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New business ideas: $5K flipping $1 books, $20K app with no code, $600/mo ghostwriting tool 🤑
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Hey, it's Niall 👋
Remember this guy, Bennett Santora?
He started a niche short-form video agency – for magicians 🧙 – and pulled in $20K in his first two months.
His edge: he spotted a trend early and jumped on it.
That trend is still going strong. A big new marketing report found that 2x more marketers named short-form video their most valuable channel vs. last year 🤯
Highest ROI of any content format. And the #1 investment priority for 2026.
I'm not sure how Bennett spotted his trend. But this kind of report is where you can find the next one.
Grab it free below 👇
Then keep scrolling for my latest batch of fresh business ideas.
Niall Doherty
eBiz Insider
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BOOK FLIPPING
$5K Flipping $1 Book Pallets (ChatGPT Does the Hard Part)
📝 From a recent interview with Mindy, stay-at-home mom of 4 in rural Washington…
Her husband was browsing GovDeals.com for gym equipment. Mindy spotted some book pallets listed and bid $1 on a whim.
Won two. Total cost: $2.26.
She photographs the books, feeds the images to ChatGPT, and it identifies titles, authors, and reading levels – even from blurry pallet photos.
Then it creates bundles, writes eBay listings, and generates pick lists.
It’s my $20/month assistant.
The moneymaker: homeschool curriculum sets. Not picture books, not chapter books. Curriculum accounts for 98% of her sales 👇
She’s one of only 3 sellers for some of these sets on all of eBay.
🤑 Revenue from those first two pallets: ~$5K in 2 months.
After eBay fees (~15%) and shipping (~15%), roughly $3K profit.
- Average sale: $45
- Range: $15 to $400 per listing
- 11 pallets bought total – never lost money on one
School purchasing managers have started reaching out offering 50+ pallets for free.
You could start without spending anything: post on FB Marketplace asking for free textbooks, sort with ChatGPT, and list on eBay 😎
CLAUDE CODE
$20K Week One From His App (No Coding Background)
Oliur is a designer. Not a developer.
Six months ago, opening the terminal felt like “hacking into the matrix.”
Now he builds custom web apps with Claude Code – and charges for them.
📝 From a recent video…
I don’t really have to learn server management when Claude is my server manager.
He rents a cheap $6/month server and uses Claude to install software, build websites, and run automations – all through prompts.
His stack 👇
- Claude Code – the AI doing the building
- Conductor – a cleaner terminal with built-in AI chat
- n8n – self-hosted automation (Zapier, but you own it)
- Hostinger VPS – around $6/month to self-host everything
- GitHub – for versioning and auto-deploy
Most recent build: Digital Creator Club – a custom membership site with paywall, Discord integration, and membership cards. Something he couldn’t have built before.
In the first week of launching Digital Creator Club, it made nearly $20,000. I can’t believe that many people bought the membership.
🤑 A non-developer. Custom software. $20K week one.
If you’ve got a product idea but no coding skills, Claude Code has genuinely removed that barrier 🔥
MICRO SAAS
He Turned His Freelance Frustrations Into a $600/Month App
📝 u/onourown1978 writes on Reddit…
been ghostwriting on linkedin for 5 years (managed to generate 100M+ views for clients) but the process was killing me. spending hours interviewing clients, understanding their voice, crafting authentic content.
After failing at 3 other SaaS products – all built in isolation with zero customer input – he decided to build something for a problem he actually had.
gave myself a deadline: ship in 42 days. instead of assuming what people wanted, asked them. then built exactly what they asked for, often shipping features in 24 hours after feedback.
The result is Oiti, an AI ghostwriting tool for LinkedIn. His first customer was an agency managing 30+ LinkedIn posts per week.
🤑 ~$600/month after about 4 months.
not life-changing money yet, but it’s growing and people actually use it daily.
He taught himself to code at 30. Three failed products before this one. The difference? This time he built a tool around work he’d been doing for years.
What repetitive work do you already do that could be made faster with a simple app? 🤔
With vibe-coding tools available now, you don’t need to spend months learning to code. You could prototype something in a weekend.
If it makes your own work easier, chances are other people doing the same work would pay for it too 💪
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