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#1
$60KT2
Cleo (AI Content Assistant)
Claims $60K MRR in 53 days: a textbook waitlist + closed-beta + webinar launch — with zero proof
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#2
$30M/yrT3
Chai
AI companion chat: it talks about what others won't (gray zone — watch the space, don't copy the form)

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#3
$6K/moT2
NoFap / Men's Self-Improvement App (Jaxon)
A self-improvement app that helps guys quit porn by replacing the bad habit instead of white-knuckling it
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#4
$47KT2
Rook · Turnkey AI-Avatar Finance Channel
Using the Rook (Roocast) agent to one-tap generate long-form AI-avatar finance videos from a phone, stitching two viral topics together — $47K in a little over two months, peaking at $6,000+ in a single day
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#5
~RMB37K/moT2
Semi-Automated AI Cross-Border E-commerce (Ozon Blue-Ocean Store Group)
A 9-to-5er uses AI to semi-automate product selection and image production, floods listings onto Russia's Ozon marketplace, and drives orders with off-platform index ads — a two-layer traffic model.
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#6
8,000+ orders…T1
AI Chinese-Herb Story Commerce Account
Use AI to spin single Chinese medicinal herbs into stories for older audiences, then earn passive commission by listing the same herbs in your Douyin storefront.
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#7
$8,374T1
AI Co-founder Club (Ron / Hosted OpenClaw)
Package an open-source AI agent into a sealed cloud container so non-technical people can use it out of the box, billed monthly.
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#8
Customers incl…T3
GigaML
Enterprise-grade voice support AI agents — a 4-5 person team used an in-house agent to take DoorDash
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#9
4x patient gro…T3
Legion Health
An AI-native psychiatry care network that 4x'd its patients without adding a single person
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#10
Creator-report…T2
LinkDrip Creator Traffic Attribution
One tracking link tells creators exactly which short video and which platform drove traffic to their long-form video
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#11
Creator-report…T2
Crayo AI Faceless Short-Video Generator
Auto-generates faceless short videos (script/voiceover/visuals/captions/editing all included), sold to people making money off the TikTok Creator Fund
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#12
No public reve…T2
Pop.store (Creator AI Avatar Monetization Platform)
An all-in-one creator brand page: AI-generated photos and videos of you, and fans pay to generate AI-avatar content of you while you take a cut
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#13
No public reve…T3
Social Suite (Network Goldmine Miner)
Connect your social accounts and inbox, and let AI dig out the high-value contacts and business opportunities already sitting in your network that you never noticed
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#14
$500-$1,000T2
Intent-Signal Lead Finder + Free Lovable Sample Service
Use ChatGPT deep research to dig out high-intent buyers who are actively shopping, then build the finished thing in Lovable as your foot in the door before you ever talk price
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#15
$32.5K/moT1
AI Faceless Facebook Content Monetization Page
Use AI to mass-rewrite proven viral posts into a faceless Facebook page and cash in on Meta's creator bonus program
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#16
$100KT1
NaturalWrite
One click rewrites AI-generated text into 'human-written' text that passes AI detectors
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#17
$500+T2
Quick Shorts
One prompt generates an AI short video and uploads it straight to the user's own YouTube channel
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#18
~100K views on…T3
Faceless Affiliate Marketing in ClickBank's Spirituality Category
Run a faceless YouTube channel and affiliate-promote ClickBank spirituality/brainwave offers for roughly $50 a sale
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#19
~$10KT2
Mission Control HQ
A central command deck for a fleet of AI agents: visualize them collaborating and getting work done across your company
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#20
$10,025T2
Claude Interactive Digital Products + IG Comment Funnel
Uses Claude to turn HTML files into interactive digital products, then closes sales on autopilot with an IG comment hook + ManyChat + Omnisend.
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#21
PotentialT2
Viblo-Style Ranking Shorts Generator
Pick a topic, drop in 5 viral TikTok clips from elsewhere, and stitch a “ranking” Short in one click — one video every 10 minutes.
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#22
Not launched —…T2
Follower Semantic Search (Social Graph)
Semantically search your Instagram/X followers and get alerted to who's worth knowing — dates, peers, and door-openers
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#23
$1M+T2
Adam Lyttle's App Portfolio (and the 2026 account-termination wave)
Six years, 2M+ downloads and $1M+ in App Store revenue — from a developer whose 2026 strategy shifted from shipping many small apps to protecting one Apple account
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#24
$94T3
Tech Automation Insider — a 30-day faceless YouTube channel with the receipts published
14 videos, 103 subscribers, 4,000 views and $94 in affiliate commissions for 30-40 hours of work — roughly $3 an hour, published honestly by the person who ran the experiment.
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#25
~$400K/moPROT3
Leftclick (AI automation agency) — and its founder's case for why the skill is expiring
The operator of a $400K/month automation agency explains, with his own P&L on the table, why the technical skill it runs on is about to be worth nothing — and what replaces it.
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#26
$12PROT3
Dual RTX 5090 AI rental rig on OctaSpace
An $8,500 GPU rig rented out to strangers for AI workloads at $0.50/hour — $12 a day, ~$365 a month, and a payback period of two to four years paid in a volatile token
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#27
$0T3
The Offerwall Economy (FreeCash, Swagbucks, CashWalk, Pawns) — Audited Hour by Hour
A creator with 4.1M viewers timed six “get paid to scroll” side hustles with a stopwatch: 40 hours of work produced $0 she could actually withdraw, while the apps themselves rank in the App Store top 10.
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#28
$0T3
The $97 Pocket AI Agent — Three Businesses, Minus 83 Cents
He built a talking AI agent into a device smaller than a phone for under $100, then told it to turn $10 into as much money as possible. Facebook blocked it, cold email got zero replies, and the trading bot lost 83 cents.
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#29
$99PROT3
Kyle Gawley's SaaS Boilerplate — The Honest Timeline to $10K/Month
Four customers paying $99 once in year one. $1,500/month in year two. Three years to $10K/month — from a founder with 14 years of experience and an audience.
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#30
~$120,000T2
Topical Map AI — Vibe-Coded SEO Tool, ~$120K Gross, Sold for Five Figures
He paid an agency $1,000 and waited six weeks for a spreadsheet, then built the same thing with AI in a week — it grossed $120K, then he stopped touching it and the exit price collapsed.
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#31
$500/moPROT2
The 97% Audit — Why Vibe-Coded Apps Die, and the Boring Verticals That Pay Instead
A B2B AI consultant tracked 1,000+ vibe-coded apps over 13 months: 97% dead, abandoned, breached, or stuck under $500/month — and all of them failed for the same three reasons, while HVAC routing quietly bills $1,400 a month per shop.
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#32
~$8,000/moPROT3
Yorbie — Viral Content Database + Remixer (and the churn that followed the peak)
He quit big tech in October, built with zero revenue for two months, peaked at $8K/month by March — then watched it slide to $6.7K on churn and went back into a deep build phase.
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#33
$45,000T3
The Two-Year YouTube Automation Audit (Digital Income Project)
10 million views produced $45,000 of AdSense against $36,000 of costs — $9,000 profit in two years. The back-end products on the same channel do $50K-$125K a month.
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#34
~£200KT3
27 Talent — a £550K/year agency that ran out of cash in five months
Four profitable years, £50-60K a month of fixed overheads, and one maternity leave: the month-by-month anatomy of how a London recruitment agency went from £90K in January to liquidation the following February
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#35
~$300KPROT3
Botkeeper
Ten years and $100M+ building AI bookkeeping for accounting firms, three weeks from profitability — then eight clients cancelled their expansions in the same quarter, took a third of the revenue with them, and the company had to announce its own shutdown before an acquisition rescued it
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#36
$10MT2
Calming Blankets
A broke 23-year-old spotted a Facebook post about weighted blankets nobody was selling yet, pre-sold a product he did not own, did $10M in year one — and switched the brand off five years later
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#37
$10MT3
EchoSign (and the DocuSign comparison)
He took a nine-figure exit at $10M ARR growing 100% a year, cash-flow positive, on $8M raised — and spends this masterclass explaining why that was the stupidest decision available to him, using the $10 billion competitor as the control group
US⚠️ Cautionary TaleT3
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#38
$300/yearT3
LeadLedger — $35,000 spent, one customer, then a pivot that finally sold
A Monterrey founder paid a Pakistani dev team $15,000 to build an email-capture SDK for mobile apps and sold exactly one licence at $300 a year; the $20,000 pivot that fixed a leak people could actually feel sold licences off a single webinar — and then the money ran out
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