About IncomeShip
We research ways to earn money, online and in person, and put what we find in one place, in plain language.
- ways to earn
- 34ways to earn
- platforms
- 91platforms
- guides
- 7guides
- sources cited
- 1,941sources cited
Why we built it
The facts were everywhere except in one place
If you want to know whether a way to earn is worth your time, the answer is scattered. Part of it is on the platform's help pages and terms, part on the IRS and your state's sites, part in fee schedules that change without much notice, and part in forum threads. Most of what ranks above it is someone selling a course or promising $5,000 a month.
IncomeShip does that legwork once, checks it, and keeps it current. Every page tells you what a way to earn pays, what it costs, what it asks of you and what can go wrong, with the source for each fact and the date we checked it.
We want IncomeShip to be the most transparent, straightforward place to find out how to earn money, online and in person. That means telling you what the sources say, including when the numbers aren't good.
Jacob Dymond, founder and editor
What we do
What we do, and what we don't
We research and explain. We don't sell anything to the people we write for.
We do
- Research each way to earn and each platform from primary sources: the platform's own pages and government sites.
- Show what it pays, what it costs, what it asks of you and what can go wrong.
- Check every fact against the page that states it, and date it.
- Flag the scams aimed at people looking for work.
- Update pages when platforms change their terms.
We don't
- Sell courses, coaching, paid communities or money-making "systems".
- Promise what you'll earn.
- Score platforms or publish "best" lists.
- Take payment to cover a platform or describe it differently.
- Claim we've done every job ourselves.
How it works
How a page comes together
The same four steps for every way to earn, platform and guide.
Find the sources
Our research software gathers what the platform's own help and terms pages, government sites and published data say about each way to earn.
Check every fact
Each figure and rule is matched to the exact text of its source. If no source states it, it doesn't go on the page.
Put it in one format
Every page answers the same questions in the same order, with the numbers first, so you can compare one way to earn with another.
Review and keep current
Our editor approves each page before it's published, and we re-check it against the same sources when things change.
Who's behind it
Built by Valiance Labs
IncomeShip is an independent publication built by Valiance Labs. Every page is reviewed and approved by our founder before it's published.
Trust
How we stay honest
IncomeShip doesn't earn money from anything it links to today. These pages explain what we hold ourselves to.