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$25 Domain Sold for $250K (Thanks To Matthew McConaughey)
Someone registered PrivateLLM.com for $25 and parked it on a marketplace. Matthew McConaughey mentioned wanting a private LLM on Joe Rogan, the clip went viral, and the domain sold for $250,000.
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$5K/Month Selling Code to Copycats
Piotr Kulpinski’s open-source directory kept getting cloned, so he packaged its codebase as a $159 boilerplate and sold it to the copycats. 183 customers now bring $5K a month.
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He Built a $28/Year ElevenLabs Alternative in 2 Days
He was paying $22 a month to ElevenLabs, so he vibe-coded an offline voice cloner in two days using a $28/year Chinese LLM. Two Gumroad sales covered the whole year.
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$273/Day From Niche Directories (Built With AI)
Frey Chu scrapes Google Maps data, cleans it with Claude Code, and ships a directory site for under $250. His portfolio of boring niches earns $2,500-3K monthly from ads and leads.
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$2K/Week Doing Other People’s Laundry (From Home)
Contractors for Australia’s Laundry Lady collect dirty laundry, wash it in their own machines, and return it, keeping 80% of the roughly $100 fee. Most average $1,500-2,000 a week.
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$40K/Year Renting Tables & Chairs
He listed tables and chairs on Facebook Marketplace before owning any, took a 300-person booking within 30 minutes, and spent the deposit on $10K of equipment. First full year: $40K.
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$10K/Month Building No-Code Websites (Zero Commission)
Kyle Panilan builds client websites in Framer, no code required, and charges $6,000 for a full design and build. Contra takes zero commission, so 14 projects have netted him $70K.
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$224K Profit Flipping Number Plates (With a Python Scraper)
He paid a freelancer to scrape VicRoads’ database of 285,000 heritage plates, flagging ones priced below recent secondary-market sales. Buying and reselling those underpriced plates has returned $224K in profit.
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$500K In Year One From a Converted Airstream
📝 From a recent video on Avery Amstutz, 28, Memphis… I bought an Airstream trailer for $6,000. Turned it into a coffee trailer and we made over $500,000 in the first year. The business is called Byway Coffee Company. The tagline: “coffee worth chasing around town.” We park all over the city. We are open…
