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New business ideas: $1.63M selling magnets, $1K AI app in 24 hours, $150/hr weeding 🤑
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BORING BUSINESS
$150+/hr Doing Flower Bed Maintenance
Someone on Reddit has been making money doing flower bed maintenance…
I’ve been doing that for a while now and it’s pretty good money. On the last job I charged 250$ to throw some mulch and it took 1 1/2 hours.
They tipped 50$ and the material only cost 50$. So I made well over 150$ an hour.
That's $300 in revenue for 90 minutes of work 🤑
Here's the full breakdown 👇
Charged: $250
Tip: $50
Materials (mulch): $50
Time: 1.5 hours
Effective rate: $150+/hr
Don't get me wrong. I broke a good sweat and it's not "easy" work.
But it pays well and you don't need a ton of money to start and people can start with little knowledge. As long as they can pluck weeds and spread some mulch!
The interesting thing here is the niche focus. 🌸
Full landscaping requires expensive equipment, insurance, crews, and a lot of know-how. Flower bed maintenance? Hand tools, bags of mulch, and a willingness to sweat.
No mower, no edger, no trailer full of gear. Just show up, pull weeds, spread mulch, get paid 😎
Demand is seasonal but recurring – beds need refreshing every spring and fall at minimum. One happy customer leads to their neighbor calling you next.
Could be a solid weekend side hustle with almost zero startup cost 🌿
AI MICRO APPS
$1K From a 24-Hour App (Built With AI)
On February 1st, Igor Cuiumju decided to run a small experiment.
He gave himself less than 24 hours to build and ship a very simple iOS app.
📝 From a recent interview…
There was no launch plan, no marketing budget – and honestly, no expectations.
The app is called Seasonia – all it does is show how much of the current season is left. ❄️🌸
Seasonia on App Store
A calm little widget on your home screen. No accounts, no subscriptions, no complex features.
He priced it at $0.99 and used AI tools throughout – for both development and design.
A few hours after launch, the app unexpectedly climbed into the charts.
Since launch, it’s consistently ranked Top 10 in its App Store category across several European countries 👀
As of today, he has 1,000+ paid customers.
Priced at $0.99, that’s $990+ in sales in just 3 weeks.
It’s not a massive success by startup standards, but considering it was built in under a day, it feels surreal.
What surprised me the most is how much people appreciate small, focused apps without subscriptions or noise.
Growth mainly came from App Store Optimization (ASO) – updating screenshots, descriptions, and keywords to rank higher in search.
A dead-simple app, built in a day, earning real money. What tiny app idea could you ship this weekend? 🤔
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PHOTO MAGNETS
Broke Mom to $1.63M Selling Custom Magnets
Sariah Howell’s photo magnets
Sariah Howell was pregnant, broke, and never saw her husband. He was stocking shelves at a grocery store making $14/hour.
📝 From a recent interview…
What could I do on the side from home that could just bring in an extra couple hundred a month?
She'd made a goal to print more family photos. Googling ways to display them, she came across custom photo magnets and a machine that made them.
Put the machine on a credit card and started selling at local farmers markets.
That first month, I think I made a little over $1,000. Not that that's a crazy amount, but to us that was a lot.
The numbers are 🤯
Cost per magnet: $0.35
A 9-pack sells for $25
That's ~87% margin on materials alone
First full year: $1.63M in revenue, 30–40% net margins – after labor, booth fees, and lower-margin product lines like DIY kits 🤑
Then she discovered weddings. At her second market ever, a couple kept coming back with more photos. Spent about $225. At the end of the day they walked up and asked…
We're getting married in a couple months. Would you ever consider being a vendor at our wedding? 💍
A 3-hour wedding gig looks something like this…
Revenue: $1,200 to $3,000
Total costs: ~$500 (materials, gas, two staff)
Net profit: ~$1,500
There are 2.5M weddings per year in the US. Almost none of them have a magnet vendor 👀
I don't think it will ever be oversaturated. Even here around me, there are a ton of people that have these kits. But how many weddings, how many events? There's just so much room in this industry.
Total startup cost: under $1,000 for a machine and printer. Go find your nearest farmers market and see if anyone's already doing this 😎
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