Verified side projects that actually make money.
Real founders. Real numbers. Every entry checked by a human. If it’s in here, it earned its place.
We don’t generate ideas, we verify them.
Apollo Disposal
A two-dumpster driveway rental business booked through a one-page site and a phone number.
A note from the founder
Tell me if this sounds familiar.
You read that someone’s little side project makes $3K a month. You get excited. Then you dig in and the numbers don’t align, the link is dead, the “founder” is anonymous and half of it reads like it was written by a robot. So you close the tab a little more cynical than before.
I got tired of that. I ran a small dumpster-rental business on the side for 3 years, and the advice I actually needed, what it cost, how long until the first dollar, what I’d do differently was nowhere to be found.
So SideDish is simple and a little stubborn: every entry is a real project with real revenue a human checked. If we can’t verify it, it doesn’t go in. That’s the whole idea and we’re not going to bend it to look bigger than we are.
NickFounder, SideDish
The editorial standard
How a project becomes an entry.
We interview the founder
A direct conversation, structured around the same questions we ask every founder. They approve every number before it’s published.
We verify the revenue
Every number comes directly from the founder. We ask for it on camera, and they confirm it before anything goes live. If they can’t stand behind it publicly, it doesn’t get published.
We date-stamp it
Every entry is dated the month it was verified. You always know how fresh the data is.