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🐶 this iPad game for dogs earns $7000/month
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$7,000/Month iPad Game For Dogs
Making $1000's in Profits With POD
$18K/Month AI App With No Marketing Experience
$5 Million a Year From Data They Don’t Own
Complaint on Twitter → $1000/Month AI Business
November Finance Report
1 Trick Pony Earns $6+ Million
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$7,000/Month iPad Game For Dogs
Olivia Moore tweets…
We may have reached peak “pets as kids”…
Jolly Dog, an iPad game for dogs, has cracked the App Store top 100
The app is getting 70k downloads / day (and climbing!) 🤯
It has been around since 2016.
💬 The blurb…
The game is a clever endless loop, where a bunch of different toys and creatures are living, squeaking and running all around the screen just waiting to be caught.
The color scheme is carefully selected to meet cats’ and dogs’ vision spectrums.
Not sure where Olivia's 70k downloads per day estimate comes from 🤷♂️
Sensor Tower (free account required) estimates that the iPad version gets 200,000 downloads per month and earns <$5,000 in monthly revenue.
However, the pro version of Jolly Dog costs $4.99. And if only 1% of those monthly downloaders go pro, that adds up to $9,980 per month 🤑
Plus, the Android version seems to be more popular, with more than 2x the reviews. So the app could be earning more than $10K/month via that platform.
But we like to be conservative with our estimates in this newsletter so we'll say Jolly Dog is earning at least $7,000 per month 💰
Fascinating that an app designed for dogs could be earning that much.
A few other animal-themed stories we've covered in this newsletter 👇
Making $1000's in Profits With POD
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$18K/Month AI App With No Marketing Experience
Alex Rainey is the co-founder of My AskAI 🤖 which he describes as…
the easiest way to create an AI assistant for your team (or yourself). You can choose to add content or to connect with Notion or Google Drive.
Within minutes, you can start asking any question about all your data.
Sounds like My AskAI was launched back in March.
According to an interview with Alex, the project was earning $18K/month after only 6 months 🚀
Alex's background…
I started as a tech consultant at Accenture Digital. During those 7 years I learnt a lot but got bored and felt the desperate need to do my own thing.
[During the pandemic] I started building different small successful side projects with No-Code. And this was the moment I really got hooked on No-Code and building my own products.
I met Mike, my now co-founder, and we decided to team up so we could go faster.
Then ChatGPT came along and Alex was amazed 🤯
Suddenly things were possible that had never been possible before. We decided we wanted to help companies to have their own private ChatGPT. So we started My Ask AI.
For initial traction and product validation…
We started with a pre-sale. This generated around $5k in pre-sales. We knew we were onto something… So while I focused on building the product, Mike was speaking to countless businesses and understanding their use cases in more detail.
Sounds like having Mike as co-founder was crucial. He was able to figure out what customers wanted, freeing up Alex to focus on building the product 🛠️
Also…
Neither me or Mike are marketers by trade, so this type of work doesn’t come naturally to us. We are learning, putting in the hours and trying all kinds of channels.
🤫 Their "marketing secrets"...
95% of the growth and user base has come from organic growth channels.
– Building in public on social media
– Product Hunt Launch
– Submitting to tool directories
– Getting newsletter mentions
The social media channels they use most appear to be…
Alex: Twitter (top tweets), LinkedIn
Mike: Twitter (top tweets), LinkedIn
Alex's advice for other builders…
Just start and get something out sooner rather than later. Cliche, but so many builders take 3-6 months before releasing something. Nothing should take that long.
🗂 $5 Million a Year From Data They Don’t Own
From the archive, published March 2023…
On a recent episode of the My First Million podcast, Shaan Puri was complaining about the USPTO website 🤬
That's the website you go to if you want to apply for a patent or trademark in the US, or see which ones already exist.
At about the 41-minute mark of the podcast, Shaan talks about how ugly and unusable that website is…
It's a public database… somebody should just make a more consumer-friendly layer on top. And then I found a business that does this.
That business is Trademarkia 👈
They basically provide a much better user-interface for all the publicly available data on the USPTO website, then sell a bunch of products and services related to that.
Their main offering appears to be a trademark registration service for $99.
According to Shaan, the business does $5 million a year in revenue 💰
Super-impressive for a website built on data that's freely available elsewhere. They just made it easier to access and prettier to look at.
What other publicly available data is presented poorly online?
Could you build a consumer-friendly layer on top of that? 🤔
Complaint on Twitter → $1000/Month AI Business
Elvis Sun is the founder of PressPulse AI 🤖
The tagline…
Get Press Mentions with 5-minutes a day.
Receive personalized journalist inquiry leads every morning.
Sourced from HARO® and powered by GPT-4.
HARO = Help a Reporter Out.
That's an online service that connects journalists and experts. Journalists use it to get better info for their stories. Experts use it to get media mentions and backlinks 🔗
Elvis shares how he came up with the idea for PressPulse AI…
I was skimming through Twitter one day and bumped into a chat about HARO (Help a Reporter Out). A reply from a cool startup CEO hit home:
"The only problem I find with them is that now they send me 4 emails per day every day, and I sincerely read like 1-2 per week. Their deadlines usually are very tight as well. But def worth subscribing!"
I felt the same. HARO did get me some sweet media mentions before, but it's a huge time-sink. Sifting through those emails felt like hunting for a needle in a haystack.
💡 That's when…
I thought, why not redesign HARO emails and make it actually usable for busy people like us, with a dash of AI magic?
So…
I played around with an idea. Gave a user profile and a HARO query to ChatGPT and asked it to play matchmaker, rating it from 0-100.
With this approach, I filtered down the daily flood of 100 HARO spam to just 1-2 that actually make sense for you.
💬 In another post, he says…
I built it, validated it, launched it. Now I have 50+ signups and closing in on $100 MRR.
Don't just scroll.
Pay attention. Listen. Keep note. Address a pain point.
You might just find your next big idea.
Sounds like that success was achieved only a couple of weeks after launch.
And I see the website now boasts about "70 happy users." Minimum price is $15/month. So Elvis may well be earning $1000+ per month now.
However, even if this business doesn't work out, I expect he'll eventually hit a home run if he keeps going with this approach.
It's simple enough…
Keep an eye out for legit problems
Build a good solution
Show it to the people who need it
Charge a fair price
What problems do you see people complaining about online? 🤔
Pick one and brainstorm some solutions.
November Finance Report
My latest monthly finance report is here 👈 detailing everything we earned and spent in my business last month.
$26,574 income
$6,544 expenses
More details in the full report.
🗂 1 Trick Pony Earns $6+ Million
From the archive, published February 2023…
Check out the Salient WordPress theme on the Envato marketplace.
The theme was first published in March 2013, so almost a decade ago. The creator – Phil Martinez aka ThemeNectar – has no other themes for sale, just that one.
And he’s made 139,000+ sales 🤯
I found an interview from 2014 that notes Phil had done $1 million in revenue after only 22,000 sales. So by now that number should be north of $6 million 💰
Envato has a tiered fee structure, but Phil should still have been clearing $5 million easy after those fees.
There are tons of marketplaces like Envato out there…
Etsy
Fiverr
Upwork
Poshmark
Airbnb
If you can create a quality product/service for one of those marketplaces, then get to the top of their internal search engines for a key term, there’s a ton of money to be made 🤑
Another idea is to learn everything you can about optimizing a listing for one of those marketplace search engines, then offer a service where you help sellers climb the ranks.
Thanks to Fardeen Khan for helping me write and research today's newsletter.
Hasta la próxima, rock on with your legendary self 💪
Niall Doherty – Canillo, Andorra
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