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  • Dinosaur Podcast = Full-Time Income

    Dinosaur Podcast = Full-Time Income

    Check out this profile on Garret Kruger and Sabrina Ricci, the husband and wife team behind the world’s #1 dinosaur podcast: IKnowDino.com 🦖 They launched it back in 2015 and it took six years before they were both able to go full-time on the business. It’s unclear exactly how much money they’re earning but they monetize in several…

  • $100K Selling Google Sheet Tutorials

    Indie hacker Andrew Kamphey made $100k in 2 years with BetterSheets.co, offering Google Sheets tutorials, templates, scripts, and info products. Mainly sold through an AppSumo lifetime deal.

  • $60,000 Debt to $4B Valuation

    $60,000 Debt to $4B Valuation

    Ever heard of Webflow? It’s a website builder with an inspiring backstory. According to a recent profile, the co-founders are brothers who moved to the US 🇺🇸 with their parents as refugees during the fall of the Soviet Union. No surprise that their journey also began with freelancing… They started freelancing in high school. And, later launched their own…

  • $8000/Month After 3 Months

    $8000/Month After 3 Months

    Heleana Grace is someone who built upon her freelance video editing skills to co-found an agency that’s off to a fast start 🚀 Her company is videodeck.co, a productized service that “turns your written content into videos.” Heleana reports that the service is already doing $8000 MRR three months after launch, with customers coming mostly via ProductHunt. She writes… I started…

  • Earn While You Learn

    Earn While You Learn

    Love this thread from Max Bernstein, who earned $10,119 while learning a new skill. With extra time on his hands at the start of the pandemic, Max wanted to learn video editing. He got a $39 lifetime deal on some video editing software and then… I created a Fiverr profile and listed my services for the smallest…

  • $20K/Month Freelance Developer

    $20K/Month Freelance Developer

    IMO freelancing remains the simplest and most reliable way to start earning online. Freelance developer Tyler Wanlass recently shared why he stopped charging by the hour and moved to a flat weekly rate… Over the last several years or so I’ve completely moved away from hourly or project based pricing. Instead, I simply charge a flat weekly rate,…

  • Marketplace Business = The Next Level

    Selling digital products is not the easiest thing to do if you’re just getting started working online. (I consider it a Level 4 online business). But you know what’s even harder? 🤔 Building a marketplace that many digital products are bought and sold on. (That’s Level 5). GraphicRiver is part of the Envato marketplace, which has been referred to as “the most profitable start-up you…

  • 3 More Marketplace Success Stories

    Tim Shnaider highlights a marketplace for Bootstrap templates where the best-selling template looks to have done almost $1.8 million in sales in 7 years 💰 Vance Lucas shares how he’s earning $1,600 per month from a Google Sheets extension listed on the Google Workspace Marketplace… Google has over 3 billion users and provides a built-in marketplace and distribution channel to funnel…

  • $601,530 PowerPoint Template

    $601,530 PowerPoint Template

    GraphicRiver is a marketplace for buying and selling graphic assets, such as fonts, illustrations, business card designs, etc. A few months back, Jakob Greenfeld crunched the numbers on the bestselling GraphicRiver products and shared his data 👈 The #1 product was this PowerPoint template, which has now racked up more than $600,000 in sales since its release in 2015.…

  • Dropshipping Is Like Being Pregnant

    Dropshipping Is Like Being Pregnant

    Kiril Kirilov with an analogy that could apply to any successful business… Dropshipping is like being pregnant – Everybody says “congratulations”, but nobody knows how many times you got f—ed That’s from an interview with Kiril about how he co-founded Rush, a Shopify order tracking app that is now doing $20,000 per month in revenue and recently raised…

  • $13,000/Month Blog

    $13,000/Month Blog

    Anil Agarwal is a good example of discipline and determination paying off. He started learning about SEO in 2005 and started a site called BloggersPassion.com in 2010. Anil struggled to make much money from his site for the first few years, but eventually was earning enough to quit his job in 2018, and in 2021 he pulled…

  • How To Become A Master

    From Chet Holmes’ excellent book, The Ultimate Sales Machine, which I’m currently reading for the third time… How do you become a master of anything? How do you help others become masters? The key lesson I’ve learned again and again, ever since I was a kid studying karate, is that mastery is not about being special…

  • $100,000 Selling 💩 In A Box

    $100,000 Selling 💩 In A Box

    That’s ShitExpress.com, a service that lets you anonymously send different kinds of animal poop to “the people who annoy you the most.” It launched in 2014 and got some early coverage by VICE, which reported that the business did more than $10,000 in sales the first month. Crazy thing is, payment was only accepted in Bitcoin, which…

  • Take-Home Income: Less Than Expected

    Lenny Rachitsky generates more than $500,000 in annual revenue with his paid newsletter on Substack. But deep in this thread from 2020 he writes… After the Substack fees (10%), Stripe fees (2-4%), and taxes, you’re lucky to see half of what you think you will make (1,000 subs at $10 is closer to $5,000/month after fees and taxes). Keep that…

  • $15,000/Month Generation Effect

    Anne-Laure Le Cunff built a successful business by teaching what she learned in neuroscience through a newsletter and a paid community, earning over $15,000 per month.