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When You Want To Create a Product But Are Short on Ideas

Jacky tweets…

If you’re looking to create a product and are short on ideas, consider exploring existing products in the market. The following websites can help spark your inspiration:

microsaasidea.com
indiehackers.com/products
boringcashcow.com
openstartup.tm

Identify a product you believe could be improved and think about how to enhance it. Most importantly, you don’t always need to reinvent the wheel.

Once you have a preliminary idea, you can quickly develop a prototype or MVP to validate its real-world value. 

Lastly, don’t rush the process. Sometimes, a good idea requires time to mature and evolve.

They Gave Him $13,000 When He Started This Business

Andrew CurtinFounder of Construction Wave $13,000 from one sponsorship Published September 12, 2024 by Niall Doherty

Check out this basic-looking website: constructionwave.co.uk

They cover the UK construction industry and send out a daily newsletter.

Andrew Curtin started the business in 2022. He has a background in marketing and advertising, knew about the construction industry via his father.

Andrew talks about growing the business in a recent interview on YouTube …

His first revenue came from a cold call to a crane company right after he launched. They gave him a £10K sponsorship ($13K USD)…

I just think they felt sorry for me.

Nowadays they monetize with newsletter sponsors, sponsored webinars (£7-15K rev each) and an annual conference (£150K rev in 2023)

Doesn’t sound like they’re super-profitable yet, but they’re growing nicely.

Think of this as building TechCrunch for a particular niche.

TechCrunch is a media company covering startups and tech, estimated $68M annual revenue.

Is there an industry you could become the TechCrunch of?

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Former $30/Hour Virtual Assistant Now Earning $300/Hour

Kristi DaSilvaConsultant $300 per hour Published September 12, 2024 by Niall Doherty

From a recent interview with Kristi DaSilva…

DaSilva Life helps small businesses build success by setting up and integrating two popular software tools, HoneyBook and ClickUp, into their workflow and operations.

Starting out, Kristi says…

I was just a virtual assistant. I did admin, content creation, systems, all the things.

Then she decided to specialize…

She became one of the first 12 HoneyBook Pros and joined a small group of ClickUp consultants.

The transition took a while.

Kristi found clients via personal connections and Facebook groups, and eventually…

she went from making $30-$40 an hour as a VA to charging $300 an hour for strategy sessions.

I reckon lots of people could do this: become a certified consultant of some big enterprise software you enjoy using

Other examples…

$1M/Year With Asana and Pipeline$10K/Month With Notion

Could you give this a try?

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Bought it For $4000, Then Earned $20,000 in 8 Months

Mohd DanishOwner of Iconbuddy $2,500 average monthly revenue Published September 9, 2024 by Niall Doherty

Iconbuddy is “a search engine that allows you to search, download, customize, and edit over 200,000 open source svg icons for free.”

Mohd Danish owns the business and recently tweeted…

Iconbuddy made $20k in last 8 months…

Iconbuddy was not my idea, it’s @fayazara and I acquire from him for $4k in cash last year…

At that time $0 revenue and No traffic but I liked the idea, so I just bought it.

Monetization…

In Jan 2024, I launched lifetime supporter plan to make unlimited search, icon manager, Figma plugins access for $49.

The price has since gone up to $89.

So Mohd bought a promising project with $0 revenue, then figured out a way to monetize

I suspect he discovered Iconbuddy via X, but you could also find opportunities like this on sites like…

Acquire.comBorderline (pre-revenue)Flippa



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$20,000 in 6 Months With No Marketing

Tibor BregmanWeb Designer $20,000 revenue Published September 9, 2024 by Fardeen KhanReviewed and edited by Niall Doherty

Tibor Bregman from Amsterdam recently tweeted to his ~800 followers…

My @framer templates just made $20.000+ on @lmsqueezy in 6 months.

He started in March and…

6 months later and with only 2 templates released, I hit $20k in revenue.

Now here’s the best part: I haven’t even really started marketing my templates yet. I haven’t been building an audience, neither have I done any paid marketing.

Framer is a website builder that’s rising in popularity

Tibor says his template sales have all come via Framer’s marketplace.

See his templates here

Reminds me of Samar Jamil, who recently earned $10K from Framer templates in 4 months.

Looks like it’s still early days in the Framer template game, so plenty of opportunity there

If you’re not into building templates, you could partner with someone who is and you handle the marketing side of things.

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$68/Hour Via Airbnb (But Nobody Stayed At His Place)

KairoTour Guide $68 per hour Published September 9, 2024 by Niall Doherty

Just found this YouTube video from 2021…

It’s by a guy named Kairo who tried making money via Airbnb Experiences

He offered walking tours of London, did 40 of them, and earned $68 per hour…

$68 an hour to do some walking tours, have fun, meet new people, that’s fantastic.

Other types of experiences I see people offering on Airbnb

Cooking classesArt and craft workshopsMusic and dance classesFood and drink tastingsAnimal encounters

Heard about this via the 45-minute mark of a recent MFM podcast …

They say that this works best in big cities, where you have lots of people visiting and looking for fun things to do.

Could you give it a try in your city?

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Try This For a $100K/Year Business

Moses Araujo tweeted this business idea

1. Pick a large niche (gyms, restaurants, etc.).
2. Create 5 website templates for it.
3. Reach out to potential clients.
4. Offer a website with no upfront fee.
5. Transfer their content or generate new with ChatGPT.
6. Charge $150/month for maintenance.
7. Secure 50 clients for a $100k/year business.

AJ Chadha replied with an idea for finding clients…

I’d scrape Angie’s list and reach out to those businesses. Seems like a great way to grow fast.

Or you could start this by offering it to places you go locally: your regular barber, gym, bakery, etc.

Success stories of people following a similar blueprint…

Learned This Skill In His Car, Now Earns $100,000+$42,000/Month Building Websites For Churches

New Way To Make Money: Become an AI Actor

Check out this 19-second video on X

See that woman talking in the video?

She’s AI generated

Well, kind of.

She’s actually a real person who uploaded some 4K video of herself speaking, and gave permission for her likeness to be used in videos like that one.

So they can make her say whatever

Within reason, of course.

Arcads is the company behind this. More examples on their site.

They link to a form from their homepage…

Become our AI Actor

Apparently they will pay you to do this, but the form doesn’t say how much

Still, if you’re interested you can sign up and see if they get back to you.

Could be an easy way to earn some extra

(Let me know if you try this!)

Someone Rebuilt MySpace and Just Reached 1M Users

Check it out: SpaceHey.com

The founder is Anton Röhm, and his bio reads…

22yo student from Germany who loves to code

He recently announced that the site has hit 1 million users and shared the origin story…

I launched SpaceHey at the end of 2020 – I had just graduated high-school, and the world was on Covid lockdown. I made SpaceHey, so my generation could experience the early days of social media – without a feed, likes and whatnot

Unclear how much money the site is making. I don’t see any ads on there, looks like the only monetization is via donations, stickers and merch

But given the growth, the site could prove to be a great earner for Anton.

Got me thinking: maybe there are opportunities to rebuild and monetize other fondly-remembered websites from the early days of the internet

Such as…

GeocitiesDiggFriendsterBeboLiveJournalFacebook circa 2010

(Hat tip: @PanosFlows)

This Blueprint Got Them to $10K/Month Within a Year

Andrew AdamsCo-founder of Artificial Workflow $10,000 monthly revenue Published September 5, 2024 by Niall Doherty

Check out Echobase, an AI tool that “helps consultants by automating analysis and offering customized recommendations, allowing them to focus more on strategic work.”

Looks like they launched ~1 year ago.

According to a recent interview, they’re already doing $10K in monthly revenue

They started as an AI consulting company, working 1-on-1 with clients…

Through these engagements, we noticed a recurring pattern: we were developing the same technology solution for multiple clients.

So they decided to pivot…

Instead of continuing to build custom solutions for each new client, we packaged the core functionality into a SaaS-like platform.

That made the business far more scalable, no more 1-on-1’s.

A good blueprint there for building your own scalable business

Offer a service, work directly with clientsFind a painful, recurring problem your clients faceBuild a software solution to solve that problem

Or partner with service providers and skip the first 2 steps.

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