Is AI The Next "Big Thing" for online business

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Is AI the next 'boom' in terms of online business now that crypto is dying down?

Everything happens in waves
dot com era (EMDs & 2 to 4 letter domains )
contextual ads & commission programs ( google adsense & cj)
Affiliate marketing (wickedfire era)
Crypto ( If a woman would told her man buy Bitcoin in 2011, he cherishes her forever LOL)
Now.... is it AI?
 
Things have changed, for sure. Crypto started as a tool for buying drugs online. We didn’t hoard it hoping to get rich one day. We used it because we needed it to make “anonymous” transactions.

I know some users and dealers who accidentally woke up with more money than they knew what to do with. Not because they saw themselves as crypto investors, but because they had crypto ready to spend.

Crypto had real utility before regulators, and law enforcement got smarter. Now it’s mostly held by people who’ve never used it for anything but watching charts and posting memes, hoping to strike it rich.
 
I think AI is already the big thing right now, rather than the next big thing. Maybe the masses have not fully adopted it yet, but it's going to become unavoidable soon.

The capabilities of these tools are seriously mind-blowing. And I think it is only going to get crazier.

Two years ago, I could barely tinker with CSS files. Now I'm building custom plugins, themes, API integrations, even published a Chrome extension. There is nothing I wouldn't try at this point. This is all because of AI.

I think a lot of people are in the same boat. Check out the "vibe coding" or "build in public" SaaS trends over on X. Lots of people are using AI to build & sell software.

It's enabled a lot of creative people to spread their wings and build what they could only dream of before.
 
I think so for sure.

If you've been following on X, there was this trend of making family photos into Studio Ghibli drawings with ChatGPT.

I sent some pics to my friend with it and asked if he heard about it, but his response was basically "haven't paid attention, too much happening all the time".

Most people are not playing around with ChatGPT and it's obvious that there's a lot of wrapper-apps that can make money now. It's all in the marketing and reach of course.
 
chubes said:
I think AI is already the big thing right now, rather than the next big thing. Maybe the masses have not fully adopted it yet, but it's going to become unavoidable soon.

The capabilities of these tools are seriously mind-blowing. And I think it is only going to get crazier.

Two years ago, I could barely tinker with CSS files. Now I'm building custom plugins, themes, API integrations, even published a Chrome extension. There is nothing I wouldn't try at this point. This is all because of AI.

I think a lot of people are in the same boat. Check out the "vibe coding" or "build in public" SaaS trends over on X. Lots of people are using AI to build & sell software.

It's enabled a lot of creative people to spread their wings and build what they could only dream of before.
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Yeah, i see everyone's selling "Ai Apps" now for like $200 . I'm not even sure what they are using but i'm sure it's serious.

HOw did you get the Chrome extension done?
 
@GNews most of them are using Cursor to build apps

I did the Chrome extension with a combination of Roo Code with Gemini, and ChatGPT with o3-mini.

It took me about six hours to build. It takes screenshots of a website in mobile aspect ratios for sharing image carousels on social media. Replaces the need to manually crop & edit full page screenshots.

I made it free and open source. Also got a nice backlink from the Chrome web store out of it.
 
Cursor is based on Claude, it's probably ok for a lot of things, but I find ChatGPT is a much better practical teacher and coder. ChatGPT 4o, which I use, is a huge help to both code and teach. I find it is much less prone to trying to be too clever and then having to fix all kind of things. It's particularly good if you build templates based on its own previous code and have it work from there on a new project.
 
bernard said:
I find ChatGPT is a much better practical teacher and coder.
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I still use ChatGPT for coding, but the built-in coding agents are insane.

With Roo Code and the Gemini API, you can use Gemini 2.5 Pro completely for free. Just connect a billing account to your Gemini API account, and select the experimental model. Then you can orchestrate an entire system as long as you can keep it organized.

Google does not charge to use the experimental models (probably because they get free data to train it?).

Lots of people said Google was behind in the AI race but it seems like they are catching up now. The new Gemini model is really powerful.
 
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