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New business ideas: $100K/yr on 15 hours/week, $2.3M/yr from a Home Depot parking lot, $81K/mo cloning an app in another language 🤑
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Hey, it's Niall 👋
Quick thought on what's possible right now.
Agencies charge $3,000–$6,000 for a basic small business website.
AI tools can now spin up a pretty good one in about 20 minutes 🤯
Found this on Trustpilot:
I'm currently using Readdy to build websites for local businesses.
What impressed me the most is how quickly I can go from idea to a complete website.
It has been a game changer for me.
Think about the local businesses near you – the independent shop on your high street, the florist, the family restaurant.
Most of them have websites that look like they were last touched in 2014.
They know they look dated. They just don't know what to do about it.
And these days, you don't need any coding or design skills to help them – this AI tool does 90% of the work 😎
Just chat with the AI, then polish the result, charge a flat fee.
The client doesn't care what tools you used. They just want a modern-looking site without having to lift a finger.
And every town has hundreds of these businesses 👀
The same tool that guy's using – see for yourself what it can do 👇
Then keep scrolling for my latest batch of fresh business ideas.
Niall Doherty
eBiz Insider
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BORING BUSINESS
$2.3M/Year From a Home Depot Burrito Shed
LJ’s Lil’ Cafe
Lydia Holmes and John Clarke run a 200 sq ft burrito shed in a Home Depot parking lot in California.
They recently explained the appeal of the spot 👇
You have low overhead, low rent compared to an actual brick-and-mortar, and you're right in front of a Home Depot, and everyone has seen the Costco food court. So, we were like, we have to get in here.
They opened LJ's Lil' Cafe in 2021 with a hot dog stand vibe. But it was the breakfast burrito that kept selling out – 25 crispy tater tots, a full cup of cheese.
When a freelance writer covered them in Eater LA, sales went vertical 👀
That Thursday, we probably did maybe, you know, $300 in sales.
After the Eater article came out that night on Friday, I think immediately we hit our first $1,000 sales day. And then, I don't think we've done less than a $1,000 sales day after that.
They now do 600 burritos a day on weekends, opened a brick-and-mortar last July, and pulled $2.3M in combined sales last year 🤑
Could you find a busy parking lot in your town with no nearby food? 🤔
GEO-ARBITRAGE
$81K/Month From a Hebrew-Only Calorie App
CalBuddy on the App Store
Tomer Cnaan is 23 years old, from Tel Aviv.
Last month he made $81,108 from a calorie counting app that only serves Israelis 🤑
It's a smart bit of geo-arbitrage…
You see an app taking off in one country and then make a version for your own country, in your own language. Super smart.
The original is Cal AI – the snap-a-photo-of-your-meal calorie tracker dominating the App Store. English-language clones are everywhere now 🚀
Tomer skipped the bloodbath.
He built his version in Hebrew, with a database of thousands of common Israeli foods (hummus, schnitzel, jachnun) that English apps don't recognise 👀
He's already moving on…
Growth slowed down a little. For the first time since launching 9 months ago, most of my effort went into new ventures.
Plenty of language markets are still wide open – Vietnamese, European Portuguese, Greek, Hungarian. Take your pick 🔥
If you only speak English, could you find a partner in another country ripe for this playbook?
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PIGGYBACK BUSINESS
She Earns $100K/Year Working 15 Hours Per Week
Claire Shaner is on track for ~$100K this year on ~15 hours a week, all through the Amazon Influencer Program.
She films short product reviews that show up on Amazon listing carousels, and earns a cut when shoppers buy.
The twist: Claire has a master's in marketing research and surveyed 200+ Amazon influencers to figure out how top earners are making money.
She recently shared what her data says is actually working 👇
Watch time beats conversion. It's ~6x more predictive of carousel placement than conversion rate 👀
Thumbnails matter way less than you'd think. Style of thumbnail had no real link to earnings.
Strategic buys beat free samples 3:1. Brand-supplied products underperform stuff she picks herself.
About 80% of today's earning products may stop earning within a year. It's a treadmill – constantly replacing fading videos 🤯
Most creators waste effort in the middle zone: 20-40 minutes per video without a clear payoff. Better to be very fast or very deliberate.
If you've been writing off the Amazon Influencer Program because it feels saturated, here's your reminder.
Claire's pulling ~$8K/month part-time – top 5% in the program 💪
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