Apollo Disposal
A two-dumpster driveway rental business booked through a one-page site and a phone number.
Nicholas Murphy · Houston, Texas, USA · Sales Manager
The story
Nick didn't set out to start a dumpster company. He needed to clear out a rental property, balked at the local prices, and realized the whole operation was a truck, a bin, and a phone number that actually got answered.
The first version was a mistake: he signed up as a lead reseller for a national brand, paid to run ads, and handed most of the margin back. Eleven days in he booked his first job direct, a contractor mid-renovation who found his one-page site, and kept the whole ticket. That was the moment the business became real.
Today it's two bins worked around a marketing job, mostly weekends. The constraint isn't demand, it's capacity: one bin out means one booking he can't take. He's candid that it's physical work tied to the weather, and that the transfer-station runs are the part nobody sees. But the numbers are clean, the customers are local, and the whole thing is replicable by one person with a few thousand dollars and a willingness to do the unglamorous parts.
The honest part
The catch
The work is physical and weather-dependent. A single bin means you turn away jobs whenever it's already out, and hauling to the transfer station eats an hour each load.
What failed first
Competition was tough. We were competing against operators who did not operate as a business and didn't carry insurance or licensing. This allowed them to under cut the industry price by lowering their expenses.
Would do differently
Buy the second bin sooner. Demand was there months before I trusted it, and every weekend we were sold out was money left on the table.
The full breakdown