15 Platforms That Can Make You Rich

The internet made us rich! So it should come as no surprise that we’re writing this article on platforms that can make you just as rich as us!

As blatant as that sounds, our path to wealth would’ve been completely different if the internet wasn’t around.

Looking at the current landscape, there have never been more wealth-building tools and platforms available to the masses than there are right now!

Any one of these platforms can make you at least 1 million dollars if you master it.

Master more than one, and you and your family will never have to worry about money again.

By the end of this article, we will not only share the platforms but also give concrete examples of how we personally used them to build our own fortune.

Discover the 15 Platforms That Can Make You Rich!

Don’t worry if you don’t feel like reading; you can enjoy the video below or watch it on YouTube:

1

YouTube

You’re watching this on YouTube, and we wanted to get it out of the way.

YouTube shares the revenue from advertising with its creators, which on its own is more than enough to earn you a fortune if you provide something of value to a lot of people.

But it’s one of the best places online to build a community of people who learn about what you’re doing.

As a media and technology company, for us, YouTube is this magical place where we actually get paid to provide value to you guys and to promote our own business, which is the Alux app.

So how do you get to 1 million dollars through YouTube?

It’s not a subscriber thing; it’s more of a viewer and advertiser interest.

Numbers are all over the place, but here’s a general rule: If you get to 1000 videos that you’ve created one by one from scratch and over 200,000,000 views, you’ll probably make over a million dollars.

Just try to make your next video better than the last and learn through the process. If you go all in on this one, you should get there in under 5 years.

2

Shopify

What makes Shopify a platform that can make you rich? It makes it easy for anyone to own a beautiful online store.

If you want to sell anything online, you can get set up in a couple of hours. There are no other barriers to entry from a technological standpoint.

The creation of the store has become a drag-and-drop effort, and before the end of the day, you can start charging people for your products.

Sure, you’ll need to learn other parts of the business world. Everything from branding, manufacturing, marketing, and shipping, but platforms like Shopify have made it possible for people without technical knowledge to take part in online commerce.

Gymshark, Skims, Feastables, Kylie Cosmetics, Fashion Nova, Allbirds, Ridgewallet, and almost all the other brands you see plugged through social media are all on Shopify because they solved it.

How do you get to 1 million dollars on Shopify? You sell a $200 product to 5,000 customers.

There’s a great video on our channel about million-dollar math that breaks down exactly how the numbers work to get there.

3

Amazon, Alibaba and other e-commerce platforms

Amazon, Alibaba, and JD are basically the bulk of platform e-commerce.

In the last 24 months, Amazon and Alibaba have served over 1.5 billion people worldwide.

By the way, only 300 million were Amazon, with the remaining 1.2 being Alibaba.

These platforms can make you rich because they have the scale of distribution set in place.

Sure, the competition is fierce, as is with most industries, but never in human history have you had so many people come to a specific location—be it digital—with the specific purpose of spending money.

Here are the numbers: Amazon has 9.7 million Amazon sellers globally, and 1.9 million of them are active on the platform.

Approximately 94% of Amazon sellers use Fulfillment by Amazon, meaning Amazon handles housing and shipping to the customer on your behalf

76% of Amazon sellers become profitable, and 63% of them become profitable within the first year.

36% of Amazon sellers earn $5,000 per month.

4

Airbnb and Booking

This is how we monetize our real estate investments because the return is higher than traditional rents.

If you own property in touristy areas, clean it up nicely. Then have a professional photographer come in and upload your listing on Airbnb, Booking.com, and a bunch of other short-term rental platforms.

They handle the financial side of things; you just need to make sure the guests have a great experience.

Based on our experience, Airbnb returns 3X the amount traditional rent would.

So if your flat would rent long-term for $2,000 a month, you should expect to earn between $5,000 and $6,000 a month through short-term rentals.

Since we have the technology, you can list the same property across multiple platforms. And of course, use dynamic pricing to maximize your financial return.

If you don’t feel like actively managing the properties, you can find an agency that takes care of everything on your behalf for a 20% fee.

As of 2023, there are over 4 million hosts and 6 million properties listed globally on Airbnb. When it comes to platforms that make you rich, AirBnB is your go-to pick.

The average host earns $13,800 per year, and the fastest-growing host segment is seniors. These people have multiple properties, and they enjoy welcoming people.

The second fastest-growing are real-estate inventors, such as ourselves, who purchase property with the goal of maximizing returns.

5

eLearning Course Platforms

We launched our first online course over 5 years ago—long before everyone had a course to sell.

The reason we love digital products so much is that you build them once and then sell them a million times!

Or… as many times as people are willing to purchase.

Online education is growing incredibly fast, with the market expecting to cross a trillion dollars in the next 5 years.

 

When we started this channel, we promised not to gate-keep anything from you, so here it is: All our courses are available at Alux.org 

We personally use Thinkific as a platform to host our e-learning content.

They’re expensive; we pay $4,800 per year just to keep the courses up, but it doesn’t start off that high.

Thinkific, Teachable, and Kajabi are the most popular ones for those interested in having a more premium experience where you have your own portal.

Although there are plenty of people who’ve earned over 1 million dollars on Udemy or Skillshare, you’re better off not competing for attention there. 

We turned the entire concept of online courses on its head because there are so many low-quality products on the market with useless information.

Next Sunday, we are releasing our latest flagship course, called Reinvent Mastery.

It’s a step-by-step guide for those who feel stuck in life.

We show you exactly how to get a raise in your current workplace and how to change jobs to either get paid more or do more fulfilling work for the same money.

We can help you change the way people see you and even give you a clear path to successfully moving to another country.

Here’s how we’re different:

Not only do all our courses pay for themselves pretty fast, but if your life doesn’t actually change for the better in the first 6 months or if you feel like the course hasn’t paid for itself, we will give you all your money back—no questions asked.

Nobody is offering these kinds of guarantees on any other course out there because what they’re selling doesn’t work.

We teach skills that you can immediately apply and that will return value for years to come.

If Reinvent Mastery piques your interest, go to alux.com/reinvent and make sure your email is on the waiting list, and we’ll give you a discount when we launch.

We open the doors for only 7 days, and then we close the doors.

6

Printful, Spring, and other print-on-demand services

You create your designs and upload them to a platform under your own personalized store.

When people order a hoodie with your logo, a cap with your message, or any other products, they print and ship them to the customer on your behalf, and you split the money with the platform.

That’s how most YouTubers ship merchandise to their customers. We personally use spring for alux.com/merch 

Our honest opinion is that the quality of these products is “good enough” but not great.

But it’s a great way for communities to support their creators and show off their alliance with the cause.

The Paul brothers had tremendous success with merchandise, just like MrBeast.

7

Affiliate platforms like Amazon Associates, ClickBank, CJ

You might not have your own product, but you might have an audience you can sell to; that’s where affiliate partnerships come in.

Here’s why these platforms can make you rich: you promote other people’s products, and you get paid a commission on the sales you generate.

Most established businesses offer affiliate partnerships. For example, we are an affiliate partner for NordVPN.

If you purchase a VPN subscription using our massive discount, we get paid a share of the sale.

You get a quality product for less, we get paid, and NordVPN gets a new user that they might be able to monetize in the future.

Everybody wins.

Do you know all these comparison sites online? All they’re doing is generating search traffic and monetizing through affiliate links.

Getting started is pretty easy, but it takes time to build an audience.

8

Apple and Google store

This might sound controversial, but the Apple Store was a bigger breakthrough for Apple than the iPhone.

Why? Because it’s software.

You build it once, and then other people stock it up with valuable products, and you take a massive chunk out of their sales because you can.

Apple gets a 30% cut on everything sold through the app store, and people like us gladly pay for it because they provide distribution for the Alux app.

Same with Google.

If you’re able to develop your own mobile game or app, you can list your product on these stores and get closer to 6.9 billion people.

If 30% sounds expensive, don’t worry. There’s a program launched two years ago where both Apple and Google will only take a 15% fee until you hit a million dollars in revenue.

These two are among the top platforms that make you rich.

9

Angelist, Seedblink, and more.

Why is this on our list of platforms that make you rich? Well, these platforms allow you to invest in early-stage companies.

If the companies grow up to be profitable and eventually get acquired by bigger players, you’ll get a chuck of that money.

In the US, you need to be an accredited investor to be able to invest in startups.

To qualify as an accredited investor, you must have over $1 million in net worth. Or more than $200,000 in earned income in the past two calendar years, with the expectation of the same earnings.

Seedblink is one of the emerging platforms in Europe, but find the one that caters to your geography and browse their selection.

What we found incredibly valuable are the educational events and materials put on by these platforms, as well as an in-depth look at how other businesses are doing.

When you’re being pitched a company, you get to look at their financials, their business model, who the other investors are, and their current valuation.

This has allowed us to have a great understanding of how different companies are valued in the marketplace.

10

Masterworks and other fractional investment platforms

Some assets are incredibly expensive to acquire.

Blue-chip art was one of them. If you didn’t have a couple million to acquire a Picasso, a Basquiat, or a Worhol, you were effectively locked out of this entire asset class.

The rich loved keeping it that way until Masterworks came around.

They come with expertise and a great track record; they find a multi-million dollar company to invest in and then break it down into shares like you would with a company.

Investors buy those shares, and when the painting gets resold for a profit years later, that profit is distributed to shareholders. When it comes to platforms that make you rich, these are great top picks.

This is called fractional investing. Instead of having to invest in the entire thing, you can come together with other investors and each own a chunk.

Masterworks does this for art, and it’s doing amazingly well, with every exit so far making double-digit profits for their clients. This works, and we’re very excited to have them sponsor our Sunday Motivational Videos.

And since you’re finding out about them on our blog, you can use this link and skip the waiting list altogether (yes, there’s a waiting list but they value our readers, so enjoy!)

11

Acquired.com and Flippa

There are platforms online that allow you to acquire profitable businesses.

The prices vary from a couple thousand bucks to tens of millions, so there’s something for everyone.

Back in our publishing days, Flippa was the go-to resource for selling websites and domain names.

Since then, the entire marketplace has evolved, and we’re happy to see Flippa is still around.

One of the fastest-growing platforms in this space is acquired.com.

All kinds of businesses get listed and acquired – as the name indicates – fully online.

Selling and buying a company is traditionally a very tedious process, involving layers of investment bankers, mergers, and acquisition experts, but things seem to be getting streamlined.

If years ago only a few could dream of selling a business for millions of dollars, you can now go on any of these platforms on their recently sold pages and see it happen before your eyes.

12

Social Networks with Revenue Share Models

Probably since the beginning of the video, you were expecting us to say TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitch, Snapchat, Twitter—nobody’s calling it X Elon…

Well, we made you wait for it because you’re already familiar with most of them.

Social media platforms generate money by showing ads throughout the content that you consume.

YouTube has been at the forefront of this movement and has become massively successful. That’s why more and more companies are deciding to share some of that advertiser money with the creators as a means to incentivize you to keep creating on their platform.

Out of the list we mentioned earlier, Twitter and Snapchat are actually the ones that stand out the most.

You might not realize it, but kids are making a killing on Snapchat.

Some of you might have noticed that David Dobrik is no longer on YouTube because he moved to Snapchat. He’s making 30,000 dollars per day on Snapchat Spotlight.

13

Trading or Investing Platforms

Day trading is where you buy and sell stocks or other financial products in order to make a profit.

10 minutes on the wallstreetbets subreddit should bring you up to speed on what the degens are up to.

We’re kidding; there’s investing and there’s gambling; don’t confuse the two.

You can start with very little money, and if you get it right more times than wrong, you should be able to slowly build up your portfolio over time.

eToro, Ameritrade, and TradingView are just some of the bigger names, but the platform of choice varies from one geography to the next.

Outside of daily trading, you have big financial investment platforms like Vanguard and Fidelity.

These are more for long-term investors who are looking to buy and hold indexes and ETFs.

Personally, we recommend Vanguard to anyone who’s interested in putting money in the S&P500 and letting it compound over the years.

When it comes to platforms that make you rich, these are among your top picks.

14

Behind paywall platforms

The comments section would’ve killed us if we didn’t mention Onlyfans, so here it is.

You know what happens there, and you know why they made the list of platforms that can make you rich.

Creators incentivize users to keep paying a recurring amount to get access to new content.

Patreon is the same way. You pay $5-10-20 a month, and you get some exclusive content.

15

ChatGPT, MidJourney, and More AI

Here’s how things will unfold, because we’ve been through this before with farmers.

Farmers used to do everything by hand or with the help of animals. Then tractors were invented.

The farmers who used the tractors outperformed the ones doing it manually. Those who embraced technology first got a leg up against the competition and won.

They got richer; they acquired more land, and now all the farmland is in the hands of very few.

It happened with the internet.

People made fun of the internet and regarded it just as a place to watch cat videos, and in the span of only 2 decades, it ate up everything.

This is happening now with AI.

People think AI is for writing poetry or prompt-generating images of dogs in space.

But it’s not.

What used to require 10 people now only requires one with the proper knowledge of some AI tools.

That’s the power of AI.

The more familiar you are with these tools, the more you can stack them up on top of your current expertise and accelerate your journey to millions.

All of this platform talk got us thinking: What’s the one platform you spend most of your time on?
Let us know in the comments.

As for those of you still around, of course, we saved a bonus:

Bonus

1,000 millionaires

That’s our first goal for the Alux app.

Launched last year and downloaded by over 100,000 people, the app is getting better and better by the day.

We’ve set out on a mission to create 1,000 millionaires, and we already have the first few.

One of them is Paul Nelson, who sent us a long email detailing his journey and how Alux played a key role in helping him cross 1 million dollars per year in earnings.

 

And he’s not the only one.

Our goal is to get 1,000 of these testimonials. Help 1,000 people become millionaires and aid in the creation of over 1 billion dollars worth of value.

You should be next.

Once we reach the first 100, we will release a list on our website with the stories of how these Aluxers did it.

If you want to take part in this challenge, go and get the app right now!

Before the end of the year, we will have released v2.0, which is so powerful that we will need to increase the price of our monthly subscription. 

Those who get a yearly subscription now will be locked in at the current rate. This is why we chose to disclose this information in the bonus section of this article.

Think of it as an insider hint into what’s coming next.

These are the 15 platforms that can make you rich. See you next time!