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title: 'I Tried 7 Online Side Hustles, Here''s the Best One [2025]'
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date: 2026-08-10
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# I Tried 7 Online Side Hustles, Here's the Best One [2025]

> Source: [I Tried 7 Online Side Hustles, Here's the Best One (2025)](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ctra61zjCUM)

## Summary

The video presents a personal evaluation of seven online side hustles, ranked by ease of starting, capital required, earning potential, time investment, and scalability. The creator shares real financial outcomes—both profits and losses—from dropshipping, video editing, copywriting, faceless YouTube, Instagram theme pages, content creation, and a micro personal brand service business. The goal is to help viewers choose the best side hustle for 2025 based on their circumstances.

### Key Points

- **No single formula for making money online** [00:01] — The creator tried multiple side hustles, some became full-time businesses, others resulted in huge losses, concluding there's no one-size-fits-all approach.
- **Five criteria for ranking side hustles** [00:33] — Each side hustle is ranked by ease of starting, starting capital, earning potential, time invested, and scalability.
- **Dropshipping: high risk, low margins** [01:19] — Started in 2023 with a partner; lost ₹2,000,000 due to high ad costs (₹1 per 1000 impressions) and thin profit margins (10-15%). Requires ₹1 lakh minimum capital and 4-5 hours daily for at least 6 months. Scalability is high (10/10) but overall rank is 7.6/10.
- **Video editing: easy to learn, saturated market** [05:18] — Learnable in 30 days via free YouTube tutorials; low starting capital (8/10). However, supply of editors is high, driving prices down (₹600 per video), and AI is worsening the market. Earning potential rank is 4/10; takes 1.5 years to build a profitable agency. Overall rank 5.8/10.
- **Copywriting: low cost, high returns** [07:58] — Started with Beer Biceps in 2022, charged ₹25,000 for first gig. Zero starting capital (10/10), ease of starting 10/10. Earning potential high (₹5,000/month for 30 posts, ₹50,000 for 4 YouTube videos). Time investment 8/10, scalability 8/10, overall 8.8/10.
- **Faceless YouTube: high potential, high investment** [10:36] — Friend earns ₹50-70 lakhs/month, but requires ₹1 lakh+ capital and 1 year to learn basics. Earning potential 10/10, but time required 4/10 and capital 4/10. Overall rank 6.4/10.
- **Instagram theme pages: modest income, low scalability** [13:50] — Friend's page has 35,000 followers; earned ₹1 lakh in 4 months (₹2,500/month). Low capital (8/10), time 7/10, but scalability limited to 6/10 unless selling products. Overall 7.2/10.
- **Content creation: profitable but time-intensive** [16:15] — Creator gained 15,000 subscribers in 3 months, 6 lakh views. Requires 6-12 months to grow; earning potential high (₹10 lakh+ at 50k subs). Scalability 10/10, overall 7.5/10.
- **Micro personal brand service business: the bonus** [19:23] — Create a micro personal brand (10k-20k followers) to attract clients and charge premium. Friend with <10k followers earns ₹5,00,000 from three clients. Predicted to boom for next 5 years.

### Conclusion

The best side hustle depends on your capital, time, and skills. Copywriting offers the highest score (8.8/10) for low investment, while dropshipping and faceless YouTube require significant capital and time. The creator recommends a micro personal brand service business as a future-proof option.

## Transcript

freelancing, and YouTube side hustles. Some of them became my full-time businesses, while others resulted in huge losses. Through all this, I realized one thing: There's no single formula for making money online.
many people don't understand this and therefore never make money online. Therefore, in this video, I'll share my experiences with each side hustle: how much money I made, how much I lost, and why, so you can choose the perfect side hustle for you
for 2025. Finally, I'll share a bonus side hustle that's going to boom for the next 5 years. So don't miss out. To decide which side hustle is the best, we'll rank each one by five criteria: Number one: Ease of starting. How easy it is to learn
the skill. Second: Starting capital. How much capital is required to start making money. Third: Earning potential. How much can you earn, showing you the real-life numbers. Number four: Time invested. How much time would you have?  Need to give
daily number five scalability can you turn this side hustle into a full time business and after ranking each side hustle i will tell you for whom it can be a perfect option let's start with the most controversial side sale drop shipping
it is kind of a scam let me explain i started drop shipping in 2023 with a friend of mine who handled five other dropshipping stores the collective revenue of all five stores was 1.5cr per month he had experience in running ads and
i had experience in content and copywriting you want to start there is a lot of information freely
starting is 10/10 second criteria the starting capital this is where it gets tricky the truth is today dropshipping has become so popular that millions of people like you and me are on popular that millions of people like you and me are on
cost  It was around ₹1 for 1000 impressions. Because of this, our product could not become profitable and we were at a ₹2000000 loss. So for starting out, you will require a minimum capital of ₹1 lakh to test out a few products and find the
winning product for yourself. Even Nishk Sharma, who is a writer and runs a very big drop shipping store, has said on his website that you will require a minimum of ₹1.5 to ₹1 lakh to start a drop shipping store. So for this
reason, the starting capital rank is 4/10. Now, you have invested so much money, but what are the earnings? I will tell you the truth. Many people will show you figures of lakhs and crores online, but that is not the profit. That is only sales and revenue. From that,
product cost, shipping cost, returns, when all these costs are taken out, the profit margin will be only 10 to 15%. We are a high quality  We were selling children's toys that make kids smart for 999. And after substituting all these costs,
we were left with just ₹10. And as we scaled, the cost got even higher. And that is why we incurred losses. So roughly, if you invest ₹10,000, you will get back ₹2,000,000. Out of that,
So that is why the earning potential rank is 6 out of 10. So you will be asking yourself how much time is required to make a successful store. Initially, you will have to give 4 to 5 hours because you are building a website, researching products,
testing products, making ads yourself. Everything you are doing by yourself. while you are earning money. After that, when you  Find the winning product. You have to first recover the losses that you made in the past three months and then you will start earning money.
So minimum six months you have to give to this side hustle and only then this side hustle and only then you can make good money. So the time required rank is 8/10. And after doing all this, can
you make this a full time business? Can you quit your job? In my niche, Children's Toys niche, I saw that a lot of competitors were doing after a few months, I saw that they built a whole brand around that niche. My partner had his other
five drop shipping stores which he was handling and from that, I literally saw one brand making ₹ lakh revenue selling plants. So the scalability rank is selling plants. So the scalability rank is 10/10. Overall rank is 7.6. The main negative
points are high cost, lot of capital and time investment and low profit margins as you scale. Now this is the Perfect side hustle for someone who has a steady source of income. You are ready to invest Rs 1 lakh for
three to four months and you can put in 5 to 6 hours a day. If not, the next one is for you. Video editing is the skill that is in demand these days in the market so much that you can make lax and lax of it, but only if you do it right. What do I mean by that?
edited videos for clients myself. Today, our agency provides video editing as a service to clients. We continuously work with different video editing agencies and freelancers. And after doing all this, I realized that it is very easy to learn.
If you are ready to dedicate 30 days, you can easily learn video editing from YouTube for free. One of my favorite channels to learn video editing is adobe.com. It will
I still upload my videos on my 3-year- old Mac.  I do a little editing, so my starting capital rank is 8 to 10, but today so many kids have become video editors, it is crazy. I get three to four emails every day saying, Bhaiya, I will edit your videos better
at a cheaper price. And because of the increase in the supply of meek newbie editors, who are good editors, I will not take names, but even big YouTube agencies tell us that the price of one is ₹600, do not pay more than that to editors.
And with the advent of AI, the market is getting worse because people can do media career edits very quickly, and for cheap, for a genuinely good editor, it will take around six months to find good high paying clients. So, the earning rank is four on ten. Right now, how much time will you have to spend in this? It takes
earning rank is four on ten. Right now, how much time will you have to spend in this? It takes YouTuber takes four days. Initially, you will not get such good returns on your time invested, but once you get at a certain stage, you can make even one reel.  You can charge 2 to 000 rupees.
So the time invested ranking is 4/10. In short, now the main question is, can you make a whole business around this? Can you create a profitable video editing agency? The answer is yes, but there is a slight issue in that. You can only make a profitable video
editing agency after 1.5 years in the market because it will take time to get good clients and you would need some proof of work for that. Till then, you will get small But I am sure it is worth it. So because of this, the scalability rank is 5/10 and the
overall rank is 5.8/10. This is the best side as well for someone who loves video editing as an art and is ready to give 1 year's time. Those who are editing as an art and is ready to give 1 year's time. Those who are
neither get paid nor will they be able to survive in the market for long. If you are in that category, then you will love this.  Next one number three copywriting I first started freelance copywriting when I was working for Beer Biceps My first gig was
working for Beer Biceps My first gig was in 2022 price ka kuch nahi pata tha So I just charged ₹2500000
from youtube's About copywriting is this one So the ease of starting rank is 10 on 10 Starting capital required is literally 0 You don't even need a laptop You can do it from your phone So the starting capital
rank is also 10 on 10 Earning potential is also very high as compared to the time that you gave Right now we have clients on email and
whatsapp ₹5000 per month for 30 posts It's definitely a good deal And because
can write youtube 4 videos for around ₹5000000 will
three hours and you can easily handle up to two clients so the time investment ranking is an 8 on 10 but can you convert this into a full fledged business? Yes and no no if you scale this business alone then
you might not see very high profit margins. If you combine this skill with other skills like social media management strategy, video editing then you can sell a complete package at a good price or you
can dominate a specific niche in copywriting only for example writing performance ads for a example writing performance ads for a specific niche and writing YouTubers for a specific type of creator I know with 100% guarantee that Dhruv Rathee used to
know with 100% guarantee that Dhruv Rathee used to and today he must be paying even more than that so the scalability rank is 8 on 10 and the so the scalability rank is 8 on 10 and the overall score is  88.8 out of 10 This is the
best side Actually if someone feels that he has even a little can be creative in this field but if you want to take these creative skills to a higher level then you should try this next one that is a faceless
youtuber's and I have a friend who is doing this since 2021 right now he is earning around 50 to 70 lakhs per month from this so let me tell you the unfiltered truth ease me tell you the unfiltered truth ease of starting is as the name says if you do
then it will take you minimum one year to learn the basics of
editing all will be done and you will get lakhs of rupees but that is not the truth I myself did it for the script of a video ₹5000000
expense if I posted once a week a friend of mine who is right now earning friend of mine who is right now earning cross from faceless
for the initial three months and only after that he started seeing returns for that reason capital required rank goes to 4/10 earning potential like I said my friend earns unimaginable amounts of money like you can't even fathom
what is 50 lakhs a month even I can't fathom my faceless youtube's were not profitable yet but I stopped it because I wanted to prioritize is my personal brand so earning potential rank is 10 on 10 now
how much time will you have to invest to earn this much there are a lot of scammers who do 3 minutes of work on youtube outsource everything and earn lakhs of rupees a month that is Absolutely not the truth you can't think that Ferrell's used to give
half years today he gives 4 to 5 hours a day with around 5 to 10 full time employees so that is why time required rank is 4/10 and scalability so you have rank is 4/10 and scalability so you have already seen 50 to 70 lakhs per month let's say
your channel may not do that well but still 2 to 3 lakhs per month is definitely dual so scalability rank is 10/10 overall rank is 6.4 the only con is high capital investment and a slightly higher time investment this side is actually perfect for someone who has
prior youtube1 investment ready ko rahe hain for the next six months if not you can start an start an instagram's
motivation and podcast with his two friends and that page today has 35000 followers
lot of capital to start. Whatever content you're creating, it would be mostly repurposing someone else's content and doing some sort of editing on it. You don't need an expensive smartphone or
Mac for that. You can edit all this on a normal phone or even a normal PC. So, the starting capital rank is 8 out of 10. Now, the question comes: how much can you earn from this? out of 10. Now, the question comes: how much can you earn from this?
spins. We were getting around 5 to 10,000 views. We used to to 10,000 views. We used to get around 1 to 000 for a reel. In the first four months of 2024, we made a revenue of up to 1 lakh rupees. That is around ₹2,500,000. We
Earning potential wise, as a side hustle, it is good to get a rank of 5 out of 10. How much time will you have to spend to earn this much amount? If you post three reels on your page daily, you can edit them in an hour or two. And if you
create batch content, then in around five to two hours you can make a full week's worth of content. So the time required rank is 7 out of 10. But the bad part is that it is not scalable. You cannot earn more than 25, 30, 40,000 followers at a time, even if you have a
lot of followers unless you are selling a product behind your theme page. If you have a theme page around Instagram, then you can sell T-shirts with Instagram quotes. If you have a theme page around cats, then you can dropship cat products.
But to do this, you will need a minimum of 6 to 12 months. So, the scalability rank is 6 months. So, the scalability rank is 6 out of 10. The overall rank is 7.2.  The main negative point out of 10 is that it is not that scalable. This is the perfect side hustle for someone who wants to earn
20 to 30,000 per month and they don't see it as a long term business. If you want to build a full time business, you need to give it 6 to 12 months and sell a product behind your theme page. If not, you can start your own content
creation, which is much more profitable. I started content creation 3 months started content creation 3 months ago. I have gained 15,000 subscribers and around 6 lakh views. I learned to create content on my own, completely free of cost. But what
I paid for at the time took me two or three years to learn. So, the ease of or three years to learn. So, the ease of starting rank is 6/10. But
you will definitely need a high quality camera. And you will also need a good editor to make good content.  Aesthetic videos like this one, so for that, either an
The earning potential is a lot at this stage. Also, after just five videos, I started getting brand sponsorship emails, and they are willing to pay me 0,000 emails, and they are willing to pay me 0,000 videos. I have a colleague who has 20,000 followers on
three to six months down the line when your followers increase. Now, how much time will it take you to do this? As you know, I got 15,000 followers in three months, but this is because I was working on the back end of YouTube and content
creators for three years. That's why it was so easy for me. I learned everything that is required. It was like a graduate school for me, and as soon as I graduated, I opened my startup in three months, but this won't be the case for everyone. It will take you a minimum of
but this won't be the case for everyone. It will take you a minimum of six months to  To grow on write the script, shoot the videos, and edit them. So, the time required rank is 5 or
10. But the main question is, can you make this a full-time business? The answer is definitely yes, based on the offers I am getting at the 50,000 subscriber mark. You can definitely make this a full-time business. And after that point,
you can easily earn up to ₹10 lakh. And as you grow, that amount will compound further. So, 10 by 10 rank on scalability. Overall rank is 7.5 out of 10. The main negative point is that you will have to invest 6 to 12 months. This side hustle
is best for those who have more experience in some specific area than others. Like, I have more experience in agency building and freelancing than you. People who have a decent camera, I have an
based service business.  It's a big word, but what does it mean? It means that you create content in a specific niche. You create a micro personal brand, say from 10,000 to 20,000 followers. Seeing that growth, clients will come to you in similar niches
saying, "Help us also grow." Because of this micro personal brand, you will have a much higher amount of trust as compared to other service providers. Because of this, you will be able to close more clients and charge a
premium. I have a friend who lives in Bangalore. He literally does the same thing. He has less than 10,000 followers and three people are paying him ₹5,000,000. He has
importance of personal brand is going to rise in the coming years. So, if you want to understand in depth about this business model, watch this video and subscribe to my model, watch this video and subscribe to my channel. I will see you at the top.