In the past few months, AI has enabled me to make some "quick" wins My hope is that anyone in this group can put out some feelers to their network, and lets all work together to fulfil the work, and all at least get REAL proof that you can make money in this space Here are some jobs I've done 1. $3,200 website + logo. I used ChatGpt to make multiple edits to the logo and gave the client speed and he was so impressed that he asked me to make the website for him (Lots of work - 48 hours max in total spent from beginning to the end) 2. Yesterday $750. A guy came in through a barter network I was part of asking for a poster. I told him I am a software developer but I can take a stab at it. I used GPT to create an image and make tons of edits as he requested them. He is about to pay right now (3 hours max spent in total from beginning to the end) 3. A few months ago, a marketing client wanted a custom app built - I quoted her $5,000 and ended up making over $10,000 because she loved the app and wanted more features. I used about $200 max in claude code subscription and deployed the app to my very own coolify server (48 hours max spent in total) 4. I am on a monthly retainer being paid $1,000/month to help a company with any business automations they may need So what can YOU do? Don't spend time learning the tech - find people who need a solution - whether its a logo, website, automation, then ping me and lets chat about pricing and fulfilment From there you have two options 1. Pay for the AI tools once you make money and then spend your time finding and fulfiling the work 2. Keep working with me or another technical person, while you focus on getting the work Who is in to try?

Look, I've been using Claude Code for a few months now and I just realized most people are doing it backwards. Everyone's just throwing vague prompts at it like "build me a login system" and then spending forever going back and forth fixing stuff. There's a better way. Write the damn spec first. I'm serious. Before you even open Claude Code, spend 20 minutes writing out what you actually need. Requirements, edge cases, how the API should work, what errors to handle. Just a markdown file. Nothing fancy. Then (and this is the part nobody talks about) you point Claude Code directly at that spec file. "Implement the auth service in auth-spec.md." That's it. What happens next is honestly kind of wild. It reads the whole thing, sometimes asks you questions if something's unclear, then just builds it. Multiple files, proper error handling, tests that actually make sense. Because it knows exactly what you want. No more asking - actually can you change this fifteen times. No more - I forgot to mention we need to handle OAuth too. The spec is right there. And here's the thing that sold me: your specs don't disappear into some Google Doc graveyard. They live with your code. When you need to refactor three months later, the spec is still there telling you what the hell you were thinking. Try it once. Write a proper spec, save it as a .md file in your project, and tell Claude Code to build from it. You'll get why everyone who does this won't shut up about it.

Hey everyone! I’m new here and really excited about vibe coding . Looking forward to learning, sharing ideas, and making friends with you all!

So I grabbed coffee with my buddy Rohan last week, and his story is kind of wild. He's been sitting on this enterprise SaaS idea in the HRTech space for months. Good idea too - validated with potential customers. But he can't code much. So he started getting quotes. The developer route? > Senior devs wanted $120K-150K a year plus equity. Even juniors were $80K+. But it's not just the salary - it's the commitment. What if it doesn't work? He was worried about bleeding cash every month on payroll while trying to figure out if anyone will pay for his product. Dev agencies? > Cheapest quote: $23,000. Most expensive: $47K. Timeline? 3-4 months. And any changes after delivery? Extra. Always extra. Then he found this AI coding thing. He took a $500 course on Agentic spec coding - basically using specialized AI agents to build software without being a developer. A month later, he had a working MVP. Not a prototype. An actual product he's testing with real users. The math: - Devs: $120K+ per year - Agency: $23K, months of waiting - His way: $500, one month What surprised him most: The speed, flexibility, and scalability. With an agency, every change takes days or weeks of negotiation. Now he iterates in hours. Idea in the morning, tested and fixed by dinner. This isn't magic. Rohan had frustrating nights because of the lack of experience with spec coding. Things broke. You still need to understand what you're building - the AI doesn't think for you. But if you're scrappy? This is viable. Three years ago, non-technical founders had to learn to code for years or raise money. Now there's another path. Not replacing developers for complex stuff, but for getting an MVP out there? Completely different game. Rohan's product isn't perfect. But it exists. People are using it. Built for the cost of a used iPhone and a month of late nights. What would you build if you didn't need to raise $500K first?

Hello Happy Thanksgiving. I am new wanting to learn more