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This place is a legal money printing machine - and it wasn’t much to look at.

60 mins from SLC and 30 from Provo.

It’s open 106 days per year and 7 hours per day.

It was full yesterday when I was there and there were 42 people playing and paying.

So how much do they make?

Well at full occupancy, all day, they make about $7,000 per day, or $742,000 per year - gross.

But that’s not realistic.

Let’s say at 60% occupancy it’s $445,000 in revenue. This doesn’t include their paddle board rentals.

There were 3 young employees on the clock, each probably making about $18/hour after payroll taxes. Thats $40k/year in wages.

Insurance is likely high.

Maintenance is next to nothing. It’s a freaking bounce house. Patch it and keep it full of air.

They likely pay a lease to the state park.

It had pokey burrs all over the beach. Huge chunks of cement floating hazardously just below the water. Big rocks and trash.

It was an unpleasant experience, to say the least. But the demographic looked $$$.

$22 per hour per person!

If they brought in $20k of white sand and kept the beach clean they could prob raise prices 20% AND have higher occupancy.

And then rent out chairs and sell some drinks or shave ice.

I bet they net $300k/year. Not bad for a seasonal business ran by teenagers.

“BUT WHAT ABOUT LIABILITY!?” You may think? Pay for freaking insurance. Problem solved.

Stop talking yourself out of starting something for once.

0.00% of this post was written with AI.

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I just talked to a 19 year old who's made $225,000 in 9 months building apps with zero coding experience.

This is George. Like I said, he's 19!

No technical background. Used an AI app builder to vibecode everything.

He launched his first app in July 2025 called Fight AI.

You bascially upload a video of yourself shadow boxing or sparring and it gives you a breakdown on form and technique.

It made $1,800 the first month...What??

Still does over $1,000 a month today without him touching it.

Then through cold outreach he lands a partnership with one of the biggest wrestling creators in the space. They go 50/50 on WrestleAI. Same concept, just for wrestling.

They launched late September.

$8,000 the first week.
$30,000 in December.
$40,000 a month by January.

The whole growth was organic influencer posts.

He pays $2 CPM.

After wrestling season slowed down, revenue settled around $10,000 a month.

So he launched two more apps.
Boxing app does $23,000 lifetime.
An app that analyzes your abs does $15,000.

Now he's leaving his full time job to go all in.

In this episode George:

- Breaks down the exact influencer outreach strategy he uses

- Shows me why fake followers and verification matter

- Walks through his meta ads strategy

- Explains how Apple pulled his app for two weeks over his co-founder's tweet

And I tell him why I think this could be a publicly traded company.

George was awesome.

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I spent $1,650 to rent this boat for 4 hours today in Park City.

Plus gas, a tip and a tube.

Yes, it's a $100k boat, but only 2 months' worth of rentals & the boat is fully paid off. 1/2 a season.

You can't convince me that boat rentals aren't a great business. I'm tempted...

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I'm doing an in-person event in Provo, UT in 8 days.

It's like Shark Tank, but no idea or business is too small. Blue collar, white collar, just an idea or a full fledged business. Real $$ at play!

Come pitch me + 2 friends on stage in Provo UT on 7/21!

Details below.

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I met an Armenian girl in Central Park. Pure hustler. This side hustle should be everywhere.

She immigrated here 5 years ago and got a job working this booth that says “newspaper in 5 seconds.”

She does it for tips only and grosses about $130/hour. The owner has 55 of these! Around Central Park and Times Square.

It’s simply a DSLR camera attached wirelessly to a printer

I assume her boss takes a lion’s share of her tips but we tipped generously regardless.

There’s no place like NYC.

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This narrative is so false.

I got married in 2008 and bought my first house in 2009. As a college student waiting tables.

Inflation and wage growth are both up 55-60% since then. I could do that same thing today where I lived back then.

Home values are up 115%, but rural homes are still cheap and accessible to most.

There are MANY homes within an hour of Dallas for under $200k.

Remote work is more common than ever. We also have way more opportunities and access to money than ever.

People need to come to grips that if they want to own a home, they might not be able to live as close to the city as they might prefer.

Which SHOULD be ok since so many work remotely!

The biggest thing that's changed in recent decades is the NARRATIVE that gen Z and millennials are doomed.

If you're convinced that you don't have enough opportunities to get ahead, you'll be right.

Confirmation bias rules our lives. But you can CHOOSE what to be biased towards.

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2 weeks ago | [YT] | 141

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The house I grew up in.

Across from the 18th hole of the Logan River Golf Course.

Balls bounced into my yard & I’d sell them back to golfers 3 for $1.

My neighbor Connor started competing with me at 4 for $1.

I held strong. Better location

My family didn’t have money, so I had to go find it. In the ponds, reeds and ditches.

The cattails will always smell like money to me, $1 at a time.

They smell like Titleist, Top Flight and the occasional Pinnacle.

We'll go back time to time and I'll convince my kids to look for golf balls with me in the ditch, just like old times. They'll complain the reeds hurt their feet and the mud stinks. Irony! Soft!

People ask me if entrepreneurship runs in my family.

Not at all, which is why it stuck with me.

When I wrestled and I lost it was all my fault. Not the kicker, not the point guard, not the ref.

If I lose as an entrepreneur it’s all my fault.

I prefer this way of living.

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How to save 6 figures on a real estate purchase:

My friend just bought his dream cabin in Alaska. It sits right on the Kenai river and he paid about $300,000 under market.

How?

The pictures were bad and it was listed in the fall.

By the spring virtually no potential buyers had taken the time to see it in person.

Why?

Because if the pictures don’t do it justice and it’s listed during the cold, dark, Alaska offseason no one is gonna go out of their way - but he did.

Especially when it’s more of a 2nd home than a home for someone to live in year round.

When he went to see it in person he immediately realized just how underpriced it was and put in an offer below asking.

I’ll be staying there with my family next month.

Bad pictures + an offseason listing in a seasonal market = higher chance to snag a deal.

(Pic below is from Google to protect his privacy.)

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Is this a ripoff?

I just got quoted for plantation shutters from a well known, major blinds company for:

x1 big window - about like the one pictured below. ~2 x 3 feet.

x5 small windows that are about 1x1 foot each

$3,500 total, including install. Seems high. Any tips?

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2 weeks ago | [YT] | 39

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This prompt will save you thousands of dollars in 2026.

The average person is paying for a dozen of more (probably more) SaaS subscriptions every month.

Half of them THEY DONT NEED. (myself included)

Here's the step by step of how you find out:

1. Export your last 3 months of bank or credit card statements as PDFs.

2. Drop them into Claude (Opus 4.8 preferably... or Fable 5 when that returns)

3. Paste this exact prompt:

"I'm attaching 3 months of statements. Find every recurring software subscription.

Your job: Pull every subscription line. Date, vendor, amount, billing cadence (monthly / annual / usage-based).

Put them in a table: tool • $/mo normalized • category (video, design, AI, scheduling, CRM, hosting, etc.)

For every tool, give me the best 2026 replacement. If a current AI model fully replaces it, name the specific model and the workflow. If a cheaper SaaS replaces it, name it with current pricing.

Flag every tool that has been functionally killed by AI in the last 12 months (transcription, basic copywriting, simple image editing, scheduling, basic SEO, junior dev tasks, customer support chat, basic analytics).

Flag every "nice-to-have" I can cancel outright with zero workflow change.

Estimate monthly savings if I switch to the cheapest viable option per line. Give me a total annual savings figure. For each recommendation, give me 2 action steps to migrate this week."

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Run this once a quarter.

If you're worried about your privacy, just upload the names of the companies you pay every month and ask for alternatives.

It doesn't have to be your whole bank statement, or the amounts, and you don't have to give it any more context than you feel is necessary.

Have fun.

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