What to build?

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

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