High profit Low stress business ideas

I’ve been thinking a lot about business models that offer the best pay-to-work ratio with the least amount of stress.

I see many indie hackers chasing scalable businesses, but I also see many getting stuck in high-maintenance, high-stress models (client work, constant support issues, platform,… .).

For me currently, I think selling a course or e-book is one of the best options out there.

I’m still exploring and would love to hear what you guys think are good business models that suit the low stress idea?

Thanks!

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@dris

3 weeks ago

The ecommerce/course-selling space is already extremely competitive. You'll probably have more than enough stress trying to be successful there.

There are plenty of high-profit & low-stress businesses out there, they're just ones nobody is talking about. Try and find a niche where you have expertise in and narrow your demographic to an even smaller segment. From there, find a problem that people in that niche would pay top-dollar to solve.

80% of revenue comes from 20% of customers - focus on targeting a few of the biggest spenders with bigger ticket items as opposed to plenty of lower spenders with smaller sales.

@Anton

3 weeks ago

Thanks for the response. That’s some solid advice right there. Finding a specific niche for a SaaS seems like the way to go now! 😊

@bulkman

3 weeks ago

Selling courses/e-book business also requires a lot of effort and great sales/marketing skills to make it work.

Best selling courses come from influencers with lots of followers and it is not easy to get there. Paid advertising will never get you there where big following from social media will.

@Anton

3 weeks ago

That’s a valid point. Creating a course is one thing but finding the market to sell it to is another. Thanks for the advice!

@harvansh

4 weeks ago

Totally agree — low-stress but profitable is the dream. I’ve found that SaaS with a simple, self-serve model (minimal support needed) strikes a good balance. Curious, have you considered productized services or subscription-based content?

@Anton

4 weeks ago

Thanks for the great suggestions! I have indeed considered subscription-based content, seems like a good balance between profit and stress as well. Cheers

@Radjid

4 weeks ago

Yea. Competing in the indie hacker space is hard and super competitive. Courses or ebooks might make you more money, I agree