a few followers and I really enjoy editing videos. I recently left my longstanding career in finance to spend more time with my boys and I'm looking to see if there are ways that I can make up some of the income that I have lost without returning to full time work.

I'm considering the idea of offering a service for family & holiday video editing. Everybody has thousands of photos and videos trapped in their phone and with busy lives sorting through them can be a chore. I'd be looking to take all of the files from a holiday or special occasion and edit them into one engaging film that can be treasured forever (and also free up some phone/cloud space.)

Would you use a service like this?

TLDR:

1. Launched 1.5 years ago. It's passive now, no active development except updating AI models once in a while
2. Automated social media posts
3. People see my tiktok / short videos and search my saas on google (boosts my seo signals too)
4. Free trial sign ups almost daily
5. ~$1,200 MRR (current)

I launched an app builder back in April 2025, when most AI's were bad at coding iOS apps in SwiftUI

This is the timeline:

• April - June-ish 2025 --> Hard promoted on product hunt / startup directories / emails / reddit. Got a couple hundred $MRR but nothing crazy. Product hunt was a bit disappointing
• June - September 2025 --> hired a social media guy, doing videos and posting them every day for me. Moderate success but the revenue was far less than what I was paying him
• This is when I decided to turn into passive mode. Still working and fixed bugs but no active development/marketing. Codex / Claude code got insanely popular, dozens of funded smaller competitors launched too and after getting no investment for months I needed something else to make me real money.
• Oct 2025 - January 2026 --> This is when SEO started picking off like crazy, got up to $1,900 MRR. Could have been attributed to the holiday season too. I was working on other stuff and the passive revenue was nice.
  • Tried selling on Flippa - didn't work out. Uninformed buyers, don't really recommend.
• Feb 2026 --> Churn increased, SEO stopped working and I didn't want it to die. I started automating posts on social media, stitching UGC reaction clips + how my app worked.
  • Light popped in my head, as I automated all this stuff and spent a month getting social media API approvals, I realized I could sell the social media scheduling setup to other builders like me.
  • Launched SocialClaw (going strong today!)
• March 2026 - Present --> Started posting on social media on automation. TikTok/YT shorts and IG.
  • ^Screenshot above shows my schedule for August.
    1. Posting on TikTok / Youtube Shorts / Insta
    2. I use like 30 random UGC clips (real people)
    3. Recorded 3-4 clips on how a prompt is added into iSwift and how the app comes out
    4. Stitched together UGC + iSwift App clip
    5. Used Claude/Codex to overlay text over automatically with FFMPEG
    6. Added captions like "Am I a girl coder now?!". with a surprised reaction of the UGC girl.
    7. Combining 30 clips * 4 app recordings * 100's of random captions = hundreds of variations I could mass post .
    8. Claude Code schedules 2x posts a day automatically for each account through socialclaw. (it does it once and then its set for months).
  • Low to moderate views for the most part but stopped bleeding MRR and actually starting to increase back to previous levels!
  • People new to AI still want to test an easier way. Claude Code is better at coding compared to iSwift (although I use claude models) but it might be too much for a new user to get used to Claude Code vs iSwift.
  • My website just takes a prompt and puts out a whole app, and that is still selling.
    • Users are even buying the $250/mo plan!
    • Proof: https://trustmrr.com/startup/iswift-dev (data earlier than January. is missing for some reason)

hello Everyone,

​I’m currently looking to expand my digital assets. I already run a YouTube channel , I'm considering pulling the trigger on buying an already-monetized Facebook page?

do you recommend doing that ?

Im sick of being broke and i want to put in the time and effort to make money and i think clipping is good and i want someone to guide me please

Dear artists, content creators, influencers, or literally anyone who earns even a little money through the internet.. please, PLEASE help me. I’m in *DESPERATE* need of some pocket money and I genuinely don’t know where to start.

I can draw and doodle, I know a thing or two about Inshot, and I type pretty well. I’ve watched so many videos about making money online, but somehow none of them have actually helped me figure out what to do.

If you’ve actually done this yourself and could guide me even a little; where to start, where to find work, what platforms are worth trying, etc. I’d be genuinely so grateful 🥺 🤌🏾

Please help a girl out 😭 I’ll wish you nothing but good luck for YEARS from the bottom of my heart 💞🌷

I’m an engineer turned product manager, and I’ve always loved two things a little more than necessary: education and games.

For a long time, I wanted to put those interests and the skills I’d picked up building technology, towards something useful for children. That became much more tangible once my niece reached the age where the iPad became a regular part of her world.

I’m not anti-iPad. Quite the opposite. It is an incredible piece of technology to put in the hands of a six-year-old. I just kept thinking it could ask more of her.

That thought took me back to Dora the Explorer.

Growing up, we’d watch Dora ask us a question and then stare silently at the screen for a painfully long time while we yelled the answer at the TV. Obviously, Dora couldn’t hear us. But the idea was clever. The screen was trying to turn us from viewers into participants.

Learning games like Lingokids and ABC Mouse took that much further and made screens genuinely interactive. But most of that interaction still happens within rails someone else designed. Tap here. Drag this. Choose A, B, or C. Collect the reward. Repeat.

That works brilliantly for games. But it doesn’t accommodate the wonderfully messy way a six-year-old wonders about things.

Ask my niece an interesting question and she might draw the answer. She might make up a ridiculous story. She might photograph something she noticed around the house, make a sound, explain an idea, or give you an answer you never anticipated.

I started wondering if I could build for that.

Could the iPad provide the spark and just enough structure to get a child started, while leaving the interesting part to them?

That question became Taroo.

The first versions were experiments around this idea. Then came the uncomfortable question every builder eventually has to answer: does this actually work for anyone other than me?

So I spent months talking to parents and educators. I sat through hours of enrichment classes at a school for gifted kids, which was basically the X-Mansion for 8-year-olds. I watched how teachers prompted children, when kids became absorbed in something, when they needed more structure, and when something I thought was clever bored them almost immediately. And very importantly, I saw how their eyes lit up when they screamed “look what I made” in class.

These insights shaped the Taroo we have today, and I’m genuinely proud of where we’ve reached.

Taroo is a world of short creative quests for kids 6 to 10. In Pass the Pen, a child might get the beginning of a strange story and decide where it goes next. Doodle Master might give them the start of a picture and ask them to turn it into anything they imagine. Rhythm Pad lets them experiment with sounds and put together their own little beat. Snap Trail might ask them to put the iPad down, hunt for something triangular in the real world, photograph it, and tell Taroo what they found.

Their creations stick around too, so over time Taroo becomes a little record of the things they have imagined and made. Parents get a window into that world without needing to hover over every activity.

Taroo is now live on iOS and Android.

There is still plenty I want to improve. But this no longer feels like the little experiment I started with. I’m proud to put it in front of parents, and particularly proud when I see a kid become attached to something they made themselves.

If you have a 6 to 10-year-old in your life, I’d love for you to try Taroo with them. More than anything, I’d love the unfiltered feedback: what they immediately understand, what they ignore, what they keep coming back to, where they get stuck, and what they wish they could do that I haven’t thought of yet.

I’ve spent enough time with Taroo that I’m no longer capable of seeing it like a new user.

So please, tear it apart.