$1K/Month Building ChatGPT for Secondhand Shopping

A recent post on Reddit…

We made chatgpt for shopping for secondhand/resale – hit 1k MRR! 🎉

The app is called Encore Shopping, and it lets you…

Search for mid to high-end clothing on hundreds of secondhand sites.

It has an interface similar to that of ChatGPT, but customized for budget fashion recommendations 👚

Looks like they only launched ~1 month ago and they’re already earning $1000/month.

📝 The founder writes…

My friend and I were frustrated by the high prices of mid-to-high-end fashion brands online and getting outfit inspo

so for our climate tech class we created an AI fashion assistant called Encore for our class that links the best second-hand/cheaper alternatives for any item and and provides style/inspo/outfit recommendations

The free version of the app gives you 1000 recommendations, whereas the unlimited version costs $9/month.

They justify their pricing nicely…

For people who shop 3+ times a year, save $270/yr on average.

However 👇

Something to keep in mind is that businesses built on the back of GPT can be at risk of ChatGPT eventually making them extinct.

Giglish is one that comes to mind, featured in the newsletter a while ago…

• His AI Language Learning App: $9K/Month in 16 Months

Not sure how that business is faring nowadays, but looks like the recently released ChatGPT-4o can do essentially the same thing 😕

So if you’re going to build an AI app, try to assess the likelihood of your app’s functionality soon becoming a part of ChatGPT itself.