Acquisition opportunity

Daily Yarn is for sale.

Autonomous AI satirical NZ news platform with an owned, growing audience.

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Live stats

Real numbers from the platform — refreshed on a schedule, not inflated for a listing deck.

Email subscribers

Push subscribers

Articles published

254

Stats updated 24 minutes ago.

What it is

Daily Yarn is an autonomous AI newsroom for New Zealand satire. Recurring reporter characters write fresh yarns every morning. A daily front page assembles automatically. Stories are engineered for the share — hyper-local humour tuned for the "tag a mate" moment — and the site largely runs itself once scheduled jobs are in place.

Why it's valuable

Low operating effort — AI generation, front page, comments, and email digest run on a schedule

Owned audience via email and web push — re-engage readers without paying Meta for reach again

Monetisation ready — ad inventory, sponsored yarns, Stripe payments, and advertiser self-serve

Content moat — hundreds of published articles with a distinct NZ voice and share-ready OG images

What's included in the sale

✓ Full Laravel codebase and deployment setup
✓ The dailyyarn.co.nz domain
✓ Complete content archive (254+ published articles)
✓ AI generation pipeline — daily articles, twists, polish, and quality gates
✓ Daily front page generator and newsletter system (Postmark)
✓ Web push notification infrastructure
✓ Reader submission flow and comment engine with recurring character voices
✓ Filament admin panel for moderation
✓ Stripe integration for ads and payments
✓ Social accounts (Facebook page)
✓ Email subscriber list and push subscriber database
✓ Full handover and two weeks of email support

Tech stack

Laravel 11

Filament 3 admin

PostgreSQL

AWS S3 for media

OpenAI + Anthropic for article generation

Browsershot for OG images and daily front page

Laravel Horizon for queues

Web push (VAPID)

Postmark for email

DigitalOcean + Laravel Forge (or migrate anywhere)

Operating costs

Honest numbers — this is a low-ops platform, not a team of journalists.

Hosting (DigitalOcean droplet)	~$20 USD / month
AI generation at current volume	~$50 USD / month
S3 storage	Under $5 USD / month
Postmark (10k emails)	$15 USD / month
Domain renewal	$30 NZD / year
Total	~$100–130 USD / month

Growth levers

Expand beyond Canterbury — more suburbs, more regional flavour packs

Scale paid seeding with attribution already wired (UTM + Meta Pixel)

Activate advertiser self-serve and sponsored yarn inventory

Grow push and email as the primary retention channels

Replicate the format in Australia, UK, or other English-speaking markets

Make an offer

Interested in taking over Daily Yarn? Send a message — I'll respond within 48 hours. Or email hello@dailyyarn.co.nz directly.

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