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Discover the weirdest, most unusual, and surprisingly profitable side hustles. Share how people are making money in unexpected ways, ask questions, and find your next unconventional income idea. Founded 2026 · 116.6K members

169.5K members. The best post we have captured here reached 59.8K upvotes, which works out to 353 per 1,000 members.

353peak upvotes per 1,000 members
169.5Kmembers
59.8Kbest post
1.4Kmost comments
601posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

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Image 55% Text 28% Question 6% Gallery 6% Link 3% Video 2%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Sharing My Sidehustle 269 Weird Idea 94 Asking for Advice 61 Success Story 33 Subscriber Goal 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Trash Pizza Paid My Bills

↑ 59.8K 💬 1.4K image 2026

I rent out my cat for $10 an hour and people actually book it

↑ 43.8K 💬 1K image 2026

I Never Wash the Clothes, Yet People Keep Paying Me

↑ 33.2K 💬 1.1K image 2026

I export soda can tabs to foreign cosplayers

↑ 27K 💬 460 image 2026

Be a mystery guest for $500

↑ 26K 💬 865 image 2026

I Never Thought Talking Too Much Would Be Worth $200 a Month

↑ 24.4K 💬 463 image 2026

Getting paid $20 every morning just to do my makeup on FaceTime

↑ 23K 💬 1.1K image 2026

i pay my rent touring with a movie i made

↑ 21.6K 💬 899 image 2026

I play the part of someone absent in a special occasion

↑ 20.2K 💬 308 image 2026

My driveway makes me more money on Saturdays than my job

↑ 18.7K 💬 360 image 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/WeirdSideHustles, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/WeirdSideHustles?
r/WeirdSideHustles describes itself this way: Discover the weirdest, most unusual, and surprisingly profitable side hustles. Share how people are making money in unexpected ways, ask questions, and find your next unconventional income idea. It was founded in 2026 and has 116.6K members.
How many members does r/WeirdSideHustles have?
r/WeirdSideHustles has about 169.5K members. ViralHunt has tracked 601 of its posts; the biggest reached 59.8K upvotes, which is 353 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/WeirdSideHustles?
"Trash Pizza Paid My Bills" reached 59.8K upvotes and 1.4K comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/WeirdSideHustles.
What subreddits are similar to r/WeirdSideHustles?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/Antimoneymemes, r/BlueskySkeets.
What kind of posts do best on r/WeirdSideHustles?
Of the posts we hold, 55% are image posts and 28% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/WeirdSideHustles?
Across 601 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 17:00 UTC (15.2K avg upvotes), Thursday at 02:00 UTC (15K avg upvotes), Friday at 09:00 UTC (11.1K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/WeirdSideHustles?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/WeirdSideHustles has 6.3K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 215 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/WeirdSideHustles, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.