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New business ideas: $50K/mo snail mail, $10K/mo no-code websites, $224K number plates 🤑
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Business Ideas Newsletter
Hey, it's Niall 👋
Words from the CEO of the world's most valuable company (NVIDIA, worth ~$4.5 trillion)…
AI won't replace you.
But someone using AI will.
Hard to argue with that.
But if you think you're already way behind – you're not.
Just saw this on LinkedIn: 84% of the world has still never used AI.
Not once 🤯
Even dabbling a little puts you ahead of most people on the planet. The bar to getting ahead is way lower than you think.
You don't need to be an expert. You just need a starting point.
A good starting point: 200+ ways to make money with AI (linked below) 👇
Then keep scrolling for today's batch of fresh business ideas.
Niall Doherty
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SNAIL MAIL
$50K/Month Snail Mail Subscription Club (Zero Paid Ads)
Hannah Gustafson started by selling homemade jam from a table in her front yard.
The jam stand grew into a monthly neighborhood market – 33 vendors, live music, face painting.
But people kept commenting online: “I wish this was near me.”
So she launched The Tiny Post, an $11/month snail mail club. First month: 50 subscribers.
📝 From a recent interview, Hannah describes what happened next…
August was 50. Second month: 107. Third month: 1,200. Fourth month: 2,500.
Month three, a TikTok video she’d filmed of herself telling her husband about the idea hit 1.1 million views 👀
Six months in, she’s at 4,100 members – and prepping for 4,500.
Each 1 oz envelope (one stamp) contains…
A postcard – an art print on one side, recipe card on the other. Two or three stickers. A surprise paper goodie. Handmade tarot cards from a friend. And my letter, usually pretty personal.
🤑 At $11/month per member with about $3 in hard costs per envelope, that’s roughly 70% gross margins.
Revenue: ~$50K/month. Profit: ~$30K/month. Zero paid advertising.
All sorts of niches could work here – art, poetry, local community, fitness, parenting 🤔
Related: Passive Income From Art and Snail Mail (Using StampFans) – a platform that makes it easy to start a business like this.
WEB DESIGN
$10K/Month Building No-Code Websites (Zero Commission)
💬 Kyle Panilan tweets…
$50K in 5 months @contra 🙏
Kyle is a Toronto-based designer who builds websites using Framer – a no-code website builder.
He started freelancing in August 2024. From a post on his Contra page…
14 clients, $70K+ in revenue, and thousands of Figma layers later.
$50K of that came through Contra – a freelance platform that takes zero commission.
Unlike Upwork (up to 20% fees) or Fiverr (20%), you keep every dollar.
His rates 👇
- Full website design + Framer build: $6,000
- Framer build only: $4,000
- Single landing page: $2,000–$3,000
14 projects. Perfect 5.0 rating. Top 1% on the platform.
His biggest client: Moonvalley, an AI video startup. Kyle redesigned their site right before they raised $84M 🤯
Framer handles the technical stuff – responsive layouts, animations, CMS – so you don’t need to write code.
Learn it, build a portfolio, list your services on Contra 😎
NUMBER PLATE FLIPPING
$224K Profit Flipping Number Plates (With a Python Scraper)
📝 u/TheTeflonDan writes on Reddit…
This is probably a bit different from the usual posts here but the principle is the same – buy underpriced, sell to the right buyer.
In Australia, state governments issued heritage number plates going back to the early 1900s. Some have become collectible – driven by patterns like repeating digits, sequential numbers, round numbers.
This guy hired a freelance Python dev to scrape the VicRoads database of 285K+ heritage plates, cross-referencing asking prices against recent secondary market sales to find underpriced combos.
The results 👇
- Bought 9 VIC plates from VicRoads at $12K each ($108K total) – sold for $304K. $196K profit.
- Best flip: plate 142.000 – bought $12K, sold $50.1K. 318% return.
- Quick flip: plate 234.345 – bought $30K, sold $43K in under a month.
Then a major catalyst hit: VicRoads stopped selling heritage plates entirely, making the secondary market the only source.
I’m currently holding 10 VIC plates bought for a total $198K. Estimating that I’ll be able to sell each plate for about $30K.
Total deployed: $507K AUD. Realised profit: $224K+ 🤯
Not just him, either. A commenter confirms making “just shy of 6 figures” doing the same thing. Another says their 4-digit plate is now worth 20x what they paid for it 10+ years ago.
The universal takeaway here isn’t number plates – it’s data arbitrage using public databases.
Build a scraper to find underpriced items in a large public dataset, then resell on the secondary market.
Could work for domain names, vintage items, collectible cards, even real estate listings 🤔
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