Happy Sunday!
Yesterday I was playing with OpenAI’s new $200/month plan, and my mind was blown. 5 mins into it, I texted my business partner this:
While I was playing with this, I was procrastinating writing this newsletter! I was distracted! So then I thought “Why not just write this week’s newsletter about the cool AI stuff I’m playing with, just like this?”
So that’s what I’m doing today. At the end of this I’m also going to show you how to reverse engineer some ChatGPT wrappers/apps so you can build a business for yourself.
General first, specific later.
2 weeks ago I polled you guys and asked what kinds of business ideas you want me to cover, and here are the results of the poll:
Pretty clear, yeah? So this email will be about the most mind blowing AI tools and when to use each. I’ll also go deep on how I’m specifically using ChatGPT.
I recently heard this exchange on a podcast:
“AI is like someone invented the internet all over again.”
“No, AI is like someone just invented fire.”
And I agree with the latter. AI is changing everything by leaps and bounds. This is literally bigger than the internet and way way way bigger than crypto, social media or mobile devices.
Just think of all these incredible combinations:
AI + Neuralink (brain implants)
AI+ self driving cars
AI + the internet
AI + humanoid robots
And I already know what you’re thinking
“Shouldn’t we be worried about the future of humanity?”
As a Christian, I think yes (with many caveats).
As an optimist, I think no.
As a technologist, I think no.
We’re going to figure out how to harness this for good. But yes, things will get very, very different.
If you want to worry about the future, and you’re confident your worrying will lead to action or to good being done, than by all means, feel free to worry.
And me? I’m going to focus first and foremost on raising my kids to be awesome, kind, hard working, God-fearing adults. Everything else is just fun and/or noise.
And so far, AI is very fun.
Ok, here is how and why you should use all of the most common AI tools out there today.
OpenAI - Get the $20/month plan. GPT 4-turbo is way more fast and accurate than 3.5. Ask it what to ask it. Tell it who you are, what you do, and then and ask it what to prompt it. In fact, paste this screenshot alongside your prompts:
That’s a problem with AIs these days: we don’t know how to use it! So tell it everything you can about the problems you’re facing and then ask it how to use it!
Here are some of my favorite AI tools for building things:
Replit - Replit will build apps and websites for you. Not fully-fledged iPhone apps (yet) but web apps, in just a few minutes. It’s still glitchy and a tad frustrating, but as someone who doesn’t know a lick about coding, it is incredible. Well worth the $24/month.
If you get hung up on something, ask it how to fix itself!
Cursor - In my experience Cursor is a better fit for mobile apps, while Replit is better for websites and web apps. Although neither option cant submit apps to the app store for approval yet.
Cursor is a better fit for people with some level of developer knowledge, whereas Replit is more beginner friendly.
CustomGPT - I’d consider this one a ChatGPT wrapper, but a much more useful tool for making a custom GPT from a library of content. Use cases include:
And what do I love to say? Any good idea could be a good business idea.
Use ChatGPT to offer GPTs as a service for other companies. They send you all the docs, you upload and finesse them into a final product on behalf of the company. They pay a flat 4 figure fee upfront and then 3 figures per month to add to the GPT or fix things as they break.
Do it for free for a couple family friends that are business owners until you get the hang of it.
More about ChatGPT
OpenAI’s $200/month “Pro” Plan - I don’t recommend you get this yet, unless you don’t mind spending $200 just to learn and tinker around for a month. Or, unless you find something really cool do do with it.
Ok I take it all back. IF you are insanely curious, I recommend buying it for a month to play with. It’s well worth the money.
Yesterday my wife and I realized we may want to buy an RV for our impending summer travels. So I prompted the operator to
“Search the DFW area for Class C RVs in good working order that are 3-10 years old for under $40k.”
And it got to work searching the internet in the browser! How cool is that? It won’t reach out or negotiate on my behalf yet (not that I want it to).
How soon until I can take pictures of all the crap in my garage, upload them and say “list all these for sale on FB Marketplace, after doing pricing research, and respond to inquires immediately with my availability pulled from my calendar.”
It’s not quite ready to do what I fully want it to do, but I’m going to keep paying for it so i can keep playing with it.
I already had it automate one task that my assistant is doing manually.
Every Monday my assistant logs how many followers I have across platforms, and then my spreadsheet subtracts them from last weeks numbers, adds them all up and divides by 7.
That lets me know how many net followers per day I gained across platforms.
She’ll also log how many views I got across platforms and then divide those against how many followers I got, so I can see what my views per follower is.
The Pro plan now does all that for her, so now she has more time to edit videos. Is it buggy? Yes. But it’s getting there.
Delegate and elevate, baby.
Another thing I had it do for me while I watched was watch IG Reels for me that fit this criteria:
If it fit that criteria then it should bookmark them. And it did! So dang cool! Right in front of my eyes in the browser. But it won’t let you walk away or just do this in the background yet.
To me, the new “Tasks” feature at the $20/month price point is even more useful.
ChatGPT can integrate with my calendar and email and remind me of things, after “thinking” about them.
A lot of these things have been available via Zapier for some time, but they are becoming much more widely accessible.
If you haven’t yet used ChatGPT’s voice feature….DO IT!!! Not voice to text, but actually having a voice conversation with it.
Yesterday I took my 8 year old on a date and he kept asking questions about Elon Musk, so I opened ChatGPT and we had a full-fledged conversation with it together. It wasn’t buggy or awkward. It felt like I ha a genius on the phone.
We went to In-N-Out and I wasn’t getting much traction out of the “what do you want to be when you grow up” type questions, so I had ChatGPT generate some stimulating questions to ask an 8 year old, and we had an awesome conversation.
it’s funny, I ask him those questions because I want to get to know him better! It’s a date, after all! I don’t just want to be on my phone around him. But then I end up using my phone to enhance the in person experience even more. The perfect use case for technology, in my opinion.
Reverse Engineering ChatGPT Wrappers in 3 Steps
Once you see that a stupid-on-the-surface app like a plant identifer is getting 100k downloads per month and is just a ChatGPT wrapper being promoted with FB ads, so learn how to use Corsor or Replit and copy the heck out of it.
What do you have to lose? You’ll be (potentially) getting paid to learn the most transformative technology this planet has ever seen (unless you believe that the ancients used to have far superior technology than ours today before they got wiped out, in which case it doesn’t matter, just get to work anyway).
I hope you learned something new about AI today. There’s over 83,000 of you on this newsletter now, so it’s hard to find a balance between going narrow and technical, or broad and general.
Thanks for reading! Please share with a friend!
Chris Koerner
TKOPOD.COM
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