6 Money-Making Ideas Using ChatGPT That Could Replace Your Day Job (1)

Happy Thursday!

I'm writing this during the last week of what's been an incredible family vacation. We've spent the last few weeks hiking through mountains, exploring waterfalls, and doing all those things that are supposed to help you "disconnect" from work.

But even while I was surrounded by all that natural beauty, I kept thinking about a conversation my friend Nik and I had a couple weeks ago. If you want to watch or listen to us talk about these ideas (and more!) we recorded the whole thing. Here are the links: (Apple - Spotify - YouTube).

I have 6 actionable business + launch ideas for you today!

But yeah, we spent over an hour diving deep into ChatGPT money-making opportunities. The ideas were so good, I knew I had to share them with you guys.Some of these concepts are so simple, so obvious in retrospect, that I'm kicking myself for not building some already. Any one of these could be your next big win.

The question isn't whether these will work. The question is: Will you build one before someone else does?

6. The AI Family Trivia Game That Actually Works for Everyone

This whole thing started when Nik told me he was using ChatGPT to play trivia games with his sons.

Picture this: I'm with my nine-year-old, driving around, and you know how these conversations go. "How was your day?" "Good." "What do you want to do?" "I don't know."

So I took a page out of Nik's playbook. I used ChatGPT's voice-to-speech feature and said, "Hey, I'm a dad, my nine-year-old is here, make a trivia game between us where we can compete against each other, but make each of our questions age-appropriate."

It was amazing. ChatGPT kept track of the score, asked him questions about Pokemon, asked me questions about world history. We had a great time.

Then Nik leveled it up. He started doing it with three people - him and his two boys. Each person got different topics. His youngest wanted Minecraft questions, Nik got geography, his other son got history. Otto ended up winning because apparently he knows everything about Minecraft.

The Business Opportunity:

Someone needs to build a mobile app wrapper around this concept. You could use Lovable, Replit, or Bolt to build it. The backend is super easy - you'd have a screen upfront asking what topics each person is interested in and what age they are. Then ChatGPT handles the rest, making sure each question is tailored to their age and difficulty level.

You could charge three bucks a month, maybe $20 lifetime. Once you build one version, it's significantly easier to build different niches - father-son trivia, mother-daughter trivia, whatever resonates.

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• Voice AI: Answers every call, qualifies leads, books appointments

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5. Capturing Family Stories Before They're Gone Forever

Nik and I got talking about something we discussed back in December, capturing stories from people in assisted living facilities.

Here's the thing: we have these generations that are passing away, and what happens to their stories? They die with that generation.

Nik's working on something called One Life Tale with his partner Owen. Part of the experience is an AI-guided conversation where family members can call in at the same time from different locations. The AI facilitates conversations and spurs them to tell stories.

Their app connects to your photo albums and uses that to pull up questions like, "Tell me about the vacation you took to Orange Beach in 2017." It's got ElevenLabs on the backend capturing their actual voices, so you'll have grandma's voice, dad's voice telling these stories.

The Simple Version:

Why not just make this an app that's an AI voice agent, or even a phone number people can call? Anyone in an assisted living facility with a phone could start talking to an AI agent- they probably wouldn't even know it's AI. It would ask them about their time in the war, their childhood, whatever, and record everything.

The challenge is getting them to adopt it initially. But once they use it once, they'll use it over and over because people that age are usually more interested in telling their story than hearing everyone else's.

4. The Handyman Mentor Marketplace America Desperately Needs

Let me hit you with some statistics that'll blow your mind:

Right now, we're short 550,000 plumbers, 600,000 auto mechanics, and 80,000 electricians in the US. By 2033, we'll have almost 2 million unfilled manufacturing jobs.

Our generation grew up hearing, "If you don't go to college, you don't want to end up like that guy," and they'd point to the plumber or electrician. It screwed a whole generation of craftsmen out of the workforce. Now these guys are retiring and there's nobody to replace them.

Meanwhile, we've got aging infrastructure, homes falling apart, and guys like me and Nik who don't know what to do with our hands.

Someone needs to build a place for people like us to find handyman mentors. Not licensed contractors who are booked out for weeks. I don't need a union-bonded plumber to come to my house. I just need a guy who knows his way around to show me how to change a couple pipes.

How You'd Start This:

Go to Home Depot and Lowe's during different shifts. Round up as many retired guys as you can- name, phone, email. The older boomers working at Home Depot after retirement just because they know their way around. That's every Home Depot employee with white hair. Build the supply side first.

Then find helpless millennials like us through Facebook ads targeted to your geography. Start low-tech - just play matchmaker through group texts. Spend three months doing this to understand how the interactions work.

Maybe you find that the mentor goes to the guy's house 80% of the time when you thought they'd just FaceTime. That changes everything about your model. You’ll have to learn and pivot, but it’ll be worth it.

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3. ChatGPT's Video Feature That 93% of People Don't Know Exists

Okay, before I went on vacation ago, my HVAC stopped working. Instead of waiting weeks for a technician, I started FaceTiming ChatGPT. I'm not kidding.

I showed it my outdoor unit. "My house isn't cooling, the fan's turning, but house isn't cooling." It said, "Show me this coil down here. Put your hand on it, Chris. Is it cold?"

It wasn't cold.

"I think you're out of Freon or your condenser's broke. Freon's gonna be really cheap, condenser's gonna be like three grand. Let me see your coils. What unit is this? Can you show me the label?"

It walked me through everything like a mentor. How valuable is that?

Put That In a Wrapper:

Take that exact experience and wrap it in an app. Call it AI Handyman Mentor or whatever. I promise you, 93% of Americans don't know that FaceTime feature exists in ChatGPT.

They might be using ChatGPT every day, but they don't know they can video chat with it.

Just today, I looked at my broken sprinkler with ChatGPT. I showed it the problem, and it gave me three possible causes. One was that it might be at a low point in the grass where water pressure builds up, so I might need a check valve.

I tested it - that's exactly what it was. I went to Home Depot, told the guy my theory, and he said, "Yes, that's a really good idea. I hadn't thought of that."

I got that idea from ChatGPT in thirty seconds.

2. The Wedding Invitation Gift Hack as a Business

I saw this Instagram video of a newlywed who sent baby shower invites to 150 major companies: Target, Bed Bath & Beyond, all the big ones. She sent physical invitations to their corporate addresses saying she was a huge fan and would love to invite them to her celebration.

Twenty-five of them sent gifts, gift cards, or money. She got hundreds or thousands of dollars worth of free stuff for $40 in postage.

This works because marketing departments know when people get gifts, they post about it on social media. It's free marketing - win-win.

Build the Service

Create a database of companies that respond to these invitations. Let people pay to have invitations sent to 50, 500, or 1,000 companies. Use a direct mail API - you're not in the direct mail business, you just have a website.

If it costs 45 cents to send each one and someone wants to send 100, that's $45. You charge $199 and pocket the margin.

The Upgrade:

There are companies like ghostwriter dot com where robots literally handwrite messages on paper. The response rate is insane when it looks genuinely handwritten versus computer-printed.

1. Home Service Visual Overhaul

Here's what's crazy: I promise you, as much as we talk and think about ChatGPT here, a massive amount of people have no clue about the power of AI in regards to enhancing photos.

You could (and should!) use these capabilities for home services.

I talked to a guy who built an app that pulls addresses, grabs Google Street View pictures of houses, and puts them on custom postcards. When homeowners get a postcard with their actual house on it, they pay attention.

His engagement rate was 15%. He got 3% to schedule calls and 1% closed. For every $100 spent, he was getting $4,000 deals. Insane.

But Here's the Level-Up:

What if you're a roofing company and you get their Google Maps picture, then have AI change the roof? Or you're a painting company and you show their house in different colors?

It removes the friction of not knowing what the end result looks like. You knock on someone's door and say, "We'll paint your house white," versus showing them a picture of their house painted white. Huge difference.

What about an app for guys who go door-to-door? They're on their iPad showing homeowners different options in real-time. That's freaking genius.

This capability didn't exist three months ago. The image generation wasn't there yet. But it is now.

These businesses didn't exist three months ago. Someone reading this will build one of these and I hope they're successful.

Your Move

Here's the thing. I keep saying someone out there should build these, but really, it should be me. And it should be you. Everything is figureoutable, and there's always time to build something great.

Okay, if you found value in this and want to watch to the full thing- and listen to our dumb laughter - here’s the YouTube video.

I share deep dives on business ideas and complete playbooks three times a week on YouTube and every podcast platform. While everyone else is chasing the same oversaturated opportunities, I'm digging up hidden goldmines for you. Enjoy!

Thanks for reading!

-Chris Koerner