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What are some good business ideas for diy types?
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>>2975254
To make steady money, you go into a trade. Electrician, mechanic, plumber, carpenter.

If you want to make subsistence wages, sell cute little crafts to the pinterest crowd.
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>>2975256
The best money is in marketing. Use your marketing skills to hype up goyim on something that doesn't exist yet, then you hire a sperg to autocad it, then send the cad drawings to some idiot who's desperately trying to pay off his cnc machine
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>>2975256
trades are subsistence
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>>2975276
Not where I live.
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>>2975330
And what third world shithole would that be?
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>>2975366
Tradies in the turd world barely make subsistence wages
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>>2975407
i'm in a 3rd world country and now they make almost as much as midlevel programmers, there's literally no mechanics, plumbers, electricians, drivers because they're all too old/gone to richer countries/young don't want to do it
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>>2975425
>almost as much
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>>2975256
how can you expect big monies unless you're some industrial tradie like plc, cad, cnc etc
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>low level doctors, engineers and lawyers are also tradies.

Unless you manage money or people you're a tradie. There's no way to magnify your money making power except getting better at moving your hands. Doctors/lawyers/engineers have a strong starting wage and break into their own businesses at journeyman level instead of master, so it looks like they make more but it's because they're managing 5 paralegals/nurses
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>>2975632
who would have thought you'd see pro-worker unity on the diy board

today's SaaS meme company python programmers and developers and engineers are yesterday's foundry workers and machinists, just gayer and fatter and softer hands and anti union
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>>2975891
Fuck your communist sit mothercucker I hope you starve to death with your brain dead retarded utopian dreams trying fdivide mankind into classes that don't fucking exist.
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>>2975254
Landscaping or basic handyman work if you have no specific skills. If you have friends or family working in trades offer to help them pro bono just to learn a thing or two and add it to your skillset. especially if you live in a suburban or urban area, a lot of normies are NPCs who will throw money at you to weed and mow their garden or fix something that you can learn from watching a 3 minute youtube video. you have to offer very competitive prices and build up a solid customer base, but if you're successful you can hire other retards and excons to do the work for you for you
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>>2975254
If you can't think of a business idea on your own which you'd like to undertake, then you're probably not really going to be passionate enough about what you'd be doing to dedicate yourself to it enough for it to be lucrative.

I've seen it happen quite a few times. People ending up running a business doing something they don't care about, or discover they actually hate doing, but are trapped into it due to how much they have sunken into getting the business up and running.

Do not rely on others to suggest what you do for this. Make yourself a list of the things that you really enjoy doing, then decide if there's anything on that list that you think you would enjoy doing for a living, under the knowledge that you would have to be doing it A LOT for the undertaking to be successful.
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>>2975254
> what made you get into this business anon?

> those racist dudes on the 4chan image board just randomly submitted a business plan while drunk


> selling watermelon and kool aid in the ghetto
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>>2975330
So you don’t have plumbing, running water, electricity or any dwellings of any type at all where you live?
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>>2975619
>CAD
>CNC

Bro as someone who is pretty well versed in both of these

Trust me

You ain’t making shit doing this

Go get a job at chik-fila you’ll make more money and the girls that work there are really cute and your age

The old men in that machine shop won’t teach you shit because they think you don’t deserve it yet

And you’ll have to somehow buy $5k in tools from MSC because nobody would let you use their surface plate 3-4” mics and the boss doesn’t provide them for your minimum wage operator job when you’re starting out
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>>2976228
i mean a biz in those areas that uses bitches like you
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>>2976228
what would happen if you moved to an actual industrialized country
if fast food workers and shit water fitters are making more than you then that's kinda telling
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>>2976228
>The old men in that machine shop won’t teach you shit because they think you don’t deserve it yet
You don't.
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>>2975256
I heard trades is fucked. You have to know someone to even get in, and all the jobs go to seniority.
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>>2975276
mroe or less feels like it these days. Im almost at 100k a year and can barely afford to own a real house in my town. The only ones that are afford able are the shitty old ones with tons of issues, or no yard to speak of with grandfathered lot sizes in the 5000-6000 ft range. plus your neighbors are all tweakers or browns.
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>>2975632
lot of tradies also start their own at journeyman level and it's much harder to be a master in medicine, law etc than basic trades
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>>2975276
>Make 100k/yr working part time
>Subsistence
Okay brochacho

>>2976379
How terrible are you with money that you can't live with that income like holy shit lmao
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>>2975254
stop looking at pretty girls, stop wanking and get off your arse
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>>2975254
make "magic" crystals and spells and sell to retard women
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>>2976431
How many tradies are making $100k/year working part time?
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>>2975256
>If you want to make subsistence wages, sell cute little crafts to the pinterest crowd

If that's you're only income stream, yes. But if you find a profitable niche, it can add up. Attached is from 14 months on Etsy.

Definitely NOT something you can live on, but as something to fill the free time, it can be fun.
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>>2976674
>23k
>a year of my bills is 12k
Any advice on etsy in general? Wife and I both do a lot of craft type stuff we probably wouldn’t hate doing for money. Seems like it would be hard to stand out from a billion indians and parasites importing trash from overseas though.
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>>2976724
>Any advice on etsy in general?

Not really, I'm just winging it. For me it's just a side hobby I fell into out of boredom after the military and while im half-assing online school (thanks GI bill). I really don't pay much attention to it and if it required a lot of time/effort I wouldn't do it.

>Seems like it would be hard to stand out from a billion indians and parasites

If what you're trying to sell is already saturated, you're wasting your time. If someone can do it cheaper than you, or mass-produce it overseas, don't bother. I sell niche embroidered items of designs that aren't available anywhere else.

To get to this point, I had to: learn machine embroidery and find an industrial-grade embroidery machine for not a lot of money. They normally sell for tens of thousands of dollars, but I found one for like $2k that had been sitting for years, taught myself how to repair it, brought it back to life, and taught myself how to use it (I can hear it in my garage as I type this, sewing away at 800 stitches/min). Then I had to 'acquire' professional-grade digitizing software and learn how to make designs sew correctly.

I price my items high because I don't want to deal with having to spend more time on this.

I think if you have a half-way decent product it will sell. If you're 3d printing slop from thingverse, you're wasting your time.
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>>2976618
idk making supplements and vitamin powders for retarded men seems more diy
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>>2975254
over covid i was making wiring harnesses for cars. think of like the boomslang ecu patch cables. my only advice is to find something with a big ass mark up. like those cables were just wire but I was able to sell them for 5 to 700 dollars.
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anyone else maladaptive daydreams about becoming a maker tycoon?
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>>2975632
There are exceptions like notch, who wrote a silly lego type game and was paid a billion dollars for it. But those people are the exception, not the rule.
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>>2979082
That's true especially in software. It was like the same thing where you could write one program and sell it a million times. Labor multiplication. All the easy bases have been covered now though, so you'd have to make a generational breakthrough like notch. It's like banking on being a movie or sports star
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skin and hair care with compounds that work but natural bases
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>>2976431
100,000 isn’t enough to own a home in many places and no tradie is making that part time.

Who’s the tard wrangler that let you out of their sight to post online? I bet they’ll be out of a job and looking for one of those part $200,000 hvac or plumbing jobs, full time of course.
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You work with 3d printers? Even slightly artistic, maybe with clay or 3D modeling? How about a penchant for clever and efficient organization/distribution solutions? Can you market yourself?

Make silicone dildos. It's way more complicated than you might at first suspect, and in the end, it goes in your end.
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>>2980118
you pay for a house over many years dude
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>>2980354
did you vacuum cure it or whatever
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>>2981130
Sure did, it's one of the many intricate steps involved.
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>>2976222
>>2975254
>OP posts unrelated “attractive” image to thread
You’d be very good at sucking dicks, if each dick sucking costs 35$, and you suck 10 dicks a day, that’s 350$! Easily 10850$ a month!
There’s your business idea OP, go chase the cash!
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>>2981129
Here you are with internet access again. It’s truly a travesty.
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>>2976670
Z e r o
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>>2982197
feel free to fuck off
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>>2981673
not true, you're pretty bad at sucking dicks if you're only making 350 a day. i used to be involved in the drug world and i knew lots of "escorts," they made more like 800-1500 per day. i don't have an exact figure on how many dicks they sucked to do it because pricing is generally tailored to the customer.
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>>2981658
>>2981130
>>2980354
how profitable is making dildos? been kinda looking onto it
Maybe customs?
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>>2982465
You could make fake penises for indian men.
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>>2982465
don't be gay make vaginas
or some niche bodypart
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>>2975254
Reverse onlyfans. $9/month to stop receiving pictures of my gaping butthole
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Find ways to create fuel, any fuel.
Energy is king.
Energy is in demand. If you can make wood pellets, you can sell them any time any place. If you can extract biodiesel, you can sell it.
If you can create electricity on your own, you can do it for others.
If you can build an engine in your garage, you can sell those. Even steam engines, they can turn a bigger flywheel which creates more rpm and more electricity.
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I'm trying to make sea salt.
Now normally this doesn't sell for much, but I live in a tourist heavy island and those people love throwing money at souvenirs. Might as well pay for locally made salt. It is high quality as well since the sea here is very clear.
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>>2975254
3d print boomer slop those articulated pangolins aren't going to print themselves
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>>2976226
you forgot
>became thousandaire
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>>2976674
>>2976744
honestly the number of packages and simply dealing with the shipping would absolutely not be worth it to me
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>>2980354
>>2981658
the fucking catch all cracks and folds, bro that is fucking disgusting and is gonna kill someone. there is a reason sex toys are semi featureless
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>>2982492
fake penises for ftm is a real thing you know

for indians you need a portable street you can roll up after shitting anywhere
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>>2982578
Trains is hard job.
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what business can i make as a 3rd worlder with no capital, no degree, no 3d printer, no artistic creativity and no skills
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>>2982778
crime
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>>2975254
I'll make trunks and storage boxes out of pallets in my spare time and hock them on FB marketplace. It nets me an extra couple hundred a week
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>>2982493
>Instead of making something that could pleasure a woman, make something that could only pleasure a man
There's no option here that isn't a little bit gay. The only hetero move is not to play.
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>>2982778
Prostitution or vibe coder
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>>2982826
Where do you get the pallets from
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>>2982830
yeah but you're a man and you're sculpting a feminine body part idiot
why would you think about what happens to it after its bought that happens away from you
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>>2982778
X ragebait account
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>>2982875
>I make sex toys to help men cum
You don't see how this is kind of gay?
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>>2982896
it's understandable if you're a homo and cringe from lady parts but no need to make up retarded reasoning
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>>2982898
Masturbation is gay: you're letting a man touch your dick until you ejaculate.
All porn is cuck porn: you're watching another dude fick the girl you want
Even if you get into it as the bull you quickly get your serial desires inverted and you end up wanting to sit in the cuck chair and raise someone else's kids. The community says it happens everytime. Part of the curse
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>>2982902
What other inside information can you tell us about the cucking lifestyle?
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>>2983085
Well of course you hope your bull breeds your woman, that's the whole point, you don't deserve it
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>>2975254
I'll give you one business that I used to do and the one I'm doing now.

I used to buy expensive plastic parts with high demand from popular cars, 3D scan it and 3D print a copy for a fraction of the price. The business was good, but the margin is small and I didn't feel like having scaling the operation.

After that I've started a security company for gated communities and residential buildings.

I basically install all the hardware at the entrance so that they don't need to hire people to stay at the place 24h. I then hire a person to stay remotely monitoring several of these places and controlling visitors and so on. So far I've got 16 clients, and I can at some point switch to some AI to do all the monitoring, for now having a actual person on the call is still vastly preferred, people will come up with stupid situations all the time that I doubt AI could handle.

Is quite scalable and once you lock in a client, if you don't shit the bed, you'll have them forever. Initial investment is quite low, I get everything from China and whitelabel my company name on it.

It's very DIY at the start, setting up the whole operation is quite straight forward.
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Are there female or twink business owners
Do they have to suck and fuck for contracts
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>>2975254
Sell firewood, any retard with land can do it.
Comes outta the fucking ground.
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>>2980354
>>2981658
That look unsafe.
How do you do it?
Honestly I need to 3D print something.
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>>2983743
If any retard can do it the market is probably already saturated
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>>2983762
No because land isnt free and it requires physical labour that most boomers with land arent willing to do.
Am I saying the market isnt saturated everywhere in the world? No
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>>2983743
jammy bastard!
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>>2983764
That's exactly what makes it viable for anybody without a land
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>>2983942
Protip: You dont actually need to own the land you just need permission to work on it

Ask parents and relatives, them or their friends will own land.
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>>2980354
>>2981658
do these foreskins actually retract or is it just a detail?
Also, do you actually pour it 100% from silicone or are you using some kind of cheaper cores? How much do you charge per item?
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>>2983960
seek god
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>>2975254
I’m thinking I may turn my property into a wedding venue.
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>>2982775
Was your uncle a trains man?
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>>2975254
Get yourself a nice suit and a nice big briefcase to look the part. Not a normal documents briefcase, but one of the slightly thicker ones that can be used to store a variety of toiletries and maybe get a folding stool to set up a little station.
Take this briefcase/work station to busy public bathrooms, rest stops, venues, weddings basically anywhere with a lot of foot traffic and offer a selection of fancy colognes/perfumes, soaps or lotions, cotton swaps, tweezers, razors, shaving cream, combs, brushes, hair product, single packaged mouth wash, floss picks, chocolate mints, lip balm, deodorant, wet wipes, first aid supplies, basically anything you find provided by a bathroom attendant at some spa or country club or strip club, and maybe bring a decent speaker and offer custom sound tracks to obscure all the farts and what not, learn to make small talk and solicit more donations.
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>>2975276
>subsistence wages
Contractor here. You wouldn't believe some of the profit margins. My current job is a bathroom remodel. demo a 7x7 bathroom and rebuild from framing. Minor framing alterations, light mechanicals, sheetrock and tile surround and floor. I should clear $20K in 2 weeks or so. Not all jobs are that good where I am, but it's easy to clear $150K per year if you work for yourself.
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>>2975254
Make anything that people are willing to pay and helps/solves a real problem or just companies/business will pay each month/regularly. Being an electrician, mechanic, plumber etc and call it a business just bc you work outside a company doesn't make it a business. It happens with my dad and other more people i knew on the trades and just about business in general (I'm not an expert but most of my family has a tiny/medium thing) and by watching how shit works, u will just have a 2nd job and without any security of getting paid every month or other stuff. In that case, make a product or service that can lead u to mass production/get more workers and will let you get the money without having to go to work all days. Is difficult if you are s service business because u will have to get training to all the people to have the same quality as you had with your previous contractors or people that hired you. In the product thing, you just need something that helps people and they pay it constantly or then you can work for business and they get you more money or more trust with you and ask you more stuff often. Business are not a "i have an idea" shit, you have to work on it because it requires money, time and maybe months of your life with uncertainty. But if you are good at something and can get something up to work, it's a first step, just found a public or niche that can get you money for a long long time without you having to go to office all days, or you will just will be having a job for life
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>>2983764
Lots of people WANT you to remove fallen/damaged trees from their property. My dad used to drive around suburban neighbourhoods after bad storms and just ask anyone who had a felled limb, branches or whole trees if he could cut it up with a chainsaw and haul it away. If it was on municipal land the wagies would just leave logs or limbs there for weeks and he'd throw them in the truck bed when nobody was looking. He didn't sell any of it but he had years worth of cured firewood just from cruising around and offering to help some white collar family with no power tools avoid calling an arborist or landscaper to get rid of it.



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