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I've been exploring the print-on-demand industry, using AI to create designs for T-shirts and other products, and then orders are fulfilled by a print-on-demand company. It seems like a potential way to get to where I'd like to be in 5 years. I spent hours researching this today. One problem is that most of the POD companies don't handle customer service inquiries even though they are the ones handling the products. A few do, but not the ones with the most shoppers. With a full-time job I wouldn't have time to properly handle customer service inquires (nor the desire). That wouldn't be a problem with digital products, that would truly be a passive income business. One Idea I had for that would be having AI create an E-book on a topic I know, so that I can go through it and fix any mistakes and maybe personalize it a little. I was thinking of a short how-to on getting started doing the work I've been doing since 2000. I've owned a domain for many years that is the name of the field, I was surprised at the time that it was available. So I could put it on there. But there are other possibilities. other niches.

Another potential way to make some money is having AI build one of those simple, static websites that provide a function people often do quick searches for - like one of the "what's my IP" sites. I read that sites like ipchicken rake in a lot of money. Those sites make money via ad revenue. But the big challenge there would be SEO, and it may take a very long time to get anywhere, if ever. Finding a gap in the market would help, something a lot of people search for but with few sites providing what they're searching for. Maybe with a bunch of those types of sites, each with a different focus, one of them would payoff.

Something has to work

I'll bet there aren't a lot of books about your field. That actually sounds like a good idea, and since you have a good domain name, you could hawk the book.

"Medical insurance code calculations made easy! Learn how to enter this field and blahblahfuckingblah etc."

Thanks Grogan

I'm trying to come up with an idea for a simple static web tool, like those "what's my IP" sites. I might make one of those too, but there are a lot of them out there and I wanted to make something with less competition but something people would be searching for, even if it's only a small subset of the population who'd be searching for it. Any ideas?

I have no idea, but the best way to make money is to have a tangible product or service. Relying on ads (that people are going to just block) isn't the way to go.

When I go to one of those "what's my ip" sites to make sure my VPN is working, they get dick from me, except a page hit, a useless (to them, for demographics) IP address, a waste of their bandwidth and i/o

Better ideas are your book, with tricks of the trade, and maybe the designs you could create.

Some people are combining ads and premium features with stripe.

I'm going to take the shotgun approach to this, there are multiple things I can try so I'll try a number of them and see what happens. I'll have to sort out how to handle taxes, both sales tax and income tax from doing this. The federal and state governments have to complicate things.The hard part is actually getting started, but I'm going to try to get something done this weekend.

I took the first big step. I got a web host that has an AI website creator, I saw it in action, it looks pretty slick. They also have WordPress as an alternative to that. I went with the Business plan, I could create up to 50 sites. I could optionally upgrade to their Cloud plan which includes a dedicated IP and 100 sites.

That's a good first step, now all you have to do is "something" with it

Do you remember, back in the 90's, that stupid fucking site, hamsterdance.com with that stupid pattern of dancing hamsters and that infuriating "de de de dot doh de doh doh" song? That site was very popular and served no real purpose.

You could try making something cute like that with AI. What about parrots? You always liked macaws

Thanks Grogan, I'll try some keywords around that in the SERP site I'm using. I've been using that to look for gaps where there are a lot of web searches for a topic but minimal competition. I wish there was an option to search by gaps or the overall keyword score instead of having to think up keywords to search by.

This happened to pop up on YT



I'd much rather look forward to a week of making $ from a site like that while casually making other sites like that, instead of yet another long week of stress and exhaustion.

If only they'd have known about ads back in the goatse.cx days

It's a matter of appealing to the silliness of the masses. I could see a "magic 8 ball" site being popular.

Thought I'd try creating a site with a game like the Mad Libs game where the player is asked for words to fill in blanks in a randomly generated story that changes with each new game. The resulting page looked good, but then I tested it out..

Our greasy camping trip started when we set up the sleeping bag and it immediately slept away in a sudden thunder! That night, we heard furry sounds and discovered a bear was vomiting outside our tent. We roasted hotdogs over the campfire and agreed it was the most rotten trip ever. We ended the night telling fishing until sunrise!

That was the story that resulted. That almost worked, but yeah, I think I might start over with something a little less grammar dependent for my first one lol!

I got to thinking, something that would be really cool, would be a site where you contact demons. Each demon could be a different AI model that might answer differently. One might be polite and cunning, another might be threatening etc. Take the names of the demons and characteristics from dark biblical shit/mythology (to make it more controversial... you aren't supposed to utter their names). Stating that it's just for amusement (because... some people)

It would piss the fuck out of the Evilgelicals, and they'd want it banned, which would explode its popularity

Just like those old quotes - "any publicity is good publicity" and "There is no such thing as bad publicity'

One factor for SEO is the number of backlinks. That domain I've had for years that has been parked all that time has 133 backlinks, with 77.44% of them Dofollows. I'd have to create an account (free) at the one I used to see the full list, so I don't know if any of them are related to what the subject of the site would be, most likely not (that's another SEO factor). Here's the backlink checker I used.

Why would you have "dofollows" for a placeholder site? That's just bot tomfoolery, generating pages for the bots themselves to follow.

I doubt that has as much credence for ranking as it used to, it's garbage stats. Bots are ruining all of these metrics. Have valuable content (to viewers) and you'll get ranking.