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New business ideas: $8K/mo time-travelling AI channel, $8K/weekend from a $600 cart, a tailor's genius use of a $10 AI bot 🤑
A $600 cart out-earned a $150K setup next to it.
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Hey, it's Niall 👋
A fresh batch of business ideas for you today.
→ A tailor's genius use of a $10 AI bot (its own creator didn't see coming)
→ A 66-year-old lawyer out-earning the pros from a gutted Home Depot cart
→ A guy who invented a person and turned her into an income stream
Alright, let's dive into the latest batch.
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Niall Doherty
eBiz Insider
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COFFEE BIZ
$8K in a Weekend From a Gutted Home Depot Cart
Marc Hyman is a 66-year-old California lawyer who doesn't drink coffee. He sells it anyway 👀
He gutted a $600 Husky tool cart from Home Depot, bolted in a nitro tap system, and serves iced coffee at festivals, car shows, and car washes.
The whole setup ran under $3,000. His best 2-day event cleared $8,000 net profit 🤑
The economics are lopsided in his favor...
~$3 to make each cup
Sells for $8 to $8.50
30 seconds to pour, no employees
After 9am, most buyers just want something cold and sweet, he explains – so the coffee itself is almost beside the point 👇
The quality of the underlying coffee barely matters to them. What matters is speed, temperature, and price.
He even out-earned a $150,000 coffee truck parked next to him in 100-degree desert heat 🔥
A beginner won't hit $8K – that's his outlier. But even a small event with 80 buyers nets around $400 in an afternoon.
The same cheap-cart model works for lemonade, kettle corn, or nitro matcha. Build the cart, call three event organizers, and show up where the crowd already is 😎
AI REMINDER BOT
Client Told Him: This Is The Most Useful Tool For My Business
📝 An indie dev writes about building a simple AI bot that lets you set reminders over WhatsApp – think "remind me to follow up with John tomorrow at 3".
A few weeks in, a tailor told him it was the most useful tool in her whole business 🤯
He assumed she meant for her own reminders 👀
She wasn't using it for her own reminders at all. She'd given the number to her customers.
Her customers WhatsApp the bot when their order is ready to be picked up, when they want to reschedule a fitting, or when they want to check their order status.
The reframe 👇
She basically turned a personal productivity tool into a customer communication system. No app, no portal, no login.
Just WhatsApp, which every single one of her customers already uses.
We built a reminder bot. She built a lightweight CRM with it.
🛠 You could replicate this with Twilio + a bit of AI for under $10/mo.
Sell to local business owners who are struggling with reminders and DMs across 4 different apps.
One WhatsApp number could replace the lot 🔥
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AI VLOGGER
$8K/Month From a New AI-Generated YouTube Channel
Meet Chloe, an AI "girl from LA" who time-travels through the Titanic, Tudor London and Ancient Rome on YouTube.
She's racked up 261K subscribers in only 3 months 🤯
Jonathan Laramy is the man behind the channel...
I am not being dishonest about the fact this is an AI video. I'm not hiding away from it.
The bulk of his 17M views are from Shorts – they build the audience but barely pay.
The money's in three long-form videos. They have ~4.7M views combined.
Educational content earns $5–14 per 1,000 views – assuming the low end, that's about $23K in 3 months, or roughly $8K/month 🤑
Jonathan has been creating AI content since 2023, and reckons the timing has never been better...
The barrier to entry now is the lowest it's ever been.
His trick: turn real public-domain paintings into moving, photorealistic scenes – a new long-form video every two weeks.
It's not flawless – critics spot a four-legged chicken and Tudor forks that didn't exist yet – but it shows the massive potential of AI-generated video 🤖
Pick a dry-but-evergreen niche – history, mythology, science – wrap it in an AI character, and let Shorts build the crowd while long-form earns 🔥
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