Passive Income Reality Check: 6 Side Hustles Tested
45sOpens with a bold claim and promises shocking results, hooking viewers who want to know if passive income really works.
▶ Play ClipThe video tests six popular passive income side hustles to determine their real-world viability. The host evaluates each method based on time investment, earning potential, and scalability to full-time income, revealing which ones work and which are scams.
The host tests six passive income side hustles, rating each on time, money, and full-time income potential. Three generated income equivalent to a 9-to-5 salary.
Earning potential up to ₹500/day or ₹15,000/month. After testing, the host earned only ₹4 for 10 minutes of work, equating to ₹100-200 per hour. Rated 1/10, calling it a scam.
Earning potential ₹30,000-40,000/month. The host completed tasks for an agency owner and learned that VAs can earn ₹40,000-45,000/month. With two clients, income can reach ₹80,000-90,000/month. Rated 8/10.
Earning potential up to multiple lakhs per month. The host collaborates with expert Nishkarsh Sharma, who generated ₹9 crore in India. POD requires a budget of ₹50,000-1 lakh and 1-2 hours daily. Rated highly but requires mentorship.
Earning potential up to ₹50,000/month. The host cloned his voice on 11 Labs but after two months, no one used it, earning ₹0. Rated 2/10, calling it a scam for most.
Earning potential up to multiple lakhs/month. The host sold a Notion template (₹0 earned) and coaching calls (₹3,500 for 2 hours). Over 2-3 months, earned ₹40,000-50,000 from coaching. Rated 7/10.
Earning potential up to ₹40,000/month. The host created an AI avatar reel for an entrepreneur, who was willing to pay ₹50,000/month. Rated 8/10.
Not all passive income methods are equal; some are scams while others can replace a full-time income. The key is to identify legitimate opportunities like virtual assistant, print on demand, digital products, and AI avatar reels, and put in consistent effort.
"Title promises reality check on passive income, and the video delivers with real tests and honest ratings."
What was the earning potential claimed for online surveys on Swagbucks?
Up to ₹500 per day or ₹15,000 per month.
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How much did the host actually earn from online surveys in 10 minutes?
₹4.
02:26
What is the earning potential for a virtual assistant per month?
₹30,000 to ₹40,000 per month.
03:25
How much can a virtual assistant earn with two clients?
Around ₹80,000 to ₹90,000 per month.
06:07
What is the recommended budget for starting a print on demand business?
₹50,000 to ₹1 lakh.
08:11
How much revenue did Nishkarsh Sharma generate from Indian POD?
₹9 crore.
07:45
What is the earning potential claimed for AI voice cloning?
Up to ₹50,000 per month.
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How much did the host earn from AI voice cloning after two months?
₹0.
13:07
What was the host's rating for online surveys?
1/10.
02:42
What was the host's rating for virtual assistant?
8/10.
06:07
What was the host's rating for AI voice cloning?
2/10.
13:22
What was the host's rating for digital products?
7/10.
16:15
What was the host's rating for AI avatar reels?
8/10.
19:08
Three side hustles matched 9-to-5 income
Shows that some passive income methods can be viable alternatives to traditional employment.
00:32Online surveys rated 1/10
Demonstrates that popular methods can be scams with very low returns.
02:42Virtual assistant rated 8/10
Highlights a legitimate, scalable passive income with high earning potential.
06:07Print on demand revenue of ₹9 crore
Provides a real-world success story with impressive numbers.
07:45AI voice cloning earned ₹0
Exposes another overhyped method that fails for most people.
13:22[00:02] But today a new way of earning money has come. Passive income. Let's talk about passive income. Passive income. Many people are earning as much passive income as you are not earning in active income. So, today we'll try
[00:16] six of the most popular passive income side hustles to check reality. Let's see if working less can make me more money. So the shocking part is that three of these side hustles generated income equivalent to a 9 to 5 salary.
[00:32] passive side in real life and I will tell you which one was worth doing and which one was a complete waste of time. We will rate each side actual on three metrics. How much time does it take? How much money can we make? And if we can make it into a full time
[00:46] income. So let's start with our first passive side, actual. This is years old and one of the most popular side is original. If you want to earn extra money. And it is probably the easiest to do and that is online surveys. You can earn money by filling online services. The
[01:00] first website is Swag. What is there to do in this? Big companies need customer research to launch new products. So they put out a few surveys to do this. We have to fill up such surveys and that company will
[01:13] give us money. Earning potential is up to ₹500 per day. That is ₹15,000 per month. Many people say that this is a big scam. So let's expose this side in its true form today.
[01:26] big scam. So let's expose this side in its true form today. Let's come to the website. Look, as soon as it came, many surveys became available on it. Let's start the first one.
[01:47] as if they want to make my biodata. Let's see, does giving false answers do any harm?
[02:01] five swag bugs. I don't know what this means right now, but let's do another survey and see how much money we have earned. Look at this and 15-20 surveys opened. We will choose the one in which we are getting the maximum money.
[02:26] us 10 minutes to do both of these together. So let's see how much money we earned. Oho ₹4 brother ₹4 is very good. If we do services with more points like this, then we can probably earn ₹1 to ₹200 per hour. It was very unexpected, honestly speaking. Guys sadly this
[02:42] passive side actually does not work and no one should do it. We get only ₹100 or ₹200 for 1 hour, which is very less considering the hard work. It is kind of a scam and you cannot make this into a full time income. So I'm ranking this a 1/10. But if we want to
[02:58] make even more money in 1 hour, I think the next one will help us do that. This is such a passive income source in which you do not need much skills. You just need to know how to follow simple instructions. So with this you
[03:12] can earn good money sitting at home. This passive side is actually called being a virtual assistant. Virtual Assistant i.e. VA. This is a very simple and easy task. What is to be done? You have to become someone's assistant through WhatsApp. The client will
[03:25] give you such work that you can do from your laptop. This would be work that an assistant normally does. For example, there is research , ticket booking, taking care of personal things, all of that. Earning potential up to ₹30,000 and ₹40,000 per month. But the
[03:39] question is who will be the client? Mainly three types of people. Online business owners, entrepreneurs or freelancers. This is because most of his work also remains online. And a virtual assistant will help do all of that. So
[03:52] I reached out to one such agency owner to become his personal assistant. agency. He gave me two assignments and if the work was good then we would talk about money. I have sent you the details of both the tasks
[04:06] So let's do the work and see how much money we can earn. So the first task that she has given is research work. She is writing a blog on some AI tools. So, we have to use these AI tools and give a review of them. See Here, She Has Also
[04:20] Given Us Reference Blog. Let's review each tool one by one. Let the first one come. loading for a long time. Skip this. Let's come to the next tool.
[04:34] Sign up for free. And let's start using it. It's a
[04:46] very troublesome to use formulas and worms. So I think this is a good one. Let's review all such tools one by one.
[05:06] task that we have to complete. And that is doing content research for her clients. Right now I am a YouTube expert so this will be very easy for me. Let's do it. so this will be very easy for me. Let's do it.
[05:24] not lazy. I don't know why people call it lazy. But hopefully, since we have worked so hard, we might get good money too. salary on WhatsApp. So how much did we make? That agency owner will
[05:38] like us and pay us the same amount as she pays her current virtual assistant. And that is 5.2 lakh per year. That is around ₹40 to ₹45,000 per month. Now obviously we will not take her money because she is a friend of mine and this was an
[05:53] experiment. But we came to know what type of people are ready to pay for this service and how much money we can earn from it. This can definitely be converted into a full time income by just having two true clients. And from that you can
[06:07] earn around Rs 80 to 90,000 per month. This was pretty passive to be honest. You just have to work for two to three hours while sitting on the sofa or desk. Not much. So I would rank this passive side as an 8/10. Let's now talk about a passive
[06:21] side hustle that not only can replace your 9 to 5 income, but it can also be converted into a full-time business. I'm talking about print on demand. What is to be done ? Basically, the manufacturer of the clothes is someone else. You have to
[06:35] put your designs in it and market those designs. And as soon as the order comes, the manufacturers themselves will fulfill that order and you will get the profit margin in between. It is like dropshipping but for clothes. Earning Potential It can even go up
[06:49] to multiple lakhs per month. Now to show this side in its true form, I have collaborated with the expert in print on demand and that is Nishkarsh Sharma. Hi Nishkarsh brother how are you? Hi, I am fine, friend. You tell me what's happening?
[07:03] All good, all good. Can You Tell Us Your Experience with Print on Demand. So my print on demand journey started in 2017. So I started dropshipping in April. Then in May my mentor recommended me to try this.
[07:17] And I was also a little interested because I was a little attracted to designing. So I said let's try this. And I think this was the month of May 2017. We did over $10,000 in revenue. And it was life changing because
[07:31] I had never seen so much money. So in international print on demand, we made a in international print on demand, we made a revenue of around Rs 4.5 million. Then we have generated a revenue of Rs 9 crore in India by doing Indian POD in which
[07:45] Pure or Quicking has been used or Indian suppliers are being used. So and again But just being super transparent with you. No friend, your journey is very good and these numbers are very good. What is the least amount that someone can start and
[07:59] still not see any profit. Someone from late is a complete beginner. The main expense here is marketing. If you follow every process then what we have seen averages, I have seen that if someone starts with a total budget of Rs 50 thousand to Rs 1 lakh, then within
[08:11] three to six months the person can become profitable. If he is consistently devoting one to two hours to the business. Is testing. Stopping ads at the right time. Not overspending. You just
[08:24] said a lot of things, now there is market demand. When to turn on You Know AIDS? When to stop? How much to scale. So if someone wants to learn this properly then If you are starting out, if you are a beginner and you don't have the capital, I mean,
[08:39] learn from three YouTube videos. He has a lot of knowledge. But the problem that we identified, look my business also ran because of my mentor. And content is not the answer. It is mentorship. It is access to people. Figuring everything out takes
[08:52] creates motivational issues when you're alone. So we got a program called POD Power House in which of course you get step by step videos, meaning in which by sharing the screen we have shown everything that it has to be done like this. In fact, the
[09:06] last version of POD Power House that we launched, in that we created a live store, we showed everything in it. So it is step by step. Number two you get access to a community. Imagine being surrounded by a lot of people like you who are building print on
[09:19] demand businesses who understand what you're trying to do, man? There are people who are sitting after earning crores of rupees. So you learn from everyone. third part is accessible to me and my business partner Mukul. So this is what
[09:34] the program is but like I said I am saying that take my program only then you will succeed. Nothing like that. You may my program only then you will succeed. Nothing like that. You may to save time if you want access to us. You want to make money quickly, but you do
[09:47] n't want to lose it. I want success quickly. And you want access to us then I would highly you the link. You may add it below. beginner stage. There are many examples. Like we have someone like
[10:02] Ishant Dubey who started and I was just talking to him the day before yesterday. He has and I was just talking to him the day before yesterday. He has demand and has already generated revenue of Rs 9.5 crore. It started one and a half years ago.
[10:14] All right. Then we got people like Amen who started maybe 2 years ago. Today he is earning revenue of around Rs 1 crore per month. I also want to start my own print on demand store. And I will also start with this program. And Hopefully You Know They Will See
[10:29] I will also start with this program. And Hopefully You Know They Will See My POD Store Link In The Go for it. Or so or that is the goal and thank you so much conclusion for sharing this and for collaborating with us. So that we can you know bring our
[10:44] audience the best you know that there is. Thank you so much I am thank you for having me right as we discuss the earning potential is great you can try this thing on your own but if you join the Pad House community then what
[10:58] you get is the expertise of people who have done it before you and also which is a community which becomes a tribe that is the most because you also know you are the average of five people that you are surrounded by this business model has a lot of potential that is why
[11:12] we have done this collaboration with Nishkarsh and Pad House if you are someone who is serious about making money. You should check out this course and the link is in my description. Now let's talk about the fourth passive site of sale. This is something
[11:25] that you will do once and you will keep getting its money again and again. It is powered by AI. Can you guess what it is? It is AI voice cloning. Watch this video. You can't even imagine the number of people who are actually making monthly passive income by
[11:39] cloning their voice on AI and letting AI platforms use it. Well there is a person who is doing it. So basically create a clone of your voice and upload it on platforms like 11 Labs. Then as soon as
[11:55] someone uses your voice in making their videos, this platform will pay you. Earning Potential Like We Saw In That Video Up To ₹50,000. So let's see whether we can earn money from this Gurju accent or not. Let us
[12:08] we can earn money from this Gurju accent or not. Let us first come to the website of 11 Labs. Ah, as soon as you come, you will see the option of voice cloning on the home page itself. Before we do that, let's hear what other voice clones sound like.
[12:23] modulation but still sounds professional, then use this voice. It's a very professional voice. Meaning it does n't seem like there is AI. Good job. Let us now record one such voice of ours and then clone it. I am Dhawal.
[12:38] I have a very beautiful Hindi Gujju accent. If you want to make business related videos then you should definitely use this voice. And if you don't use this voice. And if you don't want to do it then you are the biggest fool in the world.
[12:53] Ok? Let's hear our AI voice. I will come out of the screen and kill you. Did you hear it? Come on subscribe now. Ok. Let's upload it now. And let's see if someone
[13:07] uses it. We will get the money and I will tell you. Guys it's been two months since we did that. But no one has used our voice yet. We didn't make any money from Sorry Too. I do n't know who is earning Rs 500 but we didn't make it.
[13:22] It is kind of a scam but some people are earning. So I will rate this a 2 by 10. Now let's talk about our fifth passive side, Asal. This is also something that passive side, Asal. This is also something that you will make once and you can sell it again and again.
[13:34] products. Digital products can be a way through which you can earn lakhs of rupees per month. or Notion template or any such document or create a course
[13:46] and then you can market it through the internet and sell it again and again. Earning potential up to multiple lakhs per month. Now there are two ways to sell digital products. Or you can send something by running ads on Facebook. Or if you have your
[14:00] own audience, you can sell to them yourself. So I have 2000 followers on Instagram and 60,000 followers on YouTube. So let's sell something to this audience. My followers are mostly freelancers. So now we have to think
[14:13] mostly freelancers. So now we have to think what can we sell to them? I have a Notion template that all freelancers can use. So let's see not. First we will put up a story that will press the pain points of freelancers. Are
[14:27] you facing any issues with project management as a freelancer? I think this is a very common pain point. So let's see. I just posted that story. After that we will create our product story. I am smart, right? Now let's
[14:41] create a story with the Notion template. Cool, we should look absolutely aesthetic. Sparkling. Ok, it's done. It is posted. I have asked him to DM me the template so that I can send it to him. Let's see
[14:54] how many replies you get. And hopefully we will get some sales. I have 1500 followers. If we sell even 15 followers for ₹200, it becomes around ₹3000. That's pretty good for 10 minutes of work. Well, that's done.
[15:07] But while we're waiting, let's also sell some products to our YouTube audience. And that product is coaching calls. It's not completely passive. It's a little too passive. All you have to do is get on calls with others and give them advice. Their problem has to be
[15:20] solved. All of that. So, to make this sale, I put a link to it in the description of all my old YouTube videos. And we even got two calls booked in one day. One call lasted for around 1 hour and the second call
[15:32] lasted for around 50 minutes. Let's see how much money we made from these two digital products. We literally made zero money from Notion templates. No one even replied to my story. So that was a big waste of time. And if you sell such small digital products by running ads
[15:46] , you will not get anything. Because we need to make something really useful for people. So, all these small things will not work. Second product coaching calls. We had booked two calls and the price of one call was around ₹2000 so we made around
[16:00] ₹4000 but we had to pay ₹500 as platform fee. So that is around ₹3500 for 2 hours. And I am doing this for the last two and three months and I earned around ₹40 to ₹50,000 from it. It has the potential to become a full time income. If you have a little
[16:15] following and you are an expert in something. So I would rank this passive side as a 7/10. Come on guys, we just made money from two passive side reals. We still have one more to go and I think this can help us make the most money.
[16:30] And this is such a passive income source in which majority of the work will be done by AI and that is making AI avatar reels. I have personally used Hazent to create my own custom AI avatar. And guess what? I am actually selling this as a service.
[16:45] What is to be done? Any entrepreneur or founder has to create an AI avatar of him and using it we have to create viral reels. This will give our client views and fame and in return he will not have put in any hard work. So it
[16:58] 's a double win for them. Earning potential up to ₹40,000 per month. So what we have to do is write a viral script from AI. Then we have to feed the same script to the AI avatar. And our work is done in two steps. So I reached out to one such entrepreneur or
[17:14] agency founder and he has agreed to give us a shot. First of all we have asked for their footage. So we will hack this footage and upload it on a platform and from that their AI avatar will be created. Ok?
[17:27] their AI avatar will be created. Ok? Let's see it has been uploaded. They are asking for verification as soon as it is uploaded. OK, verification and permission have all been given. Ok? Letts C. Ok? Let AI become an avatar. It was pretty quick around 5 minutes and so. Now the
[17:42] main task is to write a viral script. Let's go to chat GPT. You will search for TikTok script writer in it. First I will tell him to brainstorm some cool ideas. tell him to brainstorm some cool ideas.
[17:56] A great reel idea has been given. That is making money with cows. And let's see, we'll get him to write the script. And let's see how you write it.
[18:09] script is quite well written. Honestly, very well written. Now we will copy and paste this script and we will give that feel to the avatar. Very well written script. I is currently developing the script. I'll show you as soon as it's ready. Okay, here it is.
[18:25] Someone literally making lags from pup. I Know It Sounds Insane But This Indian Startup So now we have sent this video to that entrepreneur. And let's see if we've made some money. We have sent this reel to the client. And he liked it very much. He said he is
[18:40] willing to pay ₹50,000 for someone who can do this for him. But the thing is, they hired a team some time back to do this. So the lesson is people like him are entrepreneurs, agency founders et cetera. They have to do this thing
[18:54] and they will also pay for it. We just need to identify more such people from Instagram and Lindin and we can reach out to them. This was a pretty passive way to make money. It would take us two or three hours of work to create the entire week's reels. And you saw what the
[19:08] earning potential is. So I'd rank this 8 by 10. So now you must have known which passive income method works and which does not. These income sources are not a get rich quick scheme. You will have to work hard at it.
[19:25] in which direction you need to work hard so that you do n't waste your time and do n't fall for the scams that other users do. If you're serious about making money online, check out The Pad House's print-on-demand course. The link is in the description. Rest keep working hard.
[19:40] Make a lot of money and I'll see you at the top.
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