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Artificial Intelligence Archive

He Made $20K Selling an App That Didn’t Exist

  • Gil Hildebrand

  • SaaS Founder
  • $30,000 monthly subscription revenue

Get Paid $15-25/Hour to Film Yourself Doing Chores

πŸ“ A Reddit user spotted DoorDash's new Tasks app…

Doordash Task is paying $15-$25/hour for doing basic chores.... Basically you're training Ai to take our jobs in the future... it's pretty good money for doing things you already have to do.

They mail you a free head mount. You strap your phone to it, film yourself loading the dishwasher or folding laundry, and the footage trains AI and robots πŸ€–

Best part πŸ‘‡

It's also paid by time and not task, so you want the task to take longer. Max time is usually 20mins and you'll most likely never reach the 20mins because it doesn't take that long to take out the trash or load a dishwasher for example.

So people stretch it. One person filled a bathtub with a bucket to make "pouring liquids" last the full 20 minutes.

πŸ€‘ Easy money, but earnings are modest – one reviewer reports $160 from 30 videos, another $50 in their first week.

It's live in 34 US states, no California, New York or Texas yet.

Everywhere else, Atlas Capture is running the same play worldwide 😎

$750 a Pop Selling Other People’s Stuff

πŸ“ Amer Arab spent weeks selling everything he owned before an international move, and decided the tools were the problem. So he built ClearList.

You photograph each item. AI writes the title, description, price and dimensions, then drops the lot onto one shareable page where buyers reserve what they want and book their own pickup slot – no messages to answer.

He says the pricing lands...

within 10 to 15% of where I would have landed after doing 20 minutes of Facebook Marketplace research, except it takes about 30 seconds.

πŸ’° He listed his own apartment – 46 items – in 10 minutes. A 200-item pass costs $39, one time, no subscription.

Now look at the competition. Commission on a small estate sale can run to 50%, and the average sale grosses $18K.

Companies will turn down a job they reckon is too small. So do it for the families they turn away. 😎

Buy the pass, photograph a client's house in an afternoon, let the AI write and price every listing, then run the sale off one link.

Take 15% instead of 50% and a $5,000 clearout looks like this πŸ‘‡

  • You: $750, minus the $39 pass
  • Them: $4,250 instead of $2,500

Still beats every liquidator in town 😎

$400K/Month From a Single-Feature AI App

  • CoinSnap

  • AI Coin Identifier App
  • $400,000 monthly revenue

$6M/Year From a Website That Just Unscrambles Words

  • Ramesh Jha

  • Utility Site Builder
  • $1-6M estimated per year

$8K/Month From 350 AI Websites Nobody Asked For

  • Brandon

  • AI Marketing Agency Owner
  • $8,000 monthly recurring revenue

$4,200 From an AI Agent That Never Earned a Cent

  • ScaryAd2555

  • Airbnb Host
  • $4,200 extra income over 6 months

€3,000 To Build An AI Email Agent For 500 Hotels

  • Vusal Novruzov

  • AI Agent Developer
  • €3,000 per project

$3K in 45 Days Selling “Tiny AI Tools” Anyone Could Build

  • Ryan Doser

  • Marketing Consultant
  • $3,000+ in his first 45 days

$110K/Month From AI-Written Kids’ Books

  • Mary Allan

  • Children's Book Author
  • $110,000 estimated monthly profit

$850 in 30 Days Selling AI Ads to Local Businesses

A broke 23-year-old grad tried ecomm, freelance, and websites. Nothing stuck.

Then he tried an experiment he saw on Reddit…

πŸ“ He writes…

Make 100 short ai ad concepts for local businesses and send them directly to the owners... Just make the actual thing first and send it.

No pitch. Just the finished ad, made with AI, sent cold.

He targeted med spas, gyms, and dentists – they already run promos but their creative is weak.

The funnel from 100 sends πŸ‘‡

  • 19 replied
  • 8 asked the price
  • 2 bought
  • 2 became monthly retainers

First month: $850. He charges $150–250 per ad, or $400–750/month for a batch of 4–6.

What surprised him: local businesses replied way more than ecommerce brands πŸ‘€

His biggest lesson though – stop leading with "AI"…

When I said "AI ad," people either ignored it or treated it like some cheap gimmick. When I said "short-form ad concept," they understood it immediately.

Build something useful, show it first, and don't make the tool the headline.

Run this play in any local niche with money and weak ads 😎

Mom’s Vibe-Coded App Made $1,536 in Month One

  • Shirin Syed

  • App Maker
  • $1,536 first month revenue

Sneaky $36K/Month From Faceless YouTube Shorts

  • Kellan Henneberry

  • Faceless YouTube Operator
  • $36,591 in one month

$4.5K/Month From a Vibe-Coded Trend Scraper (Zero Marketing)

  • Great_Key_766

  • Cosmetics Brand Owner
  • $4,500 monthly recurring revenue from side tool

Sneaky AI Service That Sells Itself ($500+/Month Per Client)

Chris Koerner shared how to build an AI agent that auto-texts back missed calls for small businesses.

The stat behind it...

57% of sales goes to whoever responds first. And that's not my opinion. That's data.

Most small businesses let missed calls go to voicemail. Callers don't call back.

The fix: an AI agent – built inside GoHighLevel – that texts the caller a couple of minutes later. Not a static "sorry we missed you" – a full two-way conversation that answers questions and books appointments πŸ€–

Customize the AI prompt per business – tree trimmer, plumber, dentist – and it handles the rest.

Here's the sneaky part πŸ‘‡

You use the same system to find clients. Record a voicemail, blast it to local business phone numbers, and when they call back... your AI pitches them the service.

Chris demos this live – scrapes 181 tree trimmers in Dallas, sends voicemail drops, and within minutes a business owner texts back asking about pricing πŸ‘€

A teenager used the same approach and landed her first client on her 16th birthday.

Cost to start: ~$100/month. One client at $500/month covers everything.

Could be a nice recurring income stream selling this to tradespeople in your area 😎

$14K in 30 Days From Faceless AI TikTok Shop Videos

No face. No inventory. No filming. Just AI clips of trending products, posted to TikTok Shop on repeat πŸ€–

The clever bit: you're not chasing views. You're catching buyers who already saw the product elsewhere and are ready to pull the trigger.

David Margaryan sums up the logic…

We are not going for views, we are going for conversions.

Because when a video actually gets a conversion, what's going to happen is the brand of that product is going to run ads with their money on your video.

So one converting clip becomes an ad-fueled sales engine – paid for by the brand, not you πŸ‘€

The playbook πŸ‘‡

  • Find a surging-but-unsaturated product on Kalodata, a TikTok Shop analytics tool
  • Generate a 5-second product clip with AI (~2 minutes)
  • Reverse it in CapCut so it zooms in, then out – now it's 10 seconds
  • Add a discount overlay ("45% off"), grab a trending sound, post

David runs 15-20 of these a day across several accounts, all handed off to a VA. He shows one client account that hit $14K in its first 30 days 🀯

Commissions on TikTok Shop run roughly 5-10% on electronics and 15-20% on health and wellness – so that's where the math gets interesting fastest 😎

He Built 350+ AI Local Newsletters – Then Got Acquired

πŸ“ Matthew Henderson is a self-taught developer who built an AI newsletter so his grandparents could keep up with their hometown.

Then he scaled it.

By early 2025, his network Good Daily was running 350+ daily local newsletters across 47 states. All AI-driven πŸ€–

One person at the controls.

In July, 6AM City – the biggest US local newsletter publisher – acquired Good Daily and made Henderson VP of Engineering.

πŸ€‘ He'd added 500K+ subscribers in under a year, with markets as small as Rock Springs, WY (pop. 20K).

It's also reshaping how 6AM City scales.

From a recent podcast, COO Ryan Heafy laid out the math πŸ‘‡

For a quarter million dollars, I can go turn on a city... be live in 90 days and be profitable in two years.

...now I can be up and running in one day and be profitable in two days and be in any city we want to be in.

Pick a small town nobody's covering and spin up your own AI-driven daily digest, monetized via local ads 😎

$6,800/Month From a Free Preview Website Service

  • NoGround511

  • Web Designer
  • $6,800 monthly revenue

$15K In 30 Days From One AI-Written PDF

  • Leon Green

  • YouTuber / Digital Products Seller
  • $15,114 in 30 days from one PDF guide

$8K/Month From a New AI-Generated YouTube Channel

  • Jonathan Laramy

  • AI History Creator (Chloe VS History)
  • $8,000 estimated monthly ad revenue

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