Why this?

5 years ago, my parents would have never believed me if I told them that students in class 10, 11, 12, or their first, second, or third year of college can make up to two lakh rupees per month without a college degree. Even now in 2026, students can quit their school or college to learn skills online and make money online. They’ll kick you out of your home. But on the other side, there are hundreds of students who text me every single month. They say they made one lakh, two lakh, or three lakh that month.

I make these videos once every couple of months cuz I want to tell you about new opportunities. I also want to give you an update about the previous ones. Some of those are no longer relevant. The students who follow me are some of the smartest people in India. Many understand English and have prepared for difficult competitive exams like JEE or NET. If you focus on the things I mention in this video, your entire life will [ __ ] change. The first one is one of the most underrated things on this list.

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Skill 1

A few people have already built companies worth hundreds of crores doing this. But a lot of people still don’t talk about it. This is launching businesses with creators. It’s not a one-time digital product. It’s a proper business sitting on the creator’s distribution. The audience is already there. You just need to create a product or service that aligns with the creator’s audience. That’s how creators like Logan Paul and MrBeast have built businesses. If you can think like a management consultant, you can potentially crack their business. You need to understand markets, business models, and the basics of marketing.

The pro tip here is to identify a creator who probably is not mainstream. They may not even have a million followers. But you see a lot of potential in them because they’ll get bigger with time. If you can handle the business side, they can focus on the creative side. I think together you’d do really well. The second method is also very underrated.

Skill 2

Creators and streamers like Speed, Iman Gadzhi, Alexi, have invested a lot of money into clipping their long-form videos. They turn them into short-form videos and distribute them across hundreds of fan pages. So whenever you open social media, you may watch one of their shorts. You’ll eventually start watching their long-form videos too. The same strategy was also used by Physics Wallah a couple of years ago. Podcasters like Raj Shamani use similar strategies. If you can package this entire thing as a service, you can potentially charge anywhere between 50,000 to 5 lakh rupees per month. You could guarantee a specific number of views every month to the creator.

The skills required are kind of funny. You need to binge-watch a lot of content. You also need to find patterns in why something is working. Then you need to understand why something is not working. If you can replicate the same patterns with short-form content, I think you’ll make a lot of money. The pro tip here is to start a fan page of someone. Get some views on it. Then show that proof while reaching out to creators. The next one is one of the fastest-growing opportunities in India.

Skill 3

This is also one of the easiest ways to start making money online. This is video editing, especially short-form video editing. But if you try to explain this to your parents, they won’t understand. In their minds, video editing is still like 200 per day. No, that’s not how it works. The time has changed. It is easier to learn video editing and make money through it than to get a high-paying mechanical engineering job in 2026. You can learn the skill in a couple of months. Then you can start making 30,000 rupees to 1 lakh rupees based on your skill set.

And I believe that the best way to learn this is to join my own cohort. Thousands of students have already done it. But again, I don’t want to speak about my cohort in this video.

Skill 4

The fourth one is one of the better things to do. This is especially true if you’re an extrovert and you’re good at handling people. This is to start an influencer marketing agency in 2026. There’s a real gap in the market right now. Most creators make money through brand deals. But the bigger agencies are only focusing on mainstream creators. The smaller ones are too fat. They don’t have any systems. They stop replying to creators. They pay you after 3 to 6 months. That’s where the real gap in the market is present.

If you understand the basics of marketing, content creation, and sales, you’d do great here. You also need to be good at handling people. You can reach out to creators through their emails. For brands, you can reach out to the brand managers. Reach out to them on LinkedIn. You can also sign up on platforms like First Collab. Most influencer marketing agencies charge between 10% to 20% of the entire brand collaboration amount. If you have 10 creators doing two brand collabs for 30,000 every month, you could make anywhere from 60,000 to 1.2 lakh rupees per month in that example.

Simple Productivity Hack

Before going to the next skill, here’s an AI tool I’ve been using for the past 3 to 4 months. It has doubled my productivity. On a daily basis, we spend almost 30 to 40% of our working hours just typing things out. You text on WhatsApp. You send emails. You chat things. But your typing speed can be very slow. I can type at 80 words per minute. That’s faster than 90% of people. A normal person types around 40 words per minute. Hence, they waste a lot of time just typing.

Secret AI Tool

That’s why I started using this AI tool. It’s called WhisperFlow. Now, for most of my work, I don’t type anymore. I just speak cuz I can comfortably speak at 140 words per minute. The best part is that it understands what I’m trying to say. It removes filler words. It adds punctuation. It creates bullet points. It even rewrites my sentences while keeping my natural tone. It also learns the names, words, and phrases that I often use. So I don’t need to keep correcting it every single time.

If you’re someone like me who spends a lot of time typing things out, you should definitely try this for free. You can also use my code Taron X Whisper to get 2 months of Pro subscription completely free. The link is in the description. The fifth one was something I spoke about a couple of months ago. But a lot of things have changed since then. This is making websites but using AI.

Skill 5

Tools like Framer and Webflow used to be the industry standard. Now, a lot of new AI tools like Emergent are becoming the face of this. I think the entire execution layer will also be automated in the next 6 months. So the actual money is probably not in making websites anymore. It’s in ideating and planning interfaces based on user behavior. You need to learn to analyze different interfaces. This includes mobile, tablet, and desktop. You also need to understand user behavior. Learn the psychology of design, colors, heat maps, and so much more.

If you have a great portfolio, typically with five to six great projects, you can start reaching out to founders who recently got funding. It may be easier to get clients this way. This brings us to the last one. This is one of my favorite things on the list. It might also be one of the most difficult things to get started with. But if this works out well, there’s a lot of money to be made. That’s because 2026 is the golden age to build apps and make money out of them.

Skill 6

A couple of years ago, it used to take a large team to test an app idea. Now you can make a working prototype in a couple of hours. You can then test it in a week. A lot of my friends are currently doing this. PM is working on vid.ai and is making almost a million dollars in revenue every year, according to the speaker. The most important skill here is to identify a pain point. It needs to be large enough that people would end up paying money for it.

The execution layer is still a bit more complex than making websites. But it’ll get better with time. Knowing the basics of coding, marketing, and business is definitely a huge plus point. I know people who are making 5 lakh rupees a month. Some are making even 60, 70, or 80 lakh rupees per month just doing this.

What should you exactly do?

I like to keep my videos point to point straight. I don’t like wasting people’s time. I just want to end this video by telling you one last thing. The things you see on the screen right now are some of the best ways to make money online in 2026. But the person who will actually end up making money is the one who gets started.

So, pick something from this list. Choose anything that you like. Challenge yourself to learn it within the month. Then immediately start reaching out to creators, clients, or whoever it is. You have less than 5 months before this year ends. If you’re watching this right now, here’s an open challenge for you.

The Open Challenge

Choose something from this list and go full on into it for the next 2 months. If it works out, great. If it doesn’t work out, we’ll pick something later. Finally, your parents won’t believe you. Your friends will keep teasing you. The dogs will keep barking at your face. But it honestly doesn’t matter.

All you got to do is prove them all wrong. Put in the work and make your first rupee online. All the best.

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• “Alexi”: The transcript does not provide enough information to confidently determine which creator this refers to, so the original term has been retained.
• “PM” and “vid.ai”: The exact person and company/project referred to by “PM is working on vid.ai” could not be confidently established from the article alone, so they have been retained.