Yann | Side Business

Building simple, scalable digital businesses
Ebooks • SaaS • Media
Founder of multiple tools

[ElevenLabs @ElevenLabs]

Introducing Avatars in @ElevenCreative.

The best AI voices, now with a face. Create studio-grade talking videos from a script, a voice, and an avatar - all in one place.

[Marouane - Rapi 🇨🇦🇲🇦 @RapiHodler]

🚨 as I announced last year, Shopify Payments is now officially available in the United Arab Emirates.

For now, it's available to stores on the Shopify Plus plan, but it should be rolled out to the other plans soon.

This is great news for everyone building a business from Dubai 🚀

[Yann | Side Business @sidebusiness]

Hehe, my sister is coming for 4 days. That makes me happy... So it's 4 days completely OFF for me.

What a great feeling to know that my business runs by itself.

A few years ago, I had 40 employees.

Today, I have a staff of 4 people and 60 AI agents.

What a pleasure. And above all, they're so much more reliable.

The most important thing isn't money... It's time, and your ability to make money automatically.

[Yann | Side Business @sidebusiness]

Finally

[Canva @canva]

PSA 📣 You can now turn your ChatGPT-generated images into fully editable Canva designs with Magic Layers, without ever leaving the chat.

[Yann | Side Business @sidebusiness]

My eBook business is almost 100% on autopilot...

1,000 high-quality AI-generated videos per day cost me just $1,500/month.

And I have nothing to sell you...

There's something truly satisfying about online business when everything runs on full autopilot. 🚀

[Yann | Side Business @sidebusiness]

I find it really disappointing that X now forces people to sign up with a phone number or a Google account.

You can no longer create an account using a professional email address alone.

When you’re building a new saas and need to create new accounts for testing, it’s just not practical. I can’t imagine managing 2,000 phone numbers.

There should still be an option to sign up with an email address and verify ownership through email

[Yann | Side Business @sidebusiness]

It's always funny to see all the crazy theories around crypto, BTC, and the rest...

Can you make money with crypto? YES.

Should you think long-term? YES.

But one thing is certain:

Crypto is still cyclical, and the halving remains a major factor.

That said, every cycle is different. Geopolitics matters. Adoption keeps growing. New players enter the market.

The fundamentals stay the same, but the environment keeps evolving.

[Ash Crypto @AshCrypto]

BREAKING: Visa, Mastercard and Stripe will launch a stablecoin platform together.

The companies that move trillions in payments are going all in on stablecoins.

[Yann | Side Business @sidebusiness]

Codex or Claude Code, as I was saying, given the price, both... What incredible luck we have!

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Building apps has never been easier.

With Sites, Codex can turn your work, ideas, and plans into an interactive website or app your team can explore, use, and share with a URL.

Rolling out to Business and Enterprise plans, before expanding more broadly.

[Yann | Side Business @sidebusiness]

Why choose between Claude and OpenAI?

Personally, I've decided to use both and move forward with both.

Now, with OpenAI, you can create high-quality marketing visuals without spelling mistakes, and translate them into virtually any language in just a few clicks.

A real game changer.

[Yann | Side Business @sidebusiness]

After a completely offline week with my family... I'm back in the game.

I'm even thinking about taking one full week off every month. 🚀

[Yann | Side Business @sidebusiness]

@mddanishyusuf Done.

[Yann | Side Business @sidebusiness]

What ultimately matters isn’t the technique, but your ability to use the right tools to deploy quickly and efficiently.

Vibe coding gets criticized, but personally, ever since we’ve had this and AI agents, I’ve never felt this stimulated or productive.

The real challenge is your ability to find a qualified audience.

[Dominik Sobe ツ @sobedominik]

my girlfriend launched her first mobile app 5 weeks ago.

today it hit $800 MRR and almost $1000 in revenue!

incredibly proud boyfriend moment right here.

here’s the back story:

two months ago my gf approached me and asked me if i can teach her the basics of coding.

i was really stoked because it came from her and not me.

i tried forcing a partner in the past into coding and let me tell it didn’t work out well lol

anyways, being a proud engineer and believing in teaching people first principles i decided to not throw her immediately into AI vibe coding but rather teach her the basics of coding.

we started with the Swift playgrounds course which is absolutely amazing btw

after she learned programming primitives we moved to web and i taught her a bit of typescript

we then built a very simply react native app without any AI so she could get the feeling of how apps actually work (obsly very basic but better than nothing)

at that point my life became quite busy again and i had to fully focus on work

before that though, i taught her how AI works with Cursor and Claude Code and then i went back to work

fast forward a week or two my gf approached me with her first app idea that she wants to build

i genuinely couldn’t believe it because it was actually a great idea! very rare for a first timer.

she either absorbed a lot of business things i was just casually rambling during dinners or she’s just super smart.

probably the latter.

the idea had a few rough edges but i didn’t want to influence it too much because i believe that you gotta sometimes make mistakes and learn how to fix them / pivot along the way

so i basically “left the chat” and let her cook (or fu*k up) on her own

5 weeks later and her app revenue basically reached her salary (she’s indonesia and wages are a bit rekt)

95% of her revenue is coming from organic Tiktok clips and comments

every time i see her on her phone she’s now creating new content for distribution

i can see the hunger for more in her eyes and it’s absolutely beautiful

[Yann | Side Business @sidebusiness]

When you have an engaged audience that X likes... it pays off...

[@levelsio @levelsio]

💰My @X revenue is almost $14,000 this month

$6,482 + $3,889 ad rev share
$1,091 + $1,173 sub revenue
(=$12,584 per 28 days)

= $13,707/month

Also my https://t.co/RyXpqGuFM3 merch sold $4,010 this month and my book https://t.co/VEoyhFdCOd $3,562

So together that's $21,279/mo in non-primary-business but more like "influencer" (what a cringe term but ok) revenue which is kinda interesting

And for the first time that influencer revenue is now actually bigger than one of my primary businesses https://t.co/UXK5AFqCaQ which is at about $10K/mo (I made it almost free to sign up so that's why)

This has kinda been my goal since the AI wave started 4 years ago, I knew many things would get replaced by AI (my businesses too) but human authenticity can't be, so I slowly started to focus on that a bit more, writing more fun blog posts here about my travels and things I do with my tech stack

My favorite thing is to make money with businesses though but I have to diversify a bit 😊

[Google AI Studio @GoogleAIStudio]

vibe code @Android apps directly in AI Studio and test on your phone

get started today: https://t.co/HyTlhP5sFr

[Yann | Side Business @sidebusiness]

Too much temptation with everything coming out lately…

[Google AI Studio @GoogleAIStudio]

what’s new in AI Studio:

- workspace integration: build with the Google ecosystem of apps (Docs, Sheets, Gmail, and more)

- Android apps: vibe code and test apps on your phone

- publish your first two apps live on Cloud Run, no credit card required

[Yann | Side Business @sidebusiness]

Update : @KASTxyz and its team demonstrated exemplary professionalism. They resolved my issue efficiently.
Their CEO was very smart in the way he handled the situation.

I’m convinced that the human side makes all the difference. I’ve seen it with Airwallex, with @AviciMoney , and now with @KASTxyz .

Big up @raagulanpathy

[Yann | Side Business @sidebusiness]

I don't know if it's a bug or real... But I just received some sad news... I tested it briefly, made only a few transactions, and it seemed very promising... I was really looking forward to testing PIX payments this summer in Brazil.

@KASTxyz @raagulanpathy @zacglover

I just hope it's a bug.

Yet I didn't make many transactions...

I was so looking forward to replacing it with an important secondary account

[Yann | Side Business @sidebusiness]

Everything is moving very, very fast.

[Google @Google]

Introducing Gemini Spark ✨

It’s your 24/7 personal AI agent that helps you navigate your digital life, taking action on your behalf, and under your direction.

🧠 It runs on Gemini 3.5 and is built on @Antigravity, so it can perform long-running tasks easily in the background.

⏱️ And because it runs on dedicated virtual machines on Google Cloud, you don’t even need to keep your laptop open.

🧰 Spark will integrate seamlessly with Google tools, and soon with third parties through MCP.

#GoogleIO

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.