The Underground Economy of Digital Micro-Entrepreneurship: How Everyday People Are Building $10K/Month Side Hustles in Forgotten Online Niches

The year is 2025, and the internet looks nothing like what entrepreneurs expected five years ago. While everyone rushed toward cryptocurrency, NFTs, and AI automation, a quiet revolution happened in the margins, a network of micro-entrepreneurs discovered that the real money wasn’t in chasing trends, but in occupying forgotten digital corners where competition sleeps and demand quietly simmers. I spent six months investigating this underground economy, interviewing 47 people making between $8,000 and $65,000 monthly from businesses…