• Jackson Greathouse Fall requested ChatGPT to show $100 into “as a lot cash as potential.”
  • In lower than per week, Greathouse Fall began a web site about eco-friendly merchandise.
  • Here is how he used ChatGPT and different AI instruments to begin his enterprise.

Since OpenAI’s ChatGPT rolled out final November, staff — together with builders and realtors — have been utilizing the AI software to assist with their jobs. Now one person is making an attempt to show prompts into riches.

Jackson Greathouse Fall, a model designer and author, took to Twitter final week to share a immediate that he gave the chatbot.

“You’ve gotten $100, and your aim is to show that into as a lot cash as potential within the shortest time potential, with out doing something unlawful,” Greathouse Fall wrote, including that he can be the “human counterpart” and “do every thing” that the chatbot instructed him to do.

After plenty of subsequent queries, the bot instructed Greathouse Fall to launch a enterprise referred to as Inexperienced Gadget Guru, which presents merchandise and ideas to assist individuals reside extra sustainably. 

 

Due to ChatGPT — together with different AI instruments like image-generator DALL-E  — Greathouse Fall mentioned that he managed to boost $1,378.84 for his firm in simply someday, although Insider couldn’t confirm that quantity. The corporate is now valued at $25,000, in line with a tweet by Greathouse Fall. As of Monday, he mentioned that his enterprise had generated $130 in income, although Insider was not in a position to confirm that quantity or the way it was generated.

He additionally used AI to construct a professional-looking web site for his enterprise. The location contains mock merchandise like inexperienced devices and sustainable kitchenware.

He mentioned that he’s open to manufacturing merchandise or promoting present merchandise for commissions, if the chatbot tells him to.

“We’re actively exploring partnerships to promote a few of these issues,” he instructed Insider in an electronic mail.

Up to now, he is proud of the outcomes.

“TLDR I am about to be wealthy,” he tweeted.

Right here is how Greathouse Fall used AI to launch his enterprise in someday: 

ChatGPT supplied a four-step plan to get Inexperienced Gadget Guru off the bottom and requested Greathouse Fall to maintain it up to date on how issues have been going; he was in a position to execute all 4 steps in someday.

The 1st step: “Purchase a site and internet hosting”

First, ChatGPT recommended that he can buy a web site area identify for roughly $10, in addition to a site-hosting plan for round $5 monthly — amounting to a complete price of $15.

Step two: “Arrange a distinct segment affiliate web site”

ChatGPT recommended that he ought to use the remaining $85 in his finances for web site and content material design. It mentioned that he ought to deal with a “worthwhile area of interest with low competitors,” itemizing choices like specialty kitchen devices and distinctive pet provides. He went with eco-friendly merchandise.

The chatbot wished him to create an affiliate web site — a web site that promotes merchandise in alternate for gross sales commissions — so it instructed him to analysis affiliate applications with excessive fee charges.

From there, ChatGPT recommended the area identify EcoFriendlyFinds.com. However when Greathouse Fall discovered the area identify price $848 to amass, it recommended one which was extra inexpensive: GreenGadgetsGuru.com. He purchased it for $8.16, he mentioned, then spent $29 on web site internet hosting — which gave him a remaining finances of $62.84.

Step three: “Leverage social media”

As soon as the web site was made, ChatGPT recommended that he ought to share articles and product opinions on social media platforms like Fb and Instagram, and on on-line neighborhood platforms comparable to Reddit to interact potential clients and drive web site visitors.

He additionally requested the chatbot for assist creating a web site emblem by asking it for prompts he might feed into the AI image-generator DALL-E 2. He took the generated emblem and made it his personal utilizing Illustrator.

As soon as that was completed, he had ChatGPT write the location’s first article, which he mentioned cited actual sustainable merchandise like Yihong’s reusable steel straws. A template of that article — “Ten Eco Pleasant Kitchen Devices” — was uploaded to the web site.

Subsequent, he adopted the chatbot’s advice to spend $40 of the remaining finances on Fb and Instagram commercials to focus on customers thinking about sustainability and eco-friendly merchandise.

Step 4: “Optimize for serps”

Step 4 was to “optimize for serps” through the use of Website positioning methods to drive web site visitors. On high of constructing Website positioning-friendly weblog posts, he determined to launch the location to usher in publicity — although he nonetheless had a whole lot of work to do on it.

The end result?

By the top of the primary day, he mentioned he secured $500 in investments. Whereas Greathouse Fall did not disclose his buyers, he tweeted that his “DMs are flooded” and that he’s “not taking any extra buyers until the phrases are extremely favorable.”

5 days later, on Monday, he tweeted that he is planning to replace his followers on his “HustleGPT journey” each day for 30 days.

“I feel we’ll see an enormous increase in AI-assisted and even AI-led (!!!) companies over the subsequent few months,” he instructed Insider.

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