$1000 in 10 Days From Public Data

Alberto Fortin tweets…

I just had my first $1000+ month… I got there by making and launching gumtrends.com. Took a week from idea to launch, and 3 days from launch to $1000

Gumtrends is…

A dataset of 39k+ Gumroad products [that lets you] spot opportunities by finding profitable items with many 3 star reviews.

Alberto sells access to the database for $49 💵

Most likely, you can find all of the same data via Gumroad Discover, but Alberto has packaged this data into a tidy database that’s easy to filter. He also added estimated revenue and some other bells and whistles.

This got me thinking: what other products could be built around publicly available data? 🤔

A few you could try 👇

ThemeForest is a website templates and theme marketplace that has over 9M visitors/month (source). Every listing (example) shows the price and number of sales, which could be used to estimate revenue.

What if you built something like gumtrends for ThemeForest, then spread the word via seller communities on Facebook?

The parent company of Themeforest, Envato also runs CodeCanyon, VideoHive, AudioJungle and GraphicRiver.

Those are all marketplaces focused on different niches, and all have at least 1 million monthly visitors (according to SimilarWeb) with lots of publicly available data that could be packaged for different types of sellers 📦

Etsy is another popular marketplace that has ~450 million monthly visitors (source), with tons of physical and digital products for sale in various niches.

You could go niche with an Etsy database, focus on one or two verticals such as…

• Notion products
• Ornaments
• Planners

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