How Pieter Levels made $10,000 in a day

Pieter Levels built a tool that gives you fun variants of your profile picture - https://twitter.com/levelsio/sta... - and it made $10k in one day. He's got a huge reach to start with, but this is still his fastest growing projects. Danny Postma is working on something similar with $2k+ in sales - https://twitter.com/dannypostmaa... Not too long ago, Tibo and the TweetHunter team worked on https://twitter.com/tibo_maker/s... which got 20k+ new users to their site in a day. Their costs to run the AI generation are ~2k a day 😅 Read more into this here: - A great discussion happening on Indie Hackers: https://www.indiehackers.com/pos... - A great tutorial on Stable Diffusion: https://biyo.notion.site/biyo/Ho... With any opportunity, there's usually: - "Why this": What problem does this solve, what's the market need etc. - "Why now": What's happening to make this interesting _now_ AI APIs like Open AI (https://beta.openai.com/playground), Stable Diffusion (https://github.com/Stability-AI/...) are the huge "Why now". In particular, the trend is to make a newly possible AI based project, the output of which people will want to share with their network. What are other projects you can imagine here? Some ideas: - See yourself with different outfits - A Twitter / Slack bot that will "reply for you" based on past messages - Next level face filters