How I use claude to make $200,000/mo ( FULL GUIDE )
Our app is currently doing $50,000/week.
This month we will wrap up at $150K MRR.
and thats just 1 of my businesses, I have have many others
bringing in over $200k/mo in personal income.and all
Steven Jacobs
I live in Austin, Texas with my family. I work in the music industry, invest, and buy real estate.
I'm part of the team behind Rave Jesus, opening Another Nine indoor golf in Pflugerville, and running Beached Inn in Port Aransas.
Lately I'm building Rave Jesus
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My businesses have been featured in
- Complex
- GRAMMY
- Stereogum
Some things I'm working on
3 activeRave Jesus
Christian artist
Another Nine
Indoor golf simulators
Beached Inn
Vacation rental on the beach
- Amazon FBA
- Apps
- Websites
- YouTube
- Real Estate
- Investing
- Music
About
Professional idea starter
I'm a family man in Austin, Texas who can't stop starting things.
I'm a little obsessed with AI. I use it every single day to build, write, design and ship. Ideas that used to take months now go live in a weekend.
- Claude
- Replit
- Grok
- Gemini
- ChatGPT
- + whatever's new this week
- Started over 100 businesses. Most of them have been failures, and every one taught me something.
- Currently running about 13 of them.
- My businesses have been featured in The New Yorker, Forbes, Business Insider, Time, Rolling Stone, Billboard and more.

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Excellent bit, I heard it years ago and have always hoped to get this chance somehow. 😝
I got early access to Whop Blueprints and there is a genuinely insane opportunity here
The last time I got early access to the Whop App Store, I built the first third-party app
That led to six figures in dealflow, including opportunities from Whop’s co-founders themselves
Pick Show more
You no longer need a Facebook account to run Facebook ads.
We partnered with @Whop to let anyone spin up ad accounts on demand, directly inside Koast.
No profile.
No proxies.
No sourcing accounts.
No bullshit.
Create an account. Fund it. Launch ads.
The barrier to becoming an Show more
My wife bought this app (found on credit card lol)
You can niche this down for new moms and make $200k/mo
Build a mom affiliate network, cut them in and then tell your story on good morning America.
Most profitable app niche right now:
Meditation.
Calm, Headspace, Insight Timer, and Hallow all do $10M+ in revenue a year.
Plenty of room for more players.
learning games for kids are money printers
this app is making $1,000,000/month, charging users $7.99/week
take note of its onboarding (31 screens):
been collecting these for a year. take them.
Macadam is one of the best examples of what a top tier app onboarding should look like.
Their onboarding flow is exceptionally well designed.
Key things:
- Engaging animations and vibrant visuals
- Gradually collects information from the user
- Clearly explains how the app Show more
HOW I BUILT A FACELESS YOUTUBE CHANNEL TO $41k/MONTH USING CLAUDE AI
$41K/month.
No camera.
No team.
One person, one system, running the whole thing.
Most faceless YouTube channels fail because creators lean on generic AI prompts and end up with flat, lifeless scripts Show more
Every vibe coder's pre-launch prompt:
"Claude, before I launch, do these 20 things:
1. Hide every API key. Nothing in the frontend, nothing in git
2. Rotate any key that was ever committed
3. Turn on rate limiting so one user can't burn my bill
4. Check auth on every route not Show more
I asked an AI agent to make me money. It did.
This is one of the best videos I've ever made. I rarely post my YT videos here to X unless I am especially proud of them.
This is a rare one. YT link is in the comments if that's your preference.
BACKLINKS MAXXING with Claude Code
69 backlink tactics behind 133k AI mentions for distribb.io
Ranked:
S TIER
1. Exchange relevant editorial links
2. Join a relevant business network to find editorial link partners.
3. Match links with the surrounding topic to Show more
NAH SON... this is actually crazy😭
not 1 single reel under 700k views
This Instagram account is a masterclass
in organic marketing
now that you can vibecode
videos with Opus 5.5
Everyone is producing the same souless slop and thats why they get 100 views.
meanwhile this Show more
Anthropic公式が、AIの『ウェブデザイン問題』を終わらせにきた。
その名は「Frontend Design」。
・GitHubで18.5万スター
・インストール数は約110万
・誰でも使える形で、Anthropicが公開
AIにウェブサイトを頼むと、毎回同じものが出てくる。
→ 毎回同じような文字
→ 紫のグラデーション
→
Embed your GBP in the footer of your website
not a random map. use share, then embed a map, from your own profile.
buy a press release. Have those 300 backlinks and referring domains pointed at your site.
link to your Google profile from the press release. Embed your Google Show more
ESTO ES UNA MINA DE ORO
Si haces webs con IA, guárdate esto.
8 webs gratis para que tu landing no parezca un bar de copas con neón por todas partes
→ scrolltide.co: más de 600 prompts de diseño con código para webs 3D y con scroll
→ navbar.gallery: barras
Designed these hero sections lately using AI.
Make the prompts free for all.
jiro.build/g/zJmtwxsQab
Imagine stealing the growth strategy of any successful company for less than $1
Someone open-sourced a Claude Code skill that analyzes a company’s traffic, ads, SEO, launches and marketing history to uncover what actually drove its growth
This is insane.
Here’s an example Show more
1 long-form video becomes:
• 6 Reels
• 6 YouTube Shorts
• 6 TikToks
• 4-6 carousels
• 6-8 X posts
• Research for a VSL
One idea. 30+ pieces of content.
I just found the best way to replicate the onboardings of apps making $100k–$1M/month:
1. Go to appkittie.com
2. Open the Onboarding Library
3. Filter for apps making over $100k/month
4. Pick an app with a strong revenue/download ratio (e.g. $100k MRR and 20k Show more
Holy moly SEOs!!
Google just gave us a goldmine of data on how long it takes to crawl URLs, index content + recover from core algorithm updates:
This dinosaur doesn't exist
35 seconds. 5 moves. 8.3M views...
Toddler cartoons like this are the quiet monster of YouTube – a breakdown of the format did 1.86M views here
Here's exactly how this one was made:
1. The song. One prompt to Lyria 3 Pro with my own lyrics - 35 Show more
"You need to build apps for wealthy people"
so true: $200k MRR in 15 months
The Tin Can maybe be the best gift I’ve ever given my children.
They’re little WiFi telephones. Kids get their own phone number, but I control all access through the app.
My little boys can call me, mommy, grandparents, each other, and 911. That’s it.
(And those are the only Show more
Your vibe-coded app can get sued for $100K before it makes a single sale.
6 traps hiding in most AI-built apps:
Signup never asks for age + COPPA: up to $53K per child under 13
Google Fonts loaded from Google’s servers → a Munich court made a site pay €100 to ONE visitor for Show more
This format is cooking everywhere 🔥
It could be one of the next big faceless YouTube formats.
I’ve monetized one channel with it, and a second is close to monetization.
It can work across history, geography & other 2D niches.
Want to get started? Comment “START” 👇 h Show more
How do you Starlink?
Here is a simple mount that is nearly hidden.
Links below for hardware.
holy sh*t, someone mapped 2,596 live Grok Bot templates into one searchable repo
every Grok Bot user can steal the setup
this repo covers 8 categories across coding, inbox, research, sales, finance, content, personal admin and multi-Bot teams
the workflow:
› search for the Show more
Here are a few High Revenue Low Download apps
1. RealCall
Ad accounts do not get banned for one bad ad. They get banned for a pattern the reviewer can see and you cannot.
Three guides, in the order you need them:
1. Prevent it. Ad Account Health. The daily habits that keep an account clean, plus the Banned Words swap lists by niche, Show more
$1M/mo as a solo founder
in under a year is actually insane
that's what the guy behind
Scroll the Bible pulled off
that guy is locked in
Jev is INSANE for Marketing
You can't escape it. Literally EVERYWHERE you look on your feed is filled with something about "jEv is iNsAnE"... and it's generated tens of millions of views on X in less than a week.
GO TO WHOP.COM AND JOIN THE PARTNER PROGRAM...
EVERY BUSINESS YOU BRING TO WHOP PAYS YOU 30% OF WHOP'S FEE ON EVERY PAYMENT IT TAKES.
NOW FIND A PAID DISCORD IN ANY NICHE AND CLICK THEIR BUY BUTTON.
THIS SHOWS YOU THEIR CHECKOUT.
PAYPAL OR A PAYMENT LINK MEANS Show more
This is insane.
People are making $1M+ a year.
I want to take this seriously.
Who wants to be one of my partners?
We can get rich together.
here’s why these games make so much money (take notes):
→ time is currency. building, training troops, researching... everything takes hours or days. skipping the wait costs money
→ $0.99 starter packs at a ridiculous “value”. the goal is to turn you from a free player into a Show more
If you want to get found in Claude, you need to be indexed in Brave.
And this is how to get indexed in Brave...
Super underrated Grok Bot use case that can make you money as a creator:
Launch a "Sponsorship Hunter" bot.
Basically, a Bot that spots which brands are paying creators in your niche, tracks open campaigns, handles outreach, etc.
You can even have your Bot sign up for all the Show more
I got 14,500+ visitors to my site.
And, I forced Google for these visitors.
1. Go to GSC and open the site.
2. From Performance, tap "Add Filter".
3. Choose "Query" and select "Regex".
4. Paste the regex below:
\b(buy shop order|pricing|price|cost|hire|book|schedule reserve Show more
As crazy as this sounds, $1T in SpaceX revenue in 2028 is no longer impossible
From Google leaks and lawsuits we've learned:
- Parasite SEO works
- Backlinks are key ranking signals
- Consensus can be manufactured
- Negative SEO attacks exist and do damage
- Google can't actually READ our content
- Google frequently abuses and manipulates it's Show more
Random Austin bucket list item. I found Peter's apartment from Office Space.
ultimate money hack:
pick a successful app and build the same thing but exclusively for women
This is actually insane 😭
Piano apps are printing $700,000/mo
its so stupidly easy to build a
$1M/YR music app.
I've found like 7 already &
they all copy the same marketing
a piano playing a famous song
( Claude can automate this )
then a CTA to their app...
for some Show more
ESTE PERSONA TE ENSEÑA EN 22 MINUTOS A CREAR VÍDEOS AUTOMÁTICAMENTE CON CLAUDE CODE
La mayoría sigue editando manualmente cada clip, cada corte, cada transición.
→ Automatización completa de vídeo desde Claude Code
→ 22 minutos, sin rodeos, directo al flujo de trabajo
→ Lo Show more
son, this is genuinely terrifying 😭
this is a golf ai caddie app, prolly making ~$50k mrr
they found one format that works and instead of posting it once they’re running it across multiple accounts at the same time
the whole thing is ai illustrations, easily made with gpt Show more
I run the Scottsdale Scoop almost entirely on autopilot.
15,000 newsletter subscribers.
24,000 Instagram followers.
3 issues a week, every week.
I'm the only employee, and I still have a full time day job.
Here are the 6 systems that do it all.
1. Scoop Desk, my Claude powered Show more
i scaled @WisprFlow's paid ads on meta
here's how i'd rebuild it in 30 days
i built @WisprFlow’s paid ads program
here’s how i’d rebuild it in 30 days
Every once in a blue moon SNL shows a glimmer of hope for being funny. This is hilarious.
I pulled 50,900 ads from the top 4 Bible apps on Meta.
Then I read 7,636 of them: each app’s top 10, and every ad they launched in four weeks.
Hallow (Catholic prayer)
↳ The #1 ad has no face: grey mountains, a calm voice reading Proverbs, and one line on screen: “Scrolling to Show more
My app hit $850/m in 24 days.
This is my Apple Ads System:
1. Type: Apple Search Ads.
2. Bid Strategy: Manage Bids.
3. Starting daily budget > $20/day.
4. Default Max CPT ~$1.20 (will vary by niche).
5. Search Match = OFF.
6. Keywords = biggest competitor's name.
7. Keyword Type Show more
72 Profitable Faceless YouTube Niches (Bookmark this):
ancient rome stories
vikings daily life
samurai battles explained
medieval times
dark victorian history
egyptian pharaoh scandals
lost civilizations myths
ww2 forgotten battles
mafia rise and fall
cartels untold stories
wild Show more
making VIRAL AI characters is SO easy it feels illegal.
and they're pulling 100M+ views... even on BRAND NEW accounts.
here's why it WORKS:
→ weird, bizarre characters you can NEVER forget
→ REAL motion copied from videos that already went viral
copy this exact workflow: Show more
Bible Chat (~$800K/month) has been running this ad for 100 days.
9 seconds. A girl crying in her car: "Nobody will use your stupid Bible app." Then people adding Bible verses to their lockscreen.
Complete breakdown of their ads & acquisition tactic below 👇
I think about this image often.
Be present.
Your kids just want you.
Give them PRESENCE over PRESENTS.
This shot of Arch Manning will go down as one of the coolest shots in college football history 🔥
How to build a personal brand on 𝕏.
Full crash course:
0:45 Step 1: Crafting your brand
2:43 Profile basics: bio, profile picture, banner, CTA
3:49 Market research phase
4:58 Studying the top 10–20 accounts (formats, messaging, gaps in the market)
7:01 Step 2: Content pillars Show more
UPDATE: I hired @Muse to sue someone on my behalf.
I won. Well, they caved.
Within 20 minutes of being served papers, the company offered a settlement.
Within ten days, they paid me *with additional compensation* for recovery expenses.
@Muse filed the motion to dismiss, Show more
this is the easiest money on youtube right now
and it's a lifechanging opportunity...
faceless 3D shorts. clay planets, tiny rome, domino spirals, "you vs a blue whale"
you've seen them. they're everywhere. and almost none of them have an animator
it's one person, Opus 5.5 Show more
Power's out, internet's down, someone's burned. Your AI is useless without a connection.
Survival LLM runs entirely on your own computer with no internet. Ask how to keep food safe in a blackout, treat a burn or purify water, and it answers from an offline library of medical, Show more
These accounts are an
infinite view glitch😭
33.2M views with 6 videos
100% simulated with claude opus 5.5
I've seen 8 of these accounts now
none of them are underperforming.
the Fruit ninja mobile games
makes $1,000,000/mo +
and it has not had a competitor
in over 16 Show more
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This was a top request — thanks for the feedback.
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