🚀 These AI solopreneurs are benefiting from the boom ...

AI-HOI AInauts,

Happy Monday! In today's newsletter there's plenty of inspiration, the best practical tips for your prompts - and our take on how ChatGPT wants to become the most visited website in the world.

Here's what we have in store for you:

• 🚀 These AI solopreneurs are making millions ...

• ♻️ How To: How to create the best prompts

• 👩‍🚀 ChatGPT soon in the top 5 websites worldwide?

Let's go!

🚀 These AI solopreneurs are making millions ...

In a world where AI is questioning revolutionizing everything, the new gold rush isn't just about big corporations; it's about solo hustlers making millions. Or at least speculating on it.

This trend towards solo entrepreneurship is being driven by the rise of powerful AI tools that allow anyone to produce, manage and scale ideas at unprecedented speed. Imagine making really solid sales every month all by yourself - no big team, just you and your AI tools.

Where a business plan, a team of specialists and capital used to be necessary, today a solopreneur with a clever idea and access to AI can do it on its own. Traditional hurdles are falling, and with AI as a powerful ally, each and every one of us can develop, create and iterate ideas with remarkable speed and precision.

This has been spurred on by Sam Altman himself. The CEO of OpenAI believes that advanced AI will enable individuals to found companies with billion-dollar valuations. He and his fellow tech CEOs are already betting on when the first one-person unicorn will emerge!

The new generation of solo entrepreneurs

There are some exciting solo entrepreneurs pursuing this concept.

• Tony Dinh first sold the screenshot tool Xnapper (we love it!), then built the chatbot TypingMind ($500k revenue in the first year, now $40k/month) - and has already launched the next app with image.social.

• Yasser launched Chatbase, also a cool app that we use - and is now already making $3 $4 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR).

• Ruben Hassid has made a name for himself on LinkedIn, launching the social media app EasyGen - which is already turning over a whopping $42k a month.

• Grant McConnaughey built the social media scheduler Postpone.app, and is now making $500 ARR.

• Nico Jeannen, founder of Talknotes.io, has launched 40 projects, most of them unsuccessful. He hit the jackpot with Talknotes and sold the app for around $200k.

• And then, of course, there's Pieter Levels, who publishes his sales transparently on X. The interview with Lex is super exciting and insightful!

Why you should be interested: Anyone can become a solopreneur!

The AI revolution is about to turn the traditional job market on its head. It is no longer just a tool. Instead, artificial intelligence has become an enabler for human potential.

All business models are possible, not just micro SaaS (which is predominant in the examples above). Your expertise can also be transported via services or consulting.

It's easier than ever to found a business start a project online on your own and scale it to make money. AI is not just a tool; it is your new business partner. And thanks to AI agents, you can build up an army of hard-working helpers.

Some agents have even gone into business for themselves and become millionaires (we have reported on this in detail).

Some ideas on how you can build a business with AI:

• You can build entire apps using only voice commands, without having to program.

• Anything is possible: micro SaaS solution, WordPress plugin, app for Shopify, mobile app, chatbot, browser extension, ...

• You can also offer services with the support of AI (e.g. as a freelancer on gig platforms such as Fiverr.com).

• Or you can help companies implement the new possibilities (e.g. chatbots, AI automation, ...).

• And of course you can create content, such as books, music, videos, podcasts, ... either for yourself (and then hope that these can be monetized) - or as an agency for companies.

The only question is: (How) will you use them?

These are just a few ideas now, because whether you're in technology, education or content creation - the tools are there, you just need to know how you're going to use them!

Barriers are being broken down, individual creativity is being supercharged and each one of us now has the opportunity to create something new - regardless of our background. With AI, the dream of running a profitable business solo is not only possible - it's happening all the time.

If you still need some inspiration, we recommend the book "Company of One" by Paul Jarvis. It's not about AI, but about the mindset.

♻️ How To: How to create the best prompts

Anthropics Prompt Improver is your wizard for better AI prompts!

Claude systematically thinks through problems before answering. This is exactly what the Prompt Improver makes possible! Your existing prompts are enriched with chain-of-thought reasoning.

We have run through a series of prompts, or recorded and consolidated several variants of the same prompts. And the results are convincing. Just test it for yourself.

How can you use the Prompt Improver? It's simple!

• Visit the Anthropic console and log in to your account/create one.

• Select "Improve an existing prompt" to open the prompt optimizer.

• Enter a prompt and describe what you want to optimize.

• Enter a {variable} as a placeholder or click on "Templatize" to generate a reusable prompt structure.

• Describe what you want to improve in the prompt and click on "Improve Prompt".

• The 6-step process will start - and once everything is ready, you can click "Run" to test your optimized prompt.

👩‍🚀 Will ChatGPT soon rank in the top 5 websites?

ChatGPT has fought its way into the top 10 most visited websites - well done, OpenAI! According to data from SimilarWeb, the thing recorded 3.7 billion visits in October. And if you're wondering whether you were part of this mass spectacle, the answer is hopefully yes.

But before we crown OpenAI with a golden laurel wreath, let's pause for a moment and change our perspective. Not everything that glitters is an AI miracle. The question on everyone's mind in Silicon Valley (and, let's be honest, in your X-Timeline):

Has generative AI peaked? Is the hype over?

Spoiler: Not quite, but it's getting trickier.

According to a report by The Information, progress with the latest models of OpenAI is lagging a little behind. The leaps in quality are no longer as great as in the earlier versions.

Why? The models are running out of data. The internet as a database is finite, and if you've already packed every cat on Reddit and every recipe for banana bread into your model, it will eventually run out of things to ingest.

Ben Horowitz from a16z recently explained in a podcast: "We're throwing more GPUs at it, but the expected intelligence gain isn't happening." That sounds a bit like someone who goes to the gym every day but still doesn't get muscles.

If the jumps in quality really are decreasing, this is perhaps less a problem with the technology and more a reminder to us to use the tools more cleverly.

ChatGPT's clever branding move

Let's get back to ChatGPT and why it's taking off. The secret? Branding. When OpenAI changed the domain from openai.com/chat to chat.openai.com and finally to chatgpt.com, traffic literally exploded.

According to SimilarWeb, this was one of the best moves they could have made. So it's no surprise that Sam Altman has snapped up the chat.com domain from HubSpot founder Dharmesh. For $15 million, rumor has it.

What's next? We'll be surprised!

We made it! But no need to be sad. The AInauts will be back soon, with new stuff for you.

Reto & Fabian from the AInauts

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