🔥 16,000 dollars a month as a solopreneur with an AI app

Hi AInauts,

Welcome to the latest issue of your favorite AI newsletter. Right?

That was a mysterious moment a few days ago, wasn't it? After ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini and Perplexity were offline at the same time, and we actually had to use our brains again for a little while.

But don't panic, everything is back online. Why everyone went offline at the same time, is still a mystery ... but we'll keep an eye on it and keep you posted.

That's what we have in store for you today:

• 🔥 16,000 dollars a month as a solopreneur with an AI app

• ✍️ Write blog articles in 3 minutes with Perplexity Pages

• 🎶 Create any sound with a few lines of text

• 💭 Is AI doing the right job for us, or the wrong one?

Ready? Let's go!

🔥 16,000 dollars a month as a solopreneur with an AI app

If you've been reading us for a while, you'll know that we love stories of individuals who are using AI to become financially independent.

These examples repeatedly show how much potential there currently is. Hence the next one today, please meet: Louis Pereira

Louis is a super exciting example. Together with his family, he runs a traditional offline business in Goa, India.

And in the evenings, he builds small web apps on the Internet. The important thing about that:

Louis can't program!

Almost a year ago, he put together an AI app idea within 12 hours and documented the whole thing live on X.

The app is called AudioPen.

With AudioPen, you can simply record all your thoughts as a stream of consciousness, and the app will create a clearly structured note for you.

You can watch a live demo here:

Louis has hit a nerve and quickly gained customers organically. Today, one year later, AudioPen generates 16,000 dollars in sales - each month 💪!

How can you build such apps?

As mentioned above, Louis is not a developer and can't program. But thanks to no-code tools and AI-APIs, he was able to build such an app in just a few days.

Louis specifically used the tool Bubble for this. Bubble allows you to build really powerful apps, fast. But beware: Bubble does have a learning curve.

An alternative way with no-code tools

We haven't taken the time to learn it ourselves yet, but Bubble is one of the most versatile no code tools, and you can really build almost anything with it.

But you could make it even easier:

• Set up a simple page with e.g. Jotform and equip it with a voice recorder button

• The voice note then serves as a trigger for a Zapier automation

• Transcribe it using the OpenAI Whisper API in Zapier

• Format and structure the text with the ChatGPT app

• Send the result to the user by e-mail

Sure, it's not quite as smooth as AudioPen, but the core function would be the same.

We just love stories like this. With a little knowledge, hard work and a great idea, anyone can all build really cool applications thanks to the generally very affordable AI models. And with a bit of luck, you can even earn some significant money.

✍️ Write blog posts in 3 minutes with Perplexity Pages

We have to admit that Perplexity is not a tool we have been using very often.

First of all, if you don't know Perplexity yet: It wants to be a better search engine. You search for any topic and Perplexity not only provides you with a list of links, but also a neatly structured page with information from various sources.

We believe that Google will simply copy the concept at some point (which is already happening).

Nevertheless, today we want to take a quick look at a really cool update from Perplexity. Here is a current example to mark the occasion:

A very cool feature has now been introduced that allows you to create blog articles, guides and more in just a few minutes. The fitting name for it:

Perplexity Pages

Take a quick look at the following video:

With just a few clicks, you can create comprehensive pages on a wide range of topics and then edit these as you wish and publish them live.

Here is an example:

As you can see, a current news item has been very well prepared for easy consumption. And what is also very cool: the "Ask another question" section!

Imagine you create guides and blog posts and your readers can use AI to ask further questions and get them answered directly. That would also work well for this newsletter, wouldn't it? We definitely think something like that would be a very cool feature.

One last BUT: Unfortunately, you cannot yet host the pages created with Perplexity directly on your own domain. That would be the icing on the cake! Let's see, maybe in the future...

🎶 Create each sound with a few lines of text

A small update from AI speech sound specialist ElevenLabs has caught our eye: with the new Sound Effects feature, you can now create all kinds of sounds directly in ElevenLabs.

If you do anything with YouTube, audio books etc., you no longer have to resort to costly sound effect databases. Instead, you can simply generate it yourself with a short text prompt.

The whole thing works super simply.

1. Enter the description of the desired sound

2. Four variants are being generated, which you can download immediately.

3. That's it ...!

You can try it out for free here.

💭 Quote of the week

An interesting quote that definitely made us think.

But then we remembered, washing machines and dishwashers are robots that already do exactly that... 😉 

And that’s a wrap! But no need to be sad. The AInauts will be back soon, with new content for you.

Reto & Fabian from the AInauts

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