Her AI Project: From $500 to $5000 in 8 Weeks

Remember that guy who went viral by asking ChatGPT 🤖 to make him as much money as possible, starting with $100?

That launched the #HustleGPT trend, where a bunch of folks online are trying to make fast money with ChatGPT.

One such person is Hazel Lim, who recently tweeted…

🔥 Narrated Tours is SOLD 🔥

· The Challenge: Go from $500 to $5000 in 8 weeks
· The Team: Me + ChatGPT as my copilot
· The Idea: AI Audio Tour Guide

Check out the website: Narrated Tours

It’s an AI-powered tool that creates custom audio walking tours…

Instantly create guided walking tours for any city. Just tell us how long you want to walk, what city you’re visiting and let our software do the rest.

Looks like Hazel wasn’t earning any revenue from it, but the idea was to build a promising product and quickly sell it for $5000.

Mission accomplished 😎

(You can still see Narrated Tours listed for sale here)

Best I can tell, these were the key tools Hazel used to build the product…

• Glide
• Google Sheets
• ChatGPT

But it sounds like the real magic was in her marketing…

How I ✨ maximised valuation ✨ for this project:

✅ Launched on @ProductHunt (#4 Product of the Day)
✅ Did B2B cold outreach. We lined up 5 potential B2B partners to sell our tours.
✅ Backlinks from AI newsletters (40% of our traffic came from here).

Check out her listing on ProductHunt, and her tips for a successful PH launch.

Hazel’s marketing efforts are even more impressive when you consider that she doesn’t have a massive following online: ~3000 Twitter followers seems to be her main audience.

Also, make no mistake: Hazel worked her ass off to build and sell this product 🥵

She tweeted back in April…

Bootstrapping a startup while being the DEFAULT parent is hard.

Right now, I’m sobbing because I just ran 5k to get a 1-hr backup childcare after 3 failed busses so that I can work… on a sports centre bench.

Maybe one day, I will look back and smile.

And then in June…

it wasn’t all sunshine and roses.

· I got scared
· I doubted myself
· I got rejected many times
· I couldn’t get the code to work

Most people skip over this but the hustle is HARD.

So while Hazel clearly has some great technical and marketing skills, I’d say it’s her entrepreneurial mindset and emotional resilience that makes her a winner 🔥

Also worth checking out from Hazel…

• Here’s literally 500 juicy AI ideas waiting for you.
• Her Startup Paperclip Challenge

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