Most people stuck on digital products think they have an idea problem. So they collect more ideas, save more posts, open more tabs, and wait for the one that finally feels big enough to justify the work. The idea was never the hard part. The exact same product pointed at the wrong person is worth nothing. Pointed at the right person, it's a real business. That is the entire difference, and it's why two people can sell the same spreadsheet and one of them charges $10 while the other charges $200. I have more of these ideas than I have hours to build them, so I'm handing over 35 of them, and more importantly, the reason each one works.
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This guide outlines a strategy for creating profitable digital products by prioritizing specificity over generality. The core philosophy is that \"vertical beats general,\" suggesting that creators should solve narrow, expensive problems for niche audiences rather than offering broad information. By focusing on high-value results and \"done-with-you\" models, creators can command premium pricing.
I have too many digital product ideas, and I want to be honest with you,
there are not enough hours in the day for me to build all of them.
I've studied thousands of digital product businesses. I run one all day.
So these ideas just constantly pop up in my head.
My company and I are way too locked in on one lane right now,
and I can't chase all of these smaller ideas,
even though I know a lot of them would work
and produce five-figure, six-figure, heck, even seven-figure businesses.
So I'm going to do something with them instead.
I'm going to give them to you on a silver platter.
35 of them, and I'm not talking about vague stuff.
Right now, there's someone selling a spreadsheet that only works for Uber drivers,
someone running a paid community about calligraphy,
teaching people to write by hand, pulling in around $1,000 a month.
That's how specific we're getting.
And for each one, I'm going to tell you exactly why it works,
because the idea is only half of it.
The other half is understanding why.
And once you can see that, you can stop copying other people,
and you can start spotting these out on your own.
And the timing is actually kind of crazy, honestly.
Some of the stuff was flat out impossible for a normal person to build two years ago.
You needed money, a developer, or a year of learning how to code.
That wall just came down.
So here's my one ask.
If you actually want to build one of these,
keep something open to take notes,
because a few are going to hit you like,
wait, wait, I can actually do that?
A couple are just quick sparks.
And the two at the very end are the ones I build myself
if I were starting over today.
So stick around for those.
Let's get into it.
Real quick.
So we're on the same page.
A digital product is just something you make one time,
and you can sell it over and over again without making it again.
A spreadsheet, a small piece of software, an app, a guide, a membership, a course.
There's no warehouse.
There's no manufacturing or building of some physical thing you hold in your hands.
And because of that, there's no shipping, and there's no inventory.
You build it one time, and you can sell it while you go build the next thing.
And here's the one rule that runs underneath all 35 of these.
It's not the product that makes money.
It's who you make it for and how you package it.
The exact same idea pointed at the wrong person is worth nothing.
Pointed at the right person, it's a real business.
Keep that in your head as we go.
You'll see it over and over.
And I've grouped these into six buckets.
Easy stuff first, the ones that you could build this weekend.
Climbing up to the big one at the end.
Let's start with templates.
Everybody's first instinct here is, I'll make a Notion template.
That's not wrong.
It's just where about 10,000 other people already are.
The money in templates was never the format.
It's the specificity.
So here's where I'd actually go.
Number one, a calculator for a scary, expensive decision.
Not a budget tracker.
Everybody makes budget trackers, and they sell for $10 because they help someone save $40.
Instead, build the spreadsheet that helps someone make a decision that they're
terrified of getting wrong.
A rental property analyzer.
A house flip profit calculator.
A pricing calculator for a small online store.
And here's why this works.
A budget tracker protects $40.
A rental property calculator protects a $200,000 decision.
Same effort to build, but you can charge $10 for one and $99 for the other.
Everybody races to the bottom, making pretty planners.
And the whole game is picking a buyer whose mistake is expensive.
Those specialized spreadsheets sell for $79 to almost $200,
while the generic ones fight over $10.
Number two, the occupation-specific version of a generic template.
This one's sneaky, and I love it.
You build one expense tracker, just one.
And then instead of selling an expense tracker, you sell the Uber driver expense tracker,
the Etsy seller expense tracker, the Airbnb host expense tracker.
Same skeleton, you just change the labels and add three or four fields specific to that job.
And here's the magic.
When somebody types their own job into a search bar, and your product is the one
that says their exact job right back to them, that feels like it was made just for them.
You're not competing with 5,000 generic trackers anymore.
You're the only one that named them.
This is literally a recommended move by the people who do this well,
because this specific version faces way less competition, and you can charge more for it.
Number three, a swipe file that's a fill-in-the-blank, not a museum.
A swipe file just means a collection of proven examples that you can copy.
Most people sell them as 50 great emails.
And here's the problem with that.
The buyer reads them, feels smart, and then does nothing,
because they still have to translate all of it to their own business.
It's inspiration.
It still sits in the folder, though.
So flip it.
Take those same emails and bracket every variable.
Bracket the name.
Bracket the offer.
Bracket the deadline.
Now, it's not a swipe file.
It's a fill-in-the-blank that they finish over a cup of coffee.
You're not selling the words anymore.
You're selling the removal of the blank page.
That's the thing people actually get stuck on.
Number four, a brand kits in a box for one single industry.
A logo template is a commodity.
Nobody cares.
Everything a brand new candle company needs to not look like a total beginner,
the logo, the colors, the fonts, the first 10 Instagram posts,
it's not a template.
That's a shortcut looking established on day one.
And the trick here is you pick one industry and you go deep.
Bold and minimal for tech startups.
Warm and handmade for craft shops.
And when you niche down like that, the buyer sees themselves in it instantly,
and you're charging for the transformation.
Looking legit, not for a folder of files.
Number five, and this one's less a product
and more a lever you put everything else on, the bundle.
Now watch this.
You've got an invoice templates, an expense tracker,
a profit and loss sheets sold separately.
They're $29 each and people buy one.
They wrap all three together.
They call it the complete small business finance kits.
And now it's $99 and it feels like it's a steal
because four things for 99 beats one thing for 29 in the buyer's mind.
You didn't build anything new.
You changed the packaging and the price tripled.
Most people, they build more products when they should be bundling
the ones that they already have.
Okay, quick fire round because I've got a few more
I just want to plant in your head.
Number six, resume templates built for one specific field
because a nurse and a software engineer need totally different resumes.
Number seven, a landing page templates niche to one job
like a coaching site built to convert, not a blank canvas.
And number eight, mock-up packs you sell to other digital sellers,
selling shovels to the gold miners, same principle.
Every time narrow one wins, that's templates.
Let's talk about something that most people don't even realize
that they can do anymore.
This is the one that I'm the most excited about.
And that's the wall I told you about at the start.
The one that just came down, building a small piece of software
used to mean hiring a developer or spending a year learning how to code.
That's basically gone now.
You can describe a tool in plain English
and get a working version of it in a weekend or less
which means the highest margin product on this entire list
is one that almost nobody in my world is building yet.
Let me show you what I mean.
Number nine, a one button tool that kills one annoying task.
Everyone thinks software means building the next gigantic platform
with a hundred different features on it.
It doesn't.
The tools that quietly make money do exactly one thing.
There's a guy who built a tool that dumps tracking numbers
from a spreadsheet straight into a store.
That's the whole product.
And it makes real money every month
because it deletes one specific soul crushing hour
out of somebody's week.
You're not selling software.
You're selling a deletion of an annoying task.
And the narrower the task, the less competition you have
because the big companies think it's too small to bother with.
That gap is yours.
Number 10, here's where I'd point that.
A tool for a niche that's literally losing money on paper.
Everybody building software right now is building it for other creators.
Another tool for podcasters, another tool for YouTubers.
Meanwhile, there's a plumber out there who said out loud
that he lost $500 in a single week from just missing a few phone calls.
Just think about that.
That's not nice to have.
The guy is bleeding money everywhere
because he's running a real business out of a notebook in his own memory.
A dog groomer double books two dogs for 10 a.m.
and has to call someone and apologize.
A cleaning company assigns a staff with sticky notes on a corkboard.
These people have money.
They have a problem that costs them money.
And almost nobody is building for them because it's not sexy or glamorous.
And that's exactly why it works.
You build the one tool that stops that specific bleeding,
the misbooking, the lost invoice, and you don't price it like a toy.
A landscaper won't pay $300 a month, $30, $50, $80 a month
to stop losing jobs all day long.
There's an entire category of the stuff for plumbers, groomers, cleaners.
It exists, which proves that the money is real.
Number 11, the vertical version of a tool that already exists for everyone.
There's a tool called Linktree that almost everyone uses.
It's a generic link in your bio that works for anyone,
which means it's perfect for almost no one.
Now, picture a version built only for musicians
or only for real estate agents or only for fitness coaches.
Same core idea.
Every word, every feature, every example speaks to that one person.
And this is the most reliable pattern in the software right now.
And I want you to really hear it.
You don't invent a new category.
You take a tool that serves everybody
and you rebuild it to serve one specific type of person deeply.
Software for everyone fails.
Software for fitness coaches wins
because it understands their exact day
and people will pay more to be understood than be served generically.
Number 12, before you build any of these,
to collect the money first move.
Here's a mistake that kills most people before they even get started.
They build an idea,
they disappear into a cave for six months building that,
and then they finally launch it and nobody shows up.
Six months, completely wasted.
The operators do it completely backwards.
And I want you to see exactly how.
Say you think dog walkers need a better booking tool.
You don't build it.
You make a one-page website that describes it.
You put a buy now button on it
and then you take it to three Facebook groups
where dog walkers actually hang out.
And then you just watch.
If people click the button trying to pay,
you've got a business.
Now go build it.
If nobody clicks,
you just saved yourself six months and found out for free.
There's a founder who pre-sold 50 lifetime spots
and collected $20,000 before he wrote a single line of code.
And that 20 grand isn't just mine.
It's 50 people raising their hands saying,
yes, this should exist.
That's the most valuable thing that you can have
before you build anything.
Sell it first, build a second,
never the other way around.
Quick fire for this bucket.
Number 13, a launch hype wait list
built for one kind of person.
Number 14, a wall of love tool
that collects and displays testimonials in one place.
Because right now people stitch that together
with three different tools.
And number 15, a tool that turns one blog post
into a week of social posts
for a specific type of creator
who hates doing it manually.
All right.
The next bucket is where I almost didn't include it
because the obvious version is dead.
There's a version underneath it that's very much alive.
When most people here sell AI prompts,
they picture the 2023 version.
Some guy selling a thousand chat GP prompts
in a PDF for five bucks.
And you're right, that version is dead.
But something more interesting happened underneath it.
The market quietly moved from selling prompts
to selling a capability.
A thing that just does a specific job
for a specific person.
And the price went from $5 to 200.
Almost nobody's caught up to that shift yet.
So here's where the room actually is.
Number 16, the custom bot that does one expensive job.
Quick definition, a prompt is an instruction
that you hand someone and they hope they use right.
A custom GPT is the finished machine.
You've already loaded it with knowledge,
tuned it, tested it.
And now it just does the thing when someone opens it.
Same underlying work,
but a prompt document sells for $19
and a custom bot trained on a real body of knowledge
sells for 200 and up.
Why?
Because you're not selling instructions anymore.
You're selling a specialist
that shows up already knowing the job.
Pick one narrow, valuable task,
pairing wine to a dinner menu,
answering small business tax questions,
explaining a confusing lease clause to a new landlord,
and build the bot that nails that one thing.
Number 17, the workflow, not the prompt.
A single prompt does one thing,
but real work is never one thing.
It's a chain.
Take a podcaster.
They record an episode
and then they have to turn it into a blog post
and then five social captions
and then an email to the list.
That's four separate jobs.
So don't sell them a prompt,
sell them the whole assembly line.
They paste it in the transcript
and the system walks it through every step
and hands back all four finished pieces.
You're not selling a prompt.
You're selling a machine that eats a two-hour task
and spits out the results.
And here's the tell that makes it premium.
You include the example inputs and outputs
so the buyer sees it already working before they buy.
People pay for certainty.
Number 18, the one industry AI toolkit.
Selling AI prompts to everyone is selling to no one.
But an AI toolkit for real estate agents,
listing descriptions,
buyer follow-up emails,
negotiation scripts,
the exact things that agent does every single week,
that's a product with a clear buyer who feels seen.
Same lesson as before,
vertical beats general.
But here's where it gets clever.
The toolkit gets them in the door once.
Those workflows need fresh inputs every month
so you offer a small subscription
that keeps them updated
and some of them will want to customize
for their exact office
and that's a service that you can charge real money for.
One toolkit, three levels of climbing.
But it only works because you picked one industry
and went deep enough
that they trust you actually to understand the job.
Quickfire.
Number 19, a paste this in bot setup
someone drops into their own accounts
to instantly get a specialist.
Number 20, an updating prompt subscription
for a niche that changes every month
with one free section as the hook.
Number 21, the anti-mega pack.
A tight tested pack that solves one narrow problem
with the sample outputs shown
because focus always beats 1000 prompts.
Now we're shifting from tools to actually teaching
and this bucket has the most single expensive mistake.
When people think sell what you know
they immediately jump to building a course
and then they spend four months recording 40 hours of videos
that nobody ever finishes and then it flops.
That's a mistake, the market moved.
What sells now isn't the big comprehensive course
it's the small thing that gets someone
one specific result fast.
Smaller is the strategy here, not the compromise.
Let me show you three ways to do it right.
Number 22, unlock the cold start.
Here's a move most people miss.
Find the first step trap in a niche
the one specific wall that blocks everything else.
Take a brand new Airbnb host.
Everyone tells them get good reviews
which is useless because the real problem is the cold start.
You can't get your six review until you get your first
and the first is the hardest
because a guest has no reason to trust a listing
with zero reviews.
So you build the first five.
A 30 minute product, 47 bucks and it does one thing.
It's a brand new host from zero reviews to five.
The exact message you send an hour after check-in
a small gesture before arrival
that makes someone want to give back
the one line that makes leaving a review effortless.
And here's why it works
even though it feels almost too small to sell.
That new host is stuck against one wall
and everything they want, bookings, income
the next review is on the other side of it.
They will happily pay $47 to get past the one thing
blocking all of it.
And the same move works anywhere.
There's a cold start.
A brand new freelancer who can't get their first clients
because they have no clients to show.
An author with no reviews.
Find the wall that blocks the whole chain
and sell the ladder over it.
Number 23, the insider playbook for one narrow person.
Take wedding photographers.
There are a thousand guides on how to take better photos
saturated, completely worthless
but almost none on the thing
that actually keeps them up at night.
Pricing.
What do you charge for a wedding
when you're just starting out
without either scaring the couple off
or working 60 hours for just 400 bucks?
So you build the wedding pricing playbook
the exact package tiers, the number you put in the middle
to anchor the couple
and the line that you say when they push back.
Not photography, the business decision
that they're terrified of getting wrong.
A generic how to start a photography business
ebook sells for a couple of bucks
and then it disappears.
But the pricing playbook sells for 10 times more
because the wedding photographer reads that title
and thinks that is my exact problem.
Generic feels written for nobody.
Specific feels written for one person.
And remember, the riches are in the niches.
That one person pays a premium to be understood.
And the same move works for pricing playbook
for freelance developers.
First hire playbook for a solo agency owner
and then what to say to insurance playbook
for a therapist opening a private practice.
Number 24, sell the tool, not the lesson.
There's one question that quietly decides
whether your product sells
and almost nobody asks it before they build.
Does this person need the information
or do they need a tool?
Because most people default to information.
They explain the thing
and when the buyer actually just wants the thing done.
Information is a video
on how to have a hard conversation with the clients.
A tool is the actual word for word script
that they read off the screen
when they're taking a Zoom call.
The buyer doesn't want to become an expert.
They just want the result without the homework
and they'll pay more for the shortcut
than the lesson every single time
because you're handing them their time back.
So whatever you were about to teach,
the negotiation, the meal plan, the resume,
ask if you can just hand them the finished thing instead.
The script, the plan, fill in the blank, quickfire.
Number 25, a free first win mini lesson
that leads into a paid one.
You prove that you can teach before you ask for money.
Number 26, an AI for one specific job micro course.
AI for real estate agents, not intro to AI
because nobody wants AI in general.
They want it for their job.
Number 27, a swipe and deploy checklist
for a one-time high stakes moment.
Launching, hiring your first employee,
filing taxes for the first time,
the moments people are terrified to get wrong.
Okay, everything so far, you sell once.
This next bucket is where it changes completely.
Here's the single biggest difference
between people making a little money with digital products
and people making real stable money.
It's whether the money comes in once or every single month.
And the thing that gets people paying every month
isn't more content.
It's something most people completely misunderstand.
Let me show you.
Number 28, the support vacuum.
Think about anyone who buys a course.
They're excited, they start
and around lesson three, they hit a wall.
They've got a question
and the person who sold them the course is gone.
That exact moment stuck with nobody to ask
is the whole opportunity.
So you build the community that lives in the gap.
Say people keep buying beginner woodworking courses
and then getting stuck on their first real project.
You start the workshop, $30 a month
and the entire promise is when you're stuck,
you post a photo and someone who's already done it
tells you what to do next.
And here's what most people get wrong about memberships.
They think the product is content,
more videos, more lessons.
It's actually not.
People are drowning in content.
They can get any lesson for free online.
What they can't get is someone to answer their questions
specifically at 11 PM when they're stuck
and that's what they pay every month for.
Not the information, the unstucking.
And you don't even have to be the world's top expert.
You just need to run the room
where people one step ahead
of the people one step behind.
Number 29, the niche.
That sounds way too small to be a business.
Everyone kills their best ideas with the same thoughts.
That's too small.
Who would pay for that?
Suddenly break that.
Remember the calligraphy thing that I mentioned
at the very starts?
Here's the full picture.
Teaching people to write beautifully by hand.
Sounds like a hobby, not a business, right?
Well, there's a community for that
with 1,200 members paying $9 a month.
That's $11,000 a month from teaching calligraphy
or Pickleball, a game that people pick up
at the local gym or in your local neighborhood.
My wife and I, we play this.
There's a community, 1,400 members paying $39 a month.
Passion does not care how small the niche is.
Someone obsessed with hand lettering or Pickleball
or restoring old synthesizers
will happily pay 10 bucks a month to be in a room
with other people who care as much as they do.
And a small obsessed audience beats a huge board one
every time because obsession is what makes people stay.
And staying is the entire game when the money's recurring.
The question was never, is this niche big enough?
It's, is this niche obsessed enough?
Nobody gave the calligraphy people permission.
They just built it.
Number 30, the desperate and underserved.
Weight loss is the most brutal saturated space on earth,
except at the edges.
There's a community built specifically for women
trying to lose weight during menopause at $37 a month.
That's not weight loss, which is hopeless to compete in.
That's one specific group at one specific stage of life.
But the problem, the generic weight loss world
completely ignores and even gets wrong.
Here's the counterintuitive part.
The generic version of a market can be the most crowded,
most miserable place to compete.
And the specific version of that exact same market
can be wide open.
Weight loss, you'll never win.
Weight loss for women in menopause, you can own
because those women are underserved, frustrated,
and actively searching for someone
who finally gets their exact situation.
When an audience is specific and not emotional,
they're easier to reach and they stay longer.
Find the group inside the giant market
that everyone's ignoring and build the room
that they've been looking for.
One honest note on this bucket,
because I don't want to lie to you.
A community is the opposite of hands-off.
This is the one where you have to show up,
but that's exactly why it's also so hard
for anyone to copy you and why people who do it right
build something that pays them for years.
Quickfire.
Number 31, a gated network for one job title
where the entry requirement itself is the value,
directors and above only.
Number 32, a free community upfront
that feeds a paid challenge every couple of months.
And number 33, an accountability group
built around one measurable goal
where people show up because others are expecting them.
All right, this last bucket is short, but this is it.
These are the two I told you about at the start,
the ones I'd actually build myself
if I were starting over today.
It's the top of the mountain
and I've saved it for the end on purpose.
Here's what I want you to take away from all of this.
Every idea I've given you so far,
the templates, the tools,
the little products, the community,
none of those are the final destination.
They're the on-ramp.
Because once you've helped someone with a $20 thing
and a $40 thing,
and they trust that you know what you're talking about,
a small number of them have a much bigger problem
that they will pay you real money to solve.
That's the top.
And almost everything else you build
is quietly pointing people toward it.
Number 34, sell the results, not a pile of stuff.
Say all your little products
have been helping freelancers get organized.
Small stuff sells for 20, 40, 60 bucks,
but some of those freelancers have a much bigger,
much more painful problem,
and they're stuck at $50 an hour
and they can't break out of that.
They can't charge more.
So you build the thing that fixes that.
All the rates escape.
A 90-day program that moves a freelancer
from hourly work to a product high service,
run through live calls and a custom plan
priced at $5,000.
And here's why 5,000 is reasonable and it's not insane.
If it takes someone $50 an hour
to charging $5,000 per project,
it pays itself the very first client.
You see, you're not charging for 90 days of your time.
You're charging for a fraction of the results
because here's the mistake
almost everyone makes with expensive offers.
They think high ticket and stacking more stuff,
more videos, more bonuses, more modules
until the big pile feels too big.
That's backwards.
Nobody pays $5,000 for more stuff.
They pay it to make one painful, expensive problem go away.
I mean, when you solve a $100,000 problem,
charging $20,000 feels obvious.
When you solve a $5 annoyance,
charging 500 bucks feels like a ripoff.
The price isn't about how much work you do.
It's about how big the problem is.
Number 35, deliver it done with you
so it doesn't eat away your life.
Now the trap, you've got the $5,000 offer
and you suddenly think you have to do everything one-on-one.
10 clients later, you're working 80-hour weeks
and you've built yourself a prison.
So you structure it differently.
Done with you, the backbone is a system
that you already built.
Templates, the mini-courses,
all those small products from earlier in this video
become the curriculum.
And on top of that, you add the thing
that they're actually paying premium for.
Live group calls, direct access
to ask you their specific questions
and a custom plan for their exact situation.
There are two ways to get this wrong
and I want you to avoid both.
One is pure one-on-one
where you personally burn outs at a handful of clients.
But the sneaky one is the opposite,
trying to make it fully hands-off.
All prerecorded videos and automation,
that backfires too
because when someone pays five grand
and gets handed a video library,
they feel ripped off.
Format screens, cheap course,
and they wanted you.
So the answer's in the middle.
Your system does the teaching.
Your live access does the transformation
and that's what lets you charge premium
and keep your life.
And notice what happened.
Every small product you built earlier
isn't competing with this offer.
It's the foundation underneath it.
And that's why none of this
was ever really six separate things.
It was always one ladder.
That's 35.
And if your head is spinning a little,
good, that's the point.
I wanted you to walk away
with the same problem I have.
Too many good ideas and none of hands.
But before you go build all 35 ones
and burn yourself out,
let me give you one piece of advice
that matters most.
Don't start with 35.
Don't start with 10 of them.
Pick one.
Pick the single idea that made you go,
wait, I could actually do that
and build only that one.
The people who win at this
aren't the ones with the most ideas.
They're the ones who actually
finish the first one.
And look, if you watch all of this
and part of you is thinking,
okay, I see it.
I get why these work,
but I still don't know actually
how to take one of these
from an idea in my head
to a finished thing
that people will pay for.
That's exactly what I break down
in a free masterclass.
Not more ideas.
You've got 35 of those now.
The whole system start to finish.
The product itself,
the website it lives on,
the content that actually brings
people to it
and how all of those pieces connect
into one thing that works together
instead of four random parts.
It's the first link in the description.
And I'll also leave it
right here on the screen.
And it'll be there
for when you're ready for it.
Either way, take one of these
and go build it
because the ideas are free.
The only thing that's ever mattered
is who actually moves.
So go ahead, tap on this
masterclass training right now
and I'll see you on the other side.