Pirs

[Pirs @pirsdegen]

A 19 year old made $997 in a week selling walkthrough videos for Airbnb listings he's never set foot in.

He uses Claude to generate every video. Copies the photos from the listing, pastes them into one prompt, exports a cinematic first-person walkthrough in minutes. No camera, no drone, no editing timeline.

He never leaves the house. The listings are on the other side of the country.

A real videographer charges $500 per visit - travel, gear, editing, delivery. He charges $200 per video. Hosts still pay because walkthrough content lifts bookings 20 to 40 percent.

The workflow is one paragraph long. Find a listing on Airbnb. Copy the photos. Paste into Claude with his prompt. Export. Deliver. Repeat.

One client a day covers his rent. Five clients a week is a full salary.

Every city has thousands of listings without a walkthrough video. He hasn't run out of leads yet.

The gap between him and the videographer is a Claude subscription.

Most people will scroll past this.

The rest are already writing their first DM.

[Pirs @pirsdegen]

A guy went to sleep and woke up to $847 in profit from a trading bot Claude built for him.

The whole system was built by AI. He read an article about trading bots, pasted it into Claude, and asked for a working pipeline.

Claude scanned GitHub, picked 7 repositories, and wired them together into a single system. It handled data ingestion, signal detection, decision logic, and order execution. Deploy script included.

He turned it on before bed.

The system scanned 412,000 trades overnight. Watched high-volume orders. Read patterns most retail traders miss. Every few seconds it made a call — buy, sell, pass.

He didn't touch it once.

47 trades executed. $847 net profit by morning.

He didn't write a line of code. He didn't design a strategy. He didn't pick indicators. He read an article and let Claude do everything the article described.

Most people read articles like that and take notes.

He read one and shipped a system.

[Pirs @pirsdegen]

A 24 year old pulls $13,000 a month from football tricks she has never performed.

AI does every trick. She just walks into the frame. The model overlays the juggles, the scissor kicks, the rainbows - synced to her feet in post.

She's never touched a real ball. She doesn't need to. She records herself walking with her phone, feeds the clip through Claude and a video model, and out comes a highlight reel of a woman doing tricks a pro would practice for years to nail.

The pull is the formula. A woman doing something men associate with men, at a level most men can't touch. Impossible to scroll past.

Millions of views per clip. Sports apparel brands slide in. Ad deals pay per post. Platform payouts stack on top.

$13,000 a month, on average. Zero coordination, zero technique, zero ball time.

Most creators train for years to earn brand deals.

She let the model train instead.

[Pirs @pirsdegen]

A 24 year old truck driver makes $1,500 a day just by leaving a camera on while she drives.

She uses Claude to turn every live stream into a week of TikTok clips. The camera runs on autopilot. She just drives.

Her monthly numbers stack. $7,000 from the trucking job. $45,000 from live stream donations. $2,500 from short-form platform payouts. Total: around $54,500 a month.

Every shift starts the same way. Camera on, stream live, no announcement. She doesn't talk. Just drives and eats sweets on camera.

The pull is the contrast. A young female truck driver is a stereotype breaker, and stereotype breakers hold attention. People stay on the stream, donate, share the clip, come back tomorrow.

At the end of the day, the stream file goes into Claude. Out come 20-30 short clips ranked by hook, moment, and engagement pattern. She posts them to TikTok while she sleeps.

Millions of views the next day. Platform pays for the views. Sponsors slide into the DMs.

She isn't a creator who happens to drive. She's a driver who turned her shift into content.

Most people separate work and audience.

She let her audience ride along.

[Pirs @pirsdegen]

@felixprehn everyone finds the next NVIDIA after it goes 20x, nobody finds it before lol

[Pirs @pirsdegen]

@KobeissiLetter markets pricing in 70% odds of a rate HIKE while jobs collapsed and gold ran to $4,400 was the actual insanity. 40% is just everyone waking up late

[Pirs @pirsdegen]

@Barchart WMC went from $13 to $1.20 in 2 years while home prices supposedly kept climbing. one of these numbers is lying, and it isn't the stock

[Pirs @pirsdegen]

@gabriel1 @OpenAI the AI is good enough but nobody uses it' thesis is genuinely underrated -the gap between capability and adoption is where all the money will be made next

[Pirs @pirsdegen]

A 16 year old was doing $1 million a year in sneaker sales while still in high school.

He did it in 2015 with a spreadsheet and a phone. The same play today runs on Claude - release calendars, price histories, and reseller networks mapped from a single prompt.

Benjamin Kapelushnik's mother bought him one pair of Nike LeBron 9 Galaxies in 7th grade. A classmate asked to buy them the next day. He asked his mom for another pair, flipped both, and reinvested every dollar into more sneakers.

Within a year he was paying people to hold his place in line at store drops. He built a network of contacts who could pull Nike and Adidas releases before street date. He treated rare sneakers as inventory. Brands capped supply. Buyers with money didn't want to wait.

DJ Khaled became a customer. Then Chris Brown. Then Drake. He opened Sneakerdon for the rest. Inventory past 5,000 pairs. One Air Jordan he bought for $12,000 resold for $20,000+.

Fortune estimated his 2016 sales at $1 million.

He did it before he could vote, without an algorithm, using a spreadsheet a kid today could replace with one prompt.

Nike printed the price on the box.

The buyer who got there first set the real price.

[Pirs @pirsdegen]

A 16 year old put $1,600 into a drawer full of RAM, betting AI will 5x it in 15 years.

He asked Claude to project the DDR5 memory shortage. Claude returned a curve — factories can't keep up with AI demand, prices multiply 5 to 10x by 2040.

He borrowed the money from his parents, disappeared for half a day, and came back with 20 sticks of Kingston Fury Beast DDR5.

Not for a PC. Not for friends. To sit in a drawer.

His math is simple. Billions of PCs will still be running in 15 years. They'll need DDR5. The factories will have moved on. What costs $80 today will cost $400 then. Minimum.

$1,600 becomes $8,000.

He isn't a trader. He isn't an investor. He isn't an analyst. He's a teenager who bet on one thesis — hardware shortages always repeat themselves.

Remember the RTX 3080 in 2021. $700 sticker. $2,500 resale within a year.

Everyone else is paying for AI subscriptions.

He bought the memory the AI runs on.

[Pirs @pirsdegen]

@batuhanppn in the car frame the drone is at 0. in the ground frame its 50 km/h = 14 m/s. slam the brakes and go from 50 to 0 in 2 seconds - the drone keeps flying forward at 14 m/s and kisses the windshield in about 0.07 seconds

[Pirs @pirsdegen]

When a guy addicted to AI reveals,
Best tools 🔥
・ChatGPT
・Claude
・Cursor
・Perplexity
The one nobody talks about that beats them all↓

[Pirs @pirsdegen]

@adiix_official DDR2 lives because ATMs and factory machines from the 2000s were built to run 20-30 years. modern PCs get replaced every 5-7 years, so in 2040 there wont be 'billions of desperate PCs' searching for DDR5 theyll already be retired

[Pirs @pirsdegen]

A drywall sander pulls $4,200 a month in brand deals without editing a single video.

She uses Claude for the whole loop. Props a phone in the corner of the room, works her shift, feeds the raw footage into Claude at the end of the day. Comes back as 40 to 50 short clips ready to post.

She started nine months ago. Same job, same dust, same scaffolding. The only thing she added was a camera and a workflow that took the editing off her plate.

Month 3: $600. Month 4: $1,800. Month 5: $3,400. Now steady around $4,200, every month, on top of her regular pay.

Most people wait until they're huge. Brands don't need her audience big. They need it right.

90,000 tradespeople watching a sander work is worth more to a tool company than a million random teenagers. Sanders pay $500 to $1,500 per post. Platform payouts stack on top. Affiliate on the tool in her hand stacks again.

The trade didn't change. The dust didn't change. She just stopped doing it invisibly.

Most tradespeople work in silence.

She let the phone run.

[Pirs @pirsdegen]

A 24 year old made $130,000 last month from a Shopify store he hasn't opened in 47 days.

He runs the entire operation through AI. Claude builds the store. Veo 3 shoots the product videos. ChatGPT writes the ads and answers the customers.

It started with one prompt to Claude — spin up a full Shopify store around a trending Alibaba product. Claude returned the store, the descriptions, the policies, the email flows. He uploaded the product image and pressed launch.

He has never logged into the admin from a desktop. He runs the store from the Notes app on his phone.

Last month: $130,000 in revenue. Ad spend $42,000. Return on ad spend 4.1.

Most dropshippers spend their week answering DMs, editing photos, A/B testing copy, arguing with suppliers. He does none of it. AI does what scales. He does what doesn't, which is nothing.

The less he touches the store, the more it prints.

Dropshippers losing to him spent ten years getting good at work AI now does for $20 a month.

He spent one prompt.

[Pirs @pirsdegen]

@om_patel5 this is the only app that will get grown adults running outside to chase stray cats for rare drops

[Pirs @pirsdegen]

@AnatoliKopadze the judge agent is where every loop secretly fails - planning and building are easy, evaluating your own output without bias is the actual hard part

[Pirs @pirsdegen]

@Bober_smart this is what AI was made for - one student doing the work of a whole team in a month with just $20

[Pirs @pirsdegen]

An 18 year old makes $10,000 a month off YouTube channels he doesn't own.

He's still in high school. He has never shot, edited, or scheduled a video himself.

It all started with one number he saw on a creator forum. Short-form video pays about $2,000 per million views across TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts combined.

He looked at his laptop and did the math. One viral moment, three platforms, three posts. The source content is already being made by someone else. The algorithm decides which clips travel. The only thing missing was the cutting and the posting.

He doesn't own a camera. He has a Claude subscription.

He picked a YouTube channel that uploads daily. Pasted the link into one tool. Connected his TikTok, Instagram, and Shorts accounts. Closed the laptop and went to sleep. From that night on, Claude ran the loop — watched the source channel, pulled the viral moments out of every upload, cut them into 30 second clips, wrote captions, scheduled the posts across all three platforms.

He stopped touching the system after the first week.

First month: 800,000 views. Second month: 2.4 million. Best month so far: 5 million views across three accounts. $10,000 deposited while he was in class.

He isn't a creator. He's an operator. He doesn't make content. He owns the factory that makes it.

Most 18 year olds film themselves talking to a camera and pray.

He pointed Claude at someone else's camera and clipped it.