If I had to start one AI side hustle in 2026, this would be it.
A local newsletter that pulls $2K+/month run entirely by a team of 4 AI agents. The founder (Lucas Walter) has never written a single edition.
This is a copy/paste-able system that could by applied to any city in the world.
Here's the agent setup👇
→ A Growth Engineer agent scrapes every local news site, subreddit, and event calendar at 6am daily. It also manages all the Facebook ads for the subscriber growth
→ A Content Director reads the database and writes the weekly newsletter in his voice every week
→ A Sales Director handles every inbound advertiser — email back-and-forth, package pitching, AI-generated ad creative
→ A CEO agent orchestrates all three and reports back to him
Results from Lucas's newsletter, 'Spokane Pulse':
- 7,400 subscribers
- 47.5% open rate (industry avg 20–30%)
- ~11% click-through rate
- $2K/month in ad revenue and growing
- Under 4 hours/week of human-in-the-loop
Now imagine running this same system for YOUR city.
I linked to Spokane Pulse in the comments so you can check it out for yourself.
Like & Comment "Newsletter" and I'll send you the full course that gives you the playbook + the exact agent setup as a one-click import.
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Sir, they don't let me talk to the pharmacist. This medication needs to be taken for 5 years as it's a cancer medication and life critical. Please ensure that the board of @1mgOfficial gets the criminal warranty for denying medication despite payment for a reorder of medication
@rashtrapatibhvn@MoHFW_INDIA@PMOIndia
Sir
@1mgOfficial
is denying medication to a senior citizen with cancer despite payment and uploading the prescription book by the government hospital. This is denying emergency medication despite payment to a senior citizen
10 GitHub repos that should be illegal — they're killing $50 billion in corporate revenue.
SAVE IT
1. yt-dlp
Downloads any video from YouTube, X, TikTok, Instagram, anywhere. YouTube Premium charges $14 a month to do less than this. It is 100% free.
Repo → https://t.co/TaRtkcd4qy
2. Ollama
Run GPT-4-class AI on your laptop. No API costs. Developers spend $500 a month on OpenAI for what Ollama runs offline for $0.
Repo → https://t.co/gyZhUdzsnZ
3. Fooocus
Midjourney-quality image generation on your own GPU. Midjourney charges $30 a month. Fooocus runs unlimited generations for free.
Repo → https://t.co/NDPJpIdYJs
4. Whisper
OpenAI's transcription model, open-sourced. Otter charges $20 a month for what Whisper does for free, in 99 languages.
Repo → https://t.co/blaJ4i4MnH
5. Plausible Analytics
Privacy-first Google Analytics replacement. Google Analytics 360 costs $150,000 a year for enterprises. Plausible self-hosted costs $0.
Repo → https://t.co/RFrcpqTBQ7
6. AppFlowy
Open-source Notion. Notion charges $20 per user per month for teams. AppFlowy runs unlimited users on your server for free.
Repo → https://t.co/IDMykTCkMU
7. Penpot
Open-source Figma. Figma charges $45 per editor per month. Penpot does the same job, self-hosted, free forever.
Repo → https://t.co/Lx1CYUP4p4
8. n8n
Open-source Zapier. Zapier Pro costs $600 a month for a real workflow. n8n self-hosted runs unlimited automations for $0.
Repo → https://t.co/hdycABGGc1
9. Cal .com
Open-source Calendly. Calendly Teams costs $16 per user per month. Cal. com is free for individuals and open source for teams.
Repo → https://t.co/haz8ihRsHm
10. Bitwarden
Open-source 1Password. Password managers charge $8 per user. Bitwarden is unlimited, forever, free.
Repo → https://t.co/XCZ2JtWqWQ
Here's the wildest part:
That's $50 billion in corporate revenue these repos are quietly destroying every single year.
None of these are illegal.
All of them should be.
Save this. Share it with the person in your life still paying for what's been free this whole time.
100% free. 100% open source.
Sir, they don't let me talk to the pharmacist. This medication needs to be taken for 5 years as it's a cancer medication and life critical. Please ensure that the board of @1mgOfficial gets the criminal warranty for denying medication despite payment for a reorder of medication
@MoHFW_INDIA@PMOIndia Sir @1mgOfficial is denying medication to a senior citizen with cancer despite payment and uploading the prescription book by the government hospital
@MoHFW_INDIA@PMOIndia Sir @1mgOfficial is denying medication to a senior citizen with cancer despite payment and uploading the prescription book by the government hospital
@MoHFW_INDIA sir @1mgOfficial is harassing cancer patients. Aromitase inhibitors have to be given for 5 years. They are asking to get renewed prescription when the prescription clearly states tk continue the medication. The amount of 978 has already been paid for xtane tablets
@MoHFW_INDIA sir @1mgOfficial is harassing cancer patients. Aromitase inhibitors have to be given for 5 years. They are asking to get renewed prescription when the prescription clearly states tk continue the medication. The amount of 978 has already been paid for xtane tablets