Monetization

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Only 2% of consumers are actually paying for AI. That single stat, dropped on TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, explains more about this moment than the White House rebranding AI as “super intelligence” or OpenAI giving its agent a bubbly cartoon avatar called Dots. Governments are renaming the technology and consumer apps are getting cuter — because consumers, it turns out, are not the ones paying. I read that stat, looked at my own AI side project’s numbers, and rebuilt it around business customers in an afternoon. Here’s exactly what I did, so you can do a faster version in 20 minutes. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I’ve tested a lot of social media scheduling tools. Buffer, Hootsuite, Later, Publer — they all do roughly the same thing: you write posts, schedule them across platforms, and pay a monthly fee for the privilege. Then I found AiToEarn, and it broke the pattern completely. It’s free, it’s open-source, and it pays you to post. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. White-label this open-source tool and sell it for $200/month Last week I was paying $12/month for Calendly. Then I found Cal.com — an open-source alternative that does everything Calendly does, plus more, for free. But that’s not the interesting part. The interesting part is the business model hiding inside this repo. White-label it. Sell it to professionals who’ll never find it themselves. $200/month per client. No coding required. ...