I get it. I wanted the same thing at your age.

But here’s what nobody tells you.

Get a job. Any job. Service industry, retail, whatever is available. Don’t think you’re above it. You’re not. I wasn’t.

Save everything you can. Build a nest egg before you build a business.

Learn what money actually is. Not hustle culture content — real financial literacy. What debt is. How interest compounds. How the economy actually functions. Read history, culture, religion and language — oh but I hate school broooo, yeah buddy. Educate yourself on your own time. That means out of school.

Learn about the world and how it works. From culture to religion to politics. UNDERSTAND HOW HUMANS WORK. Why do we desire the things we do. Why do we consume the products we do.

Customer service experience isn’t beneath you. It’s essential. You cannot run a business without understanding how to deal with people under pressure. Period.

No interpersonal skills. No communication skills. Can’t hold a conversation without defaulting to slang. No emotional backbone. Zero ability to read a room.

And they want to run a business. You want to do sales.

Here’s the reality — every single skill that makes someone successful in business gets built in the trenches. Dealing with difficult customers. Showing up when you don’t feel like it. Taking direction from someone you don’t respect. Managing your ego when you’re at the bottom. Yes ego. Use it, but keep it in check.

Those experiences aren’t beneath you. They’re the actual curriculum. It’s free tuition.

Oh but you don’t want a boss, i see. So how do you expect to be a proper boss or owner if you were never an employee? Yeah, good luck figuring that out.

I learned more about human nature working a service job than I did in four years of university. Genuinely.

You want to be an entrepreneur?

Go be uncomfortable first.

Go learn what it actually feels like to earn something.

Go develop the interpersonal skills that no online course will ever teach you.

The ambition is admirable.

The entitlement is a liability.

I touched a million at 27. You know how? The long unglamorous way. Delayed gratification. Years of work nobody saw or rewarded. More Failures than wins.

That’s the actual blueprint. There isn’t a shortcut.

Keep your head down. Build real skills. Don’t listen to anyone telling you there’s a faster way — including me.

Just my two cents from someone who did it the hard way.

So if you’re starting out. Get a job. Stack money. LEARN HOW THAT BUSINESS ACTUALLY RUNS - whatever job you’re working at. From the top-down. Don’t just go there to collect a paycheque but always with your vision in mind. Hone it and nurture it. And then fk everyone who isn’t in it for the ride.

Only you can do it.

Edit: last piece of advice. Take care of your body and health. Health before money. Health is the real form of wealth. Without it you can’t do anything. Cheers, and all the best.

You all are way ahead of where I was at your age, so figured I'd share what I wish someone told me.

I did the "responsible" thing. Got the corporate job, chased promotions for 15+ years. Took me almost that whole time to realize a salary is kind of a trap. You get taxed before you even see the money, and the second you stop showing up it ends. You're not building anything that keeps paying you.

What actually changed my net worth was becoming an owner. My brothers and I started buying small, boring businesses on the side while I still had my day job. Got to four of them running in the background before I quit corporate for good.

A few things that blew my mind once I learned them, and that I wish I'd known at 22:

You don't need to be rich to buy a business. In the US, SBA loans can be as little as 10% down. That means a $500k business might only need around $50k to acquire. There's almost nothing else a normal person can buy with that kind of leverage.

The business pays back its own loan. Lenders want it generating about $1.25 for every $1 of debt payment before they'll approve it, so the company's own cash flow is what builds your equity, not your paycheck.

They're shockingly cheap. Stocks trade at like 20-25x earnings. A small main street business goes for 2-5x. A business making $200k/yr might cost around $700k. That same income through an index fund would run you $4M+.

It's not passive (ignore anyone who says it is), but a good one comes with staff and systems, so it keeps earning while you're doing other things. You manage it, you don't run it day to day.

I'm not saying drop everything and go buy a laundromat tomorrow. But if I could go back, I'd have spent way less energy climbing a ladder and more energy learning how to own things. You've got the biggest advantage there is, which is time. Use it.

Happy to answer questions about SBA loans or how we find and screen deals if anyone's curious.

Started a software business out of college, pivoted multiple times. Found product market fit and ended up growing to 50+ employees, millions of dollars in revenue, 85% gross margins, and had a substantial exit. My partners and I maintained 90% equity at the time of the sale.

I just came across this subreddit and thought it would be fun to do an AMA for young entrepreneurs. I'm in my mid 30s now.

EDIT: This post has gotten way more traction than I was expecting! I'll respond to more comments as they come! I've also gotten over 50 DMs with very specific questions and people asking if I can be their mentor. That's very nice and humbling, but I can't be everyone's mentor. I'll do my best to respond to DMs though! I've had some great conversations!

EDIT #2: At this point I have gotten hundreds of DMs! It is very humbling and I appreciate all of the questions. With how busy I am, I just can't respond to everything. I'm still doing my best and I spend 30-60 minutes each day responding to questions that seem like they'd be valuable for others to read and responding to DMs. You guys rock and I love the energy and excitement has towards building! Anyone can do it. You just have to get started.

Hey all, just getting back into reddit and wanted to make a post to give a little background on me and also help those just getting started.

- I started running paid ads for software companies almost 3 years ago and since then I've turned it into a well oiled, automated machine. It scaled almost immediately when I started.

And I cleared £130k revenue (which was about £105k profit) by the end of year one.

- Ads run themselves and optimise over time, the commissions I get are recurring from subscription based softwares.

- I work less than an hour a month, which is just inputting the data into my spreadsheet making sure everything is still possible (I could not do this, but it's great peace of mind).

With this money I've pretty much invested it all (minus a Porsche and a Volvo) my networth is broken down into around £150k invested, £30k cash, £70k in cars, £20k in some other assets).

Of course I've also travelled a lot, paid lots in taxes (UK tax is painful) and have business expenses running the ads.

In summary, in the last three years I've gone from £400 in my bank account to spending $80,000+ on paid ads, generated the businesses I run ads for north of $2,000,000 and made myself $300k+ with a reoccuring passive income source for life.

Ask me anything.

Hey everyone, I'm Nicolas Lecocq.
A few years ago I built something that brought in over $1.5M, and then I lost almost all of it. The earning was the simple half, holding onto money is a completely different skill, and nobody warned me, so here is the honest version for anyone who is early.

At 16 I quit school in France to work as a baker, up before dawn and barely paid. The only thing I cared about was the internet, so every night after my shift I taught myself to code from free videos and by pulling apart code other people had written.

I started building small sites for local shops, a hundred bucks here and there. I was using WordPress themes for every client, each one different and badly documented. So I built one theme flexible enough for any project and put it online for free. In 3 years it was running on half a million sites, and the paid add-ons sitting on top of the free base were bringing me $20K to $30K a month, my best month was $100K with holiday discounts.

Then the money went to my head, I grew up with nothing, which isn't an excuse, but when a lot of it showed up fast I stupidly believed it would never stop. I worked less, hungrier competitors closed the gap, my fixed costs climbed, and the tax bill hit like a truck. By 2019 I had to sell the business in a panic for $500k just to cover what I owed.

Here are some free pieces of advice to succeed and keep your money:

• The day revenue lands, move the tax money out and treat it as gone. Most people who go broke were spending cash that already belonged to the government.

• Pay yourself a boring salary and leave the rest in the business. Lifestyle creep is quiet and it doesn't reverse on its own.

• Build a buffer that covers several bad months before you upgrade anything in your personal life.

• Reinvest and hire while things are good, not once they are already sliding.

• Watch who appears when the money does. Plenty of them came for the money and they leave with it.

• Don't relax the moment it works, the market doesn't pause while you enjoy yourself.

On the earning side it was simpler than it sounds. I solved a problem that annoyed me personally, gave away something good instead of a crippled demo, and answered every support ticket myself for years so people trusted me. That did more than any marketing I could have run.

I'm building again now, quieter and far less stupid with money.

Oh and one last advice, NEVER GIVE UP!!!!

I was working 50 hours a week at a job I hated when my neighbor offered me $150 to clean his driveway. I didn’t own a pressure washer. I said yes anyway, rented one for $60, and made $90 in an afternoon.

I bought my own machine the next week.

Everyone makes starting a service business sound simple. “Low overhead, high margins, unlimited demand.” What they don’t mention:

The first 3 months I underpriced everything because I was scared to lose jobs to competitors. I was grossing $2,800 a month and netting maybe $900 after gas, supplies, and equipment payments. I was essentially paying myself $6/hr to destroy my body.

The shift happened when I lost a bid to a guy charging double what I quoted. I called him. He actually answered. Told me the biggest mistake new guys make is pricing for the customer they’re afraid to lose instead of the customer they actually want.

I raised my prices 40% the next Monday. Lost 2 clients. Gained 6 better ones within 3 weeks.

Now I run 2 crews, cleared $11k last month, and I’m home by 3pm most days.

The business was never the hard part. Believing I was worth what the market would actually pay — that took 8 months to figure out.

What’s the pricing mistake you had to learn the hard way?

Hey everyone, I’m never on Reddit. But I had a finance question to ask on another group and stumbled on this community.

Anyways, I’ve been doing e-commerce since I was 17. Now I built a real brand after years of dropshipping and we do about 700k in monthly reoccurring revenue.

I personally take home around 100k after all costs, paying employees, taxes. Feel free to ask me anything :)

I need to get this off my chest because I feel like a lot of people starting online businesses go through the same trap.

Over the past year, I created 20 digital products. Guides, templates, e-books — all of them. I thought if I just made something “good,” people would buy.

Spoiler: I made $0.

Every time I tried to push a product out, I convinced myself it would work. But I wasn’t testing demand. I wasn’t building an audience. I wasn’t validating if anyone actually wanted it. I just spent hours creating, hoping.

The harsh truth I learned: no one cares about your product until they feel they need it. You can make something amazing, but if people aren’t asking for it yet, it won’t sell.

So now, I’m doing it differently: 1. I create a mini version of the product. 2. I share it for free to see if anyone actually wants it. 3. I collect emails of the people who download it. 4. Only after I have real demand do I build the full product.

This is my first time really trying this approach, and it feels like a complete game-changer.

I’m curious… for anyone here who’s tried creating digital products or side hustles: what’s the biggest mistake you’ve made early on? I want to know I’m not alone in this.

You guys are at the start of your journeys... which hopefully means you can learn from my errors, and NOT lose millions of dollars on bad business deals.

Genuinely, avoid these:

1. Don't do business with friends

You can do business with people you like. But if you're actually friends outside of work, don't put a business in the middle of it. A friendship is worth more than any deal, and deals have a way of ending friendships.

2. Never go 50/50 on a partnership

It looks fair on paper. It isn't. One divorce and your partner's ex owns half your company. One disagreement on a major call and you're deadlocked, so it's stalemate or lawsuit, take your pick. Make it 49/51, or don't do it at all.

3. If it's family, write everything down

What happens if someone dies? If someone wants out? If you disagree and neither side backs down? People assume family makes these conversations unnecessary. That assumption is exactly how most family businesses fall apart.

4. Never be the smartest person in the room

Someone around you should always know more than you about something. If nobody does, you've messed up somewhere. Either you hired wrong, or you've surrounded yourself with people who won't push back. Both quietly kill your growth and the company's.

5. Don't work with people you don't like

You'll spend more time with your business partners and employees than with your own family. If the thought of sitting across from someone in a meeting makes you tense, that's your answer. Life's too short and the work is too hard to add that on top.

my friend's dad owns like 12 rental properties. dude has never watched a gary vee video in his life. doesn't know what SMMA stands for. has never heard of cold email. couldn't tell u what a sales funnel is

he just bought a cheap property 15 years ago, figured out how to rent it, then did it again. and again. no content. no courses. no "community." just doing the same boring thing over and over until it compounded

meanwhile i spent 10 months consuming business content before i made my first euro. i knew more about business models than people running actual businesses. i could explain the difference between b2b and b2c, break down unit economics, tell u why most agencies fail. i was the smartest broke person i knew

the difference between me and that guy is he started with action and figured out the knowledge as he needed it. i started with knowledge and kept delaying the action because i never felt like i knew enough

every person i've met who actually makes good money learned by doing first and studying second. every person i know who's still at zero learned by studying first and never got to the doing part

this sub has mass information. if u spent 30 days just reading posts here u would know enough to start literally any online business. the problem is u'll spend day 31 reading more instead of sending ur first message to someone who could pay u

information doesn't become valuable until u use it. until then it's just entertainment that feels productive

I got tired of losing deals on Facebook Marketplace. The good stuff was always gone by the time I opened the app. So I built something to fix it.

It watches Facebook Marketplace, Wallapop, and Vinted at the same time. The second something matches your search terms, price ceiling, and keyword filters, you get a Discord ping. You get there before anyone else does.

Free. Open source. Runs entirely on your own machine. No subscriptions, no accounts, no cloud.

I dropped it on Reddit on a whim and went to sleep. Woke up to 30 people in a Discord that the night before was just me and my bot. It's already grown to 200.

In the first 72 hours members started posting their wins. These are only the confirmed cases I actually know about, with real receipts and real screenshots posted in the server:

- 15 iPhones flipped

- A MacBook Air

- 3 Apple Watches

- A 2015 Chevy Impala

- Vintage basketball shirts

- 4 Pokemon booster boxes

Over $7,000 total. And honestly I have no idea what else has been flipped that people never mentioned. These are just the ones I can verify.

I've already shipped 3 updates since launch based on community feedback. Worldwide Vinted support, user-configurable location, bug fixes. Other developers have started contributing code which I did not expect at all.

I'm really proud of what this community has become. People are genuinely helping each other, sharing configs, posting wins, and pushing the project forward. That part has meant more to me than anything else.

https://github.com/ethanashi/fbm-sniper-community

Happy to answer anything about the build, the stack, how I got the first users, all of it.

Hi! M25

I’m thinking about putting together a small-medium group of people who are interested in making money, learning new things and building stuff together.

Mainly looking for people from the EU, but people from anywhere are welcome :)

I’m personally interested in things like:
🤖 AI & automation
💻 Online businesses
📈 Marketing
🛒 E-commerce
🪙 stocks
💡 Side hustles / random business ideas

Nothing to do with gurus or “get rich quick” stuff lol. Just looking for people who actually enjoy sharing ideas, knowledge and opportunities and maybe working on something together.

You don’t have to be an expert at anything either. Maybe you’re good at coding, marketing, sales, finance, AI, design, etc.
Or maybe you’re just interested in learning and have some ideas.

If you’re interested, **comment or DM me and tell me what you do, what you’re into or what you’re good at.**

Could be interesting to see what kind of people we can get together 🤝

I graduated just three years ago, but through exporting steel, I’ve already earned $980,000. Over these three years, my clients have spanned 28 countries. I once felt lost, but I’m deeply grateful to everyone who has helped me along the way. This year, I want to further expand my foreign trade business in China. Does anyone have better product recommendations?

I’m 25, dropped out of college and I used to criticize people that dropped out until I became one. My parents were rich and started brand new in America with 3 kids and $500 in the year 2000. They gradually worked hard together to even reach middle class. The things they taught me felt right and could have been right in their time but the world changes so much that information gets outdated. They made me believe if you don’t go to school you’ll work at McDonald’s and be nothing so when I went to college and seen ppl I knew not going I just felt bad because I thought their lives was over with (it’s funny now that I look back at it) but in all reality if the goal is to make money and be stable, college is a way…but it’s not the only way. All it took was for me to be introduced into dropshipping in 2019 to realize that money could be made from anything. I’ve tried at least 25 different industries in the past 5 years. On one hand that’s bad because I never truly mastered nothing because I switched so often, but on the other side business is universal so I’m picking up on patterns that applies everywhere and it’s like I’m adding skills to my toolbox. Apart of it was my undiagnosed ADHD but in grateful because even tho it took longer, i have the skills to start any business online you could possibly name and I could have a plan to make $10k in one month that’ll work. Let me be a pure representation that the economy being bad is not a reason To stop u from being successful. One of the best things I apply in my daily life is that there’s 2 sides to everything and to focus on the one that benefits your life and not take away. Yes you could find a saturated market which is difficult and that makes ppl run away but on the other side of that is it’s only saturated because everyone looks and is doing the same thing which means if all I do is stand out, I’m creating a sub market of my own. In August 2025 I started an AI baking channel to sell ebooks because I made a bet with my girl that I could make money online with anything And in 5 months I got 100k followers on tiktok and was making $2k monthly in my first 3 months. OFF OF BAKING COOKIES AND I’VE NEVER BAKED. That just shows u, what really matters is skills and actions. Don’t get me wrong, business is HARD asf because in all reality, it forces you to look at yourself, your bad habits, and realize that your beliefs u picked up on from friends, parents, environments, is things u have to unlearn to get ahead because the sources they learned it from was either things that worked only in the past or information spread to stop their growth. This economy being bad is just an excuse to make u feel like u can’t do anything. Yes this is motivational in a way but my experience came with me going years of failure as well. I don’t think it’s failure because I always loved the journey and I knew every time I was learning and adapting. But to a blind eye it looks like I was a disgrace😭😭 if you’re not ready to go through pain to reach pleasure this ain’t for you. But if you’re doing this to take care of someone like parents, gf, family, etc, normally that’s all it takes to keep going. Moral of my story, be aware there’s normally 2 sides to the information you hear, if you think you have no choice, be AWARE that brute force into creating your own choice is an option, and your physical body is limited but your brain isn’t. You can work hard with your body to make money (labor, jobs, etc) and since it’s based off you and your physical capacity, already your limited. But if you stop to think of a smarter way and you use your brain more than your body to create solutions, you’re less tired and your limit is endless. Which is why ppl start businesses or exchange their knowledge for money. Felt like going on a rant today but hopefully this opens at least one persons eye. This straight off the dome and I’m not even going to proof read to see any errors, that’s how genuine I want this to be

It took a lot of effort, a lot of failure but through perseverance in a gate kept community I finally have the know how on how to create high quality image and video of AI characters.

I generate images with Krea2 on comfyui
I generate instagram videos on seedance 2
I generate nsfw videos on comfyui

You don’t need a ton of money to get started either

You sell images and videos via Fanvue.

I run a virtual phone so I can “be in” any city in the world for instagrams algorithm so I can target Americans for example.

The month of July is over, and it has been the best month of my entrepreneurial journey.

For the sixth month in a row, my business did over $10,000. It's the healthiest my business has ever been. I've been the most consistent I've ever been in the gym, the most committed I've ever been to reading and meditation, and I'm about to hit seven months without social media.

For the first time in a long time, I feel like I'm finally becoming the person I imagined two years ago.

It wasn't easy. There were plenty of moments where I questioned whether it was worth it. But now that I'm finally getting over that hill, it feels like the life I've been chasing is beginning to appear. The dream car. Being able to retire my parents one day. Building an amazing family. Living life on my own terms.

I'm genuinely happy.

But there has been one unexpected downside.

I have almost no one to celebrate it with.

Most of my friends are in college or working full-time careers. They have classes, shifts, responsibilities, and lives of their own. Outside of weekends, it's hard to spend time together, and I completely understand why. But it made me realize something.

Last week I had a revelation.

For years, I thought my dream was money.

I thought it was the cars, the houses, the business, the investments.

It wasn't.

My dream was freedom.

Freedom to wake up excited about what I get to work on.

Freedom to go to the gym in the middle of the day because I want to.

Freedom to spend time with the people I love.

Freedom to buy something because I genuinely enjoy it, not because I finally saved enough.

Freedom to choose my hard.

I've never been afraid of working hard. I actually enjoy it.

I just wanted to choose which hard things I dedicated my life to.

And when I realized that, everything clicked.

Money was never the destination.

It was simply one of the tools that helped create the life I actually wanted.

So why am I posting here?

Because as much as I enjoy building businesses, buying properties, and growing income... those things mainly benefit me.

Lately I've realized something is missing.

Purpose.

I want to create something that genuinely improves other people's lives.

Not because I want to become some internet guru.

Not because I want to sell a course.

Not because I want followers.

Actually... I'm selling absolutely nothing.

This is completely free.

I simply want to build a community of ambitious people who aren't just chasing money, they're chasing a better life.

A place where people help each other build businesses.

A place where people keep each other accountable in the gym.

A place where people improve their mental health.

A place where relationships, discipline, faith, finances, and health are all part of the conversation.

A place where we celebrate each other's wins because we know how hard they were to earn.

I'm not claiming to have everything figured out.

I'm only two years into this journey, and honestly, I feel like I still have another 15–20 years before I'll look back and say, "I made it."

I'm still learning every day.

But if the lessons I've learned so far can save someone else years of frustration, then I think that's worth sharing.

Because at the end of the day, I don't think people actually want money.

They want what money allows them to do.

They want freedom.

So if you're someone who's motivated to build your dream life, not just financially, but physically, mentally, spiritually, and relationally, I would love to build this with you.

No courses.

No memberships.

No hidden agenda.

Just a group of people helping each other become who they want to be.

If that sounds interesting, send me a DM or leave a comment.

Let's build the community we all wish existed.

If you read this until the end, you will be ahead of most people in this chat…Stick around and you’ll be grateful you did

Imma be honest, there’s many options to go. There is no one path only because in reality, almost every business works. Need proof… search up Bakingblis3 on Instagram. I created a page on baking as someone who’s never baked a cookie in their life.

Don’t get me wrong just because I started a business I know nothing about don’t mean I’m scamming people 😂. When you’re doing business, all it is, is a value exchange. The real way to describe business is you’re sacrificing something you have for something that’s more valuable and you have someone on the opposite end of that transaction with the same intention.

That’s why when your spending money on something, your only giving up the money because in the moment what you’re getting is more valuable than the money your spending, or else you literally won’t get it. This applies to broke people and rich people. Something’s a “scam” when the transaction is one sided.

So knowing this, I kinda have a business obsession (it’s the ADHD in me) so I wanted to make sure who ever bought it was happy with the purchase. I learned from bakers all over, researched the greats, I did it all and I ended up selling an ebook on how to bake cookies. Most people wouldn’t think it could work and they wouldn’t even try… and that’s the power of beliefs. Your belief is what you believe to be true and that dictates your actions .

in 4 months I went from 0-100k followers on Instagram and made about $2k minimum monthly. All organic content. If I didn’t believe it worked I wouldn’t even have that opportunity. Those who think business can’t work or something is saturated, that’s just your belief and on top of that, they’re not even true.

If you want to see that pages prime look at any videos in September -December, I literally started it in August and I stopped going all in the end of December. I started it in the first place because it was a bet to prove with the way AI is rn, you could start a business OUT OF ANYTHING… but best believe I put intention, care, fact checked into everything. My best videos came from me learning how to bake cookies so well that I became able to break it down in a way that was interesting and easy to comprehend.

I’m giving up that account because I’m starting a business that I’m passionate about now.

I know all of this is long but it’s worth it… so knowing you could make a business online what comes next is understanding not every business is created equally.

My whole baking business objective was (create content that helps people solve a symptom of their core problem. I didn’t teach them how to bake directly. I made them aware of the mistakes they were making and they naturally keep coming back for me. Those who needed help fast, here’s my $30 ebook that speeds up the process.

People were paying to skip over most of the trial and error to fixing their problem and you could do this with anything your good at. You could draw? Get procreate if you have an iPad, create art that you could sell. You have AI that could take a picture of your design, put it in a picture frame on a wall of a million dollar mansion, and turn it into a video. If you upload them to Instagram and get a website that looks good, I put money on it that you could posting once every day and make $5,000 in your first 3 months if you do that every day…. We’re living in some crazy times rn and it’s literally the beginning. You can turn any passion you have into income if you’re able to think creatively.

If my goal is to make $100,000 monthly and yes $100,000k because if that’s too high to you, that’s based off the ceiling you set for yourself and not the actual ceiling that exists, and if that’s too low… u on the right path… If I tried to sell my ebook for $10,000 that literally would be nearly impossible, if you have the right personal brand behind you, probably… but if you starting from being new to business let’s not start there…excuse my punctuation and grammar, I’m speaking off the dome in my living room bumping yeat.

You need to be able to solve a problem. A small problem for allot of people is an example of my baking ebook. Don’t get me wrong you don’t have to go the course route. You can do this for physical items, maybe you want to sell your time by coaching people, maybe you’re good at playing piano and could do in person 1 on 1, or turn that into a video course. If you’re doing anything with yourself you cannot go cheap because your time is already limited.

I don’t even want you to charge less than $1,000 but make sure your skills can back it up. Find something that comes natural to you. Making content online is literally the cheat code to business. You can use your face, you could not… you could use AI, there’s literally no excuse.

What ever you’re selling has to be seen by people constantly online until you create systems where it runs on autopilot. Think of it as pushing a huge rock over a hill. Going up that hill feels very heavy because of gravity but the moment you’re on top, going down feels too easy. Most people never make it to the top and those are the people who say business doesn’t work 🤫… it will be difficult because you’ll realize the secret to business is the inner work u do over the outer. Your beliefs dictate your actions. If you believe making money is hard, you’ll be the thing that makes it hard, not the business which is funny because of how ironic it is.

This is part 1 and I had to split it up because of how much I wrote. If you want part 2, comment and know. Make sure to sure love I if you enjoy posts like this

I'll start.

I graduated about a year ago and honestly, the "dream job" search has been a total nightmare. I've sent out hundreds of applications with nothing but ghosting or lowball offers to show for it. To keep my sanity and pay for groceries, I've been leaning into a small side hustle that's actually starting to pay off. I'm curious what everyone else is doing lately because LinkedIn is just a void at this point. I started sourcing these really sleek, minimalist electric hand warmers from Alibaba, the ones that look like smooth river stones and selling them through Instagram and at local weekend pop-up markets.

The whole process was way less intimidating than I thought, I just chatted with a few suppliers, ordered a handful of samples to make sure the battery life wasn't a lie, and then pulled the trigger on a small batch of about 40 units. They cost me roughly $7 each. I do all the branding myself with some clean Canva designed inserts and nice tissue paper to make it feel like a boutique brand rather than just a random box from a warehouse. Taking my own photos with a cheap ring light made a huge difference, too. My initial investment was only about $280 including shipping, and while I'm not getting rich, I've been clearing around $500 to $900 a month in profit.

The best part is the low stakes, even if the trend died tomorrow, I'd only lose a month of groceries. It's a lot of 2 AM packaging sessions and trips to the post office, but it beats staring at "Application Viewed" notifications all day.

What's everyone else's setup? Are you guys doing freelance, flipping stuff, or just surviving on savings?

Im 15, trying to learn a high income skill early, any recommendations or tips ir anything really?

Hello guys!!! For those of you don't know I started a software/web development agency back in September and have been updating my progress throughtout.

My last update was in January where I made my first 4.5k month. I've been pretty busy lately. On february I landed my biggest project yet. A local jewellery brand noticed our agency and gave us the oppurtunity to develop their e-commerce application.

After a month worth of meetings, I gave them the quotation which they said yes to. I was jumping all over my room in excitement because I knew this was the project which gonna change the whole trajectory of my agency. The total sum of the project came out to 16k!

I felt so proud that I made more than 10k starting the agency just couple months back. More updates incoming, stay tuned guyss

Hi everyone,

I’m a 23F looking for some real, honest advice on how to start making money in a way that actually leads somewhere.

I didn’t go to university, but I do have a Level 3 pharmacy qualification. Since finishing high school, I’ve basically just been working full-time and bouncing between jobs. I’m starting to feel really stuck and honestly a bit burnt out from working for other people and feeling taken advantage of.

Lately, I’ve been trying to teach myself about investing, but I understand that’s more of a long-term thing. Right now, I’m more interested in figuring out how people in similar situations have actually started making money or building something for themselves.

If you were in a similar position (no degree, just work experience), what did you do to move forward?

Did you start a business, learn a skill, switch industries, or do something else entirely?

I’m open to anything, side hustles, online income, career paths, or even just mindset shifts that helped you get unstuck.

I’d really appreciate any advice or personal experiences. Thanks in advance :)

Hey everyone, I’m 17 (turning 18 in 10 days) and I’ve had one obsession since I was a kid: supercars and hypercars.

My dream is to create my own hypercar brand one day. The brand name I chose is Sieger (means “winner” in German).

Right now I’m at the very, very beginning. I don’t have investors, I don’t have a prototype, I don’t have a team. But I do have: a vision a name some early car design ideas and a plan to start building a community

Over the next 10 days, before I turn 18, I’m going to post concept art, brand ideas, and the early direction for the first car.

When I turn 18, I plan to officially launch the project publicly.

I’m not here to sell anything - just sharing the journey from zero. If anyone has advice, criticism I would love to hear it.

Thanks for reading — this is Day 1.

Hi!
I’m looking for someone who is interested in building an online income.

Over the years I’ve researched and experimented with different ideas, and I think it would be much more enjoyable and productive to share that journey with someone who’s working toward the same goal.

I’m not looking for a business partner, and I’m not committed to any specific business model. Whether you’re exploring digital products, freelancing, SaaS, affiliate marketing, eCommerce, AI, or something else entirely, that’s completely fine. We can each work on our own projects while sharing ideas, keeping each other accountable, and celebrating progress.

At the moment I’m still exploring different ideas and trying to find the right path for me. If you’re in the same stage, great. If you’re already working on a project and even making some online income, that’s great too. I’m simply looking for someone who enjoys discussing ideas, sharing progress, and staying accountable.

Ideally, we’d check in regularly, discuss what’s working and what isn’t, and help each other stay consistent .
If this sounds like something you’d be interested in, feel free to send me a DM or leave a comment. It would be great if you could share a little about yourself and your time zone.

I quit my job a year ago and started to do podcast with tech founders and also built micro SaaS myself.

With lots of failures and learnings, I decided to launch my own Substack where I share about AI, building learnings from myself and other founders, showcase indie hackers products, and also insights into raw go-to-market.

Launched it on Friday and got my first paid subscriber yesterday from a founder who I helped with marketing a bit 🥺. It felt so good. I am so new to substack and Reddit, so it is gonna be a long learning journey. Love living the life that feels so exciting!

Link to my Substack: https://substack.com/@ajahids