CHANNEL
Online Side Income (29 entries)
Vetted online earning channels for ordinary people: no deposit, free sign-up, verifiable payouts. Mostly China-based platforms.
NoteThis channel lists China-based platforms. Requirements and payout details are kept in the original Chinese, because the sign-up flow itself is in Chinese.
Embodied-AI Data & USD Tasks6
Remote Customer Support3
Overseas Microtasks4
Creator Payouts5
Freelance Gigs3
Affiliate & Install Offers4
Digital Products4
| # | Activity | Overview | Requirements | Reward | Deadline | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Alibaba cloud support | Reached through a recruitment mini-app inside Taobao; fully remote, paid per item or per hour. Suits full-time parents, students and people with spare evening hours, and it recruits more often than the other two platforms. | Open-ended Ongoing | official channel | ||
| 02 | Hangzhou embodied-AI vendors | A cluster of embodied-data vendors in Hangzhou (Jinglianwen, Xijie Weilai, Zaizuo Tech, Kedang Tech, Yize Information) is expanding capture teams. Roles come in three layers: home capture with a device, teleoperation with motion capture, VR headsets or master-slave arms, and data cleaning and archiving. | Open-ended Ongoing | official channel | ||
| 03 | Online tutoring answers | Record video explanations for primary and secondary school questions, or answer live, paid per question or per hour. Suits licensed teachers, exam candidates and current teachers. | Open-ended Ongoing | View source | ||
| 04 | App install CPA | Bring genuine new registrations and activations to legitimate apps and get paid per valid user - the most direct form of install-and-activation reward. Platforms also mix in surveys and homework-grading tasks you can do alongside. | Open-ended Ongoing | official channel | ||
| 05 | Bilibili creator incentive | Mid and long-form video paid by views. For the same 10,000 views, lifestyle and gaming earn a few CNY to a dozen, while knowledge, tech and study niches reach 20-40 CNY - so picking the niche matters more than output volume. | Open-ended Ongoing | official channel | ||
| 06 | UserTesting | Companies pay people to try their site or app while thinking out loud, with screen and audio recorded. A 15-minute unmoderated test pays $10, a 30-minute live interview $30, a 60-minute session $60. | Open-ended Ongoing | View source | ||
| 07 | Mercor | The highest-paying marketplace for AI training data: it matches lawyers, doctors, engineers and finance professionals to model-company projects for domain answer review. A 20-minute AI interview builds your profile, then projects are pushed to you. | Open-ended Ongoing | View source | ||
| 08 | Zhihu Zhi-Zhi programme | Q&A content revenue. The more vertical and specific the answer, the longer its search tail. Suits people who already know an industry and are willing to write long answers. | Open-ended Ongoing | View source | ||
| 09 | Alignerr (Labelbox) | Labelbox's entry point for recruiting and paying AI trainers, covering RLHF, code evaluation and multimodal annotation. After registering you pass a qualification exam, then enter the project pool, with each project's rate listed on the task page. | Open-ended Ongoing | View source |