9 High Paying Claude AI Side Hustles You Can Start At Night

These are nine high-paying Claude AI side hustles that you can do at night, and I promise at least one of them is going to fit the life that you're living right now, and a few of them pay way more than you'd expect, and you don't need to quit your job for any of them. You don't need a free weekend either, just a laptop, Claude, and the hours after everybody else goes to sleep, and I know this works because I did it myself. I was a full-time pharmacist with $300,000 in student loan debt, and I built my way out on lunch breaks and at night. And I was also one of the early adopters of AI. I started posting videos about AI three months before ChatGPT came out. And then, back in 2024, I posted that Claude was better than ChatGPT, and I was one of the first ones to do this. And since then, I've spent over $100,000 on AI, and I typically spend over $10,000 a month on Claude alone, testing what it can really do. So that you don't have to. And the reason this works at night now is simple. Claude does the part that used to eat your whole weekend in a matter of hours or even minutes. Every number here is real. It's going to be on the screen and it's sourced with real examples. And make sure you stick around because later I'll show you the one that I think is the best on the whole list. Now, if you appreciate me making this type of video and you want me to make more of them in the future, then let me know by gently cheering that like button. And let's jump into it right now. Now, before we get into the list, I built a side hustle picker AI so that you can follow along. So if you see one in this video that you think you could do at night, run it through there. It'll tell you if it fits your life and what your first 30 nights might look like, and it'll help you get started even if you're a beginner step by step. And it'll even suggest ones that are not in this video as well. That should be the third link in the description in the pinned comment below. So go ahead and click down there to check it out, and you can follow along while you watch this video. All right. So first up is the AI Romance Novel Factory. This is where you publish romance novels on Amazon under pen names. And Claude writes the first drafts. Now, there's a longtime Harlequin romance author named Well, Wholesale Ted made a full video on it, how to write and publish a Claude novel on Amazon. And it has over 200,000 views. So that's a lot of people trying to do this exact thing. Plus, if you look on Amazon, there's tons of books that are very obviously AI written. Most of them badly written. But if you do a good job, you can get a lot of sales. And this is one of the best side hustles that you can do at night. Because the hardest part of writing a book was never the editing. It was the blank page. And Claude kills the blank page in about 45 minutes. So your night looks like this. The kids go to bed, if you have kids. You open Claude, and you get one chapter. Then you spend one hour making it sound like you. No boss, no clients, no calls. Nobody needs you awake at 9 a.m. for this. And you'll finish about one book a month. So that's about 12 books a year. That's a lot less than the 200 books that the author put out. Very manageable. So think of Coral like a bakery with 21 storefronts. Same oven, different sign on every door. And our community member, Jenny Hansen Lane, teaches this exact world on YouTube. Amazon books, ads, copyright, and yes, pen names. And we helped her pick topics that were already proven to work, and her best video got close to 400,000 views. And her channel now has over 30,000 subscribers, and she's getting lots of coaching clients with that channel. So Coral writes the books, but Jenny teaches people how to sell them. So here's exactly what Coral does step by step. Step one is picking a lane that readers already binge. Go to Amazon, open the Kindle Romance bestsellers, and pick one subgenre. Small Town, Second Chance, Cowboy, Billionaire, Vampire. Yep, that's a genre as well. It's a bit weird, but yeah. Then open Claude and paste this in. And that'll get you started with your whole book on one page. Then every night, you ask for one chapter, you read it, fix anything that sounds flat, and add one line only you would write. And less than a month later, you're going to have a book. And because it's a series, book two already has readers waiting. And then you can get started on your next book. Now, I do want to emphasize here how massive of a market this is. This is actually an absurdly large market. And there's a lot of sub-genres within this. I mentioned vampires as one sub-genre. So a lot of people like mythological romance novels, I guess. Another sub-genre is what's known as... fan fiction. Then there's other subgenres where it gets a little bit more spicy. Some people would call that smut. But yeah, there's a lot of different subgenres here. I've kind of gone down this rabbit hole before. I have friends that are kind of in this industry, and they make an absurd amount of money. There really is a lot of money here. So yeah, definitely something to look into, especially if you're already into romance novels. You'd You'd probably naturally be really good at it. Quick break. I'm going to be doing a live training on how to start YouTube step-by-step for beginners this week. It is a completely free training, no strings attached. In fact, I'm giving away even more bonuses at the training. Just as an example, I'm going to be giving away my niche validator, and this is going to be available for both Claude as well as ChatGPT, which is a super valuable piece of software where you can finally figure out what the best That's niche for you is so do. Do not miss out on this training. Make sure you sign up for it down in the description and the pinned comment below because you only get it if you join the training. So if you don't join now, you might miss it. But that being said, in the workshop, you'll get to meet me. You'll get to ask me questions directly. So I look forward to meeting you. So click the link in the description, the pinned comment below. Make sure you put it on your calendar. And if for whatever reason you missed out on it, you weren't able to attend, make sure you still click that link because we might be having workshops in the future as well. And you'll be the first to know about it. So yeah. Hope to see you there. And now back to your regularly scheduled programming. All right, the next one is going to be teaching others how to get into your job. So this one is really straightforward. It's also one of the easiest side hustles to do, and it's one of the most effective as well. And this is teaching other people how to get into your job. You coach people who want the job that you already have. One-on-one sessions, a group program, or a short course on how to land it. And Claude turns what you know into the whole program. The lesson plan, the resume template, the mock interview questions. Take a look at Alex the Analyst. He became a data analyst, then started teaching people how to become one as well. And he posted his first video while still working a full-time job. In his words, he worked 40 hours a week at his job and another 20 each week on his side hobby. And eventually he quit his job to do YouTube and consulting full-time. Now, according to vidIQ, he makes about $11,800 a month from AdSense. And I bet he's making way more than that from the courses and the consulting that YouTube drives. And one of his videos, Should You Take Google's AI Certificate? My Honest Take, got... 4.1 million views, and that video alone made him $208,000 in ad revenue. Now, you might think that you can't do YouTube because you're so busy. I promise you, you can. If you're doing it the right way, using the right system. For instance, our community member Richard might be one of the busiest people I know. He was a product manager at a Fortune 50 company, working 80 plus hours a week at that job alone. Plus, he had a bunch of rental properties and investments that he had to manage. And, on top of it all, he had a brand new baby. And he was so busy that he could barely answer my emails. He could only put about two hours a month into his channel. And his channel helps people grow their careers. He reviews MBA programs and certifications that lead to better jobs. And he still hit $12,000 in a single month on YouTube. And he never had to quit his job. So, if Richard found two hours a month, you can too. Another really busy one is Nurse Jen. She's 60 years old and she spent 33 years as a nurse. She was still working as a nurse when she started, and she had never made a YouTube video in her life. And she just used the webcam on her laptop. And she helps people 50 and up figure out the US healthcare system. It's the same stuff that she told her patients every single day. In her first month monetized, she made $6,000. The next month, she made $8,000. And the month after that, $10,500. And that is just from AdSense alone. So she quit her job as a nurse. And now she drives around the country in a camper van. And she records every video in the back of that van. Literally living her dream life. Amazing. So if a 60-year-old full-time nurse can do this when she's super stressed out and super burned out from her job, so can you. And lastly is my brother, Zach. He's 50 years old and spent 30 years in the trades. He is not tech savvy and he has never made a video in his life. And then he started teaching people how to get into the trades and his very first video got over 800,000 views. 29 days later, he made $214 in a single day and that's a $78,000 a year run rate. And that is zero to a full-time income in under one month. And to close out his first year, He had an $18,000 month. And this brings me to the next one on the list, which is just starting a YouTube channel or a personal brand. So this one's kind of self-explanatory. The last option was teaching other people how to get into your job online. One of the options for getting clients or just teaching people in general was YouTube, but it doesn't have to be about your job. It can be about literally anything that you're good at, anything that you've had problems with in your life that you've been able to overcome. Or anything that you're passionate about as well. YouTube completely changed my life. And honestly, it's the one side hustle where you don't really have to learn any new skills. All you have to do is you have to have experience and wisdom, right? If you've had problems in your life that you've overcome or you have things that you've learned a lot about, you can literally just share whatever you've learned on YouTube. And so the only barrier to entry is either experience or passion. If you have experience with something or a passion with something, then you don't really need to learn anything else in order to successfully make a YouTube channel. Nurse Jen, for instance, literally started on her webcam laptop and she's 60 years old and she's still recording on her webcam laptop. Now, is YouTube for everyone? Absolutely not. I'm going to have a bunch of other really good side hustles on this list if YouTube isn't for you. With that being said, a lot of people start on YouTube faceless. I did myself because I didn't really want to show my face at first, but then eventually I realized that showing your face has a lot of advantages and that's when things really started to take off for me on YouTube. I was able to make more than my full-time job within a few months, which I was already making pretty good money as a pharmacist, over $10,000 a month, and soon I was making $20,000 to $30,000 a month, and I actually kept my job for another two years, even though I was making way more from YouTube than I was from my job. And finally, once I felt very comfortable with my YouTube channel, I decided to go ahead and quit my job, and the rest is history. I've basically been traveling the world, living my dream life since then. If you want to know exactly how I did this, go ahead and click the first link in the description in the pinned comment below to attend that live training. All right, so the next one is very interesting, and this is paper escape rooms. So you probably have heard of escape rooms before, but did you know that there's printable paper escape rooms? So families, teachers, and party hosts buy a PDF, print it, and solve the puzzles to escape. So this is Lisa Fink. She was a middle school teacher in Florida, and when her husband lost his job, she started selling $10 printable escape rooms, and within six months, she was making five figures a month, and now she's sold over 250,000 of them, and she's done over $1 million in revenue from a $10 PDF, and with this product, you can even make more money showing people how to do it, just like this channel called Questalo Adventures Around You. He recorded himself making a do-it-yourself escape room at home, and that video got to 26,000 views from a 4,000 subscriber channel. Which means people are searching for this kind of stuff. And here's why this one fits at night. A paper escape room is a treasure hunt in a PDF. You make it once, and it keeps selling. And our client Farah already knew Etsy before she found us. But she was selling readings one-on-one, trading time for money. And we helped her lock in her niche and package her videos. And in under 1.5 months, she qualified for the YouTube Partner Program. And about 3 months later, she went from 1.6k to 7k subscribers. And now she's making a steady full-time income from YouTube. And that's the whole idea of this hustle. Stop selling hours and sell something that you make once. So Lisa sells these for $10. And here's how to build your first one tonight. Pick one buyer first, like a kid's birthday, a family game night, or a classroom. And that's going to be every page of the game. Drop it into Canva. Make it look like a real case file. Now, you don't necessarily have to do paper escape rooms, but I like to use this example just because it's incredibly creative. I didn't know you could make a paper escape room. You probably didn't either before you watched this video. So this just shows that you really should think outside the box because there is a lot A lot of opportunity out there. For instance, we'll talk about the next one, which is a storybook maker. So this is where you sell custom children's book where the kid is the hero of the story. So Maya Hogg from Minneapolis started with one personalized book while she was on maternity leave, and it became the largest personalized children's book company in the United States with revenues in the millions. And Kimberly Mitchell made a video on how to start this from home. It got 192,000 views. And here's why this one fits at night. Each order is one short story. You can finish a few after the kids go to bed. And a custom storybook is like a tailored suit. It only fits one kid. And that's exactly why parents pay for it. Now, our client, Sean Dolit, teaches people how to sell books on Amazon. He even has videos on making kids storybooks with AI. And one of them has over 200,000 views. But he got stuck. He thought every book topic was already covered. So we changed how he packaged his videos, not what he knew. And we helped him scale all the way from making around $30,000 a month And he's one of our community members, which we'll be talking about in the brand new live training that I'm doing this week. So click that first link in the description and comment below to check it out. But yeah. The book is the product, but the kid's name is what makes it sell. The fact that it's personalized is what makes it really sell. Now, the whole business starts with a short form for the parent. The kid's name, their age, their pet, their favorite food, what they're scared of. You read it and make sure that it sounds sweet, not weird. Then you can use those picture lines to make the art. Put the kid's name on the cover. Every book is going to be different. The work is almost always the same. Now, of course, you could do this manually, but the smart way to do it is to use AI. You would want to have an automated system where you just input certain information. And then AI makes a custom book with a custom story with the right pictures and everything and automatically ships it out to them. And yeah, this is a great idea. Grandparents buy these too. Every birthday, every Christmas, great gift. I'm sure a few people watching this video are probably gonna end up buying it. Another really good one is making Notion templates and then selling them. So this is where you build ready-made Notion setups and you sell them as downloads. Planners, study systems, habit trackers, etc. Thomas Frake, for instance, made $1 million in revenue in one year selling Notion templates. Business Insider checked his documents. Now, to be fair, he already had a big YouTube channel, but he actually started a second YouTube channel to sell the Notion templates. And Mike and Maddie made a video on how they made $30,000 a month selling Notion templates as well, and it got over 200,000 views. And here's why this one fits at night. You build it once in a few evenings, then it's just a download. A Notion template is like an instruction manual for an app. People buy it, so they skip the learning curve. Our client Rick Kermis knows why people pay for a manual. He retired after 40 years in the Navy, and then he started a YouTube channel. And after 19 videos, he had about 50 subscribers. And he said he was missing the manual that he had in the military. So, we gave him a system, and his videos on Bamboo Studio, a 3D printing app, took off. So, he made a free quick guide for that app and pinned it under his videos. And about six months later, he had over 1.9 thousand subscribers and 151 thousand views. Now, he is in the YouTube Partner Program, and brands reach out to sponsor him. And that's the Notion business. Teach the app. So, the temple that sells is the one built for one type of person, not a planner, a planner for nursing students, a tracker for new landlords. You follow the steps and you click it together in Notion, take screenshots, and you have your listing. A few evenings to build it, then it's just a download. And of course, you can make this much more quickly with Claude AI. And this is kind of similar to the next one, which is the worksheet teacher. So this is where you sell worksheets and lesson plans to teachers on Teachers Pay Teachers. So Becky Powell is a kindergarten teacher in Beaverton, Oregon. And in 2022, she made $125,000 from her Teachers Pay Teachers store. And that's just over $10.4K a month. And her first year, she made $21,000 working about 10 hours a week. And Becca Davis made a video on how she did it. $100,000 in one year on Teachers Pay Teachers, while teaching full-time. 41,000 views. And here's why this one fits at night. Teachers already grade at night. This is the same desk, just paid. A worksheet pack is like a recipe card. You write it once, and thousands of teachers cook from it. So Becky made $21,000 her first year on about 10 hours a week, and you just had to build your first pack. You check it like you'd check a student's work, you drop it into Canva, you make it cute, And of course, you can use Claude AI to help you do this. And the three versions are what teachers pay for. And this saves them a massive amount of time. So the next is a local website builder. This is where you build websites for local businesses that have a bad site or no site at all, like plumbers, salons, dentists, et cetera. So James Pelton built over 15 websites for local businesses with Claude Code. And it took him about 45 minutes each. And he charges $49 a month per client for hosting and upkeep. Medics Media made a full guide on building websites with Claude Code. And it got over 1 million views. And here's why this one fits at night. 45 minutes a site, that's one site a night. And you don't have to build the software to make money with it. You just have to get good at using it. Now our client, Steven Maragier, is proof. He spent 40 years in design, engineering, and manufacturing. And he didn't build the software. He just got really good at it. Specifically, a 3D design program called Siemens NX. So he started teaching it on YouTube. And in just a few months, he made over $12,000 in course sales. And about 90% of those sales came from YouTube. Now companies pay him $1,500 to teach it to their team over lunch, and his channel has 19,100 subscribers. So get good at a tool, and people will pay you to use it or teach it. So open Google Maps and search plumbers or salons in your town, write down everyone that only has a Facebook page, and that's your client list. And that's one site a night. Then you just send the owner the link before you ask for a dime. Here's your website. If you like it, it's $49 a month. And that's exactly what James charges. And sometimes you can even charge upsell fees or even a larger upfront cost. And the last one is going to be doing literally any of these other ones on the list, but just posting about it on social media. Now, YouTube is the preferred social media platform. It's really the best one by far. And it's also the most profitable one. But there's a lot of other good ones as well. Instagram can be pretty good. LinkedIn can be pretty good for some niches as well. Facebook, TwitterX, et cetera. But I think the smartest thing you could possibly do is make content on one platform. I prefer to use YouTube. And then syndicate that content to the other platforms. And you can do this in a semi-automated or even fully automated way. We have AI do 95% of the heavy lifting for us. And we have made a ton of money literally just syndicating it, cutting it up sometimes and posting it on other platforms. That's another thing I'm gonna be talking about in the live training that I'm doing this week as well. So click that first link in the description in the pinned comment below. Because the truth is just about every side hustle works, but they all have one thing in common and that is they need. traffic, right? For people to actually buy stuff from you, they have to know that you exist. And for them to know you exist, you either have to pay for advertising or you have to do social media advertising. And it's a lot easier to just post content on social media, especially for a beginner. So yeah, that's what I'll be talking about. And I know that 99.9% of people watching this video are just going to enjoy my free videos, enjoy the free templates and the free AIs that I make for you, enjoy the free trainings that I do for you guys as well, get a ton of value out of all of them, and we are never going to end up working together. And that is completely fine. I always want to give 10 times or even 100 times more value than what I receive. With that being said, there's going to be 1% of you out there, maybe 0.1% of you out there that want a one-on-one mentorship experience, or you want us to literally just do the work for you. And we do accept a very limited amount of people to work one-on-one with us. However, it is very time-consuming and difficult for us to do this, and we get the absolute best results in the world. And so it is very expensive to work with us. But if that sounds like something you want to do, click the second link in the description in the pinned comment below, and we look forward to talking with you. But again, Only do it if you're very serious about growing and making money on YouTube because we don't accept the vast majority of people who apply to work with us. With that being said, check out this video right here to see exactly how we helped nurse Jen, who was a burned out 60-year-old nurse, go from zero to a full-time income on YouTube, quit her nursing job, and she's now traveling all over the United States in her camper van. And you can check that out by clicking right here.