How to find $1M AI SaaS ideas EASILY

I came up with a $300,000 AI app idea just from solving a small day-to-day challenge I was facing. In this video, I'm going to show you how to identify really simple challenges that you can turn into million-doll AI app ideas as well. I promise if you stick with me through this video, do all the little exercises with me. By the end of this video, you will have a million-doll AI app idea as well that you can immediately start building. In fact, if you don't come up with an incredible idea for an AI app by the end of the video, I'll Venmo you $100. Just DM me and it's yours. Let's get into it. So, there are four stages to building a million-doll AI app idea. So, first we're going to go into identifying the challenge. I'm going to show you the step by step real quick process to identifying a bunch of challenges you can solve. Then, I'm going to go into how to quickly build out the prototype even if you've never coded a day in your life before. Then, I'm going to show you how to validate the idea. Right? So, we want to see if it's a valid idea that actually solve other people's challenges, too. And then we're going to talk about shipping. We're going to do this real quick. I'm going to go through all four steps. And by the end of this, again, if you follow along with me, you'll have a million- dollar app idea. I guarantee it. And if you don't, DM me. I'm sending you $100. Four months ago, I

launched Creator Buddy, which as you can see here, is making about $300,000 a year. And it's just an app that solved a very simple problem I was facing dayto-day. If you find challenges you face dayto-day, solve them. you're probably going to be solving challenges a lot of other people have as well, which is going to make you money. So, for me, it was this. I was every day manually copy and pasting all my tweets into this spreadsheet. I like to review my tweets. I like to see what works and what doesn't. So, I was manually copying and pasting every tweet, every like, retweet, comment, views. I was putting in the links. I was categorizing by hand. I was doing this every day. And this was costing me thousands of hours. As you can see here, there's over like 5,000 rows of every tweet I've ever put out in this spreadsheet, and it was taking up a ton of time. So, I thought, okay, let me build an app that syncs with my Twitter and pulls in every tweet I do automatically. I took this small challenge I was facing dayto-day, and I turned it into this app, Creator Buddy, and now it's funding my entire life and making over $300,000 a year. This is the key. You find challenges that you have day-to-day. You build solutions. It will probably help other people out. But how do you come up with those ideas? You ask me. How do I find those small challenges? Well, let me show you. So, here is how I identified challenges in my own day-to-day life that I wanted to solve. I literally carried around this notebook you see here, right? I all day. I had this pen in my pocket for in this is for those at home. This is a Pigma Micron05. I love it. It's my favorite pen. Very, very nice pen. I took this notebook around all day. Kept it in my pocket. You can get a little pocket notebook and you write down throughout the day, every time you run into some small little inconvenience, right? Anytime you run into any tiny little inconvenience, write it down your notebook real quick. Right? So, as you can see here, don't know what to make for breakfast. tweet. Struggling to come up with ideas for my newsletter. Shoulder hurts at the gym. Every little in I wrote down in my notebook. One of those you can see here, taking too long to track tweets. That was the money idea. So, at the end of the day, I went back. I had all these challenges I faced during the day written down in my notebook. I go back. I open up the notebook. I'm sitting there like, okay, which one of these challenges can I solve? Where can I solve these challenges? So, I did this. I opened up chat GPT and I put in the following prompt. Let me show you this. So, check this prompt out and feel free to copy this down. Here is every challenge I face today. For every challenge listed, give me two ideas for simple applications I can build with cursor. Describe the app and how it would solve my challenge. And then I put in every challenge I faced that day. So, pause the video, write this down, and I know you didn't spend the time before this writing down every challenge you have, but just for the sake of practicing with this video, just try to write down a bunch of challenges you have day-to-day right now off the top of your head. Right? So, take the prompt, write this down, pause the video right now, and try this out and see what results you get. Okay, unpause. Here we go. So, I'm going to send this and I'm going to show you what I got and we can walk over what my thought process was as I saw this. Also, as Chad GBT is uh giving us a response here, make sure to hit the subscribe button down below if this is your first time watching the channel. All I do is make awesome videos about how to build businesses with AI, even if you've never coded before. All right, here we go. So, here are 14 byte-size app concepts, two per challenge that can spin up quickly and cursor. Each keep scope tight, one screen, one job, so you can ship fast and test whether it actually helps. So, here we go. First one. Don't know what to make for breakfast. Gives me a couple ideas for that challenge. Don't know what to tweet. So, Tweet Spark pulls in your last 100 tweets, passes that to OpenAI with the prompt, suggest five follow-ups uh to give me top performing threads. Kind of what Creator Buddy does to be quite honest with you. Creator Buddy probably works much better. Struggling to come up with newsletter ideas. So, an inbox swiper scans start email as well and gives you three emerging story lines. That's pretty interesting. So, basically, I went through this. I looked for which apps looked most interesting first of all. Two was good for beginners to code out, right? I wanted to code it fast. I wanted to make it easy. I didn't want to do anything too complex. If you're watching this and you've never written a line of code before, probably something you want to focus on as well. Just look for the simplest idea possible here. Uh, and then take that and you can build it. Which also at the end of the video, I'll show you how to build out the prototype for this app real quick. All right, let's take a look at some other ideas here. What we're going to do is we're going to choose one of these. I'm going to take that idea. We're going to go through the rest of the process building out the prototype, validating the idea, all of that. Uh, can't focus on writing. A focus draft, a full screen editor with 25minute pomodoro timer baked in. Autolocks other tabs. I like that idea. I like that idea a lot. A dedicated writing app where you can't do anything else. Has a Pomodoro timer built in. Let's take this idea. So, we have an idea. We're going to do a few things. Now, we are going to build a quick

prototype. I'll show you how to do that. Then, we'll start validating the idea and actually ship the idea. Right? So again, we've identified a bunch of challenges we have during the day. We identified one of those challenges that we're now going to test to see if it's a million-doll idea. We're going to build out a very quick prototype and we're going to start validating the idea to see it will solve other people's challenges. So now that we've identified a challenge and an idea that solves that challenge, let's just build a quick prototype so we can start testing this with an audience. So here's the prompt I'm going to use. I like the focus draft idea. Please build me a prompt so I can now put it into bold. To build the basic prototype for the app. So basically what we're doing here is we're having the AI build us a prompt for us. This is a very crucial technique you need to learn using AI to build prompts for other AIs. A lot of times if you just wing it with the prompt off the top of your head, it's not going to be that good or detailed. But if you have AI build out the prompts for you, they're going to be really good prompts. So let me hit enter on that. It's going to build out the prompts. We can then take this and put this into bolt new so we can build out a prototype without writing any code at all. All right, looks like it built out the initial prompt. Look at this. Look at this prompt. This is a good prompt. So stack and structure. It has all the tech in there, everything we need. Let's copy this. Let's go into bolt new. So the URL is literally bolt new. Go there now. And what we're able to do in bolt new is build out quick prototypes. Bolt new is the best prototype builder on the internet. No coding necessary. You put in a prompt, it builds out the prototype for you. I'm going to paste in the prompt that chat GPT gave us. I'm going to hit enter. We're going to send this. And in a second, we'll have a prototype that we can start validating with an audience really easily. And again, I'll walk through all of this, but we're on step two of finding our million-dollar app idea. If you keep sticking with me here, you'll have a banger idea by the end of this. All right, so bolt. new has our prompt. Based on your requirements, I'll create a distraction-free focus draft application with focus writing at its core. By the way, if you feel like it, you can just steal this idea and start building it out right away. I'm not going to ship this. I'm giving it to you back to the audience. So, take this idea, ship it yourself. You might have a banger here. So, bolt. news installing all the dependencies and libraries and technologies we need to build this app out. Again, you don't need to understand all of this. Just let it do its thing. You'll have a prototype by the end of this. All right. Look at this. application is done here. So, we have a prototype. Start writing. Markdown is supported. I think this is the Pomodoro timer. Let's see. We hit play. There is going to start. Yep, it's going. Oo, I like that little animation. It goes around the circle timer at the bottom. Zero Z. Okay, let's do this. Uh, I'm building a YouTube video about finding banger ideas for AI apps. Yeah, look at that. That's beautiful. Okay, so what's that? The words. Yep, words at the bottom shows a timer. I'd use this. You can go in full screen mode. Pause this too. Pomodoro timer. I might build I might just use this for myself. This is awesome. So, we have a prototype, right? We identified a challenge which is struggling to focus when writing. We built the prototype in literally one prompt. And now we need to validate the idea to see

if this is a million-doll idea. And again, these are the exact steps I took with Creator Buddy before I shipped. So, let me show you how I validated Creator Buddy idea. what we're going to do here to validate our focus writing idea. So, here's the key to validating your idea. You need to go on social media and validate it. And this is really simple to do and you don't need a big audience to do this. You can have literally a thousand followers and that'll be it. Honestly, you can do this probably a couple hundred followers and it won't be a big deal, right? Cuz as long as it is a banger idea, it will be spread out and people will find it. So, here's what I did. I filmed a video of me using the prototype, right? So that prototype I just showed you a second ago inbolt. new. At this point you would just film yourself using it, demoing it, and explaining how it works and the challenge it solves. Then you just write a tweet talking about why you built it, what it does, what challenges it solves, why users should think about it. This doesn't need to be a long video. Mine was 4 minutes. You can make yours literally 45 seconds. Just film a 45se secondond video. You can use Loom. I used Loom for this one. Download Loom. There's a free tier. film yourself using the app. Right? So, you'd go in here, you would show exactly what I'm doing here, right? You would say, "Hey, I've always struggled to focus on writing. I built this app to solve that problem. I know you probably struggle to focus on writing, too. " You have a built-in Pomodoro timer. You can hit play and you can go in here and you can start typing and writing with this beautiful, clean, simple application. Right? End of film, ship that video, post it on X. Right? Describe what you're doing in the caption up here. hit send and see what happens. For me, this was ultra successful. 2,000 likes, half a million views. Idea instantly validated. People love the idea. So, I'm like, "All right, I'm gonna triple down here and ship this. " Right? And people go, "Oh, Alex, you have a big audience on X. I can't do that. " Uh, no, no, no. You don't need a big audience. I've shown this example before. Here's my friend Will Wang. He has 7,000 followers. He had significantly less followers than this when he posted this video. Introducing Clover. It's cursor for video editing. generates full edits with a simple prompt. And he just posted the video of him using it down here. This is just like a beta test. This isn't the full product. 4,000 likes, 700,000 views. That's more than I got on my video. Has significantly less followers. Boom. Idea validated. He used this. He turned around. He raised money with it. Right? You can do the exact same thing. You build your quick prototype. You film a simple, this was 50 second video, post it online, simple caption, what it does, the challenge it solves, and then you see how it works out. You see if you get traction instantly by posting this, he got validation. His idea was a banger, right? You do this, you see what kind of validation you get. If people are not interested, you don't get much validation. You quickly go on to the next challenge and try that out. Right? What are we 10 minutes into this video? I already have a prototype ready to go. So, you just go back and you do that 10-minute process again. Really, really simple. I'd highly recommend doing this on X. X is the quickest to iterate, right? So, even if you don't have an X right now, build your Twitter. You can validate just like this, right? It took a minute to film the video, minute to post it, boom, you're validating ideas in 2 minutes. No other place you on YouTube, you have to film an entire video, 10 minutes long, takes a long time. Edit it. It's challenging. X very, very quick to validate. That's how you

validate the idea, right? So, we identified a list of challenges. we solve day-to-day. We built out a prototype. We validated the idea. It's also a little key thing here. Even if it doesn't get validated the idea, you should still build it out. Build out the idea because the worst case scenario of identifying your own challenges and solving them is you make your day-to-day life easier, right? The worst case scenario, even if you don't make a million dollars, you've made your own life easier because you built an app that solves one of your challenges. Imagine doing this 10 times. you don't get any of your 10 ideas validated. Well, you just made your entire life much easier cuz you solved 10 of your challenges just like that. That's the best part about this process I'm showing you is the best case scenario is you make tons of money. The worst case scenario is you solved one of your challenges, you made your life easier, and you became a little bit better at building an entrepreneurship. So, we validated the idea. Now, let's talk about shipping it. Shipping it is simple, right? So what we can do from here in bolt new once we've identified an idea that we want to actually ship you can just instantly hit export download the code and we can take this code and start building it out in cursor and forget cursor is the best AI code editor out there right now has a free tier you should download it you should be using it even if you've never coded before this is the best way to be building apps right now you would open up cursor you would click open on that file you just downloaded for bolt new And boom, you're editing your code out and you're building out your full application. It's the same UI as bolt. new. You would come in here and you can just prompt your AI agent over here on the right to continue to build out the features and the ideas. I have tons of videos that go indepth on building out full applications. Feel free to check those out as well. This video is just for finding and validating ideas. But now you would go ahead and you'd start building out your full application and ship it. And here's the key thing. As you build out in ship, every step of the way, you're doing more of these posts, more of these videos, more of these explainers on the value of your tool. And every step of the way, you're validating your idea more and more. This is a share your journey approach. I call this the SYJ approach. The share your journey approach. Every step of the way, you're sharing your journey. Every step of the way, you're explaining what you're doing. And your audience is coming along for the journey with you as well. And this works great because you're not spending any money on advertising. This is all organic, right? For Creator Buddy, I didn't spend a penny on advertising. This was all organic advertising. Just by talking about my app as I built it, like I showed you here, people fell in love with the videos I was making and they were ready to buy. Shipped my app. You can do the same thing here. You just follow this simple four-step process. You identify a challenge by looking at your day-to-day life, challenges. You write that down. You build out prototypes quickly with Bolt. You validate your idea on social media. You create simple videos on X. X is my favorite to use for validation because tweets you can just type them up like that. And then you ship the ideas that get validated. And maybe it takes three or four times to ship before you hit your million-doll idea. But you will eventually run into one. I promise if you stick with this process long enough, I promise you, you'll run into that idea. And the best part is you don't need any coding experience at all. Anyone can do this. Success has now been democratized because of AI. At no part of this process that I just showed you did you need to know how to write code. It was very simple. So rewind this video, do it again. Follow along with me. Make sure you do every single step I showed you. Every single one. Write down all your challenges. Build the prototypes of bold. Start making posts to validate your ideas on social media. If you do this over and over again, I promise you, you will find a successful AI app just like I did with Creator Buddy. And now I'm making enough money to survive so I can build out and do more ideas. I'm doing this process over again myself so I can build out more successful AI apps. I hope you enjoyed this video. If you learned anything at all, make sure to hit the subscribe button down below and leave a like. All I do is make banger AI videos on how to build businesses with AI. I'll see you in the next video.