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New business ideas: 15-year-old's $30K side hustle, her dog makes $680/mo, quit-her-job newsletter 🤑
AI tools, zero coding. $1K+ per project.
eBiz Insider
Business Ideas Newsletter
Hey, it's Niall 👋
A subscriber wrote to me this week:
I read every edition but I still haven't started anything.
And honestly – I get it. A lot of people get stuck waiting for the right idea, the right time, the right moment.
But it reminds me of something the author James Clear said:
Many situations in life are similar to going on a hike: the view changes once you start walking.
You don't need all the answers right now. New paths will reveal themselves if you have the courage to get started.
You don't need to figure it all out. You just need a starting point.
A good starting point – 100 side hustles to start right now 👇
Then keep scrolling for my latest batch of fresh business ideas.
Niall Doherty
eBiz Insider
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Just start walking. 👆
PET FOR HIRE
Her Dog's Side Hustle Earns Her $680/Month 🐶
📝 DifferenceOk4275 writes...
my golden retriever is just naturally calm and good with people
she passed her canine good citizen test like 2 years ago – mostly because my friend dared me to do it
A small outpatient therapy clinic spotted the dog through a local Facebook group. They needed a certified dog for session days.
Drop the dog off twice a week, pick her up a few hours later.
they pay me $85 per visit so around $680 a month
I keep a portion of it set aside separately and dont touch it – helps me stay on budget for her vet costs and food
The clinic handles liability insurance on their end 👀
she comes home tired and happy, i get a check
i get more requests than i can fulfill now, two other places have asked about her
The Canine Good Citizen test costs $20 to $85. Any calm, well-behaved dog can take it – no breed restrictions.
Your well-behaved dog might already be qualified 🤔
AI SIDE HUSTLE
15-Year-Old Made $30K With AI In A Few Weeks
This is Branson @branson_atx on X
A high school student in Austin got introduced to AI agents by a guest instructor.
He started helping classmates get set up. A visitor noticed and referred him to his first paying client.
From a recent interview…
I earned $30,000 in sales helping people set up Open Claw.
His first gig paid $250 for 3.5 hours of work.
I only charged $250, which was kind of a mistake in my opinion because I didn't know what the prices were, and now I know.
He now charges $1,000+ per project.
His biggest so far – a custom $10,000 trading bot 💰
Clients find him through X. One tweet got 32K views. They book a 15-minute call and explain what they need 👇
I think a lot of them are very labor-focused and don't necessarily have the expertise to do this, and so that's why I'm there to help them.
The AI framework he uses is free and open source. No coding needed – he had zero coding background when he started.
Dedicated AI setup services are already charging $500 to $3,000+. If a 15-year-old can make this work, what's stopping you? 🔥
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CURATION
This Niche Newsletter Let Her Quit Her Job 💌
A weekly email with curated job listings for creative professionals who don't fit neatly into one career box.
That's Words of Mouth. No original content. No career advice. Just good jobs, every Monday evening.
Rachel Meade Smith started it in 2016 with an email to 50 friends. Ten years and zero ad spend later, it reaches over 72,000 subscribers 👀
📝 From a recent interview...
There weren't dedicated job boards for interdisciplinary people like me who had never had the same job title twice.
Universities list it on their career resources pages. Other job roundups send subscribers her way. She's never done any real marketing.
Open rate: 72%. Click rate: 22% of openers.
💰 Revenue comes from four sources 👇
Employer donations – ~20 job submissions per week, with a voluntary donation ask
Classifieds – $65 to $200 per listing, with a months-long waitlist
Patreon – reader donations
Occasional sponsors
Rachel hasn't held a full-time job since December 2019. But she'll be the first to tell you the business side isn't her strength...
I'm so bad at running a business in this way, but it hasn't hurt me yet because it's just kind of doing its own work.
Her classifieds are underpriced and oversubscribed. She knows it. There's real demand for niche curation done well.
Is there a newsletter format as deceptively simple as the links roundup? 🤔
Jobs, deals, tools, events, Reddit threads, industry news, videos, podcasts – pick any niche, collect the best links, hit send.
Dead simple to run, and genuinely useful to the right audience. That's the whole business 😎
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