We lose money so you don't have to

Rich Quickish was founded on a dare from a friend: 'Everyone selling side hustles drives a rented Lamborghini — has anyone actually just tested them?' We are that someone. Every quarter the team runs 30+ money-making ideas with real money and real hours, then publishes the receipts: what worked, what flopped, and exactly how much we made — rounded down, not up.

The name is a joke at our own expense. 'Rich quick' is the promise everyone else makes; 'ish' is the honest suffix. We have no $997 course, no affiliate-stacked 'top 10' lists, no Lambo flexing — just the unglamorous data of trying things and reporting back.

What we publish

• Quarterly experiment logs: 30+ tested ideas with startup cost, hours spent, and actual earnings per experiment.
• Deep dives on the ideas that cleared the bar — how to start, what it really pays, and who should skip it.
• The free Income Calculator, used by 380,000+ readers to model what a side hustle actually nets after fees and tax.

Our readers are people who want extra income without the theater: students, full-timers testing evenings-and-weekends projects, and anyone allergic to gurus. Per a 2024 reader panel survey of 11,300 respondents, the average reader has started at least one experiment from the site — that number matters more to us than traffic.

The rules

Every income number on this site comes with its receipts, every affiliate relationship is disclosed, and experiments we abandon mid-way get published anyway — the flops are half the value. Rich Quickish is side-hustle journalism with the math shown: weird ideas, honest income reports, and zero courses for sale.