Business Failure to $3800/Month Only 4 Months Later
Snow Lee
- Founder of PlugBear
- $3,800 monthly recurring revenue
$6000/Month Adding a Specialized Layer to ChatGPT
Mustafa Ergisi
- Founder of AI2sql
- $6000 monthly revenue
This Automation Helps Him Make $20K/Month on Upwork
Nick Saraev
- Freelancer
- $20,000 monthly revenue via Upwork
4 Dystopian Examples of Remote Work
Weird examples of remote work people have been tweeting about recently…
- Remote mining machine operators
- Cashier at a store in NYC zooming in from the Philippines
- Remote security woman in South America
- Dentist's receptionist on video from the Philippines
Brett Goldstein writes that this feels dystopian…
We're monetizing human interaction by having customers tip workers making the equivalent of $3/hr across the world just for taking an order. It displaces local jobs and feels like outdated labor arbitrage run amok in the digital age.
Taking it further…
Today, this is a Filipino woman behind a screen, controlling a POS system — but it’s not crazy to believe that probably in the next six to twelve months, this could be an AI avatar doing all the same things.
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This AI Learning Community Earned $225K in 6 Months
David Szabo-Stuban
- Co-founder of Promptmaster
- $225,000 revenue in 6 months
Solved His Own Problem & Made $3100 in 2.5 Months
Vignesh Warar
- Creator of Keep It Shot
- $3100 revenue in 2.5 months
Built a $5 Browser Extension Without Knowing How To Code
📝 From a recent post on Reddit…
I have no coding knowledge but have constantly shipped different products since I was in college. All my ideas usually were not tech focused but focused more on operations, expertise and physical products or services.
Recently… I decided to find a problem to solve and ship something even with my limited expertise.
I listed down all the problems I had and finally decided on one to work on.
Full disclosure, the first 3 failed with hardly any sales.
But with the 4th one, I just got my first sale!
It's a chrome extension that helps you find and navigate to your desired Chrome tab in one click.
The extension is priced at only $5 for lifetime access, so not a huge success story 😕
But it's still impressive, especially considering this person – unclear if male or female – doesn't know how to code.
So how did he/she build the extension? 🤔
I used Gemini Advanced and Replit to make it.
Got all my instructions from Gemini and followed it to the T on Replit.
It was a bit tedious as I had to keep coming back for each change I wanted and uploading the new version to my Chrome to check how it looks.
By the time I was done I had made over 20 versions of my extension.
Gemini = Google’s AI, basically their version of ChatGPT.
Replit = a code editor that works in your browser.
Now for the twist in the story 👇
Redditors were quick to point out that…
Chrome already has this feature built-in. Click the down arrow on the top right corner
So yeah, not much of a future for this project 😢
But that's besides the point.
Along the way, this person has learned…
- how to leverage AI
- how to build Chrome extensions
- persistence
- what it's like to make a sale
That's a lot 💪
And it makes his (or her) future projects way more likely to succeed.
How about trying something like this yourself?
Make a list of all the problems you have and then pick one to work on 🎯
Alternatively, here's a database of 33,000+ Chrome extensions that…
takes the guesswork out of deciding what to build next. See which popular extensions get bad reviews so you can create improved versions.
Find an idea there and use AI to build a solution 🤖
Or, if you have the budget, you could hire someone to build it for you, like Joe Davies did…
Their No-Code Tool Earned $60,000 in 6 Months
Sveta Bay
- Co-founder of FounderPal
- $10,000 monthly revenue
AI Made a Theme Song For This Newsletter in 20 Seconds
The latest AI tool that's blowing everyone's mind: Suno AI 🤯
You basically give it a text prompt and it will create a song for you.
I fed it this prompt…
An upbeat song about my twice weekly newsletter, e-Biz Insider, all about online business ideas, insights and opportunities. Great for aspiring online entrepreneurs. In the style of modern hip hop.
It came back in ~20 seconds with this.
Really impressive, though the lyrics are pretty cringe 😬
I refined the prompt and tried again…
Upbeat song about my 2x weekly newsletter, e-Biz Insider, all about online business ideas, insights & opportunities. Great for aspiring online entrepreneurs. Modern hip hop style. Tone down the hype.
Give it a try yourself.
A free account lets you generate 5 songs per day 🤖
Listen to lots more examples here.
Incredible stuff.
My buddy Thomas Sorheim wrote about it 👇
AI is pretty much killing Google. Now Spotify is up…
Imagine what Suno and Sora will do for music and video. Stock images, stock video, stock songs, etc.
Crazy stuff!
Where will this all be in 2-3 years???
So much disruption coming!
(Sora is the AI video generator we featured a few weeks ago.)
This also got me thinking about another feature from the archive…
That guy was writing and selling custom rap songs on Fiverr, and making a good living doing it 💰
I guess those days are quickly coming to an end.
His AI Language Learning App: $9K/Month in 16 Months
Fabien Snauwaert
- Founder of Gliglish
- €8000 monthly revenue
Acquired Product: From $0 to $8K/Month in 6 Months
Tibo Louis-Lucas
- Owner of Typeframes
- $8000 monthly recurring revenue
$5 Million Per Year Selling Decks of Cards
Charles Burdett
- Founder of Pip Decks
- $5 Million annual revenue
Impossible To Find A Job? Try This…
NgelAndrs writes on Reddit that it's impossible to find a job…
I have been searching for a job as a Freelance Copywriter for a month now. I've reached out to over 300 companies of all types and sizes. Only five have responded, and it was just to politely decline my services.
I worked as a B2B Writer for two years at a small company and have some knowledge in copywriting due to some small copywriting tasks. My goal is to make a career as a Freelancer in this field, but it's proving to be quite challenging.
What's the problem here? 🧐
Could be a number of things, but a lot of people in the comments believe AI is the culprit.
💬 One response…
I think you haven't found a job as a copywriter because LLMs like Co-Pilot, Bard, and ChatGPT make it very easy for everyone to write something that's good enough.
Another commenter suggests that bulk pitching is the answer…
I recommend you check out how to send bulk cold emails. I tried sending 1500 cold emails a week and landed 2 clients.
Sounds quite spammy to me, but hey, whatever works.
My advice to NgelAndrs would be to read this article by Jakob Greenfeld 👇
In the past year I’ve worked with 100+ b2b companies and one of the main lessons was that selling generic offers is incredibly hard.
“We do FB ads”
“We do SEO”
Or even worse:
“We do SEO, Google Ads, Landing Pages, Recruitment,… really anything you’re willing to give us money for.”
There are a gazillion agencies offering the exact same thing…
Not a fun game to play.
But…
when you start coining your own unique mechanism, you start playing a completely different game.
“Our ‘Growth Amplifier Matrix’ supercharges e-commerce brands to break 7-figure revenue ceilings.”
“Through our ‘Impact Velocity Method’, we drive exponential user engagement for mobile apps.”
No one else is offering this.
Suddenly you’re operating in a category of one.
Prospects will actually want to learn more.
Humans and curious by nature.
When they hear a new phrase they feel a pull to understand it.
If you're struggling to stand out, give this a try yourself…
All it takes is taking your existing offer, writing down every single tiny piece that makes it unique, and then coming up with a cool sounding name.
I'd say the final piece is to be hyper-targeted with your outreach 🎯
Spend some time finding businesses you believe to be a great fit for your services, and let them know why when you pitch them.
But hey, that's just one approach.
There are endless others.
The main thing is to keep trying until you hit on something that works.
Only the persistent survive 💪
Clever Affiliate Site On Track For $200,000 in Year 1
Hamza J Alamtab
- Founder of Routines.club
- $200,000 Year 1 projected revenue
$1000/Month Passive Income From 2 Simple Chrome Extensions
Glen Chiacchieri
- Browser Extension Developer
- $1000 monthly revenue
3 Business Ideas From Least/Most Enjoyable Activities
Check out this study on Time Use ⏳
This image in particular stands out…
😫 The type of activities rated as least enjoyable…
- Doing homework
- Looking for a job
- Laundry
🥰 Most enjoyable…
- Theater, concert
- Go to sport
- Play with child
Jakob Greenfeld writes…
This seems like extremely useful data when looking for a business idea.
Agreed.
You'd basically be looking for ways to help people do less activities from the top of the graph and more from the bottom.
But instead of sitting here and racking my brain, I uploaded the graph to ChatGPT 🤖 and asked it to generate some business ideas based on the data that would be worth exploring.
In particular I asked it for "out of the box" ideas that could be done mostly online, without leaving home 😜
Some interesting ideas it came back with…
Online Decluttering Game: Since household chores aren't enjoyable, create a gamified online platform where users can set cleaning goals, challenge friends, and earn rewards for completing tasks in their real home.
Online Skill-Betting Platform: Users can bet on themselves to learn a new skill within a certain timeframe (like cooking, playing an instrument, or learning a language) and share progress with a community for accountability and support.
Remote Social Dining Platform: To mimic the enjoyment of eating out at restaurants, develop a platform where people can sign up to have meals with strangers over video chat, sharing the experience of cooking or eating together while apart.
No clue if those ideas are viable.
But hopefully that shows you the potential of brainstorming with ChatGPT. Especially when combined with real-world data 😎
Blogger Uses AI to Earn $76,000 in Year 1
Casey Botticello
- Founder of Blogging Guide
- $76,000 first year revenue from niche site
This AI Video Generator Will Blow Your Mind
🤯 I don't think it's possible to overhype OpenAI's Sora, described as…
an AI model that can create realistic and imaginative scenes from text instructions.
Scroll down that page and you'll see a bunch of videos that were created by AI from simple text prompts 🤖
One such…
Historical footage of California during the gold rush.
The resulting video isn't perfect, but it's pretty damn impressive, something that wouldn't look out of place in an old movie.
Think about how much time and money would go into creating a shot like that in the past. And now it's possible to create it with a few quick keystrokes 😱
Marques Brownlee shared his impressions of Sora in a YouTube video, with the reminder that…
It’s only been 1 YEAR since the Will Smith eating spaghetti video
In other words, AI-generated video has come a very long way in very little time.
Sora isn't available to the public yet, so you can't play around with it yourself 😩
But here are a bunch more impressive examples from it…
- A bicycle race on ocean with different animals as athletes
- Grandma cooking in a country kitchen
- Animated short fluffy monster playing with a candle
- Movie trailer of a spaceman with knitted helmet
- Several wooly mammoths walking through the snow
What might the implications of this be for your business?
Could you use it to create stock footage? Ad campaigns? An entire animated series? 🤔
Or how about using it to create such assets for established businesses, and charging them for the service?
🚀 That's probably the quickest way to earn money from this once it's available to the public.
