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New business ideas: teens made $3M/yr from a $4K pickup truck, $40K/mo going live 3x a week, $1K/mo flipping iPhones with a free bot 🤑
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Hey, it's Niall 👋
Meet Steve Cunningham.
He used to make a living summarizing business books – until AI disrupted the whole thing.
AI destroyed my business.
Then I rebuilt it.
You can too.
Now he ships a new AI workflow every day.
He puts it like this on LinkedIn 👇
Each one replaces a $15K–$35K deliverable.
You can run them in 15 minutes.
For yourself or your clients.
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Most people are still poking at it like a fancier ChatGPT.
Steve figured out how to actually work with it.
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Then keep scrolling for a fresh batch of business ideas.
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CASH FOR TRASH
$3M/Year Hauling Junk (Started in High School)
In 2021, two teen brothers from Massachusetts bought a $4,000 pickup truck and started hauling junk after school.
Recently they shared…
We turned our high school side hustle into a junk collecting business that brought in $3 million in 2025.
Kirk (22) and Jacob (20) McKinney run Junk Teens with 5 trucks, 25 employees, and 5,500+ jobs last year 🤑
And they did it all debt-free…
We've never financed our trucks. We've never invested over what we were capable of getting in cash.
👇 The early days weren't glamorous…
I think I got detention one time because I was late so many times for school because of having to dump the truck.
They worked out of their parents' driveway for two years before renting a warehouse. Both are at Babson College now, eyeing $5M next year 💪
Grab a used pickup, set up a Google Business Profile, and start cleaning out your neighbors' garages 👀
MARKETPLACE FLIPPING
$1000/Month Flipping iPhones With a Free Robot
📝 Ethan Ashi, a CS student in Spain, built a desktop bot to monitor Facebook Marketplace and alert him when particular items were listed for sale.
He writes…
I finished a workout, checked my phone, and had 3 solid iPhone [listing] alerts waiting for me.
Over the next few days I bought all three, cleaned them up, resold them, and ended up making about €690 profit after fees.
Ethan's bot also monitors two other marketplaces simultaneously: Wallapop and Vinted.
He'd seen Discord groups charging hefty monthly fees for similar tools, and figured he could build his own 💪
Then he open-sourced it – MIT licensed, runs locally, no paywall.
It is not really an iPhone bot. It is more like a listing monitor with rules.
You set a watchlist (item + max price + location), the bot polls all three marketplaces, grades each new listing A–F, and pings Discord on every Grade A or B deal.
Ethan averages 4–7 flips a month for €600–900 monthly profit – mostly while he's busy doing other things 🤑
Vinted support covers 23 countries (US included). Discord users are already running it for Pokémon cards, shoes, consoles, even cars.
Pick a niche you actually know and let the bot hunt for you 🤖
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LIVE SELLING
$40K/Month From Going Live on Whatnot 3x a Week
📝 An anonymous beauty brand owner shares…
I have a beauty brand that's been around for a decade and does around 100k a month. We started selling live on Whatnot 3x a week and within 3 months we're doing 40k/month on that channel.
The ramp 👇
Show 1: $1.5K
Month 1: $20K
Month 3: $40K/mo just from Whatnot 🤑
Why they're so bullish: live commerce in China is already a $1T market, while the US is just $50B 📈
They're moving onto TikTok next…
Tiktok JUST added a bid feature - exactly like Whatnot, and from what I've seen and heard, they push you to the FYP if you're doing auctions.
(FYP = For You Page, TikTok's main algorithmic feed — getting pushed there means free reach to millions.)
I'm guessing you don't have your own brand to monetize – but plenty of small Shopify brands have inventory and no time to go live.
Find a brand you like, pitch yourself as their Whatnot host, and split the revenue 🔥
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