9 real non-scammy Internet products that you build and make money on the Internet

The Internet is full of opportunities.

There is a lot that you can build on the Internet. But what should you exactly build?

Here are 9 real non-scammy Internet products that you build and make a shit ton of money on the Internet

1. 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 curate on Notion, Github Repos, Softr Directories, Airtable Databases, Google Sheets, and Google Docs, and even create Ebooks & PDFs.
   ⚡️ Theresanaiforthat started as a simple AI Tools directory and now generates $$$ in revenue with listing fees and Ads

2. Create Templates
   👉 If you are good at a particular tool, you can create templates and make quite some money out of it.
   👉 You can 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

3. Start a Newsletter
   👉 If you like to research and a topic interests you, you can consider starting a newsletter.
   ⚡️ Shushant’s AI newsletter was acquired by Horizon AI

4. 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.
   ⚡️ Daniel Vassalo does ~$600-800K in ARR with his Small Bets community (~$150 membership)

5. Teach Courses
   👉 If you are good at something, why not teach that? You can do live or recorded or hybrid sessions.
   ⚡️ Max Haining runs the popular 100 days of no-code, 100 days of AI and many other popular courses

6. 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

7. 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 boilerplate for niches
   ⚡️ Marc Lou built Shipfast, a NextJS boilerplate, that generates over $75K/mo

8. Start Productised Services
   👉 Services but with a fixed scope and amount of work
   ⚡️ Nick Buzz runs a wildly popular design service called Baked Design which does over $100k/mo

9. Build a Micro-SaaS
   👉 SaaS but for a Niche, often built by a solo founder or by lean teams, profitable since Day 1
   ⚡️ Pieter Levels generates over $53K in MRR with PhotoAI, an AI headshot generator tool

There’s more - D2C Brands, Dropshipping, Flipping Domains, Freelancing etc but these are our top nine picks.

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We wrote this story in our Newsletter BuilderOS where we share around building and making money on the Internet with our experience of building 10+ product, 4+ acquisition and $150k+ in revenue.
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