I found simple hidden gems that make me money

[mayz]

It was a few years ago when I stumbled upon calculator dot net and thought this is so simple & the traffic is insane. There has to be others like this.

So I set out looking to build websites that were simple. How simple?

1 page simple… think word counters , image resizers, countdown timers etc.

Turns out there are hundreds of these little sites on the web. Getting millions of views doing something that could take even a none coder minutes to make.

Anyway… I have created 25 of these apps now and am tracking them monthly to see how they perform. I only recently started seeing real traffic on a few of them. But for something I coded in an hour 1 year ago is crazy that it now gets it proper traffic.

For the ones who had low competition, I started ranking for them in weeks. But those don’t bring in much traffic 200/visits a month. Still it’s something and I haven’t touched the site since I launched it.

This proved my concept, the best part about most of these is AI won’t “take over”. Yes it can answer it but most people search for it not go to ChatGPT and ask the question.

So why am I telling you all this?

Here is a few things I’ve learned:

1. Find a sub- niche because 99% of the time the main niche is over saturated. (Example - don’t do image resizers do banner resizers
2. Build stuff everyone will use (example : don’t build for the indie hacker community only and rely on them. Build for the everyday user they have less competition as majority won’t upgrade )
3. Keep going and if it’s not a success day 1 doesn’t mean it’s a failure
4. Find a problem to solve and do it really well and only do that 1 thing. (Example remove.bg - they just remove backgrounds and do a great job and is why they got acquired by canva)
5. Listen to feedback on other competitors and do what they won’t.
6. Think what the younger generation knows nothing about/vise versa(example is how to write a check. Someone who reads this needs to take that keyword and build a site all around it. Can even do some pSEO and find keywords like how to write a check for $1000 etc

Anyway that’s all. If you have any questions leave a comments.

Edit : I had ads on during holidays and from all 25 sites I made over 1k from it. But I turned them off in the new year as the pay wasn’t worth the growth I could get with no ads

Edit2 : yes I have a product in my profile but the sites I share in that aren’t ones I’ve built. They are others I’ve researched that anyone can start and build to get the traffic from them. I just share the URLs and people are saying who’d buy that. If you wanna build a site that is simple like this. These site URLs will help you find those simple keywords. And yes there is a newsletter attached to it but I haven’t sent out anything. Here is the link -> click here

 

[patrickm514]

@mayz You bought 25 domain names to make 1 page simple apps for all of them? How do you rank and do SEO?

 

[breakingidolz]

@patrickm514 Maybe he uses subdomains.

 

[mayz]

@patrickm514 I rank for very specific keywords and SEO is another animal that I’ve worked on over the years but some of these topics are so specific no real SEO work needed to be done.

 

[steve126]

@patrickm514 I have one as well that makes $20/day give or take.

 

[neptune21]

@mayz How are you making money with these sites? Ads?

 

[snapdragon123]

@neptune21 Making money by selling the link on his "download link" lol

 

[mayz]

@neptune21 Nothing atm but will add adds soon

 

[greatgrace]

@mayz If it doesn’t make you anything, why the title?

 

[jesuslighthouse]

@greatgrace Busted!

 

[umms83]

@mayz Would be interested to hear which provider accepts your websites!

 

[kristin11]

@mayz this is an interesting niche thank you for posting this. sometimes the simplest ideas are the most elusive.

 

[nytryder41]

@kristin11 Per op, if you want to not make any money, this is a great way to do it.

 

[jhollisphoto]

@kristin11 So true!