A smart way to build a profitable business is to take advantage of a rapidly growing trend using a well-proven playbook.

I just spent 2 hours going through my personal trend database.

Then I matched the most promising ones to my favorite playbooks.

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📈 Dog Talking Buttons

Speech pathologists use recordable buttons to communicate with nonverbal individuals. These buttons can also help dogs and other animals communicate their needs and wants.

💡 Apply the 12 Months to $1 Million ecommerce playbook by @RyanMoran.
📈 Leaf blowers

No idea why interest in leaf blowers is growing so steadily but this is definitely an interesting trend if you're not afraid to get your hands dirty.

💡 Start a leaf blowing service business, @sweatystartup style.
📈 Dynamic QR Codes

Dynamic QR Codes make it possible to change destination addresses and other code functionality at any time without having to reprint the Codes themselves.

💡 Build a micro SaaS using the Start Small, Stay Small approach pioneered by @robwalling.
📈 Solana Prediction

Crypto predictions are still hot. There are plenty of paid newsletters and communities on Gumroad doing $10k+/month.

💡 Build an infoproduct empire using @russellbrunson's Expert Secrets playbook.
📈 Remote Workers

Remote work is here to stay and companies, big and small, need remote-native tools (not skeuomorphic stuff) to adapt properly.

💡 Use the Laskie B2B SaaS playbook by @ChrisJBakke.
📈 Dice Making

Dice making is one of these niche hobbies that's blowing up right now on Reddit.

💡 Use @JamesonCamp's playbook and acquire an affiliate site in the dice making niche (plus possibly turn it into an ecommerce store).
📈 Hairloss Research

The hairloss research subreddit is blowing up right now.

💡 Apply the $100M Offer playbook by @AlexHormozi to make people struggling with hairloss an irresistible offer.
📈 Bourbon Whiskey Barrel Shelving

Apparently more and more people are interested in how to store bourbon whiskey barrels.

💡 Start building your portfolio of small bets @dvassallo style by selling barrel shelves you built yourself and then a course how to do it.
A related subreddit that's blowing up right now is dedicated to Fence Building.
📈 Financial Modeling

The financial modeling subreddit is all about sharing and discussing ideas and practises.

💡 Use @arvidkahl's Embedded Entrepreneur playbook to immerse yourself in this community, study their problems, and eventually sell a solution.
📈 Expat FIRE

An exploding subreddit about using geographic arbitrage, a nomadic lifestyle, or relocating abroad to retire early.

💡 If you have any first-hand experiences, use @nateliason's Article MVP playbook to validate demand. Then sell a course, book or community.

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Jan 17,
Should I rebrand Opportunties.so? And if yes, what would be a good new name?

The current name no longer captures the scope of the project and the domain ending hurts trust and SEO.

(More thoughts below)
Business Metagame

I recently thought a lot about metagames and think Business Metagame would nicely capture the scope of the project (Trends, Patterns, Frameworks, Case Studies, ...).

C.f. @ejames_c's theory that "to get good, you have to go after the metagame".
Atomic Entrepreneurship

I think this name is pretty self-explanatory and would be a good fit since I'm basically dissecting entrepreneurship one trend, experiment, business model, case study, and framework at a time.

It also nicely emphasizes my focus on humble projects.
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Jan 13,
Certain ideas unlock 1000s of opportunities as soon as you understand them.

Here’s a breakdown of one such concept and how you can take advantage yourself.

(It's what the bulletproof coffee guy uses to make $50M/year.)

// THREAD //
People are now hyper-aware of their health and want to make sure they’re in tip-top shape.

This includes being more aware of environmental factors that potentially impact it and, where possible, trying to minimize the impacts.
For example, Health Twitter™ spends a lot of time warning people about things like electromagnetic frequencies (EMFs) and telling people to fix their posture.

This has led to a rise in FUDwear.
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Jan 12,
Everyone has just 24 hours a day but some people clearly manage to get outsized returns.

They're not just playing, they're winning.

And I want to learn how they do that.

To start with, I spent 10+ hours studying how Trung Phan wins at Twitter.

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Why start with @TrungTPhan?

I want to learn how to win and to quote @ShaanVP: "Winning is Trung."

This always stuck with me and the data backs this up.
What fascinates me about Trung is that he didn't simply get lucky.

He studied the Twitter algorithm carefully, then developed a strategy and executed it relentlessly.

So even though there can only be one Trung, there's a lot to learn.
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Jan 11,
I recently discovered a simple (but not easy) step-by-step process that tripled by personal productivity and made me happier along the way.

It costs $0 and no, it's not some note-taking or to-do list system.

(thread)
In short:

• Step 1: develop meta-awareness of your state of mind.
• Step 2: pattern-match to identify your mind's most common modes.
• Step 3: learn to pick activities that match each mode.

I know that sounds kind of weird but I promise it'll make sense in a minute.
== Step 1 ==

You need to learn to observe what's going on in your mind almost like a third-person observer.

This is difficult and requires a lot of practice.

The goal is to have moments of clarity where you're able to see "ah that's what's going on in my mind right now".
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Jan 7,
I discovered an incredible niche hidden in plain sight.

Clever entrepreneurs are already exploiting it and rake in $30k+/month with very simple products.

The good news is there's still plenty of room.

In this thread I reveal all my findings and an actionable plan:
== Signal 1 ==

A 19-year-old girl made $400k+ selling baby names.

What?

Her name is Beau Jessup and she runs Special Name.

It's a simple website designed to provide Chinese parents with culturally appropriate English names for their babies.
Incredibly, this is what the site looks like.
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Dec 26, 2021
Really fun idea.

Feed a list of projects you launched so far into GPT-3 and get a tailormade suggestion of what you could launch next.

Joseph did it so far for 18 makers and since he's also sharing the prompts it's very easy to do it for yourself.
A few more ideas GPT-3 has for me:

· Omniscient AI - A startup that predicts the future.
· A monthly newsletter with the latest crypto news and projects.
· An investment intelligence platform for investors.
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