Three weeks ago, I brought ChatGPT on board as my CTO on a project. We crafted a Chrome extension and received $1,000 worth of pre-orders within 24 hours.
I love simple products and built something last year called Lofi Garden. It's an app with a single play/pause button on the menu bar that controls a lofi playlist on your Mac. With that project in mind, I wanted to create an invisible AI assistant that could be prompted by a simple command in any text area of any website. All a user has to do to get an original tweet or Replit coding, for instance, is type"/ai prompt" and press Enter.
A human developer could have undoubtedly built this faster and better, but the idea here is that I'm not a developer and still managed to create this.I saw many makers trying to capitalize on the same idea without success weeks after. The barrier for entry is low because the project is very simple, but grabbing attention is crucial. My story — a man utilizing ChatGPT as CTO — made all the difference.
Not all of these avenues succeeded, but I did receive pre-orders and engaged early users, which was my primary focus.
How much he get?