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Sharing business ideas that make money!

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Learn how to build anything with AI ↓
https://t.co/J8pFHF7lEG

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Oh and btw I made a whole database of small brands beating giants like Zac is with this one, check it out:

https://t.co/TEA68QgMRV

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This founder who built a $1M ARR SAAS selling to agencies, says:
Being "too small to bother" is actually his MOAT against publicly traded companies.

"Us having a $1 million ARR business unit is amazing because we're a couple of people. A publicly traded company having a $1M ARR business unit isn't really going to move the needle for them. So I just think their sites are elsewhere."

"Even if Klaviyo were to build a version, it's extremely unlikely they'd show the data from those other platforms where Klaviyo isn't even involved with that brand."

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Btw, I built a database of weekend projects like Kyle's that are making millions, check it out here:

https://t.co/WykIgBD0Ro

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Kyle built his $120K MRR app MVP in a single day using AI 🫣

"When I built Scanémon, it was really different from Cardstock because I built Scanémon last year in 2025. I tried to generate it, basically have cursors agent, generate everything, and it did insanely well. The MVP for ScanAmon, I made in a day."

"AI has enabled you to see a problem right now that you're experiencing in daily life and ship it within a few hours and then test it in the market."

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Build something using this database of side projects you can build alongside your 9-5:

https://t.co/7ds071UhwW

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> Lovable hit $500M in June.
> Cursor got acquired for $60B.
> Claude Fable 5 was suspended after 72H.

All of this happened THIS MONTH!!

We are still so early.

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If you liked this you will probably love the full episode here with Brett:

https://t.co/Lfbp7IZTFg

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Brett makes $1.3M/year as a solopreneur and runs his business entirely from home. But the craziest part? He doesn't take a single client meeting or Zoom call...

To manage 20+ clients completely by himself without burning out, he relies on a dead-simple framework:

> clients drop design requests straight into a Trello queue > he knocks them out one-by-one with zero async clutter or Slack messaging

His total overhead to run the business? Exactly $176 a month. He didn't even quit his 9-to-5 day job until he was bringing in $80,000 a month from his side hustle.

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Btw, I made a whole report on solopreneurs like Marc, check it out here:
https://t.co/bpRLnCQrfE

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$77K/month solopreneur says his to-do list is so long he couldn't finish it in 200 years - so he just picks whatever will move the needle most and make him happiest.

"Now I have a to-do list that even if I live 200 years, I wouldn't be able to make all my ideals real. Every single day, at the end of the day, I have more stuff on my to-do list than I did at the beginning."

"There's this gut feeling over, like, among those features, among those things, which one would have the most impact on the users? Which one would make me the happiest?"

"And I would just pick whatever comes next."

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Btw, your next app idea could be on this list so check it out:
https://t.co/hP2kZTwrEM

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Kyan is a 21-year-old college student making $25K/month from his first app says...

Most builders fail for the same reason: they ship a beautiful product and never show it to anyone.

"Commit to posting three times every single day for at least a month. And I guarantee you will make money and get users."

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Btw, selling to agencies is basically a productized service cheat code. I made a list of 7-figure ones like this one, here:

https://t.co/bpn5VnPEBh

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Zach, who built a $1M ARR SaaS selling to agencies, says:

99% of the features he launches are relevant to every single user; that's because every agency runs on the same underlying platforms.

"And because the agencies are all leveraging the same platform, you can kind of safely assume they have the same problem. 99% of the features we launch is relevant to every single user every time."

"With agencies, each of the agencies have 10, 20, 30 brands as customers. And so in effect, I'm getting 30 brands onto the platform by going through one agency."

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just talked to a solo founder doing ~$10K/mo with a job board (yes, a job board in 2026)

but that's not even the crazy part:
> 17M views last month
> spends ~1 hour/month on content
> has run the same videos on repeat... for years

he does content in a way I haven't really seen before

thinking about bringing him on... what would you wanna know more about?

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Just build something using this database here and potentially change your life: https://t.co/f7kjzefGE6

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If you think abt it, you're really only a few DEEP WORK hours away from completely changing your life:

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And you can just steal this list of weekend projects that have made millions:

https://t.co/VdzAtoXt7x

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My daily routine while I had a full time job & building https://t.co/DjldVm9tw1 on the side:

> 5:43am: wake up
> 6:03am: walk to cafe
> 6:10am: open laptop
> 6:15am: deep work for ~2 hours
> 8:15am: close laptop
> 8:30am: go to full time job, try to stay sane
> 6:00pm: go home, workout, etc
> 9:00pm: in bed early, to do it all over again the next morning

In less than a year, I handed in my resignation.

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If you want to watch the whole episode just click here:
https://t.co/xmP0rSPEFf

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Kyle, who makes $120K/month from two apps he built around his own hobbies, says his year-old Pokemon card scanner is already pulling in more new customers per month than his 6-year-old flagship 🥶

"Cardstock is sitting at about 15,000 active subscriptions and up to like 75K monthly recurring revenue."

"This is Scanemon. Basically the same app but for Pokemon cards. We launched it only a year ago... we're currently sitting at about 3,400 active subscriptions, 17K monthly recurring revenue, about 16,000 new customers a month."