Trend #009 - How I Built a Startup with a $1 Budget Using ChatGPT4 (Part 1)

I made hustleGPT my co-founder and gave it $1. Then, we spent 2 weeks working together to build a startup to sell.

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Hazel Lim
March 24, 2023

Hey,

Welcome to the whopping ✨120 new subscribers ✨to What The Hype last week! 🎉

What a journey! We've been brainstorming low-risk business ideas every other Friday for a while, and I still feel amazing when I get a reply like this:

✨ So go on. Hit reply to say hi or ask a question. I respond to every email!🤓

Today, we are going to explore the hype around using ChatGPT to build you a startup.

What you will learn:

  • The insane startup challenge that got 20m views in 7 days!

  • How to build your own #hustleGPT

  • My hustleGPT workflow for you to copy

  • [Part 2] Two most promising hustleGPT ideas you can start

  • [Part 2] The biggest risk for creators & digital entrepreneurs using GPT

  • [Part 2] What happened to my GPT challenge?

📣 Community Shout Outs

Franck - Founder of Hello Makers (a newsletter for creators) and Templetery, (a beautiful Carrd template site. Love the one for Notion!). 

Avi - For being the first to support my ChatGPT challenge by buying a Savage Card!

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Let's get back to today's topic 👇

🔎 WTF is #HustleGPT

Ever since I completed No Code Bootcamp 2 weeks ago (I will write up this experience in a future issue), I've been trying to get ChatGPT3.5 to build me a startup to sell on 29th March 2023 (I explain why this specific date later👇).

In short, it sucked. It couldn't write I code I needed.

But when GPT4 launched last week, I tried again. Amazingly, it fix the error its older brother, GPT3.5 created. It works!🤯

GPT4 HustleGPT

That's why when I saw this tweet from Jackson, I KNEW I had to write about my own incredible #hustleGPT experience.

Jackson's tweet is now tracking 20 million views, and #hustleGPT has turned into a movement with a 2000+ member discord group and 19 of those projects have been monetized (including mine🥳).

All in 1 week.

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👀 So... How does it work? 

You make hustleGPT your co-founder and give it some parameters - budget, type of business and your own expertise etc. Alternatively, use Jackson's prompt verbatim: 

"You are hustleGPT, an entrepreneurial AI. I am your human counterpart. I can act as a liaison between you and the physical world. You have $100 and your only goal is to turn that into as much money as possible in the shortest time possible, without doing anything illegal. I will do everything you say and keep you updated on our current cash total. No manual labor.

Then, it's a series of tweaks and "prompt engineering" to put GPT to work. 

If it sounds complex, don't worry, we are about to break it down using my own project as an example.

My GPT project: Savage Cards 😈

This is a high-level workflow for my own version of #HustleGPT project:

🟣 I brainstorm ideas, names, and business models with GPT.

We ended up with Savage Cards - Create Hilariously Offensive Greeting Cards in 30 Seconds with AI

🟣 Use GPT to create code

It made me a Google App Script code to connect what a user wants (a card for Bob please) and GPT's output automatically. I then copy-pasted this code into Google App Script.

🟣 Create a backend database in Google Sheets to collect all these data

🟣 Use GPT to fix errors (this process actually took the longest. It's the step GPT3.5 failed.)

🟣 Set up other APIs.

I got GPT to create a second Google App Script code to convert the GPT outputs into pretty PDFs. I also set up an automation tool to send emails. (See, that's why I am bullish on APIs in my last newsletter issue about APIs)

🟣 Create a front end for the project. In my case, I used Glide, but you can also use Softr orTypedream for quicker projects.

Finally, it's time to launch 🚀

🎉Announcement: Savage Cards is up for sale! 🎉

We will be auctioning off this project at the No Code Sale Event on 29th March 2023. 

Quick stats:👀The tweet was seen 126,000 times💪The app was used 180 times✉️Collected 70 emails🥉Won 3rd prize at No Code Weekend 17-19 March💰Made its first dollar

To complete this challenge, it HAS to get sold. 

💪 How you can help

🔥 Want Part 2 of this?

In the next issue, we will explore

  • Two most promising hustleGPT ideas you can start

  • The biggest risk for creators & digital entrepreneurs using GPT

  • What happened to my GPT challenge

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Until the next one, 

Hazel

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