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This AI Flirting Assistant Earns $190,000/Month
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Launched His Job Board in 2 Hours, Just Hit $1000 Revenue
$12K/Month from Scottish Whisky Competitions
What Would a Successful Entrepreneur Do?
$2300/Month From a Tool He Used to Give Away For Free
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This AI Flirting Assistant Earns $190,000/Month
📝 Vlad Verba posted on Reddit…
I found a completely bootstrapped business making $190,000 per month with an app that helps you flirt using AI…
The problem the business solves is quite simple, but niche. You screenshot a message that you get on a dating platform, Snapchat, etc and upload it to the app.
The app then gives you a flirty/ clever response to send back. The idea is that this will make you better at flirting, get you more dates, etc.
While Vlad doesn’t reveal the exact app, he does say it's a competitor of Rizz.app (demo video on TikTok).
And someone in the comments suggests the app in question is Plug AI (App Store, Google Play).
Which kinda fits with the download numbers Vlad shares 👇
The app has 1.5 million downloads in just 4.5 months, proving that there is a market for this niche, somewhat gimmicky product.
Plug AI has 500K+ downloads on Google Play and a reported 80K downloads per month on the App Store according to Sensor Tower (free account required).
Vlad also says the premium version of the app costs $7/month, which fits with Plug AI.
Apparently the app was listed for sale for $3.5 million and had a 60% profit margin 💰 but the listing is no longer online.
This kind of thing doesn't sound all that complicated to create.
They’re likely using OpenAI to read the screenshots and generate clever responses to the user 💬
You could get started building something similar via this 10-minute YouTube tutorial…
Vlad again…
[The success of this app] illustrates the fact that just because something is a wrapper, doesn’t mean it’s a bad business.
This company (and others) was able to find a unique angle in the AI space, and effectively capitalized on it…
But I think this business perfectly illustrates that there are endless possibilities and angles out there with AI.
What other unique angles could be worth exploring in the AI space?
Think about something you struggle with on a daily basis 🤔
Could you create an AI app to solve that problem?
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Launched His Job Board in 2 Hours, Just Hit $1000 Revenue
Nithursan Mahendran from Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 runs Mo AI Jobs, a job board for "AI jobs in machine learning."
He recently posted that the project has earned $1000 in revenue in ~5 months.
Not a huge milestone, but impressive nonetheless, especially considering the origins 👇
Nithursan writes…
On December 29, I announced a fun challenge on Twitter - build and launch a product in 2 hours. I shared my idea as well - a job board for AI niche.
I was able to complete the challenge successfully. It immediately got picked up by multiple newsletters including Ben's Bites. And then Robert Scoble shared the project on his Twitter account (500k followers). I was able to amass good traffic from this virality.
So the "build in public" approach worked well here, and I'm sure the ambition of the challenge helped draw attention 👀
Attention, but not revenue…
It took me nearly 1.5 months to make the first dollar with this product. It took 5 months to go from $0 to $500. And only 6 days to go from $500 to $1000.
Still, that early attention likely helped Nithursan pick up some backlinks, which improved his SEO 📈
He went on to build a couple of free tools which also went viral…
Nithursan monetises the site by charging for paid listings which feature atop of every other listing 🤑
Elsewhere, he mentions how he got his first client….
I saw a founder tweeting about a position for AI software engineer at his company. So, I reached out to him to help him find more candidates for this position. He agreed and connected me with their recruiter to help with the job listing. That went really smooth. They really liked using my site. And they became a repeat customer of mine.
So far, the number one strategy working for me is cold outreaching employers to help them find more candidates. However, I never spam them with automated bulk email sending tools.
I curate all the leads carefully by myself and handwrite all the emails. I actually like it and I hate AI written automated emails.
So it's been a slow start for Nithursan but I could see his job board doing very well if he sticks with it.
Could you build a job board for a different niche? Or focused on a specific geo? 🤔
Another job board story for inspiration…
🗂 $12K/Month from Scottish Whisky Competitions
From the archive, published August 2023…
Check out Scottish Whisky Competitions 🥃
It’s a site running whisky raffles. Some are free to enter, others cost £1 for a ticket ($1.27 USD).
They limit the tickets sold per raffle – usually 1000 – then pick a few winners on a Facebook livestream (recent example, may only be viewable in the UK).
The grand prize is usually a bottle of whisky worth £500+ 🥳
So if you’re a whisky enthusiast you can pay £1 and have pretty good odds to win a high-end bottle of liquor.
Martin Punter is one of the owners of the site, met him at a conference in London 🇬🇧 a few weeks back.
He kindly shared some details and gave me permission to share with you…
Site does £8-12K monthly gross (about $10-15K USD).
About £6K monthly profit ($7,600).
4 owners including Martin.
Fairly unique business model to the UK. Gambling laws in the USA are prohibitive.
They regularly run free-to-enter raffles to get people on their email list.
The goal is to get people on the livestream draws, then convince them to enter one of the paid giveaways.
Usually several hundred views on each livestream.
👍 Martin on the advantages of this business model…
Running a competition website is a great way to monetise an audience around a niche interest or hobby.
Most competition sites use live streams to draw winners. The level of transparency helps build that connection and loyalty. Once you build trust with the community the lifetime value of a customer is insanely high.
Some other niches he thinks this could work well for 👇
Fishing
Hunting
Craft/DIY communities like sewing or knitting
Custom cars or bikes for petrol heads
Camping
Camper Vans / Van life
Cooking/cleaning
Gaming / eSports – Custom high-end gaming setups
Photography gear
Golf
Gardening
Home fitness
Renovation/upcycling
Art
Watches
Experiences around interests
😕 But it’s not all single casks and highballs…
The biggest downside is the cost to build a minimum viable audience to support running a giveaway. There is a big sunk cost in acquiring the initial base. Often running many competitions at a loss in order to build trust and social validation. Setting a guaranteed draw date regardless of ticket sales is essential to building and launching a new comp site.
And I often see new sites being too generic and not being niche enough!