Chatgpt-Makes-Money is a price-tagged list of 66 ChatGPT side hustles, not a tool

Sixty-six numbered hustles in a repository holding one file

The repository contains exactly one file, README.md. There is no source code, no dependency file, no test directory and no release history, and the primary language was not detected by the repository metadata. What it does contain is a numbered list of side-hustle ideas, presented as sixty-six entries and described as co-created with ChatGPT.

An editor's note opens the file and sets out the argument. ChatGPT is presented as a writing tool that can produce blogs and articles, supply editing and proofreading, translate documents and create content. Three conditions are named before any of it: know your own skills well enough to pick a field, have the time and resources to finish the work, and set a pricing policy and hold to quality. Those three lines are the closest thing to guidance the file offers.

After that the entries run in sequence, numbered with Chinese punctuation and each set off by its own heading. Most are two to four sentences. A few run longer where the author is explaining a mechanism, and several name a platform by name, including Xianyu, Zhishixingqiu, WeChat official accounts, WeCom, Feishu, Xiaohongshu, Jianying, Ximalaya, TikTok and WeChat mini programs.

Every price in the list is the author's own expectation

Money figures appear inside the entries rather than in a separate section, and they carry no method. Entry 1 proposes selling answers to other people's questions on Xianyu at 0.5 to 1 yuan each, with volume sales on top. Entry 2 prices answers on Zhishixingqiu at 1 yuan a question. Entry 21 quotes 40 yuan an hour for part-time manuscript tidying work, a category the entry says specifically wants people who already use ChatGPT.

Entry 15 prices courses between 99 and 999 yuan depending on content volume and channel. Entry 39 proposes reselling access to ChatGPT through a WeCom integration or an official account, free for the first twenty uses and 0.5 yuan per use after. Entry 53 quotes 135 yuan a month for a Plus account.

The income claims are looser than the prices. Entry 49 works through an example in which one account earns 50,000 yuan a month, five accounts are live, and the text then reports the same 50,000 yuan as the total, which does not follow from the numbers in the sentence before it. Entry 43 asserts an accuracy rate of 95 percent for question answering and a few hundred yuan a day from multiple accounts. None of these figures comes with a sample size, a time period or a source.

Account resale sits in the middle of the list

Three entries describe making money from accounts rather than from work. Entry 12 covers applying for a Plus subscription on someone else's behalf and keeping the difference, arguing that ordinary accounts are too unstable for small businesses that need long sessions. Entry 38 covers buying and reselling accounts outright: it names registration tooling that produces tens of thousands of accounts a day, sets an account purchase price above 20 yuan with a few yuan of margin, and a hundred accounts a day as a workable pace. Entry 53 turns to rental, describing ordinary accounts as cutting out during the hours that are daytime in the United States, which are evening hours here, and citing 200 million registrations.

Entry 38 also names where the buyers come from: Channels, Xiaohongshu and Tieba are described as easy places to attract traffic, with the plan to move those contacts into a private group and convert there.

The passages are written as straightforward business description. What the list does not do is mention platform terms, account sharing rules or the consequence of a bulk registration run being traced, which is the first thing a reader would want to know about this cluster of entries.

The mirror site entry is the one place the author rules against an idea

Entry 13 is unusual because it closes its own idea. It observes that many users will not or cannot use a proxy, so domestic sites market themselves as the closest thing to ChatGPT, that a programmer can build one by connecting the API and charging a monthly fee, and that the official service spends 2.5 billion yuan a year so an individual cannot compete. The entry then says the arrangement is close to selling something under another name and states that this way of operating is not recommended. It is the only entry carrying an explicit verdict against its own scheme.

Two neighbouring entries take a different line. Entry 7 proposes running a platform that hands out virtual phone numbers for account registration, with a margin of about 1 yuan per number and volume doing the work. Entry 9 covers reselling that service to people who cannot use the platform themselves, pricing it at 2 yuan and charging 4. Neither entry discusses what the numbers are for, which is the question a reader would ask first.

The remaining entries are content work priced by the piece

Most of what remains is straightforward freelance work that ChatGPT shortens. Entry 46 covers writing commercial trend pieces, Xiaohongshu posts, self-media articles, cross-border e-commerce copy and Moments posts, with the instruction to write whichever category is wanted. Entry 30 places ChatGPT translation between raw machine translation and a human translator and suggests selling it cheaper than a person. Entry 29 takes data analysis work and notes that a URL can be handed over for a page to read when the data set is too large to paste.

Smaller units get their own entries: outlines for sale in entry 31, email copy packs in 32, video scripts and descriptions in 36, keyword work for search ranking in 37, audio uploaded to platforms such as Ximalaya in 51.

Two entries talk about production speed rather than pricing. Entry 44 describes importing generated copy into Jianying, where a text-to-video function turns out an original short video in three minutes, followed by the plan to run a matrix of accounts in one vertical field. Entry 42 describes generating tens of thousands of articles a day, importing them into a site by category and chasing search rankings for the traffic. Both entries assume volume rather than audience, and neither says how the resulting content would be distinguished from the rest.

The three most prominent links are about access, not about the hustles

The first three headings in the file are links, and none of them points at a side hustle. The first recommends a separate repository, xiaoming2028/PAC, described as a working proxy list for reaching ChatGPT. The second points at a wiki page about the phone number verification OpenAI now demands when logging into Codex. The third is a guide to keeping a Claude Code account from being banned and to getting past Persona identity verification.

Only after those links does the star request appear, asking for a GitHub star and a fork as a backup copy, followed by instructions for bookmarking the page: Ctrl+D on a desktop, the browser's own add-to-bookmarks on a phone.

So the most visible surface of the repository is about getting an account to work and staying unblocked, while the body is about making money with the tool. The ordering is a fair summary of what the audience is asking about, and it is also the honest reason a reader should be careful with the file, since two of those three links concern verification steps rather than anything about the listed work.

The visible list stops in the middle of entry 53

The text runs out mid-sentence inside entry 53, which covers renting a Plus account at 135 yuan a month. The sentence breaks off after saying that Plus had been discussed before, so entries 54 through the promised 66 are not present in what this file shows. Anything claimed about the tail of the list would be guesswork, and the counts in the introduction are the only evidence that the full version was longer.

What the repository root confirms matches: a single README.md, no directories, no CI configuration, no lock file, no licence file. The last commit on the main branch is dated 2026-05-18, and no GitHub release has ever been published.

That shape explains both the appeal and the limit of the file. Nothing here needs installing, so there is no setup cost and no way to break it. At the same time there is nothing to test: every price, every rate and every income figure stands on the authority of the author, with no logs, no screenshots of results and no way to reproduce the numbers.

Editorial conclusion

Treat this as a price reference for services, not as a business model. The entries that describe selling per piece, writing, translation or outlines map onto work a person can actually deliver, while the entries about account resale and registration runs describe trading access rather than work, and the list says nothing about platform terms in those passages. Before treating any figure as a forecast, remember that every price in the file is the author's expectation with no method attached. Anyone who needs a working system here will find nothing to run: there is no code, no configuration and nothing to install.

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