So, whether you can make money in Zhihu depends on your influence first.
Of course, Zhihu is just a platform. Like forums, blogs, Weibo and WeChat, it is just a platform. Some people make money by mixing forums and writing blogs, while others make money by Weibo and WeChat (the way to make money may be to recommend products for advertising, or to be famous for writing compositions). Although it has something to do with the platform, the key is whether the content written by this person is really valuable (the content written by the marketing account is also valuable because someone likes it).
To put it bluntly, it is difficult to give a particularly good answer to making money with Zhihu. If you are a master of content creation (in Zhihu, you can write high-quality answers), then you can definitely make money. But if you have this ability and work hard, you can make money on any platform.
Answer the question well. You might as well forget about money for a while. If you can't write a good answer, it is useless for you to consider such a question, and it is useless for anyone to answer it. When you write a lot of high-quality answers, money comes uninvited.
Zhihu is a platform for sharing. Those Daniel who "use" Zhihu to make money are willing to share and contribute their best knowledge to make money.
They are all hard-working people, and thank them for bringing us these silent and richest knowledge.
I think they deserve all the money they earn.
Quote a sentence from Transformers: "No pains, no victories."