The 6-Figure Side Hustle Cleaning Up Parking Lots (Greatest Hits)

The Side Hustle Show

Nick Loper

How To, Entrepreneurship, Business, Education

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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This week’s guest started his side hustle with the goal of earning an extra $1,000 a month. Four summers later and it’s now a 6-figure business! Blademir Hernandez is a Side Hustle Show listener who was inspired by Brian Winch’s story in episode 266 to start his business. Brian built a $650k a year operation picking up litter and cleaning parking lots — something Blademir felt confident he could do, too. Blademir reached out to Brian and ran the idea past him, before going out and finding property managers in his area to pitch his litter picking service to. This story is a perfect example of what can happen when you take inspiration from a proven business model and execute your own game plan. Tune in to The Side Hustle Show interview to hear how: he found his first customers to price and sell a local lot sweeping service Blademir has scaled his business Full Show Notes: The 6-Figure Side Hustle Cleaning Up Parking Lots New to the Show? Get your personalized money-making playlist ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! Sponsors: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Indeed⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ – Start hiring NOW with a $75 sponsored job credit to upgrade your job post! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Quo (formerly OpenPhone)⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ — Get 20% off of your first 6 months! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Shopify⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ — Sign up for a $1 per month trial! ⁠⁠⁠⁠Gusto⁠⁠⁠⁠ — Get 3 months free of the leading payroll, benefits, and HR provider for modern small businesses!

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0:00.0	If you're selling online or out of a storefront, you already know the challenge.
0:04.7	You're hoping people find your listing or you're waiting for them to walk in.
0:08.1	WhatNot lips that.
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0:13.4	You go live and you sell directly to real people in real time.
0:17.2	They see what you've got.
0:18.4	They ask questions and they buy.
0:20.4	And what's crazy is
0:21.4	whatnot buyers spend more than an hour a day in the app. So whether it's beauty products,
0:26.5	collectibles, thrift store fines, electronics, even cookies. Sellers are building real
0:32.1	thriving businesses on whatnot. I've seen the rankings, I've seen the revenue numbers,
0:36.3	and the number of sellers making over a million dollars on WhatNot has doubled in the last year. Now is the time to give it a try for yourself. For a limited time, WhatNot will match your first $150 sold in the first month. Visit whatnot.com slash sell to start selling. That's W-H-A-T-N-O-T dot com slash sell. What-N-O-N-O-T-C-W-N-O-S-SEL. Here's an oldie but a goodie from the archives from the Side Hustle Show, Greatest Hits Collection. What's up? What's up? Nick O'Loper here. Welcome to the Side Hustle Show because your
1:11.1	9 to 5 to 5 makes you alive. Today, I'm joined by Vladimir Hernandez from litter-free
1:18.5	lot.n.n.YC, a parking lot litter pickup business that he started back in 2018 as a side hustle
1:25.7	with the goal. Hey, you know, if I can make an extra thousand bucks a month,
1:29.0	that would be pretty cool. Fast forward now. It is now a six-figure business and we're diving
1:33.9	into everything that Vladimir did to make that happen. But before that, we got to take it back
1:38.9	to the beginning, to the idea stage, the inspiration stage. What made you think, you know what,
1:45.0	I'm going to go spend my spare time, clean it up litter from parking lots. Hey, Nick, how's it going? Thank you for having
1:50.3	me on the show. Yeah, actually, I was looking at your website and I came across 99 ideas on how to make
1:58.9	extra money. So I was going down the list and I came across
2:02.5	trash picking service and I was like, wait, I was like, I took a look at it and I was like,
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