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LinkedIn profile rewrites for laid-off software engineers
Laid-off engineers are job hunting now and pay quickly for a profile that gets recruiters to reply.
Skills you can bring: Recruiting experience in tech and an ear for a strong profile
$29Start this - 2
A course on starting a small AI business, built on real case studies
People want to make money with AI tools, and real case studies set a course apart from the hype.
Skills you can bring: Money you've earned with AI tools and a plain teaching voice
$49/moStart this - 3
Personalized hardcover storybooks for parents, with their child as the hero
Parents buy these as birthday gifts and yearly keepsakes, and AI can now write and illustrate each book.
Skills you can bring: A storyteller's ear and an eye for pictures parents keep
$39–$59Start this - 4
A monthly tool for professionals that rewrites AI drafts to sound like their own writing
People who write with AI want drafts that sound like them, and a monthly tool fits a daily habit.
Skills you can bring: An editor's ear for voice and readers who write for work
$12/moStart this - 5
Demand letters for freelancers and subcontractors whose clients haven't paid
Unpaid freelancers need the money now, and a firm letter often gets the invoice paid.
Skills you can bring: A network of freelancers or tradespeople and a firm writing style
$29Start this - 6
Monthly removal of people's personal details from data-broker websites
People already pay monthly to have their details removed, and AI can fill in the opt-out forms.
Skills you can bring: Privacy or security know-how and a voice people trust
$9/moStart this - 7
Scholarship lists and essay drafts for high-school seniors in Texas
Families of seniors look hard for scholarship money, and many awards get few applicants.
Skills you can bring: School counseling or admissions experience
$49Start this - 8
Birth-chart and compatibility reports for astrology fans, sold as PDFs or prints
Astrology fans buy readings year-round, and each report is mostly writing.
Skills you can bring: Fluency in astrology and a warm writing voice
$9–$19Start this - 9
Interactive stories by text for romance readers, with characters who reply
Readers pay monthly for stories they can take part in, and AI lets the characters reply at any hour.
Skills you can bring: A storyteller's voice and a clear sense of who it's for
$9.99/moStart this - 10
Daily devotionals and prayers by text for Catholic families
Faith content has a loyal daily audience, and a short morning text fits a prayer habit.
Skills you can bring: Standing in the faith community and the voice to write for it
$4.99/moStart this - 11
Grant searches and first drafts for small animal-rescue nonprofits
Small nonprofits rarely have a grant writer, and finding and drafting grants is mostly research and writing.
Skills you can bring: Grant-writing experience and contacts in animal rescue
$149Start this - 12
Paperwork packets for widows and widowers in Ohio, with letters for banks and benefits offices
Grieving spouses face a pile of forms at once, and each step follows written rules.
Skills you can bring: Estate or funeral-industry experience and a gentle writing voice
$49–$99Start this - 13
Personal ceremony scripts for friends asked to officiate a wedding for the first time
Friends asked to officiate want to get it right, and a personal script is mostly writing.
Skills you can bring: A gift for speeches and an ear for what moves a room
$19–$29Start this - 14
County-by-county cost reports for families choosing care for an aging parent
Families face these choices suddenly, and care costs differ widely from one county to the next.
Skills you can bring: Elder-care or social-work experience and a gentle, clear voice
$49Start this - 15
Paid travel guides in French for walkers on the Camino de Santiago
Travelers pay for good guides in their own language, and many popular routes have none.
Skills you can bring: Having walked the route and writing well in French
$12–$19Start this - 16
Memorial tribute videos and obituaries for families, sold through funeral homes
Families need these within days of a death, and funeral homes can offer them at every service.
Skills you can bring: Contacts at funeral homes and a gentle writing voice
$99–$299Start this - 17
A paid newsletter for independent pharmacy owners on new rules that affect them
Pharmacy owners pay to hear about rule changes before those changes cost them money.
Skills you can bring: Working in pharmacy and a clear writing voice
$15–$49/moStart this - 18
Ready-to-use AI prompts and message templates for recruiters
Recruiters pay for shortcuts that work, and a pack costs nothing to deliver.
Skills you can bring: Working as a recruiter and writing prompts that get results
$9–$29Start this - 19
Ready-to-run adventures and solo-play guides for tabletop role-playing gamers
Tabletop players buy new adventures often, and each one is mostly writing and maps.
Skills you can bring: Game-master experience and a storyteller's voice
$5–$20Start this - 20
Bedtime stories read in a grandparent's voice, for grandchildren who live far away
Grandparents who live far away want to stay part of bedtime, and AI can now read in their voice.
Skills you can bring: A storyteller's voice for children and a following among parents
$5–$9/moStart this - 21
A documentary YouTube channel about military history, made with AI and no presenter
Documentary channels draw loyal viewers, and AI can now research, script and edit each episode.
Skills you can bring: Deep curiosity about the subject and a sense of story
Ad revenue and sponsorsStart this - 22
A review site for espresso machines that earns commissions on sales
Shoppers read reviews before buying expensive gear, and commissions add up as traffic grows.
Skills you can bring: Hands-on product knowledge and honest, useful writing
Affiliate commissionsStart this - 23
Résumés rewritten for each job posting, for job seekers applying to many roles
Job seekers apply to many roles at once, and AI can now rewrite a résumé for each posting in seconds.
Skills you can bring: Recruiting experience and an ear for what hiring managers skim for
$9–$19/moStart this - 24
A service that mails handwritten-style thank-you cards for small businesses
Handwritten mail gets opened, and small businesses use it for thank-yous and outreach.
Skills you can bring: A warm writing voice and contacts among small businesses
$3–$8 per cardStart this - 25
A personal-finance YouTube channel made without a presenter and earning from ads
Channels without a presenter can still earn ad money, and AI can now write and edit the videos.
Skills you can bring: A feel for what keeps viewers watching
Ad revenueStart this - 26
Compatibility reports for couples, written from both partners' answers
Many couples look for compatibility tests, and each report is mostly writing.
Skills you can bring: A warm, perceptive writing voice and a following among couples
$9–$19Start this - 27
Dispute letters for homeowners fighting HOA fines
Homeowners who feel unfairly fined want a firm, correct reply that cites the HOA's own rules.
Skills you can bring: HOA board or property-management experience
$19–$39Start this - 28
A severance review for laid-off tech workers, with what's usual and a script to ask for more
People offered severance have a short deadline to sign, and most have never negotiated one.
Skills you can bring: Management or HR experience at a tech company
$79Start this - 29
A check that runs every code sample in a developer tool's docs and fixes the broken ones
Broken code samples cost developer tools sign-ups, and AI can run every sample against the latest release.
Skills you can bring: Experience writing developer documentation
$399Start this - 30
A launch kit for a new developer tool, with the launch post, a demo clip and a FAQ
Builders finish the product and then stall on the launch, and a launch gets only one first day.
Skills you can bring: Experience launching developer products
$299Start this - 31
Résumé rewrites for senior engineers, written from their own pull requests and design docs
Senior engineers undersell their work, and the record of what they shipped is already written down.
Skills you can bring: Years of hiring engineers
$149Start this - 32
Weekly release notes for small software companies, written from the code changes they merged
Customers want to see progress, and engineers rarely have time to describe it in plain words.
Skills you can bring: Experience writing for software customers
$49/moStart this - 33
A support agent for small software companies that answers from the docs and hands off hard cases
Founders answer the same questions every day, and most of the answers are already in their docs.
Skills you can bring: Experience running customer support for a software product
$99/moStart this - 34
An open-source license report on a startup's code before a funding round or sale
Investors and buyers ask about licenses late in a deal, and founders need the answer within days.
Skills you can bring: Knowledge of open-source licenses and careful writing
$249Start this - 35
A weekly email of breaking changes in the libraries a team uses, with upgrade notes
Upgrades cost less when teams see them coming, and changelogs are scattered across many sites.
Skills you can bring: Years of work in one programming language's ecosystem
$19/moStart this - 36
Incident reports drafted from a team's chat and alerts, ready to review the next morning
Teams skip incident reports after a long night, and the timeline is already in the chat and alerts.
Skills you can bring: Experience running incidents and writing reviews of them
$49/moStart this - 37
Morning handoff notes for on-call engineers, written from the night's alerts and fixes
Handoffs lose context across time zones, and a short written summary saves the next engineer an hour.
Skills you can bring: Years on call for production systems
$29/moStart this - 38
An AI agent that asks a software company's cancelling customers why they left and sorts the answers
Founders rarely learn why customers leave, and a short personal email gets more replies than a form.
Skills you can bring: Experience in customer research or customer success
$49/moStart this - 39
A written guide to an old codebase for its new owner, covering what runs and what's risky
New owners and new hires lose weeks learning old code, and AI can read every file quickly.
Skills you can bring: Years working in old codebases
$999Start this - 40
Translation of a small app into five languages, delivered as files ready to merge
Small apps miss sales abroad because translation looks like a big project, but the work is well defined.
Skills you can bring: Experience adapting software for other languages
$199 per languageStart this - 41
An API reference and quickstart guide for a developer tool company
Docs decide whether developers adopt a tool, and the engineers building it rarely have time to write them.
Skills you can bring: Technical writing experience
$999Start this - 42
Docs set up so AI coding agents can read them, for developer tool companies
More developers now learn a tool through their AI agent, and agents work best from clean, structured docs.
Skills you can bring: Experience with documentation tools and how AI agents read sources
$499Start this - 43
One tested how-to page a week for a developer tool, written to be found in search
Developers search for how to do one thing, and a page that answers it brings sign-ups for years.
Skills you can bring: Experience writing for developers
$499/moStart this - 44
A written review of a developer tool's landing page, with its headline and first section rewritten
Builders write landing pages for themselves, and an outside reader sees where visitors lose interest.
Skills you can bring: Experience marketing to developers
$149Start this - 45
Onboarding emails for a small software company's new users, written and tested on real sign-ups
Most trial users never reach the feature that would keep them, and a few well-timed emails help.
Skills you can bring: Lifecycle email marketing experience
$399Start this - 46
A paid weekly newsletter for engineers on one stack's changes, with upgrade notes and code
Engineers in one ecosystem want a single trusted summary, and they pay for the time it saves.
Skills you can bring: Years in one ecosystem and a voice engineers like reading
$8/moStart this - 47
A weekly newsletter for working engineers on new AI research and what it changes in practice
Engineers can't read every paper, and they value someone turning research into practical decisions.
Skills you can bring: Reading research and building with AI models in production
$10/moStart this - 48
A weekly newsletter on new open-source tools in one field, each one installed and tried
New tools appear every day, and engineers trust a reviewer who has actually run them.
Skills you can bring: Curiosity about tools and an honest reviewing voice
$5/moStart this - 49
App store screenshots and listing text for indie iPhone apps, in every required size
The store listing decides downloads, and indie developers rarely design it well.
Skills you can bring: Visual design and writing short, persuasive copy
$149Start this - 50
Security policies for a startup's first security audit, written to match its own systems
A first audit asks for a stack of policies, and founders would rather edit a draft than start from nothing.
Skills you can bring: Compliance experience and plain, exact writing
$199Start this - 51
A weekly summary of regulation changes for small fintech companies, with what each one requires
Small fintech companies can't staff a compliance team, and they need to know what changed and what to do.
Skills you can bring: Fintech or compliance experience
$99/moStart this - 52
A 90-day budget for a laid-off engineer, covering savings, health insurance and severance
The first weeks after a layoff are stressful, and a clear plan turns worry into decisions.
Skills you can bring: Personal finance know-how and a calm, practical voice
$49Start this - 53
A portfolio site for an engineer, built from their public work, with one project written up
Hiring managers look for proof of work, and most engineers never write up what they built.
Skills you can bring: Web design and turning technical work into a story
$199Start this - 54
An AI agent that sends freelancers' clients polite, regular reminders about overdue invoices
Freelancers hate chasing payment, and polite, steady reminders get invoices paid sooner.
Skills you can bring: Freelancing experience and writing firm, friendly emails
$19/moStart this - 55
A daily check-in call to an older parent, with a short summary texted to the family
Families who live far away worry between visits, and a friendly daily call with a summary eases that.
Skills you can bring: Building voice agents and writing warm call scripts
$29/moStart this - 56
A browser extension that rewrites a job seeker's résumé for whichever job listing is open
Job seekers apply to many roles, and rewriting a résumé for each one by hand takes too long.
Skills you can bring: Building browser extensions and knowing what recruiters screen for
$9/moStart this - 57
Five customer interviews for a startup, recruited, run and summarized around one product question
Founders know they should talk to customers but don't, and a done-for-you round gives answers fast.
Skills you can bring: Interviewing users and summarizing what they said
$999Start this - 58
Launch-week content for an indie product, including five posts, a demo clip and an email
Builders run out of steam after shipping, and steady posts during launch week keep attention.
Skills you can bring: Writing for builders online and knowing what gets shared
$199Start this - 59
Contract reviews for freelancers that flag the risky clauses and explain each in plain English
Freelancers sign client contracts without a lawyer and want to know which clauses to question first.
Skills you can bring: Paralegal or contracts experience
$29–$79 per contractStart this - 60
Plain-English summaries of home inspection reports for buyers, with urgent items and rough costs
Buyers get a long inspection report days before a deadline and need to know which items to negotiate.
Skills you can bring: Home inspection, contracting or trade experience
$79–$149 per reportStart this