Case Distillery
Issue #070 Oct 14, 2026 · Indie Operator Case

⌚ He turned 11 months of hobby footage into $1K/mo

Eleven months of filming a hobby he already had, and the money arrived in three separate envelopes: $500-600/mo from commissions and watch sales, ~$100/mo from ads, $300+/mo from affiliate links. Total: close to $1,000/mo. Editing time per video: about an hour. The first handful of videos made basically nothing — which, as he says, is where most people bail.

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