These Three AI Side Hustles Are Easy-to-start, And Can Make You Money
AI broke the barrier of entry for these side hustles so anyone can start them and make money
There are two basic ways to make money online:
- Create a product or service and sell it.
- Create content and make money off your audience by selling to them later or getting paid by platforms for driving engagements.
Product and content creation can require a level of expertise and a shit ton of money. This creates a barrier of entry for some online side hustles.
But AI is the antidote that cracks the code. Now even non-pros can start previously difficult-to-start side hustles, with little or no capital.
Some of these AI side hustles are ridiculously easy to start so you don’t have to bother about the “how?”, all you need is the grit to be consistent until you get the results you want.
Talking about AI side hustles, let’s dive right in on three:
Selling AI-generated Patterns
You will love this side hustle if you’re into design. But even those who aren’t can still find it lucrative.
Before we get into how you can use AI to generate patterns, let’s look at the marketplaces where you can sell patterns:
Society 6
This is not one of the big marketplaces. The number of traffic is less, but this also means less competition for you.
Getting started on Society6 isn’t hard, you only have to create an account and upload your designs.
Creative Fabrica
This one is special. I will get down to why later.
Creative Fabrica is different from other marketplaces for print in that your designs won’t be sold as a physical product but as a digital product.
The digital product can be used
- For printable design
- And for scrapbooking
This is a much bigger marketplace, and this can mean more sales for you.
Redbubble
This is a marketplace for selling prints. All you need to do is upload your print and 3rd party printers and shippers will make sure your orders are delivered.
Here is Redbubble’s monthly traffic according to SimilarWeb:
Getting in on Redbubble:
- Create your account
- Enter payment details
- Add your artworks
- Promote your work
- Make sales
It’s that simple to get started and make your first sale on Redbubble.
How to generate patterns
Typically you need software to create print designs, and you need to have a level of expertise to create good ones.
But AI takes this barrier away.
Creative Fabrica is the platform that makes generating patterns easy. I told you that the platform is special; now let me get down to why.
There is:
- Creative Fabrica
- And Creative Fabrica Spark
Creative Fabrica is the marketplace for selling prints, while Creative Fabrica Spark is a collection of AI tools for doing many things, including generating patterns —which is what we are interested in.
You generate patterns on Creative Fabrica Spark using prompts. And you may want to use ChatGPT to generate these prompts.
Here is a sample prompt I tried on ChatGPT: Give me 10 in-demand flower pattern ideas that can be generated by AI.
The chatbot returned a list of prompts and I headed over to Creative Fabrica Spark.
I copied and pasted one of the prompts on Creative Fabrica Spark and the AI generated this design:
The prompt: red rose pattern design.
Creative Fabrica Spark is not free, but there’s a one-month free trial. You can use this trial window to generate as many prints as you want.
With these prints, you can then head over to the above marketplaces and upload them for sale.
Running A Faceless YouTube Channel
There are many reasons to run a YouTube channel. You can do it for your brand, as a hobby, or as a side hustle.
The problem, however, is that video content is hard to create.
- You need to be good before cameras (but not all of us are)
- And you need to spend money to get quality equipment.
Faceless video content lets you avoid these hurdles, and creating them has become very easy because of AI.
Now, here are three types of AI you need to run a faceless YouTube channel:
- Prompt generator
- Text-to-speech AI
- AI video editor
Prompt generator
While you can create scripts on your own, a quality script will require expertise, and this is where AI comes in.
AI can help you generate quality scripts that you can use for your YouTube. ChatGPT is one such AI.
Here is how it works:
- Prompt the chatbot to create a script for a YouTube video on the topic of your choice
- The chatbot will then generate a script for you that contains both Intro, Outro and different subtopics under the main topic.
While you can use the script generated by the chatbot, you should make your own edits, including cross-checking the script for false information, and adding or removing what you wish.
Here are ChatGPT alternatives you may not find useful:
- Google Bard
- Microsoft Bing
- Writesonic
- Claude
- Jasper Chat
Tex-to-speech AI
Armed with the script generated by AI, you can head over to a text-to-speech AI like Speechify and upload the text there.
Speechify is not just a text-to-speech app, it is one of the best in the market.
It will help you convert your scripts into a voiceover that you can download for use.
Here are Speechify alternatives:
- NaturalReader
- Amazon Polly
- Murf AI
- Google Cloud Text-to-speech
AI video editor
The speech generated from Speechify can be used as a voiceover during video editing.
AI has made video editing easy, and one such AI video editor is InVideo.
InVideo is a do-it-yourself video creation platform that allows you to easily turn your ideas into videos.
With InVideo you can use the platform’s AI to generate a script for your video, paste already-existing text, or use upload voiceovers you generated.
InVideo also allows you to:
- Create and edit every scene of your video separately
- Choose from tons of stock images and videos on the platform.
- Replace the stock images and videos with yours.
- Add voiceovers. This is where you can upload the voiceover you generated using Speechify.
After creating your video, you can preview and then export the video for download.
Here are InVideo alternatives you may find useful:
- Placeit
- Synthesia
- Lumen5
- Fliki
There are many niches you can build your faceless YouTube channel on:
- Motivational Videos
- Productivity Hacks
- Top 10/5 Videos
- Cooking Videos
- Scary Videos
Plus others.
The catch is to go for what you’re most familiar with, as this will make sure you enjoy the entire process involved.
You can make money from a YouTube channel through a number of ways:
- YouTube Partner Program.
- Affiliate marketing
- YouTube fan funding
- YouTube Shorts
- Sponsorship deals and brand deals
Run Ads
Anyone can run ads, but not everybody knows how to do so effectively.
There are many things to consider, and this makes expert knowledge necessary for effectively running ads. But even AI beats experts in this regard since AI can better analyze large amounts of data compared to humans.
You can learn how to use AI for every stage of the advertising process, including writing copies and placing the ad before the right audience, and you can then offer this knowledge as a service to brands that run ads.
To go into this AI advertising side hustle, you need to know the three ways AI now helps advertisers:
- Creating and optimizing ad copies
- Buying and placing ads
- Optimizing and managing ad performance.
Let’s get to them one at a time:
Creating and optimizing ad copies
Paid ads usually mean you have a lot on the line. A poorly written ad copy is one thing you don’t want to err on. You will lose subscribers if you write a bad email, and money if your ad copy underperforms.
AIs, now armed with Natural Language Processing (NLP), can now help you write compelling copies that convert.
So you don’t need to be a Neil Patel to write killer copies. You can do so with AI; you can generate as many copies as you wish without having to worry about writer’s block.
Here are sample AIs for generating Ad copy and images.
- Copy AI
- Rytr
- Writesonic
- AdCreative
Buying and placing ads
AI can automate the process of placing ads, using the information it’s provided with; like information about users and your ad budget.
Now because AI can analyze large amounts of data, such as the browser history of users and their demographics, they can target the right audience, and make sure you get the best ROI on your money.
Here are sample AI platforms for buying and placing adds:
- Adobe Advertising Cloud: you can buy, place, manage, and optimize ads.
- StackAdapt: you can plan, launch, and analyze ad campaigns.
Optimizing and managing ad performance.
Ads performance can change anytime, and you have to know why and figure out what to do next. AI is better than humans in analytics and is therefore more suitable for doing this.
When used, AI can help to constantly check the effectiveness of your advertising, including checking valuable metrics in real-time, like cost-per-click (CPC), cost-per-acquisition (CPA), or return on ad spend (ROAS).
They can also help advertisers with suggestions for, maybe, removing ads that are not performing well, or the order ads should be shown to users.
Here are sample AI platforms for managing and analyzing ad performances
Here are the possible steps you can take to start this side hustle:
- Get familiar with the ins and outs of AI advertising platforms and technologies.
- Determine which companies, especially those in the AI space, stand to gain from utilising AI in their advertising initiatives.
- Offer to assist them in developing, overseeing, and refining their advertising campaigns.
- Create ad copy, headlines, and descriptions that appeal to the target demographic by using AI technologies like ChatGPT.
- Track campaign effectiveness and modify tactics as necessary to optimise outcomes.
Wrapping Up
You can create a product/service to sell, or you can create content and find ways to monetize them.
AI has made it easy to do these.
You can use Creative Fabrica Spark to generate patterns and sell; you can create a faceless YouTube channel and monetize it through the different monetization means, or you can learn how to run ads with AI and market the service to brands that need them.