You should build a site that helps people find ideas to gain passive income. This topic comes up enough that there is a clear market.
This is true, teaching people how to do business through videos is a clear passive income device.
Ask HN: Ideas for a small passive income site
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Re: Ask HN: Ideas for a small passive income site
#32Can I suggest that you focus on ways to create outsized value with software? This puts you several steps ahead of the game. Speaking in generalities, the "passive income" crowd don't tend to actually build businesses and often don't create sustainable, defensible value in their projects. If you build a business with sustainable, defensible value, then "all" you need to do from that point is figure out the right combi…
Just read your list. Awesome. Can you expand on number 2 a bit? Are there other similar questions that can get people talking about solutions amenable to a software product?
I like the Excel idea a lot, I'm hoping to have several such questions.
Re: Ask HN: Ideas for a small passive income site
#33Look through some of the sites and apps for sale on Flippa.com and SideProjectors.com. You can get some ideas and maybe find an existing project to take over and build on.
I've bought a couple of domains on Flippa that had a 'built in' business purpose. SideProjectors has been very hit or miss in that some of those sellers don't respond back to any questions (for me at least).