My AI side projects this year:
◆ https://t.co/C4nyqOycgD: 2.1 million users
◆ https://t.co/3NFbnMVfzn: 400k users
◆ https://t.co/wxXedGzPXW: 200k visitors
◆ https://t.co/ByPuxOeGtk: 29k downloads
Here's exactly how I approach building AI side projects in 6 steps:
1. Think of an idea that excites me but that is very simple. I should be able to describe it in 5 words to anyone.
2. Take a weekend and block it off entirely to focus on building the app. I'll generally take 15-30 hours to build an initial version.
3. Try to incorporate the latest AI models so the end result is especially impressive (even though it's trivial with code, like 1 API call to an ML model)
4. Launch early then iterate based on feedback from users. The benefit of launching early is that you can pivot or work on a new idea if what you launched isn't working out so you don't sink too much time into a failed project.
5. Make it free + open source so folks can learn from it and are incentivized to share it and follow you. I gained about 20k Twitter followers and 18k GitHub stars from the 4 projects above.
6. Make sure the UI looks good and is straightforward to use. Nobody will use your project if it doesn't look great, so I typically focus a lot on this aspect.
I do want to call out that I do have a large twitter audience and that helps a lot. With that said, I've seen folks without any followers have successful side projects by doing the things I talked about, so I still stand by them!
Check out @nutlope's roomGPT!
Redesign your room in seconds with #AI, 100% free and open source! 🤯
- App: https://t.co/9dT3vIirXy
- Code: https://t.co/qeCgTKdzsv
- Built with @nextjs 13, @tailwindcss, @replicatehq, @UploadHQ, and @vercel!
My side project @roomgpt just hit 2 million users and 5 million visitors 🎉
Blown away that this weekend side project I launched 6 months ago is still going.
Working on a complete redesign and launching some new features next week!
The energy of @nutlope is contagious! The creator of @roomgpt and aicommits has a lot of irons in the #AI fire 🔥🔥
Check out our latest video to discover what makes Hassan's many projects a success!
👉https://t.co/fIICRVluOB
#devcommunity#AI#GPT
I gained 100k users for roomGPT in the last few days since the viral roomGPT tiktok video that got 3.5M views.
Business Insider also interviewed me and wrote an article about roomGPT along with Yahoo News.
And to top it all off, I just released the new UI! Some thoughts:
Building simple apps that just do one thing very well is underrated.
A simple app that does one thing well + a good name + using new APIs = viral potential
Showed https://t.co/FtTTfBJdlK to my girlfriend (@itspaulinamac) and she made a TikTok about it that has over 1.4M views in one day🤯. Vercel seems to be withstanding the traffic nicely - great work @nutlope!
Two months ago, I launched my side project roomGPT.
Today, it hit 3 million unique visitors and 1 million registered users!
Time to invest more in this project – I'm working on roomGPT 2.0 and it's staying 100% open source. Coming soon.