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New business ideas: $25K/mo working 3 hrs/week, $38/hr ambushing tourists, $550/mo passive niche printables 🤑
He turned down $1M offers twice. Only works 3 hours a week.
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Hey, it's Niall 👋
A guy on Medium says he used ChatGPT to negotiate a job offer – and found $22,000 he nearly left on the table.
The offer was already 15% more than he was making. He was about to just accept it.
But instead of asking ChatGPT something vague like "help me negotiate," he got specific – fed in the details and asked it to find exactly what he was undervaluing.
Same tool everyone has access to. The difference? How he prompted it.
That's the thing most people get wrong about ChatGPT. A lazy prompt gets a lazy answer. A specific one can literally be worth thousands.
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Then keep scrolling for my latest batch of fresh business ideas.
Niall Doherty
eBiz Insider
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NICHE SAAS
$25K/Month SaaS Built for Ancient Accounting Software
Danny's MRR and ARR growth over the past year
🤑 Danny Nemer built a solo SaaS that does $25K/month – with zero outbound sales.
His product? Conductor – a modern API for integrating with QuickBooks Desktop, an accounting system that's 15+ years old and has no web API.
Tiny market. But people who need it go looking for it.
📝 From a recent post…
I only had two customers for the first 1.5 years, but that was primarily because it took so long to build so many surfaces pre-GPT-3.5.
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Today Danny spends only about 3 hours a week on the business.
He's turned down two separate $1M acquisition offers because his earnings are higher if he just holds 🤯
What old, clunky system could you build the modern API for?
Search Stack Overflow or Zapier's forums for "no API" complaints.
Look for old desktop software that's still widely used.
That's where the next $25K/month SaaS idea might be hiding 😎
DIGITAL PRODUCTS
$550/Month From Super-Niche Etsy Health Trackers (Pretty Hands-Off)
Examples for “Hashimoto's symptom tracker” on Etsy
One Redditor tried creating and selling Etsy digital products.
First 8 generic products – meal planners, budget trackers – got 4 sales in 3 months 😢
The breakthrough was going ultra-specific…
When someone with Hashimoto's searched Etsy and found a product made specifically for their condition, they bought it immediately because nothing else existed.
A Hashimoto's thyroid symptom tracker sold 12 units in its first month at $17 each 👀
An IBS meal planner with FODMAP categories sold 8.
This guy now has 6 products in health and parenting niches earning $400-700/month 🤑
Time spent maintaining: about 2 hours a month – updating tags and responding to the occasional message.
That's the closest thing to actual passive income I've found.
The pricing power makes sense 👇
People will pay $5 for a generic habit tracker because they're comparing it to 500 other habit trackers.
But when someone finds the only FODMAP meal planner that actually categorizes foods by phase, there's no price anchoring against cheaper alternatives because there are no alternatives.
You're not competing on price anymore you're competing on relevance.
Each product is a 15-20 page PDF made with Canva and AI. Cost to list on Etsy: $0.20.
Find a niche with an active Reddit community, read what people complain about, build a structured tracker for that specific problem – with the help of AI 😎
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QUIRKY SIDE HUSTLE
$58 in 90 Minutes Selling Photos to Tourists at Abbey Road
Simple examples from his Instagram @42genic
A Redditor called Matt grabbed his camera and his brother and headed to the famous Beatles crossing in London.
He photographs tourists from about 150 feet away with a telephoto lens. His brother approaches right after and hands them a QR card linking to a watermarked preview.
Price to unlock: £5 (about $6.50).
Here's the funnel from their first session 👇
27 cards handed out
25 taken (93%)
19 photos viewed (76%)
9 photos purchased (47%)
🤑 $58 in 90 minutes
Even photos he thought were terrible sold – including one with an ambulance parked right behind the crossing 👀
Matt reckons £5 was too cheap...
I already do 2-3 shot albums so they have a few to choose from. Next thing I want to test is higher fixed price vs. pay what you want
Makes sense. As one commenter put it, tourists at a once-in-a-lifetime spot are already in spend mode. At $12+ per photo, this starts looking like serious hourly money on a busy day.
Total gear cost was about $880. A used camera and vintage lens could get you started for a lot less.
Pick any tourist hotspot – eg. famous viewpoints or landmarks, graduation photo spots, ski resort bases – and you've got the same setup 😎
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