A side-hustle quarterly, published weekly
Every quarter, our team runs 30+ hustles, tracks every dollar in a public spreadsheet, and publishes what actually paid — and what flopped. No $997 courses. No guru nonsense. No fake screenshots.
Receipts · Updated this week
1,847
Income reports filed since March 2019
312
Income methods tracked in the Side Hustle Scorecard
30+
Hustles tested every quarter, with raw data published
$2.4M
In affiliate & course-sponsor deals we refused for failing our disclosure standards
All figures from Rich Quickish's public methodology ledger · Last reconciled Oct 10, 2024
From the Side Hustle Scorecard
ROI = reader-reported gross minus documented expenses, divided by hours worked. Full methodology and confidence intervals live in the Scorecard database.
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The Income Calculator pulls from the same 312-method database — you enter the hours you actually have and the money you need to make, and it models realistic timelines, not fantasy ones. Used by 380,000+ readers so far; the most common reaction in our inbox is "this is the first one that didn't lie to me."
Average reader reports their first $500 of side income within 11 weeks of subscribing (2,100-respondent survey, Jan 2024).
A note on how we work
“Anyone can publish a screenshot. We publish the spreadsheet, the rejection rate, and the 47-page methodology doc that explains how we got there. If a claim can't survive that level of sunlight, it doesn't run in the newsletter.”
Mara Chen · Co-founder, Rich Quickish · former financial journalist
In 2022 alone we rejected $180,000 in ad revenue for screenshots we couldn't verify. In our first five years we turned down more than $2.4 million in affiliate and course-sponsor deals that flunked our disclosure standards.
