when in a gold rush, sell shovels one rarely talked about passive income stream you can build in crypto is trading bot referral codes it allows you to make money during memecoin seasons without even having to participate in them a year and a half ago i started my public vibecoding journey, back when prompting was still hard, mostly building free tooling for CT: batch airdrop checkers, KOL trackers, and ways to monitor new KOL coin launches across different launchpads (zora, boopfun, believe, bags...) the most profitable by far ended up being the latter the formula was pretty simple: a website + telegram announcement channel that notified traders, with very low latency, whenever a potentially interesting new coin launched (also scanning socials and providing a score) whenever i built one of these, i added an easy "trade" button linking to the most popular trading bots naturally, a lot of people using those bots for the first time signed up through my refcode fast forward a year+ those old signups are still making me ~$1.5k/day in fees, essentially passively, just because i built free, useful public-good tooling for onchain traders "build useful free tools and collect passive income around them" has been one of my favorite metas and the barrier to building this stuff has never been lower i'm also likely near the bottom of the refcode leaderboards. imagine what tools like rick bot are making every day for providing a free service