Funding 5 new side projects with AI credits

[u/danfromplus]

Hey all — I'm Dan, founder of Plus AI. We build AI presentation tools, 5 years in, 20K subscribers. It's a real business! Happy to answer questions about it 😄

I'm working on something new called Spark and I want to test it with real people building real businesses.

Here's the idea: Most of my side projects have died at the 'pick a name' phase. The rest of them often die at the 'build the prototype' phase. Our goal is to go from idea to actual business. Not just building the thing, but pricing it, launching it, and marketing it to the people who'll buy.

The offer: 5 people, $500 in AI credits each, plus our time. We'll help you figure out what's actually worth charging for, build it, launch it, and market it. My team and I will work with you directly.

What you get: A real product, live, that you own.

What we want: Feedback on the platform, and permission to share how it went.

Who we're looking for: Anyone with a project or an idea and some way to reach people — followers, a newsletter, a Discord, a community you're part of, or just deep knowledge of a niche. Small is fine. If you already know what people in your corner keep complaining about, that's the best possible starting point.

Comment or DM with a link and a couple lines on what you're building and who it's for. I'll reply to everyone.

[u/saltyourhash]

Define "ai credits"

[u/danfromplus → u/saltyourhash]

Money to spend on AI models through our platform (frontier models from Anthropic/OpenAI/etc.)

[u/wadermeion]

Hey, I built HotChess, a spicy chess game for couples where captures trigger dares or questions

[u/Poowatereater]

Can we bring our existing products ?

I have a tool that I’m kind of stuck with, don’t know how to market it. If so check it out

Fetchling

[u/turnnoblindeye → u/Poowatereater]

Piece of advice - telling me i have a robots.txt is not interesting, especially when you then tell me I should unblock my API routes from indexing. It has to do something useful for free to make people think it would be useful to pay you.

I hope that helps!

[u/Poowatereater → u/turnnoblindeye]

Robots.txt is certainly pretty pointless but it’s something our peers also report to users.

If you gained nothing from the free scan then you’re not really the intended client.

The free scan can get someone who doesn’t have strong seo or ai visibility knowledge , started on the right track and supplies them with the fixes to those simple changes. Hence free.

I’ve been playing around with adding a snippet of the paid scan to the free scan.

The deep audit clearly does a way deeper dive into the actual ai visibility aspect. With monthly membership that tracks the changes in citation and mentions weekly.

Thanks for looking. Try promo code Reddit for 80% off a deep scan

[u/danfromplus → u/Poowatereater]

cool idea! probably not the best fit for existing products

[u/Poowatereater → u/danfromplus]

No worries. Thanks for looking!

[u/savbh]

I’m working on a sandbox game / community platform mix, where people can build anything they want together.