MoneyHash

There’s a strange kind of gold buried in the forgotten corners of the internet. Old blogs. Stale niches. Sites built by someone with passion years ago, left to rot because life moved on. These aren’t high-traffic startups or glossy media empires. They’re often WordPress installs from 2013, half-broken, with no new content in years. But behind the dated design and neglected back end, there’s something valuable: trust, backlinks, and ranking history that new sites take years to build. And for someone who knows how to spot that, it’s an open door to a business most people ignore. Every now and then, a blog goes dormant — not because it failed, but because its creator got busy. A fitness blog written by a former personal trainer who switched careers. A parenting site abandoned when the kids outgrew toddlerhood. A travel blog cut short by a shift to remote work. These sites often still get traffic. They still appear in Google results. They still pull in readers who click on affiliate links...

There’s something oddly powerful about a form. Not in the sense of bureaucracy or paperwork, but in how a form quietly becomes the beginning of a transaction. It’s where someone goes from browsing to acting. From curious to committed. From thinking to doing. And on the internet, forms — done right — are some of the most underestimated business assets around. Take rental applications. Every city has renters. Every landlord, every property manager, every small-time investor needs a way to vet tenants. But if you try to find a good, easy-to-use rental application online, especially for a specific state or city, you’ll find a weird mix of PDFs, outdated templates, shady download sites, and overly complex services that feel like overkill. That gap — the moment when someone just wants a clean, legally sound, easy-to-fill form — is where the business lives. I know someone who made a quiet six figures a year by building a site with just a few simple, customizable rental forms for different U...

The inbox isn’t dead. It’s crowded, sure. But in the middle of the noise, certain newsletters still land with weight. Not because they’re polished or viral. Not because they promise quick wins or wild takes. But because they serve a specific group of people who aren’t being spoken to clearly anywhere else. And that’s where the opportunity lies. The mistake most people make when starting a newsletter is thinking it needs to be big. They imagine tens of thousands of subscribers. They fantasize about sponsorships from fancy tech brands. But the truth is, newsletters make money long before they become massive. Especially if they’re narrow, useful, and consistent. Especially if they focus on people who are spending money, not just browsing content. There was a woman I met who started a newsletter for high school guidance counselors. That’s it. Not students. Not parents. Just the counselors themselves. She had worked in education for years and knew that most of them felt overwhelmed, out o...

Not every idea has to be loud to be profitable. Some of the most quietly lucrative ones hide in the slow, boring parts of daily life — especially the ones that people don’t realize are broken. These are the moments when someone needs a solution but can’t find the right one. Not because it doesn’t exist, but because the digital bridge between their intent and the result is missing. That bridge, in more and more cases, can become a business. There’s a pattern that shows up again and again. Someone wants a thing — a haircut, a notary, a house cleaner, a tutor — and they go to search for it. But what comes up is either outdated, overwhelming, or weirdly irrelevant. The experience breaks down before it even begins. And when that happens, the person searching either gives up or settles. Either way, money is left on the table. Not because there isn’t demand. Because there isn’t clarity. One guy I met figured this out with driveway sealing. Not glamorous, not techy. But every summer, thousan...

Most people think of the internet as fast, loud, always changing. And for the most part, that’s true. But if you look closely, there are places where it’s asleep. Places that haven't been updated in years. Pages built in the 2000s that still get traffic. Forgotten websites that quietly sit atop Google search results simply because no one has cared enough to replace them. And that’s where opportunity hides. In almost every town, there are businesses, neighborhoods, or events with terrible websites that still rank. A local plumber with a website from 2009 that hasn’t been touched since launch. A regional festival with an outdated map and a broken RSVP form. A wedding venue with grainy photos, still somehow fully booked. These aren’t glamorous websites. But they’re functional. They pull in attention, even if they do it badly. And that attention is money. What most people don’t realize is that you can buy or rebuild these kinds of sites. Sometimes from the original owner. Sometimes j...

We’ve been conditioned to chase scale. Build once, sell forever. Products, platforms, passive income — everything optimized for maximum leverage with minimum touch. The idea of selling your time feels outdated, inefficient, maybe even weak. But what if it’s not? What if the fastest path to your first real money online isn’t in building something scalable — but in offering something personal, human, and specific? There’s a strange truth about the internet. For all its automation and reach, people still crave interaction. They want feedback, perspective, a sounding board. They want to be seen. That’s not something you can package into a PDF or a course and set to autopilot. But it’s something you can offer directly, and get paid well for, even without a massive audience or tech skills. I know someone who makes a full-time income simply offering feedback on landing pages. That’s it. No coding. No design from scratch. Just a 30-minute recorded walkthrough where he talks through what’s w...

There’s something quietly powerful about the things people collect. Not rare coins or vintage cars — the small, invisible collections that build up in browser tabs and bookmarks and private Notion folders. Interesting tools. Niche websites. Tutorials. Unusual side hustles. Screenshots of clever landing pages. Most people never think much of it. They just save what they like, forget about it, and move on. But some people have figured out how to make money from those invisible piles. The idea is simple. Curation as leverage. You spend time online anyway. You stumble across resources that other people would love, if only they knew where to find them. So instead of letting them sit in your bookmarks forever, you package them. You give them structure. You turn them into a newsletter. A directory. A guide. A membership. A small digital product. You take the chaos of the internet and turn it into something someone else can navigate. There was a guy who started a tiny site curating free onl...

The best money-making ideas usually live in plain sight. They don’t scream. They whisper. And one of the quietest, weirdest whispers out there is the expired domain market. Most people never think twice about domain names. They grab one when they start a project and forget about it if the project dies. But there’s a small group of internet operators — some hobbyists, some full-time — who treat domains like real estate. They don’t just buy domains. They flip them. They lease them. They use them as Trojan horses for SEO. And they’re making more money than you'd expect. Here’s how it works. Every day, thousands of domains expire because people forget to renew them or abandon their ideas. Some of these domains are junk. But others have real value. Maybe they’re old and have built up backlinks over time. Maybe they’ve ranked in Google for years and still pull in a trickle of organic traffic. Maybe they’re ultra-brandable — a two-word .com that’s memorable and clean. The trick is being...

Most people think good ideas come from ambition, genius, or relentless hustle. But more often than not, they come from boredom. Not the kind of boredom where you're glued to your phone, swiping between distraction apps. The old kind. The sit-with-your-thoughts, nothing-on-the-calendar, “what now?” boredom. The kind that makes your brain restless in a good way. The kind that nudges you to notice things you usually overlook. I’ve come to believe boredom is one of the most underrated engines behind making money. You start to pay attention differently when you’re bored. You notice little gaps in the world — a service that doesn’t exist yet, a moment of friction that someone would happily pay to eliminate, a behavior people keep repeating that could be systematized, packaged, or sold. These moments are everywhere, but you rarely see them in the middle of a busy, scheduled life. You notice them when you’re drifting, scanning, watching without purpose. Boredom makes space for pattern r...

A strange thing happens when you stop chasing startup ideas and start looking at what real people are building quietly on the internet. You notice something. They’re not raising money. They’re not hiring teams. They’re not waiting for permission. And yet, they’re making serious income—sometimes tens of thousands of dollars a month—by building simple, useful things that other people want. This is the rise of the one-person digital product business. Not a side hustle in the traditional sense. Not a tech startup either. It sits in the middle. A weird hybrid of indie hacking, creator economy, and old-school entrepreneurship—but entirely built on leverage. I came across one of these businesses a few months ago. A single-page Notion template priced at $39. That’s it. No app. No logins. No monthly subscription. Just a well-designed, high-utility digital file solving a very specific problem for a very specific group of people. I later found out the creator was pulling in over $10,000 a mon...

The way people make money is changing—fast. Not just because of AI, the internet, or some new app. It’s changing because the gatekeepers are gone. You don’t need a degree, a storefront, or a venture-backed startup to build a sustainable income anymore. What you need is clarity, curiosity, and execution. I started MoneyHash because I’m obsessed with how people are creating income in the modern world. Not in theory, not in vague motivational posts, but in the real trenches of the internet—where creators, coders, freelancers, and hustlers are experimenting with ways to turn value into cashflow. Money has become a system you can learn to navigate. It’s a puzzle. A game. But most people are still playing by outdated rules. They think making money means getting a job, climbing the ladder, or getting lucky with an app idea. But if you look closer, the most interesting money being made right now doesn’t come from those paths—it comes from people who are smart about finding demand, building l...