A Jianbing costs 8 yuan, with a production cost of about 3–4 yuan!
The auntie has plenty of regulars placing orders via WeChat. With a high school right next door, students order ahead and pick up after class—she can sell 150–200 servings a day. Every trade has its masters.
Private home baking is one of the three major pillar industries on Xiaohongshu (the other two being floral arrangements and nail art). A quick look shows that the raw material cost is only around $50, while the selling price can exceed $259. The profit margin is that high—even more so when operating from home, where there are no rental costs for equipment or space.
There’s a huge demand for profitable business ideas. You could build a startup website that shares real-world project postmortems, then drive users to add your WeChat to buy projects—then upsell them into a two-tier affiliate program (making them your sub-affiliates). One example I’ve seen is making nearly ¥200 per day from second-tier affiliate sales on a single project.