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 | Mifengpai | A physical-AI data crowdsourcing platform from Shanghai Mifeng Technology, launched on 23 September, covering 40 cities, 22 scenario types, 5,000+ tasks and 50,000+ real environments. Take a task in the app, wear the MEgo device and record pick-and-place, tidying or carrying in homes, retail, warehouses and care settings; payment is by verified data hours. | Open-ended Ongoing | official channel | ||
| 02 | Stock photo supply | License photos and video to stock libraries for a per-file cut. Suits people already shooting: turn an existing hard drive into cash flow at near-zero marginal cost. | Open-ended Ongoing | View source | ||
| 03 | Short-drama promotion (CPS) | Cut the cliffhanger moments from a short drama, add a suspenseful title, post to Douyin or Kuaishou with the official redirect link, and take a share when viewers pay for the full series. No face, no inventory, no after-sales. | Open-ended Ongoing | official channel | ||
| 04 | Xianyu skill listings | List a skill as a product: slide polishing, CV layout, ID-photo background swaps, photo retouching, watermark removal, Xiaohongshu copy. AI drafts plus one human pass - half an hour per order is normal. | Open-ended Ongoing | official channel | ||
| 05 | WeChat official account ad revenue | Write on a personal subscription account and the platform inserts ads in and below the article, paid per click. The niche sets the rate: finance, careers, parenting and education pay several times what emotion and entertainment do. The long tail is good - an article is still found six months later. | Open-ended Ongoing | View source | ||
| 06 | Prolific | A paid survey and behavioural-experiment platform for universities and research groups. Its main advantage is transparent hourly pay - you see the fee before accepting. Best reputation and the hardest of these to get burned on. | Open-ended Ongoing | View source | ||
| 07 | Meituan cloud support | Meituan's official work-from-home support programme, split into a cloud part-time track and a strict-selection track, the latter handling all scenarios with steadier shift income. Delivery and dine-in peaks bring heavy volume, and rates rise during major promotions. | Open-ended Ongoing | official channel | ||
| 08 | Local embodied-AI data vendors (home capture) | Robotics companies rarely build their own capture teams - they outsource to data vendors, who recruit locally. The work is recording everyday actions such as folding clothes, tidying, wiping tables, washing dishes, opening bottles or making beds while wearing a device. Confirmed hirers include Yunnan Nanqi Digital Technology, Mengqing Data (Guizhou Huishui) and Hefei Yidianwangju. | Open-ended Ongoing | official channel | ||
| 09 | Digital templates | CV templates, slide decks, Notion setups, printables and planners, sold on Etsy, Gumroad or a Xiaohongshu shop. Build once, sell a hundred times, at near-zero marginal cost. | Open-ended Ongoing | View source | ||
| 10 | Novel keyword promotion | Send readers to search a specific keyword on Fanqie or Qimao: a search plus a few chapters counts as CPA, later top-ups count as CPS. Content lives longer than short drama - one hit can pay for months. | Open-ended Ongoing | official channel | ||
| 11 | Content outsourcing | Skip your own accounts and produce for merchants instead: short-video scripts, Xiaohongshu seeding posts, AI avatar videos, monthly retainer packages. Clients want delivery, not your follower count. | Open-ended Ongoing | official channel | ||
| 12 | WeChat Channels creator share | Ads sit in the comment area of short videos and pay by valid views, with longer watch time paying more. Everyday phone footage of daily life, home cooking or local scenes all qualify - no professional gear needed. | Open-ended Ongoing | official channel | ||
| 13 | DataAnnotation.tech | Rate, rewrite and correct AI answers (RLHF). One free qualification test, then a steady task queue. No technical background needed, and it pays the highest of the no-experience remote options. | Open-ended Ongoing | View source | ||
| 14 | JD cloud support | JD's official phone and online support. Pricing is per ticket and easy to verify: retail phone 4 CNY per call, retail online 1.6 CNY per ticket, outbound forms 1.25 CNY per call. The more you handle, the more you earn, with no need to gamble on shift timing. | Open-ended Ongoing | official channel | ||
| 15 | Longmao Data | A leading data vendor serving Tencent Hunyuan, Tongyi Qianwen, Kimi and Zhipu, with in-house bases in Beijing, Chongqing and Chengdu. Currently hiring long-term remote AI film and video annotation: reviewing generated video against prompts for composition, camera language, editing rhythm and motion logic, then rewriting what fails. | Open-ended Ongoing | View source | ||
| 16 | E-commerce affiliate (CPS) | Taobao Alliance, JD Union and Duoduo Jinbao: turn a product into your own link and take commission on orders placed through it. Pair it with a genuine deals group and repeat purchases keep coming. | Open-ended Ongoing | View source | ||
| 17 | Cloud-drive referrals | Package resources (templates, course notes, tool collections) and get people to register on Quark, Xunlei, UC or Baidu Netdisk and save the file, paid per new user. Saves and premium sign-ups add extra commission. | Open-ended Ongoing | official channel | ||
| 18 | Voice-over / audiobooks | Audition tasks on Ximalaya's creator centre, Lazishu or Qingting FM, or narrate WeChat articles and short-video voice-overs. A quiet room and a phone microphone are enough for the first take. | Open-ended Ongoing | View source | ||
| 19 | Toutiao / Baijiahao | Text and micro-posts earn by read. No camera and no editing: write about life, work, parenting, history or money-saving tips. 600-1,000 characters plus a few images is enough to publish - the easiest start for people who do not want to show their face. | Open-ended Ongoing | official channel | ||
| 20 | Outlier.ai | The crowdsourced side of Scale AI, doing RLHF and code-quality review on a project basis. Programming and bilingual projects pay noticeably more. | Open-ended Ongoing | View source |