cipher0ne. Subscribe

Week of 2026-08-31

This week's drop 2:

5 finds released Wed . Tap any title below to jump straight to it.

Earners

Jira and Confluence add-ons: money exists, but leaders dominate

No figureLegal position unclear

Atlassian's Forge marketplace takes no commission up to 1M and shows install counts. But in most niches an established leader already sits on top, and most apps get few reviews.

  • Atlassian vendor Its Forge app platform keeps 0 percent commission on the first 1 million dollars of an app's lifetime sales. Source: Atlassian Marketplace and Forge public listings and fee terms
The money
no figure
How sure we are
No figure
Released

The full story

  • How the money is made
  • How we know
  • Where the number could be wrong
  • What it would take to try something similar
  • Legal notes in plain English

The full story is for subscribers

The blurred text is a placeholder, not the real thing.Subscribe

Earners

An AI red-teaming challenge that paid 171,800 dollars to 161 people

No figureLegal position unclear

A two-month challenge to break AI agents, run on Gray Swan's arena, paid 171,800 dollars to 161 people in 2025.

  • Gray Swan platform Runs an arena for AI red-teaming challenges with published prize pools. Source: Gray Swan Arena public pages, read late October 2026
The money
no figure
How sure we are
No figure
Released

The full story

  • How the money is made
  • How we know
  • Where the number could be wrong
  • What it would take to try something similar
  • Legal notes in plain English

The full story is for subscribers

The blurred text is a placeholder, not the real thing.Subscribe

Earners

Done-for-you videos with no face on camera, sold monthly

We checked itLooks legal

Customers pay a monthly fee, and a service makes their videos for them, with no one appearing on camera. It recorded 68,101 dollars in one month.

  • TrustMRR platform TrustMRR is a site that shows revenue for online businesses read from their payment processors. Source: TrustMRR, which reads revenue from the business's payment processor
The money
10k to 100k USD a month
How sure we are
We checked it
Released

The full story

  • How the money is made
  • How we know
  • Where the number could be wrong
  • What it would take to try something similar
  • Legal notes in plain English

The full story is for subscribers

The blurred text is a placeholder, not the real thing.Subscribe

Earners

A small x402 seller where one buyer paid nearly everything

We checked itLegal position unclear

A small pay-per-request seller took in $75.02 in a month from 78 calls, with nearly all of it from a single buyer.

The money
under 100 USD a month
How sure we are
We checked it
Released

The full story

  • How the money is made
  • How we know
  • Where the number could be wrong
  • What it would take to try something similar
  • Legal notes in plain English

The full story is for subscribers

The blurred text is a placeholder, not the real thing.Subscribe

Know the risks

$3.27 in a month, in a wallet two services share

No figureLegal position unclear

Payments into a shared wallet added up to $3.27 in a month. With two services using it, the money cannot be pinned on either.

The money
no figure
How sure we are
No figure
Released

The full story

  • How the money is made
  • How we know
  • Where the number could be wrong
  • What it would take to try something similar
  • Legal notes in plain English

The full story is for subscribers

The blurred text is a placeholder, not the real thing.Subscribe

Research and education only, not advice. Every figure says how sure we are. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.

Up and down to move, Enter to open, Esc to close.