0:00 So, I've got five side hustles that you guys can do from home using AI that can make you tens of thousands of dollars per month because some of these guys are making $5,000 a month, 25K a month, or even $300,000 a month. And these are ran by either just one guy or a very small team. I've got five mind-blowing examples and some of these I'm pretty sure you've never heard of. So, let's dive in. So, there's this thing called Vibe coding that everybody's talking about and it's basically a way to build apps using AI without writing a single line of code. So if you look at Google Trends here, the keyword vibe coding is going crazy right now. And the reason why it's blowing up is because number one, you can make tons of money with apps. And number two, this opportunity was only possible for those who know how to code or at least have a technical co-founder, right? But today with VIP
0:45 coding, you can build an entire app with AI without knowing how to code. Now, I'm not talking about building huge apps like Uber or Yelp, but just a super simple app like this Locket app, which is basically an app that allows you to add photos into each other's home screens. And this app is getting a million downloads a month and it's making $300,000 a month. Just started by a regular guy with zero funding. And what about this one? This one blew my mind actually, the Rock Identifier app, which is reportedly making $700,000 a month, which is insane. All right. Now, we've got a few AI tools that can help you build apps like these like Replet Cursor or Lovable. So, if you go to YouTube and you type in how to use Replet to build an app, there's already a bunch of tutorials that walks you through how to use it. Right now, I think there are two ways that you can approach this in terms of making money. So, you can either be a service provider
1:31 or the founder. Now, being a service provider is the quickest way cuz you're getting paid to provide a service, right? So, you just have to learn the AI tools here and you provide a service to existing businesses that needs an app. And yes, there's a huge market for this. If you think about it, businesses everywhere need custom apps, right? But they don't want to pay $50,000 for a traditional development, hire a bunch of coders. So, this is where you come in. You charge maybe 3 to 5K per project. And because you're using AI, you can deliver in weeks instead of months. But I know you're probably thinking, if anyone can build this with AI, why can't they do it themselves? I think that's a fair question. But first reason is most businesses don't know about these tools yet cuz we are still so early. And the second reason is time. cuz these people are swamp running their business and they don't want to think about this and they have the money to hire an expert to
2:17 do it, right? Cuz that's like asking why hire a chef when I can cook the food myself. Now, the other angle is a founder angle, which is to build an app and market it yourself. Now, this approach obviously requires you to do more research, but the upside is it can make you more money in the long run. So, instead of getting paid once for a project, you're actually building an app that can generate income month after month. And not to mention that you can sell the app for a huge payout in a few years. Now, I believe the key to success here is to focus on one specific problem really well. Don't try to build the next Facebook or Uber, but instead you want to find a niche problem that a specific group of people would pay to solve. And if you can actually target businesses is actually even better cuz number one, they've got the money to pay. And number two, you'll get a lower turn rate if you're really solving a very painful problem. So, for example, this app, Receipts AI, just focuses on solving one
3:05 but very painful problem, which is what? Handling receipts, right? A lot of businesses struggle with this. Receipts everywhere and when it comes to tax season, it's very hard to track them. So, this app solves the problem by instantly recognize receipts and you can chat with it. It will categorize them automatically, right? And by the way, I'm actually building something myself. So, if you guys want me to share what it is, let me know in the comments and I'll probably make a video about it. Okay, so here's the second idea and I know this will sound old and boring, but it's making people tons of money, right? I'm talking about directory websites. And yeah, you're probably thinking, you know, is this 1998? But after digging more into this, I realized that this might be one of the most overlooked opportunities online right now. But what exactly is a directory website? So, so it's basically just a website that lists businesses or locations for a specific
3:51 niche. So, for example, Trip Advisor is a directory. Yelp is another directory, but these are billion-dollar businesses that you might already know. But what about these smaller sites? Just apinch.com. This is a recipe sharing directory that get about almost a million monthly visitors. And as you can see, this website is plastered with ads, right? And they're making $365,000 per year. Now, I think this is a great example of a directory that it's built on purely user generated content, meaning that you're not actually creating any content here. Instead, the users are the one who are submitting recipes. They're taking their own photos and also writing comments. And what about this one? Remote.io. It is a job board website that most people don't know about, but it's a directory website where you can find millions of remote jobs or if you're looking for one, you
4:37 can find a job here as well. They're making 3.4 million last year and they got zero funding. And carpart.com is another directory website for used car parts. They get 376,000 monthly visitors. And if you look at the website, I mean, this looks like it was designed in the '90s, right? and they never bothered to update it, but it's generating $43 million in annual revenue. Okay, but now you're probably asking, how do these directory websites make money? Now, first of all, you can sell listings to businesses. So, this is by far the most popular way to monetize your website and it's likely going to be the majority of the revenue. And second, you can put ads on your website, obviously. So, once you start getting decent traffic, you can use something like Google AdSense or Mediaine to monetize your traffic that you get every single month. And number three, you can also make money from affiliate
5:23 marketing. So when somebody clicks to buy a product or a software through your link, you get a commission. And you know the nice thing about directory is that once you build it, you wait for it to grow and you start making money and then you move on to the next one. So it could be really passive once you build it and it gets going. But of course there's nothing that's completely passive, but I think this is as close as you get to total passive income. And by the way, if you want to learn more about building directories, I recommend following this guy Freychu. He's building directories and he's actually building in public so you can see what he's doing a lot of his strategies because he shares everything on X and he has a YouTube channel as well. Now quick break in the video. I want to give a shout out to today's sponsor AI video cut. So if you've got long videos like podcast, interviews, tutorials and you want to turn them into short clips for Tik Tok or reals, this tool makes it ridiculously easy. So just
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7:41 used memes and this uh skit style videos to promote his company's neon LED signs and his videos are getting tens of millions of views and he's also covered by other creators. And as you can imagine, sales went through the roof, right? So, your job is to find all these memes, whatever is hot right now, and try to adapt them for these brands because you're essentially making them more relatable, which actually makes people want to share the content. And you know, there are even people on Fiverr that's offering this exact service just to show you that this is actually a real thing. But if I were to do this, I wouldn't do it on Fiverr. But instead, I would pitch the brand directly, right? So here's what I would do. Number one, I would follow all the big meme accounts. I would follow Reddit threads and learn all this on Tik Tok. Number two, I will build a maybe a small portfolio of like 10 15 examples. And maybe you want to think about three brands that you want to pitch to. And
8:27 you can say something like, you know, here are five memes that I made for your brand. You can use this if you like. If you want these on a weekly basis, I'm available. Now, of course, if you're totally brand new, you want to make it risk-free for the brand, right? So you got to have some sort of guarantee. So, you might say something like, "Hey, I can double your impressions or I can double the views on your videos. And if I can't do that, you don't have to pay me." So, it's kind of like a win-win for you and the brand. The brand has nothing to lose, and you get to use it as a case study to pitch to future brands. And it's going to get easier and easier once you have a portfolio of case studies. All right. So, the fourth idea here is absolutely blowing up right now, and this is UGC videos, but not the kind of UGC videos that you've been seeing, but AI generated UGC videos, which means that you don't have to film yourself, and you can create hundreds of these in a day. Now, two ways you can make money from this. Number one is Tik Tok shop. I've made several videos about this. So,
9:12 basically, you can create videos like this promoting a simple product and when you get a sale, you earn a commission, right? You never have to touch a product. You're creating this super simple videos with a simple script that you can get to produce and you earn money when somebody buys a product. And to give you an example of how crazy this can get, this creator got 19 million views on a single video and that video generated her $400,000 in revenue. And with just a 10% commission, that's 40K. And with just one video, by the way, and you know, at the time, she had less than 10k followers. And because you're using AI, you can create hundreds of these in a short period of time. But the key here is that you don't want to target everybody. You want to find a specific segment of the market that actually needs this kind of videos. And I think software startups is a great target for this. So, let me explain. So, if somebody was building an app, for example, they're going to need eyeballs, right? And ads are expensive to run. So,
9:58 what is the other alternative? Organic content. Now, I think Tik Tok is a great platform for this cuz you can get a lot of views very quickly. regardless of how many subscribers you have. And I think a prime example of this is the locket app that I showed you guys earlier. They're just creating videos like this on Tik Tok. Very simple, authentic, and they're showing the app at the end, right? And that's actually how they were able to go viral and generate 300K a month. So, you want to get in touch with all these startups. You give them a risk-free proposal. You know, I don't get you results, you don't pay me, right? Because I think that's the quickest way to get client testimonials. And once you do that, I think convincing the next client will become so much easier. So, moving on to the next one. I wanted to save this one for the last cuz I think this is one of the most overlooked business models on the planet right now and that is newsletters but not the salesy promotional type of newsletters that you get from Target or Walmart but
10:45 I'm talking about creator newsletters where you're actually sharing insights you're sharing tips on one specific topic. For example, Nicholas Cole here has a newsletter with 75,000 subscribers and another one Rundown AI. It's a great newsletter with a million subscribers that gives you a summary of all the trending news right to your inbox. Now, how do you make money with newsletters? Now, the most obvious one is sponsorships. So, brands will pay you to get eyeballs on the products. So, you can sell ad spots. Number two, you can set up a paid subscription model where people pay a subscription to be on your email list. And number three, you can sell products, right? You can sell a digital product or you can sell physical products, merchandise, and you can promote that in your newsletters. And by the way, if you have a website selling products, I do recommend getting a duster domain just like Mr. beast Zack King I show speed here cuz not only that you get twice the visibility on Google
11:31 but also more likely that you get the name that matches your brand but now how much can you make with all these newsletters right and it's actually quite surprising so if you're selling ad spots so let's say you get to a th000 engaged subscribers you can typically earn between $500 to $1,000 a month but if you can grow to 10k subscribers so you're looking at maybe $2,000 to $5,000 a month but the sky's is the limit here because you can see that big newsletters can rake in six seven figures every single a month. For example, this guy Kevin Van Trump, he actually runs a commodity newsletter called the Ventrum Report. He makes an $18 million per year from his newsletter. And this is actually a paid newsletter and he charges $600 a year subscription. And he's got $30,000 subscribers. That's $18 million a year. And all the subscribers are happily paying him because the
12:16 information is so valuable. And you know what? Even at this size, he still has one writer. Or look at Morning Brew. You've probably heard of this one. So, this guy started a simple newsletter while they were still in college and made a lot of money through sponsorships and they ended up selling it for $75 million and the founders were only 25 years old at the time. Okay, great. So, what tools do we need to start? So, we got two of the most popular ones. You got ConvertKit, you got Behive. I think if you're just getting started, Behive is probably the easiest cuz you don't have to pay anything until you get to 2500 subscribers cuz they've got all these features built in to help you grow and make money. They've got this feature where you can automatically place ads on your newsletter. They've got a built-in referral program to help you grow faster and makes it easy also for you to promote your newsletter. And by the way, in terms of writing, it's easier than ever to write a newsletter now because
13:01 we got AI because we got tools like Perplexity AI to help you do deep research on your topics and then you can use Claude to polish your ideas and write the newsletter and then you can put everything to behive and schedule out your newsletters. And by the way, I got all the links to the tools down below for easy access. Now, the big question is what should I talk about? What is the most profitable niche for newsletters right now? So, I've grown my email list to about 30,000 subscribers in less than a year. So, here's what I'm thinking about when I'm picking a niche, right? And I like to think about the three Rs. You need a big enough audience to serve. Yes, you need to be specific, but it has to be large enough to grow to a sizable newsletter. And number two is recurrence. You want to solve a recurring problem, not just a one-off problem. So, for example, if you write a newsletter around maybe wedding planning, that is something that people actually do probably once in their lives. So, think about the topics or the
13:47 niches that people would want to hear updates on regularly, which means that they'll keep coming back, right? Number three, revenue. Can you easily monetize the audience? Are there tools or products that can help your audience solve their problems? Right? The more solutions there are, the easier it is to make money. Now, I've got a few ideas on the most profitable niches you can start today. In fact, I recently made a video on how this guy made $5,000 with every email that he sends. Every single week, he never had to show his face. And he sends one email a week. That's $20,000 a month and growing.
