Side Hustle Profit Aggregator
Compare side hustles on startup cost, revenue, expenses, profit, ROI, time, and scalability.
Puts side hustles side by side on the numbers that decide between them: what it costs to start, what it earns, what it keeps, how many hours it eats and whether it can grow without you.
What a v1 does5 features
- Startup cost, revenue, expenses and margin per option
- Return on the hours as well as on the money
- Time to first dollar and time to break even
- Scalability rated honestly - most of these are jobs
- Sortable and filterable by whichever constraint binds
The market
People pay reliably to learn how to run a business, and HoneyBook's 100,000 members show they pay to run one. Paying to validate an idea before starting is much less established. These are adjacent comparables rather than direct ones, and $9 a month should be read that way.
Where these numbers come from
| Company | Earns | Reach | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| LivePlan | Consumer-priced SaaS | Not published | Published pricing |
| Coursera | $757.5M revenue, FY2025 | 197M registered learners | Public filings, 2025 |
| HoneyBook | $1B+ booked | 100,000+ members | Company-stated |
Why this audience
These viewers have watched enough hustle content to be suspicious of the numbers, and they are right to be. What they want is a comparison on real economics - cost to start, hours eaten, what is actually kept. Scepticism is the buying signal here.
Before it can launch
No licence, certification or data agreement stands between this and a launch — app-store review and an ordinary privacy policy aside.
What it earns
Drag me Every figure recalculates as you go.
0.043% of 2.3M followers · capped at 50,000
Opens on the price this idea was costed at, $9.
1,000 paying — 0.043% of 2.3M followers — × $9 a month = $9,000 a month
Fifty thousand paying users is the ceiling every one of these pages is drawn against, not a forecast. It opens at a thousand, the bottom of the range, so the first figures you see are the modest ones. What the cap buys is comparability: the same range on every app, and the percentage of the audience it takes as the number that moves.
Is this the one for your audience?
We fund it, build it, and run it. You bring the audience and take a share of the revenue. Nothing to pay and nothing to build.