Hi everyone! I made a post back in may when i made almost 3k in once month off beer money sites and im back here again for the year finale!

Now before i begin my journey to you guys i just want to put it out there that this job takes TIME and yes A TON OF TIME to get to where i am today. But to say this even though i only made 15k this year i could have made at least 24k if i knew what i was doing and if i didn't play so much video games all the damn time lol.

Everyday i get up in the morning to do this type of work, and if you are wondering im living in the US so perhaps things are different across the world. Now this is important so pay attention, im online for about 12-14 HOURS A DAY!!! yes that is a ton of time but im not working all those hours, mainly my time spent is just waiting for tests to come up and on downtime i just watch YouTube or play video games. this job was perfect for a kid like me who had no experience in a real job and needed to get money, now i have enough to buy my first car in about 2 weeks and ill finally be able to travel from my area to find a real job so i can build income to start up my side business!

I started with a $50 PC off of ebay and a 60hz monitor found off my dads storage place. Now ive build a PC that's worth 1.5k and have a triple 144hz monitor displays. And yes for this work and if you are looking to make money like i did triple monitor is extremely necessary but you can still do these numbers without it but you will miss some work sometimes, just be faster!

In total i have made close to 15k at the end of this month here's the sites i used and a description for each of them:

User Testing: $6015 this site was my biggest bread winner of them all, however it took me a ton of time to get here. I have maintained a 5 star rating ever since i became a tester on the site. If you want to make money on this site you need to maintain that high rating. I suggest not doing interview tests as many things could go wrong and could end up in termination of your account, in my opinion not worth but i have done 3 $30 min interviews and they went alright some even end early. Lastly do not expect yourself to make any money the first 3 months, you really need to build that rating up before things happen and even with a high rating like me now, i don't get much tests. I was able to make at least 2k a month on june/july but afterwards the work slowed down like hell and now i make like $50 a week off this site.

M-turk: $1632.77 This site is the worst of them all, yep i said it WORSE. However it can still bring you some good money compared to most survey sites out there. This was the 2nd site that i have used when i started my beer money journey and i was working for pennies, but i was WORKING any penny i saw it as an opportunity and as i started doing more and more Hits i started seeing those higher paid ones. I don't like this site much because there are a much of people with automatic accept software's from the site that they pay for and the HITS go away in a blink of an eye. If you could get in mturk, great! but only expect to make around $5 a day with how things are looking like at the moment.

Connect: $2044.77 This site was the 2nd one I used, and i was actually invited though it when i was doing a HIT on m-turk. they are very new company but they are like prolific's little brother is what i call it lol. Now this is one of my favorite sites, they are very professional and the work there is nice to do. I see it as a better version of M-Turk and you will sometimes see work that goes upwards of $9+.

Prolific: $3989.60 This is the king of the kings. Best survey/study site there is hands down. Very professional staff and workers on this site and was worth every wait on that waitlist. This was my 3rd site that i used. I finally got accepted into mturk around in april-may and i applied in November of last year! If you are on that waitlist you will be there for a bit yeah but worth the wait let me tell ya. there are many tests and studies that come through the entire day similar to connect so always keep that tab open!

Swag bucks: $440 This site is where it all started. The site that changed my life! Now is it good no lol but it really entered me into the beer money online world and basically got the train up and running for me. Looking back at it now i get a bit sad because i was just a kid looking for money who could not find a job, i was so desperate i would be on swag bucks for 12 hours a day and be happy if i even made $10 off of that. If you are new to beer money i don't recommend starting with this site, its a huge waste of time, other sites like Prime Opinion. I started picking up the pace with game offers that they had, they pay well but are very time consuming.

TELUS: $826.42 Now im not sure if this is considered a beer money site but its online work so ill include it! They pay by the hour and the tasks they assign go away very quickly, but if you hit the maximum hours you can do at least in the job i work in (10hr per week) you can make around $400 a month. This is the closet to an online office job for the sites that i have used and you need to make sure your work is done right or else you are out! This was my last beer money site that i signed up for (besides other minor ones but they didn't generate that much to share). I wish i signed up to this site sooner than later, its basically free money for me.

And those are the sites that i have used and are what worked for me! Not going to lie making this post for me was a bit emotional, like seeing where i came from making about $50 a month to like 2k a month was the biggest success in my life time and its only going to get better from here :).

Now am i going to continue doing beer money? Yes! but not with the hourly work load that im currently doing, im just super thankful that with this reddit sub i was able to set my life in the right direction to finally make some money to prepare myself for the real world and what's to come.

That's it for me folks, i will do my very best to answer all of your questions and if you guys need ANY proof of my income i have no issue showing screenshots of my lifetime earnings from each site :). Thank you everyone in beer money for once again changing my life for the better good, its because of your knowledge that im here today smiling with my dream setup and a giant leap to my life for the next year, my heart goes out to everyone in the SUB!

TL;DR: This explains how, after a layoff, I used beermoney sites to replace some of my full-time income, turned it into a side hustle, and how it's been performing for me over the last 2 years. Included in the post are the sites I use. In the previous threads includes some strategy and approaches, some which worked and some that didn't, and social proof. No courses, no affiliate links, nothing to sell. Just sharing experience and clearly did not write this with AI since, well, it's apparent if you read it haha

Every 6 months or so, I spend some time detailing my journey on how I’ve done with my beermoney/side hustle routine. I started in early 2024 after I was laid off from my job. You can review that initial thread on the beermoney sub here; it goes into the backstory a bit and has 547k views:

https://www.reddit.com/r/beermoney/comments/1bg894i/this_sub_saved_me_for_real/ - this intial thread shares a lot of different sites I tried and apps to come up with my strategy.

In July 2024, I obtained a full-time job again and transitioned beermoney to a side hustle from a full-time (if not difficult) income stream. That post is here and has 875k views:

https://www.reddit.com/r/beermoney/comments/1gyvft8/lessons_learned_making_20k_this_year_w_beermoney/ - this post has thoughts on what I learned during that time and then after I started a full-time job again.

I am posting this with nothing more than the desire to share what I have learned with the subreddits that have helped me much. No affiliate links, no “DM for my PDF” nonsense. I’m not selling a course. Just a post from one Redditor to others! (For those who are wondering, I am US based so many of these lessons don’t apply for other countries)

For 2025, I have been running my side hustle routine as essentially a second job, trying to dig out from the financial hole from unemployment (which I did), and now, towards savings and investments (obviously, not a TON because it still is beermoney after all)

Here are TWO changes I have made in 2025 that have helped a ton and increased my earnings by about 33% in 2025:

I used Chrome to create folders and tabs with the sites I frequent every day, and put them in a logical order. My current folders are:

• UAT: This has links to UserTesting, UT Intellizoom, UserLytics, UserCrowd, TestingTime, TryMata and UserBrain. I have done at least 5 UX tests on each one of these in 2025, so that is why they are daily reviews. (Note:  TestingTime and TryMata have been my slowest)

• WFH: This folder has FieldNation (I come from an IT background prior to marketing), OneForma and Clickworker. I will do field work with both FieldNation and Clickworker. Fieldnation isn’t really beermoney, as those are IT contracts but I have made over 2k this year from small off-hours contracts like workstation migrations. At Clickworker, the primary task I do there is store photo audits, which I’ll do on weekends. OneForma has dried up for me.

• Surveys: Prolific, Connect Cloud Research, PaidViewpoint, FocusGroup, and Respondent. Self-explanatory I think.

• Educational Gigs: I have an M.S. degree in a popular discipline, so I keep tabs on various project-related education sites and online universities that could be looking for contract adjunct positions.

Next, I used Lovable to create a beermoney/clickwork web app for myself. I am not marketing that, but it essentially lets me keep track of how I earn, when I earned, has a bit of reporting, and breaks down my hourly rate for each primary site I use. It has been quite helpful for logging and tracking, almost like calorie trackers help someone who needs to get a handle on their nutrition. You can also do this with a spreadsheet, which is what I did in 2024, but this gamified it a bit for me.

The primary sites and secondary sites I am earning from right now; this has changed since 2024:

Primary Earners: NOTE: YMMV on these types of dollars, it depends on demographics and those are things I cannot share on this post.

• UserTesting - User experience testing, mostly vocal and video. Between $20-50 dollars a day. I have made over $20k from this site alone in the last 2 years. 5 star rating,

• Prolific - I was initially waitlisted for months, but now doing about a decent amount daily.

• Clickworker - Store-shelf audits (phone app) $30-60 dollars each. One or two per weekend in my local area (which is suburban city and seems to have a lot of gigs)

• dScout - Surveys that contain selfie videos occasionally. This varies but is about $100 a month average.

• All other UX sites – About $50 a week between UserLytics,  UT Intellizoom, UserBrain and UserCrowd

Secondary Earners:

• Respondent - User experience and interviews. $500ish total this year.

• Connect Cloud Research – Since Prolific is doing well for me right now, I don’t check this as much.

I covered much of my process in the other posts, so feel free to check those out (although comments are now limited due to the age of the threads) but I you have any questions on how I have earned from any of the sites listed here or on the other threads, drop a reply and I will respond!

Payment proof

I started working with Cambly a little over a week ago. You earn $10.20 per hour to chat with people who are learning English as a second language. For the most part, the conversations are just fun and casual. I talked to a little boy about Batman for half an hour, for example. Occasionally someone will ask me a specific question about English grammar or a certain expression, but if I don't know the answer I can just quickly Google it and send them a link.

The best part about it is that you can do it at literally any time of day. I've worked with other similar websites and most of them want you to have a set schedule, which can be difficult when their peak hours are at an inconvenient time due to time zone differences. For instance, another site I've worked with needs teachers to commit to 6-9 pm Beijing time, which is 5-8 in the morning for me. With Cambly I can just sit down and sign on to take calls whenever I feel like it. Also, a lot of the other sites require you to dress professionally or conduct lessons in a very specific way or have a high-quality headset and this site doesn't have very strict rules in that sense.

It's very casual, very easy, and actually pretty fun. I applied and was approved within a couple of days, and was able to get started right away. I wish I was able to do it from my iPad, but it's not a big deal to use my laptop. I recommend doing the 'priority hours' if you can -- you get paid to be "on call" online even if no one calls you!

I just thought you guys might be interested in my take on this site! I can answer any questions you have about how it works!

Referral link | Non-referral link

Just finished my October recap, and I made $264.13 on Prolific! I started using the site on Oct 1, after hearing about it on this subreddit. THANK YOU for the advice! Favorite site to use and is so straightforward. Fast payouts to PayPal. Lots of interesting studies as well. Be sure to pay attention and put in effort with your responses!

I am a teenager interested in machine learning. For the last 6 months, I have been posting my machine learning projects on medium, making up to $180 per article. I started out putting my ideas online just so I could document my projects online.

Eventually a publication contacted me saying that they liked my articles and wanted to add my article to their publication. This got me my first 1000 views. I looked into it and found that I could monetize this: Medium users pay a monthly fee to read stories. Writers get a cut of this monthly fee, based on how long the article has been read by the user. For the first month, I only made $24. But slowly, the monthly payment increased into the hundreds! A

fter just 6 months, my earnings total $1000 USD! I would encourage people who have something interest to say to post it on medium and consistently make good money.

Edit: I think it is important for me to note how much time I put into this venture. So far, I have put in about 26 hours writing article. The articles have made me about 1200 dollars, which amounts to about 45USD per hour.

I don't think people have talked about RentAFriend here (that I know of) so I thought I would share my experience using the site.

RentAFriend is a site where you make a profile and rent out your services as a friend. People often need friends to attend concerts, go shopping with, wait in line, be an audience member at a concert, attend school reunions, travel with, and much, much more; the possibilities are endless.

While on the site I was paid to be a dance partner for a guy trying to practice dancing for his degree program, I was paid to wait in line, I was paid to watch pets, I was paid to walk pets, I was paid to be a friend for a guy attending a local drag car museum, I was paid to go to school reunions with people, I was paid to go to dances, I was paid to go hiking/ walking with people, I was paid to do some language tutoring for people, and much more!

My rates were reasonable at $10.00/ hour, and most jobs lasted several hours, so I could easily make $70.00 per outing. Not bad for basically just hanging out with people all day.

It's not a typical beer money job because while you work from home in a sort of independent contractor/ freelancer position, set your own hours and charge your own prices, it isn't grinding or doing anything with referral links or micro tasks. It's literally just being a friend for someone in different ways.

You can charge more than what I did per hour or adjust it per outing, so if you are only doing a two-hour friend outing, for example, you could adjust your rate so you are making more on a shorter hour outing.

This is an excellent gig and you can potentially make a lot depending on how many friends you meet with a month. For example, if you are making between $70.00 to $100.00 per meeting and you are meeting with people ten times a month, that's $1000.00 a month (at the top price, $100.00)!

It's pretty active in my area, and I was hoping that by sharing this resource, it will grow and become more popular in other areas as well.

If anyone else has had an experience with RentAFriend, I would love to hear about your experiences. I mostly had positive experiences, and it was actually fun! It's worth checking out.

Cici's Pizza is a pizza buffet chain. If you install their app and use a referral code, both parties get a free pizza buffet. Couple this with the fact that they have free WiFi, you could go to Cici's early, bring your computer and chill, and eat a couple of meals for free. I've done it before and they've been cool with it.

After you sign up with the code, you should get a notification with an hour or two for your free buffet!

[Android download link] (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.punchh.cicis&hl=en)

iOS download link

Enter my code, '"[deleted]", during sign up to get us both free buffets! (Edit: Thanks for using my code, I've got plenty of free buffets now and actually gave some away to others in this subreddit! Instead of using mine, sort this thread by "new" and start a new referral train with someone who hasn't had their code used before.)

Make sure you write it down/copy it to your clipboard before you sign up--I tried switching to my mobile browser to get a referral code, and when I returned to the app I no longer had the option to enter the code and it automatically completed the sign up process. I had to create a new account and memorize the code to get it working.

Also, the app seems to only uniquely identify you via email address. So you could sign out, refer yourself using a new email, and keep the endless chain of free pizza (and pasta, salad, and dessert) flowing!

Edit: The free pizza expires 30 days after you receive the credit. So if you won't be able to get to a Cici's in the next 30 days, hold off on signing up.

Edit 2: If you'd rather not do the buffet, the credit can also be used toward a free large 1-topping pizza.

Edit 3: This really blew up. Glad so many people are getting free pizza! Truly a Christmas miracle :')

Edit 4: FYI, if you sign up with Facebook, you get an additional coupon for a free drink.

Edit 5: (January 11, 2016) Three weeks later and the referral train is still going! If it werent for my New Year's fitness resolutions, I'd keep hitting up that free Cici's as well.

Edit 6: For more free food:

• The Free Food Guy's Free Food Guide

• Caviar Promo Code Megalist for free food + delivery

• Get free and heavily discounted food form local restaurants with Delivery.com

• Free waffle from Waffle House

• Free pancakes from IHOP

So I kinda know what net neutrality means, like it prevents my isp giving me a slower connection to say website A, but a faster connection to say website B because it benefits my isp in some way. Or they might give someone who pays a higher price "priority". I'm just wondering because I'm pretty sceptical these days that anything good or for the good of peeps will be repealed, though I hope not, if this is repealed will it have any affect on beer money sites? Or apps?

Thanks for any info

This year has been absolutely chaotic, weathering my first stretch of unemployment since 2007, discovering this subreddit accidently, earning enough THROUGH the layoff to not end in financial ruin and then transitioning beermoney to what it should be, side income. I am back to full-time work, and it has been nice not to obsess over every single User Testing screener or Prolific study. I have learned quite a bit, so I wanted to share my perspective on how the last year has gone for me.

For perspective, I posted THIS thread earlier this year. It went into my process, backstory, etc. https://www.reddit.com/r/beermoney/comments/1bg894i/this_sub_saved_me_for_real/

1. Focus on finding employment. This was obviously the end goal as I have a family and am in my 40s, but there was a part of me after being laid-off that thought MAYBE, JUST MAYBE this could be sustainable. The first month was amazing, and I made about 70% of my full time income, so it seemed like if I just pushed harder and scaled more, I would get there. It proved to be close to, if not completely impossible. The days became too long and those on this forum (and others) who said that this type of work should really just be side-income are correct.

2. Relying on this kind of work for a full-time income is possible short term, but not sustainable. This is probably not shocking to most of you, but the frustration that comes with this kind of work, inspite of being 'your own boss' is maddening. The main things you have to watch out for, aside from ambigious thottling on various sites, is the ebb and flow makes it hard to count on. Which brings be to my next point.

3. Optimize your workspace. I went a bit crazy, to be honest, but I had multiple monitors, tons of bookmarks and tab setup, lots of browser extensions, and a tablet to do simple surveys on Qmee and similar while I was trying to earn on the computer.

4. Have primary and secondary earners. Time is literal money in this space, so having primary and secondary earners is a must. If the primary earner is not hitting that day, move to something like Swagbucks, Qmee, even mTurk to grind some income while you wait for a Prolific study or a User Testing session. This secondary earner is really a dark horse in this method.

5. Even then, have a backup. My backup turned out to be super important. It was Clickworker and Field Agent doing in store audits. Yes, I had to spend gas money to get there, but I would often route a list of 4-7 store audits in my 100 mile radius and would do THOSE on the weekends when UT, CCR and Prolific are generally slow. This allowed me to bank some weekend dollars going into the week, keeping my numbers more attainable.

6. Set a earnings goal number and quota. I had a initial goal and a stretch goal daily. My initialy goal was $120 and my stretch goal was $200. I had to do WHATEVER I could to get to my initial goal, as that was the number I needed on a weekday to be able to pay basic bills without having to completely destroy my savings. I had only a 3 month expenses worth of savings in my account before I would have had to tap into my retirement (which as someone who has a family and is only 20ish years from retirement, was a hard pill to swallow)

7. Don't forget taxes. Even with my overall desperation, I kept about 35% of everything I earned out for taxes. It may not be enough, or maybe I'll have something I can dump into savings once I get all my 1099s. We will see!

8. Create custom feeds on reddit to keep tabs on the landscape. I have two, one called The Gigs which are all the subreddits for places like Prolific, User Testing, Connect Cloud Research, Swagbucks etc. I would monitor this throughout the day to see if there was anything hot or worth attention. The other was called The Hustle, which included subs like r/signupsforpay, r/passive_income, r/remotework, r/TELUSinternational etc. I would go to these to check on other potential revenue streams and see if there were remote jobs I could potentially work.

9. Focus on the money on the table, not chasing affiliates. If you have things that are working for you (for me that was User Testing) make sure you hit that hard instead of signing up for 100 sites and trying to spam people and reddit with your affiliate codes and links. This takes way more time than you have if you have bills.

10. Cash out the moment you can. Don't keep money sitting in Prolific or CCR. Cash out when you hit any minimum and have that money in your own account. Goes without saying.

I have made a bit over 20k this year, mainly between February and July. User Testing was my primary earner, with Clickworker, Prolific, Cloud Connect doing heavy lifting. dScout, mTurk, Qmee, Swagbucks, Serpclix, Yougov, Intellizoom, Ivueit, Field Agent, UHRS and a few others also chipped in.

Anyway, I felt an obligation to share some of my journey because so many of you helped ME when I was in my worst spot. I am now gainfully employed, things are settled down, and I hop on to beermoney sites every so often to earn a little extra, like it's intended to be!

SwagBucks [International*]

This is one of the oldest, most well known GPT (Get-Paid-To) sites. They have plenty to offer, so you shouldn't get too bored. You can earn bonus points for meeting your daily goals, and you can earn up to 300 points ($3) for meeting your goal each day. They have one of the largest selections of rewards available, so you should easily find something you like. — Payment Proof. / Is it available in my country?

^{*The site is International, but most earning opportunities are for US, UK, CA and AU.}

↪ Age minimum: 13

↪ Offers: Mobile and Desktop Videos, Surveys, Polls, Offer Walls, Tasks, Special offers, Coupons, Games, Search bar, Limited Time Codes, Download offers, Cash Back from Shopping, Swago (like Bingo) and more.

↪ Payout: [Minimum: $3] Amazon, PayPal, Prepaid VISA, Wal-Mart, PSN, Xbox, Sweepstakes, Charity and many more.

TIPS:

‌• Earn up to 300 SB ($3) for meeting your goals for 7, 14, 21 and 30 days in a row.

• Once a month you can redeem a $25 gift card for 12% off.

• After signing up check out these guides for some high paying offers. You can find more on the Swagbucks subreddit too.

GAIN [International*]

Gain is a GPT site that allows you to complete offers, surveys and more to earn coins. Gain operates in many countries. New users can start out with 100 coins by using this link. — Payment Proof.

^{*The site is International, but most earning opportunities are for US, DE and UK.}

↪ No screwy point to dollar conversion ratios. 1,000 coins = $1.

↪ Age minimum: 13+

↪ Offers: Surveys, Offer Walls and Tasks

↪ Payout: [Minimum: $7.50 PayPal | $0.50-$5 Crypto & Gift Cards] Paypal, ACH Bank Transfer (US only), BTC, LTC, DOGECoin, Dash, Amazon, Prepaid VISA, and more.

TIPS:

• Daily bonus coins from 10-100 depending on your user level, claim them every 24h on the Gain Offerwall if you've earned at least 1000 coins that month.

CashInStyle [International*]

Members get cash or gift cards for online activities like playing games, watching videos, completing offers, taking surveys, shopping online and much more. By taking surveys and sharing your opinion on topics, you will be helping companies/businesses to make better decisions by understanding your feedback.

^{*The site is International, but most earning opportunities are for US, UK, CA and AU.}

↪ Age minimum: 18 years old

‌↪ Offerwalls: 90% rates; no need to make a profit as to focus on growing surveys business.

↪ Offers: Surveys, Offer Walls, Tasks, and Videos

↪ Withdrawal options ($2 minimum) include PayPal, Tremendous (gift cards) or crypto (Litecoin & Bitcoin). Instant payouts for eligible users (Gold+).

TIPS

‌• Users who sign up through the above link receive a $2 bonus after earning their first $10.

Brandclub [USA]

Brandclub is a cash back app that pays you for being loyal to brands. The rewards are higher than most other sites, and there are tons of brands available including generic brands. This app is a bit different than the others so it can seem confusing at first. You have to link one or more of your accounts to get your purchase history. When you buy a product or do a survey it will put the reward in a Locked status. You then need to make another purchase of an eligible product from that brand again in order to Unlock that reward. After the reward is Unlocked, you can cash it out. They also have Instant deals, which often are pretty good. You make the purchase online and then synch your account to earn.

↪ Age minimum: 18 years old

↪ Offers: Cash back for linking your accounts and buying from a large range of products

↪Payout: [Minimum: $10 | Maximum: $50 per 24 hours] PayPal, Venmo

TIPS

‌• Unlocked rewards expire after 365 days (these are the earned rewards)

‌• Locked rewards expire after 90 days (these are the potential rewards)

‌• Only works at Amazon, Walmart, Chewy, Target, Kroger, Best Buy, Safeway, Albertsons, Ralphs, and Fred Meyer

‌• You are required to verify your identity to cash out. They ask for general info like name, address, etc as well as a credit card (you can use a virtual card and immediately locked it). They also use Stripe to verify your identity with your Drivers License/Passport/etc and a selfie.

PrizeRebel [International*]

PrizeRebel is a GPT (Get-Paid-To) site that has many offer walls and survey routers available. You can earn bonus points for meeting your daily goals, and they have bi-monthly contests that reward the top earners. They also have a Level system that offers bigger referral incentives, prize discounts, special bonuses, and automatic prize processing. You level up by earning more points. — Payment Proof.

^{*The site is International, but most earning opportunities are for US, UK, CA and AU.}

↪ Age minimum: 16

↪ Offers: Surveys, Offer Walls, Tasks, Videos, and Earning Contests.

↪ Payout: [Minimum: $2] Amazon, PayPal, VISA, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Raffles and many more.

↪ Referral Incentive: 15-30% of what your referrals earn for life.

TIPS:

• Meet your daily goal each day to earn bonus points.

GamerMine [International*]

GamerMine is a GPT (Get-Paid-To) site with a bright and simple interface. Their website is very easy to navigate, and they have surveys, offers, videos, and leaderboards. They also have a chat and a feed for offers that other users recently completed.

^{*The site is International, but most earning opportunities are for US, UK, CA and AU.}

↪ Age minimum: 13

↪ Offers: Surveys, Offer Walls, Tasks, Leaderboards, and more

↪ Payout: [Minimum: $0.25 crypto, PayPal] | LTC, PayPal ($0.25 fee no matter the withdrawal amount)

TIPS:

‌• Save your boosters (inside the treasure chest at the bottom of the page) for the higher paying offers, to make the most out of them. Check the Rewards page for upcoming/ongoing Booster Events where you can claim new boosters each day!

‌• Don’t forget to claim your daily login bonus! The amount scales based on your level.

GG2U.org [International*]

GG2U is a GPT (Get-Paid-To) site. The website is a bit outdated looking, and it can feel clunky at times, but don't let that fool you. GG2U has a few offer walls and plenty of survey routers available. The customer support is great as well. The owner responds pretty quickly and is always willing to help out. This site is focused on gamers and has some gaming tasks, but there are plenty of things to do for non-gamers as well. — Payment Proof.

^{*The site is International, but most earning opportunities are for US, UK, CA and AU.}

↪ Age minimum: 13

↪ Offers: Surveys, Offer Walls, Tasks, Videos, Gaming Tasks, Listening To Radio, Cash Back, and Promotional Link Shortener.

↪ Payout: [Minimum: $7] PayPal, BTC to Coinbase, Amazon, Best Buy, GameStop, Google Play, iTunes, Nintendo eShop, Playstation GC, Steam, Target, Walmart, Xbox GC

TIPS:

• For every 5 cash out requests, you get a Golden Token which will give you $1-7. This results in an average 7.8% higher payments if cashing out at the minimum each time.

• If you contact support, you can request to have your payouts issued at the minimum cashout amount rather than for your full balance. This will let you make the most out of the Golden Tickets.

Grindbux + Gainify [International*]

Grindbux and Gainify are GPT (Get-Paid-To) sister sites that offer users rewards such as Cryptocurrency, Visa cards, Gift cards and Video game skins for completing simple tasks such as playing games, filling out surveys, and watching videos.

^{*The sites are International, but most earning opportunities are for US, UK, CA and AU.}

↪ 1000 diamonds on site is equal to $1

↪ Daily and monthly leaderboards

↪ Age minimum: 13

↪ Offers: Surveys, Offer Walls, Tasks, Leaderboards, and more

↪ Payout: [Minimum: $0.25 crypto | $5-10 Gift Cards] LTC, BTC, SOL, and Visa, Amazon, Steam, and other gift cards

TIPS:

• Use the promocode “beermoney”(on the Grindbux rewards offerwall), to get a free $0.25.

• Don’t forget to grab your daily bonus of 10-100 diamonds (depending on your level)

Upside | Code: FJD2P

Upside is an app available on both Android and iOS that gives you cashback on gas and restaurant purchases. You can earn up to $0.25 per gallon of gas (or more with refs and bonuses), and 2-16%+ at restaurants. All you need to do is add your credit card, activate the offer, and then make a purchase using that card within the next few hours. Some locations allow you to get cash back for purchasing gift cards to use at these locations.

↪ Age minimum: 16

↪ Offers: Cash back on certain gas and restaurant purchases.

↪ Payout: [Minimum: $1.01 PayPal - $10 GC] Gift Cards, PayPal, Bank Transfer

TIPS:

‌• If you’re planning to invite friends, keep an eye out for the bonuses! Upside runs promotions frequently where you and your friend can get extra when they make their first purchase

• You will earn money from every gallon of gas your friend buys, and from their referrals as well

• They give you the $/gallon back specified regardless of what you spend at the pump, which means it is possible to earn more than you spend

Ibotta [US, Puerto Rico]

Ibotta is an app available for both Android and iOS that gives cash back for shopping in stores and then scanning your receipts to prove what purchases were made. They currently support over 300 stores. Most offers are for newer brands, but they often have well-known names such as Glade or Kraft. They also regularly have cash back deals for "any item" or "any brand". They frequently run deals for free products as well. You can also get cash back for shopping on sites such as Amazon and various services such as meal delivery. — Payment Proof.

↪ Age minimum: 18

↪ Offers: Cash back.

↪ Payout: [Minimum $20] Paypal, Venmo, Amazon, BestBuy, Starbucks and many more.

↪ Referral: Referred users get a $10 Welcome Bonus after redeeming their first brand name receipt. They also get a $5 bonus for their first Mobile Shopping offer, and an additional $5 bonus for their next in-store or mobile shopping offer. Referring users get $0-$10 for each referred user who receives their welcome bonus. The amount depends on the current promotion.

TIPS:

• Always check for the "Any Item" or "Any Brand" rebates before scanning a receipt.

• Check your account for bonuses. They often have bonuses for redeeming certain groups of rebates or for redeeming a certain number of rebates within a time limit.

• You can link your Facebook account in order to participate in teamwork bonuses with friends.

Fetch Rewards Invite Code: V3DVK [US, Puerto Rico]

Fetch is an app available for both Android and iOS where users earn money for scanning receipts and for purchasing specific products or brands. You get points for every receipt from a grocery retailer, supermarket, club wholesaler, home improvement/hardware store, pet store or convenience stores, regardless of what you buy. You can get additional points for purchasing specific products or specific brands. Receipts cannot be more than 2 weeks old. It can also be set it up to passively collect e-receipts. — Payment Proof.

↪ Age minimum: Age of majority in your jurisdiction (Usually this is 18).

↪ Offers: Cash back for scanning receipts and buying specific products or brands.

↪ Payout: [Minimum $3] Amazon, Target, Best Buy, Xbox, Applebee's and many more.

↪ Referral Incentive: Both the referrer and the referred user get $2-5 when they scan their first receipt. The exact amount varies depending on the current promotion. This is close to or above the minimum cash out amount.

TIPS:

• Make sure to check for rebates on any items you regularly stock up on.

• You don’t need to add rebates before purchasing items.

Amazon Mechanical Turk [International*]

Mturk is a platform that allows clients to post a large number of jobs. It is a bit more professional than the typical /r/beermoney site. You work for "requesters" and they can approve or reject your submitted tasks, also known as HITs. You can earn a lot more money on this site than other typical /r/beermoney sites, but you need to pay attention to which jobs you accept. Not all HITs pay well. They do require some sensitive information from you for tax purposes. Not everyone gets approved to work here, and some people will be approved months or years after being rejected. — Payment Proof.

^{*This site is international, but most of the tasks are only available for the USA. International users can only redeem Amazon.com balance.}

↪ Age minimum: 18

↪ Offers: A large number of tasks including Surveys, Transcription, Translation, Website Testing, Data Entry and much more.

↪ Payout: [Minimum $0.01] Payments go directly to your bank account.

^{Note: All earnings are in USD, regardless of your country.}

↪ Referral Incentive: None

TIPS:

• Only do HITs that pay at least 10¢/minute. This gives you a rate of $6/hour. Mturk crowd forum and /r/hitsworthturkingfor are good places to check for higher paying HITs.

• It is better to return a HIT than to submit to if you are unsure whether the requester will approve it. Returning a HIT will not negatively affect you, but a rejection will.

• Scripts are allowed and encouraged. Checked /r/mturk for more tips and suggestions.

UserTesting [International*]

UserTesting is a usability testing site. You get paid to record your screen and speak aloud while performing a number of specified tasks. These tasks are generally related to testing a website or an app, but some tests may have you complete a survey, play a game, test new software, etc. At the start you may receive $3 sample tests, but after a while you will see $10 unmoderated tests. Moderated tests start at $30 per test, and usually require you to have a webcam. Payment arrives via PayPal exactly 7 days after your test is completed. — Payment Proof.

^{*The site is International, but most earning opportunities are for US, UK, CA and AU.}

↪ Age minimum: 18

↪ Offers: Usability testing

↪ Payout: [Minimum: None] PayPal

↪ Referral Incentive: None.

TIPS:

• Completing the unpaid surveys at the top may qualify you for additional tests.

• Make sure to follow instructions carefully, keep talking, and be professional. Keeping a high quality rating is essential if you want to receive plenty of tests.

Cash Back From Shopping Online

These sites give cash back on your online purchases. Online purchases require you to click their affiliate link prior to shopping. Ebates US has in-store offers as well. In-store purchases require you to link a debit/credit card and to active the offer prior to shopping. Most of these sites are International, but your shopping opportunities may be limited, and you will only get paid in the associated currency. — Ebates Payment Proof.

TIPS:

• Make sure to click on the "Shop Now" or “Get Cashback” button before adding items to your cart. Otherwise, your shopping trip may not count.

• You can only use one shopping portal per shopping trip. Attempting to use more than one may cause problems crediting your account.

• Disable any ad blockers while shopping.

• For US Users: Sometimes you can earn more cash back on Ebates or TopCashBack than the other for a particular store. Check both sites if you want to get the most cash back for each purchase.

• For TopCashBack UK Users: New users are automatically enrolled into the Plus membership. Downgrade to the Classic membership to avoid being charged £5/year.

^{Some information is missing due to translation difficulties and signup problems. Please let us know if you know any of this missing information.}

Sites to Avoid: Definitely DO NOT post or use these.

✖ FreeCash — This site is not worth your time. We get daily reports of them banning/freezing users arbitrarily and keeping all their earnings, forcing ID checks with Veriff (1.8 star rated) and then still banning most users afterwards anyway. Also an excessive 5% fee on PayPal and Crypto withdrawals. AVOID! AVOID! AVOID!

✖ Paidverts — Shady owner, sketchy site. Keeps doing debt swaps (cash to BAP). Do not post.

✖ Neobux — It isn’t really a scam, but they operate as a pyramid scheme. There’s money to be made online, but it’s definitely not there.

✖ MarketGlory — It does pay out, but the pay is absolutely ridiculous. The only way to make a decent amount of money is to have a lot of referrals, and referral whoring on this subreddit WILL result in a permanent ban.

✖ MindSumo — Not actually a /r/beermoney site. It’s only spam in this sub.

✖ G2A — Scam/sells stolen keys.

✖ Quickthoughts — Many reports of people being banned when trying to withdraw as of 10/2018. Do your due diligence before possibly wasting your time on this app.

✖ Sites with $100+ minimum — These sites usually offer higher than normal payments for simple tasks, with a high minimum to cash out. They are always scams.

✖ Generic news sites that pay you ridiculous amounts to read an article (two euros??) — Common sense should take care of this, but in case it doesn’t, it’s always a scam. The site is usually hosted somewhere in Eastern Europe, and you will never get paid.

✖ Free bitcoin sites/"faucets/cloud mining" (THIS INCLUDES QOINPRO) — This is not referring to those video-viewing/task sites (although they’re still paying fragments of a penny). I’m talking about sites that give you 0.000001BTC to fill a captcha (freebitco.in, dailybitcoins). Admittedly many beermoney sites pay low, but don’t even bother with these.

Also: Bitcoin mining is NO LONGER PROFITABLE. If you're really so keen on getting bitcoins, doing so through an exchange is your best option.

Here are a few more scam sites and sketchy sites.

^{Please note that presence on this post does not imply that} /r/beermoney ^{or its moderators endorse the site or their views, actions, or policies. This list simply contains sites that are used by a large number of our users or are frequently mentioned on our subreddit.}

^{We frequently monitor data from all the sites on this list from various sources to ensure that users are able and interested in utilizing them and if they do, that they also are getting paid promptly and fairly for all work they do. We make adjustments to this list and the order of sites accordingly based on all the data we receive.}

Please make sure you follow the Rules of our subreddit and if you ever have any questions about anything beermoney related, please take a look at our extensive FAQ which should answer almost any question you might have.

What about the feeling when ur taking a long survey and you get to the part where is asks you about your job and sexuality and you know you're almost done

OKAY.

So I’m a goof, right?

I spent a year browsing this sub and just felt every single method here was just oddly difficult to enter. I don’t know why I was like that, but I was, and in talking with friends I’ve found it’s a fairly common. If you’re a regular on here and you know what you’re doing, much of this is going to seem obvious, but if you’re interested in getting some scratch for minimal effort and just haven’t found the right sources for it, try starting with these apps:

1. CROWDTAP

This is a survey app available on all sources, as well as a website. Very popular here because everyone gets accepted and you get surveys you’ll never get screened out of. This is an easy $10 a week in gift cards and can be more if you’re diligent. Either way, a very easy $20-80 a month depending on how much you want to put in.

2. ZOGO

This is a financial literacy app that pays you for taking little crash courses on finance - put in the work and you can get $5 a day in gift cards, though I’ll say it slows down your points per question eventually and becomes much less profitable with time. Still - an app I recommend to younger folks for the education alone! You learn a lot here.

3. CASHWALK

It’s easy. $5 every 20 days or so for walking and tapping some coins on your app. Not a big money maker but so so simple!

4. Receipt Hog

Complete the entry offer and get $5 day one. Slow going beyond that.

5. CloudResearch

It’s like prolific, but easier to get accepted to… Highly recommend this survey site and has the potential to get you more money than any of the other items listed so far.

6. Prolific… duh. But like…you got to get accepted. I was lucky enough to get in after 2-3 weeks and make $200+ per month here.

Anyways… I know this is recycled info but I do feel this is the easiest ENTRY to beermoney for those of you interested. Thoughts and suggestions welcome in the comments!

Seriously how unrealistic is that? Hundreds?

Holy crap, new members are coming in every 10 seconds. Please upvote this so it can be seen, I receive no karma for this self post.

Well, to start you guys off, be sure to visit the sticky up top. It has some of /r/beermoney's most used sites, and you can sign up through referral links from there.

This subreddit focuses on making money ONLINE. Keep note, it is only for casual money. It is not recommended to make it your main source of income.

If you have any questions, feel free to message the mods!

Read the sidebar and have fun!

Just did an appliance survey that had me do stuff like "how well does each statement fit with this company" and page after page of rankings, drag the heart to how you feel about cuisinart etc. And then gave a big list of products and asked me to click on what I was going to buy in the next 3 months, followed by a "sorry you did not qualify" and kicked me out.

There's no way they aren't going to sell my responses back to the companies, and I should at least get half credit for my time.

If you're only looking for people who plan on buying a deep fryer or new meat grinder soon then weed out people who don't fit in the first 5 minutes.

Hello all! Recently I stopped doing all of the 'beermoney' side gigs due to me finally turning 16 and being able to get a real job. Now that it is all over with, I took the time to finally track how much I've made over the past 2 years or so.

Microworkers - $733.10

UserTesting - $173.00

RedBubble $305.53

This all sums up to $1211.63... Not a bad amount for someone starting out at 13 years old in his bedroom.

I just wanted to share what I've earned because all of this is from the community I discovered here and I cannot thank all of you enough for what I have learned here.

If you're wondering why I quit doing these gigs, now that I'm older and have more freedom in life I believe I can make a ton more just going outside and seeking work considering I live in NYC. If I was still lacking the opportunity I once did however, I would continue this journey as it was decent spending money.

For a full view of what the payout was for each site every time I got paid, you can view the spreadsheet here

Thanks again and good luck on your hustle!

I saw this in The Brew daily email this morning. I am going to look into this further later on. I know that when you apply for a job having Microsoft certificates always look good.

Yesterday, Microsoft announced an initiative to train 25 million people around the world for digital jobs—or as they're called in the pandemic era, jobs.

Participants will get free access to Microsoft, LinkedIn, and GitHub learning programs in addition to $15 certifications and tools to find open positions. The program will focus on funneling workers into in-demand roles poised for growth, including IT support, digital marketing, and graphic design.

Microsoft is backing the program with $20 million in grants for nonprofits, $5 million of which is earmarked for organizations serving communities of color in the U.S.

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2020/06/30/microsoft-launches-initiative-to-help-25-million-people-worldwide-acquire-the-digital-skills-needed-in-a-covid-19-economy/?utm_source=morning_brew

Birthday Freebies!

Hi all! It was my birthday a couple weeks ago and it got me thinking about all the great birthday freebies that are out there and wanted to share some of my favorites with you guys. While not exactly beermoney, I am guessing a lot of you guys also appreciate free stuff! A couple disclaimers, I am not able to verify that all of these still exist or that they haven't changed. Also, a few of them may require a purchase. A few of my personal favorites are Starbucks, Krispy Kreme, and Auntie Anne's! Hope you can use some of these on your next birthday! Here they are:

Thanks for reading! Hope you are able to use a few of these. Give my profile a follow for more beermoney related posts in the future! If you want to read a few more of my posts, here are a few of my favorites:

• How I Got Paid by 65 Beermoney Programs in 2018

• Short Survey Apps With No DQ's

• Sites With No DQ's

Have a great rest of your week :)

i'm disabled and not able to find work in this market. i know surveys aren't enough to pay the bills, but since i live with my bf, i want to contribute any way i can. the money i make from surveys is enough for small grocery runs or enough to treat him to a coffee at starbucks. it's enough to cover my copays and my medications at the pharmacy. i'm really, really grateful for this subreddit.

UPDATE 8/29/2024 on the bottom of this post:

I will not spend much time with backstory, but I was a low six digit earner (just a tick over 100k) who was let go from my job. I have a six year old daughter. My wife works retail (lower tier, not management) so we were able to obtain health insurance. I have some savings but I need to keep at least a consistent income coming in to make it until I found a comparable job to my previous (REDDACTED) - job market is tough locally where I live (Midwest) so while I apply and interview for jobs I decided to see what I could do online to make ends meet.

This forum was the first place I landed on in my search.

Since December I have been able to scale my online work to $200 dollars a day, primarily with a combination of UHRS through clickworker, Connect Cloud, Prolific and UserTesting. Recently I have added dscout to the mix. I have kicked around maybe a dozen sites I learned about here, and landed on a routine that works for me. I do intend to share my “who paid me” data on April 1st. There are some others as well.

For the past four weeks I have averaged 200 dollars a day Monday-Friday and approx 20 a day on the weekend. I know that this isn’t sustainable long term, but as I continue my employment seeking journey, I just wanted to say thanks to the community!

I am happy to answer any questions or share things I’ve learned. I’m not professing to be an expert in this kind of work but as someone who was staring down the barrel of foreclosure in three months once my savings ran out, I definitely dove in head first on trying to figure out how to earn while I looked for work. I’m forever grateful.

Primary Earners:

• UserTesting - User experience testing, mostly vocal and video.

• Connect Cloud Research - Survey site, Prolific's less 'prolific' cousin

• Prolific - I was intially waitlisted but now doing about $10-20 dollars a day

• UHRS (clickworker) - Store-shelf audits (phone app)

• dscout - Surveys that contain selfie videos.

• IntelliZoom - User experience testing, similar to UserTesting (and owned by them)

Secondary Earners:

• Serpclix - latent web site click bank/SERP improvements (just clicking websites)

• Swagbucks - Mainly for rebates when I grocery shop converted to giftcards

• IVueIt - They are based in the midwest and have contracts near me, on-site photo projects

• Mturk - Mainly surveys at this stage for someone like me.

• Adsense (through a website I started in 2022, but minimal payout),

• Respondent - User experience and interviews

Work Setup:

I have three monitors, one vertical monitor where I track everyting I earn/work on via Spreadsheet, and two 27 inch monitor. The one on my far right has five windows open, UserTesting, UserCrowd, Connect Cloud Research, UHRS (all in Chrome) and then I have a Firefox window open with SerpClix. I'll drag the window I am working on in that moment the main monitor.

I also have a tablet on stand in front of the vertical monitor and I will do surveys there if everything else is dead (Prime Opinon, swagbucks, YouGov)

Edit on 3/17: Also wanted to mention I run an auto-refresher on Connect Cloud Research which greatly increased my earnings there.

Edit on 3/18: I passed my entrance test on IntelliZoom (another UserTesting owned property) and I am getting a decent amount of screener and similar UX tests on that website) - I added IntelliZoom to my primary earners as I have already completed 80 dollars of screeners in 2 days. Also added some descriptions of my earners.

Edit on 4/1: Here is who paid me this month!

Edit on 8/29:

I have started a new job, so I have scaled back Beermoney. I have a reply at the end of this thread that shows what I am still doing to earn on the side of my main gig; it's primarily UserTesting, Prolfic and Clickworker.

UserTesting cut in half in June and I am unsure why, but it does appear there is an ebb-flow.

Desperate for money so I started selling plasma, and CSL is incredibly predatory. In the U.S. it is legal to "donate" twice a week, but it is not safe. I've done it about 10 times in the last 2 months and my body is a wreck, no energy, napping all the time, constantly hungry, blowing up in weight from water retention because my body is desperately holding onto fluids. They undersell the side effects and dangers at every turn, but some light googling will get you a lot of rants about people's health being compromised.

In the U.K. they allow "donating" twice a month, not twice a week. Red Cross has similar guidelines. Pretty much the FDA doesn't care about your health, and neither do plasma donation centers, so they'll go ahead and cause serious damage to you.

CSL doesn't just allow you to "donate" beyond what is reasonably healthy, the incentivize it. First "donation" in a week is only $30, but second is $49. There's also a $50 bonus for selling plasma eight times in a single month, four times what is a sensible amount to sell. They could just as easily make it "$49 every other donation" or "$50 every 8 donations", but no, they put the limited time frame to squeeze as much blood out of you as possible in as short of time as possible. Also that $50 for 8 times in a month? Good luck, I made it to 6 before they bruised me so badly I wasn't allowed to sell again for the rest of the month. Suckered me in with the predatory payment plan, then don't even pay me.

I'm desperate for cash and suicidal anyways so my health isn't a big deal, but the predatory practices I see from this place disgusts me, so I figured I'd put the rant out there to dissuade anyone on the fence about going to these horrific places.

Edit: I forgot about aftercare. There is none, they have chairs. No juice, no cookies, none of the basic get your energy back spread you get when donating blood. They have crackers upon request, and the staff will give you attitude if you dare to ask about these mystery crackers.

Edit: They bruised me badly on the 6th donation this month too. So looks like I'm not getting the bonus, again. It is like they do this shit on purpose.

Hello all

First please excuse any typos. I’m making this post from an iPad sitting on my belly in a hospital bed.

As many of you know I’ve been missing for a month and there were some posts about my health. The outpouring of support from people in this community has been amazing and humbling. So I thought I would give an update.

So what happened you ask... well in the days leading up to sept 21. I was feeling worse and worse. I had an infection going through my system. I thought I could just fight it off. Then I stated having trouble breathing. So trip to the hospital. I thought I would get some antibiotics and be home later. Well turns ou my foot had an infected wound and that infection was running through my body. I was septic. My blood sugar was 500. I was showing signs of respitory failure. Had I waited 1 more day I probably would have died.

I was immediately sent to surgery to drain the infection. Unfortunately it was too late. After 3 attempts to get rid of the infection it was determined that the bone tissue was already dead. My only option to stop the spread of infection was to have my left foot amputated.

That was October 5th. Today I’m in the rehab wing of the hospital. I have to learn how to do thing ina wheelchair. How to take care of myself. How to maybe hop on one leg. And hope sometime I’ll be able to get a prosthetic.

This has been he biggest challenge of my life. Not just physically but mentally and emotionally. To look down and see part of your body missing is a complete mind fuck. I’ve spent too much time feeling sorry for myself. And dealing with a wide range of emotions while trying to keep my mind from going to darker places. This community has helped.

The gofundme that was set up was amazing and I thank everyone who contributed so much. But reading the messages from people who talked about how my posts and messages have helped them financially made me feel so good. To know I’ve helped so many and that even if I had died I would have a bit of a legacy means so very much to me.

I don’t know when I’ll be returning to beermoney. I face weeks to months of rehab. And I need to find the money to build a ramp and remodel certain parts of the house to be assessable. But I will be back someday. I miss the challenge of earning this way and I miss this community of people. That oft mentioned website I had planned is on hold too. But my awesome web dev has said we can restart whenever I’m ready.

I hate that this post is all about me and not about beermoney really. But I felt an update was in order. I thank you all for the support. I feel like I wanted to say more but the words aren’t coming now. I have a huge challenge ahead. And I’m scared I’m not going to be able to meet it. More scared than I have ever been in my life. But I’m going to call everything I have from deep inside me. It’s time to go Beastmode Level: OX!! And I challenge you all to do the same with your earnings,

Thank you all so much Themightyox

I've learned about this app while using this site a few years ago and have used it on and off more for my own fun and learning. Since it's treated me well and they brought back inviting other people I thought I should share the love again (helps me out anyway) and tell y'all about the app.

NiceTalk is a basic app where you sign up here and chat with those learning English in China. The set up was quick and easy for me back then and should take only two days to have you up and running as they have to authenticate your application. You'll tell them a bit about yourself and make a quick video so dress up slightly nicer and you'll be set.

I personally liked it as I was able to help myself become less of an introvert by just speaking to people. The people you might meet could literally be five years old to sixty. Their experience could be bare bones, super thick accent to sounding like a native speaker.

Your payment goes to Paypal and comes every Monday.

My referral code is TI65DQ18 for those that could help me out and use it would be nice. Thanks and have fun!

Edit: Payment proof from many many moons ago: https://i.imgur.com/IbpeEYR.jpg