Episode #70

🧱 Friday math beats Friday vibes. The Ramen Hustle breaks down an underpriced niche with clear numbers, plus the small boundary that keeps scope from ballooning while your profit quietly climbs.

When you won’t take no for an answer

  1. The hustle: Ads that feel like answers

  2. Field note: She had a $20k month as a notary

  3. Trent: Pet waste subscription

  4. Fresh find: They sold Doge meme for $4M

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The Reddit Lead Gen Operator

The problem: Buyers ask for tool picks on Reddit, and most brands still advertise like it’s Instagram. The intent is there, but the creative misses the moment.

💡 The pitch: Use Reddit Lead Gen ads that read like the best comment and capture the lead inside Reddit.

🚀 The outlook: “Comment-to-CRM” will become a normal growth channel for B2B.

The shift is simple. Reddit is moving from a research pit stop to a conversion channel, as long as the ad feels native and the next step is immediate.

When someone asks “best payroll tool for a 10-person agency,” they are not browsing. They are trying to pick. That thread is already a buyer shortlist, and the only thing missing is a clean way to turn the hand-raise into a lead.

Reddit now keeps the form inside the platform with Lead Gen Ads, and the Zapier integration routes leads straight into your CRM for follow-up. The economics work because you are selling high-intent leads, not reach. Service pricing is straightforward: $750–$1,500 setup, then $1,000–$3,000 per month management, with optional bonuses per booked call. Four clients at $2,000 per month is $8,000, and two $1,000 setups puts you at $10,000, with ad spend paid by the client.

Who’s winning right now is not “brands on Reddit.” It’s operators who treat Reddit like a conversation engine with tight offers and fast follow-up. One Reddit-ads specialist shared outcomes like $75 cost per lead on $11K per month spend, and $20 CPL on $10K per month spend, using “Reddit-native performance” creative instead of polished brand ads.

The solopreneur takeaway is to sell the whole loop, not “Reddit ads.” Your edge is writing that sounds like a real user, pairing it with one clear lead magnet, and building follow-up that hits while the thread intent is still hot. The constraint is trust. If the ad reads like an ad, you lose, and if the follow-up is slow, you waste the best clicks you will ever get.

What this means next is more operators packaging subreddit maps, native comment libraries, and Zapier handoffs into a repeatable service. Watch which niches have constant “what should I use” threads, because that is where leads stay cheapest for the longest.

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The Mobile Notary “Same-Day” Advantage

  1. Win: Heather Wilson from Heather the Notary earned more than $20,000 in a month doing loan signings.

  2. Mistake: Most new notaries price like a commodity and wait for jobs instead of selling “speed + certainty.”

  3. Fix: She built a mobile setup (printer/scanner in trunk) so she could take jobs “on the fly” and close fast.

  4. Opportunity: Package “same-day signing kit” as the differentiator, then partner with escrow/title offices who hate delays.

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Weekly cleanup contract

Pet waste removal is quietly becoming a subscription business with real receipts. Side Hustle Nation just profiled a pet waste removal operator scaling to multi-million revenue territory, which is a strong signal that recurring backyard services can compound when routes get dense. On the scrappier end, operators publicly document month-by-month numbers, including first-year income and profit breakdowns, which makes it easy to reverse-engineer the model. YouTube is full of earnings breakdowns too, because the business is simple enough to film and believable enough to sell. The opening is to stop treating it like a side gig and treat it like a route: one neighborhood, one HOA, one day a week. Twist: the fastest path to stability is selling one “community deal” instead of 30 one-offs.

The opening: Pitch an HOA “weekly cleanup contract” and build your route around it.

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📱 This indie builder’s app portfolio hit $15K/month, and the post shows exactly what he shipped and how he marketed it (so you can copy the “small apps, stacked revenue” play).

🩲 Sara Blakely sold fax machines, then cold-called manufacturers until Spanx got made—this origin story is a masterclass in “scrappy wedge → mass brand.”

💸 Retail startup Another just raised $2.5M to help brands sell excess inventory, and the angle is perfect for a side hustle “inventory liquidation broker” service.

🚗 The irs set the 2026 business mileage rate at 72.5¢/mile, which makes “mileage reimbursement clean-up + policy templates” an easy B2B micro-service.

📲 This twilio tutorial shows how to build SMS alerts step-by-step—turn it into a paid “no-show stopper” setup for salons, gyms, and clinics.

🏠 Harvard projects remodeling spend hitting $524B in early 2026, and homeowners need help comparing bids, spotting BS scope creep, and keeping contractors honest.

🧠 These landing-page teardowns show exactly why certain offers convert, so you can swipe the structure for your next “boring service” page.

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