Ep. 3243 - First $1,000: Cozy Reading Gadget Turns Pages and Profit
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
A bedtime-reading addict bend a paperclip into a page holder, refines it into a soft-touch clip, and flips his ledger from red ink to a four-figure win.
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| 0:52.8 | A bedtime reading addict bends a paper clip into a pageholder, then refines it into a soft touch clip |
| 1:04.0 | and flips the ledger from red ink to a four-figure profit. |
| 1:08.5 | What am I talking about? |
| 1:09.8 | I'm talking about the latest installment of our first |
| 1:12.7 | $1,000 series. This one is titled cozy reading gadget, turns, pages, and profit. Of course, |
| 1:18.7 | the series is about how somebody makes their first $1,000. How do they get to that point? |
| 1:22.9 | How do they have an idea? What steps do they need to take to produce income, but also, I guess, before income, |
| 1:29.2 | it's like, how do you make the product or the service? In this case, we are talking about a physical |
| 1:34.1 | product. They actually dreamed this up and made it happen, went to actually shipping it out and |
| 1:39.0 | getting paid. I love highlighting stories from people who are just like regular folks, not going |
| 1:44.0 | on Shark Tank, |
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