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$1500 for 1000 Words on Medium
Here’s a Reddit post and YouTube video by some German dude 🇩🇪… (Update: he removed the post and the video, sorry!) He’s been blogging on the Medium platform for the past six months and reports earning more than $5k overall, including $1500 for this 1000-word article. As he explains on Reddit, Medium pays according to the amount of time people spend…
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Productivity Nannies
If you’re struggling to get stuff done online, consider getting yourself an accountability partner. Or a “productivity nanny,” as Wired calls them. Three sites that offer this kind of thing…
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The Podcasting Gold Rush
Start a podcasting platform or create tools/resources for podcasters instead of starting a podcast. Support the growing industry by providing valuable services to creators.
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$10 Million Idea Validation
Kettle & Fire is a bone broth brand that “does well north of 8 figures a year” 💰 Founder Justin Mares writes how he tested his idea for the business back in 2014. Instead of cooking up small batches of bone broth and selling it at farmer’s markets, he “started with some online ads and a terrible…
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$15k/Month Side Project
Armin Ulrich posts on Twitter that he’s quit freelancing to work full-time on his own thing 🥳 His own thing is Placid, a social media image-sharing app. He started it in 2018 and it’s now earning him $15k/month. Armin writes… This journey actually began in 2012 when I chose to become a freelancer to be able to start…
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$510,000 in One Hour
David Dobrik is a popular YouTuber who made about $500k in an hour yesterday. How? He’s selling physical jigsaw puzzles (here) for $30 a pop 🧩 The puzzle, once completed, is a giant QR code. Snap a photo of it and you’re redirected to a page telling you that you’ve won anything from $0.25 to $100,000.…
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$1 Million Top Earner On Cameo
It’s none other than Brian Baumgartner, who played Kevin Malone on the US version of The Office. According to this article, he’s on track to earn $1 million via Cameo this year. Cameo lets fans book personalized video shout-outs from celebrities who’ve signed up to the platform. Seems most people buy shout-outs as gifts for friends/family 🎁 Check Baumgartner’s…
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The Most Important Personality Trait?
In an excellent Twitter thread, George Mack argues that the most important personality trait you can foster is “high agency.” He explains by quoting Eric Weinstein… When you’re told that something is impossible, is that the end of the conversation, or does that start a second dialogue in your mind, how to get around whoever it…
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New Freaky Artificial Intelligence Thing
It’s a website called This Person Does Not Exist. Click through and you’ll see a very realistic image of a person that was “created using a style-based generative adversarial network” … whatever that means 😕 Keep refreshing the page and you’ll see more examples. Similar thing for cats, horses, snacks, artwork and more here.
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The Fastest Growing Creator Platform This Year (2020)
In an excellent Twitter thread, Peter Yang reports that it’s OnlyFans 📈 By, like, a lot. OnlyFans is a bit like Patreon or Twitch but with adult content, so there’s plenty of naughty stuff on there that might trigger your spam filter. IMH has a good overview of the platform. Some creators on there are making big…
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$10K a Month LowCode Agency
We build custom apps using no/low code tools, fast and affordable. Our flagship product is $2.5k in 2-3 weeks. Great demand for this service.
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17 Leads from Tweet Jacking
Dawid Cedrych posted on Reddit and Indie Hackers about how he got 17 leads for his design business simply by responding to a tweet. See the response here. He was responding to Andrew Wilkinson, who has 91k followers. Andrew tweeted that he was looking to hire a designer and Dawid quickly posted a link to his portfolio. I call this…
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Self-Taught Coder to 60 Paid Customers in 1 Year
Marie Ng posted about her success on Reddit. She built this productivity app. Price is $9 lifetime or $4/month, so she’s not making huge money off it (yet) but very impressive progress nonetheless. Resources that helped Marie learn to code: Marie also writes how she found her first customers: Got my first customers by building in public.…
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The Most Genius Email Marketing Tactic?
Brooklinen apparently pioneered the tactic back in 2017. You can see their email here, where’s it’s described as “a genius way to get shoppers to buy early.” 💸 Basically it looks like an internal email asking the team to check if links for an upcoming discount offer are working properly. But the email is sent out to…
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Snapchat Paying Users $1 Million Per Day
Snapchat recently launched Spotlight, a new section in the app for user-created videos 📹 Entrepreneur reports: The company says it will pay out $1 million per day through the end of the year to users who share the most popular clips. […] payments are based on a formula that “rewards Snapchatters primarily based on the total number…
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