5 BEST AI Side Hustles for Beginners in 2026 (Personally Tested)

So, I just spent the last few months testing every single AI side hustle that I could find. And I'll be honest, most of them were complete garbage, but I did find five that I think are actually worth doing. So, in this video, I'm going to reveal what they are and the exact workflows and tools you need to get started with any of them. All right

so let's not waste any time. Let's jump right into things. So, take a look at this website right here. This is a sports themed e-commerce website that I was able to build using AI in just a matter of minutes. And see this is a fully functional website. I can come to the catalog. See all the items for sale. We have all these duffel bags for sports, right? We see all this gym equipment right here, this breathing trainer. And again, all of these products were picked out for me by AI. This is actually really simple to do with a free tool. So, the tool that I use to build this is called buildyourstore. ai. This is it right here. I'll also have a link to it in the description down below. And if you use that link, you can actually use this completely for free. And what this will do for you is build you a fully optimized Shopify store with winning products. You just have to go through the setup process by clicking right here where it says build my free store. You're going to sign up for an account and go through all the questions. It's very straightforward because it literally asks you one question at a time and has you set things up one step at a time and then it's going to build you out a beautiful store very similar to this one. Of course, every store is going to be unique though. Now, once your store is set up on the back end, you will actually have a fully functional ecommerce machine basically running for you. So, this is the back end of it and you can see all of these different products that are in here. And what's amazing about this is that if someone comes over to your website and actually buys something, this software right here is actually going to automatically order the items for you and have them shipped to your customer completely hands off for you. You could also find other winning products and add them to your store. This is like semmanual because the software is finding the products for you. You can just do the final validation and then just click on import and that will then be live in your store. Now, obviously, I'm not promising you any sort of financial success here. Any one of the businesses I'm going to reveal to you in this video. There's never a guarantee that any of them are going to work, but these exact workflows have worked for other people. And these are the exact tools that they've used. And what's cool about this is that this really lowers the barrier for you because this is setting up the store for you and picking the products and doing all the automation on the back end for you as well. Okay. Okay, so once you have a store, you then have to do the marketing to actually drive traffic to that website. And luckily AI can help with that as well. I use this tool right here called create UGC. So watch how simple this is. I'm going to click on the left here where it says create a new video. And then all I have to do is upload a or put in a link to the product. So let's say this is a product right here that's on Amazon. I'm just going to go ahead and copy down the URL and go ahead and paste that in. Now there's two types of videos it can make. I'm going to go with the product in hand and click on continue. Now, once you answer a few questions telling it what kind of video you want it to make, you can click down here where it says generate and then it is going to generate a video of an AI influencer talking about your product. All right, so here is the final video. Let's go ahead and give it a watch. — Tired of your gym bag turning into a chaotic mess? Meet the ultimate duffel. Designed for men and women, water resistant, ultra durable, and built to last with a dedicated shoe. — That is actually insane. I mean, if you look at the product image, it has these towels sticking out of the end. And the AI avatar is actually able to take those out of the bag. That is seriously impressive. Obviously, she's talking about it. So, now you could post this on social media and actually drive traffic to your new website. So, from A to Z, all this is set up with AI. You can use build your store to actually get set up. then use this on the back end and then create content using create UGC. So again, a link to build your store to use it absolutely for free will be in the description down below along with a link to create UGC if you want to be able to make product videos just like this one. So the next AI side hustle I want to

talk about is creating social media content for small or local businesses. And this has actually become very important lately because a lot of businesses know that they should be doing social media, but they don't have the time for it. And it's gotten easier than ever thanks to a brand new AI tool that was just released by Google. So, if you come over to labs. google. com, you'll find this tool right here. Go ahead and click on let's get started. I'll show you how this works. Now, when you first use this, you will have to generate your business DNA. I have my website right here. So, let's say this is the website for a small or local business and you want to offer them this as a service. All you have to do is grab the URL for this website. Come over to Pamelli and go ahead and paste it in and click on continue. And what it's now doing is it's scanning this web page and looking at the font. It's looking at the images being used. It looks at the colors that's being used and it's using that to build out the brand DNA or the business DNA and that can then be used to create social media content that is completely on brand. And here we can see that's exactly what it did right here. It grabbed the name of the business, which is just pulling it from the top. It's able to identify what the name of the business is. It identified what the font that the business uses. You can see all the images from the website right here. the brand colors, the brand values, the tagline, brand aesthetic, tone of voice. Really, really impressive what it's able to get just from one website. So, go ahead then and click on looks good. And then it will suggest to you these different campaigns that you can then use for social media. So, this one right here is your new 9to5 is 9 to whenever. I'm going to go ahead and select that one as my campaign. And you'll see that it automatically generates for you social media posts for that campaign. And all of these, some of these I should say, are pulling information directly from the website. Others they are creating their own graphics like right here where he's like smashing this laptop. And you can generate your own campaigns as well. So I can say make a campaign for Black Friday. And here we can see a bunch of ideas that it came up with. So I'm going to click on this one that says zerorisk drop shipping course. And that is my campaign. And then it's creating these images for me. There we go. And any of these can be edited. So I can go ahead and click on this one. I can change the header or even just make the header go away entirely. I can change the description. I can change or generate a call to action. So there's a little bit of editing that you can do with any of these. So again, I would offer this to small or local businesses really more as an intro or basic package. if they wanted more detailed work, I would definitely use something like Canva. Canva also has a ton of amazing AI tools built into it as well. And that will really allow you to get the images and social media posts exactly the way that you want. Super powerful, but for basic stuff, this by Google Labs is going to be more than enough. Now, speaking of

Canva, Canva is actually my go-to tool when it comes to creating any type of digital product. And that's actually the next AI sidehustle on my list, digital products. If you come over to canva. com and click on Canva AI right here, this is insanely powerful. There's a lot we can do with this. Now, not all of these features are available on the free plan. However, their paid plan, you can get an entire month for it for free the first time that you sign up. So, it's definitely worth checking out. Now, I actually want to start this over on chat GBT because I want to use this sort of as a as the mechanism for coming up with our content. So, what we're going to be creating here is an ebook. I'm going to tell it to create a comprehensive meal planning guide for busy professionals. And I want weekly meal plans, shopping list, quick recipes, and time-saving tips. Now, while that's getting to work, I'm going to come over to Canva. I'm going to click on the top left here where we have the plus icon to create something new. And I'm going to type in here ebook. and we'll select ebook cover. Now, here I'm going to go ahead and search for meal prep. Let's see if anything comes up. Here we go. Beautiful. I like this one right here. And of course, this is just a template. So, we want to make it personalized for our meal planning guide. So, we can actually use AI for that. So, I'm going to click right here and I will click on magic right. And I'll click on rewrite. And I'll click right here where it says this. But the title should be geared towards busy professionals. So there we go. Now I can just click right here where it says replace and it will replace it with that new title. Now we also want to change up these images to make them different. So for that what you can do is actually on the left here go ahead and click on magic media. And this will actually generate images for you using AI. So I'm going to type in here realistic images of meal prep. And for the aspect ratio, we're going to do landscape so that we can replace these images with the AI generated ones. And let's see if that's good enough. Great. So, I like this one. So, I'm going to go ahead and click on this. And I can just go ahead and replace that old image with this one. Let me go ahead and change the position so it's right where I want it to be. Perfect. And I can do that for the other image as well. I throw that in here. drag that into place and then position that one where I want it as well. So now we have the cover page completely done. And what you would then do is basically the same thing for every other page of this ebook using chat GBT to actually write everything out for you. So coming back to Canva, all you have to do is click on add a page, find a new template that you like that you can use to actually put in the different pages of the ebook, and then put the whole thing together. Once you do that, you can then download it and sell it on websites like Amazon or even Etsy. All right, before

we move on to the next side hustle, if you're enjoying this content so far, do me a quick favor. Give the video a thumbs up, subscribe to the channel. That lets me know that you like videos like this, and I'll make more of them in the future. All right, next up I want to talk about AI music because this one is really cool. AI music generators have gotten insanely powerful. So, this is the one that I use. It's called Music GPT. And if you want to try this out, my affiliate link for music GPT will be in the description down below. But with that, you get some sort of special deal that also helps out my channel so I can continue to make free videos just like this one. But anyway, the way that this works is all you have to do is tell it exactly what kind of music or song you want and it's able to make it for you. So I could tell it something like create a lowfi beats track that's perfect for a study focused YouTube channel. I can then choose if I just want instrumentals or if I toggle this off then it will also have lyrics as well. And you can actually tell it exactly what lyrics you want it to include if there are specific ones that you want. But if there aren't, it will actually just generate the lyrics for you. So, for instance, over here on the left are all the songs that I've created with this. So, let's go ahead and give one of these a listen. I sounds really good. Here's another one. It's like a Mottown song, and it wrote the lyrics for this as well. — Yeah, it's really, really fun. And it makes really, really good music. But also, it does some other things as well. So you can do a sound generator where you can actually make sound effects, text to speech, remix songs, replace parts of songs, or even extend songs. Now, there are a few ways that you can monetize this. Obviously, you can start a YouTube channel that has like lowfibe music on it, or you can sell music as a service on websites like Fiverr or even on Gumroad. A lot of people sell sound effects on Gumroad as well. So, there's a lot of possibilities with this. All

right. And speaking of YouTube channels, the final AI side hustle I want to talk about is creating faceless YouTube channels. There are a ton of channels on YouTube that are getting a ton of views and the videos never show anyone's real face. It's just these stories with AI voiceovers and images or videos over them. And this is easier than ever thanks to AI. So, first of all, I would use Claude to write out all or create all of your YouTube scripts. Claude, hands down, I believe, is the best when it comes to content creation or any sort of creative writing. I think it is so much better than chat GBT. So, I can tell it write a script for a YouTube video about a scary story. Make it five minutes. So, here you can see it is writing out the entire script for this story for you. So now you can ask it to make any changes that you want of course but once you're happy with it you can come over here to music GPT which I showed you before and under tools do text to speech. Now here you can go ahead and choose the language that you want. I'll choose English and then choose a voice that you like. So I really like this voice right here. — John G was among the most popular and prolific. — So I think that could work really well for like a scary story. So now I could just go ahead and paste in the script. I'll do a little bit of a sample here for you guys. So, I'll copy down this one, plug it in, and click on generate. So, let's go ahead and give that a listen now. — Hey everyone. So, I want to tell you about something that happened to me last week that I still can't fully explain. — All right, great. And then you can just bring that into any video editor that you want. And actually, Canva has a pretty good one. So you can download that, bring it in as an audio file, and then just generate images, graphics, or even videos that you can put over the video while the voice over is speaking. Because a lot of these channels, that's all they do. They have still images with just a couple of videos interspersed in there with the voice over it. And then you can upload it to YouTube and start your own faceless YouTube channel. So there you go. Those are my top five AI side hustles. Again, just because they're working for other people doesn't necessarily mean they're going to work for you. The key is to pick one and actually commit to it. Don't try to do all of them, just pick one. So, for instance, if you want to learn more in depth how to create an e-commerce store using AI, click on this video right here. But maybe if you want to learn more about AI music, then check out this video over here. Either way, I'll see you in one of those videos in just one second. Bye for now.