$5000/Month Letting People Cut In Line

Jaisal Rathee tweets…

February was one of the BEST months for Startups.fyi 🥳🎉

💰 $5,000+ in total revenue
📈 10,000+ newsletter subscribers
🤩 5.9k unique website visits
🤯 200+ new startup submissions in this month alone

Startups.fyi is basically a directory of startups and side-projects.

Anyone can submit their project to be featured in their directory and newsletter. I did it myself a few months back.

Here’s the clever part of Jaisal’s business model: it’s free to get your project featured, but when you submit your info they tell you something like…

Your estimated feature date is 181 days from now

But of course you can skip to the front of the line if you pay 😉

I paid $49 to get featured within a week. Over the next 7 days, that feature resulted in 179 unique visitors to my website and 27 confirmed newsletter subscribers. Plus a backlink to my site (from this page).

I believe Jaisal got traction by scouring Twitter for success stories, and then adding them to Startups.fyi himself (example).

I love directory-style businesses like this because each piece of content is easy to produce. But over time the directory – and the audience it attracts – can become quite valuable 💰

What other industries or niches could you do this for?

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