Things You Can Build With AI

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Claude 3.7 just dropped and as with many AI releases before, people are freaking out.

So naturally this week we’re going to explore how you can make your own SaaS and even your own service-based business using AI.

Thanks to programs like Lovable, Bolt, Gumloop and Databutton, you don’t need to have any coding experience (although it certainly helps) to build these.

And as with every edition, we’ll break down a few ideas you can start building literally right after you finish reading this.

Today’s edition is packed with ideas, so buckle up.

Let’s jump in!

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⭐️ Examples:

• These guys built an App with Claude 3.7 and Databutton

• Meg built an entire directory site with AI

• Greg built a video game with Claude 3.7

• This guy built 30 apps in 30 days

🧐 Opportunities:

Build Websites for Brands

One thing I think Lovable excels at Is building high-quality landing pages and websites.

Using Lovable, Figma and 21st.dev as a combo is a bit of a cheat code to building incredible websites in literal minutes.

Here’s what I would do:

• Build a portfolio or example websites (just get ChatGPT to give you some ideas for fake brands) - you can also use AI to do this.

• Scrape a list of every company in a specific niche or local area

• Cold email them using Instantly.ai offering to build them a website and show your portfolio. I break down some offers you can use below.

• Outsource the website design to the tools I mentioned above. You can find Figma landing page templates that you can give to Lovable or you can use code from 21st.dev.

You have a lot of flexibility with the offer:

• Build it for free and charge a small monthly hosting fee. (I broke down how some people make $30k/m doing this here)

• Build it for a small fee and then charge a monthly hosting fee on top of that.

• Build it for a one-off fee and upsell to marketing services like SEO, Paid Ads, Conversion Rate Optimisation, Lead Gen, etc

You could also use the email database you collected and a CMS like Framer or Webflow to build a basic template and dynamically fill in their business name so it looks like you’ve already made it for them. But this is probably unnecessary.

Automated Competitor Monitoring Agent

Founders often need to keep tabs on competitors’ moves, like new feature launches, pricing changes, and marketing campaigns – but doing this manually is tedious and easy to neglect.

61% of businesses say sharing competitive intel daily or weekly has a revenue impact​ (source).

You could create an AI-driven monitoring tool that automates competitor research and delivers succinct updates. It continuously watches competitors’ websites, social media, SEO rankings, and even app updates, then uses AI to summarize “what’s new” and “what it means.”

What could you include?

• Website & Product Change Tracking

• Social and PR Monitoring

• SEO/Traffic Comparison (use the DataforSEO API)

• Commentary

• Alerts & Dashboard

This tool would be tailored for startup founders, solopreneurs, and small business owners who lack a dedicated marketing or analyst team to do competitor tracking.

You could probably do the majority of this using Gumloop.

Audio Stem Splitting Web App or VST Plugin

This is another area I have a lot of experience in and this is something I actually want to try and build myself as I have a sizable audience in the space.

Granted there are quite a few of these around but I think there’s enough room in the market for more. Especially when they’re niched down.

There are actually a few open-source vocal remover options and they’re incredible.

And because they’re open source, it’s actually quite easy to build a SaaS around this yourself.

This would be something like Lalal.ai or Vocal Remover.

One angle I think could work quite well is a vocal remover specifically for remixes - so you add a Youtube to mp3 convertor into it as well so the user just needs to add a YouTube link for the song they want the stems for and it does it all in one click. This would be a huge timesaver.

Lightroom Presets

This guy reckons he made $32k in one month selling Lightroom presets and this guy reckons you can get AI to do it all for you.

Who buys Lightroom presets? Photographers.

And they spend a lot of money on them or a lot of time making their own.

Someone like a wedding photographer or an e-commerce photographer will use Lightroom presets to get consistent and specific aesthetics for their photos.

Lightroom presets can be generated by code.

And AI tools like Google Gemini are really good at analysing images.

AI can generate code for a Lightroom preset based on images that a user uploads.

So the idea is: you make a tool where a user uploads an image and they download a Lightroom preset based on that image.

Being able to generate the exact style instantly with AI is a huge time and money saver for photographers.

You could also sell packs of presets for certain themes (weddings, etc) that you made with AI.

Email Marketing Design

Something I also broke down a while ago is making your own email design platform.

Email marketing is a $24b a year industry and generates insane revenue for businesses.

You could create a tool like Mailsplash that uses AI to design beautiful emails and email flows instantly.

You can create one for specific niches - e-commerce is an obvious choice but you can literally do any service-based industry, live events, churches, real estate, newsletters, etc.

AI probably won’t be able to help you build the full thing but it’ll get you very close to an MVP at least.

Sell Pre-Revenue Business

I won’t go into too much detail with this one as I wrote about it here, but it’s definitely worth exploring.

People sell pre-revenue SaaS tools and directories for a few hundred dollars to a few thousand dollars all the time on places like acquire.com and Microns.

You could create these at scale for basically free and sell them straight away.

As I mentioned in the example section, this guy made 30 apps in 30 days. If you sold them all for an average of $334 that’s over $10k a month. But realistically if the software or app is good and solves a problem it could easily sell for over $1k.

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