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New business ideas: $300K/yr niche sport content, $250K domain flip, $5K/mo selling to copycats 🤑
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Business Ideas Newsletter
Hey, it's Niall 👋
Think about the businesses in your inbox right now…
🍜 The meal prep company nudging you to reorder
💊 The supplement brand running a flash sale
📦 The subscription box hyping next month's reveal
All of them live and die by email.
It's where they drive repeat purchases, recover lapsed customers, and keep revenue flowing from a list they've already paid to build.
And most of them need a lot of it – promotional campaigns, abandoned cart reminders, win-back sequences – week after week, month after month.
That's a real opening. Someone has to write those emails. That someone could be you.
Here's how it works:
📅 Monthly retainer, recurring income
🤖 AI does the heavy lifting
💰 $1,000–$5,000+/month per client, depending on volume and experience
The good news? You don't need to be a copywriter. You just need to know how to prompt AI well – and that's a learnable skill.
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Then keep scrolling for today's ideas.
Niall Doherty
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DOMAIN FLIPPING
$25 Domain Sold for $250K (Thanks To Matthew McConaughey)
Someone bought PrivateLLM.com for $25 and listed it on a domain marketplace.
Then Matthew McConaughey went on Joe Rogan and said this 👇
I want a private LLM so I can upload my favourite books, articles, journals and ask it questions and learn more about myself, with no influence from the outside world.
The clip went mega-viral on X and Threads.
Soon after, PrivateLLM.com sold for $250,000.
That’s a 10,000x return 🤯
📝 Per a NamePros thread, the seller had repriced the domain higher just months before the sale. The buyer got interested after the price went up – counterintuitive, but a higher price can signal credibility.
After the sale, domainers rushed to register ShieldedLLM, OwnedLLM, AuthenticLLM and every other variation they could think of.
This is an outlier – only 7 keyword+LLM domain sales have ever been recorded. But at $10–15 per domain, the downside of speculating on AI-related names is tiny 🤔
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DIGITAL PRODUCTS
$5K/Month Selling Code to Copycats
Piotr Kulpinski built OpenAlternative, a directory of open-source software alternatives. It went viral – 100K visitors in the first week – and grew to $6,500/month.
Then people started copying it.
📝 From a recent profile…
Here’s the thing about OpenAlternative: it kept getting copied. The clean, simple design that users loved also made it trivially easy to clone. I’d see knockoffs on Reddit almost every week.
At first, it frustrated me. Then I realized something: code is not the moat anymore. With AI tools making development faster than ever, anyone can replicate a website in days. Fighting copycats was a losing battle.
So he flipped the script. He packaged his codebase as a boilerplate called Dirstarter and started selling it to them. $159 for Standard, $199 for Pro 🧐
If people were going to copy me anyway, why not make it easier for them and make some money in the process?
He built the MVP in a week. First sales came from people who’d been asking “how did you build OpenAlternative?” for months. Pent-up demand he didn’t know was there.
🤑 183 customers so far, generating ~$5K/month.
Most marketing channels flopped – Reddit, paid posts, directory submissions. Only two things worked: SEO and affiliates (30% commission).
Keep an eye out for projects that keep getting copied – then build something you can sell to those copycats 🤔
NICHE SPORT CONTENT
$120-300K/Year From Niche Sport Content
From a recent deep dive into the business of golf content creators 👇
- Creator with 400K followers: ~$120K/year – per-post deals range $800 to $5K
- Creator with 500K followers: $225-250K/year – up to $300K with YouTube AdSense 🤑
The threshold to go full-time: about 100K Instagram followers or 50K YouTube subscribers.
Emma Carpenter (89K Instagram) is still below that, but already supports herself through creator work…
The work I do as a content creator blows entry-level broadcasting out of the water. There is just so much money on social media.
🧐 The biggest-paying sponsors aren’t the sport’s own brands. Alcohol, gambling, and automotive companies have way bigger budgets than equipment manufacturers.
Golf is just one example – pick any sport, build a following around coaching content, and the same model applies 💪
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