<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Ship/It Weekly - AI, made simple]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI, made simple. Weekly, beginner friendly guides on how to improve your life with AI.]]></description><link>https://www.alexfinn.ai</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wHes!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe359961-225d-4253-9857-2560cda320ac_426x426.png</url><title>Ship/It Weekly - AI, made simple</title><link>https://www.alexfinn.ai</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:47:48 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.alexfinn.ai/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Alex Finn]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[shipitai@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[shipitai@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Alex Finn]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Alex Finn]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[shipitai@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[shipitai@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Alex Finn]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[Unlimited Free OpenClaw: How to connect your OpenClaw to a local model (even on a Mac Mini)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Want to attend a live OpenClaw bootcamp?]]></description><link>https://www.alexfinn.ai/p/unlimited-free-openclaw-how-to-connect</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.alexfinn.ai/p/unlimited-free-openclaw-how-to-connect</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Finn]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 19:12:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zImA!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2484b53b-926a-4259-b080-6e4848ff8cf7_1841x2048.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Want to attend a live OpenClaw bootcamp? Join the <a href="https://vibecodingacademy.dev">Vibe Coding Academy</a></p><h1><strong>The future is local.</strong></h1><p>Right now I have 3 Mac Studios on my desk powering my OpenClaw. They&#8217;re all running Qwen 3.5, a super intelligent local model basically as good as Sonnet 4.5. Unlimited tokens, no rate limits, all for the cost of the energy flowing into the computers.</p><p>100% private. Nothing going to servers in the cloud that AI companies can read or use to train new models. Everything stays on the device. I can turn off the Wifi and it will still work for me.</p><p>This is the future. Your own personal, private, unlimited super intelligence sitting on your desk. Doing work for you 24/7. </p><p>But here&#8217;s the thing, it doesn&#8217;t have to be your future. It could be your now. And you don&#8217;t need $10,000 Mac Studios to do it. You can do this now all on a Mac Mini. Today. Like right now.</p><p>Qwen 3.5 just launched a couple of days ago and it&#8217;s revolutionary. Sonnet 4.5 level super intelligence, but it can fit on 32gb of memory.</p><p>That means if you have a Mac Mini a tier above the base level, you can fit this local model on it, and get unlimited Sonnet 4.5 level intelligence (which was revolutionary 6 months ago) on your desk powering your OpenClaw 24/7.</p><p>No limits. No Anthropic kicking you off. No API fees. All private.</p><p>Frontier level intelligence from 6 months ago. On your desk. Always working.</p><p>This is REVOLUTIONARY. </p><p>Right now the number 1 complaint around OpenClaw is the limits and the price. If you plug in the Anthropic API, you could be spending thousands a month on fees and constantly hit limits. This fixes that.</p><p>It not only saves you on costs, but it unlocks SO many more use cases. Now that you have no limits, you can run your agents 24/7/365. This changes your relationship with AI completely.</p><p>Now instead of it being a back and forth conversation like a chatbot, it&#8217;s a passive, ambient relationship where your agents are constantly producing value for you, improving themselves, and finding new tasks. Things that were never possible when you used the API.</p><p>For instance: right now I have a SaaS factory with my agents working in them:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zImA!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2484b53b-926a-4259-b080-6e4848ff8cf7_1841x2048.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zImA!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2484b53b-926a-4259-b080-6e4848ff8cf7_1841x2048.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zImA!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2484b53b-926a-4259-b080-6e4848ff8cf7_1841x2048.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zImA!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2484b53b-926a-4259-b080-6e4848ff8cf7_1841x2048.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zImA!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2484b53b-926a-4259-b080-6e4848ff8cf7_1841x2048.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zImA!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2484b53b-926a-4259-b080-6e4848ff8cf7_1841x2048.jpeg" width="1456" height="1620" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2484b53b-926a-4259-b080-6e4848ff8cf7_1841x2048.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1620,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Image&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Image" title="Image" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zImA!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2484b53b-926a-4259-b080-6e4848ff8cf7_1841x2048.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zImA!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2484b53b-926a-4259-b080-6e4848ff8cf7_1841x2048.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zImA!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2484b53b-926a-4259-b080-6e4848ff8cf7_1841x2048.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zImA!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2484b53b-926a-4259-b080-6e4848ff8cf7_1841x2048.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>4 OpenClaw agents working on the same product in sync together, working on individual tasks. When an agent finishes a task, he finds a new one to work on. If he needs to, he can create his own tasks. </p><p>Another agent (Ralph) QA&#8217;s every task the agents perform. If any of the agents mess up, Ralph edits their memories and improves them.</p><p>A full closed loop, self improving system. Would cost me thousands a month if I used APIs. With local models (Qwen and MiniMax) it is completely free (just the cost of power, which is quite efficient on Mac computers.)</p><p>Whole new use cases unlocked that were never possible before. Giving me power I never thought I would ever have as a 1 person business.</p><p>You can do this too. You can have your own teams of agents continuously working and improving, even if you&#8217;re on a Mac Mini.</p><h1><strong>Getting a local model up and running</strong></h1><p>To get Qwen 3.5 running (the model we discussed earlier) you will need at least a 32gb of memory Mac Mini. The model only requires 20gb of memory, but you want some extra space so you can perform other tasks.</p><p>If you only have the base 16gb Mac Mini that&#8217;s fine, you won&#8217;t be able to run this model, but there are smaller models you can still run. They won&#8217;t be frontier level intelligence, but you&#8217;ll be able to offload some small tasks to your local model.</p><p>Here&#8217;s how to set up Qwen 3.5-35B-A3B on your 32gb of memory or higher computer:</p><p>1. Download LM Studio &#8212;</p><p><a href="https://lmstudio.ai/">lmstudio.ai</a></p><p> (</p><p>http://lmstudio.ai/</p><p>), free, drag to Applications</p><p>2. Search for Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-4bit &#8212; in the Discover tab, search &#8220;Qwen3.5-35B-A3B&#8221; and pick the 4-bit MLX version</p><p>3. Download it &#8212; ~20GB, takes a few minutes on decent internet</p><p>4. Load the model &#8212; click it in the sidebar, hit Load. Done. You now have a local AI running</p><p>5. Use it&#8212; Ask your OpenClaw to connect to it. Say you downloaded it into LM Studio and you&#8217;d like to use the model as a tool.</p><p>If you are on a computer with less than 32gb of memory, like the base model Mac Mini, I&#8217;d recommend talking to your OpenClaw and asking &#8220;What is the best local model I can run on my hardware that will help offload some tasks we do or improve our memory system?&#8221;</p><h1><strong>When to use it</strong></h1><p>This model is frontier from 6-12 months ago, but it isn&#8217;t frontier today. So here&#8217;s my recommendation: use Anthropic or ChatGPT as your brain for your OpenClaw, then have it use your local model as the muscles</p><p>The frontier model will plan everything out, then use the local model to execute.</p><p>Execution is 90% of the token usage, so this will save you MASSIVELY.</p><p>It gives you a hybrid model, which is the best of both worlds.</p><p>It also gives you the benefit of tinkering with local intelligence and learning more about AI. Also keeping your data private when you want.</p><p>This will also prepare you for a local future which I believe is coming this year.</p><p>I believe by the end of the year we will have Opus 4.6 level models that can run on a single Mac Studio or Mac Mini. And when this happens, the world will wake up to the possibilities.</p><p>Good news for you: if you take action here, you&#8217;ll be ahead of everyone else, which is always where the massive opportunity is.</p><p></p><p>Learn something new here? Every week I run a live OpenClaw bootcamp in the Vibe Coding Academy. You can join, ask me questions live, and learn how to use the most powerful AI tools in the world!</p><p>You also get instant access to the OpenClaw Masterclass, Claude Code Masterclass, and X Growth Masterclass.</p><p>Join over 800 people in the Vibe Coding Academy here:</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://vibecodingacademy.dev&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Join the Vibe Coding Academy&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://vibecodingacademy.dev"><span>Join the Vibe Coding Academy</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The permanent underclass is coming. Here's how to escape it.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Direct steps to take today]]></description><link>https://www.alexfinn.ai/p/the-permanent-underclass-is-coming</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.alexfinn.ai/p/the-permanent-underclass-is-coming</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Finn]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 16:08:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ksK5!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fff4a857c-f9c7-4073-a85c-df339bd2dfe8_1200x675.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the next 12 months you will fall into 1 of 2 groups. The permanent underclass or the permanent overclass.</p><p>Bad news: you will be stuck there. Good news: you can decide which you fall into.</p><p>So what is the &#8216;permanent underclass&#8217;?</p><p>Right now there are 2 kinds of people: those adopting AI and those not.</p><p>Right now the people who adopt the latest AI tech have significantly more economic power than those who don&#8217;t. They can build and create value for the world significantly faster.</p><p>As more powerful AI tools release like OpenClaw and Opus 4.6, the economic power gap only widens and widens.</p><p>Eventually this gap will be so wide, that the people who haven&#8217;t adopted AI will have 0 economic power. They will be stuck with what they have. It will be over.</p><p>No company will want to hire them and they&#8217;ll have no power to create value on their own.</p><p>On the flip side, the people who have OpenClaws automating their entire digital life, super intelligence guiding all their decisions, and products/services continuously earning them money, will have infinitely scalable economic power nobody will be able to take away.</p><p>This isn&#8217;t something I just pulled out of my ass either. There is real data behind this. Turn on CNBC. Read any economic blog. Their term for this concept is just &#8216;K Shaped Recovery&#8217;.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ksK5!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fff4a857c-f9c7-4073-a85c-df339bd2dfe8_1200x675.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ksK5!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fff4a857c-f9c7-4073-a85c-df339bd2dfe8_1200x675.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ksK5!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fff4a857c-f9c7-4073-a85c-df339bd2dfe8_1200x675.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ksK5!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fff4a857c-f9c7-4073-a85c-df339bd2dfe8_1200x675.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ksK5!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fff4a857c-f9c7-4073-a85c-df339bd2dfe8_1200x675.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ksK5!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fff4a857c-f9c7-4073-a85c-df339bd2dfe8_1200x675.jpeg" width="1200" height="675" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ff4a857c-f9c7-4073-a85c-df339bd2dfe8_1200x675.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:675,&quot;width&quot;:1200,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Image&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Image" title="Image" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ksK5!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fff4a857c-f9c7-4073-a85c-df339bd2dfe8_1200x675.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ksK5!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fff4a857c-f9c7-4073-a85c-df339bd2dfe8_1200x675.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ksK5!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fff4a857c-f9c7-4073-a85c-df339bd2dfe8_1200x675.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ksK5!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fff4a857c-f9c7-4073-a85c-df339bd2dfe8_1200x675.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>You can see it in the stock market right now. Companies that are not taking advantage of AI tools are being crushed. Companies that stand to gain from the AI revolution are getting eye watering gains.</p><p>There is no stock market for human beings, so there are no charts to show how little economic power you have if you&#8217;re not adopting these tools.</p><p>Why 12 months for the permanent underclass? </p><p>Because this is when I predict the power of these tools will be so great that those using them will have conquered and automated all economic opportunity available. </p><p>On top of that the truly top tier AI tools will be so expensive, that only the people who created economic opportunity for themselves will be able to afford them, only adding to their economic power.</p><p>So what can you do to avoid the permanent underclass?</p><p>I have good news. It&#8217;s still really easy and cheap to get on the cutting edge of these tools (for now).</p><p>You just need to be using them every single day for at least an hour.</p><p>If you use the latest AI tools every day from now until 2027, I guarantee you&#8217;ll be in amazing shape.</p><p><strong>Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;d adopt immediately:</strong></p><p><strong>OpenClaw </strong>is by far the most powerful AI tool ever created. It&#8217;s also free and open source. All you need is an AI plan for it from any LLM company. You can pay $10 a month for Minimax and still be able to get a ton out of OpenClaw. Get this installed and start using it. </p><p><strong>Claude Opus 4.6</strong> is the greatest AI model ever to chat with. Use this as a daily driver to solve every challenge you have and bounce ideas off of.</p><p><strong>Codex 5.3 Spark </strong>is the most powerful coding model right now. It gives you super intelligent coding at speeds you can&#8217;t imagine. Start building apps with this model, even if you&#8217;ve never coded before.</p><p><strong>Experiment with local models.</strong> Local super intelligence is the future. Having a computer on your desk where you have you own personal, private, super intelligent AI model that knows you inside and out and isn&#8217;t accessible to the outside world will be common for the permanent overclass. Even if you have a cheap mac mini, ask your AI which local models you can install. Then experiment with them.</p><p>You don&#8217;t need to be rich to take advantage of this opportunity. You just need to have agency and a bias for action. That&#8217;s it.</p><p>The purpose of this article isn&#8217;t to scare you. It&#8217;s to wake you up before it&#8217;s too late.</p><p>Put aside all the distractions. Put aside all the things that do not matter. I recently got rid of my gaming computer. There&#8217;s no time for the BS anymore. Now is the time for action. Now is the time to strike.</p><p>The question becomes, now that you know what the world will be like in 12 months, what will you do now? Will you just leave this article in your bookmarks like 99% of people will? Will you go crack open a beer and watch Stranger Things season 5? Or will you take action?</p><p>You know what you need to do.</p><div><hr></div><p>Want to get on the cutting edge of everything OpenClaw and AI? Join the Vibe Coding Academy. It&#8217;s my AI community where I do live bootcamps every Friday and have 3 full masterclasses including an OpenClaw masterclass, Claude Code masterclass, and X Growth masterclass.</p><p>Join over 700 members here:</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://skool.com/vibe-coding-academy&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Join the Vibe Coding Academy&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://skool.com/vibe-coding-academy"><span>Join the Vibe Coding Academy</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Full ClawdBot Bootcamp now LIVE!!!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hour and a half bootcamp live in the Vibe Coding Academy. Another one coming this week.]]></description><link>https://www.alexfinn.ai/p/full-clawdbot-bootcamp-now-live</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.alexfinn.ai/p/full-clawdbot-bootcamp-now-live</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Finn]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 16:28:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wHes!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe359961-225d-4253-9857-2560cda320ac_426x426.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey everyone!</p><p>For those that missed it, ClawdBot has completely taken over the timelines. And for good reason, it&#8217;s what I believe to be the most powerful technology I&#8217;ve ever used in my life.</p><p>It&#8217;s an AI employee that runs autonomously 24/7 on your computer. It can do ANYTHING a human being can do.</p><p>Over the past week my ClawdBot Henry has:</p><p>&#8226; Designed, built, and shipped apps by itself<br>&#8226; Sent me morning briefs totally customized to everything I&#8217;ve been doing on the computer<br>&#8226; Wrote me Youtube scripts that have gotten over a half million views<br>&#8226; Kept an eye on content competitors, alerting me via text when their content outperforms<br>And tons more!</p><p>ZERO technical experience was required to do any of this.</p><p>If you haven&#8217;t got ClawdBot installed and mastered yet, I really think it&#8217;s critical you do.</p><p>Last Friday I ran a full hour and a half bootcamp on it in the <a href="https://vibecodingacademy.dev/">Vibe Coding Academy</a>. The full recording of which is now available.</p><p>Joining the VBA now gets you instant access to the bootcamp, as well as a full Claude Code masterclass and full X growth masterclass.</p><p>You also get weekly calls with me live every Friday. I will be running another bootcamp this Friday on ClawdBot workflows and use cases.</p><p>Over 230 people have joined so far and we are growing every single day. If you care about staying up to date and mastering the latest AI technologies, I highly encourage you to join the community!</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://vibecodingacademy.dev/&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Join the Vibe Coding Academy&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://vibecodingacademy.dev/"><span>Join the Vibe Coding Academy</span></a></p><p></p><p>-Alex</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to make your first dollar with AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Your step by step playbook]]></description><link>https://www.alexfinn.ai/p/how-to-make-your-first-dollar-with</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.alexfinn.ai/p/how-to-make-your-first-dollar-with</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Finn]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:43:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wHes!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe359961-225d-4253-9857-2560cda320ac_426x426.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>1 year ago today I made my first dollar with AI.</p><p>I launched an AI SaaS called <a href="http://creatorbuddy.io">Creator Buddy</a> that I built 100% by myself and with AI. Within 10 minutes of launch it passed $100,000 ARR.</p><p>I didn&#8217;t do anything special. I didn&#8217;t do anything you can&#8217;t do right this moment. I just took an extreme amount of action over the course of 5 months. In this post I&#8217;m going to lay out every action I took, that you can start taking right now.</p><p><strong>Use AI</strong></p><p>The first step of everything is just using AI daily. This is more critical than anything. Whether it&#8217;s just for 15 minutes a day if you&#8217;re just starting, or for 10+ hours a day if you have the discipline, you need to be using the latest tools and models.</p><p>The most bleeding edge tools will give you the best productivity gains. These tools and models are Claude Code, Opus 4.5, ChatGPT 5.2 Thinking, and Claude Cowork.</p><p>If you don&#8217;t know where to start, just open a ChatGPT window next to whatever you&#8217;re doing, and run all your tasks through it. Just ask how it could help with that you&#8217;re doing.</p><p>But more important than ANY advice I&#8217;ll give you in this post, you NEED to be using AI EVERY SINGLE DAY. This is not optional.</p><p>Nobody neglecting AI right now will be successful over the next decade.</p><p><strong>Find a problem to solve</strong></p><p>Now that you understand AI and the contributions it can give you, you need to start solving problems. This is how you attract value/money.</p><p>Think about the areas you&#8217;re passionate in. There are absolutely no areas in the world AI can&#8217;t disrupt. Brain dump a list if you need to.</p><p>Once you have that list, dump it into AI. Ask for a list of the top challenges from those niches.</p><p>Then, ask for a list of simple solutions you can build with Claude Code to those challenges. Choose one of those solutions.</p><p><strong>Create content about it</strong></p><p>Before you start building the solution, you need to start building your distribution. This is how you&#8217;re going to spread the message of your solution and get your first customer.</p><p>When I first started building Creator Buddy, which is an AI tool for creating X content that performs well in the X algo, I started writing a TON about the X algorithm.</p><p>I would write tips and tricks, and share everything that was working for me with the algo. It helped build my authority in the niche.</p><p>Then when I released Creator Buddy, I had an army of users ready to go and sign up. I just simply released a product that implemented all the advice I was sharing.</p><p>It&#8217;s never too early to start creating content and building authority in your niche. X is the easiest place to start because tweeting requires at most 15 seconds of your time a day. Youtube takes significantly more effort, but the potential rewards are more than you can imagine. Start small then scale up.</p><p><strong>Start building</strong></p><p>You have your challenge. You&#8217;re building your authority. Now you need to build your solution.</p><p>It&#8217;s never been easier to build. If finances are tighter go with one of the free tools (Google AI Studio). If you can afford it go with the best tool (Claude Code). If you need help getting started, ask AI or join a community.</p><p><strong>Share your journey</strong></p><p>Now that you&#8217;ve built your solution, time to get customers. You&#8217;ve built your authority on social media, so now you share your journey of building. Talk about your product. Talk about how it makes people&#8217;s lives better. How it solves their problems.</p><p>Every time you ship, share. The more you ship, the more you can share, the more people discover you and your product. All of your success will be downstream of shipping.</p><p>That&#8217;s it. That&#8217;s the process. Find problems, build solutions, share your journey. The best part is, this is all basically free to do. It can also be done with a 9-5 as well. All of the steps I laid out are 100x easier with AI.</p><p>I can understand if this seems very intimidating. Especially if it&#8217;s new to you. But I promise, just getting started with get the boulder rolling down hill. The more you push it forward, the easier it becomes.</p><p>Start pushing.</p><p></p><p>PS. want to learn vibe coding with me and a community? I launched a community of builders using Claude Code. We build cool stuff together then meet weekly to talk about it. <a href="http://vibecodingacademy.dev">Join here.</a></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to build your first app with Claude Code (even if you've never coded before)]]></title><description><![CDATA[I really think vibe coding is the biggest opportunity of our lifetime.]]></description><link>https://www.alexfinn.ai/p/how-to-build-your-first-app-with-877</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.alexfinn.ai/p/how-to-build-your-first-app-with-877</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Finn]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 14:23:29 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wHes!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe359961-225d-4253-9857-2560cda320ac_426x426.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I really think vibe coding is the biggest opportunity of our lifetime.</p><p>Before, you had to have some sort of special skills in order to build. You needed to know programming. You need to have a computer science degree. You needed to know people.</p><p>Now all of those barriers are gone. ANYONE, and I mean ANYONE with an idea can turn it into a real life product in no time.</p><p>You can go from idea to product faster than any time in history.</p><p>I proved this. In 5 months I built and launched Creator Buddy without writing a single line of code. I did it all by myself with absolutely no help. It&#8217;s now making $300,000 a year.</p><p>My mission is to open up the eyes to as many people as possible of this. I really think &#8216;vibe coding&#8217; (using AI to build apps) could change so many people&#8217;s lives.</p><p>I think tons of people are constantly coming up with ideas for products that solve challenges, but so few people actually execute on those ideas. Most people just don&#8217;t have the skills/discipline to do anything about it.</p><p>If you&#8217;re one of those people, I have a quick, short guide on how to get started.</p><p>Vibe coding changed my life, and I really think it can change yours. Even if you never launch an app live, I think just BUILDING anything will have a wildly positive impact on your life. It will give you purpose and a productive activity to do outside work.</p><p>Here&#8217;s a quick guide:</p><ol><li><p><strong>Install Claude Code<br></strong>Paste this command into your terminal or console:<br><em>curl -fsSL</em></p><p><em><a href="https://claude.ai/install.sh">https://claude.ai/install.sh</a></em></p><p><em> | bash</em></p></li><li><p><strong>Sign up for a Claude premium account<br></strong>The $20 tier can get you your first simple app built.</p></li><li><p><strong>Create a new folder, then open it in your terminal<br></strong>This is where your first project will live</p></li><li><p><strong>Type &#8216;claude&#8217; into your terminal<br></strong>This starts Claude Code in your selected folder</p></li><li><p><strong>Hit shift+tab x2 to go into plan mode<br></strong>This will help Claude plan the app you&#8217;re going to build</p></li><li><p><strong>Think of a simple app you use every day (maybe a todo list or calendar app?)<br></strong>The best apps to build at first are replicas of the current apps you use daily that you&#8217;re paying for</p></li><li><p><strong>Tell Claude Code your idea and tell it to build a simple version using NextJS<br></strong>NextJS is a popular web framework that is easy to build on.</p></li><li><p><strong>Once it&#8217;s done building, ask it how to run the app</strong></p></li></ol><p>Boom, you have your first app built. You just took your first step in your builder&#8217;s journey.</p><p>Now every day spend 5 minutes adding more to the app. Adding one more feature.</p><p>I promise it&#8217;ll energize you. It&#8217;ll give you more purpose. There is nothing more satisfying than building and using something you made from scratch.</p><p>If you take this advice and build something, let me know!</p><p>Happy building!</p><p>Want to take this a step further? Join my the Vibe Coding Academy where I do weekly live calls and have multiple Claude Code and social media growth courses! </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://vibecodingacademy.dev&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Join the Vibe Coding Academy&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://vibecodingacademy.dev"><span>Join the Vibe Coding Academy</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ship/It Starter Kit: AI Journaling App]]></title><description><![CDATA[Full FREE open source app + business plan]]></description><link>https://www.alexfinn.ai/p/shipit-starter-kit-ai-journaling</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.alexfinn.ai/p/shipit-starter-kit-ai-journaling</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Finn]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 14:53:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QIrh!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F74dbe911-165e-4d32-8d87-b7a897a0d04c_1618x759.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey everyone! 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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to get 10x better at AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[This simple 10 minute routine will have you mastering AI in no time]]></description><link>https://www.alexfinn.ai/p/how-to-get-10x-better-at-ai</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.alexfinn.ai/p/how-to-get-10x-better-at-ai</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Finn]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 19:06:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/d6TEqre0ueU" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h1>Sponsored by: Replit</h1><div id="youtube2-d6TEqre0ueU" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;d6TEqre0ueU&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/d6TEqre0ueU?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>Replit, one of the best vibe coding tools on the planet, just released Replit Connectors, an amazing way to vibe code apps integrated with your Gmail, Google Calendar, Spotify, Google Docs, and many more apps! All without having to manage API keys! Try Replit for free today and start building apps EASILY that are fully integrated into all your own tools!</p><p>Get $10 in credit when you sign up for Replit Core with my referral link!! <a href="http://Get $10 in credit when you sign up for Replit Core with my referral link!! https://replit.com/refer/AlexFinn2">Sign Up</a></p><h1>How to get 10x better at AI</h1><p>I found a new routine that has made me SOOO much better at building with AI. The best parts are it&#8217;s FREE, only takes 10 minutes a day, and is extremely beginner friendly.</p><p>This whole new routine is based around one concept: shipping quickly and regularly. The more you ship, the better you get at shipping, even if you&#8217;re just shipping micro apps.</p><p>So here&#8217;s how I&#8217;m practicing this: <a href="http://aistudio.google.com">Google AI Studio</a>. It&#8217;s a completely free vibe coding tool online. But here&#8217;s the secret: it has a &#8220;I&#8217;m feeling lucky mode&#8221; where it gives you a random app idea to build out. You hit the button, a starter prompt for a micro app gets automatically placed in the prompting field.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.alexfinn.ai/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.alexfinn.ai/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>Then you just hit &#8216;build&#8217; and the AI builds the app out for you. From there, you can prompt the AI to add new features, change what you see, or even put the app live.</p><p>The whole process from going to the site to getting a live app takes under 10 minutes and is completely free. I&#8217;ve been doing this every day for a few weeks now and have over 20 micro apps built out and have generated HUNDREDS of ideas for other apps I can build.</p><p>Building and ideating are muscles. To build those muscles, you have to work them out regularly. Doing this 10 minute routine every day consistently is like going to the AI gym to build your AI/entrepreneur muscles.</p><p>I promise you if you do this every day for a month, you&#8217;ll have at least 1 app you can put live then start selling online. If you&#8217;re not making any money right now off AI, you literally have no excuse to NOT do this.</p><p>It&#8217;s completely free. You can use Google AI Studio a ton without paying a cent. Once you have a good idea you can even download it, open it with <a href="http://antigravity.google">Google Antigravity</a>, and add more advanced functionality.</p><p>I&#8217;m not being paid by Google, I just think this is an amazing opportunity to use their tools for free right now.</p><p>Try this out then reply back with the first app you build out! Would love to hear about it!</p><h1>Ship your first AI app in 21 days guaranteed!</h1><p><strong>Vibe Coding Academy</strong> is a Claude Code masterclass + builder community designed to help you <strong>ship your first AI app in 21 days</strong>, even if you&#8217;ve never coded before.</p><p>When you join today, you get <strong>instant access</strong> to:</p><ul><li><p>The full <strong>Claude Code Masterclass</strong> (the exact system I used to build a $300k/year app)</p></li><li><p><strong>Weekly live calls with me</strong> for Q&amp;A, debugging, and build reviews</p></li><li><p>A builder community for accountability, feedback, and momentum</p></li><li><p>A clear, step-by-step path from <strong>idea &#8594; app &#8594; live URL</strong></p></li></ul><p>This is not a passive course.<br>It&#8217;s a structured environment where you actually ship.</p><p>If you don&#8217;t ship an app in 21 days, you get your money back.</p><p>&#128073; <strong>Join Vibe Coding Academy 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you&#8217;ve never coded before in your life.</p><p>If you&#8217;ve been watching AI from the sidelines, this is your moment to step in and actually build something real. Not consume more content. Not &#8220;learn about AI.&#8221; ACTUALLY BUILD.</p><p>Over the last year, I used Claude Code to solo-build Creator Buddy &#8212; an AI app now doing $300,000 a year. No team. Just the right workflow and the right tools.</p><p>That&#8217;s exactly what I&#8217;m giving you inside the Vibe Coding Academy.</p><p>Here&#8217;s what you get the moment you join:</p><p>&#8226; <strong>The Claude Code Masterclass</strong> &#8212; the complete system I use to go from idea &#8594; shipped product as fast as possible<br>&#8226; <strong>Weekly builder calls with me</strong> &#8212; bring your app, your questions, your roadblocks<br>&#8226; <strong>A community of serious builders</strong> &#8212; people shipping apps, sharing playbooks, and pushing each other<br>&#8226; <strong>Starter kits &amp; new mini-courses</strong> &#8212; everything you need to ship faster without reinventing the wheel<br>&#8226; <strong>A complete idea &#8594; build &#8594; launch playbook</strong> &#8212; the exact path I used to go from zero to my first profitable AI product</p><p>AI coding isn&#8217;t &#8220;coding.&#8221; It&#8217;s directing. It&#8217;s thinking clearly, giving instructions well, and letting AI handle 99% of the work. Anyone who can think can build.</p><p>If you&#8217;ve been wanting to build with AI, this is the program built specifically for you. No prior technical experience required.</p><p>This is just the start &#8212; I&#8217;ll be adding new videos, tools, and training constantly as the ecosystem evolves. The academy will keep getting stronger month after month.</p><p>If you want to be early to the biggest shift of our lifetime, start here.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.skool.com/vibe-coding-academy/about?ref=e6ff1b40886e4bf38894e26343bbea57&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;JOIN THE VIBE CODING ACADEMY&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.skool.com/vibe-coding-academy/about?ref=e6ff1b40886e4bf38894e26343bbea57"><span>JOIN THE VIBE CODING ACADEMY</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Vibe Coding Is the Most Important Skill of 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[And how to perfect this skill (even with no experience)]]></description><link>https://www.alexfinn.ai/p/why-vibe-coding-is-the-most-important</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.alexfinn.ai/p/why-vibe-coding-is-the-most-important</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Finn]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2025 14:35:29 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wHes!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe359961-225d-4253-9857-2560cda320ac_426x426.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are a few moments in history where massive disruption happens. This disruption leads to insane opportunity.</p><p>1995 &#8594; The internet</p><p>2007 &#8594; The iPhone</p><p>2023 &#8594; AI boom</p><p>Each one of these moments created trillion-dollar opportunities.<br>Each time, the people who moved fastest &#8212; and understood the new tools earliest &#8212; won big.</p><p>In 1995, technical founders like Bezos and Elon could spin up websites and ride the internet wave into billion-dollar companies.</p><p>In 2007, the iPhone unlocked mobile apps. Developers who saw the shift early made millions building simple tools that dominated the App Store.</p><p><strong>But the AI boom is different.</strong><br>This is the first democratized disruption.</p><p>There&#8217;s no barrier to entry.<br>You don&#8217;t need to know how to code.<br>You don&#8217;t need a CS degree.<br>You don&#8217;t need a team of engineers.</p><p><strong>You just need to know how to direct AI.</strong></p><p>Anyone - literally anyone - can build complex, powerful products if they know how to work with tools like Claude Code.</p><p>Never in history has there been a moment like this.</p><p>A year ago, I decided to test how far this could go.</p><p>I used Cursor and Claude Code to build and launch an app myself called <strong>Creator Buddy</strong>.</p><p>I wrote <strong>zero</strong> lines of code.<br>I built the entire thing by myself.<br>And today, that app does <strong>over $300,000/year</strong>.</p><p>That experience changed my entire worldview.</p><p>Claude Code is the single most powerful piece of software I&#8217;ve ever used.<br>It gives you <em>infinite</em> creative ability - and removes all the technical barriers.</p><p>This is why I believe <strong>2026 is the year vibe coding explodes</strong>:</p><ul><li><p>The tools keep getting easier</p></li><li><p>The speed of building keeps getting faster</p></li><li><p>The gap between &#8220;idea&#8221; and &#8220;app&#8221; keeps shrinking</p></li><li><p>And more people are going to build businesses with AI than any time in history</p></li></ul><p>Vibe Coding (using AI to build apps without writing code) is, in my opinion, the single most valuable skill you can learn right now.</p><p>It changed my life.<br>And I think it will change yours.</p><p>That&#8217;s why this Black Friday - <strong>Friday, November 28th</strong> - I&#8217;m launching the <strong>Vibe Coding Academy</strong>.</p><p>It&#8217;s part community, part masterclass.</p><p>Inside, you&#8217;ll get the full end-to-end Claude Code curriculum I personally use.<br>You&#8217;ll go from <strong>0 technical experience</strong> &#8594; <strong>fully shipped AI app</strong>, live on the internet.</p><p>You&#8217;ll also have a community of builders to interact with every day.<br>I&#8217;ll be running <strong>weekly office hours</strong> where you can ask questions, troubleshoot your build, or show off what you&#8217;ve created.</p><p>Nothing else like this exists online.<br>And I believe it&#8217;s going to transform a lot of people&#8217;s lives.</p><p>It opens Friday.<br>But if you want first access, join the waitlist <a href="https://vibecodingacademy.dev">here.</a></p><p>Whether you&#8217;ve never touched AI in your life or you&#8217;re already deep into Claude Code, you will have a TON to learn inside the Academy.</p><p>And yes - I personally guarantee you&#8217;ll ship an app in 28 days or your money back.</p><p>We are living through the most exciting moment in tech history, and I can&#8217;t wait to share everything I&#8217;ve learned with you.</p><p>Sign up for the Vibe Coding Academy waitlist below - and I&#8217;ll see you Friday.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://vibecodingacademy.dev&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Join the Waitlist!&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://vibecodingacademy.dev"><span>Join the Waitlist!</span></a></p><p>-Alex</p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[This 1 AI Habit 10x'd My Productivity]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cloud agents are here!]]></description><link>https://www.alexfinn.ai/p/this-1-ai-habit-10xd-my-productivity</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.alexfinn.ai/p/this-1-ai-habit-10xd-my-productivity</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Finn]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2025 14:03:32 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wHes!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe359961-225d-4253-9857-2560cda320ac_426x426.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>This week&#8217;s Ship/It is brought to you by Creator Buddy! Want to grow faster on X? Check out the number 1 AI content tool on planet Earth, Creator Buddy. I built it completely by myself and has taken X by storm!</em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.creatorbuddy.io&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Try Creator Buddy for Free&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="https://www.creatorbuddy.io"><span>Try Creator Buddy for Free</span></a></p><p><em>It&#8217;s also brought to you by Ship/It Build Kit! Every week I send out a full open source app to my premium mailing list. You get the full code to an app you can build on plus a business plan. Sign up below!</em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.alexfinn.ai/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.alexfinn.ai/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><h1>This 1 AI Habit 10x&#8217;d My Productivity</h1><p>Cloud agents are here.</p><p>Over the past 2 months, Cursor, then Codex, then Claude Code added cloud agent functionality to their apps.</p><p>What are cloud agents you ask?</p><p>These AI agents run entirely in the cloud &#8212; you can spin them up from anywhere, even if your devices are off.&#8221;</p><p>What does this mean for you?</p><p>No matter where you are - at the gym, in bed, on your computer, even on a roller coaster - you can spin up AI agents that work for you.</p><p>I found a workflow with these agents that&#8217;s 10x&#8217;d my output.</p><p>I try to make it so I always have at least 6 agents working for me:</p><p>4 building features<br>1 building marketing<br>1 acting as a product manager</p><p>I have 4 agents adding features to whatever app I&#8217;m working on. These are going to be smaller features so I don&#8217;t have to merge these massive changes. If you&#8217;re in Cursor or Codex, choose cloud as your place for the agents to work. If you&#8217;re in Claude Code, go to Claude.ai and choose the code section on the left or go to &#8216;Code&#8217; in the mobile Claude app. This is where you can spin up cloud agents.</p><p>But again, these agents don&#8217;t just code, they can do anything. So I have another agent building me a marketing plan for the app I&#8217;m working on.</p><p>I have another agent act as the product manager, constantly reviewing my roadmap and coming up with new ideas.</p><p>Throughout the day I check in on my agents and assign new tasks if they&#8217;re idle. Before bed, I always queue up fresh work - so when I wake up, I&#8217;ve got progress waiting.</p><p>It always keeps the ball moving forward.</p><p>If you&#8217;re building with AI, you need to adopt this routine too. It not only advances your building faster than you ever have before, but it also keeps your brain constantly ideating and coming up with new cool things to build.</p><p>Cheapest way to get this workflow done is with Cursor or ChatGPT $20 plan. I use the $200 Claude Code plan though because I think that is the best coding tool at the moment.</p><p>Action plan for you right now:</p><p>If you use any of the AI coding tools above, try out the cloud agents with the setup I talked about. 6 agents working for you.</p><p>If you&#8217;re not an AI coder, then just give some prompts to ChatGPT before you go to bed. Wake up to your answers!</p><p>Do you use these new cloud agents? Comment below or hit reply!</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[ChatGPT Atlas: Dud or Revolution? (Full Guide)]]></title><description><![CDATA[How to get the MOST out of OpenAI's new agentic browser]]></description><link>https://www.alexfinn.ai/p/chatgpt-atlas-dud-or-revolution-full</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.alexfinn.ai/p/chatgpt-atlas-dud-or-revolution-full</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Finn]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2025 13:03:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5WO0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe170cfe9-4d44-4541-ae28-cc6c5851894b_1657x1073.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>This week&#8217;s Ship/It is brought to you by Creator Buddy! Want to grow faster on X? Check out the number 1 AI content tool on planet Earth, Creator Buddy. I built it completely by myself and has taken X by storm!</em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.creatorbuddy.io&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Try Creator Buddy for Free&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.creatorbuddy.io"><span>Try Creator Buddy for Free</span></a></p><p><em>It&#8217;s also brought to you by Ship/It Build Kit! Every week I send out a full open source app to my premium mailing list. You get the full code to an app you can build on plus a business plan. Sign up below!</em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.alexfinn.ai/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.alexfinn.ai/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p><h1>ChatGPT Atlas: Dud or Revolution? (Full Guide)</h1><p>I&#8217;ve been using ChatGPT Atlas nonstop the last few days and have a few thoughts on how to get the absolute most out of it.</p><p>First of all, a review:</p><p>Is it a gamechanger and significantly better than Chrome or Comet? No.</p><p>Is it a tool you can use to learn how to incorporate AI into everything you do? Yes absolutely. And that&#8217;s enough to make it VERY usable and something everyone should try.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5WO0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe170cfe9-4d44-4541-ae28-cc6c5851894b_1657x1073.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5WO0!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe170cfe9-4d44-4541-ae28-cc6c5851894b_1657x1073.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5WO0!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe170cfe9-4d44-4541-ae28-cc6c5851894b_1657x1073.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5WO0!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe170cfe9-4d44-4541-ae28-cc6c5851894b_1657x1073.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5WO0!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe170cfe9-4d44-4541-ae28-cc6c5851894b_1657x1073.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5WO0!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe170cfe9-4d44-4541-ae28-cc6c5851894b_1657x1073.png" width="1456" height="943" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e170cfe9-4d44-4541-ae28-cc6c5851894b_1657x1073.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:943,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:551108,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.alexfinn.ai/i/176973697?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe170cfe9-4d44-4541-ae28-cc6c5851894b_1657x1073.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5WO0!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe170cfe9-4d44-4541-ae28-cc6c5851894b_1657x1073.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5WO0!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe170cfe9-4d44-4541-ae28-cc6c5851894b_1657x1073.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5WO0!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe170cfe9-4d44-4541-ae28-cc6c5851894b_1657x1073.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5WO0!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe170cfe9-4d44-4541-ae28-cc6c5851894b_1657x1073.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p><p>The most powerful part of ChatGPT Atlas is it integrates AI/your ChatGPT memories into everything you do. This is actually massive.</p><p>First, no matter where you are on the internet, you have instant access to ChatGPT. I think the biggest thing holding people back from getting the most out of AI is simply not using it enough. You should be incorporating it into EVERYTHING you do. I challenge myself through the day to incorporate GPT5 into as many tasks as humanly possible.</p><p>The moment I start a new task I think &#8220;How can I use GPT5 to make this better?&#8221;</p><p>Now that you have an &#8216;Ask ChatGPT&#8217; button on screen no matter where you are, it makes it more difficult to NOT use AI.</p><p>For the past few days I&#8217;ve challenged myself to use that button as much as I can. For instance, I was scrolling X yesterday and someone tweeted out an idea for an app (seen below.) I immediately hit the Ask ChatGPT button which automatically pulled in all the context from my screen including that tweet.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!igKG!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1a2365a9-0e11-4f06-8ab2-e8d85e1159ab_1593x1027.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!igKG!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1a2365a9-0e11-4f06-8ab2-e8d85e1159ab_1593x1027.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!igKG!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1a2365a9-0e11-4f06-8ab2-e8d85e1159ab_1593x1027.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!igKG!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1a2365a9-0e11-4f06-8ab2-e8d85e1159ab_1593x1027.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!igKG!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1a2365a9-0e11-4f06-8ab2-e8d85e1159ab_1593x1027.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!igKG!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1a2365a9-0e11-4f06-8ab2-e8d85e1159ab_1593x1027.png" width="1456" height="939" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1a2365a9-0e11-4f06-8ab2-e8d85e1159ab_1593x1027.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:939,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:443946,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.alexfinn.ai/i/176973697?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1a2365a9-0e11-4f06-8ab2-e8d85e1159ab_1593x1027.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!igKG!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1a2365a9-0e11-4f06-8ab2-e8d85e1159ab_1593x1027.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!igKG!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1a2365a9-0e11-4f06-8ab2-e8d85e1159ab_1593x1027.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!igKG!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1a2365a9-0e11-4f06-8ab2-e8d85e1159ab_1593x1027.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!igKG!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1a2365a9-0e11-4f06-8ab2-e8d85e1159ab_1593x1027.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>I then asked Chat how I could build out the idea and what the business model would be. It gave me a full rundown and I immediately swapped over to Claude Code and started building.</p><p>This is the power of having AI integrated into EVERYTHING you do. No matter what you&#8217;re working on, you have a sidekick who can ideate, explain, and plan with you. It just grows your building muscles so much. The more you can spot ideas out in the wild then quickly turn around and build prototypes, the better you&#8217;ll become at spotting winning ideas.</p><p>Atlas has been making this SO much easier for me now that Chat is just a click away, and instantly has all the context from the browser PLUS all the context from our previous conversations (it has access to all your ChatGPT memories, so all context from EVERY conversation you&#8217;ve ever had on ChatGPT is included in the browser.)</p><p>Not only did ChatGPT plan out the financial betting app from the tweet I showed you, it also incorporated some features we talked about in previous conversations on the ChatGPT site. That&#8217;s incredibly powerful.</p><p>Just the integrated ChatGPT + memories from our past conversations is enough to get me to switch from Chrome. </p><p>Then you have additional features like Agent mode. If I&#8217;m being honest with you, as of right now I have no use for agent mode. It does nothing better or faster than I can. I&#8217;m still searching for use cases for it, but if I&#8217;m being 100% transparent, I think that it&#8217;s just an incredibly early version of what the future of AI agents will look like. A fun prototype, but not something that is going to change lives.</p><p>But what <em>will</em> change your life is incorporating AI into as many things you do as possible. So my challenge to you is this: if you downloaded Atlas keep the Ask ChatGPT sidebar open 24/7 no matter what you&#8217;re doing in the browser. Every website you go to think to yourself &#8216;How can I incorporate AI into this?&#8217; &#8216;What ideas can I pull from this site, give to AI, and turn into a tangible idea?&#8217; &#8216;How can I build something that solves a problem on this site?&#8217;</p><p>If you have security concerns and would rather all your data be given to Google instead of OpenAI that&#8217;s fine too. You can use my older workflow. Download the ChatGPT desktop app and have the window open on your screen at all times, ready to brainstorm and come up with ideas for you</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oMeC!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F293a10a5-2aff-4a4b-b4ec-526269f9e0c1_1489x852.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oMeC!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F293a10a5-2aff-4a4b-b4ec-526269f9e0c1_1489x852.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oMeC!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F293a10a5-2aff-4a4b-b4ec-526269f9e0c1_1489x852.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oMeC!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F293a10a5-2aff-4a4b-b4ec-526269f9e0c1_1489x852.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oMeC!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F293a10a5-2aff-4a4b-b4ec-526269f9e0c1_1489x852.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oMeC!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F293a10a5-2aff-4a4b-b4ec-526269f9e0c1_1489x852.png" width="1456" height="833" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/293a10a5-2aff-4a4b-b4ec-526269f9e0c1_1489x852.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:833,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:541523,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.alexfinn.ai/i/176973697?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F293a10a5-2aff-4a4b-b4ec-526269f9e0c1_1489x852.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oMeC!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F293a10a5-2aff-4a4b-b4ec-526269f9e0c1_1489x852.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oMeC!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F293a10a5-2aff-4a4b-b4ec-526269f9e0c1_1489x852.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oMeC!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F293a10a5-2aff-4a4b-b4ec-526269f9e0c1_1489x852.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oMeC!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F293a10a5-2aff-4a4b-b4ec-526269f9e0c1_1489x852.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Is Atlas a total revolutionary product that will change everyone&#8217;s lives? No. But if you&#8217;re reading this newsletter you&#8217;re probably very into AI and interested in how it can improve your life/help you build a business. And if that&#8217;s the case, there are definitely opportunities here to use Atlas to advance your goals and make you more skilled with AI.</p><p>Have you used Atlas? Any workflows you&#8217;ve come up with? Let me know by hitting reply!</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ship/It Starter Kit: AI Meal Planning app]]></title><description><![CDATA[Full FREE open source app + business plan (premium newsletter 1)]]></description><link>https://www.alexfinn.ai/p/shipit-starter-kit-ai-meal-planning</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.alexfinn.ai/p/shipit-starter-kit-ai-meal-planning</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Finn]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 00:05:34 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1dLe!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1dc0c785-efec-49c4-8502-cba141c41b8d_1712x1077.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey everyone! This is the first issue of Ship/It Starter Kit!</p><p>Every week I&#8217;ll build and deploy a FULL open source app I&#8217;ll send you with all the code. You can use this app ANY way you want. You can use it for yourself, build on top of it, customize it or even start selling it! (Full code repo and 1 click deploy below).</p><p>I think the biggest challenge people have when it comes to building is ideas. They wait for the perfect idea. With Ship/It Starter Kit you won&#8217;t have to worry about ideas. I&#8217;ll send you a new one every week you can use however you&#8217;d like.</p><h1>The App: AI Meal Planning</h1><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1dLe!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1dc0c785-efec-49c4-8502-cba141c41b8d_1712x1077.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1dLe!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1dc0c785-efec-49c4-8502-cba141c41b8d_1712x1077.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1dLe!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1dc0c785-efec-49c4-8502-cba141c41b8d_1712x1077.png 848w, 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You can then save the recipe to be used later if you&#8217;d like. All you need to do to get it fully working is to pull down the code and add an OpenAI API key to the .env file (if this is confusing for you ask Claude Code to help out).</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to come up with UNLIMITED ideas for apps you can build with AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[Complete guide to coming up with ideas for apps, even if you've never coded before]]></description><link>https://www.alexfinn.ai/p/how-to-come-up-with-unlimited-ideas</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.alexfinn.ai/p/how-to-come-up-with-unlimited-ideas</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Finn]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 19:56:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/ZH-KZjDhpGc" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Welcome to the first official issue of Ship/It weekly! I&#8217;ll be sending these AI tutorials and guides out 1-2 times a week. I promise if you take 3 minutes or so to read the whole newsletter, you&#8217;ll become an AI machine! Since this is coming from a new sender, make sure to move this email to primary and mark the email as important! Let&#8217;s get into it:</strong></p><h1>Latest Video (leave a like and watch until the end for a digital smoochie)</h1><div id="youtube2-ZH-KZjDhpGc" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;ZH-KZjDhpGc&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/ZH-KZjDhpGc?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><h1>How to come up with UNLIMITED ideas for apps you can build with AI</h1><p>The number 1 complaint I hear from people thinking about getting into vibe coding (building apps with AI) is that they have ZERO idea what they should build. They are waiting to dive into Claude Code until the perfect idea comes to them.</p><p>This is such a massive mistake that is so easily fixable.</p><p>First, if you wait for the perfect idea, it&#8217;ll never come to you.</p><p>Second, it&#8217;s so easy to come up with ideas, especially if you leverage AI.</p><p>I try to work on a side project every single day. Most of the time, I&#8217;m building out brand new ideas.</p><p>For instance, a few nights ago I started work on a Polymarket Scanner that surfaces interesting bets people are making in real time. This idea came to me from a quick chat I do with AI regularly.</p><p>AI is the BEST ideation partner in the world. And it&#8217;s by far it&#8217;s most underutilized function.</p><p>If you&#8217;re not ideating and bouncing ideas off AI daily, you&#8217;re missing out on the idea that can change your life.</p><p>Here&#8217;s how I do it:</p><p>First step is creating a project in your LLM app of choice. I created a project in ChatGPT (because I think GPT5 is the best business ideating model on the planet right now). 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This gives the LLM context which is CRITICAL for coming up with good ideas.</p><p>Next you steal this prompt and use it:</p><p><em>Based on what you know about me, and based on these other topics I&#8217;m thinking about (list of topics), what are 10 challenges people in my niches are having right now? And what are ideas for 10 apps that will solve those challenges?</em></p><p>(Use the extended thinking version of whatever model you&#8217;re using).</p><p>Hit send on that and you&#8217;ll get a list of ideas back. Now this isn&#8217;t the final list. You can either choose one of the ideas, or refine the list. Mention which ones you like or don&#8217;t like and why. Then ask for a more refined, detailed list.</p><p>Let the LLM know which ones you find interesting and why. Keep going back and forth. This isn&#8217;t supposed to be one shot.</p><p>Eventually you&#8217;ll land on an idea. Now listen, it doesn&#8217;t need to be perfect. Perfection will come from the process of building. Take an idea and start building it out. As you build, more ideas will come to you and you&#8217;ll continue to refine. </p><p>My Polymarket idea only came from me building a stock scanner. Then the Polymarket idea came to me after.</p><p>All you&#8217;re looking for is a spark from this conversation. Take that spark then slowly feed it oxygen by building and tinkering.</p><p>Make this a daily exercise, and I promise you the perfect idea will eventually come.</p><p>Have an ideation process or prompt you like to use for this? Hit reply and let me know!</p><p>Also in 2 days the first Ship/It Builders kit comes out. Every week I&#8217;ll be building and shipping an open source project to the people on the Ship/It premium newsletter. It&#8217;ll have all the code, a one click deployment so you can use it, and a description of how you can turn it into a business. Make sure to upgrade now so you don&#8217;t miss a single build kit!</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.alexfinn.ai/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.alexfinn.ai/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>Want to grow faster on X? Check out the number 1 AI content tool on planet Earth, Creator Buddy. I built it completely by myself and has taken X by storm!</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.creatorbuddy.io/&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Try Creator Buddy for Free&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.creatorbuddy.io/"><span>Try Creator Buddy for Free</span></a></p><p>Have a fantastic week building everyone!</p><p>-Alex</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT: 1% Better is now Ship/It]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you want to continue getting these emails, please open this]]></description><link>https://www.alexfinn.ai/p/major-announcement-1-better-is-now</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.alexfinn.ai/p/major-announcement-1-better-is-now</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Finn]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 02:28:28 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/3a49650d-e2e0-41a2-aca1-0fa3be4f85c7_1280x720.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>4 years ago I started the 1% Better newsletter.</p><p>It was all about bettering yourself through content, social media, tech, and entrepreneurship.</p><p>Over the last year I&#8217;ve discovered my passion. Building with AI.</p><p>August 2024 I discover Cursor which leads to me building my first app with AI which eventually became Creator Buddy, a $300,000 a year 1 man business.</p><p>Since then, I&#8217;ve eat, slept, and breathed AI and AI coding.</p><p>I&#8217;ve made it my life mission to show people how incredibly easy it is to build the products and businesses of your dreams with AI.</p><p>With that in mind, I&#8217;ve decided to hyper focus this newsletter to building with AI. With that change comes whole new branding.</p><p>Ship/It represents the mindset I think you need to have in 2025 and beyond to be successful.</p><p>Just build things then ship them.</p><p>This newsletter will show you how to do it.</p><p>Every week you&#8217;ll get 1-2 newsletters with all the information and tutorials you need to dramatically improve your life with AI.</p><p>Doesn&#8217;t matter if you&#8217;re an AI pro or noob, you&#8217;ll get something from this newsletter.</p><p>So lock in, send this email to your primary inbox, and get ready to transform your life.</p><p>We&#8217;re about to build some cool shit together.</p><p>See you very soon,</p><p>Alex</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to build your first app with AI (even if you've never coded before)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Complete beginner's guide]]></description><link>https://www.alexfinn.ai/p/how-to-build-your-first-app-with</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.alexfinn.ai/p/how-to-build-your-first-app-with</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Finn]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2025 20:42:50 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/IgDHkKa2vQo" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NSoy!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc883a47a-206c-416a-ae20-fd2ae81c3cab_1100x220.gif" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NSoy!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc883a47a-206c-416a-ae20-fd2ae81c3cab_1100x220.gif 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NSoy!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc883a47a-206c-416a-ae20-fd2ae81c3cab_1100x220.gif 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NSoy!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc883a47a-206c-416a-ae20-fd2ae81c3cab_1100x220.gif 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NSoy!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc883a47a-206c-416a-ae20-fd2ae81c3cab_1100x220.gif 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NSoy!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc883a47a-206c-416a-ae20-fd2ae81c3cab_1100x220.gif" width="1100" height="220" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c883a47a-206c-416a-ae20-fd2ae81c3cab_1100x220.gif&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:220,&quot;width&quot;:1100,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NSoy!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc883a47a-206c-416a-ae20-fd2ae81c3cab_1100x220.gif 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NSoy!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc883a47a-206c-416a-ae20-fd2ae81c3cab_1100x220.gif 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NSoy!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc883a47a-206c-416a-ae20-fd2ae81c3cab_1100x220.gif 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NSoy!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc883a47a-206c-416a-ae20-fd2ae81c3cab_1100x220.gif 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><em>read time</em> <strong>1 minute</strong></p><h1><strong>Latest Video (make sure to like+subscribe+watch until the end!):</strong></h1><div id="youtube2-IgDHkKa2vQo" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;IgDHkKa2vQo&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/IgDHkKa2vQo?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><h1>How to build your first app with AI (even if you've never coded before)</h1><p>I really think vibe coding is the biggest opportunity of our lifetime.</p><p>Before, you had to have some sort of special skills in order to build. You needed to know programming. You need to have a computer science degree. You needed to know people.</p><p>Now all of those barriers are gone. ANYONE, and I mean ANYONE with an idea can turn it into a real life product in no time.</p><p>You can go from idea to product faster than any time in history.</p><p>I proved this. in 5 months I built and launched Creator Buddy without writing a single line of code. I did it all by myself with absolutely no help. It's now making $300,000 a year.</p><p>My mission is to open up the eyes to as many people as possible of this. I really think 'vibe coding' (using AI to build apps) could change so many people's lives.</p><p>I think tons of people are constantly coming up with ideas for products that solve challenges, but so few people actually execute on those ideas. Most people just don't have the skills/discipline to do anything about it.</p><p>If you're one of those people, I have a quick, short guide on how to get started.</p><p>Vibe coding changed my life, and I really think it can change yours. Even if you never launch an app live, I think just BUILDING anything will have a wildly positive impact on your life. It will give you purpose and a productive activity to do outside work.</p><p>Here's a quick guide:</p><p>1. Download Cursor (cursor.com)</p><p>2. Feel free to use the free version</p><p>3. Open their AI agent on the right hand side</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-Wlj!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21d110a9-a804-4aca-adcf-a2824eda26df_695x463.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-Wlj!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21d110a9-a804-4aca-adcf-a2824eda26df_695x463.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-Wlj!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21d110a9-a804-4aca-adcf-a2824eda26df_695x463.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-Wlj!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21d110a9-a804-4aca-adcf-a2824eda26df_695x463.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-Wlj!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21d110a9-a804-4aca-adcf-a2824eda26df_695x463.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-Wlj!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21d110a9-a804-4aca-adcf-a2824eda26df_695x463.png" width="695" height="463" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/21d110a9-a804-4aca-adcf-a2824eda26df_695x463.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:463,&quot;width&quot;:695,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:128825,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.alexfinn.ai/i/171004761?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21d110a9-a804-4aca-adcf-a2824eda26df_695x463.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-Wlj!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21d110a9-a804-4aca-adcf-a2824eda26df_695x463.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-Wlj!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21d110a9-a804-4aca-adcf-a2824eda26df_695x463.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-Wlj!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21d110a9-a804-4aca-adcf-a2824eda26df_695x463.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-Wlj!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21d110a9-a804-4aca-adcf-a2824eda26df_695x463.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p><p>4. Think of a simple app you use every day (maybe a todo list or calendar app?)</p><p>5. Tell the AI agent you want to build a simple version of it using NextJS (popular web framework)</p><p>6. Once it's done working, ask it how to run the app</p><p>Boom, you have your first app built. You just took your first step in your builder's journey.</p><p>Now every day spend 5 minutes adding more to the app. Adding one more feature.</p><p>I promise it'll energize you. It'll give you more purpose. There is nothing more satisfying than building and using something you made from scratch.</p><p>If you take this advice and build something, let me know! Hit reply or DM me on X.</p><p>If you're building something already, let me know too!</p><p>Happy building!</p><p>Alex</p><p></p><h1><strong>Want to explode your growth on X? You need Creator Buddy. The ultimate AI tool for X.</strong></h1><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eH-7!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F534ebb5d-d832-4db3-b1f8-de8a1bec6c38_640x130.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eH-7!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F534ebb5d-d832-4db3-b1f8-de8a1bec6c38_640x130.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eH-7!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F534ebb5d-d832-4db3-b1f8-de8a1bec6c38_640x130.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eH-7!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F534ebb5d-d832-4db3-b1f8-de8a1bec6c38_640x130.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eH-7!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F534ebb5d-d832-4db3-b1f8-de8a1bec6c38_640x130.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eH-7!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F534ebb5d-d832-4db3-b1f8-de8a1bec6c38_640x130.png" width="640" height="130" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/534ebb5d-d832-4db3-b1f8-de8a1bec6c38_640x130.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:130,&quot;width&quot;:640,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Creator Buddy Logo&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Creator Buddy Logo&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Creator Buddy Logo" title="Creator Buddy Logo" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eH-7!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F534ebb5d-d832-4db3-b1f8-de8a1bec6c38_640x130.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eH-7!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F534ebb5d-d832-4db3-b1f8-de8a1bec6c38_640x130.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eH-7!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F534ebb5d-d832-4db3-b1f8-de8a1bec6c38_640x130.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eH-7!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F534ebb5d-d832-4db3-b1f8-de8a1bec6c38_640x130.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Looking to grow on X? Increase your engagement? Make endless BANGER content?</p><p>I built and launched Creator Buddy 6 months ago and it has quickly become the greatest AI content tool ever made</p><p>If you are on X, you NEED Creator Buddy. It has 10 AI tools built in to help you:</p><p>&#8226; Increase your engagement with the AI Reply Guy tool</p><p>&#8226; Make endless BANGER content with the AI Repurposing tool + Banger button</p><p>&#8226; Get the writing help you need with the AI Content Coach</p><p>&#8226; Generate UNLIMITED content ideas with the AI Brain Dumping tool</p><p>500+ people are using it daily and seeing INSANE results. Seriously, I&#8217;m blown away by the feedback.</p><p>Click the button below to start using this X super weapon!</p><p><strong><a href="https://www.creatorbuddy.io/?utm_source=www.1percentbetter.io&amp;utm_medium=newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=3-online-revenue-streams-you-can-start-today-that-you-control">GET CREATOR BUDDY</a></strong></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your competition is weak. Now is the time to strike]]></title><description><![CDATA[Your competition is weak]]></description><link>https://www.alexfinn.ai/p/your-competition-is-weak-now-is-the</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.alexfinn.ai/p/your-competition-is-weak-now-is-the</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Finn]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 16:44:14 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wHes!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe359961-225d-4253-9857-2560cda320ac_426x426.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Your competition is weak</p><p>They wake up, lay in bed for 45 minutes, then grab their phone and scroll for another hour</p><p>They walk to the kitchen, attempt to make breakfast, but then end up scrolling 80% of the time</p><p>They sit at their desk ready to work, but end up scrolling and watching videos for the next 2 hours</p><p>The time they spend not doom scrolling is spent being bitter and angry at anyone accomplishing anything</p><p>They&#8217;re completely incapable of getting off the dopamine treadmill</p><p>They will accomplish nothing special in their lives. </p><p>They are born, chase dopamine hits, then die</p><p>If the above matches the description of your day, you&#8217;re wasting your existence</p><p>If the above doesn&#8217;t match your day, and you&#8217;re able to actively focus for more than 15 minutes, you are winning. You are going to beat your competition</p><p>Now if you&#8217;re a part of the rare .01% who can focus for an hour+ a day, you are going to accomplish more than you can imagine.</p><p>The single most difficult thing anyone can do in 2025 is focus. Everything around us is designed to grab and hold our attention</p><p>Focus is nearly impossible for most. Even people who has supposedly &#8220;made it&#8221;</p><p>I&#8217;ve been on retreats with people who you&#8217;d think have it all figured out. They spend the entire retreat doom scrolling on their phone. Their dopamine receptors completely fried. Their position completely up for the taking.</p><p>If you are going down the wrong path and are completely incapable of avoiding the doom scroll trap throughout the day here is my challenge to you:</p><p>Tomorrow when you wake up don&#8217;t touch your phone</p><p>Go for a 10 minute walk, get some sun in your eyes</p><p>Do 10 pushups</p><p>Write for 10 minutes</p><p>Then sit down and get some work done</p><p>This should only take an hour. If you&#8217;re able to do this every day for a year, that&#8217;s over 2 weeks worth of deep work you&#8217;ve created out of nowhere.</p><p>Think of how much 365 hours of deep work would change your life. That&#8217;s more than enough to build a product with AI that makes you money,</p><p>If you&#8217;re able to do all of this, I personally guarantee you&#8217;ll accomplish more than 99.9% of people in this world</p><p>Your competition has never been weaker. Now is the time to strike. Now is the time to lock in and actually get shit done.</p><p>Most won&#8217;t be able to take this challenge because the temptation of sitting on your couch and staring at your phone for 2 hours will be too difficult to pass up on</p><p>But if you&#8217;re one of the few to do it, I promise you&#8217;ll win</p><p>-Alex</p><p></p><div><hr></div><p>Want to grow on X? I built an AI trained on all of your content. It will tell you exactly how to create way better content that grabs attention and grows your audience.</p><p>It&#8217;s the most successful vibe coded app of all time.</p><p><a href="https://www.creatorbuddy.io/">Check out Creator Buddy here.</a></p><p>Also feel free to join the premium tier of my newsletter for bonus newsletters:</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.alexfinn.ai/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.alexfinn.ai/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important skill you can learn in 2025]]></title><description><![CDATA[read time 3 minutes]]></description><link>https://www.alexfinn.ai/p/the-most-important-skill-you-can</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.alexfinn.ai/p/the-most-important-skill-you-can</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Finn]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2025 19:03:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/iYiuzAsWnHU" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NSoy!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc883a47a-206c-416a-ae20-fd2ae81c3cab_1100x220.gif" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NSoy!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc883a47a-206c-416a-ae20-fd2ae81c3cab_1100x220.gif 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NSoy!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc883a47a-206c-416a-ae20-fd2ae81c3cab_1100x220.gif 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NSoy!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc883a47a-206c-416a-ae20-fd2ae81c3cab_1100x220.gif 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NSoy!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc883a47a-206c-416a-ae20-fd2ae81c3cab_1100x220.gif 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NSoy!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc883a47a-206c-416a-ae20-fd2ae81c3cab_1100x220.gif" width="1100" height="220" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c883a47a-206c-416a-ae20-fd2ae81c3cab_1100x220.gif&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:220,&quot;width&quot;:1100,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NSoy!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc883a47a-206c-416a-ae20-fd2ae81c3cab_1100x220.gif 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NSoy!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc883a47a-206c-416a-ae20-fd2ae81c3cab_1100x220.gif 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NSoy!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc883a47a-206c-416a-ae20-fd2ae81c3cab_1100x220.gif 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NSoy!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc883a47a-206c-416a-ae20-fd2ae81c3cab_1100x220.gif 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><em>read time</em> <strong>3 minutes</strong></p><p><strong>Welcome to 1% Better. A weekly newsletter where I provide simple playbooks to grow your following, earn more revenue, and live a more fulfilling life.</strong></p><h1><strong>Latest Video (make sure to like+subscribe+watch until the end!):</strong></h1><div id="youtube2-iYiuzAsWnHU" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;iYiuzAsWnHU&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/iYiuzAsWnHU?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><h1><strong>4 daily AI routines that will change your life</strong></h1><p>AI has arrived. People are losing jobs already. Every big tech company in the world has been doing nothing but laying off people for the last few years. Nonstop hiring freezes, and I think this will spread to most other industries.</p><p>You need to be making yourself layoff proof. You need to make it so that even if you lose your job, your life isn't impacted at all.</p><p>You do this by creating revenue streams only YOU control. You don't control your salary. Your boss can take that away from you. You don't control X ad revenue. Elon can take that away from you.</p><p>But if you build goods and services that generate revenue, NOBODY can take that away from you.</p><p>Not only do you become layoff proof, you gain a bullet proof mentality knowing you control your destiny. Anxiety and worry start to melt away.</p><p>But how do you build your own goods and services? I think it comes down to one skillset: your ability to incorporate AI into your life.</p><p>Your ability to co-work with AI on every challenge, problem, and question you have. The more you engage with AI on a day to day basis, the more goods and services ideas that will come to you.</p><p>Let me give you an example: I'm currently growing my Youtube channel. My most successful videos on Youtube have been on-trend videos. For instance, Claude Code is trending big time right now. Every time I create content on it, I gain significantly more subscribers. So I went to ChatGPT to ask how I can keep on top of what is trending in AI.</p><p>The response it gave back was mind blowing. It walked me through step by step on how I can build an app that continuously monitors Youtube and surfaces trends to me in real time. Now I'm building the app out and will be able to launch it as a product when I'm done that will passively earn me revenue.</p><p>This is on top of the $300,000 I&#8217;m already making with my AI content app <a href="https://www.creatorbuddy.io/">Creator Buddy</a>.</p><p>This all came from my ability to recognize situations where I need to incorporate AI into my workflow. I wasn't even looking for goods and services ideas. I just wanted guidance on how I can find trends.</p><p>Now I have another product that makes me even more layoff proof.</p><p>The challenge that most people have is they are waiting for the perfect idea. The perfect moment to strike for them to build something of their own. That perfect idea rarely happens.</p><p>What you need to be doing is increasing your luck surface area. Increasing the odds great ideas come to you.</p><p>You do this by incorporating AI into every little activity you do during the day.</p><p>Here's my challenge for you. If you do this challenge for even just ONE DAY I promise it'll change your life.</p><p>Every time you:</p><p>&#8226; Have a question<br>&#8226; Start a new task<br>&#8226; Don't know how to do something<br>&#8226; See someone else do something mildly interesting<br>&#8226; Have free time</p><p>Turn to AI and just run it through the model (I like ChatGPT o3 at the moment). Get feedback. See what it has to say. I guarantee your workflow and your life will change dramatically.</p><p>AI will provide you perspective on every single task you do throughout the day and will explain to you either how to do it more efficiently or how to turn it into a money making product.</p><p>You&#8217;ll look at every single action you take day to day completely differently. You&#8217;ll maximize your output and increase your luck surface area. Way more ideas will flow to you and your odds of building something that changes your life will increase dramatically.</p><p>Do this for a day, everything will change. Do this for a month, you are almost guaranteed to succeed.</p><p>Seriously, try this for just one day. Report back to me via email or DM on much your work flow transformed.</p><p></p><h1><strong>Want to explode your growth on X? You need Creator Buddy. The ultimate AI tool for X.</strong></h1><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eH-7!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F534ebb5d-d832-4db3-b1f8-de8a1bec6c38_640x130.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eH-7!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F534ebb5d-d832-4db3-b1f8-de8a1bec6c38_640x130.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eH-7!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F534ebb5d-d832-4db3-b1f8-de8a1bec6c38_640x130.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eH-7!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F534ebb5d-d832-4db3-b1f8-de8a1bec6c38_640x130.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eH-7!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F534ebb5d-d832-4db3-b1f8-de8a1bec6c38_640x130.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eH-7!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F534ebb5d-d832-4db3-b1f8-de8a1bec6c38_640x130.png" width="640" height="130" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/534ebb5d-d832-4db3-b1f8-de8a1bec6c38_640x130.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:130,&quot;width&quot;:640,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Creator Buddy Logo&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Creator Buddy Logo" title="Creator Buddy Logo" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eH-7!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F534ebb5d-d832-4db3-b1f8-de8a1bec6c38_640x130.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eH-7!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F534ebb5d-d832-4db3-b1f8-de8a1bec6c38_640x130.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eH-7!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F534ebb5d-d832-4db3-b1f8-de8a1bec6c38_640x130.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eH-7!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F534ebb5d-d832-4db3-b1f8-de8a1bec6c38_640x130.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Looking to grow on X? Increase your engagement? Make endless BANGER content?</p><p>I built and launched Creator Buddy 3 months ago and it has quickly become the greatest AI content tool ever made</p><p>If you are on X, you NEED Creator Buddy. It has 10 AI tools built in to help you:</p><p>&#8226; Increase your engagement with the AI Reply Guy tool</p><p>&#8226; Make endless BANGER content with the AI Repurposing tool + Banger button</p><p>&#8226; Get the writing help you need with the AI Content Coach</p><p>&#8226; Generate UNLIMITED content ideas with the AI Brain Dumping tool</p><p>500+ people are using it daily and seeing INSANE results. Seriously, I&#8217;m blown away by the feedback.</p><p>Click the button below to start using this X super weapon!</p><p><strong><a href="https://www.creatorbuddy.io/?utm_source=www.1percentbetter.io&amp;utm_medium=newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=3-online-revenue-streams-you-can-start-today-that-you-control">GET CREATOR BUDDY</a></strong></p><p>Have a great weekend everyone!</p><p>-Alex</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[4 daily AI routines that will change your life]]></title><description><![CDATA[read time 3 minutes]]></description><link>https://www.alexfinn.ai/p/4-daily-ai-routines-that-will-change</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.alexfinn.ai/p/4-daily-ai-routines-that-will-change</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Finn]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2025 13:08:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F086229c7-1f94-4e64-86f5-17c0c4be2dd6_500x500.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NSoy!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc883a47a-206c-416a-ae20-fd2ae81c3cab_1100x220.gif" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NSoy!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc883a47a-206c-416a-ae20-fd2ae81c3cab_1100x220.gif 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NSoy!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc883a47a-206c-416a-ae20-fd2ae81c3cab_1100x220.gif 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NSoy!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc883a47a-206c-416a-ae20-fd2ae81c3cab_1100x220.gif 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NSoy!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc883a47a-206c-416a-ae20-fd2ae81c3cab_1100x220.gif 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NSoy!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc883a47a-206c-416a-ae20-fd2ae81c3cab_1100x220.gif" width="1100" height="220" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c883a47a-206c-416a-ae20-fd2ae81c3cab_1100x220.gif&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:220,&quot;width&quot;:1100,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NSoy!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc883a47a-206c-416a-ae20-fd2ae81c3cab_1100x220.gif 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NSoy!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc883a47a-206c-416a-ae20-fd2ae81c3cab_1100x220.gif 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NSoy!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc883a47a-206c-416a-ae20-fd2ae81c3cab_1100x220.gif 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NSoy!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc883a47a-206c-416a-ae20-fd2ae81c3cab_1100x220.gif 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><em>read time</em> <strong>3 minutes</strong></p><p><strong>Welcome to 1% Better. A weekly newsletter where I provide simple playbooks to grow your following, earn more revenue, and live a more fulfilling life.</strong></p><h1><strong>In Partnership With Prospero.ai</strong></h1><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ECFA!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0d0f25ca-8480-4f28-9186-d082249ab41b_686x386.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ECFA!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0d0f25ca-8480-4f28-9186-d082249ab41b_686x386.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ECFA!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0d0f25ca-8480-4f28-9186-d082249ab41b_686x386.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ECFA!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0d0f25ca-8480-4f28-9186-d082249ab41b_686x386.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ECFA!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0d0f25ca-8480-4f28-9186-d082249ab41b_686x386.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ECFA!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0d0f25ca-8480-4f28-9186-d082249ab41b_686x386.jpeg" width="428" height="240.82798833819243" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0d0f25ca-8480-4f28-9186-d082249ab41b_686x386.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:386,&quot;width&quot;:686,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:428,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Prospero.ai: Ai Driven Stock Market Analysis!&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Prospero.ai: Ai Driven Stock Market Analysis!" title="Prospero.ai: Ai Driven Stock Market Analysis!" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ECFA!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0d0f25ca-8480-4f28-9186-d082249ab41b_686x386.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ECFA!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0d0f25ca-8480-4f28-9186-d082249ab41b_686x386.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ECFA!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0d0f25ca-8480-4f28-9186-d082249ab41b_686x386.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ECFA!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0d0f25ca-8480-4f28-9186-d082249ab41b_686x386.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>This week&#8217;s newsletter is sponsored by Prospero.ai. All the tools the hedge funds have, in the palm of your hand. Prospero levels the investing playing field so you have AI tools that allow you to invest smarter and better. The Prospero AI model identifies winners and losers in the market while their proprietary alerts and signals let you know when the big players are making moves. Don&#8217;t place another trade without using Prospero&#8217;s AI tools ever again.</p><p><a href="https://rebrand.ly/Alex_Prospero">SIGN UP FOR PROSPERO</a></p><h1><strong>Latest Video (make sure to like+subscribe+watch until the end!):</strong></h1><div id="youtube2-LD3hSN3y_lE" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;LD3hSN3y_lE&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/LD3hSN3y_lE?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><h1><strong>4 daily AI routines that will change your life</strong></h1><p>I&#8217;ve built a daily routine with AI that has changed everything for me. I talk a lot about how AI can be used to build a business, but I&#8217;ve never talked about how it can be used to improve your day to day life.</p><p>These 4 routines I&#8217;m going to go over I do every single day, and have immeasurably improved every part of my personal life. If you do just even one of these daily, I promise you&#8217;ll start to see a lot of positive changes.</p><p>To start: we need to set up a project. I like to use <a href="https://chatgpt.com/">ChatGPT</a> for this. Projects are the most underrated AI tools ever. They allow you to upload massive amounts of context to the AI so they can give you even more personal and relevant answers.</p><p>In my project I have 3 documents. One describing my personal background (my degree, my work history, my personal goals, my personal successes and challenges). One describing my content (what I write about and create videos on, my interests, my audience&#8217;s interests, goals for my content). And another document on my business (what apps I&#8217;m building, how well they&#8217;re doing, the feature set, my vision for the apps, my business and financial goals). </p><p>Go into Google Docs and create these 3 documents. If you can&#8217;t create the 2nd or 3rd document that&#8217;s fine. As long as you have the first document built (the first one) then we can eventually work on the other 2. Get these uploaded to your new project in ChatGPT.</p><p>Now that we have our project set up, let&#8217;s talk about the 5 ways I use it every day to improve my life.</p><ol><li><p><strong>Stop doomscrolling</strong></p></li></ol><p>I have to be honest with you, I&#8217;m absolutely addicted to my phone. It&#8217;s hard for me to do 5 minutes straight of deepwork without picking up my phone and scrolling. When you primarily build your business through social media, it&#8217;s incredibly hard NOT to get addicted to the internet.</p><p>A few weeks ago I tried a new routine that changed everything for me. I created a doom scrolling chat in my ChatGPT project. Anytime I felt like doom scrolling or was in between tasks, I went to that chat and said hello. I prompted the AI so that it knew it was my anti-doom scrolling chat. I also prompted it so it would be productive for me and help me in all areas of my life.</p><p>Take this prompt below and put it into your project. Use the chat every time you feel like doom scrolling:</p><blockquote><p>I am addicted to my phone. Every 10 minutes I pick up my phone and doom scroll endlessly. It is destroying my productivity and putting me in a bad mental state. I'd like to use that time now to chat with you and generate new content/business ideas, and also reflect on my current projects and goals. I want to make this chat my distraction from doom scrolling, so that when I feel like doom scrolling I instead have a productive conversation with you that leads to self reflection and more business/content ideas. What would you like to know about me so you can provide me the maximum value possible?</p></blockquote><ol start="2"><li><p><strong>Build something</strong></p></li></ol><p>There truly is no feeling in the world like building something of your own. Something you created from scratch that you put together piece by piece.</p><p>Before, you needed very specialized skills to build anything. You either needed to know how to code or other skills that were gate kept from the general public. </p><p>Now with AI it&#8217;s never been easier. You can build quite literally anything by yourself. You just ask an AI how to do it.</p><p>I built my own app, so I&#8217;m constantly telling people they need to build their own as well. If I can do it I promise anyone else can too. It doesn&#8217;t require that much time either. Spend 5 minutes a day building something of your own and I promise you&#8217;ll go to sleep so much more satisfied. </p><p>Take this prompt and spend 5 minutes tonight building something of your own (this works even if you&#8217;ve never programmed before):</p><blockquote><p>My 3 main interests are *your interests*. List the 5 biggest challenges in these areas that people have. Then for each challenge, give me 2 ideas for simple apps I can build to solve them. I have never programmed before, so when I choose an idea walk me through step by step how I can build it.</p></blockquote><ol start="3"><li><p><strong>Reflect on your goals</strong></p></li></ol><p>Sometimes goals feel intangible. Like you have no idea what the path to those goals are or how to achieve them. With AI your goals become so much more tangible.</p><p>Every day I spend at least 15 minutes prompting AI to get more tangible steps I can take immediately to get closer to my goals. Check out this prompt and use it ASAP:</p><blockquote><p>My biggest goal over the next 5 years is *name 1 single goal*</p><p>I have 15 minutes. What is one step I can take during these 15 minutes to get 1% closer to my goal?</p></blockquote><ol start="4"><li><p><strong>Analyze your content</strong></p></li></ol><p>AI is the most powerful content coach in the world. If you&#8217;re currently building on social media, you need to be using AI to understand what works, what doesn&#8217;t, what you can improve on, and what your audience truly wants.</p><p>2 ways to do this, a more challenging way and a way easier way.</p><p>More challenging way: copy and paste your last 100 posts into a spreadsheet. Then upload that spreadsheet into your project. Ask the AI about commonalities around wording, phrasing, formats, time of day, topics, and hooks.</p><p>Easier way: check out <a href="https://www.creatorbuddy.io/">Creator Buddy</a>. It&#8217;s an AI app I built that automatically pulls in your entire tweet history. It then gives you proactive insights on exactly what you can do to go more viral and increase your following.</p><p>Before I built <a href="https://www.creatorbuddy.io/">Creator Buddy</a> though I went the spreadsheet route, and honestly it&#8217;s the only reason I&#8217;m now at 300,000 followers on X.</p><p>If you do these 4 routines with AI for an entire week straight, I 100% guarantee you your life will start to morph. You&#8217;ll get closer to your goals, have products you built you can start to sell, have way more productive days, and see your growth accelerate.</p><p>Have AI routines of your own? Let me know in the replies below!</p><p>Have a great week everyone!</p><p>-Alex</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Difference Between Winners And Losers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Slowly, then all at once]]></description><link>https://www.alexfinn.ai/p/the-difference-between-winners-and</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.alexfinn.ai/p/the-difference-between-winners-and</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Finn]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 13:30:43 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wHes!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe359961-225d-4253-9857-2560cda320ac_426x426.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YKNe!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fea983e77-a155-4903-8a69-90fd9602fea4_1100x220.gif" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YKNe!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fea983e77-a155-4903-8a69-90fd9602fea4_1100x220.gif 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YKNe!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fea983e77-a155-4903-8a69-90fd9602fea4_1100x220.gif 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YKNe!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fea983e77-a155-4903-8a69-90fd9602fea4_1100x220.gif 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YKNe!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fea983e77-a155-4903-8a69-90fd9602fea4_1100x220.gif 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YKNe!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fea983e77-a155-4903-8a69-90fd9602fea4_1100x220.gif" width="1100" height="220" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ea983e77-a155-4903-8a69-90fd9602fea4_1100x220.gif&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:220,&quot;width&quot;:1100,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YKNe!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fea983e77-a155-4903-8a69-90fd9602fea4_1100x220.gif 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YKNe!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fea983e77-a155-4903-8a69-90fd9602fea4_1100x220.gif 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YKNe!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fea983e77-a155-4903-8a69-90fd9602fea4_1100x220.gif 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YKNe!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fea983e77-a155-4903-8a69-90fd9602fea4_1100x220.gif 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>How long can you work with no reward?</p><p>How long can you put in effort with nobody noticing?</p><p>How much blood sweat and tears can you shed for absolutely nothing in return?</p><p>These last few years have been a wild ride for me. I&#8217;ve put in a ton of effort growing an audience and building products without a ton of rewards.</p><p>Finally this year, after years of learning coding, creating content, and building a name for myself, I&#8217;ve started to see some rewards. But it took years and years and years to get here.</p><p>The biggest difference between winners and losers is this: losers need a reward for every little thing they do. </p><p>The moment they stop getting rewards they quit. The moment they stop getting X ad revenue checks they quit. The moment their engagement drops they quit. </p><p>Their weak mind demands rewards for everything they do. If they don&#8217;t get rewards, they resort to actions that give them guaranteed rewards instead. The resort to drinking and drugs and video games and permiscuous sex. Things that absolutely guarnatee them rewards.</p><p>The idea of putting in effort with 0 reward for weeks or even months or God forbid years is horrifying to them. You expect me to spend every single night learning to use AI for a year then learning to code for another year then building an app for another year and I don&#8217;t make a single penny from any of that? Fuck no.</p><p>That&#8217;s what goes through the mind of a loser.</p><p>The mind of a winner doesn&#8217;t even think about the reward. It&#8217;s not even a part of the equation. They know if they put blinders on and do the right thing. They learn that new skill. They start building that project they have no idea how to execute on. They start that Youtube channel and film their first shitty awkward video, that eventually, somewhere down the line, things will eventually just work out. But even if it doesn&#8217;t, fuck it who cares. At least you spent your time challenging yourself. Putting yourself through strategic controlled pain. Because you know that strategic controlled pain might not make you money, but it will definitely make you a stronger, better person.</p><p>So here&#8217;s my challenge to you this weekend:</p><p>Do 1 thing that makes you uncomfortable for 5 minutes. That&#8217;s it. Talk to an AI about how to learn a skill. Download Cursor and build the prototype of an app. Just read a couple pages in a new book about entrepreneurship.</p><p>Push the ball forward a bit.</p><p>Then next week do it again. Then again.</p><p>I promise with enough tiny steps, you&#8217;ll get somewhere incredible.</p><p>-Alex</p><p>PS. This is my first newsletter being sent out from Substack in 2 years. I was on Beehiiv for the last 2 years. I like the community on Substack more. I hope Substack delivers my email alright to you. If you somehow didn&#8217;t get moved over to Beehiiv after I originally left Substack then hello again. It&#8217;s been a couple years.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[3 Online Revenue Streams You Can Start Today That YOU Control]]></title><description><![CDATA[read time 3 minutes]]></description><link>https://www.alexfinn.ai/p/3-online-revenue-streams-you-can-start-today-that-you-control</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.alexfinn.ai/p/3-online-revenue-streams-you-can-start-today-that-you-control</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Finn]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2025 13:53:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d36bc96b-b0e1-4c21-bff3-31d2b6cf92de_1100x220.gif" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NSoy!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc883a47a-206c-416a-ae20-fd2ae81c3cab_1100x220.gif" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NSoy!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc883a47a-206c-416a-ae20-fd2ae81c3cab_1100x220.gif 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NSoy!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc883a47a-206c-416a-ae20-fd2ae81c3cab_1100x220.gif 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NSoy!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc883a47a-206c-416a-ae20-fd2ae81c3cab_1100x220.gif 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NSoy!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc883a47a-206c-416a-ae20-fd2ae81c3cab_1100x220.gif 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NSoy!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc883a47a-206c-416a-ae20-fd2ae81c3cab_1100x220.gif" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c883a47a-206c-416a-ae20-fd2ae81c3cab_1100x220.gif&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:null,&quot;width&quot;:null,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NSoy!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc883a47a-206c-416a-ae20-fd2ae81c3cab_1100x220.gif 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NSoy!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc883a47a-206c-416a-ae20-fd2ae81c3cab_1100x220.gif 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NSoy!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc883a47a-206c-416a-ae20-fd2ae81c3cab_1100x220.gif 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NSoy!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc883a47a-206c-416a-ae20-fd2ae81c3cab_1100x220.gif 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div></div></div></a><p><em>read time</em>&nbsp;<strong>3 minutes</strong></p><p><strong>Welcome to 1% Better. A weekly newsletter where I provide simple playbooks to grow your following, earn more revenue, and live a more fulfilling life.</strong></p><h1>Today at a Glance:</h1><ul><li><p>Simple steps to launching your first online business with AI</p></li><li><p>Actions you can take today</p></li></ul><p><strong>Looking for the best tweet scheduling tool? Check out Tweet Hunter </strong><em><strong><a href="https://flight.beehiiv.net/v2/clicks/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3R3ZWV0aHVudGVyLmlvLz92aWE9bmZ0Z29kJnV0bV9zb3VyY2U9d3d3LjFwZXJjZW50YmV0dGVyLmlvJnV0bV9tZWRpdW09cmVmZXJyYWwmdXRtX2NhbXBhaWduPWhvdy10by1idWlsZC1hLW5ld3NsZXR0ZXItYnVzaW5lc3MtZnJvbS0wLXN1YnNjcmliZXJzLWluLTIwMjQiLCJwb3N0X2lkIjoiODY4YjA3MGMtYzVlMi00ZWUwLTljNzYtMjRlNGI3OTNhMzg4IiwicHVibGljYXRpb25faWQiOiI0YWQ4OWU1Zi0wMDFlLTQzNTYtYmFjMS01NjRjNDViNDFjNDIiLCJ2aXNpdF90b2tlbiI6IjFkMDcwNGNhLWY2NzAtNDZiYy1hOWIzLTMyZGZjYzRkYTEyZSIsImlhdCI6MTcxNDY2NDQ3NSwiaXNzIjoib3JjaGlkIn0.-8NgVQehAyoNcixS_2x6W128qKH23o1rZRlzquJEtzc?utm_source=www.1percentbetter.io&amp;utm_medium=newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=3-online-revenue-streams-you-can-start-today-that-you-control">here</a></strong></em></p><p><em>Interested in sponsoring a newsletter and getting your project in front of 29,000+ self-improvement, technology, finance, and Web 3 enthusiasts? Also interested in consulting services for your project or company? Reach out to <a href="mailto:alex@1percentbetter.io">alex@1percentbetter.io</a></em></p><h1>Latest Video (make sure to like+subscribe!):</h1><p>This week thousands of creators were demonetized on X with no given reason.</p><p>This proves one thing: you should NEVER be dependent on X ad revenue. PERIOD. You can&#8217;t control it. You shouldn&#8217;t depend on revenue streams you can&#8217;t control.</p><p>3 months ago I launched <a href="https://www.creatorbuddy.io/?utm_source=www.1percentbetter.io&amp;utm_medium=newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=3-online-revenue-streams-you-can-start-today-that-you-control">Creator Buddy</a>. It is now BY FAR by biggest revenue stream. And what&#8217;s great is, I have complete control over it. If I want to increase revenue, I just need to ship more and talk about it. If I&#8217;m fine with it staying the same, I can build other projects.</p><p>Complete control.</p><p>THIS is how you make a business for yourself online. Create revenue streams only YOU control.</p><p>Here are 3 simple revenue streams you can set up today that Elon can&#8217;t take away from you:</p><p><strong>Products built with AI</strong></p><p>I&#8217;m starting off with the highest quality option. With AI, now ANYONE can build. I didn&#8217;t write a single line of code in Creator Buddy, it&#8217;s all AI.</p><p>The key to building a great product with AI is simple: find a challenge you face daily. Ask AI how you can solve it with software. Then tell the AI to guide you through building it step by step.</p><p>If the AI gives you instructions that are too complicated, ask it to be simpler.</p><p>Then execute on those steps.</p><p>Tools you&#8217;ll need: ChatGPT o3 (brainstorming), <a href="http://Bolt.new?utm_source=www.1percentbetter.io&amp;utm_medium=newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=3-online-revenue-streams-you-can-start-today-that-you-control">Bolt.new</a> (prototyping) Windsurf (building).</p><p>Best part: this requires almost no up front investment.</p><p>Once you&#8217;ve built your product, selling it is simple. Share your process online.</p><p>By far the most effective marketing for me has been building features in Creator Buddy then tweeting about the feature I built. Every time I do that I get tons of sales.</p><p>Build cool things, then tweet and create videos about it. People will naturally get attracted to your journey.</p><p><strong>Newsletter</strong></p><p>What&#8217;s great about newsletters are you not only control the revenue stream, you control the marketing.</p><p>Elon can not only take away your X revenue stream, but he can take away your audience as well. The algorithm is ever changing. Reach goes up and down. If he decided to he could suspend you for absolutely no reason.</p><p>When it comes to newsletters, you own your audience. It can never be taken away from you. There&#8217;s no algorithm to please. You send them a message, they receive it.</p><p>Plus, it&#8217;s one of the most monetizable marketing channels ever. In fact, it was the first way I ever made money on the internet.</p><p>When I hit 5,000 subscribers on my newsletter, a company reached out and offered a sponsorship for $500. I took it. For a year straight I took sponsorships and made close to $50,000 just on the newsletter.</p><p>EVERY serious creator needs a newsletter.</p><p><strong>Youtube</strong></p><p>I&#8217;ve been monetized on Youtube for 6 months now. I can honestly say it&#8217;s been the best, most predictable revenue stream for a social media site ever. It&#8217;s incredibly simple and transparent. The more views you get, the more you get paid. And every penny you make you get in depth analytics on.</p><p>You understand which video the penny came from and which ad paid you. Check out the amazing analytics below:</p><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yDSg!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb59ff3f1-bc29-49af-b59b-21ad31560db7_1223x789.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yDSg!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb59ff3f1-bc29-49af-b59b-21ad31560db7_1223x789.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yDSg!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb59ff3f1-bc29-49af-b59b-21ad31560db7_1223x789.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yDSg!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb59ff3f1-bc29-49af-b59b-21ad31560db7_1223x789.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yDSg!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb59ff3f1-bc29-49af-b59b-21ad31560db7_1223x789.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yDSg!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb59ff3f1-bc29-49af-b59b-21ad31560db7_1223x789.png" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b59ff3f1-bc29-49af-b59b-21ad31560db7_1223x789.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:null,&quot;width&quot;:null,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yDSg!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb59ff3f1-bc29-49af-b59b-21ad31560db7_1223x789.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yDSg!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb59ff3f1-bc29-49af-b59b-21ad31560db7_1223x789.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yDSg!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb59ff3f1-bc29-49af-b59b-21ad31560db7_1223x789.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yDSg!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb59ff3f1-bc29-49af-b59b-21ad31560db7_1223x789.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a><p>Those are my analytics from the last several months. It&#8217;s just a fantastic revenue system that&#8217;s predictable and easy to understand. You put out more videos, you make more money. It&#8217;s that simple.</p><p>It&#8217;s the only social media platform where you truly feel like you own the revenue stream.</p><p>If you haven&#8217;t started posting on Youtube yet, you need to be doing it. Not only is the ad revenue great, but it&#8217;s also the biggest platform in the world. Half of the data traffic on the internet comes from Youtube.</p><p>You get big on youtube, doors open up quick.</p><p>Take any subject you&#8217;re interested in, record a video of yourself talking about it. It&#8217;s that simple.</p><p>Products, newsletter, Youtube. 3 revenue streams I think anyone looking to make a buck online needs to take action on. WAY better than X ad revenue.</p><h1>Want to grow on X? You need Creator Buddy. The ultimate AI tool for X.</h1><p>Looking to grow on X? Increase your engagement? Make endless BANGER content?</p><p>I built and launched Creator Buddy 3 months ago and it has quickly become the greatest AI content tool ever made</p><p>If you are on X, you NEED Creator Buddy. It has 10 AI tools built in to help you:</p><p>&#8226; Increase your engagement with the AI Reply Guy tool</p><p>&#8226; Make endless BANGER content with the AI Repurposing tool + Banger button</p><p>&#8226; Get the writing help you need with the AI Content Coach</p><p>&#8226; Generate UNLIMITED content ideas with the AI Brain Dumping tool</p><p>500+ people are using it daily and seeing INSANE results. Seriously, I&#8217;m blown away by the feedback.</p><p>Click the button below to start using this X super weapon!</p><p><strong><a href="https://www.creatorbuddy.io/?utm_source=www.1percentbetter.io&amp;utm_medium=newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=3-online-revenue-streams-you-can-start-today-that-you-control">GET CREATOR BUDDY</a></strong></p><p>Have a great weekend everyone!</p><p>-Alex</p><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hjFs!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbe628ba4-0587-4468-8453-eada2a47a9d7_1080x1440.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hjFs!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbe628ba4-0587-4468-8453-eada2a47a9d7_1080x1440.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hjFs!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbe628ba4-0587-4468-8453-eada2a47a9d7_1080x1440.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hjFs!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbe628ba4-0587-4468-8453-eada2a47a9d7_1080x1440.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hjFs!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbe628ba4-0587-4468-8453-eada2a47a9d7_1080x1440.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hjFs!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbe628ba4-0587-4468-8453-eada2a47a9d7_1080x1440.jpeg" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/be628ba4-0587-4468-8453-eada2a47a9d7_1080x1440.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:null,&quot;width&quot;:null,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hjFs!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbe628ba4-0587-4468-8453-eada2a47a9d7_1080x1440.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hjFs!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbe628ba4-0587-4468-8453-eada2a47a9d7_1080x1440.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hjFs!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbe628ba4-0587-4468-8453-eada2a47a9d7_1080x1440.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hjFs!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbe628ba4-0587-4468-8453-eada2a47a9d7_1080x1440.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>