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I Made $1.99 Selling AI Prompts in One Afternoon

Not viral. Not a launch. Not a funnel. Just 10 prompts in a PDF.

Here's what I learned building a $1.99 digital product in one afternoon:

The price point matters more than the product.

At $1.99, people don't think. They just buy. Compare that to $9 or $19 where every buyer does a cost-benefit analysis first.

The deliverable doesn't need to be complex.

I put 10 prompts in a text file. That's it. No Notion template. No Obsidian vault. Just prompts you copy-paste into ChatGPT.

Distribution is 90% of the problem.

I wrote an article about AI prompts and linked to the product. Some people read it. A few clicked. A couple bought. That's the whole business model.

Digital products work because they scale.

Once I wrote the prompts, I sold them 10 times. 100 times. The marginal cost is zero. No inventory. No shipping. No customer service (mostly).

The product is $1.99. If you use even one prompt that's worth it, you've already made your money back.

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