Niall Doherty's Blog, page 10
June 23, 2025
$3600 From Patching a Small Bug
NilsEntrepreneur $3600 estimated revenue
Nils tweets…
how to turn someone else’s bug into recurring revenue
monitor open github issues on tools with traction
build chrome extensions that patch small bugs
list on gumroad for $9–$29
sell lifetime access
did 240 sales in 3 months from one fix
Conservative estimate: 240 x $15 = $3600 
This also works if you find a popular website that has an annoying bug or lacks functionality.
This Guy Has Earned $500K+ Selling Templates
EasloThe Notion Guy $500,000+ revenue
Posted on Threads…
This is Jason Chin (aka Easlo).
He made $500K+ selling Notion templates.
I wrote about Jason back in 2021, soon after he got started…
$0 to $27k in 8 MonthsHow Jason came up with his business idea 
He was a student using Notion to organize his notes.
But instead of just keeping it to himself, he realized others might find value in what he was doing.
Lesson:
→ Find skills that have solved problems in your own life and use them to help others.
Another key here is that Jason focused on providing templates for a popular platform (Notion).
Keep an eye out for new and rising platforms that you can build templates for 
Earning $2000 Per Month With Only 7K Followers on TikTok
Affectionate_Run4678TikToker $2000 monthly revenueAffectionate_Run4678 shares how he’s doing it
I pushed out my social media to different companies, and pushed that I would have their logo on my videos, and in return get some sort of monthly fee. This was agreed on, and I now get a flat base monthly fee for having the logo on all videos.
This isn’t entirely passive – you’ve still got to make the memes/videos in the niche. But then again, it’s super realistic and I’m earning 2k/month for this…
I spend around 5 hours a week making [the videos]
He doesn’t share his channel 
but reveals what kind of content he’s posting…
Literally just memes. It’s so easy anyone could do it. I mean, it’s probably best to not just be random memes, and probably helps if you have specific ones, like maybe driving memes or podcast memes.
So similar content to what this guy posts on Facebook…
Earning $1500 Per Month Per Facebook PageBut on TikTok you’re looking for a channel sponsor, charge them a monthly fee to have their logo on all your videos, and probably a link in your bio 
June 19, 2025
$12K Per Month By Cloning a Popular Tool
Evgenii AnikinFounder of SocLeads $12,000 monthly revenue
Evgenii Anikin writes about his $12K/month business…
Built my SaaS completely solo, which means no outside money, no fancy launch, just me, a laptop and a product that quietly solves a pain for people who pay every month.
The product is SocLeads, an email scraper for maps and social media, launched in 2022 
Evgenii explains how he came up with the idea…
When I started, I thought making yet another data scraper was pointless… But after seeing tons of “unique” projects with literally zero users… I switched it up.
Instead of reinventing the wheel, I picked a busy niche, cloned the basics, and obsessed over just one real customer pain that everyone else ignored. Didn’t even try to make it “the best ever”, just “the best for THIS thing.”
It actually worked… I got paying users faster than with any original/innovative idea…
If you’re a first time founder, copy what works and just improve a few things. Forget the “unique genius” pressure.
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$3000+ Per Month Documenting His Boring Life
Salaryman TokyoYouTube Channel $3000+ estimated monthly revenueStumbled across this faceless YouTube channel: Salaryman Tokyo 
Description…
Hi, I’m a salaryman working for a black company in Tokyo—a corporate culture many might call “modern slavery”…
I’ll share my experiences and give you an inside look at the realities of Japan’s work environment.
Channel is less than a year old, about 20 long-form videos and dozens of shorts
Low production quality, just a guy documenting his cubicle lifestyle, probably filming on his phone.
14 million views so far, likely earning $3000+ per month just from ad revenue
Definitely a trend of people documenting their (sometimes unremarkable) lives on YouTube and earning good money from it.
Other examples
1M subs documenting her life in Svalbard, an island close to the North Pole.The Sheekoz Family
300K subs documenting everyday family life in Russia.Brian Barczyk
5.7M subscribers sharing his love for reptiles, earning $20k/month last I checked.
How to Make $500 Per Day with Replit AI
Nic Conley recently posted on YouTube…
Today I had Justin Brooke on to talk about how to turn a $25 Replit account into a $500/day business.
Inspired by Justin’s tweet…
If all I had was $50, and I had to make money quickly, this is what I would do…
1. Open Google maps and search some high end services like CPA, real estate, auto detailer, etc
2. Find the one who has the ugliest website.
3. Open the Replit app and give it this prompt:
Build me a 1 page website. I want the navigation menu at the top to say home, about, reviews, services, contact. When the user clicks those menu items it scrolls them down to that section. Use HTML, CSS, and JS for this build. Pull in the reviews from this Google maps profile [link] and also pull information for the about, services, and contact section from their old website here [link]. For the contact section add a Google maps profile from their Google map profile and add their contact information but no contact form.
4. After you pick up your jaw in shock of how good the landing page it built is, make a 2 minute loom video showing off the website.
Then send that to the business owner and offer them the website
try to get $500. That’s a great deal, $250 ain’t bad either. Even if you only get $100, you’ll be making about $100/hr for the work you did
The $200K/Year Business Required By Law Almost Everywhere
Tim Richard writes…
Every commercial building — office, restaurant, retail, church, school — is legally required to maintain working fire extinguishers…
There are people pulling in $5K–$15K/month just driving around and checking fire extinguishers…
One guy in Texas reportedly runs this solo and clears over $200K/year…
In the USA…
You can get certified online through NFPA.org, the National Fire Protection Agency.
It costs $499, and once you pass, you’re a Certified Fire Extinguisher Technician…
Once certified, you can start inspecting fire extinguishers the next day.
Tim crunches the numbers
Let’s say you inspect 20 extinguishers at one office complex.
That’s $500–$700 for a quick job that takes under an hour.
Do that monthly or quarterly, add in upsells and the revenue compounds fast.
He Earned $9913 From This Simple 30-Second Video
Keith MurphyTikToker $14,000 revenue in 1 month15M views on this TikTok posted by Keith Murphy in January.
He gets paid when someone buys the hoodie featured in the video (aka TikTok Shop).
Keith sold ~6000 units in Jan-Feb and earned $9913 commission 
He shares his story in the Social Army community (affiliate link)…
I’m a physical education teacher full time. I’ve been doing TikTok Shop for about 7 months, started right around the beginning of December…
Prior to TikTok Shop I had zero experience with affiliate marketing, but I did have TikTok experience, I used to just post videos for a few years…
My first sale was on December 8th… ended up doing $100-200 my first month…
Then in January alone
I ended up doing $14,000 in commission…
To this day I’ve done a little over $32,000 in commission while also working a full-time job… I’m a teacher during the day, TikTok Shop at night
Another video that’s done well for him: Hotel pillows!!!!
1.8M views and about $2K commission
Really impressive considering how simple his videos are.
June 16, 2025
4 Winning Startup Ideas Waiting To Be Discovered
From a recent edition of Greg Isenberg‘s newsletter…
Most people think finding startup ideas is like mining for gold… But the best ideas aren’t buried underground waiting to be discovered. They’re sitting on the surface, scattered everywhere, waiting for someone to pick them up.
He goes on to give several examples, including
Ask AI directly. Prompt ChatGPT: “Give me 10 tedious workflows a [job title] does that AI could automate.” Rinse and niche down.
Audit your browser behavior. Check where you’re copy/pasting between tools. That friction is a startup idea.
Run this Google search: site:reddit.com “is there a tool that” + your niche. You’ll find users begging for tools that don’t exist yet.
Watch what small businesses manage in spreadsheets. Go talk to your local dentist, boutique agency, or gym owner. If they’re updating something daily in Excel, there’s an AI agent to be built.
$10,000+ Per Month Flipping Sports Cards on WhatNot
Alexander LLansóFounder of Clever Cuban Cards $14,522 revenue in 1 monthWhatNot is a massive live shopping marketplace, lots of people on there buying and selling via livestream
Alexander LLansó sells trading cards on WhatNot and reveals that he earned $14,522 profit in March…
Looks like Alex started his card flipping business in 2021, sourcing cards from buying lots, collections, unopened boxes, etc. and selling them online.
Last year he quit his job to go all-in and start selling on WhatNot, earned about $65K profit before tax
He’s now earning $10K/mo consistently, looks like his biggest audience is on TikTok (61K followers).
On YouTube: his beginner’s guide to card flipping on WhatNot…
Trending products to sell on WhatNot in 2025 (source)
