How I Went From Blogger to Indie Maker (And Learned to Outsource My Brain to AI)

I didn’t plan to become a maker. In 2022, I was just messing around with writing blogs to make my living. No budget, no team, just me trying to figure out WordPress while following random YouTube tutorials at 2 AM. My site looked like it was built during an earthquake. But hey, it worked (barely), and I was learning, from writing blogs to designing my own wordpress site.

A year later, Based on my learnings to design wordpress sites, I started freelancing - building websites for small business owners using whatever I knew. I also started selling readymade design templates for WordPress (generatepress & Elementor) via youtube. Nothing fancy, just trying to make things work. That’s when I started leaning hard into AI tools. ChatGPT, & Claude I wasn’t just using them, I was building with them. They became a second brain I could offload work to.

And honestly? That changed everything.

I went from overthinking every line of code to shipping full products. I built Unrealshot AI (selfies to CEO shots), Lexistock AI (photo editing related tools), and Saze AI (for spitting out general content writing).

I even started teaching others how to use AI through my YouTube channel, mostly for people who still think “prompting” is a typo.

And today, I'm launching something new: Threddr- a tool that helps you find your early users directly from Reddit. It reads posts, figures out who's looking for what you’ve built, and helps you write replies that actually sound human. All built using AI tools like v0, claude and CatGPT, obviously. 2 more products are on the way too, launching them in next week.

I didn't have a plan when I started. I just kept showing up, building stuff, and letting AI handle the things I wasn't good at (yet).

If you're thinking of building something, start scrappy.

You don't need to be an expert. You just need to ship by solving a problem of others.