The AI Anti-Startup: $3 Million/Year, Zero Employees
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The AI Anti-Startup: $3 Million/Year, Zero Employees
For solo entrepreneur Pieter Levels, building a multi-million dollar empire means rejecting the traditional VC playbook. Instead of betting on a single startup, the creator of hits like Nomad List and PhotoAI has launched over 70 projects, generating more than $3 million in annual revenue by himself.
His strategy transforms the development process into its own marketing engine. Rather than hiring a team, he leverages a massive online following built through relentless content creation. This engaged audience provides instant feedback and a customer base for new launches.
To manage the workload alone, he relies on smart automation, even using a GPT-powered bot to moderate his 40,000-person community. And this frees him to focus on what he does best: building.
How One Agency Built a Full '90s World with AI (On a Shoestring Budget)
How do you relaunch a brand against giants like Poppi with a fraction of their budget? Creative agency BarkleyOKRP found the answer in AI. For the soda brand Slice, they didn't just make an ad; they built an entire 1990s world.
In a five-week sprint, they used Google's AI to create a full radio station, complete with 40 original songs, two AI DJs, and authentic album art. This shows how AI can be used for more than just efficiency. It can build a complete, immersive brand atmosphere at a scale that was previously impossible without a massive budget.
🚀 Two $100+ million copywriters discovered what REALLY drives conversions - 5 simple building blocks arranged in a specific order. This framework is so powerful that beginners are generating 5-figure profits with it. And you can learn the full system in just 33 minutes.
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Prompt of the Week
This Week's Feature: Mental Model Forge (via @neatprompts on x)
Generic brain games are a one-size-fits-all solution for a mind that's uniquely yours. This prompt acts as your personal cognitive strategist, asking 15 adaptive questions to blueprint how you think, learn, and solve problems.
It then uses that profile to forge a daily training program from proven cognitive science. One to systematically upgrade your focus and sharpen your thinking.
Here's the full prompt:
Build each question from my previous answers to go deeper into how I process, learn, and retain information. Once you have a complete profile of my mental landscape, use evidence-based cognitive science and brain-training methods to create a personalized 'mental fitness program' with clear daily exercises, progress tracking, and techniques for long-term improvement.
Tool to Try
Sivi makes design start with plain words. Type your idea and it builds real layouts in minutes. Instead of squeezing copy into rigid templates Sivi composes fresh multilayer designs you can edit and reuse. It keeps your colors fonts and logos consistent across every size. And when you need a full set for ads posts and banners Sivi scales it for each channel without breaking the look.
AI Tool Highlights:
🎨 Text to Design: Type your copy and goal, then get ready to use graphics fast. Results come as editable designs, not flat images.
🧩 Template Free Creativity: Skip rigid layouts. Sivi generates original compositions that fit your content and brand style.
📐 All Sizes, One Flow: Create sets for ads, social posts, and thumbnails in one place. Keep the look consistent as you resize.
🌎 Works in 70 plus Languages: Produce designs for global markets with natural text. Switch languages without redoing the layout.
📁 Brand Assets Inside: Upload logos and product shots, or pull from the stock library. Build banners by picking a size, adding content, then hitting generate.
🛠️ Deep Editing Control: Tweak layers, colors, and style until it feels right. Gen-2 adds finer control for posts, ads, and product banners.
One More Need-to-Know News Story
Is Google's AI Stealing Traffic? Rolling Stone's Owner Is Suing to Find Out.
The battle between AI and publishers just hit a new level. Penske Media, the owner of Rolling Stone and Variety, is now suing Google over its AI Overviews. They argue Google is using its journalism without consent, causing a major drop in traffic and revenue.
In fact, Penske claims its affiliate revenue has already fallen by more than a third. The lawsuit says Google leverages its near 90% search market dominance to get away with it. But Google is fighting back, claiming the AI summaries actually create new opportunities for websites to be discovered.
Mind Fodder
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