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New business ideas: AI startup idea, $1000+ clip farming, $10K/mo local biz 🤑
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Hey, it's Niall 👋
I was on a call with a friend the other day.
Long-time, tech-savvy entrepreneur, he's earned good money via…
🎯 Lead gen
💻 Web design
🔍 SEO
📝 A content agency
🤑 Etc.
Now he's getting into AI and automation.
And struggling to keep up with the rapid advancements 😭
I had to remind him (and myself)...
Dude, objectively, we already know more about AI and automation than 95% of people!
Most folks have still never even used ChatGPT.
The real challenge?
Tuning out all the hyperactive “OMG-this-new-AI-will-change-everything” influencers who publish every 17 minutes 🙄
And instead focusing on the millions of people who feel far more overwhelmed by AI than we do.
Learn just a little about AI and you can help those people get unstuck.
Charge for that help and you have a business 💪
In today's newsletter: a fresh mix of AI and non-AI business ideas, plus a couple of resources to keep you up-to-date… without feeling overwhelmed.
Let's dive in 👇
Niall Doherty
eBiz Insider
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Steal This AI Startup Idea (Open Pages Creator)
Greg Isenberg and Steph Smith brainstorming on YouTube 👇
💡 The first idea: Open Pages Creator…
We need a platform that lets ANYONE create beautiful, data-rich personal dashboards for ANYTHING they track!
Think: surfing sessions, sobriety streaks, tennis matches, reading goals - all visualized YOUR way.
Why it works:
• AI tools like Cursor make custom pages possible
• People CRAVE social motivation
• Current solutions are too limited
Business model: Freemium with paid modules ($10-30/month)
I also like their idea of a meme-powered AI matchmaking service 👍
Rather than swiping on photos, users swipe on memes to reveal their sense of humor. The AI then pairs people based on shared humor profiles.
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WHOP CONTENT REWARDS
These Clip Farming Videos Are Earning $1000+
💬 Dan Kieft says in a recent YouTube video…
With Whop's Content Rewards program, creators will pay you good money to clip their content and post it for them [on social media].
Whop = toolkit + marketplace for selling digital products and services.
Lots of creators there looking to pay you to clip and promote their content.
2:20 mark of another recent video shows several people who have earned $1000+ from individual videos they've posted 🤑
Back to Dan: he found it time-consuming to find and edit clips from long-form content, so he uses an AI tool to speed up the process.
He doesn't reveal his own earnings from doing that, and clearly he's an affiliate for the tool he recommends.
But the thinking there is sound, and there are lots of other AI tools out there for creating these kinds of clips 💪
You can probably find an alternative with a lifetime deal on AppSumo (aff link).
SAAS
Turning a Messy Manual Process into a $83K/Mo Business
📝 From an interview with James Layfield…
Right now, I’m working on Samplify.ai, which cuts through the chaos of enterprise software sprawl. Companies waste millions on overlapping tools and half-baked procurement processes.
We built an AI that doesn’t just tell you what software you own; it tells you what you actually need. Then it helps you consolidate — feature by feature, team by team — and transitions staff with zero fuss.
The key part 👇
We didn’t start with AI. We started with people. I spent months manually reviewing software exports for big companies, SAM tool dumps, spreadsheets, the usual mess. We figured out what overlapped, what could go, and what teams actually needed to keep.
That process got results. So we automated it.
What messy processes can you help sort out for people or companies? 🤔
Start with a manual solution, with an eye to eventually automating it down the line.
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FIXING MAILBOXES
The $125K/Year Local Business You Can Start For $100
📝 Chris Koerner writes…
The business: mailbox installation and repair 📬
Chris references a 2-year-old comment on Reddit…
I did an entire neighborhood last year. I fixed, straightened and painted a total of 23 mailbox stands. I charged $9k. I had it done in about a week. I had to replace 2 stands completely that held 6 mailboxes too. You can make really good money.
$9K for 23 mailboxes sounded excessive to me at first 🧐 but not by Chris' math…
Let's say you live in a city with 100,000 people. Standard mailboxes need replacement about every 10 years. That means 5,000 mailboxes in your area need work every year.
If you capture just 5% of that market at $500 per job, that's $125,000 in revenue…
There's a massive opportunity here that almost no one is talking about.
LOCAL NEWSLETTER
Earning a Living From His Local Newsletters in Only 2 Years
Michael MacLeod is a journalist and the founder of The Edinburgh Minute, a simple ad-free daily newsletter 📧
He shares in a recent interview…
It started as a hobby in 2023, with the aim of making it easier for readers to discover local news while supporting local publishers and journalists.
Now, thanks to generous readers and a ‘pay if you want’ model, the newsletters have become my job. This allowed me to start a second one covering my original hometown of London last year.
📈 Asked why local newsletters are so popular…
Newsletters remain popular because the rest of the internet is so toxic. Our inboxes are one of the last-remaining safe-ish spaces on the internet. Readers tell me that some news websites are so bad, they’d given up on trying to follow local news.
I'm bullish on the idea that every city/region can support a high-quality local newsletter 🔥
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