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July 6, 2025
This AI Prompt Unlocks 20 Simple Business Ideas
Brian O’Neill on YouTube…
This AI Prompt Unlocks 20 Digital Products You Can Sell In Seconds…The prompt 
I work as a [insert job]. Tell me 20 problems I deal with daily that other people would pay to avoid.
Use a current or previous job.
Brian uses the example of “3rd grade teacher” and gets a list of 20 problems back 
His next prompt…
Which of these would help me make my first $100 online – and why?
ChatGPT usually recommends that you create some kind of digital info product, like a PDF or ebook, and sell that for a low price 
Brian chimes in…
the next step is to try put something together without overthinking it… you could literally do this in a Google document
July 3, 2025
$57,000 Per Month With His Simple Niche Agency
Tom RichardsFounder of PlumbElec $57,000 monthly revenueA recent interview on YouTube
Tom runs PlumbElec, an online marketing agency for plumbers and electricians in Australia 
Tom has a plumbing background, picked up various online marketing skills over the years, started helping out other businesses via Upwork.
Now…
We currently have 23 clients, at around $57,000 a month in recurring revenue…
It’s mainly Tom and his girlfriend running the business with contractors from the Philippines 
Tom works 5-6 hours/day, 3-5 days/week, mainly splitting time between Spain and Bali.
I love this business model because it’s nothing fancy, not that hard to replicate with patience and consistency…
Learn some marketing skills (basic stuff business owners don’t have time to learn)Pick a niche (ideally one you have some connection to)Start helping businesses in that niche with their marketingGet good resultsLeverage those results to land paying clientsKeep going
Google’s 601 AI Use Cases = Business Idea Gold Mine
Google published this list a few weeks ago
Interesting to see what the big boys are doing, many opportunities to do similar on a smaller scale or for a different niche 
For example…
Contraktor developed a project to analyze contracts with AI. As a result, the company achieved a reduction of up to 75% in the time taken to analyze and review a contract, with the possibility of both reading and extracting relevant data from the documents.
How about vibe coding a “contract summary” service for local freelancers or small landlords 
Clients upload their agreement (e.g. lease, NDA, service contract), you run it through an LLM fine-tuned for legal language, then deliver a one-page summary of the key dates, obligations, and risks.
You could even do this manually at first to test demand 
Like this guy…
Turned His Manual Service into a $4000/Month SaaS$1000\Month Side Hustle From Your Kitchen Table
Weary_Bird_1773Remote Online Notary $1000 monthly revenue
Mike R writes…
Of all the side hustles you could ink into your calendar, becoming a Remote Online Notary (RON) might be one of the most underrated. It’s low-cost, high-trust, and surprisingly flexible — as long as you’re okay learning a little legal lingo and don’t mind turning your webcam into a digital witness stand.
I chatted with u/Weary_Bird_1773 on Reddit, how a first-time notary got up and running for about $500 and made just under $1,000 in their first month — working about 40 hours a month. That included remote notarizations, mobile appointments, and loan signings.
It’s not flashy. It’s not passive. But it’s steady, real, and you get to help people in major life moments — wills, closings, medical directives — all from your kitchen table…
if you ever wanted a business that literally pays you to stay at home and stay on top of paperwork?
This might just be your stamp of destiny.
Mike goes on to explain how to find your first clients and scale to $5000/month
Father & Son Earning $50K/Month Within a Year Doing This
Steven ForrestCo-founder of Bull Island Breaks $50,000 monthly revenue From a recent article…
When Madden Forrest, 12, and his dad, Steven Forrest, 35, started breaking cards — purchasing and opening the sealed products to reveal their contents — it was just for fun. Pokémon cards were first, followed by football. Then Madden watched TikTok creators who livestreamed the process and sold cards to interested buyers.
Madden asked his dad if they could try it themselves, and in October of 2024, the side hustle was born.
Amazingly, they’ve already profited $70,000 in 2025 doing this, and reported $49,000 revenue in May (~39% profit margin) 
Which is even more surprising given that TikTok appears to be their main channel – with Steven presenting all the videos – and they only have ~7.5K followers on there 
And it’s not like this was an original idea…
We didn’t know what we were doing. We saw other people doing it.
Related
Charging $1000’s Per Month Per Client For This AI Service
A recent video from Authority Hacker 
The service
B2B cold email outreach as a way to generate sales for a client.
This is a wildly popular service which a lot of people are offering and a lot of people are paying for right now
They show one company charging between $2000 and $7200 per month for one campaign
Why is this so powerful right now?
AI lets you personalize every message you send so it feels to the recipient (if you do it correctly) that they’re getting a personal email… versus all the templated crap that everyone gets bombarded with every day.
So AI gives you the opportunity to stand out from everyone else who’s doing this.
They go on to break down exactly how to build and scale this service, based on their experience doing it for a client
June 30, 2025
Earning a Living From His Local Newsletters in Only 2 Years
Michael MacLeod is a journalist and the founder of The Edinburgh Minute, a simple ad-free daily newsletter 
He shares in a recent interview…
It started as a hobby in 2023, with the aim of making it easier for readers to discover local news while supporting local publishers and journalists.
Now, thanks to generous readers and a ‘pay if you want’ model, the newsletters have become my job. This allowed me to start a second one covering my original hometown of London last year.
Asked why local newsletters are so popular…
Newsletters remain popular because the rest of the internet is so toxic. Our inboxes are one of the last-remaining safe-ish spaces on the internet. Readers tell me that some news websites are so bad, they’d given up on trying to follow local news.
I’m bullish on the idea that every city/region can support a high-quality local newsletter
Other examples…
This Local Newsletter Earned $52K Last Month (85% Profit)$6000 Per Month From His Tiny Local Food Newsletter$87,000 Last Year, Aiming For $500K by 2027The $125K/Year Local Business You Can Start For $100
Chris Koerner writes…
The business: mailbox installation and repair 
Chris references a 2-year-old comment on Reddit…
I did an entire neighborhood last year. I fixed, straightened and painted a total of 23 mailbox stands. I charged $9k. I had it done in about a week. I had to replace 2 stands completely that held 6 mailboxes too. You can make really good money.
$9K for 23 mailboxes sounded excessive to me at first but not by Chris’ math…
Let’s say you live in a city with 100,000 people. Standard mailboxes need replacement about every 10 years. That means 5,000 mailboxes in your area need work every year.
If you capture just 5% of that market at $500 per job, that’s $125,000 in revenue…
There’s a massive opportunity here that almost no one is talking about.
Turning a Messy Manual Process into a $83K/Mo Business
James LayfieldFounder of Samplify.ai $83,000 monthly revenue From an interview with James Layfield…
Right now, I’m working on Samplify.ai, which cuts through the chaos of enterprise software sprawl. Companies waste millions on overlapping tools and half-baked procurement processes.
We built an AI that doesn’t just tell you what software you own; it tells you what you actually need. Then it helps you consolidate — feature by feature, team by team — and transitions staff with zero fuss.
The key part
We didn’t start with AI. We started with people. I spent months manually reviewing software exports for big companies, SAM tool dumps, spreadsheets, the usual mess. We figured out what overlapped, what could go, and what teams actually needed to keep.
That process got results. So we automated it.
What messy processes can you help sort out for people or companies? 
Start with a manual solution, with an eye to eventually automating it down the line.
These Clip Farming Videos Are Earning $1000+
Dan Kieft says in a recent YouTube video…
With Whop’s Content Rewards program, creators will pay you good money to clip their content and post it for them [on social media].
Whop = toolkit + marketplace for selling digital products and services.
Lots of creators there looking to pay you to clip and promote their content.
2:20 mark of another recent video shows several people who have earned $1000+ from individual videos they’ve posted …
Back to Dan: he found it time-consuming to find and edit clips from long-form content, so he uses an AI tool to speed up the process.
He doesn’t reveal his own earnings from doing that, and clearly he’s an affiliate for the tool he recommends.
But the thinking there is sound, and there are lots of other AI tools out there for creating these kinds of clips
You can probably find an alternative with a lifetime deal on AppSumo (aff link).
