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#1
$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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#2
$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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#3
$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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#4
$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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#5
$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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#6
~£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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UK⚠️ Cautionary Tale
#7
$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
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#8
$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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