5 Products that Earn More Than $3,000 Per Month — No Employees or Coding Required
Using your expertise as a product is a growing trend that can make you money online
Using your expertise as a product is a growing trend that can make you money online
Starting a company is hard work. You have to develop a good idea, find a good team, build a great product, find customers, and much more. Even worse, if you don’t know how to code, you may have to spend about an upfront investment of $5K to build an MVP. Unfortunately, these hurdles make the process so hard that most of us give up at the ideation level.
But here’s the good news: there are plenty of products out there that earn you a good chunk of money even without employees and coding knowledge. So you can make a good amount of money for a side hustle.
More information on building tools without code can be found here.
Keep reading to find out how you can start making money with these five products that earn over $3,000/mo, without any employees and no coding skills.
You can find more information about these products on the indiehackers platform.
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1. Roast My Landing Page: Consultation Services for Landing Pages, $6,500/mo
I will admit, this is a bit of an oddball. But this is a consultation service created by Oliver Meakings, helping startups turn more visitors to consumers on landing pages. The service is a 25 minute personalized roast of your landing page for a price of £199.00 or $USD 273 per page.
The business has scaled to about a $100K revenue year with over 200 roasts of landing pages from indie makers, VC-funded scale-ups, and profit-generating enterprise organizations across multiple industries and audiences.
One of the reasons behind this boom is the surge of individual creators propelled by the pandemic and availability of non-code tools.
A blog post that he has written recently titled, “What I learnt roasting 200 landing pages in 12 months,” has led to 40,000 blog visits and $14,000 revenue in 48 hours. It represents the strong interest behind such topics.
You can check more about his website here.
2. GetRhys, On-Demand SaaS Marketing Consultancy, $6,000/mo
GetRhys is similar to the one above, but it's an on-demand SaaS Marketing Consultancy ran by Rhys Morgan.
Rhys Morgan is a SaaS marketing/growth consultant with an array of experiences in growing customers and revenue for SaaS. He has a $395/mo subscription, where you can book a call with Rhys anytime to get his consulting services. Now he has 15 clients, so that is about $6,000/mo by himself.
You can also get a glimpse of his expertise with his “101 Ways To Get New Users And Clients Online” spreadsheet priced at $75.
Again, this product embodies the strong interest and willingness of startups and SaaS companies to pay for such services.
You can check his website here.
3. Work With Indies, Job Board for Indie Game Developers, $3,400/mo
Work with Indies is a job board specifically for indie games. The beta went live with over 100 jobs from 50+ companies on May 14, 2020, and had 1.3k visitors in less than 24 hours.
As of now, companies can post a job for $49+. Typeform powers the job posting platform. It is a simple yet elegant solution growing organically month over month.
4. Mood Mastery, Masterclasses for managing moods and mindsets, $3,300/mo
Nick Wignall started his master course back in July 2019. Since then, he has expanded on his product and class contents. Currently, he offers a class running for 4~8 weeks starting at $899.
It is targeted towards busy professionals who want to increase their confidence and peace of mind.
Come to think of it, mental health for busy professionals will be more important moving on, and I can see the product expanding globally,
You can check out his website here.
5. Studiotime, Airbnb for Studios, $10,000 in weeks (Monthly Revenue uncertain)
Mike Williams has an incredible story with Studiotime. He initially came up with the concept when he saw his friends in the music industry texting each other to book studios. Stumbling upon this inefficiency, Mike researched whether someone built a marketplace for studios, but it didn’t exist.
Within 48 hours, he used Sharetribe (a no-code platform for building marketplaces) to create a prototype for the site. Next, he built a logo with Squarespace and bought a domain. Within weeks, he got a lot of PR (FACT, Forbes), and he had a side-project with more than $10,000 in revenue.
It truly is remarkable to see the growth of Studiotime since its inception. Currently, it serves 35+ countries.
The website can be checked out here.
Looking at these products from a birds-eye view, you can see that these products are either consultancy services or classes using the individuals’ expertise or a niche marketplace (or job board) that is serving a particular community.
In my opinion, there are pros and cons to using your expertise as a product. It can differentiate you from other people, but it takes your time to consult and build products. In Robert Kiyosaki’s four quadrants, these products lie in the “Self-Employed” quadrant, where you need to sacrifice your time for money. Just look at Rhys from GetRhys. He has 15 clients that he has to handle on his own.
On the other hand, marketplaces or job boards make you passive income once it scales. You just need to build the infrastructure. However, the initial revenue is going to be relatively small compared to consultancy services.
Another point I figured out is that all of these products have to do with empowering the individual. Consultations on increasing your content or landing pages visibility and conversion are booming now because everyone wants to build their services. Remote job boards have been growing exponentially due to the flexible working style with the pandemic.
As an individual creator, you can pick a growing trend and decide whether to be a specialist or build a system that helps people capture the trend.
The most important thing to realize is that making money online without coding skills is a lot easier than many people think. These examples show that it is possible to earn a substantial amount of income without employees or coding.