Generating 🤖👶 Photos = $1000/Month

I had lots of self-doubt, if I'm being totally honest with you. I built the landing page in one day but hesitated to launch it because I thought the idea was stupid. I announced the launch on Twitter and all I got were crickets.

After submitting my product to a few AI directories, organic traffic started to come in. Some of that traffic converted to sales and, when traffic went up, sales went up too.

First sale came in on April 11! I was beyond excited, and generated the photos manually for my customer. Made 9 sales for the month of April, and crossed $100 in total revenue. Sweet!

I can't generate the photos manually forever, I need a backend to do it for me automatically so that I can scale. So I wrote the first line of code and deployed my backend app to production. Got 18 sales for the month of May. Brought in $325 of revenue.

Everyone should strive to build their own money making product.

I have stopped working on OurBabyAI, but it makes $1k+ per month for me.

80% of my traffic actually comes from Search. Whenever there's a trend on TikTok related to my startup, people search for those keywords (e.g. baby ai generator) and I get spikes in traffic and sales!

This isn’t going to teach you how to write and it won’t talk about punctuation and grammar either. What you learn are 6 action steps you can start this week and be on your way to getting paid to write online.

I make slightly over 200,000$ a month from ads on Photopea.

It took about 200-300 hours to create the first version of Photopea. I wasn’t working on it full-time since I was also busy with my university studies. I coded the main features first and then focused on other ones.

I was living in a dorm here in Prague, sharing a room with three other students. Photopea was more like a hobby to me.

It wasn’t a job; it was something I enjoyed doing…I was excited to see it grow – starting with about 20-30 users a day – and enjoyed adding new features. I was adding new features or updates almost every week, just being thrilled by its gradual growth…

People found Photopea by word of mouth, through blog reviews, or video content.

Initially, I wasn’t sure if people would be willing to pay for Photopea… I wanted to attract as many users as possible by offering it for free.

I thought that if I could gather a large user base, I could make significant money without asking people to pay, similar to how Google or Facebook monetize with ads.

I spend about six to eight hours a day on Photopea. It’s like a full-time job, but I still enjoy it. Most of my work has no deadlines.

I spend about 600$ per year for servers and 20$ for the domain. I also had an additional cost for an AI feature – $1.000$ per month.

Don’t be intimidated by the idea of entering a crowded market or tackling complex tasks. Begin by focusing on the core, essential features of your product, the ones that are most important and useful. These don’t have to be numerous or complicated.

When a habit is truly important to you, you have to be willing to stick to it in any mood. Professionals take action even when the mood isn’t right. They might not enjoy it, but they find a way to put the reps in. 

There have been a lot of sets that I haven’t felt like finishing, but I’ve never regretted doing the workout. There have been a lot of articles I haven’t felt like writing, but I’ve never regretted publishing on schedule. There have been a lot of days I’ve felt like relaxing, but I’ve never regretted showing up and working on something that was important to me. 

The only way to become excellent is to be endlessly fascinated by doing the same thing over and over. You have to fall in love with boredom.