There is a lot that you can build on the Internet. Listing down everything that you can build online 👇🏻
- Curate Directories & Resource Packs
- Curation is the lowest hanging fruit in the journey of building products on the Internet. You can curate resources around a niche that you are interested in or excited about.
- You can find an existing need in a market by looking at specific industries and see if there is value that can be unlocked by curation.
- You can curate on Notion, Github Repos, Softr Directories, Airtable Databases, Google Sheets, Google Docs and even create Ebooks & PDFs.
- ⚡️ SaaS brands need emails of influencers to reach out to, Agencies need list of recently funded companies to reach out to, Event companies need a list of CMO’s to invite for the event. Identify a need and start curating a directory. You can sell this as one time product or on subscribition basis by adding X number of leads every month. Cyberleads makes $500k ARR by doing this.
- ⚡️ Theresanaiforthat started as a simple AI Tools directory and now generates $$$ in revenue with listing fees and Ads
- Create Templates
- If you are good at a particular tool, you can create templates and make quite some money out of it.
- You an create Notion Templates, Figma Templates, Framer Templates, Webflow Templates, WordPress Themes and more
- ⚡️ Easlo, a 20 yo from Singapore, makes over a million dollars every year with his Notion Templates, Sick! Isn’t it?
- ⚡️ Dmytri made $20K in sales from Framer Templates in 6 months
- ⚡️ Avada, the highest selling theme on WordPress, has generated over $65mm in revenue
- Start a Newsletter
- If you like to research and a topic interests you, you can consider starting a newsletter. Curate events and information related to the industry, add your opinions to it and send a newsletter every week. You can be a part of the boost program of Beehive for getting sponsorships. A newsletter with 10000 subscribers can easily make upwards of >$2000 every month by sending 4 issues a month.
- ⚡️ Shushant’s AI newsletter was acquired by Horizon AI
- ⚡️ Angad’s Newsletters (ProductMonk & Marketing Monk) have crossed 40K in subscriber base each, generating at least $2000/mo
- Start a Community
- If you are good at interacting with people, starting a community is a great option for you. Start a community around a topic you like or have expertise in and invite like minded people.
- You can monetize a community by offering a premium gated community, running courses or via sponsorships
- *⚡️ Daniel Vassalo recently crossed $100K in revenue with his Small Bets community (~$150 membership)
- Teach Courses
- If you are good at something, why not teach that? You can do live or recorded or hybrid sessions. You can also explore tieing up a community around it
- ⚡️ Max Haining runs the popular 100 days of no-code, 100 days of AI and many other popular courses
- Start a Niche Blog
- Master keyword research, learn SEO and find opportunities to start a niche blog that generate traffic. You can monetise that traffic via Ads or by cross-selling something else.
- ⚡️ Sayan Neogi’s Prosmartrepreneur generates over $10K in MRR
- ⚡️ Karthik runs a bunch of niche blogs that generate $$$ in revenue
- Build Boiler Plates
- A Boiler plate is nothing but a pre-prepared set of code or a design system or design elements that can be re-used, effectively reducing the time to development.
- We feel that there’s a lot of alpha in building boiler plate for niches
- **⚡️ **Marc Lou built Shipfast, a NextJS boiler plate, that generates over $75K/mo
- Start Productised Services
- Services but with a fix scope and amount of work
- Landing Page Design for $250, UI/UX for a SaaS tool for $1000, MVP in 4 weeks for $999 and so on
- ⚡️ Nick Buzz runs a wildly popular design service called Baked Design which has generated over
- Build a Micro-SaaS
- SaaS but for a Niche, often built by a solo founder or by lean teams, profitable since Day 1
- The Builder OS largely focuses on Micro SaaS but the methods work across most of the above categories
- ⚡️ Pieter Levels generates over $53K in MRR with PhotoAI, an AI headshot generator tool
- ⚡️ Damon Chen generates over $30K in MRR with PDF.ai, a Chat with PDF tool
- ⚡️ Wilson built Senja, testimonial collection tool, that generates over $26K in MRR
- Start an E-Commerce/DTC/D2C Store
- We don’t know anything about this one but this is also something that you can do. Your call 🙂
*MRR – Monthly Recurring Revenue