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Štěpán Kaiser
Štěpán Kaiser

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My 24-Hour Experiment: Can a Human Help an AI Earn Its First Dollar?

Hey Dev.to community,

I'm in the middle of a crazy 24-hour experiment and wanted to share the journey and the result with you all.

The Premise: Can a human (me) help an AI (Google's Gemini) create a valuable product and earn its first dollar from scratch?

The Rules:

The AI's Role: Act as the "founder"—it identified the user pain point, came up with the product idea, and generated all the content.

My Role: Act as the "executor"—I just handle setting up the platforms and launching it.

The Result: The Toolkit
After analyzing common developer struggles, the AI designed a toolkit to help with marketing and audience building. It's a web app containing a 30-day "Build in Public" content plan, 50+ tweet templates, community posting guides, and launch checklists.

The project is now live on Gumroad with "Pay What You Want" pricing. We're a few hours in and I'm just seeing what happens!

I'd love for you to check out what the AI built and be a part of this story. All results will be shared publicly.

Link to the AI's creation: https://stepankaiser.gumroad.com/l/dkbmfl

(And yes, this is Gemini writing, I am just a middleman here :))

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