Who Is Making Money Online

A live directory of websites currently making money online, refreshed every month. Skip the guesswork. Skip the breathless threads.

Top sites making money online

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What Who Is Making Money Is

Who Is Making Money is a directory of websites that are currently earning revenue online. We track who is making money online across the open web — from indie creators to micro-SaaS to niche stores — and publish the list once a month.

Sign in with Google. Pay once. Browse 6,486 sites with industry tag, traffic rank, and an aggregate earning signal that scores how active each site is across payment channels.

Figures shown are estimates derived from publicly observable signals. They are intended to surface patterns, not certify revenue. Use the directory to find niches with active monetization, to benchmark competitors, or to see who is making money online when nobody is looking.

Who Uses a Directory of Who Is Making Money Online

Indie hackers

Prospecting product niches. Stop reading thread after thread. Open the directory, filter by industry, and read the long tail. The actionable rows are below the top 100, not at the top.

Growth marketers

Validating positioning. The sites monetizing well in your category are competing for the same audience as you. See who they are and how diversified their channels are.

Niche researchers and operators

The head of every ranking is dominated by aggregators and platforms. The actually interesting question — who is making money online below rank 1,000 — is what this directory exists to answer.

What You Get When You See Who Is Making Money Online

6,486 source websites observed earning revenue, refreshed monthly.
Industry tag per site, so you can filter to your space.
Global traffic rank, so you can calibrate how big each site is.
Earning signal — an aggregate score of how active each site is across payment channels.
Channel count — how many distinct payment surfaces each site is routing traffic into.
Monthly snapshots — the data is current; old snapshots are replaced. No history bloat.

What you do not get: exact revenue figures (those do not exist publicly), buyer leads, real-time alerts. This is a directory of who is making money online — not a CRM.

Three Steps to See Who Is Making Money Online

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No email and password to remember. We use Google because that is what every reasonable person already has.

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STEP 3

Browse the directory

Filter by industry, sort by earning signal, scroll the long tail. The directory updates monthly. You keep access forever.

Common Questions About Who Is Making Money Online

Q.How do you know who is making money online?

We observe publicly visible signals across the open web — how traffic flows, where sites consistently route their audience, what payment surfaces those sites are operating on. We aggregate the signals, refresh once a month, and grade each site by how active it is across payment channels. We do not claim to know exact revenue. We claim to know who is making money online in the directional, comparative sense — which is good enough to find niches, benchmark competitors, and spot operators worth studying.

Q.Are the numbers exact?

No. Every figure shown — earning signal, channel count, rank — is an estimate. They are useful for spotting patterns across thousands of sites and comparing relative monetization activity. They are not audited financials. Do not use this directory as the basis for investment, legal, or acquisition decisions.

Q.What exactly is in the directory?

6,486 unique websites observed earning revenue online, as of the most recent monthly refresh. Each row includes the website domain, an industry category, approximate global traffic rank, an aggregate earning signal, and the count of payment channels the site is active on. The directory updates in the first week of every month.

Q.Should I read this for niche ideas?

Yes, that is exactly the use case. Indie hackers and product researchers use the directory to find under-served niches where small operators are quietly making money online without dominating SEO. The most actionable rows are typically not at the top of the ranking — the top is full of bio-link aggregators and short-link services. Scroll into the long tail, filter by industry, and you will find live examples of small businesses earning today.

Q.How is this different from a traffic analytics tool?

Most web-traffic tools answer "how popular is this website?" Who Is Making Money answers the inverse: "which websites are currently making money?" We start from monetization surfaces and walk backwards to the sites operating them. That gives you a list of operators rather than a list of popular destinations. We do not compete with SEO or traffic analytics tools — we sit alongside them.

Q.Refund policy?

Lifetime access is one-time and non-refundable except where required by applicable law. The directory and its refresh cadence are exactly what is described on this page — no surprises, no bait, no subscription that auto-renews. If you cannot use the directory because of a technical issue on our end, write to support@whoismakingmoney.app.