-
$50,000 Profit From A Side Project
Pawel Urbanek writes about his experience building a Slack app. It’s called Abot, and it allows team members to anonymously post feedback and polls. Pawel started building the app about 5 years ago and says it has mostly been running on autopilot the last 2 years 🤖 It’s now earning him about $4000/month with very little expense or…
-
Self-Taught Coder 5-Figure SaaS Sale
Reporty is a Shopify x Slack bot created by self-taught programmer Chris Tung. He built it to solve a problem, grew it to $3k/year, and sold it for $10k+ on MicroAcquire.
-
3 Questions To Get Unstuck
From million dollar YouTuber Ali Abdaal… 1. What’s the difference between what I want, and what I am doing?2. Is there anything I can do now to change the situation?3. Am I waiting for motivation, or am I practicing discipline? Related to that last point, one of my favorite articles of all time 👇
-
$48K/Year Newsletter Ads System
Josh Spector writes how he has monetized his 18,000-subscriber newsletter to the tune of $4000/month 🤑 It’s all via ad sales. Here’s a recent edition of his For The Interested newsletter. Josh lays it out with links to 5 interesting articles/resources, followed by a bulleted list of sources and sponsors, followed by some closing words. Josh sends out…
-
Blogging to $1.4 Million a Year
Steve Chou tweets about how he blogged his way to $1.4 million a year and beyond 📈 Steve started blogging at My Wife Quit Her Job back in 2008. He broke 6 figures in blog earnings in 2012, and in 2017 pulled in $1.4 million. And that isn’t Steve’s only 7-figure business. He launched this handkerchief ecommerce store in 2007 and…
-
$4000/Month Writing About Football
Last week I told you about the Arsenal fan blog and podcast that pulls in $38,000 per month 🤑 The guy who started that slogged away for 10+ years before making much money from it, and he had the benefit of Arsenal having lots of fans all around the world. But check out this Substack newsletter about the Kansas…
-
Japan’s Anti-Procrastination Cafe
Tokyo Manuscript Writing Cafe: Set a goal, pay per hour, unlimited tea/coffee. Stay until work is done. Online version: FaaS – Force me to do shit; as a service.
-
$1M ARR Open-Source SaaS
$1 million in annual recurring revenue is the latest milestone for Plausible Analytics, an open-source alternative to Google Analytics. Their journey so far: They are a team of four, now hiring a remote product engineer. Amazing to me that they are doing so well when they have a giant and well-known competitor that people can use for free. Co-founder…
-
2 Hours Per Day Content Machine
Dan Koe shares how he turns one piece of weekly content into a $45,275 monthly income and 340,000 followers in ~2 hours daily by repurposing across channels.
-
6 Figures in 6 Months Freelance Writing
Check out this interview with Elna Cain. Back in 2014, she started freelance writing as a stay-at-home mom of twins and was able to quickly earn $100,000+ 💰 She’s since gone on to make money via affiliate marketing and online courses. A few things that helped Elna succeed as a freelancer so quickly… Elna also echoes a point I try to…
-
$1 Million Niche Newsletter
The Daily Lodging Report is an unassuming newsletter for the hospitality industry. It was sold recently for an undisclosed amount, but was apparently earning about $1 million a year at the time of sale – $295 to $450 annual subscription paid by 2,600 subscribers 😎 So while Rory’s Travel Club went broad and cheap their travel deals newsletter, this…
-
Fast-Growing Travel Deals Newsletter
Rory’s Travel Club is a newsletter sharing travel deals for people in Ireland. Free version: 1-2 deals/week. Paid version: €10/year for 10-20 deals/week. Potential for similar ventures in other countries.
-
$18,375/Month White Noise Podcast
Check out this podcast: Tmsoft’s White Noise Sleep Sounds 😴 Recent episodes include: Bloomberg has the scoop on the podcast creator, Todd Moore… Moore says that his white noise show now gets around 50,000 listens per day… Because Moore doesn’t want to interrupt the calming aura of his show, he opts to include only pre-roll ads. Anchor manages…
-
Don’t Aim At Success
🎯 Wise words from Viktor Frankl in Man’s Search for Meaning… “Don’t aim at success—the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue…as the unintended side-effect of one’s personal dedication to a course greater than oneself.”
-
353K Views in 11 Hours on Reddit
Mudiaga Ejenavi shares how he “got to the top of the r/internetIsBeautiful SubReddit with 353k post views and 6.6k Pageviews” 📈 He was posting about his Javascript job board, JsJobbs. Key points: Well, it wasn’t a big success for him financially – he figures only 2 paying customers came via Reddit – but he did get a lot…
press
