I Tried Every Money-Making Idea on TikTok

You know those TikTok videos that pop up like, “Make $570 a day in your free time!”?

I got sucked into that vortex. Couldn’t help myself.

I wanted to see if you can make any cash from those get-rich-quick hacks buzzing around.

So, I picked a handful of the “easiest” ones and just went for it.

Here’s the real tea, what flopped, what worked, and what actually paid out.

Selling Notion Templates and Planners

• The promise: Whip up a few planners, upload them online, and rake in $300 a day.
• My move: I cooked up a “Student Planner” and a “Side Hustle Tracker.” Shoved them onto Etsy and Gumroad.
• Reality check: Week one? Tumbleweeds. Not a single sale. Then I posted a TikTok demo using the planner, and from nowhere, four sales in two days. Made $52.
• Takeaway: The product’s fine, but good luck selling anything without eyeballs. TikTok and Pinterest? Absolute game-changers.

Dropshipping from AliExpress

• The fantasy: Fire up a Shopify store, run a TikTok ad, and you’re Scrooge McDuck diving into gold coins.