Guides
Practical guides to side hustles, digital products, rentals, and small businesses, alongside lessons from Kirimas’s own experiments. Idea guides use clearly labeled hypothetical US-dollar examples; personal results are identified separately.
My Side Hustle Scoreboard: 8 Experiments and What Each One Actually Paid
Every side hustle I have tested and written up in one table: what it paid, what it took, and whether…
Is Respondent.io Legit? I Got Paid $95 for One Hour and Still Won’t Use It Again
The money is real: one study, about an hour, $95. What nobody warns you about is the six months of…
Do 3D Model Platforms Actually Pay You? Seven Sites, What They Gave Me
Seven model platforms, two years, and what they actually paid: gift cards, points, 11 free spools and a laser that…
Do Apps That Pay You to Walk Actually Pay? I Tested 7 Over 100,000 Steps
Short answer first: over 100,000 steps, not one of the seven apps reached a withdrawal threshold, so I have no…
How to Turn a Photo Into a 3D Print (Two Real Projects)
You can go from a single photo to a physical print without knowing 3D modelling. I have done it twice:…
Why Buy It When You Can Print It: Two Car Upgrades, One Useful
Two things were wrong with my car. One was a real problem and one was not a problem at all.…
Bambu Lab A1 Mini First Layer Problems? Check These Four Bolts
My Bambu Lab A1 Mini stopped laying a proper first layer. Not a catastrophic failure, just the kind that ruins…
I Saw a Lamp on Vinted and Printed It Instead
I was scrolling Vinted when I came across a lamp I actually liked: an astronaut kneeling on a moon base,…
A €20 Second-Hand Chess Set, One Broken Piece, and a 3D Printer
I picked up a vintage chess set second-hand for €20. It is genuinely good quality: a wooden board covered in…
Rejected by AdSense Again? What I Did Instead of Waiting
There is a particular kind of stuck that anyone running a small site will recognise. You apply to Google AdSense.…