Hello, this is Cortland Allen from EndiHackers.com. And on this podcast, I talked to the founders

of profitable internet businesses. And I try to get a sense of what things were like in the early

days, especially how they came up with their idea and the things they did to grow their businesses

to where they are today.

In today's episode, I am talking to Scott Keyes, the founder of a very interesting business called Scott's cheap flights. How's it going, Scott? Hey, how's it going? Good to be here. Thanks for coming on the show. It's great to have you. So Scott's Cheap Flights is a mailing list for cheap flights. And the way it works is that you, Scott, and your team of basically flight finders spend the better part of every day tracking down the cheapest deals on flights all over the internet.

And as a subscriber, you get access to all of these deals and your inbox on a daily basis.

So we're talking things like $350 round trip airfare to Paris.

Yeah, that's kind of it in a nutshell. We are people who are really obsessed with

finding cheap flights. Some people really like cooking. Other people really like, I don't know,

making Instagram videos. And for whatever reason, our obsession is literally just spending hours and hours and hours on,

you know, Google flights and kayak and orbits and just trying to hunt down those cheap deals almost like a,

like a treasure hunt. And then when we find them, emailing them out to, you know, to subscribers who want to know

about these cheap flights and get them

before they, you know, the best deals before they disappear.

I think one of the coolest things about your story is that it kind of started as a personal

obsession. It wasn't really a business from the beginning. In fact, you're just finding flights

from yourself. And this was back in 2015, a couple years ago.

Fast forward to today, it's transformed from this small mailing list

that was really just for your friends and family

into this 600,000 subscriber behemoth

that's generating $300,000 a month,

which is almost $4 million in revenue.

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