press
Entrepreneur logo HuffPost logo Gizmodo logo LifeHacker logo NBC Today Show logo

eBiz Facts is reader-supported. When you buy with our links, we may earn a commission. Learn more.

Blog

  • $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.

  • $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.

  • $120-300K/Year From Niche Sport Content

    A golf creator with 400K followers earns about $120K a year charging $800 to $5K per sponsored post. The biggest budgets come from alcohol, gambling and car brands, not equipment makers.

  • 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.

  • $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.

  • $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.

  • $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.

  • Profitable Agency Idea: Film Street Reaction Videos

    StreetTalk sends hosts onto the street to film strangers reacting to a product, then sells the clips to brands as vertical ads. Those ads hit 2.73 ROAS versus a 1.53 account average.

  • $2400/Month From an AI Local Newsletter (30 Mins a Day)

    He uses Claude to rewrite local news into an entertaining daily email, roughly 30 minutes of work. Six local businesses sponsor it at $400 a month each, totalling $2,400.

  • $50K/Month Snail Mail Subscription Club (Zero Paid Ads)

    Hannah started a snail mail club, The Tiny Post, with $11/month subscriptions. Grew to 4,100 members in 6 months, $50K revenue, $30K profit, 70% margins, no ads.

  • $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.

  • $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.

  • $115K/Month Selling The Same Thing As Everyone Else

    📝 u/Ornery-Essay-7457 writes… There’s a brand called Smart Women Society. They sell budgeting templates. Google Sheets and Notion stuff. The exact same category that like 10,000 other sellers are in. They’re doing $115K a month. The brand is real — Smart Women Society has 50,000+ customers and a full Shopify store. What separates them from…

  • AI Does All His TikTok Marketing (Agency Idea)

    Oliver Henry runs an open-source AI agent on an old PC that generates images, captions and TikTok slideshow drafts for his apps. He adds a sound, hits publish, and earns $588 monthly.

  • $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…