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Week of 2026-10-19

This week's drop 3:

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Earners

A tool that checks whether AI chatbots mention your brand

We checked itLooks legal

A subscription tool checks whether your brand shows up in the answers of 6 AI chatbots. It recorded 48,646 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
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A travel-themed seller with one buyer carrying most of it

We checked itLegal position unclear

Software paid this small seller $71.15 in a month across 830 calls, but about three-quarters of the money came from one buyer.

The money
under 100 USD a month
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Small web tools earn very unevenly, and outsiders guess badly

No figureLegal position unclear

Of 392 small web tools whose founders share real revenue, 51.5 percent earn anything. The money is lumpy: one business holds 90 percent of the sample's total.

  • TrustMRR platform TrustMRR is a public listing site where founders who opt in show 30-day revenue read from their payment processor. Source: TrustMRR public startup pages
  • Empire Flippers platform Empire Flippers is a marketplace for buying and selling online businesses whose public listings state monthly revenue. Source: Empire Flippers public listings
  • Etsy platform Etsy shop pages publicly show review counts, which were used to estimate shop sales. Source: Etsy public shop pages
The money
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A trade-routing protocol that took 1.70 million dollars in fees in a month

No figureLegal position unclear

CoW Protocol, which routes crypto trades through competing solvers, collected 1.70 million dollars of fees in 30 days according to a public dashboard.

  • CoW Protocol platform Runs a trade-routing service whose fees are published on a public dashboard. Source: DefiLlama fee pages, read late October 2026
The money
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A speech and telecom service paid for by the call

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A speech and telecom service earned 5,608 dollars in a month, one small payment per request. It is one of the biggest earners on the tracker.

The money
1k to 10k USD a month
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