How to make $150,000 in a week - story of a viral AI website | Pieter Levels and Lex Fridman
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- Опубліковано 13 вер 2024
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How did you monetize these websites via stripe?
Lex's head exploded when he said he was doing all the downloads himself, unzipping images and sending them. LONG!
What was the actual business model here? How did he turn these images into the $150k in a week?
- He was charging for 30 ai generated images.
- Was he getting money from ads?
- How did he get people to the websites?
he already has a following and was charging a subscription
Turns out the secret to success isn’t hard work or networking; it’s convincing an AI that your face doesn’t belong on a hammerhead shark.
The path to quick moneymaking does seem more random than ever before. The kernel of truth in your humorous comment.
Ahaha, this guy is Baron Münchhausen. Made an HTML page and got 1000 customers in a line to pay him in 10 minutes after uploading the website
Pivot to the power of pivot
What about launch strategy and ensuring you get your startup in front of your target audience?
good question
Thats what I'm saying ; how you get people to know your website exists that quickly other than organically creating content about it that would Be in its own another project
@@Global_Dawah1 You need to build an audience, he is a great content creator first of all
I’m sure he’s got a lot of followers, that helps. And clearly he’s got friends with a strong following as well. Network, network, network and email marketing with related organizations.
@@Heyomyfriend I don't know him that well , was that the first avenue he endeavoured in
You both are amazing. We need some how to build LLM's info :D
I love the dissapointed lex about the manual work
that wasn't water....
How did you make your web site known?
he already has a following. Many people think this project was successful coz of some genius coding/hacking he did, or some amazing marketing he did, but he already built his base from many years which helped him launch it quickly. This is why networking is important even if its not giving you any profits today it might help you in future
How they make the money? Is it just ads?
no? they pay per picture. the website charges for the data and the guy who hacked a bunch of different models together charged $30 per avatar
@@Cb138inRs to download the picture? Can’t you take a screenshot?
Nobody is paying for that
@@zholud right something is not adding up
@@Cb138inRs i cant believe someone pay for this,
repo link ?
Stable Fusion
It was really popular for a while (second project has 209 votes in 2 years...). Very popular among family and friends?
What I would like to know more about in his app development, is "intellectual property" protection. Does he copyright his code?
He is copylefting it if it is public on GitHub with a permissive license 🪪
That copyright notice is typically at the bottom of every website next to the current date.
With all those billionaires on the podcast, it's nice to see someone with a regular salary making it to the podcast.
Sarcasm? I honestly can’t even tell.
He clearly made some money during the initial boom of AI, before a lot of the prompts were widely known or available. Currently you should not be paying for anything AI generated. Also, he clearly leveraged a large existing following to direct traffic to these projects. Also, let me be clear, if there is a UA-cam or development tutorial on how to do something step by step, you are not going to copy that and make 150k a week on it. That's not how "development" works. So many AI prompt "developers" referencing this video and generating a basic prompt page claiming this success can be replicated.
Mind blowing.
Lmao all these brokies in the comment section saying he’s a scammer with zero proof
Ok Andrew Tate
Everyone clicks on this video because they want to get rich fast. Stop believing these people and don't buy their courses.
Php and J Query is all you need.
How so?
that's crazy.. it was 2022! now 3 years later... what is the next (current) big thing? clone your voice? create an 3d avatar of yourself? what is it?
Super cool
There is still no clear explanation of who and why anyone pays for this and for what reason. Is this guy capping 🧢?
Nah he’s being fr - I looked into him myself a few months ago after seeing his various successful apps (he has like 4 or 5 all doing 5 figure MRR each)
@VisionaryPathway do you have links to the apps? Curious to see.
@@VisionaryPathwayso is it ai as a service or is he putting ads on his websites and it’s free?
@@micheall I think they're mainly AI as a service -- he takes existing AI tools, creatively and efficiently wraps them with good UIs, markets them effectively, then charges enough to cover API costs + profit
@@micheall most people don't even know most of the frontier-capabilities of many different AI models/types, so creating a center (app) for convenience and accessibility -- while skipping the "research and understanding" phase of these AIs, makes for a very compelling solution for the common man
I respect the grind, but have you ever seen degraded VHS? That's pretty much what these AI wrapper apps are doing to the training models for AI
here i am watching videos about some dude making millions while im making zero.
Disappointed it has to come to this… clickbait titles like this will not attract the audience you want Lex
How does the website make money tho? Why does it get paid 150k
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Like “ Mine Craft”… 😉.. magnified
Noone is buying ai generated photoes of their housed lol 😂
Years ago before AI was everywhere, they did.
I need to invite this man to diner or something so much gold knowledge its insane.
Something feels off ..
This will end online dating
i missed it. he is coding or "drag and drop"?
edit: got it
He rolls his own
Damn, that was boring and gave no insight. These marketing headlines and our obsession with getting attention is killing us
This dude is full of malarkey
ahahahahaa
i still prefer the real world
All are lies
🤯🤯🤯
I think u have a pathological liar on your pod...not the first time tho 🤷♂️
Seem like it or a scammer
Nah he is legit
@@asfhasfwfwf reason?
what makes you say that?
@@majinvegeta3181 what makes you say that?
NO WAY!!
Play soccer
ahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!! this is a complete joke. anyone who does design knows this is a scam and this guy is a scammer
Tarded.