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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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$15,000 Per Month Teaching This Quirky Instrument
Tomlin Leckie teaches blues harmonica from Edinburgh, drawing students from free YouTube lessons into a monthly membership. Around 500 students at $30 each worked out to $15,000 a month.
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$10K a Month Filming 60-Second Amazon Reviews
Trevin Peterson uploads short phone reviews to Amazon product pages and earns commission whenever a shopper watches and buys. Most of his income comes from brands bidding rates up to 50 percent.
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He Turned A Dead Travel Blog Into A $10K/Month Business
Erik Aronesty buys expired domains that still get traffic, then builds the service those visitors wanted. One sells proof-of-onward-travel bookings at $16 and brings in about $10,000 a month.
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Multiple $10K/Month SaaS Apps On A $20/Month Stack
Solo dev Steve Hanov runs several niche SaaS tools – a diagram editor, an embeddable drawing tool, a rhyming dictionary – at around $10K MRR each. His entire stack costs about $20 a month.
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TikTok Will Pay You For Your Old Hotel Videos
TikTok now pays creators a commission when someone books a hotel they tagged in a video, and old footage from past trips counts just the same.
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$3,200/Month From a Deliberately Boring SaaS
A solo developer turned the manual accessibility and GDPR audits from his compliance job into a scanner that runs on a schedule and emails reports, charging $20/month for $3,200 MRR.
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$40K a Month Reselling Walmart Finds While the Kids Are at School
Thomas Hammond rebuys the same 120 products off Walmart and Nike Outlet shelves, then resells them on Amazon at a premium. Fifteen hours a week returns about $8,000 profit a month.
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$550/Month From Four Little Rubber Buttons
Kevin Hardin 3D-prints a replacement button pad for a discontinued ebike control panel, selling about 10 kits a month at $55 – roughly $550 monthly on $2 of materials.
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$30K a Month Reviewing Products On Amazon
John Muscarello has filmed nearly 5,000 review videos for Amazon listings, earning commission whenever a shopper watches and buys. He targets products selling 500 monthly with weak existing videos.
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$52,000 From A Mac App With No Subscription
Sergey Nazarov sells a Mac screen recorder for $79 once, undercutting a rival that switched to $9 monthly. Built on evenings and weekends, it has taken $52,000 in total.
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$3,000 in a Month From an App Two Dads Built in Their Spare Time
Two physicists with day jobs built an app that turns any topic into a short AI course. A blog of 250-plus posts brings most of their users, and one month brought $3,000.
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$200K a Year From a Low Competition Local Service
Tim Richard hunts local trades with heavy search demand and almost no online competition, then ranks a simple site for the keyword. One Ohio mower-repair guy reportedly profits $200,000 a year.
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