Selling Hours For Pennies Is Not A Strategy. Productize The Skill Instead. Clearly.
Lilach Bullock, an AI implementation consultant, published a guide listing home-based side hustles for 2026. She points out that some delivery and task apps waste your evening for pennies. Her actual recommendation is using AI to automate an existing skill into a product instead of trading hours for low wages.
This demonstrates what economists call asset leverage versus labor arbitrage. Selling your time hourly has a hard ceiling. Packaging your knowledge as a repeatable product, especially one AI helps you build, decouples income from hours worked. The lesson: stop selling time. Start selling systems.
Lilach Bullock, described as an AI implementation consultant, published this side hustle guide at lilachbullock.com. She specifically warns that some apps waste your evening for pennies and recommends productizing existing skills with AI rather than selling hourly labor.
- List one skill you currently perform for an employer or clients that follows a repeatable process.
- Open ChatGPT and ask it to help you outline a template, checklist, or guide that captures your process for that skill.
- Refine the output into a simple document or PDF you could sell or share. You have begun converting hourly knowledge into a product.