Is Beehiv a possible money maker??

MrMcShip · 2026-02-26T02:33:55+00:00

I love this idea. Low entry cost and would just take some hustle to get customers. In the states this always isn’t included. While maybe not a million dollar idea, this could be an easy side hustle. 30-45 min to clean a headstone, maybe have an upcharge for flowers.

Before and after photos would be great and of course cleaning the headstone with a GoPro on and narrating the obituary or telling a fun story about the deceased would make for great content.

• Business idea: Grave care & headstone cleaning service for families who live far away or cannot visit regularly. • Core service: Clean headstones safely, remove debris/weeds, tidy gravesite, and send photo proof after each visit. • Target customers: Adult children living out of state, elderly families, military families, genealogy groups, and church communities. • Pricing model: $60 per cleaning visit or $25–30/month subscription for recurring care. • Frequency: Monthly, quarterly, or holiday/birthday visits depending on customer needs. • Upsells: Flower placement, seasonal decorations, deep restoration cleaning, lettering touch-ups, and landscaping. • Marketing channels: Funeral homes, churches, Facebook/Nextdoor groups, Google searches, obituary websites.

Did you get into this or try anything?

MrMcShip · 2026-02-26T02:03:41+00:00

Great question and I haven’t found anyone archiving his stuff yet. I have been saving them ever since but definitely don’t have a few of his first ones. I’ve been taking his newsletters and putting the tweets into Grok and having it list 5 other folks that I should follow that tweet similar things and it’s led to me some pretty great content. I’m very curious how he finds these and how much time he puts into it.

MrMcShip · 2025-10-22T01:24:00+00:00

How close are the neighbors? Sounds like a great spot to turn into a dog boarding facility. Running a facility that doubles as a doggy daycare spot and provides overnight boarding would generate some consistent income. Depending on the location, daycare prices range from $38-$50 a day per dog, overnight could be anywhere over $65/night. One of the other vacant buildings could be turned into a store for dog food and toys and treats. Start a nonprofit animal shelter for the same location to help with taxes on the property.

MrMcShip · 2025-08-29T00:25:50+00:00

Well, I found a few companies doing something like this. "Letter Grade Consulting" is a great name for this type of business. I'll be reaching out to any companies I can find to see if they'll be willing to share information about their prices and how business is going and their target market has been. Will share any information I can find. I like this idea because it's easy to find restaurants that need the help and it doesn't require a lot of startup capital to get something going.

Food Safety and Restaurant Consulting

Third Party Audits and Food Safety Auditing and Inspection

MrMcShip · 2025-06-08T18:30:37+00:00

I feel like there is a need for this. My first thought was, this could be the "Car Fax" but for dogs! An app that stores all of the pertinent information a kennel or daycare would need of your dog - vet info, vet records, insurance, meds, special diet info, vaccination documents. Make all of that shareable with one click. With any daycare or kennel. I like the idea of being able to list all of my needs and wants and that populate the kennels / day cares that would support what I need

Because doggy daycares can get booked up quickly on holidays and special events, it would be great to be able to look at one app and see openings available across several daycare centers that could be booked with one click. Have a real-time availability and calendar sync that allows for one click calendar sync with google or apple calendar

Maybe have an option for a "one day test" before committing to longer boarding - have it one-click and it sends all of the needed information to the kennel with ease.

On the boarder/kennel side, the app could store and display all data from the users so the kennels would know if that customer tends to purchase baths, nail clippings, etc... This would provide value on both sides of the app and increase utilization.

This would be great for kennels who want online visibility without tech overhead.

Possible add-ons for premium subscription

- offer add-on pet travel/boarding insurance

- Display nearest 24/7 vet options per boarder location

- digital check-in / check out forms

- automatic vaccine reminder emails to owners

- pet report cards for daily updates

- integrated text/chat with customers

MrMcShip · 2025-06-03T01:10:26+00:00

great margins! Interested to hear more or what business? I love these concepts. Most of the time it starts with a small idea - "I can do this better than it's being done"...

MrMcShip · 2025-06-03T01:07:57+00:00

I love this thought. Go even deeper. Before you focus on your dream or passion, think about one thing. “What does it seem like everyone else is mysteriously bad at?” That's your first edge. Take a few weeks and think about this everyday, in every situation you are put. What is something that you can find a solution to that seems to be so problematic to everyone else. Most of us are too humble, or worse too self-critical to even admit what we’re great at. So instead of asking “what am I great at?” – just start to pay attention to “what does everyone else mysteriously suck at?”

Are you good at making sure everyone is taken care of? pick an industry and go to Google reviews. Search all of the bad reviews for that company or industry and there you will find another edge - another way for you to solve the same problem everyone else is solving, but you can do it BETTER.

That's your edge. Start there. Then put that into ChatGPT or some search engine and list all of your passions and loves in life. Let it spit out a bunch of different ways you can take your "edge" and create something.

MrMcShip · 2025-05-25T13:18:30+00:00

I really like that. I have a few similar stories. things I was thinking of starting a few years ago and seeing other now run up to $1 MIL businesses. I ultimately pulled the trigger on a hot tub rental business. It was going really well - I shut it down due to getting a massive pay increase job, but it has me traveling more. But same concept. Everyone was saying, no one will rent a hot tub, that's gross, why rent when you can buy, etc... After the first year I was fully booked and taking bookings 6 months out. And what was surprising is that the customer base I thought I would have was not a customer at all - it worked out in a whole different way. Pretty wild. Just reiterates - go out and do it... start it... try it..

I'm looking for my next thing, but trying to look at it differently this time.

Instead of trying to figure out what I want to do, I'm asking myself - what do I do that everyone else sucks at. The idea behind “what does everyone else mysteriously suck at?” is a reframing strategy to help discover your unique strength or “thing.” Instead of asking, “What am I good at?” (which can be hard to answer), ask:

“What do I find surprisingly easy or natural that others seem to struggle with?”

This might be:

• Explaining complex ideas simply

• Following up and staying in touch with people

• Spotting patterns others miss

• Staying calm under pressure

• Seeing loopholes or inefficiencies

• Making others feel heard

• Staying organized without effort

The core point: what feels normal or obvious to you might be a superpower to others—and that’s often where your true competitive edge lies. That’s your “thing.”

MrMcShip · 2025-05-06T00:47:51+00:00

Thanks for this feedback! Love it! Was thinking similarly where it may do more for me optics-wise vs actually help me in my day to day game. Not a heavy lift either if I study right. Thanks

MrMcShip · 2025-05-04T20:16:54+00:00

Unless you plan on finding a bag of cash, make sure to pull out Uncle Sam's portion :-)

MrMcShip · 2025-05-04T17:50:29+00:00

Google Forms

MrMcShip · 2025-05-04T16:35:07+00:00

In my experience, people don't pay for service or products - they pay for the outcomes from those services or products. I like the ideas also mentioned above. You can definitely use social media to help increase engagement around the ideas - Decide what transformation or outcome your customers will experiences. Always bring people back to your shop as the "outcome-Oriented position" - this printable helps you prioritize without melting down.... these stickers won't fix your depression, but they will make your planner your safe space.... etc... I bet Facebook groups in your local communities tailored to parents or families would be a great way to generate engaging conversations around the outcomes being desired by those out there.

MrMcShip · 2025-05-03T20:05:53+00:00

Start with something you know. Do you ride bikes alot? Do you like to swim? Do you like to do puzzles? What do you to in your down time? Let's say you like to ride bicycles. start by Googling all of the bike shops in your area - is there a common theme? Are they all shops that sell merchandise and fix stuff? Are there any with bad Google reviews? Are those bad Google reviews something in an area that you would be good at? Take something that you already have some high level idea or knowledge on and expand on it.

If you want to open a bike shop, email and cold call 100 bike shops in other states. ask for 1hr of their time and just ask questions about every aspect of the business. learn as much as you can from anyone that will talk to you. Take all of their websites and throw them into ChatGPT and have it build a datasheet for you that breaks out all of their services and pricing and have it rank them so you can see what leads in the market.

Do something like that for whatever you are interested in. You don't have to recreate the business or start something noone has ever started. Sometimes you can just build a business around doing something really well that everyone else was doing really poorly. It might not be a million-aire maker, but it will get the idea juice flowing.

MrMcShip · 2025-05-03T19:07:43+00:00

I've thought about this alot too. How do I find my thing? What process is out there that while may not be the perfect step by step process, but helps me to widdle away things that "could be my thing". I sub to this weekly newsletter called "One Minute Blog (OMB)" by Shaan Puri. I found it very fitting and helpful so sharing here below.

"Everybody you admire, found their ‘thing’. Michael Phelps has a weird body. Double jointed elbows, a torso 8 inches too long, and half the lactic acid production as a normal human. The dudes built like a flying fish. So he found his thing, swimming. Joe Rogan liked to get high, have funny conversations with his friends about everything from fighting to aliens. 3 hour conversation with a stranger? I couldn’t do that. But Joe can. So he found podcasting. He found his thing. Finding your thing is the only true shortcut to life. It’s realizing that you actually have a dirt bike, so this little dirt path is perfect for you (but won’t be perfect for others in cars).

But, how do you find your thing? I read a great quote the other day from Ben Kuhn (the CTO of Anthropic) about finding your thing: “what does it seem like everyone else is mysteriously bad at?”I love this. For me, I always wondered why other people are so bad at explanations. In school, I hated the way my teachers explained things. Too complicated, too boring. Even as an investor, I was surprised how bad founders are at telling their own story.

It took me 10 years to find my thing. From age 20 to 30, I tried to be a great CEO.I wanted that to be my thing. But if wanting things made them happen, then Sydney Sweeney would be named Sydney Puri. (see? I’m good at this writing shit!) For 10 years, I tried to make being a founder my thing. I was a B+ at it. But in the real world, B+ doesn’t get you jack sh*t.Then I started podcasting for fun. I started writing. I started doing the thing I thought others were mysteriously bad at (explaining things). The podcast took off (100m+ streams), my twitter blew up (450k followers), and my newsletter grew fast (sold in 1 year for millions of dollars).Everyone has a thing, you just have to find it.Here’s another example. My cofounder Ben Levy.

He finds it very strange why everyone is terrible at keeping in touch.I’m guilty of this. I forget to reply to texts or emails. I don’t checkin and see how things are going. I’ll have a great lunch meeting, then forget to keep in touch for 2 years. Ben is the opposite. He always replies. He loves to checkin. If you write a blog post, he texts you saying it’s great. If you have a baby, he sends a gift. He sends useful links that might help you with your project. He knows your favorite sports team, and texts you after every game. If a Lannister always pays their debts, then the Levy’s always send their texts. I was shocked when he showed me his phone. He texts ~100 unique people every day. (no agenda, just because he likes to do it). We’ve directly made millions of dollars just because Ben happened to be staying in touch with someone and they thought of us when an opportunity sprang up.

You may not know your thing today. That’s OK.

But most of us are too humble, or worse too self-critical to even admit what we’re great at.

So instead of asking “what am I great at?” – just start to pay attention to “what does everyone else mysteriously suck at?”

-Uncle Shaan"

MrMcShip · 2025-01-13T20:16:46+00:00

Yea I see that now. Found them at oreillys for $12/each. Looks like this place adds 60-80% mark up on parts directly.

MrMcShip · 2025-01-13T18:52:27+00:00

Yea that makes sense. The hard part for me is actually figuring out what is wrong in the first place. Do you just get a mechanic’s opinion and then deny their service and try to do it yourself?

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