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New business ideas: $20K/mo newsletter, $7K/mo virtual assistant, $40K/year side hustle 🤑
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Hey, it's Niall 👋
Something that stuck with me from a recent consulting call:
Clarity doesn’t usually come from doing more — it comes from simplifying.
It’s about looking at what you already have, deciding what actually matters right now, and making a small move forward.
You don’t need to chase every new idea, or do it all at once.
You just need a clear next step — something simple, doable, and aligned 🎯
If you’ve been feeling stuck or scattered, maybe that’s the nudge: zoom out, simplify, and move forward with what you’ve already got.
Let’s get to a fresh batch of business ideas. 👇
Niall Doherty
work with me
NEWSLETTER
This Daily Challenge Newsletter Earns $20K Per Month
Daily UI is a design challenge meant to help designers build their portfolio and get exposure for their work. There are currently over 450,000 subscribers and it's growing by 10k subscribers per month. Averaging $20k/month in revenue!
It's essentially a daily newsletter with design challenges, monetized via sponsors.
Got me thinking: what other daily, challenge-style newsletters could you create? 🤔
Maybe one for…
Overcoming shyness
Building strength or flexibility
Improving a skill like copywriting or sketching
Another way to think of it 👇
The tagline for Daily UI…
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Fill in the blank for your niche…
Become a Better ________ in 100 Days
DIGITAL NOMAD
From Broke to $7K Per Month in Only 6 Months
Amber Daughn describes herself as 👇
an in-person events specialist and business strategy & operations consultant
Her work recently had her visiting places like Chile, Australia, Las Vegas, Switzerland, Tbilisi, Hawaii, Bulgaria and Bosnia in quick succession 🌎
Amber started out as a virtual assistant with this free 5 Day VA Challenge (affiliate link)…
I debuted as a remote freelancer to my personal network... I immediately landed one client from that outreach who ended up having two companies that needed my services.
It took a month or so to get started with them and then about 2 months to raise the hours and rates to a fully sustainable point for my lifestyle. So about 3 months after launching I was fully committed in hours and matching my pre-remote work income ($4k/month).
Within 6 months, I had brought on a few more clients and exceeded my previous income by quite a bit ($7k/month)...
[My partner] and I have been able to sustain anywhere from $3k to $17K months over the past 4 years while predominantly only working 20 hour weeks.
Sounds like she's created an awesome digital nomad lifestyle for herself, and it all started with that free challenge 👍
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SAAS
This 1 Decision Got His Failing Business to $10K MRR
💬 Alexander Belogubov tweets…
I was a burned-out technical founder working 60+ hours weekly on my social media auto-reply tool (ReplyGuy). Despite having product-market fit, I was stuck at $300 MRR for 3 months.
Exhausted and ready to quit, I listed my business for $20K.
Instead of buying, a potential purchaser saw the potential and proposed a partnership.
The results?
Month 1: $2,000 MRR (6.6X growth)
Month 6: $10,000 MRR (33X growth)
Final outcome: Six-figure exit 💰
The secret wasn't just dividing the workload—it was multiplying output through complementary skills:
Me: Product development and engineering
My co-founder: Growth strategy and marketing
This personal experience inspired me to build IndieMerger, a platform connecting founders with complementary skills to create powerful partnerships.
Worth checking out IndieMerger, see if you can come in as a partner on an existing business instead of trying to build something solo 🤝
MEME BREAK
When You're Secretly a Millionaire
PET SITTING
$40K Per Year Side Hustle For Animal Lovers
💬 A recent comment on Reddit…
I made $40k with my pet sitting side hustle in 2024. I work full time as a remote HRBP. So if you have a remote job, pet sitting can be extremely lucrative.
I started pet sitting on Rover back in October of 2022. I slowly built up a clientele, which I would say about 95% of them are off app at this point. When I first started, my rates were low AF, and as I got more reviews and clients, I slowly increased my rates…
Last year I made 30k and this year 40k. I don’t think I can top 40k next year, because I was for sure HUSTLING all year long haha. But if you don’t mind the hustle and can deal with not staying at your own home a lot, there is so much money to be made.
Pet sitting is a luxury service and a lot of people are willing to pay a luxury price to have peace of mind that their fur babies are taken care of.
Have a look on Rover.com, see what the competition is like for pet sitters in your area 👀
SELLING COURSES
The Simplest Way To Create a Course
📝 Josh Spector posts on LinkedIn…
Wish there was a simpler way to create a course?
There is.
Skip the modules.
Skip the scripts.
Skip the endless editing.
👉 Get someone who wants to learn from you to interview you on Zoom.
Let them ask whatever they want.
Record the conversation.
Publish it as a course.
Their questions will be the same ones your future course buyers will have.
Your answers will be natural and "real."
The course will be created in hours instead of weeks.
This wouldn't give you a polished course, but it would be a great "minimum viable product."
Price it low and see if there's much interest 🧐
You can always expand and improve the course later.
Course business success stories 👇
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