He Used ChatGPT to Build a $6000/Month Business

Pete McPherson is the founder of DYEB (Do You Even Blog), where he teaches blogging via courses, YouTube and a podcast.

He recently tweeted a screenshot showing $6,039.49 in monthly recurring revenue 📈

Pete’s words with that screenshot…

Built and launched a Saas product by my lonesome.

I’m not a developer.

His software as a service (SaaS) product is FABB, described as “an end-to-end AI machine for bulk blogging” 🤖

Pete goes on to explain how he built it…

1 – I DO have HTML/CSS experience from years of using WordPress.

2 – I started back in March, going through @thenetninjauk’s React course and building an app alongside it. It took 2 months and was a huge, huge, huge pain in the ass. I learned a TON.

3 – I spent a few weeks cleaning that app, marketing it to the email list, etc.

4 – I started work on FABB (the “real” app idea I’ve had since Jan), and chose SvelteKit + Firebase because of a 100-second YouTube video.

5 – I went through the course, building my app as I went along.

THEN I USED CHATGPT to fill in the blanks of code.

Yes, it started off super rough, and wouldn’t work 80% of the time.

But I kept at it, and after a few weeks I hardly needed AI at all to implement changes.

Several months back, Pete published this video 👇

• How ChatGPT built me a blogging app (!)…

Looks like that’s the app he was referring to in Step 2 above.

💬 At the start of the video he says…

If you wanted to code an app, a Chrome extension, a WordPress plugin, a mobile app, anything… whether you’re a developer or not, I have some notes on how you could get started

Later he shows all the code for that app and notes…

I can’t really tell you a whole lot about how some of this stuff works. But honest to goodness, like 98% of this was done with ChatGPT and the other 2% was me Googling and figuring out how to do stuff

Pretty amazing how Pete went from essentially no backend coding knowledge to single-handedly building a SaaS that earns him $6000/month… all in the space of ~7 months 🤯

Of course, Pete did have an audience built up to market his SaaS to. Without that, it surely would have taken him much longer to hit $6K/month in revenue.

Still, if you have an idea for an app yourself, fire up ChatGPT and see what it can do 💪