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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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$6.3K a Month In A Hopelessly Crowded Market
Petar Georgiev built yet another social media scheduler, then won on the boring part: grinding through Facebook and TikTok app review so it posts to 11 platforms. €5.4K a month.
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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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He Charges $299 a Month For Public Documents
Matt Brown files open records requests for his college sports reporting, then sells searchable access to 10,000 documents at $299 a month, part of $25K monthly revenue.
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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.
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$100K a Month Selling Streetwear From Her Bedroom
A 22-year-old sells niche streetwear on live auction app Tilt from her bedroom, passing $100,000 in monthly sales. The platform takes just 2% plus 50p per transaction.
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Here’s How People Profited From Dolly Parton’s Death
Searches for Dolly Parton shirts rose 10,305% after her death. One Etsy seller lists memorial coins within days of each celebrity passing, moving 3,300 items in eighteen months.
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Old School Marketing Got Him 3 New Clients in 1 Hour
A solo house cleaner paid his daughter $30 per lead to tuck black-and-white flyers into storm doors. One hour of walking produced three new clients, two of them weekly.
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$100K From a Directory of Other People’s Job Boards
Rodrigo Rocco put the first version of his job board directory online after five hours of work, then charged the board owners $19-$499 for placement. It’s made $100,000 since 2022.
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$500 to $10K/Month From Dead-Simple One-Feature Apps
Steve Young starts with App Store keywords the big players ignore, then ships a tiny app that does only that one thing. The real lever is the paywall – one app he bought went from almost nothing to $8-10K a month on a $60/year subscription.
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He’s Made $200K Selling The Same Jingle To Local Businesses
Mike Stewart writes 15-second jingles for tradesmen and runs them as skippable YouTube ads, which Google only charges for when watched. He resold one pest control jingle over a hundred times.
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