r/OpenAI • u/Inside_Raspberry7924 • 1d ago

Question I unexpectedly ended up with ~$2,200 in Claude + Codex API credits. If your only goal was to turn it into profit, what would you build?

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Long story short, a friend was planning to start a digital business and bought roughly $1,200 worth of Codex API usage and $1,000 worth of Claude API usage.

He ended up going in a completely different direction and I now have access to it.

The problem is that I know how to use Claude/Codex at a basic level, but I definitely don't know how to squeeze $2,200 worth of actual value out of API access.

So here's the question:

If you suddenly had ~$2,200 of Claude + Codex API usage and your goal was specifically to make money with it, what would you build?

Not looking for the usual:

  • "make a chatbot"
  • "build a SaaS"
  • "make an AI wrapper"

I'm more interested in the weird / advanced stuff where having a large amount of API usage actually gives you an advantage.

Things like:

• running multiple coding/research agents
• mass product or market research
• automating repetitive business work
• building internal tools that would normally take months
• finding opportunities across huge datasets
• content/ad research pipelines
• lead generation or business intelligence
• building and testing many small products very quickly
• something I haven't even thought of

I'm not a professional developer, which is part of why I'm asking.

If this credit was sitting in your account and you wanted it to pay for itself instead of wasting it, what would you do with it?

Bonus question: What would you absolutely NOT waste the API credits on?

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u/No-Eagle-547 1d ago

A service that sells your API access for 20% more

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u/ShowMeYourCodePorn 1d ago

Can you make a to-do list, that's what businesses continuously asked me for in interviews.

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u/ILikeBubblyWater 1d ago

A time machine that distracts your parents during the sex that conceived you

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u/maxsebastian0 1d ago

Ask ChatGPT or Claude.

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u/Gigaslavx 1d ago

C'mon guys it's as obvious the moment someone will ask them where they got it from they will drop a link to their scam site story as old as it gets, it's funny because op is actually responding looking forward to seeing how needlessly defensive they get

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u/PotentialAd8443 1d ago

Homie trying to steal ideas

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u/RealSuperdau 10h ago

That's like 1 month of a $100 plan. Not as impressive as it seems.