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Tech Companies Still Pay Her $1,000 Per Blog Post
Steph Spector writes long SEO articles for software companies like Zapier, charging $900 to $1,200 each. She uses a little AI, and earns $6K to $7K a month.
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$20K+ From 3D Printed Candy Lamps
Chris Anderson 3D prints glowing Ring Pop candy lamps in his Pennsylvania workshop and has sold about 500 of them on Etsy and at craft shows, mostly at $40 each.
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His Junk Mail Magazines Earn $2.5M A Year In Profit
Alex Daniels publishes 40 magazines containing nothing but property listings, charging realtors $395 a page and mailing them free along postal routes picked by income. $10M revenue, $2.5M profit.
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Hollywood Writer Earns $5000 A Month Pet-Sitting
Stephanie Yuhas is an LA screenwriter who moves into clients’ homes to mind their animals, billing extra per pet and errand. She says it pays about $5,000 a month.
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One Client Pays Him $3K/Month to Manage Reddit Reputation
A solo operator charges an AI ball machine company $3,000 a month to watch Reddit for them, tracking which threads rank on Google, getting cited by AI, and writing the replies.
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$5K/Month Selling AI Junk Journal Pages on Etsy
An Etsy shop selling AI-generated printable junk journal pages has done 59,385 sales in its first year at $1.59 a file, working out at just under $5,000 a month.
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$200 a Pop For Reviewing History Books
A new nonfiction history outlet pays freelancers $200 for a book review under 1,000 words, pitched by cold email. Most outlets on the beat pay $15 to $25.
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$800K Of Bookings From One Mafia Walking Tour
Dennis O’Leary, a retired NYPD organized crime detective, walks tourists past old Little Italy mob hangouts for $79 a head. His listing claims 10,000 guests, about $800K of bookings.
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$10K a Month From a Tool That Does One Thing
Avery sells Rankd, a $19.90-a-month app store optimisation tool for solo iOS developers, undercutting the $79 incumbents. He crossed $10K a month seven months after launching a waitlist page.
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$185 A Weekend To Fill A Lawn With Flamingos
A Minnesota family stakes 30 to 50 plastic flamingos across a lawn as a birthday surprise, charging $185 a weekend. The birds cost about $4 each and get rented all season.
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$77K/Month SaaS, Validated Before Writing a Line of Code
Laid off during COVID, Saurav Gupta DMed 40 users a day of a buggy LinkedIn tool before writing any code, then co-built v1 with one of them. That first customer paid $3,200 a month, and SalesRobot now does $77,000 a month.
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A $25 Bag of Crisps Became a $1.5M Contract
Eamon Eastwood saw a bag of Irish crisps auctioned for $25 in a Sydney pub, imported a pallet, and sold them to Irish bars at night. Now in 1,400 stores.
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This Simple Video Launched His $100K/Month Business Empire
Broke in Dubai, Aryan Mahajan learned to build AI chatbots overnight, then sent 47 Upwork applications each with a custom Loom showing the bot already working for that buyer.

