BUSINESS IDEAS
Real businesses and what they make, told by their owners on video. Apps, AI, online shops and local businesses. New ones every day.
$2Ka day
Rasty grew up in a village of 700 people in Slovakia. After high school he moved to Boston to work for a security company that Google bought. Later he built a startup that Amazon bought, and now he runs an app that makes $2k/day.
As told on Starter Story, 24 Oct 2026
$15Ka month
James, Brenden, and Carter are three men in their early twenties. They help businesses find work that AI can do for them, and they build AI tools with Claude that save hours of work. They got started by texting people they knew and offering AI assessments.
As told on The Koerner Office, 25 Oct 2026
$35Ka month
Patrick runs Gus Franco's Pizza with his wife. It began as pizzas for friends and grew into a food trailer, then a restaurant. He keeps a simple menu and uses dough that takes 72 hours to prepare.
As told on UpFlip, 26 Oct 2026
$10Ka month
Frederick is an indie app builder. He went from $0 to $10,000 a month with a health and fitness iOS app. He believes the app itself barely matters.
As told on Starter Story, 25 Oct 2026
$41Ka month
Rasty runs an encrypted vault app. Big rivals with millions of users rank first in the App Store, so he went after the web instead. He uses AI agents to write articles on autopilot for every keyword that points to the App Store, and the big apps ignore this.
As told on Starter Story, 27 Oct 2026
$30Ka month
Charlie was a software engineer with a full-time job. He gave himself two weeks to build Links, a simple link-in-bio tool. He built it even though a rival had millions of users, and it still worked.
As told on Starter Story, 26 Oct 2026
$30Ka month
Jake runs a simple website called Excel Exercises. It helps people learn Excel. The site is plain on purpose, and that keeps it easy to build and run.
As told on Starter Story, 28 Oct 2026
$18Ka month
Kourosh built Voicy, an app that turns speech into text. He made it for his dad, who works on his computer all the time and took 3 days to write one email. It works because you can talk instead of type, and it works everywhere.
As told on Starter Story, 30 Oct 2026
$5Min a year
Tony Donatell, 46, took over a failing gas station and convenience store in 2024. In May 2025, he opened a hidden bar in the same space. It is called The Farmer's Cellar.
As told on CNBC Make It, 28 Oct 2026
$10K+a month
Frederick built a habit tracker app for health and fitness while he was on vacation. The app is simple and not special. It works because he put his effort into getting people to find it.
As told on Starter Story, 31 Oct 2026
$11.2Ka month
Vadim is 19 and built Vugola. It is an AI video editing agent that turns long videos into short clips made to go viral. It is built for clippers, content creators, agencies, and long-form brands.
As told on Starter Story, 1 Nov 2026
$400Ka month
Yoni built Brainrot, an iOS app that became one of the most popular in recent years. He took it from a simple idea to a big app. He also built a personal brand, which helped him grow it.
As told on Starter Story, 1 Nov 2026
