Matt Brown
- Publisher, Extra Points
- $25,000+ monthly revenue
Matt Brown files open records requests for his college sports reporting, things like coach contracts and department budgets.
He sells access to that pile as the Extra Points Library, 10K+ documents at $299 a month.
That used to come free with his newsletter, and hardly anyone bothered…
that directory was literally just a giant Google Drive. It was barely organized, the documents didn’t have uniform naming systems, there were duplicates everywhere…it was a mess.
Essentially, the FOIA Directory was the digital equivalent of a junk drawer, the place where you shove batteries and twist ties and mostly-dried-out-pens.
So he hired developers, made it searchable, and relaunched at $199 a month.
Extra Points now does $25K+ a month across all its products 
Other examples 
- Trademarkia: $5M/year repackaging the US patent office’s public database.
- Cormac Hayden: $20K/month from an app that reports on water quality.
The hassle is the whole point – each document is its own request, fee and wait…
We’re also happy to offer FOIA-as-a-service, where we file requests for specific documents on behalf of others who might not want their names on a public record request.
Find a niche where the documents are public but a pain to get, like council contracts or licensing filings, then rent access or file the requests for others 