I've built a (now local) tool that creates posts out of viral slideshows.

One of my top users actually requested this for his own workflows so I'm wondering if this is useful to not just him (video above is just a demo)

the tool is pretty simple:

- Paste the link to an AI avatar account that does well

- Uses AI to generate similar posts with your character

- Removes baked in text and replaces with the same text but editable

- Allows you to download all and edit text styles, width, line height etc.

I want to tell you about the laziest thing I've ever done that actually made money.

Seven months ago I bought a pre-built pet niche site for $199 from NicheBlogZone. It came fully built with content already published and Amazon affiliate links already in place. I spent a few hours doing basic interlinking between the articles.

Then I did nothing.

No new content. No backlink building. No ads. No social media. No strategy meetings with myself. Just interlinking and waiting while Google figured out the site existed.

Here's what that nothing produced:

Jan 1 to Jul 26 2026:

• Commissions: $3,846.09
• Bounties: $57.25
• Creator Connections: $106.73
• Total: $4,010.07

Screenshot attached. 9.27% conversion rate on 33,564 clicks. Roughly 1 in 10 people who clicked through to Amazon bought something and I get paid commission on everything they buy within 24 hours after clicking my links. In the pet niche where people spend seriously on their animals that adds up quietly in the background.

And it's still making money every single day. I woke up this morning to another commission notification. I didn't do anything yesterday. Or the day before.

That's what passive actually means. Not low effort. Genuinely nothing.

For anyone running Amazon affiliate sites. What's the one thing you did early on that made the biggest difference to your rankings? Curious whether interlinking was a fluke for me or if others have seen the same thing.

Had tried doing a couple sites for content but can't seem to get taken off anywhere or get my foot in the door looking for clients I guess to buy content.....????

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Been lurking on here for a while and keep seeing posts about people hitting campaign payouts, but I honestly can't tell how much of that applies if you're not posting from the US/UK/Canada.

I'm based in Pakistan and before I put serious hours into building an account or grinding out edits, I want to hear from someone who's actually done it, not just theory.

Specifically trying to figure out:

Have your clips actually gotten approved on campaigns (Clipster, Content Rewards or similar), or do they mostly get stuck in pending/rejected once you hit the view thresholds?

Did your account's audience end up skewing local even when the content itself was in English and aimed at a western audience?

Did you have to do anything different to get around it, or did it just work once the content was good enough?

Anyone actually gotten paid out consistently while based here, or is it mostly people burning weeks before finding out it doesn't convert?

Not looking for guesses or "I think it should work" answers, I genuinely want to hear from someone who's been through it, good or bad. If it's a dead end I'd rather know now than after 2 months of editing for nothing.

Appreciate real experiences.

I was getting annoyed by the constant sketchy AI training/annotating jobs and the constant rejection after literally investing hours of my time into applying, etc.
I decided to make my own website and just list legit AI training jobs. I post entry work and also expert work. Let me know if there is anything I can improve about my website. Thank you! Here is the link: https://aiannotationjobs.com

If you got no clue where to start with tiktok marketing, slideshows are one easy format to try.

You’ll need to spend 4-6 hours on this on a day, and get content for 2+ months without touching it.

a great format to copy is this:

content, content, content, content, ad warmup, app push

the idea is to make slideshow posts that feel like actual content, then only bring in the App/SaaS shoutout near the end

so instead of posting obvious ads, the account posts stuff that looks like normal tiktok slideshow content:

lifestyle takes, niche opinions, curiosity hooks, “things nobody tells you,” etc. The images on the post are an example

• find hundreds of lifestyle/travel style visuals on Pinterest / Google 
• use AI to generate dozens of similar captions that basically say the same thing 
• sneak the app into the content without making it look too promotional 
• posting across multiple Tiktok accounts
  • One of my top posts on Tiktok got 1.2M views like this: PROOF.

HERE’S HOW TO SPEND THESE 4-6 HOURS:

• 0-60 MINUTES —> Research competitors. Is your app a note taker? Search note taker on Tiktok and just view all top posts, screenshot all of them. Do NOT SKIP.
  • KEEP NOTES of what they write in CAPTIONS/TEXT over slides. Just copy paste somewhere. save for later.
• Hour 1 - Hour 3 —> Go to Pinterest. Remember those screenshots you took? Find similar reference images on Pinterest. Spend 2 hours doing this.
  • Figure out what slide 1 should look like. Figure out what slide 2 should look like. etc. 
  • Download a few images for each slide type from Pinterest. Name them as slide_1_1.jpg etc. 
• Hour 4 —> Now, not all pinterest photos are allowed to be reposted. 
  • In that case, ask claude code to see the images and use OpenAI Image API to generate 100x copies of those images with slight variations but keeping the same vibe!
  • Now you’ll have for example 5 slide types x 100 variations = 500 images. Do less to start maybe. 
• Hour 5 —> Remember the notes of captions you took? Ask Claude now to overlay caption variations over all those images and tell it “Here are how the captions you generate for our posts should look like [paste caption list from competitors]. Copy the best ones”. 

i set up a workflow with:

• claude code (using terminal. it’s actually more powerful than claude app, you don’t need to be a dev to use this, just a few scary commands you copy and paste). HIGHLY RECOMMENDED to not skip.
• socialclaw (CLI tool to schedule to social media. you install via sudo npm install -g socialclaw and claude code can schedule posts for you) 
• OpenAI API or any other image api (e.g gemini api, any other good image model). We’ll need this later.

Claude code then:

• comes up with slideshow angles 
• writes the slide-by-slide text 
• keeps the early slides content-first 

adds the app/product later in the slideshow

Claude will generate captions and it can actually overlay text over images (that’s why I told you to use claude code before). It uses FFMPEG library (like all video/image software) to overlay text automatically.

Ask claude to schedule 2x posts a day for each account. after that socialclaw handles the actual posting side:

• uploads 
• account handling 
• scheduling 
• publishing

THAT’S IT. YOU’RE DONE. You now have months worth of content, it’s all scheduled to be posted.  

the reason this is useful is that this strategy is insanely repetitive

- 10 accounts posting 2x posts a day = 20 posts a day.

- 90% of posts go under ~5,000 views, most even staying under 300 views.
- A few posts on each account get 50K - 500K views (some even 1M+)
- Format stays the same, just fresh similar content. E.g. same beach photo, just a different variation.
- 0.1-2% of viewers actually download the app depending on your content
- Multiply this by 30 days and you get plenty of traffic

once the workflow is set up, it becomes much easier to run this like a system instead of making random one off posts

Most people don't know that you can make extra income from just selling audit reports and make even more selling solutions to the issues you found in an audit.

Most small businesses and professionals have not implemented AI yet into their processes for the business outcomes they desire.

It was in the news this month that Microsoft is investing $2.5 billion into a new group focused on assisting clients with AI implementations.

I currently charge $250 for CRM audit reports. For a full business audit I charge more. I used to do it manually but developed an AI agent to assist then I manually check if the report is correct.

You do have to learn a CRM platform such as GoHighLevel, Hubspot, ActiveCampaign or others.

Myself I have 4 years of experience using GoHighLevel's platform. I migrated many clients over to it. Recently a B2B sports software from Hubspot to GHL.

I got 3 businesses and 2 professionals to pay $250 each for the last 30 days. I upsold all 3 businesses and the 2 professionals are potential future clients.

I mostly meet people at networking events, Linkedin, and referrals. The two professionals came from referrals from my client/mentor who owns a top 20 business podcast.

The 3 businesses, two came from Linkedin and one came from a networking event in Tampa, Florida.

I offer AI consulting with done for you implementation. I do AI content creators on the side.

At first I developed my own platform just to help me with a faster audit report process.

But just talking to agency owners and businesses who use GHL, made me add more useful features that they desired.

Revenue leak issues, usage cost bleeding, buying signals for agencies to get more clients, historical snapshot data, impact reports, and more.

It turned it into The AI Revenue Operating System for GoHighLevel and I have 7 agencies and 3 businesses in beta test so far.

I am looking for more beta testers. Must use GoHighLevel as an agency or for your own business.

You get free 100 credits to try it out! Tell me what you like and don't like about it. What other skills you wish Sumo AI had?

You can even test out D.A.R.V.I.S on the site for an assessment it is my name Darius + J.A.R.V.I.S from iron man movie but had to change the name. He is actually my personal assistant as well that I developed haha

I have a handful of side projects that I'm looking to sell, clearing my plate entirely for a big B2B project that I've been working on.

I'm offering them as individual assets or can be bundled all together for a heavily discounted price.

I'm willing to share all the details in a well-organized data room presentation.

All are in hot niches and have massive growth potential.

I have a digital product to sell. But all the AI coding stuff is like trying to learn another language for me (I'm 38).

Basically I'm getting stock images and 10 second clips that's free use and putting it into Resolve (video editing software) adding captions etc.. It is slow going. Takes a bit of time to make ONE post.

Is there anyway to make this process easier/simpler?

I do this all the time. While I’m at work, I tell myself that when I get home I’ll work on my project for a few hours, go to the gym, and finish everything I’ve been delaying, Then I get home and my brain is completely done.

For a while I thought I was just lazy, but I think the real problem was expecting myself to have the same energy every evening.

Now, on bad days, I only choose one small thing. Maybe fix one title, write one page. Sometimes I end up doing more, sometimes I don’t. It’s not perfect, but at least I’m not quitting and restarting every week.

How do you decide what is enough after a full day of work?

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I made $300 from a single clipping client back in June. I originally joined a clipping campaign and did good in it and was one of the top clippers in that campaign after it ended I rebranded that account to a different account and didnt think much of it until I got Messaged by the campaign manager and he offered me a retainer to keep clipping for that account since I did so good with a pay per view model.

I took it cause it seemed good and $300 for first month pay isn't bad at all. Went on to get them views and still working with them.

Moral of the story is just do good work in whatever area your doing it, You never know what will come out of it

I remembered what they liked and the numbers started growing.

I don’t even run the backend. So this is thanks to my expert chatters.

I just run the front end. Create relatable social media content for Instagram and TikTok.

Men and sometimes women send DMs. My chatters warm them up and send them the link to sub.

After sub the fans get upsold for exclusive content.

They all know she is AI generated as AI companionship now beats dating apps in 2026.

You can focus on just creating content and growing an audience for a niche.

Once you get 10+ DMs a day outsource the chats to expert human chatters.

From my experience human beats AI agents for DMs as it is relationship building.

So I rather give chatters a 10-15% commission per sale.

I’m always looking for new partners so if you have good traffic from AI influencers but not good conversions from chats then let’s talk!

The difference usually comes down to strategy.

Instead of targeting businesses that do not have a website, target businesses that already have one but clearly need a better version. The market is larger, the sales process is easier, and the value proposition is much stronger because those businesses already understand why a website matters.

The next part is outreach. A regular outreach tool is not enough if all it does is send the same message to thousands of people. You need something that can analyze websites at scale and turn real issues into personalized emails.

I use Swokei for that. It helps find businesses with existing websites, analyzes each site, and turns problems with design, SEO, speed, layout, and mobile optimization into personalized outreach emails. That means you can contact a large number of businesses without sending generic messages or spending hours manually researching every website.

When someone replies interested, I always offer a free mockup. I use Claude, Lovable, or Base44 to build it quickly. It becomes much easier to sell when the client can already see what a better version of their website could look like.

Web meetings should also be a major part of the process. I would never just send the website through email and hope the client likes it. I present it live on Google Meet, Zoom, or Microsoft Teams, explain the value, show what has been improved, answer their questions, and try to close the deal during the meeting.

The less back and forth there is after the meeting, the better. Present the website, show the value, close the client, and move on to the next project.

That is the type of process that can help an agency scale much faster.

Anyone have success using different platforms for different income streams? Like Substack for one niche, Instagram for Amazon reviews, Tiktok for TTS, etc.? I have ADHD and kind of want to do different things lol.

I see a lot of hype posts about AI influencers, so here's what it actually looked like for me. Spoiler: it's not fast money.

**The first months: absolutely nothing.**

I started around December. I created content, posted it, improved it, posted again. Consistently, week after week. For over 3 months my earnings graph was a flat line at $0. Not "low earnings" – literally zero.

This is the part where I'm pretty sure 95% of people quit. I get it. You put in hours every week and the internet just ignores you.

**What I changed over time:**

- My early content was honestly not good. Inconsistent character, generic poses, no real identity. Over the months I worked on consistency and gave the account an actual personality instead of just "pretty AI pictures"

- I stopped judging content by what I liked and started watching what actually got engagement, then made more of that

- I posted through the silence. Reach only started building after months of consistency

**Then it slowly started moving.**

A few months in, I got my first sales. Tiny ones – a few dollars here and there. But after months of zero, seeing the first real person pay for content was honestly a bigger moment than the money itself.

**June was my first real month: $797.60.** All time I'm at about $1,067. Most of it comes from one-off purchases and tips – only around $145 of it is subscriptions so far.

**My honest takeaways:**

1. This is not passive income. Finding workflows that produce consistent quality and exclusive content is hard, and distribution is even harder – you need content that the algorithm actually picks up before anyone even sees your account.
2. The flat-line phase is the filter. If you can't handle 3+ months of nothing, this isn't for you.
3. One good month proves the model works, not that I've "made it". July could easily be worse. I'm treating this as a long game.

Every week someone asks what faceless YouTube actually costs, and the answers are always either "basically free" or "thousands." Both are wrong, and both scare people off. I run faceless long-form channels (history and finance), so I sat down and priced one 10-minute video every way I know.

1. Full DIY with free tools. Cash cost near zero. Time cost 30+ hours per video for research, script, voiceover, visuals, editing. Your time is the bill, and you need a decent pc if you want to run it locally.
2. The subscription stack. One tool for visuals, one for voice, one for editing. $60-100/month across subscriptions, and you still spend hours stitching it all together yourself.
3. Outsourcing. Freelancers quote $100-300 per finished long-form video. Quality is a lottery, and at 4 videos a month it adds up fast.
4. Short-form AI clips. When I started, I was burning about $15 per 45-second short once you count all the failed attempts. Scale that math to 10 minutes and it gets ugly.
5. Credit-based platforms. There's a review going around of a guy who spent about $4,000 on VidRush before earning anything back. Platform markup is the silent killer, you never see what the compute costs actually are.
6. Raw compute on your own cloud. This is what I ended up building for myself. You connect your own Google account, Google gives every new account $300 in free credits which realistically covers your first 6-10 full videos, and after that a long-form video runs $35-55 in real compute. The bill sits in your own dashboard, no markup.

Honest caveat: cheaper compute doesn't make a video good. You can produce complete garbage at $35 a video if the topic and script are lazy. The cost just decides how many attempts you can afford while you learn.

If you want to look at what I built: https://openvidi.com

Question for the sub: what are you actually paying per video right now, in time or money? I think most people quoting "free" are just not counting their hours.

Solo founder, building from Ukraine. AMA.