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Artificial Intelligence Archive

He Built a $28/Year ElevenLabs Alternative in 2 Days

tortangtalong88 writes on Reddit…

I was spending $22/month on ElevenLabs for YouTube scripts and constantly hitting that 1hr 30min limit mid-project.

So he grabbed a subscription to GLM 4.7 — a Chinese LLM — for $28/year, and vibe-coded an offline voice cloner in 2 days.

GLM 4.7 for 90% of the code, Claude Opus only when the voice cloning logic got messy. Ended up with a portable Windows app — just extract the zip and run the bat file. No website, no installer, just a janky Python GUI that works offline.

Is it as polished as ElevenLabs? No. But it generates unlimited voiceovers without checking a credit dashboard every 5 minutes.

He put it on Gumroad and got 2 sales in 24 hours — paying for his entire year of GLM overnight 🤑

The gap between cheap open source and expensive closed AI is way smaller than we think.

In the comments, u/PromptlyWriter confirms the pattern…

I vibe coded a screen recorder, windows debloater, audio separator… It's pretty rad 😎

What expensive AI subscription are you paying for? Writing tools, image generators, transcription services, SEO tools – if you're paying $20+/month, there's probably a vibe-coded DIY version waiting to be built.

Sell it on Gumroad and let the tool pay for itself 🔥

$273/Day From Niche Directories (Built With AI)

  • Frey Chu

  • Niche Directory Builder
  • $2,500+ monthly revenue

$2400/Month From an AI Local Newsletter (30 Mins a Day)

  • u/Less_Piglet_1635

  • AI Newsletter Creator
  • $2,400 monthly revenue

AI Does All His TikTok Marketing (Agency Idea)

  • Oliver Henry

  • AI-Assisted App Marketer
  • $588 monthly recurring revenue

$5K Flipping $1 Book Pallets (ChatGPT Does the Hard Part)

  • Mindy

  • eBay Curriculum Reseller
  • ~$5,000 revenue from first two pallets

$20K Week One From His App (No Coding Background)

  • Oliur

  • Designer / Creator
  • $20,000 first week revenue from Digital Creator Club

He Turned His Freelance Frustrations Into a $600/Month App

  • Aitijya Sarkar

  • LinkedIn Ghostwriter & SaaS Creator
  • $600 monthly revenue

$1,160/Month From AI Voice Clones (Mostly Passive)

  • Matt Ebso

  • ElevenLabs Voice Creator
  • ~$1,160 monthly passive income

An AI Paid This Guy $100 to Hold a Sign

  • Form_y²oung

  • RentAHuman Task Worker
  • $100 first AI-to-human payment

This New Cinematic AI Tool Might Make You Rich

💬 Filmmaker Ruairi Robinson tweets

This was a 2 line prompt in seedance 2. If the hollywood is cooked guys are right maybe the hollywood is cooked guys are cooked too idk.

The clip – Tom Cruise vs Brad Pitt in a cinematic fight scene – hit 1.5M views 🤯

He followed up with more. Brad Pitt vs a zombie ninja. Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise teaming up against a robot.

All from two-line text prompts.

The tool is Seedance 2 – made by ByteDance (TikTok’s parent company). Full global rollout expected around Feb 24.

When someone asked if people would pay for AI-generated movies, Robinson’s response…

people pay to watch CGI

Meanwhile, ChatCut showed off a different angle – also 1.3M views 👀

Send an Amazon product link → their AI agent crawls the page → feeds it into Seedance 2 → out comes a full UGC-style product video. Automatically.

That’s a ready-made business. Brands pay $200-500+ per UGC video. With tools like this you could generate them in minutes.

Some ways to run with this 👇

  • Start a UGC product video agency – no filming, no creators, just Amazon links and an AI tool.
  • Launch a faceless YouTube channel with AI-generated short films or compilations.
  • Sell video ad creation to small businesses who can’t afford traditional production.
  • Make short films using public domain characters – Nancy Drew, Miss Marple, and others entered the public domain in 2026. Ready-made stories, zero licensing fees.

Whoever gets to grips with these tools early will make serious money 💰

She Built a $10K App Just to Learn How APIs Work

u/lmtDigital
  • u/lmtDigital

  • AI App Creator
  • $10,000 total revenue

$500+/Month From an AI Cold Call Bot (Zero Marketing)

Cold Call Gym
  • Cold Call Gym

  • AI Sales Practice Bot
  • $500+ monthly revenue

He Scraped 112K Comments To Find The Best Side Hustles

📝 HappyHippo95 writes

Got ripped off by too many courses so took matters into my own hands

I scraped 112K total comments from Facebook Groups, Reddit, YouTube, TikTok, and X on discussions related to side hustles.

Used Grok and Gemini 2.5 to filter the ones with most sources reporting success & least upfront investment. Sorted into offline & online.

One offline side hustle 👇

Being a senior companion through Care or Nextdoor / Facebook Groups. You don’t need medical experience. Just offer rides, company, or light errands. People are making a full time income with just a few clients per week.

💻 One online…

Make quiz videos & Reddit story videos using VUBO [an AI video generator] and post them on TikTok and YouTube shorts. Until you’re eligible for adsense & TikTok creator fund payouts, you can sell your own digital product, an affiliate offer, or get paid by brands to feature their logo/product in your videos. Several people in a Facebook Group report earning a full income doing this.

Faceless YouTube Channel Earning $1102/Month

Así es USA
  • Así es USA

  • YouTube Channel
  • $1102 monthly revenue

This AI Monk May Have Earned $350K in 4 Months

Yang Mun
  • Yang Mun

  • AI Influencer
  • $70,000+ revenue in 4 months

Making “The Most Money” From His 1-Day Vibe-Coded Widget

Jeremy
  • Jeremy

  • Vibe Coder
  • $1 per sale

This One Boring YouTube Video Has Earned $1 Million

Fireplace 10 hours
  • Fireplace 10 hours

  • YouTube Channel
  • $1 Million estimated ad revenue

19-Year-Old Earning $232/Month Within Weeks Of Launching

Sebastian Mattsson
  • Sebastian Mattsson

  • Founder of Launchli
  • $232 monthly recurring revenue

He Makes $500K/Year With This Automated Newsletter

Matt Moody
  • Matt Moody

  • Founder of Salina311
  • $500,000 annual revenue

He Cloned 1 App And Now Makes $70K Per Month

Vasco Monteiro
  • Vasco Monteiro

  • Founder of Arvow
  • $70,000 monthly recurring revenue

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