New business ideas: $1M/year virtual coworking, $2K/week local biz, $10K/mo producing music 🤑

March 21, 2025

eBiz Insider Business Ideas Newsletter

Hey, it's Niall 👋

I just published a new video…

Likes / comments / feedback appreciated on that as I try to build my YouTube channel, up to 13.8K subscribers over there now.

Keep scrolling for today's fresh batch of business ideas 👇

VIRTUAL COWORKING

$1M Per Year Via Virtual Body Doubling

Focusmate is a virtual coworking platform that pairs you with other people to work together for 25/50/75 minute sessions 👍 

Based on the concept of body doubling, which helps prevent procrastination.

Freemium business model, $7/mo for unlimited sessions.

Apparently Focusmate was earning $84K revenue with a 5 person team in 2020.

Estimated annual revenue is now $1M 🤑

I'm thinking a niche version of Focusmate could do well.

Maybe for 👇

  • Writers / authors

  • Students

  • Solopreneurs

  • Remote workers

  • ADHD / neurodivergent people

Maddie Wang did it for founders…

I could also see this working in different languages.

Focusmate seems to be English only 🇬🇧

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BROWSER EXTENSION

He'll Pay $20/Month For a Decent Version of This

💬 Grant Slatton tweets…

weird to me nobody has made a killer browser extension that automatically creates spaced repetition flashcards for everything you read

like imagine you put in a prompt about the kind of thing you want to remember and it reads everything you read and makes cards automatically

He adds in the comments 👇

I will pay $20/mo if anyone builds a decent version of this

Could probably build an MVP in under a week

Lots of likes and bookmarks on the original tweet = many people likely feel the same 🧐

Proof that flash card apps can earn big money…

And there are several good tutorials on YouTube when you search for "build chrome extension with ai" 👀

PORTABLE SAUNA

$2000/Week, Low Effort, High Profit, Straight-Up Fun

Gather Sauna House is a mobile sauna business based in Oregon 🇺🇸

They basically built a sauna on wheels and sell experiences like…

📝 Mike R reckons the mobile sauna concept could work well elsewhere…

charge people $38 per community session or $200 per private session, and make some serious steamy cash.

This portable sauna hustle is the perfect mix of low effort, high profit, and straight-up fun. You get to work for yourself, meet health-conscious people, and charge premium prices for something that’s already in demand.

Best part? You don’t have to start with a $20,000 sauna right away. Test demand first, make sure people are excited, then pull the trigger. If you play it right, you’ll be earning $2,000 per week in no time.

He goes on to outline how to test and validate the idea for only $10 👇

MEME BREAK

Sorry I Never Replied, I've Been Super Busy

MUSIC PRODUCTION

Zero to $10K/Month Producing Music in 4 Years

👀 Aurelie Couble shares in a recent video…

Today I am running a successful 6-figure music business online, gathering 100,000's of streams on Spotify, working with top music brands, producing music for myself and other artists, all while traveling the world and working an average 5-6 hours per day..

I learned to produce music from scratch and made it my full-time job in less than 4 years.

She's now selling her own course for $897 a pop 👇

💬 Aurelie also says in the video…

Making YouTube videos also turned out to be much more helpful for me than I thought… I didn't have much knowledge at the time. 

All I was doing was to report what I was learning… to help someone a step behind me. This forced me to learn more, to stay accountable, but most importantly to keep making music.

She basically followed Gary Vaynerchuk's advice: document, don't create.

Takeaway: if your goal is to earn a living via music production or something else, documenting your journey online can add some serious fuel to the fire 🔥

APPS

Former Freelancer Earning $100K/Month With This App

📝 An interview with Erikas Mališauskas…

Erikas was a successful freelance designer, but…

since 2018, I’ve been trying to build successful products to replace my clients. Several of my projects failed before I launched my first success in 2021. It was a Shopify app that I scaled to $6.5k MRR and sold for $250k.

🚀 He went on to launch several more Shopify apps, including Kaching Bundles Quantity Break…

… which is currently at a 6-figure MRR

Great reminder of how much money there is to be made on app marketplaces 💰

Another example from Nat Eliason…

My silly little kegel app from 9 years ago somehow still earns ~$1,000 a month.

I have released 1 update in nine years.

Back to Erikas, how he decides what apps to build 👇

Find a niche you’re comfortable with and build around that. It’s always easier to build for yourself or someone close who you know really well. Market knowledge is a game changer. I don’t think I would have been successful without previous experience in Shopify.

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