channel: chris-koerner
A Texas couple built a fresh-squeezed lemonade business into a claimed $250,000-a-year operation working weekend farmers markets. The number holds up on paper, but it's an eight-month best case, and the real costs behind that 82% margin never quite show up.
channel: upflip
A 21-year-old bootstraps a painting business to $500K in revenue, then franchises it into nearly 500 units. The hustle is real. The "$12 in his pocket" framing, the franchise unit count, and the video's recruitment agenda deserve a closer look.
channel: side-hustle-nation
This is a more honest and transparent pitch than most that we see. An operator running seven ATM machines describes a modest, genuinely real income stream, and is unusually candid about the parts that aren't passive at all.