659: $100k with AI-Coded Apps

The Side Hustle Show

Nick Loper

Business, Education, Entrepreneurship, How To

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Back in the day, you needed someone technical (or paid someone technical) if you wanted to build any kind of software. Today, with the popularity of AI tools, not so much. Pete McPherson from doyouevenblog.com is earning $100k by using AI tools to help build a series of small-ish web apps, usually built to solve a very specific problem for a very specific customer. And he's here to share with you how he built all of this... without being a developer himself. Tune in to Episode 659 of the Side Hustle Show to learn: how AI tools make building software faster and easier even if you're not a developer why partnerships and recurring revenue are key to scaling and selling your SaaS products the essential tech stack that helps you launch apps quickly with minimal costs Full Show Notes: $100k with AI-Coded Apps New to the Show? Get your personalized money-making playlist here! Sponsors: Airbnb — Discover how much your home could be worth and find a professional co-host today! Mint Mobile — Cut your wireless bill to $15 a month! Indeed – Start hiring NOW with a $75 sponsored job credit to upgrade your job post! OpenPhone — Get 20% off of your first 6 months! Gusto — Get 3 months free of the leading payroll, benefits, and HR provider for modern small businesses!

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0:00.0	$100,000 with AI coded apps.
0:04.2	They create something once, monetize it over and over again.
0:06.8	That's a business model that I really like.
0:08.9	And historically, software and apps, definitely check that box.
0:13.7	But it used to be you had to be pretty technical or pay someone technical if you wanted to build really any kind of software.
0:21.2	Today, not as much.
0:23.2	My guest has been using AI tools to help build a series of smallish web apps,
0:28.6	usually to solve a very specific problem for a very specific customer,
0:33.0	but he's making thousands of bucks a month doing it and having a lot of fun along the way.
0:36.7	From do you even blog
0:38.3	com Pete McPherson welcome back to the side hustle show yes thank you so much for having me
0:43.4	Nick it's a pleasure to be here talk about techy things hopefully we can get some good takeaways
0:48.5	for people some good actionable items even if we do go a tiny bit into what sounds technical.
0:54.7	So, yeah, let's give it a shot.
0:56.5	Yeah, the promise of having AI do the work for you is an interesting one because, you know,
1:01.5	software companies are some of the most profitable businesses in the world.
1:05.3	It's like, you know, we could sell this same code to thousands, billions of different customers.
1:12.7	And it has often seemed out of reach for individual creators. So what's changed in the past few years? And what do you see
1:18.5	is the opportunity for side hustlers here? The biggest thing that changed. Okay.
1:22.2	Was obviously using chat CPT or Claude or any of these newer LLMs, AI models, to do the parts I didn't know how to do.
1:32.2	I knew how to do a few parts.
1:33.7	I've been interested in this.
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