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$3000/month Automated Affiliate Site
Check out DealsViking.com 👈 It’s a simple site that displays items from Amazon that are currently discounted, and also shares those discounts on Twitter. All the links are affiliate links so if you click through and buy something on Amazon, Deals Viking earns a small commission. The owner blogged about the project recently, providing some juicy insights: That’s the best…
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Postcards From Timbuktu
Postcards From Timbuktu is a website where you can order a real, hand-crafted postcard sent from Timbuktu in Mali 🇲🇱 The Washington Post did a great write-up on it a year ago. The average salary in Mali is only $80/month, and locals earn about $3 per postcard, crucial income during the pandemic especially. I love finding simple,…
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Tiny tool, 1 million visitors a month
Jonathan Berger writes about the side project he started 10 years ago: this simple time zone converter tool. Traffic has grown organically over time and now Jonathan reports the tool getting 1 million visitors a month 🤯 It’s monetized with one Google AdSense banner at the bottom of the page. Referencing a couple of AdSense calculators, those 1 million…
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Instagram marketing just got easier
Instagram recently announced that they will allow anyone on their platform to include links 🔗 in their Stories. Darko writes that this makes influencer and affiliate marketing on Instagram a whole lot easier… Do you know any Instagram influencers that your target audience follows? If so, chances are (especially if you’re in a smaller market) that many of those people…
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Self-taught Coder, $1 Million Business
Andrew Burnett-Thompson details how he taught himself to code and started a software business in his spare time. The business is SciChart. Andrew would get up early and work on it before his day job – while his wife and baby slept – and during his daily train commute. He had his MVP built in ~5 months…
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$4000/month Online Coworking
Online coworking community for founders, 120 members, $4000/month revenue. Easy to replicate by targeting local areas, demographics, or shared interests. Check out Founders Cafe for inspiration.
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Fired from job, now makes $95k/month
Fired from job, turned $95k/mo side project. “Meat Grinder Approach” for idea validation. Tough questions: Can I make it? Will it be sustainable? Am I the right person?
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Business ideas inspired by VCs
Jakob Greenfield analyzes recent top VC investments in AI, fintech, and healthcare. Opportunities include cryptocurrency, analytics, and biotech startups, while e-learning, mobile apps, and social networks are less favored.
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How to grow a YouTube channel (new blueprint)
Paddy Galloway with a 10-minute breakdown of how YouTuber Beluga recently gained 4 million subscribers in only 3 months 🚀… Beluga has pretty much discovered the new blueprint for how to grow a YouTube channel. He used the 3-step system to beat the algorithm. Quick summary of those 3 steps: Btw, if you’re a YouTube creator/marketer, definitely follow Paddy…
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14 months to $5,000 MRR
Rauno Metsa writes: I picked a random set of 20 startups built by solo founders in the range of $5,000-$40,000 MRR and looked at how quickly they reached the initial $5,000/month revenue… We see that it took a median of 14 months to reach $5,000 MRR. Rauno points out that many of those founders had tried…
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$300k/month Gmail extension
Ajay Goel built GMass for personalized email campaigns after an unsuccessful venture. Launched with less than $10k, now makes $300k/month.
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Listen to the Future
Two recent episodes on the Tim Ferriss podcast that will give you better foresight 🔮 than most… And a couple of Twitter threads from Chris Dixon worth checking out:
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$8,000 to $5.7 billion in ~400 days
Morning Brew reports on a crypto wallet that bought about $8000 worth of $SHIB in August last year… It’s now worth $5.7 billion. From $8,000 to $5.7 billion in roughly 400 days. We may actually be looking at the greatest individual trade of all time. Sounds to me like someone who could afford to lose $8000…
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$285,000/month Danish newsletter
Launched in 2015, Føljeton offers several Danish-language email newsletters. They have 30,000+ subscribers each paying around $9.50 per month, which works out to $285,000 monthly revenue. Even more impressive when you consider that there are only ~6 million Danish speakers in the world, a pretty small market 🇩🇰 Føljeton is just one of several examples of six-figure newsletters in…
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$1000/month part-time transcriptionist
👉 10-minute interview with Joanna Norman of NormanTranscription.com… Joanna shares how much she earns as a transcriptionist and how others can get started. Her hourly rate works out to $12 to $30 per hour, depending on the job. Might not sound like much, but 17 hours a week at $15/hour gets you to $1000 each month. And there…
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