Week of 2026-10-12

This week's drop 3:

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Earners

4,042 paid requests from just 4 buyers made $86.41

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A pay-per-request service handled 4,042 calls in a month and took $86.41, almost all of it from one of its 4 buyers.

The money
100 to 1k USD a month
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Three digital-template shops with 177.5K, 214.6K and 158.6K sales

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Three shops that sell downloadable templates on a handmade-goods marketplace show sales counters of 177.5K, 214.6K and 158.6K, at median prices of 24.00, 7.20 and 7.36 dollars.

  • Etsy platform Runs the marketplace where these shops display public sales counters. Source: Etsy shop pages, read late October 2026
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348 buyers paying $1105.24, yet the pattern looked circular

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A service listed as an NFT minter got $1,105 in a month from 348 buyers, none standing out. The pattern was still flagged as circular.

The money
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Polish-language AI personas with 968 subscribers

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A Polish-language chat service where people talk to AI characters reports 7.7k dollars of monthly recurring revenue from 968 subscriptions.

The money
1k to 10k USD a month
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Hundreds of different buyers paying a few cents each

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A pay-per-call service earned 176.25 dollars in a month, but spread across 643 different buyers. That works out at pennies each, the opposite of a one-big-customer story.

The money
100 to 1k USD a month
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