r/passive_income • • 24d ago

Best of The Best Passive Income Ideas: October 2026

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From time to time, I curate all of the best posts from this subreddit (and from other social media) and summarize it here for you.

We are officially in the final 3 months of the year! There has never been a better time to start your passive income journey. There is much more noise, but man are there also a lot more opportunities! And don't forget - it's almost a requirement that you fail a few times before you succeed so just get started and don't worry about being perfect.

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Here is the best passive income content from the past few months.

Passive Income Stories & Ideas

Renting washers and dryers for $60 to $85 a month (TikTok): A 23-year-old in Utah wanted a rental that works year-round and stays put, so he rents washer and dryer sets: "it stays in their house… just a very, very niche rental." His first install was a fourplex in November 2023, on a non-binding contract he printed from Google Docs. He put half his life savings in, moved billing to Stripe subscriptions, bought $30,000 of sets wholesale, and had about 35 installed within two months, roughly $2,400 a month.

Editor note: This is what I was referring to in this article about renting things people can't easily quit. There are lots of variables you need to make sure to get right (buying the right machines, attracting the right customers, setting the right price, maintenance plan, etc), but once you have it dialed in, it's a great way to make money.

He tweeted his notes-app ideas once a day for 30 days and made $8,000 (TikTok): He left Google 18 months ago and calls himself "the idea guy" who quits everything within three months. He started posting one tweet a day from his notes app, about 15 minutes a day, and finished the month at 2,000 followers and $8,000, mostly from people and tech companies who wanted to pay him for posts and work. This month a startup paid him $42,000 for 12 weekly tweets, and a small app he launched to his followers makes about $5,000 a month.

Editor note: Remember this is self-reported, but small, concentrated audiences in business and tech can pay more than big general ones. The niche you are in matters.

A $400 Mac mini, a coffee shop, and a $2,100 install (X): Someone buys a Mac mini, installs an AI agent that runs entirely offline on it for a coffee shop in under an hour, charges $2,100, then adds a $100 to $150 monthly support retainer. "Not a company that scales to a billion dollars, obviously, but a solo operator clearing a few thousand a month from local installs."

Got my first $500 for my little party game in 2 months (Reddit): A party app that bundles games like Headbands, Charades and Truth or Dare with a cleaner design. Everyone told him the space was too crowded; it crossed $100 last month and $500 now.

Insightful comment: "That 1405 new customers is a much bigger number than the revenue suggests, you've got something people actually want to keep playing"

Editor note: Don't automatically skip verticals that seem crowded. Lots of competitors is also a validation signal. It means there are customers willing to pay.

Slow grind starting to pay off (Reddit): An unemployed CS graduate, two years into job hunting, has been building apps he'd want to use himself. A party game app he built for game nights with friends started earning this year after he followed trending formats like imposter, guess the song and would you rather.

Editor note: Certainly promoting their own app here, but it is a good example of building simple things that can be successful.

Made my first $56 on the App Store this month (+66%) (Reddit): A chanting and mala-counter app, two months after launch, in a niche with hundreds of competitors. He built it because the existing ones were full of loud casino ads and clunky interfaces.

Helpful comment: "The one-time unlock instead of a subscription is exactly why you're seeing conversions, people are so tired of renting software for basic stuff"

Editor note: Another example of a simple app making money. A lot of people (myself included) tend to overcomplicate things, when sometimes the simplest thing can be the best path.

I manually studied 30,600 iOS apps making $20k to $100k a month (X): Only about 1.7% of App Store apps make $20,000 a month or more. His advice is to pick problems people already spend money on every day, like losing weight, sleeping better or screen-time addiction, and use Cal AI as the example: photograph your food, get the calories.

Editor note: Really just promoting his own tool here, but it is good research and advice.

What Real People Make

Levelsio passed $10M a year in revenue plus investment gains (X): His businesses bring in a steady $200K to $250K a month at about 94.5% profit. He invested the profit, mostly in simple S&P 500 ETFs plus a few lucky bets like Nvidia in 2022, and for about a year his investment returns have passed his business revenue. He's upfront that most of the gains are unrealized: "keep that with a big grain of salt!"

Editor note: Most don't make close to that, but I love the principle of taking income from active work and investing it into passive income. "Spend less -> lower costs -> more profit -> more money saved -> more money to invest."

20 years of buying last year's best S&P 500 stock (TikTok): Each year he put $1,000 into the previous year's top-performing S&P 500 stock and $1,000 into the index. The $20,000 in winners grew to $357,000 versus $105,000 for the index, and the pick beat the index in 11 of 20 years. But Apple and Nvidia produced $230,000 of it on their own, and the Tesla pick for 2021 shrank to $15.

Editor note: A few huge winners carried the bulk of the gains. Note this is a concentration risk (you're betting on one single stock every year). Most people would have quit after the bad years.

9 months, 935 code commits, $800+. Here's why "passive" didn't happen (Reddit): An indie habit app. "The REVENUE is passive… The BUSINESS is not." One-time purchases made 57% of revenue and beat subscriptions, ads underperformed, app directories sent almost nothing, and his busiest month was month nine.

Insightful comment: "the directory stat is brutal but tracks with my experience. one decent launch placement did more than 13 directories combined"

Editor note: Building the app is one part (and easier than ever thanks to AI). Getting people to see it is another part that usually takes a lot of active work.

Reality Check

The "passive income" obsession is weird (Reddit): His argument: a lot of people don't actually want passive income, and almost every stream, blogging, affiliate marketing, digital products, YouTube, needed a ridiculous amount of work before it became remotely passive.

Helpful comment: "In reality you work like crazy for maybe a year or two before seeing anything, and even then it's not really passive cause you still gotta maintain it."

Editor note: It does take a ton of work to make passive income succeed. And yes, maintenance is required for most of them. But what you end up with is a valuable asset you've built (or bought) that works for you 24/7, even when you're sleeping, vacationing, or spending time with family. How much money that generates is up to you.

I fail more than others (TikTok): He lists famous failure rates, Angry Birds as Rovio's 52nd game, Dyson's 5,126 prototypes, J.K. Rowling's 12 rejections, then says over 90% of his own videos never made meaningful money. He reports $1 million in sales in August from TikTok Shop affiliate content.

Editor note: Again, keep in mind sales is not profit (or commissions in this case), but I've always loved this quote and stand by it: "I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." - Michael Jordan

Quick Hits

  • A just-okay situation can keep you stuck longer than a bad one → TikTok
  • Joe Lonsdale on Peter Thiel: effort is convex, and 90% focus beats 80% by more than you'd think (I love this one!) → TikTok
  • Tolstoy on long-term goals: forget the destination and cover twenty-five miles today → X
  • Fail more: Sinatra, Babe Ruth and Picasso's hit rates → TikTok
  • "An idiot in motion will go further than a genius at rest" → TikTok
  • Film a week of content in one hour: 10 hooks in 10 minutes, then batch film → TikTok
  • Fall in love with the system, not the goal → TikTok
  • Rule number one is launch → TikTok
  • Wealth is owning assets that pay you → TikTok
  • Six questions to answer before $1M in annual revenue → TikTok
  • "I made $29,000 last month on social media": add value first → TikTok
  • A one-page playbook for building authority in a niche in 45 minutes a week → X

Take Action

That's it for this edition. Almost everything that worked this month started small and active: one washer and dryer install, one app making $56, one tweet a day. The passive part came later and only for the people who kept going long enough to figure it out.

Keep going. You can do it.

glhfbbq

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r/passive_income • • Apr 28 '26

My Experience [UPDATE] Rent Out Websites for Passive Income

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TLDR: Not Another Coaching Program - an update to a coaching program that costs $2,980 and will teach you how to rent little websites for extra money passively AFTER some upfront work. 

I posted about this a couple years ago and thought I'd post an update (see updated interview here). It looked like a really good program then and since then it's proven even more to be a very solid path to earning passive income. In fact, I went the extra mile and interviewed one of the students who is averaging $30k/mo (see it here).

If you don't know what I'm talking about, it's a method where you build and rent out websites to local companies. The core engine of it is SEO (I’ve done SEM/SEO for 20+ years). The program is legit and the methodology is sound. Their private community is still active with lots of rich discussions. This is a GREAT program most people can succeed at. The only caveat I would give is if you just aren’t good with the Internet (like you have trouble setting up your gmail or a facebook page) this might be tough for you.

And because it's always one of the first questions, NO - this is not sponsored - they did not pay for this - I don't care if you buy it or don't. I created this sub 13 years ago and with all of the spam in this space, I just want to spotlight ones that I think are truly legitimate. I'll spotlight others as I find them.

So with that, here’s their pitch… 
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Hey, it’s Shiv and Kyle from NotAnotherCoachingProgram.com. 

Let’s get the bad stuff out of the way: 

This course costs $2,980, lifetime access. I realize you might not have that much; or maybe you’d saw off your own arm before dropping that kinda cash on a coaching program. I get it. Feel free to bounce now so I don’t waste your time. 

We teach you how to build, rank, and rent out itty-bitty websites to small businesses wanting more customers. Aka, local SEO. Not new. Not sexy. But tried and true. 

Why teach? Because the money is great, obviously. But also, there’s endless niche/city combo’s, and a community means more help ranking sites and closing deals. 

Downsides? There’s a few. It’s not instant money. SEO takes time (Maybe 2-6 Months). Also, some business owners may not see the value or can’t handle more leads. Some are just annoying to deal with. Others will stop paying after a few months, for whatever reason. Overall, though, it’s still pretty awesome. 

Each site has overhead of about $20-$30 per month. But the lowest we typically rent the sites out for is $500 per month. Pretty solid ROI. 

Assuming I haven’t scared you off yet, let’s go through some FAQs. 

How does this work? 

1- Pick an easy local niche to get leads for. “Spray Foam Insulation Carlsbad, California,” for example. 

2- Make a small, simple website and optimize it for relevant search terms.

3- Get it ranked in Google, Bing, Apple Maps, and AI tools like ChatGPT.

4- Add a local phone number that can track and forward every call that comes in. 

5- Hit up some Spray Foam Insulation companies in Carlsbad (to stick with this hypothetical example) and offer them free leads for a week. When someone agrees, route the leads to them. We or some of our hungry students can do the outreach for you if it’s not your thing. 

6- After a week of the free leads doing all the selling for you, tell them, “It’ll be $850/month to keep ‘em coming.” Or whatever our custom pricing tool says is fair for that niche and city. Yes, we can close them, too, if that part sounds too scary (It’s not). But, it will cost you. 

7- This is when it becomes truly passive because the site is ranked, the phone number is auto-forwarding to your client and all you have to do after that is run their credit card every month. If you priced the site right, you’ll never have to speak with your client again because they’ll forget they’re even paying you. 

8- Now rinse and repeat.

Hmm. Are you sure this is legit? 

Well, put it this way: 

Uber, Airbnb, Alibaba, Angi, Zillow, Thumbtack, and Apartments.com all use the same model. 

Connect buyer with seller, take a sliver to deliver. We just do it on a granular level. So yeah. Not only is it legitimate, it’s actually kinda brilliant. 

Who’s this for? 

Anyone, anywhere, any background, as long as you have some ambition, grit, and of course, basic computer skills. NO CODING INVOLVED. 

We use drag and drop website builders like Weebly & SitePanda so zero previous web design experience is needed. 

The more time you can devote to it, the better. But if you’re not in a rush, take your time and build up your digital real estate empire over time. 

Everything’s done online - So no, you do not have to do this in your own city. Nor do you have to meet anyone in person - unless you want to. 

How much does the course cost?

Like I said, our coaching program is $2,980 - Lifetime Access to the course material and private Facebook Group. 

Then, to run the business, you’re looking at less than $30 per month per website. (Which covers your domain, hosting, local tracking number, and research software.) 

Chump change considering the potential. 

How much does an average site make? 

$600/month is a safe estimate. 

Most of ours do $1,000 to $2,000/month. Sometimes more. 

Yeah, but, for how long? 

For as long as you own the site. 

No different than renting out houses or apartments, right? 

And if someone stops paying, same thing - you just find a new “tenant.” 

Click a few buttons, reroute the leads to them, keep collecting checks. 

Dead serious… 

I made a site 5 years ago that’s been paying me $1,000 a month the entire time. That’s $60,000 and counting! 

You could hand these off to your kids one day. 

How much work is involved? 

A good amount in the beginning and then hardly any once the website is built, ranked, and you’ve partnered with a business. 

You could make a site in a day. 

Then ask others in our group for some backlinks (which are like votes in the SEO process). 

From there, it’ll take a few weeks to a few months to jump to page 1, depending on your niche and city. 

In the meantime, go make more.

Soon, you’ll have emails and calls trickling in. 

Leverage those leads to close a deal… and then it’s basically mailbox money from there. Okay, how soon will I make money with this? 

Anywhere from one month to six months after starting, depending on a number of factors like: 

1- How well you selected your niche & city. We prefer low-hanging fruit - the search terms with very weak SEO competition. 

2- Your ability to trust the process, not overcomplicate things and just follow the exact steps taught. 

3- How willing you are to reach out to business owners to offer them free leads and then ask for money. 

From there, it’s just focus, execution, and consistency. 

If you do your part, no reason you can’t have a handful of websites generating leads within the first month. 

And then you start landing clients in month two… 

And by month three? You’ve got a G-Wagon parked outside your new mansion, and you hardly ever run into your live-in servants, which is nice. 

(I’m joking.) 

How many of these can I have? 

As many as you can comfortably manage. 

No business is infinitely scalable though. Eventually you’ll need a team to go bigger and bigger. Anything below 20 clients is 98% passive. But 20 clients is easily $15k to $25k a month. 

As you grow to 40 and 50 clients, you’ll have some credit cards that decline that you have to follow up with and you have higher odds of needy clients who want to ask you questions. 

But this is something you can do as a one-person operation and easily get to 10, 20, maybe 30 rental sites with minimal maintenance if any at all.

Don’t most businesses already have a website? 

Yes, and if they happen to be at the top of the search results, they probably don’t need us. But for the vast majority, who’re buried back on page 4 of Google, it’s a different story. Their website is a digital dust collector. 

Whereas, yours? Will be a cash factory churning out profits… that’ll make the amount they’re paying you seem like pennies in a wishing well. 

Plus, you can structure deals to remove risk. 

So instead of a flat monthly fee, they could pay you $5 per phone call or 10% of booked business that comes through your site, for instance. 

Boom. How can they lose? 

Wait, why wouldn’t they just do this themselves? 

Most simply don’t have the time, energy, or inclination to nerd-out on this stuff, even if it is a game-changer for their business. 

And remember, for every dollar they throw your way, they’re making that back several times over. 

So most of ‘em are more than cool with it. 

Won’t it get saturated if you tell everyone? 

Not gonna be an issue. 

Why? 

Because you would have to multiply every type of local business by every city on this big blue planet - and then go do this in however many millions of niches that would be - before you could say it’s cooked. 

And we’re a looong ways from that. 

Why do I need a course? Can’t I figure this out myself?

Sure, anyone can figure anything out on their own with the internet and AI. But you’ll be banging your head against the wall for a year and most people don’t have that type of stamina before making a single dollar. 

You may think, “Can’t I just have AI build me a site and tell me how to rank it?”

Sure you can try. But if you’ve used AI enough, you’ll learn that it gets things wrong a lot and you could be 6 months into a project and nothing is working.

We teach you how to use AI for some of it, but you have to be really careful. Most AI tools watermark their content (look up SynthID if you don’t believe me) amongst other things. 

We have 10+ years of experience doing this. We know the exact Do’s and Don'ts.

Plus Google isn’t going to jeopardize their $4 trillion dollar business over people mass-spamming sites with AI SEO (I don’t care WHAT Google’s says on the matter - they change their stance constantly).

The biggest value here is our community. Because over 2,200+ people have paid $2,980 to join, you get access to a super high quality vetted group of students who are doing this exact same business model. 

Students constantly share tips, techniques, niches, and opportunities that have been crazy profitable for them, and since what one student is doing in Foster City, California (for example) isn’t competing with a site you’re building in let’s say Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, people don’t feel scared sharing their latest and greatest techniques with the group.

And lastly: it’s LIFETIME access, we constantly improve, update, and add strategies to help make your business owners get more customers. The more customers they get, the more passive income you get. Win-win.

We lay out the exact step by step process that we have used over and over again. Our repeat student successes within 6 months reassures us that we have our training nailed down. 

Are there any renewal fees or mandatory purchases from us? 

No further purchases from our program are required, but we do offer some outsourcing services:

1 - If you want our team to build you a fully optimized site, that’ll run ya $300 per site. 

2 - If you want to use our proprietary software to build your site, that’ll run you a $25 platform fee plus $7.50 fee per site per month. 

3 - If you want to use our proprietary phone software, depending on usage, that’ll run you ~$7.50 per month per number. 

Let’s be clear though, if you want to use another website builder or other phone number service, be our guest. It won’t hurt you at all. 

Fine. Can I see some examples? 

Thought you’d never ask. 

Visit NotAnotherCoachingProgram.com for a bunch of case studies and interviews with current students. 

At the bottom of that page is a link to our calendar if you ever think you’d like to join. Either way, appreciate you reading this. 

You’ll be talking to either Shiv, Kyle, or Alexandria. All of us have done six/seven figures a year in this business model.

Shiv & Kyle


r/passive_income • • 1h ago

My Experience Feel stupid asking this, but did I actually find passive income or did I just trap myself in an annoying side gig?

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Before anyone rolls their eyes, no, this isn't dropshipping or another garbage ebook about AI prompts.

Six months ago I bought an old 5x8 utility trailer for $900 to haul drywall for a basement reno. Once I finished, my brother convinced me to list it on local classifieds for $40 a day instead of letting it rot behind my shed. I figured maybe one guy a month would rent it to move a sofa.

Fast forward to now and the thing is booked almost every single weekend. It literally paid for itself in two months and clears about $450 to $600 a month with virtually no overhead. On paper it looks like teh easiest side cash in the world.

but honestly, it’s completely wrecking my peace of mind. Every Saturday morning at 7:15 AM my phone buzzes with strangers asking if it comes with ratchet straps or if they can tow it with a Civic. Half the time they return it three hours late covered in wet mulch, and every time someone hooks it up to their bumper I spend the whole afternoon anxious they’re going to cause a five-car pileup on the highway.

Am I being an ungrateful idiot for wanting to sell this thing and walk away from an extra $500/mo, or does true "passive" income just not exist?


r/passive_income • • 1h ago

Seeking Advice/Help Help with starting out...

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I got a regular 9-5, but it pays awful, and I just got a second child and I'm under chronic stress about being able to provide enough to get through the month, the salary is my country is abysmal, I bust my ass off for 900 euros a month, and the prices of everything are criminal.

I gave half of my wage on a lap top, in a desperate attempt to learn a skill or use AI as a waying of having a second income.

I am very hard working, and usually work 2 jobs, but I got burnout from sleep deprivation and constant grind and never being home, so I quit the second job and now I'm for a secong gig online.

I would love advice from people who actually made money by clipping, creating digital products, on any other way where I can use the after hours when my family is asleep between 21-04h to commit to an online job.


r/passive_income • • 4h ago

Seeking Advice/Help For people who kept a paid-off second car after retiring: did the convenience justify the taxes, insurance, and upkeep?

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r/passive_income • • 4h ago

Just here to brag Can a Digital Product Keep Earning After You Stop Promoting It?

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Templates, courses, and digital downloads can generate recurring sales, but demand may fade. What makes these products sustainable without constant marketing?


r/passive_income • • 7h ago

My Experience Couple good passive apps

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DISCLAIMER - 2 REFERALL LINKS INCLUDED

Bixberry ( join.bixberry.com/RAITI40F3A )

  1. Plain and simple, just connect it and that's it.

  2. Took me about 2 weeks to get to 10 USD, paid in same day.

SharingSMS ( https://sharingsms.com/?r_id=c66f56f1-079f-11f0-97fd-7ab0c310d619 )

  1. Great if you have some older phones and pre paid cards.

2 Brings me around 1k per month. Can't post another image, if anyone wants can send proof in DM.

  1. Accruals are daily once your card get rented by customer.

Unetwork.io

  1. Same as Bixberry, set it and forget it.

  2. Also good if you have multiple phones.

  3. No payout requested this month but should be around 40 $, I usually cash out monthly, but it can be done whenever pleases, min is 5$.

SMSprofit

  1. Similar to SharingSMS but pays less.

  2. Can take about a month ot more to reach minimum of 10$ payout as it pays around 0.02 per text resceived.

Any questions message me or write here.

I am not really bothered to get referalls as I make money from apps not referrals, but it won't hurt.


r/passive_income • • 2h ago

Offering Advice/Resource Has anyone ever worked with ai consulting?

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I started it as a remote, side gig. May take a while to really get going, but plenty of flexibility to take jobs when you want or can.


r/passive_income • • 2h ago

Offering Advice/Resource I worked out what you actually keep from a $15 Notion template sale on each platform

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People talk about selling Notion templates as a side hustle, but rarely about the fees. Using each platform’s published rates, here’s what you keep from one $15 sale:

What surprised me:

Typical prices: a single page sells for $5–8, a multi-database template for $10–18, a bundle for $20–30.

Don’t get your listing taken down: don’t resell designs that use Canva Pro elements, and if you used AI for the design or preview images, say so in your Etsy listing.

Full breakdown, including how to build a template and deliver it to buyers: https://worldngayon.com/notion-templates/


r/passive_income • • 6h ago

Stocks/IRA How are you building an income-focused portfolio today?

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Do you rely mainly on cash and traditional fixed income, or complement them with other income sources?


r/passive_income • • 9h ago

Social Media Opportunities for people trying to make some money online.

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I built Highlightz (highlightz.app), a software that watches Twitch streams and automatically clips the best moments. Our first clipping campaign just launched: a $500 prize pool for clipping the Twitch streamer Duxxion. The 3 people whose single clip gets the most views win $250, $150 and $100. Making an account is free, and you don’t need a card. Open Campaigns, hit Join to see the full rules, then post your Duxxion clips to TikTok or Instagram. Posting opens Friday, Oct 30 and runs for a week. Views keep counting for 3 days after it closes, so even a last-day clip has a shot. Only 2 people have joined so far, so the odds are in your favor right now. It’s not fully passive, since you post the clips yourself, but the software does the watching and cutting for you. And this is only our first campaign. New ones will go up in the same Campaigns tab, so once you have an account you can enter every one. Come make some money!


r/passive_income • • 7h ago

Real Estate How do I start a project with $50?

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I only have $50 I would appreciate it if you could suggest a project idea for me to start with


r/passive_income • • 14h ago

Seeking Advice/Help Is 3D printing a good business?

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So I want to start a small 3D printing business, first of all because I enjoy 3D printing and second of all because I feel like there's potential for business here. I also know some 3D + my wife is an artist/designer who is helping me with that aspect of it all.

I'm about to buy a new printer but I'm trying to figure out how to turn this into a business because it's probably much difficult than I am antecipating.
Does anyone have recommendations or advise? Is this even a good idea?


r/passive_income • • 8h ago

Offering Advice/Resource Monetag

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Was looking for alternatives to AdSense, and saw an ad for Monetag. Look at their js file they want you to upload the server, then peeped the import. Import is minified js so I had claude take a look at it. The first tool I used identified what it thought was a base64 encoded blob which is a red flag.

This is a pretty scummy way, with those stupid popups, to handle business. The obsfucation, along with what it actually does, is a larger red flag for me than some clown giving away puppies in a van.

About the “base64 blob”

There isn’t one. What looks like a blob is the big string table at the end of minified.js (about 1,135 entries). It isn’t base64. Each letter is just shifted 12 places in the alphabet (a ROT-12 cipher), which is why it looks like gibberish (tffbe:// is https://). Every K.xx in the code looks up an entry in that table. In the readable file, all of them are replaced with the plain-text values.

The only real base64 in the file:

  • Line 1015 urlBase64ToUint8Array: converts the push-notification server key, a standard step for web push.
  • Line 321 btoa(e): base64-encodes a URL into a request header called token. More on this below.

What the script is

It’s Monetag’s push-notification service worker, version 3.1.647 (line 1346). Websites that run Monetag ads install it. It stays in the visitor’s browser after they leave the site, receives push messages, shows ad notifications and reports stats back. The servers it talks to:

Domain Role
zdzhk.com main server and event logging
kbvcd.com ping (check-in) server
my.rtmark.net user ID (“gidrator”)
dulotadtor.com / abunownon.com ad banners and images

Findings, most important first

  1. The server can redirect the browser anywhere, and the script quietly reinstalls itself (lines 1531–1548, 1441). When a notification is clicked, the script sends the browser to a fake page at <site>/fdsdrtytrertyuygtfghjhgfrtywertyuiytrertyuytre. The script answers that address itself, so the request never reaches the site. The page re-registers a service worker from a scriptURL taken from the URL, then redirects to next without checking where it points. For browsers that already have this worker, that address on the site is an open redirect (it will send visitors to any URL in the link). Browsers only allow a service worker from the site’s own domain, so scriptURL can’t load a worker from another site.
  2. It skips installing when Google’s Lighthouse auditing tool is running (line 2529, checks for Chrome-Lighthouse). This keeps it out of automated site audits. It’s a sign of deliberate evasion.
  3. It rewrites built-in notification functions (lines 79–124). It replaces Notification.prototype.close and ServiceWorkerRegistration.prototype.showNotification across the whole worker to track when notifications are shown and closed.
  4. The server can change it remotely (line 1861 and the handleFeatureFlags function). A push message with sw_config can swap out the event, ping and fallback servers, so its behaviour can change without the file changing.
  5. It collects device details (lines 369–379 and 1577–1615). It reads high-entropy browser hints (device model, OS version, CPU architecture and bitness, full browser version list) plus WGL (likely a WebGL graphics-card value), a long-lived user key, an install ID, and counts of notifications shown and dismissed. It sends these with ad requests.
  6. It has a backup route that hides its traffic (lines 309–323, 1033). If a normal request fails, it retries through domains stored in a local domains database. It requests random-looking paths, sends cookies, and puts the real URL in base64 in a token header. This is built to get around ad blockers. In this file nothing ever adds a domain (addDomain is defined but never called), so it only does anything if another script on the same site fills that list.
  7. Minor issues:
    • Spammy notifications: the fallback ad is “Personal Offer for You. / We found 1 offer that might interest you” with requireInteraction: true (line 1347), so it stays on screen until clicked. Repeated and “bubbled” notifications (lines 195, 574) keep re-showing old ones.
    • Unchecked messages: the message handler (line 2022) accepts subscribe/ping commands without checking who sent them. That’s normal for a service worker, but worth knowing.
    • Bug: on a fatal error, the fake page sends its error report to its own URL instead of the logging server.

r/passive_income • • 1d ago

Seeking Advice/Help Software engineer looking for a hobby that can eventually generate passive income. Any advice from those who’ve done it?

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Hey guys,

I work in IT/engineering and I'm looking to start a new hobby during my free time. Rather than just consuming content or gaming, I’d like to spend my hours building or learning something that could eventually produce passive or semi-passive income.

If you have experience monetizing a personal project or hobby alongside a full-time tech job:

  1. What worked best for you?

  2. How long did it take to see your first returns?

  3. Any traps or mistakes to avoid early on?

Open to both software-focused ideas and hardware/physical creation hobbies. Appreciate any insights!


r/passive_income • • 7h ago

Seeking Advice/Help Making money for collage

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Hi I’m a 16 year old from the U.S, and I’m trying to find a way to make some passive income, I have a strong pc and a UGREEN NASync DXP280 with 16 gigs of ram any suggestions, and don’t say job I already have one, my goal is to make around $100 a month along with my job, thanks!


r/passive_income • • 23h ago

What do I do with $X? Does lending through an app actually pay off or do defaults wipe it out?

5 Upvotes

My warehouse job cut my overtime almost nothing this quarter. the checking account has about $600 doing absolutely nothing. Keep seeing these peer-to-peer lending mentioned as a way to lend that out and earn something instead of letting it sit. Does the math actually work once you factor in people who don't pay back, or is this one of those things that sounds better the it is?


r/passive_income • • 1d ago

Just here to brag For people receiving Social Security: did “up to 85% taxable” mean something different from what you first thought?

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r/passive_income • • 1d ago

Real Estate Aun son vendibles las plantillas de excel ?

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Estoy pensando en realizar plantillas excel que ayude a las empresa implementar de forma sistematica metodologias lean.

Tengo bastante experiencia en implementacion de Metodologias Lean en procesos industriales y me gustaria vender estas plantillas pero no se por donde empezar, que paginas usar para vender y algun concejo que me puedan dar.

Gracias!!!


r/passive_income • • 23h ago

Seeking Advice/Help Ways to make money

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r/passive_income • • 1d ago

My Experience What I learned from a thread about earning money while living in a toxic home?

7 Upvotes

I came across a post recently from someone in a toxic home, asking for the best passive income streams so they could eventually leave. The replies were thoughtful, and almost everyone said the same thing: passive income is a long game, and if you need options soon, get active income going first.

A few takeaways from that thread:

  • Passive income usually needs money, time or an audience up front, so it pays slowly.
  • Remote customer support, transcription and freelancing (design, writing, etc.) can start paying within weeks.
  • Start with the skills you already have, then build toward more passive income later, such as templates or digital products.
  • If you need to keep it private, a bank account in your own name and payment methods only you can access make a big difference.

I turned these ideas into a longer write-up with a realistic timeline in case it helps anyone in a similar spot: https://howtoinvestmoney.co.uk/blog/stuck-in-a-toxic-home-why-active-income-beats-passive-income

If you’ve been through this, what worked for you?

Find out where you are leaking? Read the book: https://howtoinvestmoney.co.uk/the-invisible-leak


r/passive_income • • 1d ago

Seeking Advice/Help Marketing problem

2 Upvotes

Hey, i have this problem with marketing my products, what im relying on is social media traffic. TikTok, Pinterest and maybe ill start using instagram. The thing is ive posted on Tiktok and pinterest for the past 30 days consistently 5 pins a day and one tiktok video each day non stop for 1 month, and it never reached my target audience PS: my target audience is based in The US, and im not in the US im in different countries, it never reached my target audience idk why, is it because of me being outside of the US or what please i need some solutions ASAP! Some ppl told me to use vpn but its easy to be detected and it doesnt work


r/passive_income • • 1d ago

Social Media Great engagement but audience largely based India/Pakistan/Bangladesh?

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Tons of views and engagement. I am in the medical field and posting clinical cases. But my audience stats are showing me my audience is heavily based in Bangladesh, India and Egypt.
Forge on or start over due to low RPM?
Can anyone share what their RPM is for this type of audience?


r/passive_income • • 16h ago

Seeking Advice/Help Passive income as a 15-year old

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Hey, I’m a 15-year old boy who lives in Europe and wants to start getting some kind of passive income so I have money when I need it in life. I’m willing to spend up to about $1000 to make this happen, but if I have to spend that much, I dont want the risks to be too high.

What would you do in my situation?


r/passive_income • • 1d ago

Offering Advice/Resource What one faceless video actually costs to make in 2026 (numbers the programs publish)

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Every "start a faceless channel" video skips the boring part: what each upload costs before it earns anything. Here are the numbers programs and students have put out in public:

- WannerCashCow's sales page puts outsourced videos (freelance writer, voice, editor) at around $50 to $75 each, and AI-assisted ones at as little as $25.
- Someone who joined a $5,600 one-year mentorship posted on r/CreatorCEO that it was $75 per video on top, with 3 to 4 videos a week recommended.
- Older threads here mention $7,500 courses before a cent goes into production.

So at 3 videos a week and $60 a video you're at roughly $780 a month in production alone. At a $3 to $5 RPM (WannerCashCow's own screenshot shows $3.80 on one video) that's roughly 160k to 260k views a month just to break even. That's the math nobody puts in the thumbnail.

If you pay for coaching, pick one that talks about it openly. WannerCashCow publishes its per-video costs on its own sales page, which is why I used their numbers. Whatever you pick, budget for 3 to 6 months of production before you judge the channel.