Happy Thursday!
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Okay, a week or so back I had just gotten back from getting a massage. I didn't have my phone on me during it, obviously, so for once I actually had some quiet time to sit and think. What I kept thinking about was Grok bot. Part of it was just that I was curious and wanted to try it, but I also wanted to build something with it on camera so I could share the whole thing with you.
If you want to watch me do this live after you read about it, check out my YouTube episode.
When I got home, I sat down at my computer, started messing with it, and about thirty minutes later I had a working software product sitting in my downloads folder that I use now every morning and can absolutely sell to others. One prompt did pretty much the entire thing. I do not know how to code, and honestly after this, it barely seems to matter.
Grok bot is an agentic AI tool built on Grok- the AI feature of Twiter/X, and is in the same family as ChatGPT and Claude. The difference is that it doesn’t just answer your question. It goes and does the work. This isn’t sponsored at all. I had just heard amazing things and needed to try it myself.
I pointed it at my Replit (an app building/ vibe coding tool) and it wrote the code, tested it, found the bugs, fixed them, and tested again, on its own, until the thing ran. Insane. That loop: the build and test and fix and build again, is the tedious part that used to mean you had to hire a developer. This time it just handled it in the background while I stepped away for dinner.
Here is how I turned that into something I can sell, and a few different ways you can do the same.
Fix your own annoyance/ issue first. The idea came straight out of a problem I deal with every single day. I cannot stay out of my inbox. So I had it build an app that locks Gmail and my Mail app outside of one set window every morning. If I do not get to inbox zero by 10, I do not get another shot until tomorrow. I built it for me. But I know I am not the only person who fights this, and that is why I know it can be successful. When something annoys you enough that you would pay to make it stop, thousands of other people feel the exact same way. Those people are your customers.
Write the prompt with a second AI before you hand it over. I did not dump my rough idea straight into Grok bot. I wrote it up in Claude first and had Claude clean it into a real, technical prompt. Do this. No matter what you idea is. A good planning AI catches what the builder will not. Claude told me flat out that a website can never force-quit an app on my Mac, so the real product had to be a Mac menu bar app plus a Chrome extension. That pushback saved me from building something that was never going to work in the first place.
You could easy build a system with Grok bot to get you a client. But then it’ll be a goldmine if you connect it to HighLevel for the follow-ups, bookings, and to prevent leads from going cold while you're busy. Landing the work and running the operation are two different jobs, and the second one is where it’s easy to fall off.
HighLevel handles that second job. CRM, automated follow-ups, booking calendars, text and email campaigns, all in one place. The system handles reputation management, handles reviews, chases leads, and books calls for you. You can also white-label it and resell it in your niche. It’s a no brainer add-on for your clients that already trust you. My readers get 30 days free at gohighlevel.com/tkopod.
Treat it like an employee. A good boss hands somebody one clear job and walks away. A bad boss hovers and says do this, now try that, now this other thing. I gave Grok bot a single focus and left it alone. I didn’t connect it to a bunch of accounts it did not need. I set a spending cap so it could approve its own Replit charges up to a hundred dollars a day without stopping to ask me every five minutes. It is really important to set up boundaries, but then also give it room to work.
Point it at the projects you gave up on. Somewhere in the middle of the build, another use for this jumped out at me. Most of us have three or four half-built things sitting at 90 percent that we abandoned- because the last 10 percent was a slog. Send Grok bot into your Replit account (or whatever builder you use) and tell it to finish them. The stuff you already quit on might be a weekend away from being sellable.
Build these for other people. If you can do this in half an hour, you can do it for a business owner who cannot. Small business owners pay good money for simple tools that fix one specific headache they have, and now you can build that tool in an afternoon and charge them for it every month. This could easily become a 6 figure+ business.
Building software used to run thousands of dollars and weeks of a developer's time. Mine cost one prompt, half an hour, and a Replit bill I capped. Grok bot even wired up Stripe during the build, so the payment side is already sitting there waiting- a step I usually hate setting up.
I have not sold mine yet. (That will be part 2, and I am going to show you that whole process on camera/ probably here too.) But this product exists, it works, took virtually no effort from me, and I am already using it every single morning. It cost me thirty minutes and a prompt. Go look at the problems you deal with every day and pick the one you would pay to make disappear.
Again, Listen to the full walk-through on YouTube, and by the end, you will have everything you need to create something of your own with this tool.
Lastly, I'm always looking for cool, unique businesses to share on my podcasts. If you have one and are comfortable sharing your journey, drop your info here!
Have a great week!
Chris
P.S. I share deep dives on business ideas and complete playbooks three times a week on YouTube and every podcast platform.
