53:023 Startup Ideas: Mouse Jigglers, Employee Monitoring Softwares and Photoshop Copycats
From My First Million · Published Jul 4, 2025 · Watch on YouTube
TL;DR
The video revisits the overemployment trend from two years ago, documenting how mouse jiggler devices (e.g., Tech Eight USA) and employee monitoring software (Hubstaff, $22M ARR) have exploded. It profiles a moderator who built overemployed.com (60k Discord members, $300/year) and highlights indie developers creating free clones of Photoshop (Photo P, $300k/month) and After Effects (Pikimov).
Key insights
- The pandemic enabled overemployment because remote work allowed employees to hide multiple jobs; Wells Fargo fired employees using mouse jigglers to fake activity.
- Mouse jigglers are sold as "thoughtful gifts" and marketed with winking language to avoid admitting they enable fraud.
- Hubstaff, a bootstrapped employee tracking side project from 2019, grew to $22M ARR with 15,000+ paying customers.
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