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Curb painting side income ($20-$50 per curb) — for self-starters only
compensation:
You keep 100% of what you charge for each curb painting. The customer pays all fees (credit card + platform). You also keep 100% of tips (minus the card processor’s tip fee).
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This is a side hustle for self-starters. It is not a gig app. We do not send you jobs. You're an independent contractor running your own little curb painting business. You set your own prices, pick your own neighborhoods, decide your own hours, and find your own customers by walking residential streets and hanging flyers on door handles. The platform handles the bookings, the payments, the QR codes, and the dashboard. The work itself is yours.
If "I'd have to walk a neighborhood for an hour or two and hang flyers on doors" already sounds like a dealbreaker, stop reading. This isn't for you, and we'd rather you know now than after signing up.
THE MATH IS ACTUALLY GOOD. THAT'S NOT WHY MOST PEOPLE FAIL.
Painters who actually do the work in their first week typically distribute 100 to 200 flyers, which is 1 to 2 hours of walking, and get around 4 to 5 paying customers from that. Jobs pay between $25 and $150 each depending on the package and add-ons. Do that math however you want, it's a real first-week paycheck for a couple hours of walking plus the painting time.
So why do most signups never earn a dollar? Because they don't do the 1 to 2 hours of walking. Out of more than 1,200 painters who've signed up, only a tiny fraction have ever actually distributed flyers and run a real booking. The bottleneck isn't the work paying badly. The bottleneck is people not doing the work.
That's why we're writing this ad the way we are. We'd rather attract 5 painters who'll actually walk than 100 who'll sign up and quit before they ever leave the house.
THE RHYTHM (THIS IS WHAT THE WEEK ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE)
* Day 1: hang 100 to 200 flyers in a neighborhood you choose. About 1 to 2 hours of walking. You don't knock on any doors and you don't talk to anyone. You just hang the flyer and move on.
* Day 4 or 5: customers from those flyers start scheduling jobs through the site. They typically book 3 to 4 days out.
* Steady state: each morning, walk a new neighborhood and hang flyers for 1 to 2 hours, then go paint the curbs that scheduled from your earlier walks. The flyer pipeline keeps the job pipeline full.
If you stop walking, the jobs stop in 3 to 4 days. If you keep walking, the jobs keep coming. That part is on you.
HONEST CAVEATS
* You'll spend about $30 to $50 on supplies before your first job
* Some neighborhoods convert better than others. Your second week will probably be more efficient than your first as you learn which streets work
* Day one earnings are usually zero because customers need a few days to schedule. The first jobs land around day 4 or 5. By the end of week one most painters who actually walked have a handful of jobs done and paid.
WATCH THIS BEFORE YOU SIGN UP
This video shows how the founder personally hangs flyers in a neighborhood. It's an example, not a script, you can do it however you want. Watch it first. If it doesn't look like something you'd actually do, save yourself the time and don't sign up.
https://youtu.be/luHw-FjqD08
WHAT THE WORK PAYS
* $25 to $150 per curb painted, depending on the package and add-ons (reflective paint, designs, flags, etc.)
* You set your own prices
* Each curb takes 20 to 30 minutes for beginners, faster once you've practiced
* You keep 100 percent of what you charge
* You keep 100 percent of tips (minus the credit card processing fee)
* No fees to join, no subscriptions, no starter kits to buy from us
WHO THIS ACTUALLY WORKS FOR
* People who've delivered or hung flyers before for any reason: real estate door-hangers, restaurant menus, political flyers, church drops, anything where you walked a neighborhood and left paper on a door
* People comfortable being seen on foot in a residential neighborhood for an hour or two
* People who can show up the morning after they sign up and actually walk a neighborhood
* People who'll keep walking new neighborhoods even after the first jobs come in (the work keeps coming as long as the flyers keep going out)
WHO THIS DOESN'T WORK FOR
* People who want gig-app-style work where leads come to your phone
* People who can't or won't walk 1 to 2 hours
* People expecting fast or guaranteed money
* People who don't want to be on foot in unfamiliar residential neighborhoods
WHAT YOU NEED
* A car
* A printer for the flyer template (the template is provided in your dashboard)
* Basic painting supplies, about $30 to $50 total. The site has an example supply list with links you can use as a starting point. Buy whatever brands you want, wherever you want.
* A Stripe account so you can get paid. You set it up through our site, about 5 minutes.
WHAT THE PLATFORM PROVIDES
* A booking system where homeowners pay upfront, before you do the work
* Your own QR code on every flyer so bookings track to you automatically
* Instant payouts (bank transfer times apply)
* A dashboard showing your jobs, customers, and schedule
* Automatic tip requests sent to the customer after you finish
* Route optimization sent to your phone
* A walkthrough that takes you through platform setup
* Example videos showing how some painters approach the work, including hanging flyers and painting curbs. They're examples, not requirements. You decide how you want to run your business.
HOW IT WORKS
1. Sign up free on the website
2. Set up your Stripe account, about 5 minutes
3. Print your flyers
4. Walk a neighborhood, hang flyers on door handles
5. When a homeowner scans your QR code and books, the job is yours
6. The customer pays upfront through the site
7. Paint the curb, upload a photo, get paid
WHY THIS BEATS UBER OR DOORDASH FOR THE RIGHT PERSON
You build your own route in your own neighborhoods. No app dictating your hours, no algorithm penalizing you, no gas burned chasing low-pay deliveries. The catch is you have to build the demand yourself by hanging flyers. If that's a fair trade for you, this works. If you wanted leads handed to you, drive for Uber.
GET STARTED
https://www.paint-my-curb.com/?utm_source=craigslist&utm_medium=ad&utm_campaign=honest-filter-v1