The AI Side Hustle Revolution: Turning Niche Ideas into Income(spicermatthews.com)

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The AI Side Hustle Revolution: Turning Niche Ideas into Income

https://spicermatthews.com/blog/the-ai-side-hustle-revolution-turning-niche-ideas-into-income/

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> For those developers proactive enough to embrace this change, AI isn't a threat—it's an unprecedented opportunity. OregonPastDueRent.com is just one example. It's proof that in the age of AI, "too niche" is no longer a barrier but an invitation to innovation.

It's rather insulting that he also wrote the blog post with ChatGPT.

Every time I see "it's not (x), it's (y)" I know exactly what I'm dealing with.

It's possible to use that construction ironically, but I don't think that's the case here.

(Also lmao at his business idea: Using ChatGPT to help landlords automate legal paperwork. It's simultaneously stupid and evil. Nice work.)

cloudmanicanno scorso

Sorry you don't get the business idea. My guess is you're not a landlord in Oregon. The paperwork is very time-consuming, and often gets your case thrown out of eviction court if it's not done perfectly. Oregon has become an extremely landlord-friendly state. The first step of getting the notice correct is so important.

Also, there's a lot of value in having a third-party service notice for you. Then there's an arm's length transaction showing that the proper notice was served in the proper way.

There's lots of sleaze-bag lawyers out there that will represent a tenant for free because they immediately see something wrong in how the service is done. They know the case will be thrown out. And they could pass on their legal fees to the landlord, who obviously has money. This happens over and over and over again.

So there's actually a lot of value in what I am offering landlords here.

I'm not sure I understand your "rather insulting" comment about posts being written in ChatGPT. Of course I use AI to help me write better blog posts. Just like I would use AI to write better code. I would call it insulting anyone who doesn't write a blog post using AI. AI is an incredibly powerful tool, and anyone who doesn't run their blog posts through it isn't trying to use all available tools to make the best possible product (ie a blog post). With that said, all the ideas in the blog post came from me. I had several rounds of edits with AI. So I simply disagree with your submission that it's dumb or insulting to use ChatGPT to write a blog post.

cloudmanicanno scorso

To follow up on something, there's no ChatGPT helping landlords automate paperwork. I just used AI tools to build the code. Not sure how it's evil to help a landlord do their job. In fact, this paper work is very helpful in allowing the tenant to apply for rental assistance. Some landlords can even slow down a tenant's progression in gaining rental assistance because they don't do the paperwork correctly or on time.