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New business ideas: $3000 micro app, $1000 per hour tutor, $70k boring website 🤑

eBiz Insider Business Ideas Newsletter

Hey, it's Niall 👋

December is here and I've put together an ebook of 45 ideas recently featured in the newsletter…

If you'd like to support this newsletter, I also have the ebook listed for sale on Gumroad, where you can pay whatever you want for it.

Or grab it for $0.99 on Amazon or Etsy.

Alright, let's get stuck into today's ideas.

APP DEVELOPMENT

He Built a Micro App With AI and Sold it For $3000

💬 Jay tweets

I just built as micro app using bolt.new and sold it for $3k.

Hottest opportunity right now is building micro apps that do one specific thing and selling them.

Bolt.new is an AI-powered app development platform 🤖

Jay elaborates that the project was more of a commission for a client…

Went to a mastermind in Oct - connected with the buyer

Showed the buyer a demo of something i built for myself early Nov,

Mid november i played around with bolt

Built project for him in bolt, showed demo

Requested 3k via invoice. Invoice paid.

So the play here would be 👇

  • Set yourself up as an app developer

  • Find clients who need apps to solve specific problems

  • Build solutions with bolt.new (or similar)

These guys have done something similar…

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TUTORING

He Earns $1000 Per Hour Working From Home as a Tutor

📝 An article from CNBC Make It…

Steve Menking quit his job and started tutoring back in 2014…

Ten years later, that decision has paid off — in both career satisfaction and finances. In 2023, Menking earned more than $500,000 through private tutoring, a number he’s on track to match in 2024.

🚀 Steve started out tutoring on Wyzant

He set his rate at just under $100 an hour and leveraged his Wall Street credentials to carve out a niche helping high school and college students in math, finance and accounting.

Later he switched to tutoring for Forum Education, upon which…

Menking’s earnings more than doubled, from $95,000 to $200,000 a year.

If you'd like to get into tutoring yourself, check some online tutors on Wyzant, see what they're teaching and how much they charge 👀

SEO | PRODUCTIZED SERVICE

This Service Helped 10x His Net Worth in 1 Year

💬 Todd Anderson tweets

Today I'm 27

In the past year, I've:

- 10X'd my net worth, and more than doubled my personal income
- Scaled to multiple annual six figures with SEO in under six months
- Retired my wife from her day job

Looks like SEO is his main thing 📈

In another tweet he lays out exactly how he audits a new client's website.

Strikes me that anyone with some SEO skills could offer such audits as a productized service.

Todd has another tweet about finding clients 👇

DM with business owners and show examples of how I’d redesign their website and help with their SEO…

I did shift to focus more on SEO than web design once I realized that margins on SEO are WAY better

MEME BREAK

Making Money While You Sleep: Dream Vs Reality

I asked ChatGPT to come up with a meme related to "making money while you sleep" and this was one of the images I got back.

Not bad!

NICHE WEBSITE

Boring Formatting Site = $70,000 Per Year

"boring" online JSON formatter.

traffic via SEO.

generates 3.4 million visits a month…

estimated revenue $100,000 a year.

SimilarWeb estimates the traffic at 2.5 million / month for me, but that could still amount to $70K+ per year via Google display ads (source) 🤑

Reminds me of some other sites we've featured in the newsletter…

Lots of sites along these lines were started many years ago and have built up a solid SEO advantage 📈

But I expect most will eventually be replaced by AI equivalents.

Eg. AIJSONformatter dot org.

How about building simple AI equivalents to some of those popular niche reference sites? 🤔

Related:

PAID RESEARCH STUDIES

Well Over $10,000 From Paid Research Studies

Been a while since I checked in on Respondent.io (aff link), a site that pays you to participate in research studies 💰

Dozens of new studies you can apply for each week.

Some I just saw after logging in…

  • Looking to engage small and mid-sized business professionals – $100 / 60 min

  • Seeking your opinion on Food Products – $50 / 45 min

  • Paid Interview. Have savings? YOU qualify! – $75 / 60 min

Couldn't find any recent / believable earning reports on YouTube, but did find a few on Reddit, including one person who said a year ago

I have made well over $10,000 with Respondent.Io

More recently, a couple of people in this thread reported earnings of $124 and $165 🤑

Unclear how many studies it took them to earn that much.

Also on Reddit: someone saying they're earning $1000/month from a few different sites 👍

Asked for their favorite, they responded…

I’d say respondent.io (took a long time to get my first interview, but once I did, it’s been great)

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I've put together an ebook of 45 ideas recently featured in the newsletter…

If you'd like to support this newsletter, I also have the ebook listed for sale on Gumroad, where you can pay whatever you want for it.

Or grab it for $0.99 on Amazon or Etsy.

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