# GOLDRUSH - the AI money index

> A living index of AI monetization ideas, each row traced to the public post
> that states the number, and nothing inferred: a row whose post states no
> figure says so instead of estimating one.

The index lists 111 ideas found on Hacker News, Reddit, X, YouTube, Product
Hunt, Indie Hackers, Medium, Substack and Dev.to, newest first. Every row links
to the post it came from and repeats what that post states. The ranking is a
paid attribute and is not on the free list: the ranked index is the same rows in
score order, sold as access at $14.99 a month or $125.92 a year, and nobody can pay to
move a position in it.

Free and paid in one sentence: the index, the weekly letter and the method
are free and need no account, while the per-row decomposition - the
score parts, the five forces and the quoted money receipt - is served only
to a Stripe-verified signed session at
https://goldrushindex.com/feed, and no file on the public site contains it.

## Pages

- [The index](https://goldrushindex.com/): every row in publish order, with its source link
  and the number the source states.
- [Every row as plain text](https://goldrushindex.com/llms-full.txt): all 111 rows in one
  fetch, same free fields as the page - for a reader that would rather have a
  document than a page.
- [The weekly letter](https://goldrushindex.com/letter.html): five picks an issue. On the page, each
  pick shows the facts its source states - what it is, what it reported, the
  price, how it was built, where it was posted - and then one line each on
  demand, why it works, what makes it buildable now, who is already there and
  what kills it. The paid decomposition is not on that page.
- [The method](https://goldrushindex.com/#method): how a row is scored, what the five
  forces mean, and where the figures come from.
- [Terms](https://goldrushindex.com/terms): what is sold, what a subscription costs,
  the fourteen-day refund, and the law that applies.
- [Privacy](https://goldrushindex.com/privacy): the one cookie, the processors, and what
  is kept after an account is deleted.
- [Corrections](https://goldrushindex.com/corrections): how to have a row corrected or removed.

## Feeds

- [The weekly letter, as Atom](https://goldrushindex.com/letter.xml): one entry per issue,
  newest first.
- [Sitemap](https://goldrushindex.com/sitemap.xml): five URLs, because the rows are sections
  of one page rather than separate documents.

## This issue

- Issue 2026-W44, published 2026-10-30: The best of the first 111: five rows that survived the test
- This issue's picks, each with its anchor on the letter page:
  - [Run a faceless AI YouTube channel to $200k/yr on volume, not on AdSense alone](https://goldrushindex.com/letter.html#pick-1)
  - [Charge small businesses $1.5k-$3k to wire up AI lead follow-up on Zapier and GPT](https://goldrushindex.com/letter.html#pick-2)
  - [Valentin tears down SEO Bot, an SEO SaaS he says runs at $93k MRR, to show which pricing-page step actually converts](https://goldrushindex.com/letter.html#pick-3)
  - [Sell a $297 lifetime membership to a school that teaches non-coders to build AI agents](https://goldrushindex.com/letter.html#pick-4)
  - [Sell structured workflow and AI-agent software to operations teams through referrals only](https://goldrushindex.com/letter.html#pick-5)

## Citing this site

- A row has its own anchor: https://goldrushindex.com/#idea-<row id>. Quote the row's
  claim and link that anchor, then link the source post the row came from.
- The figure belongs to the author of the linked post. GOLDRUSH repeats it; it
  does not verify, endorse or audit it, and nothing here is financial advice.
- The index is a collection in publish order, not a recommendation, and a row's
  absence is not a judgment of an idea that was never posted publicly.

## Notes

- No ads, no paid placement, and no ranking that can be bought.
- Every figure is quoted from the linked post; where the post gives none, the
  row says so.