On February 21st, Peter Levels used Cursor to build a flight simulator game (the initial game only took 30 minutes to build). (For the uninformed, Cursor is an AI coding tool. You explain what you want to the AI, and it codes it for you.) This is the initial tweet about the game: Today, that … Read more
This might be the most inspiring success story I’ve ever come across. Ramesh Jha, a solo developer from India, built a dozen simple websites, two of which are now among the top 10,000 sites in the world (according to SimilarWeb). From the income generated by his sites, he started a charitable foundation to raise awareness … Read more
Imagine building a simple website that does one thing well, charging $5 to use it, and making $10,000/mo passively. That’s what this viral tweet is about: Grant doesn’t reveal the site, but don’t worry, I’ll show you how to find niches where something similar would work. The comments on that tweet are fascinating: A bunch … Read more
Google’s December 2024 Spam Update caused a lot of movement among niche sites. Mostly downward movement, as usual. 13% of the 11,500 Mediavine and Raptive-monetized sites I tracked had traffic declines of more than 20%. But, it’s not all doom and gloom. 5% saw traffic increases of more than 20%! 🙃 In an effort to … Read more
I’ve been hearing great things about a new AI coding tool called Lovable (this article is not sponsored, nor is that an affiliate link). Recently, I took it for a spin and built this side hustle evaluator tool. It took me less than 5 minutes to have the working MVP. I spent an hour improving … Read more
I recently wrote about the massive potential in directory websites. In this article, I’ll share some real examples of successful directories and show you how to find 1,000+ more. Example 1: SoakOregon.com Talk about “niching down”. This is about as niche as you can get. And yet… this site, a simple static directory of hot … Read more
Online directories have been around since the dawn of the internet, and it’s no wonder. The business model is beautiful if you can get it to work. Recently, there’s been a surge of interest in directories. It started with the AI hype. A few people capitalized on the hype by building AI tool directories in … Read more
I was pretty shocked when I saw this. A listing was added to Motion Invest with a price tag of $944,000 (the listing has since been removed). The site earns an average of $25,000/month from ad revenue. It peaked in September, at $46,617. Insane. It looks like the site earns money from yearly ad-free memberships … Read more
Look at this beautiful traffic graph: It ain’t much. But it’s enough to bring in an average of $5K/month. Now, guess what this is: If you guessed the homepage of the site, you’d be correct. The site is diskprices.com. The domain was registered in 2015. But the first snapshot of the site in the Wayback … Read more
The title of this article is clickbaity for a reason. Keep reading, you’ll see. I looked at my Google Discover feed the other day and saw an interesting looking article, titled: “Farmer Explains Why Walmart’s Great Value Milk Is Cheaper Than Other Brands.” Here’s the article (this is from the site…I didn’t get a screenshot … Read more