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One founder’s dog newsletter hit $155K 🐶

And it takes about an hour a week to write with AI

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One weekly dog newsletter, 50,645 readers, $155K+ in affiliate revenue, devs.dev daily issue #12

Issue #12 · Wednesday, November 4, 2026

☕ THE COLD OPEN

  • 🐶 One weekly email to 50,645 dog owners: $155K+ in affiliate sales
  • 🔁 A founder who builds apps to sell them: 4 exits, $500K+
  • 🎁 Building creators’ products for a cut: about $10K a month
  • 🧮 Why one app’s downloads are worth $1.27 each
  • 🐙 A keyword-gap fitness app: $2,389 in month one

One email a week can be a business. 5 minutes. Money first. Let’s go.

👀 ALSO MAKING MONEY

  • 🔧 An ex-plumber’s sales-agent agency passed $20K MRR. Shawn spent 10 years as a NYC plumber, then moved into sales. Now he builds sales agents tied to one outcome. In October his agency, Lead Alchemy, passed $20K MRR (his post, no pricing). Copy this: build one agent for one outcome, like booked meetings, for a company you know.
  • 🍽️ A private chef booked $20K in about six weeks. The founder of Modern Classical Chefs in South Jersey told Anthropic in September that using Claude for his private-dining proposals brought in $20,000 in about six weeks. Revenue, not profit. Copy this: sell one caterer a template that turns an inquiry into a priced quote.

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