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This moment in history with AI is probably the biggest moment any of us living would have gone through and will go through in our lifetimes. And because AI is moving at the speed of light, if I wanted to start a milliondoll company, I could do it in 8 hours.
Okay, welcome to our masterclass episode with Aran Hamilton. And just before we get into it, I had to share exactly how this episode came about. So, a little behind the scenes for you guys. A few weeks ago, I get on a phone call with Aran, and we're discussing exactly where we want to take the conversation, and we start talking about the first episode we ever did together. It came out nearly 18 months ago, and to this day, it's still one of the most popular episodes on this channel. Over 300,000 of you guys have watched it.
And so, anyway, in that episode, we shared an 8-week framework that you can use to build your first milliondoll business. And as we're talking about that on the phone call, Arlin pauses and she says, "You know that 8-week framework today with AI, it's actually more like an 8-hour framework that you can use to start your first million-doll company." That moment guided how we approach this conversation. So in this episode, we break it all down. We're going to show you step by step how an absolute beginner, you're just starting out using AI tools for the first time, can start their first business using Chat GPT and Replet in just 8 hours. And the crazy thing is that Replet actually works while you're sleeping.
And so, one more thing before we get into the episode is that at the very end of this conversation, we set you guys a challenge. And so, I'm not going to spoil it here, but you'll want to stay for that. So anyway, without further ado, welcome to the Callum Johnson show.
18 months ago, we met for the first time, and we we recorded the first episode that we did, and it's one of the most popular episodes that we've done on this channel. Like people love that episode. And there was something that you said during that conversation that stuck with me. And so I wanted to read it back to you. You said, "I feel like I understood people, but they didn't understand me back. Like I was sort of an alien. And I remember going to school and people would tell me that I'm weird to my face, or they would talk about me. And I used to get kicked out of class for disrupting or for asking questions, daring to be curious. And now I get paid to do just that. And so the next time somebody says you're weird or you're different, thank them because they're seeing you."
And so you know what? Even as I read that, I think about the person that at home that's watching that's always felt like kind of underestimated, a bit different or unique from the crowd. And they want this year to be the year that they build that successful business, they make their first million, and maybe they're not even really aware of what's happening in tech or or with AI. Uh, they're not using AI tools in their life day-to-day right now. To that human being Aran, what is going to be the value of them listening to this conversation you and I are about to have?
Yeah, I think um I think you know I have an entire book called your first million, and that's kind of where we met in in my life in your life and we think about like making your first million. How quickly can you do that? Why that number? I think what people are going to take away from this conversation is really understanding their number. Understanding is a million dollars what I really want and need. I is that is this just an arbitrary number? And I think what a lot of people will discover is that even if they can just replace their current salary by working for themselves, having their own schedule, being on their own terms, having location uh uh flexibility, that type of thing. I think that is the true flex. And it took me till 44 to figure that out. I wanted to be a millionaire since I was probably 15. And I was homeless until I was 35 or so. Housing insecurity, food insecurity, then I generated millions. I raised millions of dollars. So, I've seen I've seen all sides of it. And what I tr what it truly comes down to is can you live your life on your own terms on your own schedule and whatever that means to you. So whether it's making your first million uh overnight or it's just replacing your current salary so you don't have to clock in, you don't have to listen to someone else tell you what to do. I think this conversation will help you get so much closer to that.
Yeah, I I I love that intention for this video. And you know what? We're going to get into how AI fits into that. But before we do, this morning I was actually I was on your Instagram and I went on one of your like pinned reels on your account and you're like walking through I don't know if it's San Francisco airport, but you're walking through an airport and I actually wrote down what you said or part of what you said in that video. You said, "Not every time, but most of the time when I walk through an airport, I have this visceral emotional feeling because I used to be homeless and I would sleep at the airport, specifically San Francisco airport, and I would wish I had somewhere to go." And so, the last few weeks have been rough. There have been a lot of ups and downs just being an entrepreneur, but I always have somewhere to go and I have people that care about me. And that means everything. I have somewhere to go today and in life.
You know, you spoke about even people like after this video coming coming to that point of do I even want to make a million dollars or you know start a business or any of those questions just for a second before we get into the AI stuff. Can you talk about like the value in your life of just having somewhere to go of having that business that freedom that you spoke about?
Yeah, it's everything. It um I I rarely these days get super emotional because I've gone through all the emotions you can go go through. Uh but I did get a little a little emotional while you were reading that because it's so true. It is so grounded. I I think I was in a probably in Dallas airport where where most of my family is and um I travel so much now and just a few years ago I was sleeping on the floor of an airport not knowing what would happen next. I think that was the worst part. It wasn't I mean it was terrible sleeping at the airport but it was just not knowing. Um, and so yeah, just the the the knowledge that no matter what, I am going to have the ability to rise like a phoenix. I will have the ability to start over if I need to. Like if I were to lose everything that I've worked so hard for, because I've gone through what I've gone through, I know I can pick myself back up again, you know, barring any major catastrophe, I can pick myself back up. I can I can do data entry. I can do all kinds of things. And I used to say, actually, I used to say, I'll do data entry or work at the movie theater. But now I'll say I know exactly what I'll do. I'll do the things that I'm teaching other people and I still do those things. So, it just having that muscle where if I want to make $1,000 so I can send it to my nieces and nephews for a graduation, I can I can just do that. I can just create that. And I do it from a place of being from scratch, right? I don't do it where necessarily I'm going to a current audience because I like to challenge myself. I'm an entrepreneur. And so the fact that I can flex those muscles that I've built over time in almost any circumstance is really exciting to me. For instance, when I first got monetized on YouTube and I made like $8 that day, that day, I was so excited. Now, I had raised a million dollars in 8 hours at one point in my life before that, but that $8 was almost more exciting because it was like, oh, I I built something. I I I created an asset for myself. And then the part of um just having having somewhere to go, the loneliness is probably the hardest part. So the uncertainty, the loneliness, um those things are so much harder to overcome when you're in those circumstances. Today, it's so wonderful that community is so important. Um it's one of the top three things that I think about for the next 30 years as being important to get a grasp on. But knowing that no matter what, I have somewhere to go. And the and the people that I'm referring to are my family or my close friends and my audience. And to have this understanding that I will never, and that's knock wood, I will never be homeless again because of the last decade of building the network I've built and the goodwill that I've built. It's like even if I lost everything, even if everything shut down, somebody's going to let me crash on their couch. That has so much weight to me as someone who for most of my life had housing insecurity and didn't quite know where to go, you know, and and and especially right those weeks leading up to getting my first investor for my venture fund, I I just had no idea where I could go. And now I I have so many places I can go.
Yeah. We had an interesting moment because we we spoke um last week. We spoke on the phone last week and you were kind of show like telling me the behind the scenes of you had what I call like I feel like everyone's having it like the AI moment like the the moment where you start to see you're like wow this is going to be huge whether it's about AI agents or like certain videos that you're just seeing online you kind of had your AI moment and so I think people see AI and and they think a lot about uncertainty, but there's actually a lot of opportunity. Can you just take people behind the behind the scenes for a second on your AI moment?
Sure. A couple of years ago, I interviewed Sam Alman, and then I interviewed the CEO of Zapier, Wade, and we talked about AI. I had a few other people uh on these calls as well, and I did a series of interviews. I even started a chat GPT uh course and this was 2023 and I've been using chat GPT for that long as well and definitely like I've definitely said to people you need to keep up you need to pay attention do not sleep on this and so I use AI like I think a lot of people use it especially the chat GPTs of the world we even invested in chat GPT at my venture fund because of that um connection to Sam Alman that I've had for a decade and I thought I knew I thought I was using it to its full potential as it is today and then I thought anything else that I wasn't doing was for someone else. It was for the big companies. It was for someone who this is their only job is to just learn this stuff and their terms and jargon that I would never understand and need to know about. And I did have this breakthrough moment the last few days leading up to the big moment where I just started seeing a little bit more and more and more. And it wasn't so much, Here's the thing, it wasn't so much that I saw so much content about AI that I thought, "Oh my gosh, I need to jump on it." What I did was I looked at how many people are not talking about this. How many people are not talking about these AI tools in day-to-day life? And could that be an edge? I never want to chase trends. If I if it's trendy, I'm too late. So that's what I was really looking at. It was like, oh, there are people who are turning their backs on this. They don't have that curiosity that we talked about earlier. They're not leaning into this. So, I need to to learn more. And then I saw an episode of um Steven Bartlett's show. It's a 2 and a half hour panel with AI experts, I would I would say. And um it was sobering. Most of it was about the perils of AI and how AI, how we need to be eyes wide open when it comes to what is ahead for AI, job loss, um the the uprising of AI. Uh but but a lot of it was so hopeful and so optimistic and so interesting and intriguing to me that I watched every minute of the episode. And as soon as I I think maybe halfway through the episode, I was already opening up different different uh websites that I'd never been to prior. And that same day, so it was a 24-hour period, I watched that show on in an evening. That night, that late night, I started playing with some of the tools. By the next morning, I had an entire website spun up, a landing page, I should say, an a web app. And then by that afternoon, so still in a 24-hour period, I was creating a a lesson, like a tutorial about a few things that I'd learned. And this is what I do during the toughest times, like the times of of uncertainty, is I will learn as much as I possibly can about a topic, so that it helps soothe me to have the information and then I'll synthesize it for other people because that makes me feel empowered and useful. So when I when I find things like that, I go all in. And uh there are a few topics like that. So I'm just learning as much as I can just like any other major major moment in history. And the thing is though that this moment in history with AI is probably the biggest moment any of us living would have gone through and will go through in our lifetimes. And that's a big statement, but I believe it's I believe it's true.
Yeah. You know, I I like that you framed it in the way that you did because one of the things that um I've seen and and we talk about that person that feels like underestimated or always feels like they're on the outside of things. And there's these certain points in history, you saw it like when the internet uh was becoming like more mainstream and widely adopted is there's these certain points and they're like they're like the peak moments of uncertainty but also the peak moments of opportunity and the people that can move the fastest and like really embrace the technology and learn how it applies to them. Like you can that can be the path to your freedom. And you know what? It's interesting because on that point, I was I hearkened to it earlier. We had this conversation and I said to you, we're talking about the episode that we did 18 months ago. And I'm I say to you, you know, we did this 8-week framework of how someone can start their first million-doll company. And as I'm saying that, you actually jump in and you say, with AI, that 8-week framework is now an 8-hour framework. And so where I wanted to go with this conversation is let's talk about that 8-hour framework that someone can use to start their first successful business. And so before we get into the actual steps and what those hours look like, can you give people context? What made you say that? That that that 8-week framework that we spoke about just 18 months ago is now actually an 8-hour framework because of AI and some of the tools available to people.
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Can you give people context? But what made you say that? That that that 8-week framework that we spoke about just 18 months ago is now actually an 8-hour framework because of AI and some of the tools available to people.
Sure. I think it would surprise people to just know that you can build a million-doll business in 8 weeks. I mean that is a very fast timeline, and our our parents wouldn't have been able to do that; it would have taken eight years to even have a chance at something like that. So, the eight weeks was my version a year and a half ago of like mindblowing like let's let's turn everything on its head. And I've I've watched over the past year and a half, I've watched people build million-dollar businesses in that time frame. But every day, I was going to say every week, every month, but every day, AI and its capabilities get stronger and stronger and stronger, faster, faster, faster. And because AI is moving at the speed of light today, if I wanted to start a million-doll company, I could do it in 8 hours rather than eight weeks, which was already a fast pace. And the cool thing too, I want to make sure everybody understands is that it's not just the AI tech. It's the AI tech plugged in to whoever you are. That's why it's still interesting. Who knows in in a few years or decades if it's going to be so advanced and so far beyond that it's no longer fun. It's no longer humane. We don't know. But right now in these next few years is that opportunity. It's like the sweet spot. It is where the technology has caught up to the hype and is surpassing it in many many ways. But I think that might be what we're talking about now is that someone who's in Mississippi and and I'm not even just making up an example. This is one of the members of my membership sent me a text in the last 24 hours. She's in Mississippi. She grew up with no electricity and no um indoor plumbing until she was, you know, a few years old. And she made a real life for herself by joining the Air Force and and just really being a brilliant human. And now she helps other women who are are feeling grief from losing their jobs and other other reasons.
And she wrote me and she said, "A video that you that you talked about, a video where you talked about AI and how to build a landing page or build a web app or have it do something. I watched that video. I did what you said, and within a few hours, eight hours, I spun up an entire landing page that does something for her clients." And she talked about it with a lot of emotion when she posted about it later. She she talked about it with a passion. I might even be able to bring that up. Um, I may even be able to show it in a second, but she, in Mississippi, a black woman who has, you know, a spirit that's unbreakable, but has not been afforded privileges in life, she can now go toe-to-toe with someone who had, you know, maybe even an Ivy League education, maybe had no food insecurity, no housing insecurity, no issues in that way. And it's now about true meritocracy. It's now about her abilities and her experience and her merit, which, if the people who have been saying it is a meritocracy are honest, is a good thing. This is all a good thing. You know, I'm I'm I'm excited and I I just want to I just want to give it to people. Like I just want to um we we we spoke about people that feel underestimated, feel like they're always on the outside.
And I think to your point, for a lot of human history that has been true, and even just talking about um technology, I think one of the things that always made people kind of not feel like they're part of it is they don't have like these software engineer skills or they don't have the ability to code. But now AI is even kind of like leveling the playing field there. And so really, and we had one of our guests actually come on the show and say this, which is the differentiator now is going to be like how quickly do you embrace it? And also how quickly are you willing to fail and can you fail 10 times trying to build something with AI before someone's done their first attempt? And if you can do that, then you're going to be streaks ahead of other people. And so, you know, I just want to I want to get into it and start with what was week one in your old in the previous framework that we spoke about, and where you started was research and development, which is how to find your business model and your ideal customer.
And this is exactly what you said. You said you want to lock yourself in a room and put pen to paper. Write down what's fulfilling to me, what's helpful to others, what's valuable, what's ethical, and what has a higher price point I can eventually get to. That's all a part of research and development. It's studying. And most people don't do it; they couldn't tell you their competition if their life depended on it. First, you know what? Let's just start with give me the context on that. Like what what made you what makes you say that and what makes you start with research and development? It's it's where I've started every everything that I've done well, and everything that I've not done well has started with research and development. And because I spent a decade in making investments, made 200 investments in startups in 10 years, I saw thousands and thousands and thousands of companies and founders and pitches and behind the scenes um conversations and more people than you would imagine don't prep for something. I can compare it to making a YouTube video. I don't know if it's too much of a stretch, but when you make a YouTube video, if you can put weight on the prep, you'll do a lot less in the post, right? If you can figure out a few things in the preparation, then let the magic happen while you're filming, and then the post is is is easier. It's an easier path, at least generally.
But a lot of times people don't do that; they they press record even if it's their hundth video, and that's okay. But if you if you imagine, let me just try this. Let me try a week where I spend a couple of hours working on a hook, working on those first few seconds of a video, working on other things with YouTube, how much would that change the outcome? And with businesses, I think that people heard uh Facebook say um I don't know what is it. What do they say? They say something fast and break things, like launch fast and break things or something like that. Yeah. Yeah. Well, they heard that phrase and they think, well, that just means I need to just throw spaghetti at the wall and whatever works will work, and I just need to go out there and and kind of go crazy and and that's the fast movement of that's the fast pace of being a startup founder. I don't agree with that. I think that there is a there's a strength in having strategy. And another way of thinking about it is when you pull when you have a bow and arrow and you're aiming and you the longer you can kind of pull back that bow and steady yourself and look, you know, at your target and and slow your breathing, the longer you can prepare the usually the more um accurate your your aim is. So I just think that research and development are so important. I also think it's a really creative and fun time because the more you get into the steps, the more work it is. Now, you don't want to spend all your time on research and development because then you'll just be stuck by trying to figure out what to do, what offer do I have, what audience do I have? You kind of have to make some things happen. And that's why seven of the steps are more emotive. But that research and development is so important because it helps you get back to your why. You could always go back to your why. You can say, you know, I'm on step four and things are not going well. Why am I even doing this? You go back to step one, research and development in your head and you say, "Oh, you know what? I talked to a potential customer and and they were not doing well in this particular lane. And if and I know that my product and my offer could help them. And if I can help a hundred of those people, then it's worth it." And that's my why. And that's why I'll keep going to step five. I think there's so much caught up in step one.
Yeah. You know, I actually um I like that you started there, and it actually reminds me of something that one of my mentors told me um where um and this was like earlier on when I was trying to start an agency and I was throw to your point, I was throwing all of these different things at the wall. I'm like any offer that someone will buy, I will do it. I just need the money. And I remember he said to me, he's like just take a step back. Sometimes you have to start slow to move fast. And actually with AI, like you can just get right into building stuff, but to your point, it's like actually spending that first hour just like being intentional and thinking through like what you want to do will actually create speed in the end. And so one of the things I even loved about the quote that you wrote, it started with a lot of self-reflection. Like it started with a lot of like what's valuable, what's meaningful to me, what's ethical, what do I want to create? And you know what? Let's just get creative and we can kind of just jam on this. Sure. You can actually use AI and things like chat GPT in that self self-reflection process. Like I'm curious, do do you do that allin? Like do you kind of have these conversations and kind of come to with AI?
I do all the time. Yeah. And and also I want to just say that in the research research and development you get to do stuff. So you can you can spin up four different landing pages or apps or photos or whatever the thing is internally and then decide on it. That's part of the research and development. That's the development part, right? Because you can do that. But I think what a lot of people do is they just go right to market and they they don't understand why things aren't selling, why it's not re resonating. And that is like you have your lab now. Like AI is your think tank, it's your lab, it's your studio. Um, so what I do all the time, like every day, I use chat GPT. You could use Perplexity, you could use Claude. I don't use those yet, but I and I say yet on purpose because I'm going to try everything. And um it's a good idea to try different LLMs, large language models. It's a diff it's a good idea to kind of compare them to each other. Um which is what I'm learning more and more of as I have these conversations. But yeah, I use chat GPT for research, self-reflection. Um, the more I talk to it, the more it it learns about me. Sometimes if it forgets, I can just say, you know, my name and it'll go find me, you know. So, that's a good thing about like building your personal brand so chat GPT can figure you out. And then I also use it for crafting my offers um and and and optimizing and and really honing in on my offers if I'm especially if I'm stuck. But I can show you on chat GBT. I have no idea what I'm going to say to it, but I can show you kind of a conversation I could have with chat GBT or anybody could have. Um, let's see. Let's do it. We can just go improv. Super creative in the moment for people. Okay, cool. So, I'm going to This is chat GPT. This is the 40 model. Uh, you can ask chat GPT which model does what. Like that's one thing to do. I think people try to be too cool for school and like they don't like to ask questions, but this is perfect for you if you're kind of embarrassed to ask questions in public. You shouldn't be. You should feel free to to be a forever student. I think that that is like some of the most successful people that I know, the richest people I know, um are always curious. They're asking questions kind of in an obsessive way. But if either way you can use chat GPT to think through to ideulate to ask questions um this this prompt that I have shared with people recently has very much so um helped a lot of people. I'm going to I'm going to do the prompt right now and I don't know what it's going to say so it's kind of personal but this is a prompt you can use and if you haven't asked chat GPT this yet please do it. So you can say based on what you know about me, if you have any kind of information or you could tell it about yourself, what are two of my weaknesses? So chat GBT is going to try to favor you. It's not going to try to hurt your feelings, but you can tell it the different way you want that to come across. So some people I don't do this but some people say please be nice with your response but honest because that will help me. So you're just having a conversation with it. You're just talking to it. Some people say be brutally honest. Some people say don't do don't quantify it. Um some people don't qualify it. But you can do yours. I'm just going to press return and see what it says.
Ju just quickly Olen as well as you're doing this because I think for I'm sure that your chat GPT cuz chat GPT has memory so it knows and obviously you're also such a you have like a following and like there's knowledge about you on the internet but for some people that are listening it might not know that much about them. So, one of the things that I do, I actually ask chat GPT. I'm like, what questions would or what information would you need to know about me in order to accurately ask answer this question? Absolutely. And so, it's like a different way of using chat GPT where you actually get it to give you questions so you can give it information so that it can then give you better information. Absolutely. And and it's surprising what it can help you with. Even if you think that it wouldn't be able to help you with asking those questions, like what prompt should I give you chat GPT to help me get the best answer for this? Like it it it's so inexhaustible. Um and what I say is like if you if you are just starting with chat GPT or you have the free version where they're not keeping all that memory, um like Callum said, um ask it that. Another thing you can do is like give it some information about you, send it to a if you have a website, it'll read the website and just pull up stuff about you. So, it won't be as accurate. But that's that's the beauty of it is like use it more. You don't have to use chat GPT. Again, I say I'm an investor in it, so I'm not trying to push everyone to this, but you can use a large language model like chat GPT and get some really great answers. Um, so what it said, two of my weaknesses are that I'm reluctant to fully system systemize and let go. I'm incredibly hands-on, which has helped me build trust, maintain quality, and deeply understand my audience. But sometimes that can slow my scale. I know how to productize, delegate, and build teams, but there's a still a tendency to hover over details that someone else, especially someone well-trained, could own. Literally happening right now. That is happening right now in my life. Okay. Why is it reading me for the same thing? Why is it reading me for? And then the other one is um high creative output but occasional strategic fragmentation. So I'm a fire hose of genius ideas. See how it's flattering me? Um but you often create and launch before others have even finished thinking. Whoa. But because of that speed, some things don't get enough air to fully bloom before you're on to the next uh accurate. Accurate. And so having those two things that can help me slow down a little bit. You know, and sometimes, like I said, sometimes you may hear something that is hard to see. So, you can tell it how you want it to talk to you. You can say that, too. Um, I don't know, like Callum, have you used it to work on your stay delusional shirts?
Oh, like here and there. Here and there. I I already had like kind of a sense of what I wanted to do. Yeah. Um, you know, one thing actually I think Allan, some some context I can give that will be helpful to people and it'll be a good starting point. One of the things that you spoke about uh in our last conversation was uh choosing your offer and like kind of deciding what you want your business model to be and in kind of like this internet online age, there's really like eight buckets or like eight offers or business models that you can choose from. And so I'll just quickly read them out. The first one is an online course. The second is an online membership. The third is affiliate marketing. The fourth is consulting either in a group setting or one-to-one. The fifth is an agency. The sixth is in-person training or virtual training. The seventh is a SAS business. And the eighth is ecommerce. And so the reason I even read all of those out, I think people usually like jump between all of the models. Like this is what I did in the beginning. You jump between all of the models or like you just pick whatever is trendy. I actually think there's a way that you can build on the self-reflection in Chachi BT and use it to help you come up with what your model should be. Yeah. Especially if you ask it what your strengths are, you know, and and you start from that place. You have a conversation with it. What do I like? What I like this? What could that turn into? I have an entire I I created a or I trained a custom GPT that helps you find your $5,000 offer. And that is so cool because it it can just prompt you and takes you through it. But at the end of the day, the simplest way to do it is just to is just to say, you know, um I want to start a bis a an online business. I am I work a 9 to 5 in retail. I love talking to people and helping and this is just an example, right? and that I'm just coming up with and helping them solve problems. I am new to AI, but I'm learning quickly and could walk someone through a tutorial for basic things. I'm 44 and a woman. Um, married, no kids. I was going to say something really stupid, but I'm not going to do that here. Uh, let's see. Um, I want to make an extra 2,000 per month to start. What are three options of an offer or business? I was gonna say one thing I love doing with ChatGpt is like I'll take documents I already have and like upload it into ChatGpt. So even in this example like if someone has their resume. Yes. Or even if you've asked even if you've spoken to like friends and family and you've asked them like what are my strengths and you have like a voice note of it. Yeah. You could literally upload that into chat GPT so it has context and then it will give you an even better and like more specific answer. Absolutely. That's why I say if you have a if you have a website, if you have anything, this button here, this plus button, you can you can upload all sorts of things. Um, did I not spell that correctly? I misspelled proposition. Anyway, so let's just see what it says based on that. I wanted to show how simple it can start and if you have any context, like Callum said, it can take you so so much further. So, this is kind of cool to see it like really basic. So, I could start an ask me anything tech support for beginners using AI. That's really cool. And it tells me how to monetize. Exactly. I mean, even this like, so Callum, I work with different groups of entrepreneurs. I work with entrepreneurs who have done six figures and they're trying to get to their first million. I work with um more than 1,000 entrepreneurs who are just starting and they're trying to make their first 5,000 online by making their first $100 online. And even things like, "Oh, I can I can sell like for people to get on a call with me and ask me questions." Like even that type of thing blows their mind because they're not they're used to they go to a job, they get paid by the hour and they do their thing and it's the same thing every day. So even like starting from scratch, just knowing that there are like an inexhaustible number of ways that you can create and craft through those eight types of offers for yourself. And you could even say like I you could jump around like this wouldn't be for everybody but you could say okay cool what sort of SAS product could I make? I mean it's so basic it doesn't know anything about me. So it's just going to tell me something to get started with. So it it kind of reminds you what you just said and then it gives you ideas. a booking widget for coaches and experts, a prompt deck generator, and a client onboarding assistant. So, let's say I went back and forth and I asked for like 20 or 50 of these ideas. I fed it more information. It learned more about me or I'm already using chat GPT like a lot of people might and it knows more and more and I just really get it to a place that I'm like, that's this is interesting. I want to give this a go. I could then, you know, take I could take one of these, copy it, paste it in and say, "Okay, now I want to make a landing page for this. I want to see it in action or I want to make a web app for this. What is the prompt I should give Replet?" And that's the the AI agent that I use or you could use any kind of lovable or any kind of AI agent. What is the prompt I should give the AI agent that would help the AI agent make this happen? Right? So, I don't know if you want to do that or if you want to talk about stuff in between. Let's do that. But I want to um because one of the things that it was like a really big moment for me with chatbt and I actually had this conversation with a guest like a year ago cuz when I started using chat GBT I treated it very much like Google
Which is like you type in like a query, like an exact thing you want to know, and Google spits out an exact answer for you, or a set of answers or search results. Right, it's very transactional. And I remember he said to me, he said, "Um, the way that you're meant to use ChatGPT or these AI, these LLMs, it's a conversation, like it's an ongoing conversation." Yes, and so even as—and Alan just did it—but even as you get these different options, it's like you can start to give it more information and like narrow down.
And so one of the things that I—and I know this even from your framework from last time—is that in week two and three, um, deciding like your offer and then your marketing channel become really important. And so on that point, when it comes to marketing, and this is one of the things you shared, the main ways to do marketing—and this is if you're not rich already, like you don't have a huge budget that you can just spend marketing—is you can create a podcast, you can start YouTube, you can do social content, you can do webinars, workshops, or publishing.
And so I actually think that like maybe Allen, if we actually just take one of those ideas um that ChatGPT gave us and we're like, "Okay, yeah, we want to do the client onboarding assistant for freelancers," and then it's like, "Okay, so what are some ways that we could do the marketing around this?" Um, and like we can continuously build yes on this idea until we get to something that we're really excited about. So, I said, "What are some ways we can market it?" Now, it's saying, "Cool. Let's go. We want a painkiller." That's great that it said that.
And I would I would read this stuff, too, because it does help you with context, especially if you're just starting or if you've if you're seasoned somewhere else, but you're getting started like having your own company, because th that's a real thing. Okay. So, it says micro-influencer and affiliate partnerships. You could reach out to freelance coaches, YouTubers, etc. They don't have to be huge. They don't have a have to have a huge following, but you can reach out to them. Uh, you can offer them their own affiliate link, which is super helpful. So that's all about partnerships and collaboration. It's a great suggestion. Uh, and then if you think about it, if we're talking about eight hours instead of eight weeks, this is like hour two that we're figuring all of this out and and and and thinking about what we can do here.
So you uh also could launch a landing page campaign. Again, this is suggesting you make five different ones. A year and a half ago, I would have looked at this and said, "Five landing pages? I'm just getting started. How am I going to do that?" You can actually do this on Replet. You can do this on Lovable. You can do this on with an AI agent uh in in minutes. Uh, and it it if you take a few hours, it's actually better because you can really hone in on what you want it to be like. But this is not—I don't have any coding talents or skills as of now. That could always change, but as of now, I don't. But what I can do is I can look at this and I can tell you I can make that because I understand AI agents now and what they're capable of doing. So this gives you ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Grock, all of them. They give you this information. They're like your assistant or your design partner, um, your marketing partner, and it's just giving you these ideas, right?
I know that one of the things—and it's one of the questions that I I had—is sometimes the most difficult thing in the beginning is making that decision of like what's the one thing that I want to do. Like, okay, it's giving me all of these ideas, which one should I go with? And there was something actually that you said in the previous episode we did: you go—if you truly want to make a million dollars doing it sustainably, and that's just your first million—you have to be obsed obsessed obsessed with it. So something that you are obsessed with, and that's where it goes back to—you probably already know it, you just don't fully realize it just yet. And and I I love that idea of like a lot of the times I feel like when people try and start companies, and it's what I did, they try to find something that's completely out of the realm of what they're into or what they know. And you make that point. It's like you actually already know it. You probably already do this thing. You're just not fully cognizant of it. Yeah. There's one thing you can do here. So you can say, "What are three questions I can ask myself and others who know me that would help me find my UVP, which is unique value proposition?"
And when it comes to that, so here's some questions you can say, and it's helping you do this, right? So still that prompt, and it says, "What do I explain better than anyone else?" You know, so you asked this person, yeah, what do people walk away with after talking to me? So you can think about that in a reflective way, and you can ask someone, "Hey, we we talked the other week. What did you walk away with?" And then the third one that it gives you here is, "Where do I naturally add value even when I'm trying not to?" That's pretty cool. And this is just three questions. You could say, "Okay, ask me three more. Give me three more. Give me three more." You could even answer some of these questions. Or you could go away and call a friend or text a friend or a family member and have it reflected back to you. Then you give all the information that you have and you put it into ChatGPT. It could be a line or it could be pages and pages or it could be audio that you transcribed. It could be so many different things. You put it there and you can talk. You can have that conversation, right? And and it can it can continue to help you come up with that. It used to take months to figure out your unique value proposition. You can figure out your unique value proposition in minutes. Now you can figure it out. You can get started with the foundation of somewhere to go because so many people are just stuck of what like where do I even start? And this gives you that foundation, and you can just optimize it and just get it more tweaked over time. I'm still working on my unique value proposition, you know, a decade later, but this gives you so much paint on the canvas. It gives you so much to work with. And as if you can write an email, you can use ChatGPT. If you can ask a question, you can use ChatGPT. If you like to argue, if you like to debate, you can use ChatGPT to help you become a better entrepreneur, to become someone who can make money and get the answers that you need.
Yeah, 100%. Okay. You know what? So, I I want to go to to Replic. I think that's going to be really valuable for people that want to build something. Um, I guess just a quick recap. So hour one, you start with research and development, and that's finding your business model and your ideal customer. Hour two and hour three is you're crafting your main offer and you're deciding your marketing channel. And we we basically showed a variety of ways that you can kind of get to those answers. Ultimately, you're going to have to make the final decision, but you can use ChatGPT and AI to do that. Let's say that we've actually now decided, you know what we want to build on. What is the transition of going from whatever information we have from ChatGPT and what we've decided to then actually starting to build something on Replet? Could you could you show us that?
Sure. I want to show you. So, we'll come back to ChatGPT one more time. And I want to remind everyone that I just learned about Replet days ago. So, I'm not an expert in any way. I just am excited about it. So, we're just—I'm just randomly choosing one of the ideas that it gave us. And I'm going to copy it. And I'm gonna say, "Give me the best prompt for Replet that would allow me to create a functioning landing page web app for this." Let's just see what it says and see if we need to tweak it at all. Here's your Replic. And as it's loading, one of the best things I I learned this recently. One of the best things you can ask ChatGPT is actually for it to come up with the prompt that you ask ChatGPT. It's like kind of counterintuitive. Yeah. But like that's actually one of the best prompts. I use that all of the time now.
Yeah, 100%. So it gave me this. I'm going to trust it. Um, I will say that when I do it, when I'm signed in, I actually get a lot more from this because it knows so much more about me. But I think this will get us started. And this is where a lot of people are going to be starting from. So, so I will do this. I won't do this instruction because that's for me. Now, I will go over here to Replet. And I just want to show you that I have been playing around for seven days, and this is how many different ones I've worked on. And I would say one of them is absolutely ready, and I'm I'm already using it. Another one I'm using in in like beta, and the other ones I'm just like figuring out. So again, this is part of your research and development. This is a part of your offer creation. You don't have to just get it right the first time. Like your your your guest said you should fail a few times. Are you willing to fail 10 times before the next person will try once? So that's what this is. Um, so let me just let me show you just just quickly—can you explain what does Replet do? Okay. Like for someone that's coming across it for the first time, like what is it for?
Replet is an AI agent. And what an AI agent is—again, this from my learning about it seven days ago—is it is where ChatGPT and other LLMs are like a question-answer, question-answer, research, deep research, which is fantastic—we use it all the time. An AI agent will actually do things for you, will actually build and create. It will make its own decisions. It will go to the next step without you having to prompt it. Sometimes it'll ask you for feedback and it'll ask you for permissions at the top, but it'll it'll build for you. It'll see its own mistakes and it'll fix those mistakes. Now, it it it's still a process. You still have to deploy it. You'll hit the deploy button on Replet, see it in the real world, see what's wrong with it, come back and and talk to it. But it will do all of this and show you the code. So you know—for sure, if you're not a coder, you wouldn't get this far on your own. You'd have to pay someone else to do it or you'd have to learn for months or years how to do this coding. You can go in right now and you can just click create app, and then I would just paste what ChatGPT told me. And I see here that there's like different things that I could choose from. So what I did originally was I did a screenshot of this and I went to ChatGPT and I said, "Which one of these should I select for that prompt you gave me?" because I didn't know—it told me for most of my prompts to choose modern web app with React and Node. So I did—I'm doing that now—and I'm just going to say, "Okay, I'm just going to go for it," and it's going to start moving around. It's going to start doing stuff. It's going to take the notes and it's going to help create a plan. It's going to give me that plan and then ask me for permission or approval to keep going with it. Once I give it uh permissions and approval, it'll just—it'll take a few minutes and it'll start building something to um to to preview to me. It also gives me like other prompts like, "Do you want me to add stuff to it?"
So, I'm doing this. I'm making a professional lead magnet page for you for freelancers with email capture and responsive design. Do you also want me to do email validation? Uh, all analytics, do you want me a a dashboard? So, I'm going to say I want a dashboard and I'm going to say approve. Now, what I have found is anything that has to do with like emails and stuff, I'm not yet ready to to have it all incorporated uh where it's incorporated with my email, but people use this a lot for email automations. So, that's something that you'd have to decide on your own. But, if it needs an API key, if it needs to be able to pull from ChatGPT your account, or pull from one of your accounts, it'll just ask you for it. You paste it in and now it's working. Um, okay. So, it's already starting to give me immediately almost a preview, and it's going to be—it's going to kind of change. So, it's chosen its own details and it's taken some of what we've said. So we said rounded corners, hover effect, clean, modern, soft, neutral, but it's decided. So we said coral or teal, right, as an example. So it said, "Okay, we're going to give you that." And it's already started making something that's a website for you. This is a functional web page already.
Yeah. Yes. And it's going to do some more. It's going to put some—if you didn't give it pictures, it's going to give its own pictures. So you can say, "Oh, I want to do this. I—it's gonna—it's so cool. And when I did the first one, I was working on it like late at night. Remember I said I watched that episode uh of Steven Bartlett and then I got on a Replet and immediately started working and then I was sleepy. So I said to it, "Hey, can you keep working on this while I sleep?" And it said, "Sure." And then I said, "Do I need to close my laptop or are you good?" It said, "Close your laptop. I'll take care of it over on this side." So I went to sleep. I woke up 7 8 hours later. It said, "Good morning. I've built your website for you." It was just—it was just so cool. But you still—you do have to—like I have cussed at it already in seven days. You still have frustrations. You still sometimes it doesn't deploy the right way. But even if it's just this—to even show to someone what you want—or even if it's this to test—to say I don't want to spend a lot of money. You see how it's adding to it? Look at this. Yeah. And I'll show it. It's got a YouTube video in there. Yeah. So I have one that I've made that's all—I have two that are all about YouTube. And I'll show you that if you want, where I can just show you how it like how I worked with it to get it exactly what I wanted. It's got testimonials, got frequently answered questions, FAQ. You can just type in—once it's—Yeah, you can just say like, "Oh, take this part out," or "Change this word," or "Here's the link for that," "Change the color." It's it's just—and I can tell you—it—I've done like 10 of these, as you saw on my list. None of them look like this. Exactly. Right. So, it's not like it's just taking the same template over and over again and just redoing it to impress us. It's taking the instructions you gave it, and it even gave it a name. I don't think that was in the—It might have been in the uh instructions here. Let's see. Maybe it did. Yeah, it did give it a name. So, ChatGPT hooked this up with a name. I like that it has that period at the end. Like, that's interesting. And so let's see where it is right now. So it did a bunch of stuff. And you see on the left side it's telling you step by step what it's doing. Um, so I think that's actually like—when you learn a new language—it's kind of cool to watch the captions even if you're learning it. So it's kind of cool to see like maybe over time I'll start to recognize some of this and know what order it's going to happen in. I don't think it's like completely um infantilizing people. I don't think it's like making us lazy. I think it's actually enhancing what is possible for us in this short amount of time we have on this planet, and that's why I'm bullish about it.
You know, a question I have for you because you mentioned—you mentioned in the beginning when you even went on Replet that you have—you had like eight or nine different things that you'd already built, and there was—I think you said that there is one thing that you have that you like already want to go live with. What is that?
I am live with it. I will show you. What makes you make that decision about that one? Like what's a different—I'm I'm I'm curious about how people can point whether you go live. I'll show it to you and then I'll tell you. So this is a page that I created. Not only is it a page, but it's a high-ticket offer page as an example, but I—this is live. So it has a view pricing. It's about my YouTube studio. And this is what we created in just a few hours. So, it has my my—You said this is live. You said this is live already. This is live. I—If you type in arlland's YouTubestudio.com, it'll take you to this and and and it's it's a simpler page because it it's it has a VSSL. This is my five-minute VSSL. It has a picture that I gave it. I've I've tweaked the language. We we—you know, there were two buttons here and we made it one. Um, and then it just kind of continues to tell you different things. And what I love about it too is that like instead of like I was having a hard time with it because I was trying to make these all YouTube videos and it just wasn't coming up. So finally I just said, "What's another way of doing this?" and it said, "We can make—we can put pictures here and just click off to click off to the videos," which I actually like better because it gives those people like their shine on its own. So we did that. So if you click here, it opens up to the YouTube video, you know, and so it's just—it's just very cool. I get to—I have like a a lead magnet and then I have pricing below uh testimonials, etc. And this is live. This one took—How How long would you estimate it took you? It took—Yeah, this one took maybe eight hours. If I'm—'Cause I was kind of—It was like over the weekend. I was kind of like sitting on my couch watching TV. I would type into something. I would look at it. I would deploy it. Um, and I'll show you that deploying what that means in a minute. And then I would, um, come back to it. I would, you know what's fun is like checking it on your phone, too, to see how it looks on mobile. And you can actually—you can actually, um, preview what that looks like. So, I would do that. And I would just highly recommend. It's still going, right? It's still doing stuff because not only is it doing something, you know, on the outside, it's creating a database for me. It's creating all the backend stuff. It's going to ask me for emails prompts and stuff, but you would deploy this once it's finished its first little round here, which could take two more minutes or 30 more minutes. Don't know. You'd press the deploy button, and then there's going to be these four steps that get illuminated a little bit at a time. It takes about 2 or 3 minutes. And once it's fully deployed, all four steps are illuminated. Then you can go to the website. I would recommend that the the the the center of truth of this is going to be an incognito window on Chrome because that's going to be the most up-to-date—that's what's really live um for it. But uh look, so this is—this is a little off. If it doesn't fix that, I can tell it—I can take a snapshot of it. I can do like a screenshot and say, "Fix that." So there's uh—so it tells you—now I've done this. Know how
Does it look and feel? Do you want me to do other stuff? And this is when I could deploy it. And that's you just hit that button in the what is it like the upper right-hand corner where it says deploy, I guess.
Yeah. Well, first what I'll do is I'll say I'll upload that screenshot I just took and I'll just say, can you fix this overlap so that the picture's correctly aligned? Yeah, I just took a screenshot of it. Sometimes it takes its own screenshots. So, it fixed its own problems before I even got to see it, but it doesn't catch everything. So, I I can see the overlap issue in the hero section. Uh, let me fix that right away. And then it either will or it won't. Like, it'll think it's done it or it won't, you know, but we'll see. Um, and then again, once it's ready, you would deploy it. Give it it give it a moment. And another cool thing is just the when you get a chance go go in you can you get like some free credits. You can just use this for free to play with it and probably do like one simple page for free, but then you'd pay for it. I paid for it. It's like $25 or $20 a month, and then I've also added some credits to it because I have 10 websites here and I've paid maybe $60. So I'm I'm okay with that.
Do you want me to add a database?
Yes, I do. So then you would do you want me to show deploy or no?
Yeah, let's see deploy. It's just crazy to watch it work. I I haven't used replet before. It fixed it. I I used v0ero, but it's just crazy to watch it work. And you can see how it's corrected it.
Yeah, it's corrected it. Okay, so we're going to deploy it. And I mean, and you get to choose these machines that you take more credits, but it's more stable. And it's more like if you think you're going to have a ton of users, you want more machines. But if you don't, then you won't. So, we're just going to do it like this. I'm actually going to just use credits for it because I think it's cool. And um this will take like two solid minutes, right? It'll it'll do all the things. It's it's publishing it to its own replet page. I just went into GoDaddy and just forwarded the DNS so it could say my custom URL for that one that is um live and another one that I have. Um, but yeah, and I think I think that's cool, too, to show you. I think we can step away from it while it's doing this. Um, there's one more I want to show you, which is Yeah, this one. There's like no excuses for me not to have a website now, is there?
There's no excuse for you not to have a website.
Okay, so I'm going to share this. This is another one that I built on Replet in the last seven days. Can you see this revenue tracker?
Yeah.
Yeah, we can see. Okay, we can see. So, it says this is all like what we built. Welcome to your first 5K tracker. It helps you track your journey. So, I just wanted to show you this one because it actually has like a functionality to it and it teaches you stuff. So, I'm going to skip the tour, but you can log in. This was 100% built on Replet. Like you didn't need to give this to another engineer to build some of this functionality on top. Not not one bit of it.
Wow. It's like I and I don't know how to code. So once you're in this one, you can like put an amount and say test column and then just see what happens. And it just adds it. And it does this. We talked about the confetti. It suggested confetti. I said yes. It gives you tips. It didn't have tips before. It has dark mode. So you can like your whatever your imagination can take you. I just said I would love to have a tracker for my members to know how much money they're making. Even if it's a dollar, I want them to be able to track it by the date. So I just said that to chat GPT. I said, give me the replet. Give me the replet prompt for that. And then I put it into replet. It gave me like 70% of what I was looking for. And I just went back and forth with it. It was a conversation. Sometimes it was, you know, a little bit like, oh, I just wanted to do this thing. But then you realize because I can just talk to it. I don't have to go through like two different people and worry about, is this costing me $300 an hour or whatever. I can just say, is there another way? Replet, tell me another way to accomplish what I'm trying to do because this isn't working, you know?
Yeah. Let's give the let's give it a couple of minutes to deploy. There's one there's one more thing I want to talk to you about for a few minutes uh before we before we close. Um but yeah, it just blows my mind every time I I see that. I haven't seen Replet before, but we did something similar with V0ero where the guest actually took screenshots of he asked me he's like, "What company websites do you like?" And I think I said Apple, WB Parker, and Nike. and he took screenshots of those three pages and he put it into uh V0ero, but in this case you could do it in replet and it actually created like design that was very similar to those pages. Um and so it's just phenomenal. But you know what? When when when I see it, where my mind goes is we're going to get to a point where everyone's going to have a landing page, everyone's going to have a product that they like spun up in the weekend or whatever. And so what's going to become like the differentiator or one of the differentiators is actually just great marketing is like, how do I get people to pay attention? Like there's so many products out there. how do I get people to pay attention to my product? And it reminded me of something um that you actually said which was it was in is it was week four in the old process I guess and now it's hour four but it's you said that sales is um you said sales is here you have to go get my mixtape it's $5 that's sales. You said marketing is they're coming to you because of something. That's a billboard. And the better marketer you are, the less sales you have to do. And then you said that marketing is where all the fun is. So when I think about lead generation, I think about how can I draw people in to what I'm doing or how can the person the person I'm helping draw people in? And so I I was just curious, Arlin, are you using AI at all in your marketing so far? Like have you kind of figured that piece of it out?
Yeah. Yes, I do. And I think um it even goes into the content and the lead generation, which is further on in our path here, is there are multiple ways to market. I think building ultimately building a personal brand or building around the brand of what you're doing. Personal brand doesn't necessarily mean people need to know your children's name, right? It just means you are developing trust and authority around a topic that is associated with your offer. That's what a brand really is. And there are now platforms that will help you get your brand out to more people. But you have to be willing to be consistent and look for that compounding interest and compounding effect. My number one go-to is YouTube. Even though I had an audience before I started in earnest with YouTube a year and a half ago, even though I had already published two books at that point, 80 to 90% of the people who find me on YouTube today and still are finding me for the first time because YouTube's algorithm is putting me in front of them. They don't know the history unless they hear it in a video about me. And so every day is an opportunity to find someone new. And it's about being helpful. Like that's the number one thing. Well, how do you get somebody to look at your video? How do you get the algorithm to put you out or how do you get people to click once it is out? You're helpful. How can you be helpful? Yes, you want to be differentiated. Yes, you want to be different. You want to stop the scroll. And that's a lot in the packaging that's in your YouTube title and in your thumbnail and in your concept. But you really want to be helpful ultimately because it can be all flash and no substance or it can be not great at figuring out the marketing but there's a lot of substance and both have their issues.
Yeah. You know, I think it's um it's such a good point and it and it's particularly pertinent for me because I remember the first few businesses that I tried to start uh like I tried to start clothing companies and I realized now thinking back on it because those businesses were like spectacular failures. Um and the thing that I realized is that I fundamentally misunderstood what entrepreneurship is. I thought that entrepreneurship is that you create this perfect product and then you release the perfect product and people just love it. And if they don't love it immediately, it's because the product wasn't perfect enough. And to your point, what entrepreneurship actually is is that you you build something of substance to help someone like a specific person and then you continuously iterate and improve it. And so you know what like is where my mind goes is I think there's so much excitement and uh people just get really energetic about AI and I I think that that's great because there is a lot of opportunity but I think one of the things that's really important is setting the right expectation of actually the people that succeed with AI the way that they're going to use it. And one of the things that I've learned is not that, you know, it doesn't necessarily mean that you now don't have to do any work or like you just give it over to AI and you're going to be a millionaire the next day. um from your vantage point because you have you know you have thousands hundreds of thousands of people in your audience you have thousands of members that are in your community from what you've seen and then even just predicting into the future if we were to take two groups of people we were to take the person that watches a video like this gets super excited tries out this stuff for a few hours and then like it doesn't go anywhere uh they're completely disillusioned. They're like, "Oh, this is a fad. This is just some trendy thing. This is garbage." They move on. That's group one. Group two takes this video and it's like a starting point for them. And then 6 to 12 months or whatever the time is from this, they're like, "Oh, I actually built something really successful and it started with this video." In terms of like the mindset and the actions, if you had to just compare group two to group one, what is it that group two is doing or the way that they were thinking about it, their expectation that led them to actually being successful, successfully using AI to build their first million-doll company.
At the risk of being cheesy, I'm going to quote myself. Um, group two is hungry, not thirsty. Group one is just thirsty. Right. What I mean by that is that group one is going for that instant. It has to work. This is my one shot or I'm I have my guard up so much that I am not willing to have an abundance mindset. And if it doesn't work for me today, that means it's trash or I'm not good at this. And that's why things are still not working for you. That's why things seem like you're always stuck. You're always pedaling underwater. And this is me, teenager till 35. Okay? It's just like I have all these great ideas. I think I'm a pretty smart person. I'm pretty interesting person. Can't get it to work because it didn't work. You know, it's just not working. But if you look at the entire trae trajectory of my life, the things that I stuck with, even if I didn't know I was doing that and I know I was be having that wheel and that grit, the things that I stuck with and I learned over time and I developed over time are the things that I'm still so great at and that have made me the most money. So group two, it is in the six months. It's it's purely in the time frame you gave it. They kept trying. They kept figuring it out. Realizing nothing is perfect, realizing they don't know what they don't know yet. They didn't try to have a perfect product because one does not exist. And because when you put something out into the world, your audience and the people you need to serve the most are going to start to tell you a little bit more and more of what they need. You have a hypothesis. That's your job as an entrepreneur is to have a hypothesis and to put that out and to make the world your lab and you you you confirm some things and then some other things are proven wrong and you adapt to that. I I love that that the the outcome and and and I just I want to speak it into existence, you know, from us recording this is that the outcome of this is that a lot more people are going to this is going to be the first moment that they're in the game, you know, like they're going to they're going to watch this video and afterwards it's going to be like, okay, let me let me get into this. Let me make my let me have my first conversation with Chat GPT. Let me make my first product with Replet. Um, and so you know what, Olen, before we get out of here on that point, you just want to quickly show people that um what we deployed on on Replet, I'm assuming it
Yeah, it's hopefully done now. I think so.
Yeah, let's check it out. It's here. That's crazy. Do you see that? That is so crazy. So, I'm just going to show you all that it did. And this is the first go at it. Just a few minutes. There's so much we can add to it. You can ask it. What else should we do? And imagine this is this has like anything connected to your true offer. Like the one I showed you before, we talk about a million-doll company in 8 hours. That's a high ticket company. Um, I wanted to get to 100K a month and it has every chance of doing so. And that website I could use for the next year and never change it, never have to do anything else to it. And it took me just a few hours. And we didn't spend eight hours on this. Like I think I think for people listening, you want to, but we didn't actually spend eight hours on this. And we have something that looks very functional.
That's right. And think about if you have chat GBT open and you have Replet open at the same time and you're going back and forth and it's working while you're getting more information to feed it. You're getting more ideas. You're deciding things. You're going for a walk. Coming back to it. All of that can be spun up in a day or over a couple of days. Split four hours here, four hours there.
Yeah. You know what, Olen? Just quickly before we get out of here, cuz I I have so much energy for this right now. You think there's a challenge that we can set people? I just want people to get that first that first bit of action, that first bit of momentum of like you don't just watch this video and just consume it and it stays there. It's like you watch this and it's instantly into building. Like I just want to get people to building. Is there is there a challenge and we'll even support them with it?
I I think there are two challenges. So there's one challenge for beginner beginner or if you want to kind of go back to the basics and then there's a second challenge if you've already figured out your offer and you want to go to the next level. How does that sound?
Let's do it.
Okay. So the first challenge and I love that you're asking this. The first challenge I would say is can you figure out your offer using only chat GPT in less than the eight hours. So in that first step, that first week is research and development. If that second week is figuring out your offer and creating it, those first two hours, can you figure out an offer? And your offer doesn't have to be your forever offer. It doesn't even have to be your core offer. It is an offer that would help you make your first $100. That is like if you can go from never making any money online to I'm able to make my first $100 because I came up with this offer. It's changes the game for you. So just coming up with an offer that you can live with that you like that you're excited about and that you hold. If you can do that and then if you want to be more advanced and like you already have your offer or if you want to take the challenge one into the next challenge, it would be to create a landing page for your offer using Replet. And remember, you can use Replet for free up to a certain amount of credits. So if you give it a pretty basic onepager, it doesn't have a lot of functionality, but it can have sections, you could do that for free. You could use ChatGpt for free and you could use Replet for free and actually have a working website. And if you want to go to the next level, you could get the $20 a month versions of both or each.
Yeah, that'd be awesome. Allan, thank you so much. You've been brilliant as always.
Awesome. Thank you so much. It's been absolutely amazing working with you again, Callum. Okay, so if you enjoyed this episode, you're going to absolutely love what we did with this one right here. Click here.