3 Side Hustles I’d Start In 2025

6 min readDec 20, 2024

Do you want to make some extra cash in 2025?

I’m sharing 3 side hustle ideas that I’d start this year. I’ll share the idea, why I like it, offer ideas, and how you can get customers.

I like these ideas because they have minimal startup costs and have potential to turn into full-time businesses — but they can also be a great side hustle that you work on a day or two per week.

1. Home Services

I’m going to share some AI-related business ideas, but I want to start on the other side of the spectrum. Work you can do with no fears of being replaced by AI.

Home services include a service you offer to do at the client’s house.

The key here is to focus on things wealthier people are buying on a regular basis. You want to offer a regular service so you have predictable revenue and higher lifetime customer value.

Some ideas include:

Pool cleaning
Car detailing
Music lessons
Power washing
Dog grooming
Dog poop cleanup
Bike / Car maintenance

Giovanny earned $11,357 in one month, charging $60/hour for snow removal in Chicago.

You can solve a simple problem that people don’t want to do and profit.

Most of these service businesses can be started for a few hundred dollars. But, you don’t want to buy all the equipment before you have customers. Your first priority is to find someone who’s interested in your service.

And if you’re starting something new, you want to see if you enjoy it before making a big investment of time or money.

Is there any demand for your offer?

Post in a local Facebook group and say:

“I’m starting a XYZ company and want to offer the service to 3 people for free.”

You can get appointments booked before you invest any money.

It’s exactly what I did when I started car detailing. I booked two appointments, then I went to the store and got the basics that I needed to wash their cars.

I figured out that it was something people wanted, and I enjoyed doing it.

Once you’ve decided on a service to provide, your focus is to get the word out to as many people as possible. Word of mouth is huge.

The easiest way I’ve found to acquire new clients is with Facebook ads. It takes a bit of practice and testing, but ads can bring you a steady stream of ideal clients.

Cold Facebook ads (people who have never heard of your business) work best for services under $100. I advertise my least expensive service and then offer the more expensive upsells.

With ads, you can target a specific area and income levels. Ad targeting has gotten worse, but this works.

If you’re willing to work hard and don’t want to be stuck staring at a computer screen all day, home services are a great idea.

2. Copywriting

It seems like AI is getting better at writing every few weeks, but I’m still bullish on copywriting as a side hustle in 2025.

I wrote How To Start a Copywriting Side Hustle in 2023 and two years later the same general path works.

Here’s what I recommend in that article:

Spend ~10 hours learning the basics (I’m launching a copywriting cohort to help with this)
Spend 20 hours practicing your skills and building a portfolio
Find your first clients and over deliver
Continue learning and improving your skills

One thing I’d change to be more successful in 2025 is your offer.

I’ve outlined an in-depth article on this, but my main message is that you don’t want to offer copywriting on its own.

There’s two groups of potential clients:

Group A: People who want copywriting and are using AI instead of hiring a copywriter.

Group B: People who need copywriting but aren’t using AI or searching for a copywriter because they don’t know what they need.

You want to focus on Group B, but you can’t sell them copywriting because they’re unaware. They don’t know they need a copywriter, so they’re not listening to your pitch.

These people have big problems that a copywriter can solve:

Can’t find new leads
Lack of awareness about their business
Can’t get returning customers or convert leads
Can’t turn viewers or followers into paying customers

As a copywriter, you can help them, but they aren’t solution aware.

You’ll also need to skill stack a bit, because selling copywriting on its own is difficult.

If they can’t find new leads? You offer them lead generation:

Lead Gen = Copywriting + Ads

If a lack of awareness is their pain point, you offer them copywriting + website optimization or YouTube video scripts.

No returning customers?

Copywriting + Email marketing

Converting leads into sales?

Copywriting + Funnel building

You can build a great copywriting side hustle in 2025, but you’ll need to have a compelling offer that’s appealing to an unaware, unsophisticated market.

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3. Business AI Implementation

This is an opportunity I’ve been thinking about for the past few weeks.

I was talking to a business owner about using AI. They’re using ChatGPT for daily tasks and quick problem solving. They spend $20/month for the pro subscription, and getting their money’s worth.

They’re doing what I imagine most business owners are doing — using AI for simple tasks.

I think of this as buying lemons and making lemonade.

A great use for lemons, but nothing special.

The opportunity in 2025 is to help people turn the lemons into different, more valuable foods and drinks. Lemon bars, lemon cookies, lemon scones, lemon macarons, lemon meringue…you get the idea.

The immediate opportunity I saw for the business owner I talked to was creating a custom GPT. They could upload all of their content — blogs, webinars, podcasts, sales calls, social media posts, etc. That custom GPT would know everything about their business and give them 10x more relevant and helpful content, compared to the generic ChatGPT responses.

Another opportunity would be helping businesses learn and use more specific AI tools and agents.

The average person knows about ChatGPT. They don’t know about the 5–10 AI tools built for specific tasks in their industry. And they don’t have time to keep up with the latest AI news.

A simple offer would be an AI implementation service for businesses in a specific industry.

Example: “Free your team from administrative burdens and serve 30% more customers. Our AI tools are built specifically for residential HVAC companies — automating documentation, maintenance scheduling, and inventory. Save 100+ hours monthly while providing faster response times and better customer experience.”

You could also help companies with a specific area of their business:

Example: “Convert thousands of sales conversations into actionable intelligence. Our AI analyzes your team’s successful calls to identify winning patterns, common objections, and effective responses — then guides your reps through similar scenarios in real-time. We build this custom solution using your actual sales conversations, not generic scripts.”

The more specific you can be, the better.

I’m far from an AI expert, but if you are, there’s a big opportunity.

I found this thread on X — Sam Parr is asking how he could get more helpful and relevant responses from ChatGPT. Some of the solutions sound relatively simple, but go way over the average person’s head.

To get customers for this service, I’d do targeted cold outreach. Find business owners or team leaders and reach out with a conversation starter message.

If you’re doing outreach on LinkedIn or Twitter, turn your profile into a landing page for you services. Make it obvious what you do and how you help. Then start messaging people who fit your ideal customer profile.