Selling bugs doesn’t seem easy
You’ll likely need experience in insect breeding for my question.
About ten years ago, my family had 2 reptiles so we bred mealworms (not super well, but we tried) and kept crickets around to see if they would slowly breed as we fed them away. With how things are looking recently, I needed a side job that was more flexible on hours and paid however much work I put into it. I’ve been reading and reading on crickets and discoid roaches, and people talk about how it was so cheap to get started and the maintenance cost isn’t that bad, but I’m thinking between egg cartons and buying small amounts of coco coir so that the bottom of the bin is easier to clean, I’m thinking just in substrate it may be $50-$100 monthly, then you need good food, not just table scraps, then any cleaners and other things that are not quite a monthly basis but are regularly used may add more.
So am I overthinking everything compared to small time typical roach and cricket breeders or what am I missing? Additionally if anyone is currently breeding discoids or crickets and are passionate enough to lend advice from time to time, I’d appreciate to start a dm with someone who’s already experimented around.