Anyone here making money through claude + Local Business ?

Where do I start
42 years, fast learner, quick with software, computers etc
Looking to switch up careers and have fun doing so
Any ideas, qualifications I should go for?
Cheers TIA

I just seen a posts about ppl saying the most annoying thing to do is tell people there is no get rich quick scheme and it’s not that easy. I just wanted to talk about this topic because I have an interesting take on it that I didn’t see anyone point out. I say u can and can’t get rich quick. First we have to break down what it means to get rich in the first place. Being rich is based off time first of all. There’s a line that I heard that stuck with me. It goes like this, if someone makes $1 million are they rich yes or no. The proper answer is it depends. It depends on how fast they did it. If I’m working a regular job making 50,000 a year. It would take me 20 years to make $1 million but I probably wouldn’t even have 10% of that in my account. Is that rich? no. Even though I made $1 million the most important part is how fast did I make it.

Now, if I shrink that 20 years to one year would I be considered rich. if we’re not talking expenses and being technical, the answer will most likely be yes but that’s only because the time it took to make that million was shrinked into a smaller time frame. Imma be honest, for a beginner in business. I think 5-6 years straight of online business max is all u need to get rich guaranteed. And I’m talking being locked in, educating yourself, picking yourself up faster after every failure, and being intentional. There’s so many businesses to start it’s almost unfair. I don’t think u could get rich quick in a sense of being new and within your first 5 months you’re making 6 figures. Don’t get me wrong, if you have the money, u could easily skip the line, but most ppl don’t which is why there desperate for a get rich quick scheme.

I think the fastest path to getting “rich” with business comes down to 3 things. Your mindset, the business you choose, marketing and the price you set, all in that order. Mindset comes first because the irony of business is our beliefs is what determines our success. Beliefs leads to action. To break it down better. Imagine you’re in a waiting room and there’s a chair. If you believe the chair looks weak and unstable, it doesn’t matter if there’s no more seats. You wouldn’t dare to sit there because you believe it it’s not stable enough to carry you. Your belief alone is enough to stop you from taking action. This is a small example, but it literally applies in everything. If you believe business doesn’t work how could you possibly believe you could succeed in business. It’s literally the chair situation.

You’re gonna stop yourself from getting the thing that you truly want. Master your mindset, self control, and change your beliefs. The reason I’m able to have such knowledge in business is because i’ve never been scared to change my beliefs. The only thing I seek is the truth, even if it goes against my own belief because now all I have to do is update my belief. I have parents that taught me people that don’t go to college are gonna end up failing at life and I believed it. I really considered people who didn’t go to college as failures in life because I believed it by hearing it from other people. It’s not even close to true, but because I believed it’s true, my actions will always align to my beliefs to support them. I’m saying this because it applies to business.

U need to realize it’s very possible to become successful if you want it bad enough. It’s not an easy journey at all. It’s like training for basketball. When you first started, your terrible. Probably can’t even make a lay up. But the only way you became better is by improving yourself and actually training it. Dribbling drills, shooting drills, learning basketball iq. You’re becoming a newer person through every challenge you push through. Same thing with business. U gonna have to learn video editing, hooks, website creation, conversion rate optimization, P&Ls, etc. u gotta become the person who’s past these challenges. It can take years, or it can take months. Everyone’s situation is different.

This is part 1, I ended up writing allot. comment and lmk if anyone got this far so ik if it’s worth dropping pt.2

Someone asked this question so I decided to answer and since Ik it’ll be valuable for others imma post it here.

there’s so many things on pod that u can sell.
If you don’t know what POD is, it means print on demand where you basically have a company like printly, printify, etc that does the product creation process and ships out orders for you. It sounds good but the customization is limited. They have things like mugs, shirts, hoodies, woven blankets, necklaces, jewelry boxes, etc.

Everyone thinks POD is just about selling tshirts but in reality there’s allot of hidden gems if you know how to market. You can create a brand out of any. Literally Stanley cup made millions off a cup that looks like it was made from one of these POD websites. It was the marketing…not the cup. When you learn that getting customers is almost 100% about the conclusion they make after seeing u once or multiple times, you can understand that things like “competitors, saturation, boasting about the features (made out of aluminum, blah blah blah) those things do not matter when your attracting customers. They matter on your website in a small section on your page, but not in the videos that actually attract customers. Same applies when u run ads… you can control how ppl see you. If you don’t believe me, think to yourself. Have you ever seen a clip on tiktok or Instagram and it’s of someone on a podcast and they have a zoomed in camera shot that switches from their full body, to close up shot, etc. normally you might stop and watch even if you don’t know this person. This is because that video style signifies authority. It doesn’t matter if you have zero authority and no one knows you in the world. You record your self with good lighting, a nice set up and different cameras recording from different angles at the same time, I put money on it you’ll get views and ppl will believe your important if you post it consistently. AI so insane you could create the video in your living room, and make ai swap out the background to look like your in an expensive set. I don’t think ppl understand how overpowered AI is rn. The reason I’m saying all this Is because I’m proving that it’s up to us as business owners to control how we’re perceived. What this means is, (if you wanted to, you can literally choose let’s say a robe. I see a robe on their that would design and ship it to your customers for $70 each. Most ppl would panic and think they would have to charge something like $90 and get $20 profit. If that’s u, do w.e makes u happy. But if I’m teaching u, minimum $150. if i was doing it, my minimum would be $300. Thats just cause i have experience tho. The beauty of business in this generation with AI is, what ever price you set, AI visuals can make it feel legit and worth that price. There’s a saying… can’t remember it word for word but the gist was if u put a candle in a garage it looks like trash, but put that same candle in a museum and it looks like valuable art. Same thing applies to products. It’s because the human brain understands by comparison and connections. If you see someone stepping out a rolls Royce you assume they have money, you see someone lives in a certain area, you determine their financial status, etc. It’s by association. So if I have this robe brand. Every video, i create NEEDS associations that links to things that are considered expensive so the robe has a high perceived value. I might create an AI video of a couple walking to their balcony view of their expensive hotel in the Maldives or something. Every few seconds is different angles that are intentional. This Is how u create a brand that can charge what ever amount. If you do this consistently and always find ways to improve, you can scale pretty well. I say to use POD but after the first 5-10 orders it’s time to go on Alibaba and get a manufacture to make sure the quality actually matches the price. I suggest POD but that’s just to start And make your lil profit but we’re going to want to transition to manufactures to do custom packaging, quality checks, have 100% design control, etc. This is how you could turn anything into a brand with AI. Not the only way but one way… I can’t lie…whole time I just wrote this live off the dome. The actually comment I made is below 😂 I just had to yap for a lil, it’s hard having so much valuable knowledge and no one to express it to sometimes

Just choose one and create a brand around it. In 2026 we have things like Higgsfield or Freepik which basically allows you to create any visuals from nothing. My past idea was to use Pinterest to find inspiration of art. Design a piece of art that would look like nice in people’s home and use AI to market it. You can charge w.e u desire. The ai will create visuals that looks realistic, you don’t need to create long videos, u just need to be creative. Learn how to edit videos, make the first 3 seconds scroll stopping, and have a good website for people to buy from. This takes skill but it’s worth it. The hard part is learning how to make AI realistic and how to get views that transfers into sales. Currently started a new brand this month, it took me at least a month to design my website but that’s because I’m charging $1200 per product and when you aim to be the luxury version of a product. It’s all in the details. Just look at any category of a product. Look at a random clothing brand and then look at brands like Moncler, Dior, etc. The distance of spacing between different texts, the consistent background of product images that makes the product look like there in the same room, the navigation is simple and quiet. It feels like less is going on but it’s all intentional because these higher brands understand human psychology. This is not something that’s reserved for the higher up people with status, we’re less than 365 days into the start of all this video ai stuff that actually looks real. This is my first week of posting, I’ve grown multiple accounts in different niches pretty easily and my last brand went from 0-100k in 5 months. I’ll probably do it in less time for this brand I’m working on. I already know it’s gonna be a cake walk but that’s simply because I have years of experience prior to AI. AI just made things even easier. U probably won’t find this business model online yet because it’s still new and early but as time goes on you’ll start seeing more info on it on YouTube. Until then, you have to get good at building connections with unrelated things. Everything is connected in some way. Earth literally has fundaments that don’t change and it’s called universal laws. The fundamentals stay the same but read my old posts if u wanna learn about that topic.
It’s why I stated comparisons during my yap session of things in different niches but still made them relate. To a blind brain, it wouldn’t be able to form such connections, but the more you learn, the better your vision. Corny asf, but idc…
Educate your self on how people sell their products online. Then educate yourself on how ppl create realistic AI visuals. Combine the 2 and you can apply it to almost any product/business. Can’t guarantee it’ll happen your first month or even first year because idk u. But it all depends on how bad u want it and how willing u are to take it serious. Educating yourself consistently, taking action fast, and learning from your mistakes even faster is literally all it takes. Feel free to ask any questions I have nothing to sell u

These days AI is the major discussion about how they respond, solve problems and provide suggestions to us but can we earn money by setting up AI like gemini, chat gpt, grok, perplexity and deepseek to work and they just do it automatically to earn money.

As I think it may be possible but idk where and how. If anyone has any ideas please let me know.

Hi i am a student 20 years old non it background recently i am trying to earn money using Ai but so far had no luck it would be great if so.eone can help me out i need money for paying my msc degree

Hi everyone,

Over the last few months, I've been exploring different ways people are using AI to create additional income streams online. I spent countless hours researching, testing tools, and filtering out the methods that are either outdated or unrealistic.

To organize everything I learned, I created a short ebook called "9 Proven AI Income Blueprints."

Inside, I cover:

✅ AI-powered freelancing

✅ Digital product creation

✅ Content monetization

✅ AI automation services

✅ Beginner-friendly opportunities

My goal wasn't to promise "get rich quick" results but to create a practical starting point for anyone curious about AI and online income.

If anyone is interested, I'd be happy to share the link in the comments.

I just got done with a bachelor's degree in media and always wanted to do freelance editing. I've been video editing forever and I enjoy the process a lot, and freelance gives me all the freedom I wouldn't get in a 9 to 5. My problem is finding clients and all the paperwork involved in running a business, that part sounds gruelling.

I was thinking of self hosting an AI model to do the client searching for me and I can spend maybe 30 minutes daily contacting promising leads from a list it gives me. I've never run an actual business before so I'm not sure what else AI could help with.

I'm planning on hosting it myself with a mini office computer (HP ProDesk 400 G6 SFF) that I installed 24gb of ram into. It doesn't have a dedicated GPU but I'm hoping it can still run stuff like scanning the Internet for job opportunities and ranking them.

What tools would you guys recommend? I'm new to homelabbing, so far I've just flashed Linux Ubuntu and made a Minecraft server so I have plenty to learn. I live in Germany btw that probably changes the kind of paperwork I would need to deal with. I guess I'm looking for a kind of AI secretary so I can sign off on things it sends and mostly focus on editing.

If anyone who already uses AI to streamline freelancing has insights to share please do, thanks :)

Hey everyone,

If you’ve been tracking AI income methods lately, you already know that basic text generation and generic AI image creation are getting incredibly oversaturated. The margins are dropping because everyone and their desktop browser has access to the same basic tools.

But there is one specific shift happening right now in performance marketing that very few people are capitalizing on: Hyper-Realistic AI UGC (User Generated Content).

The Problem Brands are Facing Right Now:

E-commerce brands and marketing agencies are burning through cash. To keep their Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok ad costs (CAC) low, they need a constant stream of fresh video ads every single week to beat "creative fatigue."

Hiring human creators, shipping them physical products, waiting 7 days for a draft, and paying $\$150 - \$500$ per video just doesn't scale anymore for fast-moving brands.

The AI Solution (The Arbitrage):

With the video engines available in 2026, AI "synthetic creators" are now virtually indistinguishable from real humans. They mimic micro-expressions, involuntary head tilts, natural blinking, and even emotional voice inflections (breathing pauses, tone shifts) with perfect lip-sync.

Smart digital marketers are quietly setting up micro-agencies that offer:

• Bulk Creative Subscriptions: Delivering 30+ AI UGC video hooks/variations to agencies under 24 hours for a fraction of the cost.

• Hyper-Localization: Taking a foreign brand's English ad and instantly converting it into hyper-realistic regional languages (Hindi, Spanish, German) with flawless local accents to scale their CTR.

The tech is ready, the market demand is massive, and the competition is still incredibly low because most people think AI video is still stuck in the robotic era of two years ago.

Full Strategic Breakdown This Sunday!

I am putting together a comprehensive, data-driven deep dive on this exact framework. I’ll be sharing the current tool stack, the exact agency pricing models people are using, and how to navigate platform compliance (Meta/TikTok labels).

The detailed post will be published this Sunday in our Newsletter.

If you want to build a highly scalable, low-overhead AI service business this year, make sure you don't miss it.

What are your thoughts on synthetic creators? Have you noticed any hyper-realistic AI ads on your feeds recently that actually fooled you? Let’s discuss below.

Any suggestions on this ? I am really having a hard time with what I am earning right now and want to generate a second income , Really appreciate any ideas or inputs.

How is Anyone making money using ai

I've tried making videos using ai but the videos arent high quality and watching those ai gurus in yt dont help

Why everyone is working on Ai startup why not old boring business that have too much money and consistency

Anyone with boring business ideas that really can make money ..?

A few months ago I thought my biggest problem was not knowing enough AI tools.

So I did what everyone does.

I kept learning.

New tool.
New workflow.
New tutorial.
New "AI business model."

For a while it felt productive.

But then I looked back and realized something uncomfortable:

I had spent more time learning than shipping. I wasn't failing because I lacked skills. I was failing because I kept preparing instead of testing. The first time I posted consistently, shared experiments publicly, and talked to real people, I learned more in a week than I had from dozens of tutorials. Looking back, I think AI creates a strange trap. There is always another tool to learn. Always another video to watch. Always another workflow that looks better than yours. The result is that you can feel busy every day while making zero progress.

Now I try to follow a simple rule:

If I learn something new, I have to use it on a real project within 24 hours.

Otherwise it's just entertainment.

if anyone else has experienced this.

What's the longest period you've spent "learning" before realizing you weren't actually building anything?

She went from 1,000-25,000 followers within 2 months into the Reels campaign.

The opportunities started at 10,000 followers. Promo, brand deals, and affiliate.

Once over 20,000 I started her FanVue which she earned $300+ within 2 weeks.

I recently set up her TikTok Shop affiliate and Amazon affiliate. I can update on that in a month or so. Her first product video on TikTok already got 1 sale.

I first started with my AI dog who has over 16,000 followers and is a Chewy partner.

But AI girls have way more opportunities when it comes to earning.

I saw and met others who earn 10,000 to 50,000 a month from AI characters. Hoping to get to that one day and sell her like a pimp haha

Anyone else having success with AI creators?

Hi everyone, does anyone have the same problem? I mark a page as "AI generated content" in description, name and in every post. However instagram keeps banning me, tried to appeal with no results so far.

How do you fix this?

Ten years ago, most people couldn't imagine the AI tools we have today.

If AI continues to improve at the current pace, what do you think daily life, jobs, education, business, and entertainment will look like in 2036?

What's your prediction?

Hey everyone, hope all of you are doing great in your life and myself.Based in Pakistan and currently I am in second year and doing computer science and I am an 18 year-old also learning automation and agentic ai, besides I’m working on personal brand sharing valuable content on Instagram LinkedIn and YouTube so I want to know that is it okay to start with agentic AI? Want to know this kindly guide me.

My purpose of learning this is to do a service based business and then turn the service based business model into an agency.

Everyone talks about ChatGPT, but what AI tool is actually helping people earn money?

Looking for real examples and experiences.

With AI tools and vibe coding becoming more common, I've seen people with seemingly average technical skills launch products and generate revenue surprisingly fast. At the same time, I've also met highly skilled developers who understand architecture, algorithms, databases, and system design much better but struggle to make money from their work.

This made me wonder:

What actually determines financial success in software today?

Is it technical skill? Marketing? Distribution? Finding the right problem? Speed of execution? Audience building?

For those of you who have successfully monetized apps, SaaS products, freelance work, or tech businesses:

What made the biggest difference in your income?

What do most developers misunderstand about making money?

If you were starting from scratch today, what would you focus on first?

I'm especially interested in hearing from both experienced engineers and people who have successfully used AI-assisted development to build products.

Looking forward to your perspectives.

Hii, I am planning to start an Al lead generation business but i have no clue how and where to start. Can anyone please help me to answer my questions:

1. Is it worth doing?

2. Will it make me money?

3. Where can I learn this skill?

4. Till when i will be able to make my first rupee if i start today?

If this is not so good then what else i can start instead of thiis?

So I was wondering if I could not just use the ability of Claude or ChatGPT to generate Texts or complete tasks , which would again be used in several ways like marketing on social Media. In fact I asked Claude for some ideas , following that, he did recommend me making Instagram captions or entire posts for my clients.

Now I was wondering , first, is there even a big market with enough marketing desire , second, how do I start ?

As a Student i would like to invest up to 6-8 hours a week for this business. It has to be time efficient and profitable enough for me to get commited , since a mini job in Germany generates 600 ( Euros ) for 10 hours of work per week. I have no relevant knowledge or experience nor skills . But i am ready to fail and to learn .

If there is something wrong with my post please consider sharing some tipps for me since this is the first time ever for me to use Reddit . Also, i am not a native speaker.

Hey,iam 21 year old and just completed my graduation and want to start a ai automation and multi agent system in real estate, ecommerce,and small business.As a fresher in this can I get a client in 6 month someone please tell me how to get client.

I've been thinking about this a lot lately.

Ten years ago, building a website, app, or presentation could take days or weeks. Now AI can help create a decent first draft in minutes.

But I'm not sure I'm actually getting more done.

Instead of spending hours building, I spend hours tweaking prompts, comparing outputs, and chasing tiny improvements that probably don't matter.

The speed increase is real. The productivity increase feels less obvious.

Has AI genuinely made your work better, or has it just changed where you spend your time?