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Simply Digital · YouTube · 10:02

I Tested 3 AI Side Hustles Nobody Is Talking About

A 10-minute listicle tutorial stacking three AI tools into three side-hustle pipelines: Claude to ChatGPT image gen to Printify, Copyfy.io one-product stores, and PopStore + Echo-Me autopilot DMs.

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§ 01 · The Hook

The bait, then the rug-pull.

Watch the first nineteen seconds and you can already see the formula: anti-grift pattern interrupt, then a clean promise ("you can do them this weekend"), then a curiosity gap dropped on the third item. By the time the title card fades the viewer has been sold on watching the whole video.

§ · Stated Promise

What the video promised.

stated at 00:19I have tested all of them myself and you can do that as well this weekend even if you don't have any experience so far.delivered at 10:02
§ · Chapters

Where the time goes.

00:0000:49

01 · Cold open + promise

Anti-grift hook, credibility ("I tested all three"), curiosity gap on #3, then teases item 1: trend mining.

00:4902:14

02 · Claude replaces Exploding Topics

Why Exploding Topics is paid, why Claude can do the same job free, and the exact prompt: 10 underserved POD micro-niches for 2026 with viral design ideas.

02:1402:54

03 · Claude's niche heatmap

Walks through scored niches (heat / competition / virality / demand): Urban Run Crews 94, late-diagnosed ADHD adults, somatic therapy, dungeon masters, granola girls, childless by choice, homeschool parents, analog revival.

02:5404:05

04 · ChatGPT Image Gen for design

Take Claude's design brief, paste into ChatGPT Image Gen 2.0 in portrait format, modify (vintage style, varsity patch, distressed kid 87, retro text), iterate per niche.

04:0505:12

05 · Printify upload + publish

Catalog -> Bestsellers -> Express Shipping filter, pick blank, upload AI design, position on variants, save product. Margins shown at 50-65%, then publish to pop-up store or sync Etsy.

05:1206:03

06 · Side hustle 2 setup: Copyfy.io

Frames it as "I had this idea six months ago but never built it." AI now finds winning products and builds the store in 5 minutes based on what's working right now.

06:0306:50

07 · Copyfy.io demo

Start free, paste any AliExpress URL, Copyfy scrapes product, photos, copy and generates a customizable one-product store in under 5 minutes.

06:5007:20

08 · Shop Analysis spy tool

Built-in trend dashboard surfaces top-selling shops, best sellers, monthly revenue, ad spend, winning creatives — clone the product and the ads.

07:2008:14

09 · Replicate ads + multi-store loop

Use Mideo app or any video generator to recreate winning ads, drive traffic to your Copyfy store, then spin up multiple stores in parallel.

08:1409:00

10 · Side hustle 3: PopStore intro

Brand new AI feature turns any idea into a monetizable digital product (PDF / book / download) hosted inside PopStore.

09:0009:35

11 · Echo-Me autopilot DM agent

Echo-Me identifies hot leads from comments/engagement on IG and Facebook, then sells the digital product via DM in autopilot 24/7.

09:3510:02

12 · PDF generation + close

Walks through AI Creator Studio generating a 10-page illustrated PDF on monetizing with AI as a beginner; price it, publish to PopStore multi-link; closes on Echo-Me-finds-ideal-customers payoff.

§ · Storyboard

Visual structure at a glance.

cold open
hookcold open00:00
promise
promisepromise00:19
Claude prompt
valueClaude prompt01:07
niche heatmap
valueniche heatmap02:14
ChatGPT design
valueChatGPT design02:54
Printify upload
valuePrintify upload04:05
stack 2 pivot
transitionstack 2 pivot05:12
Copyfy.io demo
valueCopyfy.io demo06:03
Shop Analysis spy
valueShop Analysis spy06:50
PopStore intro
valuePopStore intro08:14
Echo-Me close
ctaEcho-Me close09:35
§ · Frameworks

Named ideas worth stealing.

02:14model

Niche scoring heatmap (Heat / Competition / Virality / Demand)

  1. Heat — community passion score 0-100
  2. Competition — POD/Etsy saturation
  3. Virality — design idea viral potential
  4. Demand — purchase intent score

Four-axis scorecard Claude generates per niche so you can rank ideas before investing design time.

Steal forany vertical-mining content — same 4 axes work for course topics, agency niches, newsletter angles
01:18concept

Free-LLM-replaces-paid-tool prompt pattern

Take any paid SaaS that surfaces data (Exploding Topics, SimilarWeb, etc.) and prompt Claude/ChatGPT to produce the same structured output as a markdown table. Bottle as a swipe.

Steal forJoe's $6 Stack content — every paid SaaS has a free LLM swap if you write the right prompt
02:54list

Three-tool pipeline as one product (POD stack)

  1. Claude — niche + design brief
  2. ChatGPT Image Gen 2.0 — actual design
  3. Printify — fulfillment + publish

Each side hustle is a stack, not a tool. The content IS the integration.

Steal forJoeFlow's morning-batch + Sessions cockpit positioning — same shape, sell the pipeline not the part
08:14concept

AI product + AI distribution combo (PopStore + Echo-Me)

Pair a generator (PDF maker) with an autonomous closer (DM agent watching engagement). One tool builds, the other sells. The combo is the moat.

Steal forany creator-economy product — build + sell in one suite is the play
§ · Quotables

Lines you could clip.

00:04
I'm not talking about the same ChatGPT, Gemini recycled ideas with fake screenshots and extreme claims that never happened.
Anti-grift cold open — instant credibility frame, works as a standalone hook.TikTok hook
01:07
Making money online is catching trends before everybody else does it.
One-line thesis — quotable, screenshot-able, no setup needed.IG reel cold open
05:12
How many times have you watched people making tons of money with different products and you were like 'I had this idea six months ago, but I never turned it in an actual store.'
Direct pain-point callout — opens a content loop, perfect transition hook.TikTok hook
08:14
The third one you haven't seen it coming.
Classic retention bait — tease for item 3.IG reel cold open
09:00
An AI agent that creates a monetizable product for you and finds the ideal customers out of your audience. Isn't that amazing?
Clean punchline summarizing the third stack — works as a CTA pull-quote.newsletter pull-quote
§ · Pacing

How they spent the runtime.

Hook length19s
Info densityhigh
Filler6%
§ · Resources Mentioned

Things they pointed at.

01:50toolClaude
00:49toolExploding Topics
02:49toolChatGPT Image Gen 2.0
04:05toolPrintify
06:03toolCopyfy.io
07:03toolAliExpress
07:40toolMideo app
08:14toolPopStore
09:00toolEcho-Me
03:46toolGemini
§ · CTA Breakdown

How they asked for the click.

07:38link
Check it out from the description and give it a try.

Soft mid-roll link drop per tool — no hard pitch, no subscribe ask, no end card. Implicitly affiliate-pattern: each tool has a 'check the description' nudge, especially Copyfy and PopStore.

§ · The Script

Word for word.

HOOKopening / re-engagementCTAthe pitchmetaphoranalogystory
00:00HOOKThree side hustles, three AI tools are quietly helping people making money online right now. And no, I'm not talking about the same Chachi BT, Gemini recycled ideas with fake screenshots and extreme claims that never happened? I'm talking about three specific setups that are actually getting traction in 2026 right now. I have tested all of them myself and you can do that as well this weekend even if you don't have any experience so far. So stay until the end because the third one you haven't seen it coming. Idea number one: We're gonna start by using either these two exploding topics that can help you find trends for the next twelve months ahead, before everybody else does, which is golden. As we have said before, making money online is catching trends before everybody else does it, like TikTok, like Amazon,
00:49you name it. Whatever you can think of, the people that made the most money were the people that discovered the early trends. So, this is a paid tool and that's why I'm not going to recommend using that and paid money. So, I went to Claude. Emma said: I want you to act like exploring topics, making the research and giving me 10 underserved micro niches for print on demand in 2026.
01:13Focus on tight communities with strong identity. This is super important, so that you can start building a brand towards these communities. Not general categories, then give me for them one design idea with extreme viral potential. And check what Claude did for me. It created a map categorizing the ideas in terms of heat, which means the community passion score, how much bonded the community that we're gonna address is, right, how great the competition is on print on demand, and especially if we use Printify slash Etsy, and the potential
01:49virality of the design idea. And you see right here, number one, Urban Run Cruise. The heat is 94, which means the passion within this community is really high. Very low competition, which means high opportunity. The viral loads are really extreme and the demand above 88 out of 100. Same with the late diagnosed ADHD adults. You see also here the viral design idea gives you the instructions so you can start creating designs that address these communities. Somatic therapy nervous system healing, dungeon masters people that love the game so we're addressing a specific community that are really bonded behind a specific game. Granola girls, childless by choice, homeschool parents,
02:31analog revival I will share with you in the description both the prompt and this map so you can use it as is or you can modify it according to your liking. Van life solo travel women people that get a van, customize it and start exploring the world, right, along with a design idea and so on and so forth. So what we're gonna do? We're gonna go to CHARGEBT. Take this specific concept. We're gonna utilize
02:55the amazing capabilities of the best image generator right now, the CHARGEBT two point zero. So I'm gonna go right here, select create an image. I will go for a portrait kind of format, I can have a bigger design that I can use on a t shirt, on a hoodie, whatever. I will paste my prompt, and I will modify it a bit, create for me a video style, run club, varsity patch, aesthetic three, box shirt, distressed kid, etcetera.
03:19Five crew on midnight miles feels like a sport team from, uh, 1987, so a bit retro text without any reason it gets photographed and posted as wearable content. Right? So you have all the instructions needed so that you get an amazing design that you can really print on a t shirt or anything else that people can wear. Let's see. So I have played around a bit with different design ideas. You can see the vintage style t shirt of the first prompt that we generated with Claude, and I asked also the same with Gemini for a different kind of topic, which is the van life idea. You see here one of the executions, the second one right here, so you can do exactly the same for every single prompt that Claude generated for you. And as we have said in this video, the key on succeeding with PrintNotify and using AI generated designs is in the number of designs.
04:05You can check this video to see the number of suggested designs per month. So what you need to do is perform the same action for these needs multiple times in order to come with different designs and launch with Pritify multiple design executions. So I'm gonna go to Pritify where you have more than 1,300 different products. So I will go to catalog, select the best sellers right here, click on the filters and choose express shipping, which is very important so you can send to your customers very fast the designs that they want, which key to succeeding on anything you do, I select any design, I will hit start designing, I will download the design we created together with Sagibity for the RUN club idea, I will upload it right here, select multiple variants as well, hit apply, modify your design like this, save the product, and you have your t shirt ready. Here's the mock up. You can do as many as you want. You can make it smaller, bigger, different size, different dimensions, whatever you want. This is just indicative. You will save your selection and just like that, you have your product ready to sell. You can customize your margins right here, is 50 to 65%.
05:12This is quite big. Even for a normal e commerce store, publish the product and that's it. It is ready and published within your predefined catalog, your pop up store, so you can get the link and sell it anywhere, or integrate your Etsy store right here and start selling that in bulk for any design that you create. How many times have you watched people making tons of money with different products and you were like I had this idea six months ago, but I never turned it in an actual store, in an actual business. Now, AI can do it for you faster than ever. Finding winning products and creating a store within five minutes, literally based on what it works right now, what is not saturated,
05:53what has proven ways to grow with proven ads and ways to sell, and I'm gonna show you how to do it in two minutes. So the platform is copyfy.io. All you gotta do is start for free right here, create an account, select what exactly describes you, and all you gotta do is find a product that you would like to bring to life, like this AliExpress URL for example. It will fetch the info and turn it, scrape all the info and the products, the photos, the visuals and it will turn it into a customizable,
06:23ready to launch ecommerce store in less than five minutes. Check how beautiful this looks, right? And you can also go to Shop Analysis where you can find trending shops with actual sales. See their best sellers, they overview what they're selling every single month. You see right here the top sellers, the revenue, the monthly traffic, how many ads they run and how much money they spend behind ads. You can find similar products to them, the winning ones from AliExpress for example. Take the URL, paste it on Copify AI
06:51CTAHOOKand it will generate the store exactly like I showed you before, within a few minutes having an actual store that looks like this. Check it out. You have all the product information right here, the preview in mobile and desktop view, and you have your one product store ready based on an information based on actual data of products that work right now, that win right now, that sell tons right now. And actually, you can also check for these specific stores, for these specific products, what kind of winning ads people are running right now and make sales with them so you can replicate them with a platform like Mideo app or any other video generator so you can start launching your store, launch your ads and bring traffic to your AI generated store which by the way, it doesn't have to be just one it can be multiple stores that you can create with Copify within five minutes. This is crazy, right? It would take us months to do that some time ago. So check it out from the description and give it a try. So side hustle number three. This comes from Popstore. It's brand new and insane AI feature that allows you to turn any idea into a monetizable product. And it's not just that. It's that when your product is generated a PDF, a digital book, a digital download you host it in one place within your PopStore platform and then you have the Echo Me feature which is actually trying to sell it in autopilot
08:14HOOKto your followers on Instagram or Facebook. So based on the digital product you have created with this, it identifies opportunities based on the engagement, the comments that you get, it nurtures them through your DM and sends them the right offer based on the discussion that you have in autopilot while you're sleeping or doing something different. You can start for free. This, by the way, is my own pop store where I have my digital products, my TikTok courses, my full academy of different videos, my consultation links, my calendar, anything. So you can see different digital products that I have created with the exact same way. Once you click, you can download it. You have your payment details, everything in here in build. So if you want to create your own digital product, you go right here, AI Creator Studio. You select create a PDF. These are previously created by me where you can even feature yourself and generate an AI cover with yourself to make it more personal. So I will go back, select the length, like 10 pages,
09:09I would like to generate. You can do that for any kind of niches you see, fitness, travel, fashion, art, you name it. PDF of 10 pages with illustrations showcasing
09:19the ways someone can monetize with AI today as a beginner. And as you see, PopStore generated my PDF. It looks incredible with beautiful designs, illustrations, easy to follow. You set up the price, the description, you publish it in your pop store multi link and you're ready to go. Then all you gotta do is go to AIecho, set up your agent with your offer so it can start understanding
09:44your audience and sending the offer to the people who are ready to sell. The most engaged ones, to every single one of them, whoever you want. So this is an AI agent that creates a monetizable product for you and finds the ideal customers out of your audience. Isn't that amazing?
§ · For Joe

Steal the listicle-stack format.

Side-hustle stack playbook

Each item in the list is a multi-tool pipeline, not a single tool — and a free-LLM substitute for a paid SaaS is the hook that makes the whole stack feel inevitable.

  • Cold open with an anti-grift pattern interrupt: name what everyone else is doing wrong in the first 5 seconds.
  • State the promise: 'tested it myself, you can do it this weekend, no experience.' All three credibility / promise / curiosity beats land before second 20.
  • Drop a curiosity gap on the final item ('stay until the end, the third one you haven't seen coming') so retention holds through items 1 and 2.
  • For every paid SaaS in your niche, write a Claude prompt that produces the same structured output, then make the prompt the hook ('Exploding Topics is paid — Claude does it for free').
  • Sell the integration, not the tool: Claude -> ChatGPT -> Printify is the deliverable, not any one of them. JoeFlow's morning-batch + Sessions cockpit positioning is exactly this shape.
  • End each stack with a 'check the description' soft link instead of a hard CTA — keeps the energy high and lets affiliate links carry the monetization.
  • Keep the set consistent (jungle loft, neon shelf, KO 24 tee) so every video reinforces the brand visually, not just verbally.
§ · For You

If you want to actually try one this weekend.

Pick the stack that matches your skill, not the one that sounds easiest

All three pipelines work, but each has a different bottleneck — start with the one whose bottleneck you can already do.

  • Printify + Claude + ChatGPT: bottleneck is design taste and patience to iterate. Go here if you enjoy tweaking visuals and don't mind launching 20 designs to see one stick.
  • Copyfy.io: bottleneck is paid ads. The store generates fast — but you still need budget and copywriting chops to drive traffic and replicate winning creatives.
  • PopStore + Echo-Me: bottleneck is audience. The DM agent only works if you already have followers commenting on your IG/FB posts. No audience = no leads to nurture.
  • Don't pay for Exploding Topics. The Claude prompt shown in the video genuinely does the same job — copy it from the description before subscribing to anything.
  • Treat margins skeptically: 50–65% Printify margin is gross, before ads, refunds, and your own time. Profit comes from volume, not single units.
§ · Frame Gallery

Visual moments.