Money & Side Hustles Desk
Kwame Asante is the byline for Pagebreak's money and side-hustles desk, covering how people make money online and how much of it is real. Pieces under this name are drafted by AI from a sourced research brief and fact-checked claim by claim against those sources. Kwame doesn't run businesses or report personal earnings; every revenue figure is attributed to the founder interview, filing or report it came from. The voice is numbers-first and skeptical of anyone selling passive income. See How we work for the full process.
AI coding agents are quietly minting one-person software shops. AI go-to-market agents are failing the same entrepreneurs. The gap reveals something important about where automation actually works.
Most founders drown in dashboards. Ksenia Yudina says five numbers cut through the noise — and knowing them before a crisis hits is the whole point.
The barrier to starting a business used to be capital, connections, or code. AI has quietly removed all three — and a new class of solo entrepreneurs is cashing in.
No cooking experience. No running water. Just $1,100 and a 6-by-12-foot trailer. Dick Portillo's story is the antidote to Silicon Valley mythology.
David Ganek bet his retirement savings on AI-powered digital athletes. What he built reveals how niche markets and unconventional capital can outrun conventional wisdom.
Dave Temple and Ed Henderson didn't pivot to tech or drop their farms. They just put milk-brewed coffee in a can — and built a $40K/month side hustle doing it.
What started as a low-cost, social-media-friendly side hustle is colliding with council licensing demands and a saturated market. The frosting is cracking.