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New business ideas: $25K/mo prayer app, $50K/mo hauling junk, profitable free events 🤑
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Hey, it's Niall 👋
Matthew Schniper has 2,000 newsletter subscribers. That's it. By most measures, tiny. And yet he earns $6,000 per month from it.
He covers the food and drink scene in Colorado Springs. Instead of chasing a big audience, he offers just 12 sponsorships to local restaurants and coffee shops.
$500/month each. Year-round. Full. Every month. 🤯
The math is almost offensively simple: 12 sponsors × $500 = $6,000.
And those 2,000 subscribers?
No algorithm can take any of it away.
The best part? beehiiv is free up to 2,500 subscribers – meaning you could build Matthew's entire business model before paying a cent.
Check it out below for free 👇
Then keep scrolling for more fresh ideas.
Niall Doherty
eBiz Insider
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APPS
$25K+/Month From a Vibe-Coded Prayer App (Built in 3 Days)
Mau Baron built PrayerLock, a Christian prayer app, in just 3 days.
Simple concept: it locks your phone until you complete a prayer session. The tagline – "Do you have 1 minute for God?"
💬 Mau writes on X…
our little mobile app just hit 13,000 reviews with a 4.9 star rating on the app store
i always had delusional belief that i would make it but i'd be lying if i said i expected it to reach this many reviews and scale. prayer lock completely changed my life
Revenue: $25K+/month, bootstrapped, all from subscriptions 🤑
His backstory 👇
last year i was posting daily with zero traction so i stopped for 8 months and just obsessed over building a successful product. by the time i came back i was at $20k/month
Mau's not a developer either – he describes himself as "a finance bro" who used AI tools to build PrayerLock. He published a complete guide on scaling the app – 1.5 million views, 14,000 bookmarks.
Simple utility apps for passionate communities can do serious numbers. Religious groups, hobbyists, fitness subcultures – pick a devoted audience, solve one small problem, charge a subscription 🤔
BORING BUSINESS
From a $15/hr Job to $50K/Month Hauling Junk
📝 From a recent interview with Matt from Sonoma Strong Hauling…
What would you do if you were broke, 35 years old, just went to prison, and just got out of rehab, and you need to make money? Well, you start a junk removal business.
Matt went from homelessness to jail to rehab to a $15/hr deli job at Safeway.
We just wanted to make an extra $2000 a month. We were broke and we didn't have money to throw into advertising. We had no business experience at all.
He started as a side hustle with a beat-up pickup truck, working nights at Safeway and hauling junk during the day.
First customer came from a free Craigslist post – a realtor with a garage full of trash.
That led to his secret weapon: the "candy dish" strategy 👇
I stopped at the dollar store, bought some candy dishes, ordered some business cards off of Vista Print, and we hit up every single real estate office in Sonoma County and dropped them off.
Realtors became his #1 referral channel. Every estate clearout, every move-out, every hoarder house – they called Matt.
🤑 Today: $50K/month in revenue with 35% profit margins.
A straight-forward business that could work in many places.
EVENTS
Throw a Free Event, Make Money From Sponsors
This model is quietly spreading in the indie hacker space 👀
Founders are running free retreats – full accommodation, meals, even laundry – with sponsors picking up the entire tab.
Hacker Residency Group ran the first one in Da Nang, Vietnam. Ten founders lived and built together for a month at a villa, completely free. The sponsors – CodeRabbit, n8n, OpenRouter and others – covered everything in exchange for brand exposure to a concentrated audience of developers.
Similar retreats are now popping up in other countries.
The model is the same one that funds podcasts and newsletters 👇
A niche audience is worth money to the right brands. Organise an event, curate that audience, and sponsors will pay to be in the room.
This isn't just a tech thing 💪
Dog breeders, Etsy sellers, fitness coaches, local business owners – any niche with relevant brands wanting access can run this.
Not ready for a villa in Vietnam? A free local meetup or online workshop is enough to test it.
Want to charge attendees instead of relying on sponsors? Hacker Paradise does $35K/month on paid co-living retreats at ~$2K per person 😎
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