Raja

Quit job to become a Full Time Contentpreneur | #1 Apple Blog on Medium with 73K+ followers | Helping Apple enthusiasts and creators to achieve great things

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Claude Cowork just turned one blog post into 10 social posts across 3 platforms in under 5 minutes.

One prompt. One file. Done.

Here’s the exact prompt (copy-paste it):

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5 ways to make money online as a creator
#sidehustle #creatoreconomy #creatortips #onlineincome #contentcreator

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I would love to see the adoption rate of all the new features Google released in IO 2026 after a year. Because I’m pretty sure that the adoption rate for most of the things they introduced in 2025 is very low

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@YossiOfficial @om_patel5 @grok 400 per month.. a Netflix level cost for an app that’s just a hyperlink of free Wikipedia articles that you can get in Wikipedia app itself with the randomizer feature. No thanks

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https://t.co/BwxzElTQB7

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@nihalnova I love the app and the design and the UI animations are so smooth!

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https://t.co/uBjnQkBmKn

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Most Mac users with @claudeai are using maybe 20% of what they pay for.
They open chat, ask a question, close the app.

Meanwhile Cowork sits one tab over, ready to organize their files, draft their reports, and finish their work overnight.

The Cowork Mastery Guide is the playbook. $29 today with FLASH50.

Link in comments.

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Most Mac users with Claude Pro are using maybe 20% of what they pay for.
They open chat, ask a question, close the app.

Meanwhile Cowork sits one tab over, ready to organize their files, draft their reports, and finish their work overnight.

The Cowork Mastery Guide is the playbook. $29 today with FLASH50.

https://t.co/z59UJffBKE

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@tankots @WisprFlow Any plans to add support for Tamil or Tanglish?

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@gumroad Only thing is 90% either don’t even open the email or respond to it.

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I built a paid community for Apple enthusiasts and it taught me something I didn't expect.

The people who pay $20/month for The Useful Tech Club aren't paying for information. They can find tips and reviews anywhere.

They're paying for curation. For someone who's tested 500+ apps to tell them which 5 actually matter. For setup guides they can follow step by step. For a group of people who care about the same nerdy details they do.

The internet has an information surplus and a curation deficit.

If you know a topic deeply, you can build a community around saving people time. That's the real product.

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My daily writing routine starts the same way every morning:

Open Craft. Go to today's Daily Note. Brain dump everything.

Every idea, every article thought, every random observation goes into that day's note. No organizing. No categorizing. Just capture.

Then once a week I review all 7 daily notes and pull out the gold.

This is how I never run out of content ideas despite publishing every 48 hours for years.

The secret to consistent output isn't creativity. It's having a capture system that works faster than your brain forgets.

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The M4 Mac Mini might be the best purchase I've made for my business.

It's the size of a paperback book. It runs cool and silent. It powers my entire content operation.

I write, edit, research, manage my Discord, run Craft, handle email, process affiliate dashboards, and edit images all at the same time. No fan noise. No slowdown.

Paired with a BenQ 4K monitor, it's a setup that looks like it costs $5,000 but doesn't.

Apple made the Mac Mini so good that there's almost no reason to buy an iMac anymore. That's a wild sentence to type but it's true.

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Where my money comes from as a full-time creator (no employees):

→ Blog posts on Medium (Partner Program)
→ 18+ brand sponsorships
→ Affiliate commissions from apps I actually use
→ Digital products on Gumroad
→ Paid Discord community at $20/month
→ Newsletter with 8,100+ subscribers

No single stream is more than 35% of income. That's on purpose.

When Medium's algorithm dipped last month, I didn't panic. Sponsorship and affiliate income held steady.

Diversification isn't just smart investing advice. It's smart creator advice.

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Apple Watch owners: if your speaker sounds muffled after a shower or workout, you don't need to dry it with a towel.

Swipe up to Control Center → tap the water drop icon → spin the Digital Crown.

Your watch will play a specific tone that physically ejects water from the speaker using sound vibrations.

Apple literally engineered their watch to sneeze water out of itself.

This is the kind of detail that makes me love covering Apple. They solve problems you didn't even know you had.

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Unpopular opinion: You don't need another productivity app.

Apple gives you Reminders, Notes, Calendar, Freeform, and Shortcuts for free. Built in. Synced across every device.

I've tested hundreds of apps for The Useful Tech over 9 years. The ones I keep recommending people back to are the ones already on their iPhone.

The problem was never the tool. It was never having a system.

A bad system in a $10/month app is still a bad system. A good system in Apple Notes is unstoppable.

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@jwegener beta

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The writing system behind 3.18 million views:

I don't stare at a blank page. Ever.

Every post follows the same pipeline:

1. Find what people are searching for on YouTube (that's your demand signal)
2. Research for 2 hours. Read everything. Screenshot everything
3. Write a detailed outline with every point I want to hit
4. Draft in one sitting. Don't edit while writing
5. Let it sit for 24 hours
6. Edit ruthlessly. Cut 20% of what you wrote
7. Publish on a strict 48-hour cadence

Consistency beats inspiration every single time.

I wrote about this entire system in detail. 294 pages of it. Link in bio if you want the deep version.

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You can now text Claude on iMessage. Like literally just add it as a contact and start chatting.

Why this matters more than you think:

Your mom isn't going to download an AI app. But she already knows how to text.

I've been testing it for quick lookups, draft reviews, and brainstorming while I'm away from my Mac. It's surprisingly good for those in-between moments when you need a smart thought partner but you're standing in line somewhere.

The best AI interface is the one you already use every day.

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378 articles.
78,600+ followers.
3.18 million views.
1.63 million reads.

That's 9 years of writing about Apple on Medium.

The #1 thing that got me here: I never chased trends. I wrote what I genuinely use.

Every app I recommend sits on my Mac or iPhone right now. Every workflow I share is one I actually run. Every product I review is one I bought with my own money or used long enough to have a real opinion.

People can tell when you're writing from experience versus writing from a Google search.

That's the entire moat.