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How Tour Guides Make Money Online
Check out Heygo.com 👈 (Update: as of 2023, it looks like the website is offline ☹️) As described by Zoë in our private FBB group… Found this cool site that allows tour guides around the world to offer livestreamed tours that anyone can join for free. If you like the tour, you can give them a tip. I…
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50 Million Views in 5 Days
That would be this viral website: istheshipstillstuck.com Tom Neill is the creator and his write-up of the whole story is a fun read. He shares that the site was seeing NYT-level traffic for a few days, and he ended up rick-rolling ~250,000 people and getting followed by Sarah Jessica Parker on Twitter. Most relevant to this newsletter though…
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$20K/Month Outsourced Cleaning Service
Love this interview on Side Hustle Nation, about a couple who run a cleaning service 🧹 They started a residential cleaning business called Maids2Match.com. Today, that business is doing $20-25k in sales a month, with other people doing the cleaning. Anthony and Jhanilka are fully in business-owner mode, dedicating just a few hours a week to…
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Paul Graham’s Top 3 Essays
The co-founder of FreeYourMusic – a $20k/month app – recommends that aspiring entrepreneurs “read everything from Paul Graham.” Graham is well known as the founder of Y Combinator and Hacker News, and about as legendary a figure as you’ll find in the tech world 😎 A while back he tweeted lists of his favorite and most popular essays.…
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Turning a Small App into $20k/month
FreeYourMusic helps you move playlists between music streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music. Profitable indie hacker story shows how solving your own problem can lead to business success.
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Learn to code with Exercism
If you want to learn to code, check out Exercism.io 👈 Exercism aims to provide opportunity for people of all backgrounds by helping them develop their programming skills through practice and mentorship. It’s 100% free and I’ve seen nothing but positive reviews of it. Like this one: I myself found it extremely satisfying and worthwhile to both learn…
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John Wooden: Pay The Price
🏀 With March Madness in full swing, here’s a quote from legendary coach John Wooden… People usually know what they should do to get what they want. They just won’t do it. They won’t pay the price. Understand there is a price to be paid for achieving anything of significance. You must be willing to pay…
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Site Cost $2K, Earns $1K/Month
👉 Dan Richardson tells his story on Reddit, though the site isn’t revealed. An excerpt… I started this site in November 2019, it currently has 87 articles on it and gets around 1800 sessions a day. It makes 95% of its money from Ezoic and a small amount from Amazon. It’s averaging around $950/month over the…
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$910 Selling NFT Farts
No joke. The New York Post has an article about it and the guy behind the venture did a Reddit AMA on Wednesday. And I can’t believe I’m writing this, but you can listen to the farts here if you feel so inclined 🎧 In other bizarre NFT news, “a single red pixel selling as an NFT for $900,000” More about NFTs…
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$100K/Month Maid Service Software
That’s ZenMaid. It basically helps cleaning service companies streamline their operations 🧹 Co-founder Amar Ghose recently dropped some lessons from 8 years of building the company, including the ABZ framework, why you shouldn’t trust Nathan Latka, and… Don’t compare yourself to others. It took us over 3 years to get to 10k MRR while I had friends jumping out…
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Low-Competition App Marketplaces
The Chrome extension market is less saturated compared to mobile apps. There’s a lot of opportunity, with only 200,000 extensions for 3 billion users. Honey and TexTrader are successful examples.
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6-Figure SEO Playbook
Learn how Glen Allsopp made six-figures selling SEO audits. Detailed audits sold for $4k-$8k each. Playbook applicable to various service-based businesses. Testimonials of success.
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Kickstarter for Startups
That’s how I think of Republic.co. You can use it as a startup seeking to raise funds, or as an investor looking to invest in interesting startups. Gumroad recently used the platform to raise $5 million from 8,623 investors in a single day 🤯
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Organize Your Life This Way
Words from acclaimed author Neal Stephenson (via Deep Work)… If I organize my life in such a way that I get lots of long, consecutive, uninterrupted time-chunks, I can write novels. [If I instead get interrupted a lot] what replaces it? Instead of a novel that will be around for a long time… there is a…
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$2 Million Writing Resumes on Fiverr
That’s Richard Lambert’s story. He started in 2014, charging $55 per gig. As of January this year he’d racked up $2 million in lifetime earnings. Which works out to about $24,000 per month on average 💰 You might think Richard got lucky by jumping on Fiverr when it was still relatively new, but even back…
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