The Trivia Hustle turns seven years of live bar-trivia hosting into ready-to-run digital trivia for bars, breweries, fundraisers, event organizers, and independent hosts.
Media contact: thetriviahustle@gmail.com
The short version
Sean is a New York EMT who got hired to host bar trivia on a lark in 2019. What started with basic speakers, loose-leaf questions, and one weekly room grew into hundreds of live games, a large working archive, and a side business built around the material he had already proven in front of real crowds.
Instead of letting years of completed trivia nights sit unused in old documents, Sean built The Trivia Hustle: a Shopify store selling host-ready digital trivia rounds, complete nights, bundles, and larger vaults.
Quick facts
- Founder: Sean, working EMT and longtime bar-trivia host
- Hosting since: 2019
- Experience: hundreds of live trivia games
- Business model: one-time digital trivia downloads; no subscription required
- Products: individual rounds, two-round packs, complete nights, bundles, archive editions, and larger vaults
- Typical complete night: four rounds of 15 questions
- Audience: bars, breweries, restaurants, fundraisers, private events, DJs, event planners, and independent trivia hosts
- Founder story: at Sean's current weekly venue rates, his trivia side hustle works out to nearly $20,000 per year before expenses. That is his personal experience, not an earnings promise.
How it started
"I didn't start a trivia company. I got hired to host trivia on a lark."
Sean wrote his own rounds, hosted them live, learned what worked through a microphone in an actual bar, and kept building. The archive grew because the job required fresh material every week. The Trivia Hustle exists to turn that backlog into something another host can download and use without spending hours researching and formatting an entire game.
What makes the material different
The product library grew out of real hosted games rather than a catalog created solely for online sale. The target is clear, defensible trivia that is challenging without becoming pointless obscurity. Products are designed around live hosting: concise wording, answer keys, printable materials where applicable, and clear notes about multimedia requirements.
Useful links
- The Trivia Hustle homepage
- Free 15-question sample round
- Trivia Under $10
- Need Trivia Tonight?
- 4-Night Starter Bundle
- Full founder story
- Free trivia-hosting resources
Brand & product images
These images are from the live store and may be used when covering The Trivia Hustle with attribution.
Media boilerplate
The Trivia Hustle is a digital trivia business built from the working archive of a New York EMT and longtime bar-trivia host. After years of writing and hosting weekly games for real crowds, founder Sean turned that backlog into downloadable themed rounds, complete trivia nights, bundles, and larger collections for bars, breweries, fundraisers, event planners, and independent hosts. Products are sold as one-time digital downloads through thetriviahustle.com.
Interview topics
- Building a side business from years of work already sitting in an archive
- What actually makes a bar-trivia question work in a noisy room
- Balancing EMT work with a long-running trivia side hustle
- How recurring local trivia grew into a digital product business
- How bars and organizations can run trivia without hiring a full-service trivia company
Contact
For interviews, local-business coverage, product questions, or media requests, email thetriviahustle@gmail.com.