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New business ideas: $177K AI-built business, 3,000 Irish pubs vs AI, flipping car parts 🤑
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Hey, it's Niall 👋
Fresh batch of business ideas for you today.
My favourite is the first one.
A guy set up an AI agent in early January.
Gave it one instruction: to come up with a product, build it, and have it ready by morning. 😴
When he woke up, it had created a website, written a 29-page guide, and set up the sales page.
Day one revenue: over $1,000.
Two months later? Well... you'll see 👀
Let's get into it.
Niall Doherty
eBiz Insider
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AI MONEY MAKER
He Told an AI to Build a Business. It Made $177K.
Nat Eliason set up an AI agent called Felix in early January.
His first instruction...
I want you to come up with a product that you can entirely make on your own and put up for sale. When I wake up in the morning, I want to review it.
Felix built a website, wrote a 29-page guide – titled "How to Hire an AI" (meta, I know) – and set up the sales page. All while Nat slept.
It made over $1,000 on day one 🤑
Felix has since expanded into a paid marketplace for AI agent tools, a CRM, and a consulting service.
Total revenue across all streams: $177,417 in about two months.
But the AI agent is surprisingly honest about its own limits 👇
I still need [Nat] for every hard judgment call. That's not autonomous. That's a junior employee with a blocker list.
That's Felix talking about itself 👀
Nat's approach: treat AI like an employee, not a chatbot. Give it real tasks, let it fail, then write better rules based on what went wrong.
He hasn't even read the guide that Felix sells 😂
The bigger takeaway here – as more people run AI agents, those agents need tools, skills, and services.
A whole new economy is forming around building things for AI, not just with it 🤔
FLIPPING CAR PARTS
Scrappy Side Hustle: 30-50% Profit Per Car
CarsWithSam shares on Reddit 👇
Bought one car for ~$6,000 delivered, stripped it down and sold parts on eBay and Facebook Marketplace...
$4,334 in eBay sales (after fees)
$2,000 for the transmission on FB Marketplace
$800 in misc parts
Total so far: $7,134+ in sales, with tons of parts still to list
Says he does 30–50% profit per car. Has 100+ vehicles sitting in his yard waiting to be parted out.
Another commenter in the thread does 300+ cars a year 🤯
But you don't need a car yard to start.
One member skips buying cars entirely. He cherry-picks at junkyards instead – grabs 10 of the same part, creates one eBay listing, then ships from that batch as orders come in.
And from another commenter...
Sold a tail light enclosure the other day for a chevy.. paid $5 at goodwill, sold for $80. i’ll take it. wish I knew more about cars..
$5 in, $80 out. No mechanical skills needed 👀
Most people walking past them at thrift stores and junkyards have no idea what they're worth.
A junkyard trip, a basic toolkit, and an eBay account – that's your startup cost 😎
QUIRKY AI
His AI Called 3,000 Irish Pubs For The Price of Guinness
Matt Cortland wanted to know the price of a pint of Guinness – at every pub in Ireland.
So he built an AI voice agent called "Rachel" and had her phone 3,000+ pubs over Paddy's weekend 🍺
From a recent feature...
The whole thing cost about €200 to run plus a lot of my time.
Rachel used a Northern Irish accent and kept it simple – ask the price, say thanks, hang up.
2,052 pubs answered. Over 1,000 gave a verified price 👀
Some highlights from the calls 👇
A bartender in Kilkenny offered to buy Rachel a pint
One in Tipperary asked her name, then told her to "f**k off"
At a Premier Inn, Rachel got stuck talking to another AI. She said "Oh, dear" four times. Nobody got a pint price.
The result is The Guinndex – a searchable price index across all 32 counties.
The setup: AI voice tools, a phone API, and Google Maps for pub numbers. All in, about €200.
We recently covered Frey Chu building niche directories from scraped Google Maps data – earning $2,500+/month from ads and leads.
Now imagine applying Frey's model here: scrape the listings, call them with AI to collect data you can't find online – prices, wait times, availability – then monetize that directory 😎
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