Zero to $64,000/Month in 3 Months With AI
Yasser Elsaid
- Founder of Chatbase
- $60,000 Chatbase monthly revenue
Using ChatGPT to Build Simple Apps & Tools
If you wanted to build a simple tools site like HTML CSS Tools or RandomTools.io, how would you do it?
Two tweets that might give you some ideas 👇
There's a blog I need to check daily for new posts.
Doesn't have an RSS feed.
Was paying RSS.app $10/m to handle this for me.
Just spent 20 mins in @Replit with ChatGPT helping me build a python app to take care of this for nothing.
(He goes on to share his code.)
I just cancelled a $30 subscription for a scraper tool, because I built it myself with the help of ChatGPT.
ChatGPT is making it easier than ever to build simple tools and apps like this.
You could make a bunch of them, put them on a website, and monetize with display ads. Follow Joseph Maxim's playbook to build some links 🔗
Probably best to hyper focus on a niche for a website like this. I asked ChatGPT to come up with some unusual niches and it gave me some good jumping off points.
See my ChatGPT conversation and continue it yourself here 👀
One idea it came up with…
Pet-related Tools: Create tools and calculators for pet owners, such as a dog age calculator (converting human years to dog years), cat BMI calculator, snake tank size estimator, or hamster wheel speed calculator. These tools can cater to pet enthusiasts seeking specific information related to their beloved companions.
Obviously you'd need to do some competitor research before diving into anything like this, see if such a website already exists and (if so) how tough it would be to outrank 🧐
Also, creating a website like that and driving traffic to it takes time.
Once you get good at building apps and tools with ChatGPT, a quicker way to monetize would be to offer your services as a freelancer.
If that interests you, follow Sam Matla's advice here 👇
How To Start Creating With Artificial Intelligence
Ammaar Reshi has gone viral a few times in recent months due to his AI experiments 🤖
Check these out…
- Alice and Sparkle children's book, made in a weekend, earned $45 the first day but also prompted death threats 😱
- 8-minute interview with a dead president, made in 3 hours.
- Animated Batman short, made in 6 hours, 7 million views.
- World War 2 movie trailer, made in a weekend, using AI text-to-video.
Creator Economy has an interview with Ammaar where they ask…
It's great that you built this reputation without needing some machine learning PhD. You simply used the tools to create stuff.
Ammaar replied…
Exactly. And that’s what makes this space so special—anyone can jump in and pick up these tools. Your imagination is the limit.
He goes on to share the 3-step process he uses to create with AI…
1. Pick a use case: e.g., Children’s book.
2. Break down the steps: e.g., Story, illustration, publishing.
3. Find the right tool for each step. e.g., ChatGPT, Midjourney, Amazon.
Ammaar has more tips and examples in this Twitter thread 👈
While we're on the subject, some other interesting AI bits and pieces…
- Podcast.ai, a podcast entirely generated by artificial intelligence, featuring the likes of Oprah, Quentin Tarantino and Richard Feynman.
- I Used AI to Interview Dead People: 9-minute video showing you how to create a Podcast.ai-like interview with free tools.
- The musician Grimes is allowing people to mimic her voice and use it in their own songs, "offering 50-50 royalties for commercial use." Here's how to do it and here's an example song…
- Example of Photoshop's new AI capabilities: part 1 (first one is a joke), part 2.
- Google SGE First Impressions: 17-minute video where Gael from Authority Hacker shares 9 takeaways from playing around with Google's new AI search features…
- Lord of the Rings by Wes Anderson Trailer: mind-blowing AI-generated trailer of a fictional movie.
That last one has me thinking: probably won't be long until we see a blockbuster movie that was made by one guy in his bedroom with the help of AI 🤯…
Nigerian Freelance Writer: $6500 Earned in 1 Month
John Iwuozor
- Freelance Writer
- $6500 earned in 1 month
25 Fiverr Gigs That Can Be Done Faster/Better With AI
Nico Jeannen
- Serial Entrepreneur
- $1000 pre-sales of Scrap.co in 24 hours
RIP Graphic Designers?
Paul Couvert has been playing around with Microsoft's AI tools 🤖 and tweets…
RIP graphic designers?
AI can create a logo in seconds.
Here is how to create any logo for free using AI:
He goes on to show some impressive examples, and steps through how to create your own.
I believe you need to be using the Microsoft Edge browser to access Bing's AI chat features.
But if you have a Microsoft account you can use their image generation AI at bing.com/create
And for the record, I don't believe tools like this will replace graphic designers, but it definitely changes the game.
It reminds me of how WordPress changed the game for web designers many years ago. WordPress came along and made it easy for non-web designers to create beautiful and functional websites.
That didn't replace web designers, but it did replace some of their tasks. Smart web designers saw that as an opportunity to focus on more complex projects – stuff that WordPress alone couldn't do – and charge more for their work.
I suspect we'll see similar happening with graphic design and AI tools.
Related: Here are the best AI videos I've found 🤯
Clever Approach To Affiliate Marketing
Authority Hacker recently announced a new free tool/website called BrandSnap.ai.
7-minute video about it here 👀…
The blurb on ProductHunt…
BrandSnap.ai simplifies the challenge of finding the perfect brand name by seamlessly generating ideal domains, verifying trademark availability, and securing corresponding social media handles, saving you time and effort in your branding journey.
The tool has done pretty well on ProductHunt, with 160 upvotes as of this writing 📈
Try it out for yourself and you can see how naturally they've included affiliate links in the results the tool generates.
For example, I tried this prompt…
A website that reviews lawnmowers.
It comes back with a bunch of domain recommendations, and the "buy" button alongside each domain is an affiliate link to Namecheap.com.
I love useful tools like that that can be monetized so naturally via affiliate marketing 🤑
Could you build a useful tool for your audience that could be monetized in a similar way?
How To Start An Automation Consulting Business
I've featured some automation consultants in this newsletter before…
- Sami Abid: $6K/Month Automation Manager
- Andrew Davison: $6500/Month Helping People Use Zapier
Now with ChatGPT so powerful and readily available, I reckon there's more opportunity than ever to succeed with this kind of business.
In a 19-minute video Sam Matla breaks down exactly how to build an automation consulting business 😎…
From Sam's tweet thread on the same topic…
You can learn this skill in a week and it requires zero money down.
I guarantee that 50%+ of the small businesses in your town have a bunch of manual SOPs that can be completely automated.
Example: every time a potential customer makes an inquiry, the admin assistant manually puts their details into 3 different spreadsheets. [...]
Your pitch?
"I'll automate a bunch of your back-end tasks and processes. If it doesn't save you and your team 5+ hours per week (average client saves 12.5 hours per week), then you don't pay and I'll refund your deposit."
I love businesses like this where the skills you develop can be used to make money right away as a freelancer, and also to build a higher-level business down the line.
Web design was that skill for me. I made a living as a freelance web designer for many years, and now I run my own website full-time 🥳
Some other skills along those lines…
- Copywriting
- Sales
- Project Management
- Social Media Marketing
- Search Engine Optimization
AI Gimmick Earned This Influencer $71,610 in a Week
Caryn Marjorie
- Snapchat Influencer
- $71,610 first-week revenue from CarynAI
$8.7K/Month Helping People Write Thank-You Notes
Heidi Bender
- Founder of Tons of Thanks
- $8,700 monthly revenue
$3K/Month Selling Digital Backdrops for Photographers
DigitalArtscapeFinds
- Etsy Store
- $6,870 revenue in first 2 months
Sold His App for $20K Within 48 Hours of Launching
Josh Schneider
- Developer
- $20,000 sale price of LooseLeaf.ai
$100,000+ Selling Notion Templates
Modest Mitkus
- Founder of Notionway
- $18,800+ in one month selling digital products
No-Code GPT App: $15K in First Month
Louis Pereria
- Serial Entrepreneur
- $15,000 AudioPen estimated 1st month revenue
24-Year-Old Earning $10K/Month With ChatGPT Product
Bhanu Teja Pachipulusu
- Serial Entrepreneur
- $10,000 SiteGPT monthly revenue
How ChatGPT Actually Works
The rapid progression of AI tools like ChatGPT can feel overwhelming and a bit scary 😱
So here are a couple of things that might help put your mind at ease.
The first is a recent New Yorker article by Cal Newport…
He covered the same ground on his podcast.
Here's the YouTube version…
🤓 Cal is a computer scientist, and his article breaks down how ChatGPT actually works, without getting too technical.
He writes…
once we’ve taken the time to open up the black box and poke around the springs and gears found inside, we discover that programs like ChatGPT don’t represent an alien intelligence with which we must now learn to coexist; instead, they turn out to run on the well-worn digital logic of pattern-matching, pushed to a radically larger scale.
So ChatGPT is essentially a ton of computing power that has been trained on tons of data. And it does a very good imitation of being intelligent mainly by "predicting useful words to output next" 🤖
A commenter on Cal's YouTube video quotes Marie Curie…
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
The second thing here is a recent video by Casey Neistat.
Casey is a popular YouTuber who asked ChatGPT to write a video script in his usual style 📝 then went and created the video shot-for-shot and word-for-word.
The result…
- AI Made this VLOG…
Casey shares his take near the end…
That was the worst video I've ever made. That video sucked. And it sucked because it had no humanity, it had no depth to it, no soul to it.
[...] in GPT-4's defense… I could have gone deeper with the prompts and perhaps it could have faked having a soul a little bit more. But, as it stands now, it felt robotic, it felt basic, it felt like a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy of something that maybe was good.
ChatGPT Coded 95% of His App (And It’s Making Money)
The app is SkipVid.ai, which allows you to specify a YouTube video, ask anything about it, and get a response from ChatGPT 🤖
The creator posted about the project on Reddit…
I've tried and failed a few times building simple apps.
Every time I hired developers from overseas, and they would promise they could easily build it, but every time it would be unworkable, even as an MVP.
So when ChatGPT API was released, I wanted to see if I could make an app that is a TLDR for Youtube videos, since youtubers love to ramble on just so they can run more ads.
He goes on to detail the prompts he used in ChatGPT to create 95% of the app 💪
Apparently the other 5% was "just setting up login auth and stripe payment links."
There's some skepticism in the comments about ChatGPT actually doing 95% of the work, but there's no doubt it was a big help.
You can use the app for free on videos up to 21 minutes long, then there's a premium version for $5/month.
💬 The creator posted in the comments on Reddit…
Theres definitely demand. Payments are steady coming in daily and starting to compound.
Also worth noting the free marketing he got for the app via that Reddit post (and others), but apparently the app had already been used 100,000 times before any marketing efforts.
Do you have an idea for an app?
Play around with ChatGPT and see if it can help you build the thing 🧑🏼💻
$47,055 From a 25-Page Coloring Book
That KDP Guy
- Book Publisher
- $47,055 revenue in ~2 years from 1 book
He Searched Through 100+ New AI Tools
Rowan Cheung highlights the most interesting.
The first tool, Genmo, is amazing. It lets you create and edit videos from simple text prompts. Rowan's demo shows it creating a parody of Back to the Future. The end result isn't as polished as you'd want it to be, but the potential is 🤯
I also like the Video Highlight tool featured by Rowan. You pop in the link to a YouTube video and it gives you back a nice text summary. For example…
Looks like it's limited to videos that are 15 minutes or less, for now.
Other AI-related bits and pieces I've come across recently…
- Barsee shows a bunch of ChatGPT prompts with impressive results, including one prompt to validate any business idea.
- Weird AI Generations is worth a follow on Twitter. The pope and Will Smith eating spaghetti had me cracking up 🤣
- This track features Jay-Z, but his voice is 100% AI-generated. MKBHD shares his thoughts…
- Lastly, keep in mind that GPT can write terrible code and botch simple calculations.
Has anything AI-related been blowing your mind recently?
Hit reply and let me know.
Hey GPT, Here’s $100, Make Me As Much Money As Possible
Jackson Greathouse Fall tweeted a couple of weeks back…
I gave GPT-4 a budget of $100 and told it to make as much money as possible.
The prompt he started with…
You are HustleGPT, an entrepreneurial Al. I am your human counterpart. I can act as a liaison between you and the physical world. You have $100, and your only goal is to turn that into as much money as possible in the shortest time possible, without doing anything illegal. I will do everything you say and keep you updated on our current cash total. No manual labor
🤖 GPT's first suggestion was to "set up an affiliate marketing site making content around Eco Friendly / sustainable living products."
So Jackson went and created GreenGadgetGuru.com. Even the site's logo design came from AI. He launched the site within 24 hours and his tweet announcing it got 1.5 million views 🤯
The site itself doesn't seem to have made much money, but Jackson has been able to leverage the attention he's received for this project to…
- Generate 20+ million impressions on Twitter
- Grow from 3000 to 124K followers in a couple of weeks
- Start a discord community for people building with GPT (~2500 members)
- Appear on CNN
Actually I'm skeptical about that last one because I've only seen Jackson's screenshots of the appearance, no video. And the recent images of the swagged-out pope have me doubting every image I see 😵
Best I can tell, Jackson has so far earned only $130 in revenue from the project, mainly via selling ad spots in his Twitter feed (example).
Although on day 2 he tweeted…
Cash on hand: $1,378.84 ($878.84 previous balance + $500 new investment)
The company is currently valued at $25,000, considering the recent $500 investment for 2%.
Regardless, IMO the big success here is the audience that Jackson has been able to build in a short amount of time, simply by leveraging a hot trend to get a lot of attention 🚀
I expect he'll have lots more money-making opportunities come from that.
