Matthew Santoro

Bass and beats

[m0h @exploraX_]

you don't need to pay for higgsfield or runway anymore.

there's an open-source AI image/video generator on github, completely free.

– no ads. no subscription. no heavy install.
– 200+ models (seedance pro, kling, sora, veo, flux, midjourney)
– cinema studio with real camera controls (lens, focal length, aperture)
– just prompt → generate – pairs with claude code & codex via a skills library

it's 10.7k stars on github already.

[ALEX SUZUKI @X_FINALBOSS]

If I was FORCED to make $20K/month selling ebooks online with AI in 30 days, starting from 0, here's exactly what I would do in 20 steps:

Days 1–3: Build the content machine with AI

1. Find the #1 creator in a profitable niche (ecom, fitness, finance, dating)
2. Scrape their top 100 posts — already proven to get views
3. Feed them into AI and generate 300 posts in your voice in under 15 minutes
4. AI schedules 5–10 posts/day automatically via TweetHunter
5. At 7 posts/day that's 210 posts in 30 days. Even if only 2% go viral, that's 4 viral posts. One viral post = 50K–200K impressions minimum

Days 4–7: AI builds your product in 48 hours

6. Prompt AI to write a 80–120 page ebook on your niche in under an hour
7. AI designs the cover, formats the pages, exports as PDF
8. AI writes the entire sales page and checkout page copy
9. AI builds your Whop or Gumroad store in 30 minutes
10. Price it $197–$497. Total cost to create: $0. Total time: 2 days.

Days 8–20: AI runs the entire sales machine

11. TweetHunter's AI auto-DMs fire to every liker and commenter 24/7 while you sleep
12. AI writes the DM sequence : free lead magnet offer, follow up, pitch
13. AI generated the lead magnet too (short ebook or checklist, built in 20 minutes)
14. AI wrote every email in your follow-up sequence
15. Example: 1 post gets 500 comments → AI sends 500 DMs instantly → 150 click the free magnet → 8 buy your $297 ebook = $2,376 from one post, fully automated

Days 21–30: AI scales what's working

16. AI identifies your top performing posts and generates 10 variations of each
17. AI writes a second upsell ebook at $497–$997 in 15 minutes
18. AI handles objections in DMs automatically
19. You're not doing anything manually at this point

The conservative math:

> 200 AI-sent DMs per day × 30 days = 6,000 DMs
> 50% click AI-generated free lead magnet = 3000 leads
> 1.5% buy $297 AI-built ebook = 45 sales
* 25% take $497 AI-written upsell = 11 upsells
* Total: $13,365 + $5,467 = $18,832 in 30 days

That's the floor. One viral post can do $5K–$10K in 24 hours alone.

Every product — AI.
Every post — AI.
Every DM — AI.
Every sales page — AI.
Every follow up — AI.

Just set it once and collect.

Comment "X" and I'll send you the full system.

[Tim Denning @Tim_Denning]

If you’re high agency type of person who loves high performance, the only thing you can do is entrepreneurship or you’ll lose your mind. Everything else just feels like a joke. It’s the only path that lets you exploit your talents, act like a psychopath, and run things how you want without being told what to do. The more you try to continue being an employee the more depressed you become. You just know. You’ve always known. You have this fire in your eyes no one can put out and every minute you avoid it feels like death. Some of us are born to solve problems and change the world in some small way. And we must take risks to feel alive. Only entrepreneurship can give you that. There are downsides though such as uncertainty, more stress, and inconsistent income. But life is too f*cking short to work a boring job. Stop avoiding the one path that’ll make you come alive.

[winkle. @w1nklerr]

A guy makes $100K a month putting people to sleep with AI

The whole channel is fake.

No host, no narrator, nothing real.

His name is Leo.

He picked a weirdly powerful niche, history stories for people who want to fall asleep.

The channel is called Sleepless Historian and it ships boring medieval history videos that are 30 minutes to 3 hours long.

People put it on at night, drift off, and the watch time goes through the roof.

The whole pipeline runs on AI tools stacked together.

He generates the script with ChatGPT and a tool called Subscribr that writes full 60+ minute narrations on autopilot.

The voiceover is done in ElevenLabs with a calm British narrator voice.

The visuals are generated in https://t.co/dPyGkWcGya, medieval scenes that loop quietly under the audio.

Everything gets stitched together in CapCut with ambient sound effects from Artlist.

One video took him a few hours. The channel hit 887K subscribers and pulls around $100K a month from YouTube ad revenue alone.

And he's doing the same play across multiple niches at once.

One viral video on another of his channels has already done 2.9M views and 50.7M impressions.

You don't need a face, a voice, or even an idea of your own. You just need the stack and a niche the algorithm is hungry for.

[Rohit @HeyRohhit]

Bill Ackman literally gave a 44-minute masterclass that explains money better than any business school.

[Skaly_Bull @Skaly__Bull]

16y.o kid MADE $15,000 IN 2 MINUTES

This is the reality of AI Dropshipping in 2026
While others waste years on theory and throw their last cents at Amazon this kid built a money machine using nothing but a laptop and Claude

The secret is the Capital-Light model:
you collect the cash before spending a single dime on inventory
While you sleep AI snipes viral hits and builds funnels in seconds generating sales on autopilot

This isn't a traditional business - it’s pure attention arbitrage on steroids

Tutorial on building his empire below:

[hunter @hxxntrr]

You can take a quarter million dollars from American banks, move to Bali, and live like a king for 3 years on $4,000 a month while the banks send you angry letters to an address you don't live at anymore

And the craziest part? Not a single thing about this is a criminal offense

$250K liquidated from 0% business credit cards through Melio and Plastiq into your business checking account. Processing fees: about $7,125 at 2.85%. Now you have $242,875 in cash sitting in your bank

Average cost of living in Bali for a baller lifestyle (private villa, scooter, eating out every meal, coworking space, weekend trips to other islands): $3,500 to $4,500/month. Call it $4,000

$242,875 / $4,000 = 60 months. 5 years of living in paradise on bank money

"They'll come after you"

Here's what they can actually do:

They can call you. Your US phone number is cancelled. You have a local Indonesian SIM card. Good luck

They can mail you. To the US address on file. You moved 9,000 miles away. The letters pile up in a mailbox nobody checks

They can report to credit bureaus. Yes. Your US credit score gets destroyed. But you're living in a country where nobody checks a FICO score. Indonesian landlords don't pull Equifax. The villa owner wants cash

They can sue you. In a US court. For a civil judgment on unsecured credit card debt. If you don't show up (because you're in Bali), they get a default judgment. That judgment lets them garnish US wages (you have none) and levy US bank accounts (you moved your money to a Wise or Mercury account that you access internationally)

They cannot have you arrested. Not paying a credit card is not a crime. It's a civil debt. There is no international arrest warrant for credit card default. Interpol does not care about your Chase Ink bill. The US embassy in Bali does not care. Nobody cares

After 7 years from the date of first delinquency, every account falls off your credit report automatically per the FCRA. You come back to the US with a clean file. Rebuild your score in 90 days with the authorized user strategy. Stack another round of business credit. The banks have no memory. Their systems only look back 7 years

"But the personal guarantee"

Business credit cards with a personal guarantee make you personally liable for the debt. That means they can pursue you personally in civil court. But the judgment is still civil. Still not criminal. And enforcement of a US civil judgment in Indonesia is... let's just say it's not something that happens. Indonesia does not have a treaty with the United States for enforcement of civil money judgments. The collector would have to re-litigate the entire case in Indonesian court. For a $250K credit card bill. They will never do this

Here's what people are actually doing:

The digital nomads who figured this out aren't even running from debt. They're running profitable online businesses from Bali while the 0% promo runs out, cycling to new cards remotely (you can apply for US business credit cards with a US address and US SSN from anywhere on earth), and paying off the old cards with business revenue. The ones who can't make the business work just... don't pay. And life goes on

A guy I know moved to Lisbon in 2023 with $180K in 0% business credit. Lived on $3,800/month for 18 months while building a marketing agency. Agency hit $22K/month by month 14. Paid every card off from revenue. Never missed the US once. Still lives in Lisbon. Still uses the same credit cards. Still at 0% on his current cycle

He didn't need to default. But he had the option. And knowing the option existed let him take the risk. The mental math changes completely when you understand that the worst case scenario for $250K in credit card debt is "my credit score sucks for a few years and I settle for pennies"

People mortgage their lives around a number on a credit report. They stay in jobs they hate. They live in cities they can't afford. They say no to opportunities because "what if I can't make the payment." Meanwhile the bank that issued the card has already priced your default into their quarterly earnings. They don't care if you pay. They've already hedged it

The bank made a bet. They bet you'd carry a balance and pay 24% interest for a decade. You took their money and moved to Bali. One of you is going to lose that bet

Am I telling you to flee the country with $250K? No. I'm telling you the actual legal consequences of credit card default, which are dramatically less severe than what most Americans have been led to believe. And I'm telling you that understanding those consequences changes how you evaluate risk, opportunity, and what you're willing to do with a 12-month window of free capital

every financial decision you've ever made was based on a fear that doesn't match the legal reality. that fear is profitable for banks. it's expensive for you

do with this information what you will

(we get 700+ score business owners $100K-$250K in 0% business funding. where you take the money is your business. link in bio)

[Big Brain AI @realBigBrainAI]

Prominent ethical hacker Ryan Montgomery explains how a carefully written prompt can unlock AI to do almost anything:

Most people assume jailbreaking AI requires technical skill, but Ryan knows the real key is knowing how to talk to it.

His setup is a highly customised system prompt tailored specifically to him, and the results speak for themselves.

"I can ask ChatGPT anything I want and it will give me some really verbose output. I could say give me a payload for a reverse shell and write malware that includes it, and it won't say 'due to my ethical guidelines I can't help you.' It will give me anything."

@0dayCTF has multiple custom GPTs configured this way, each fine-tuned to his workflow and needs as an ethical hacker.

When asked whether he'd share his exact method, Ryan declines. He uses it regularly and it's too valuable to give away.

"ChatGPT is super helpful to me personally. It saves a ton of my time."

But he does point to a well-known public resource for those curious about how these bypasses work.

"There's a website for just all different prompt bypasses. One that people update a lot is called DAN, which stands for 'Do Anything Now.' Just Google search ChatGPT DAN on GitHub, look for the most recently updated prompt, and that will unlock it to some degree."

The takeaway is straightforward: AI safeguards are language instructions. And if you know how to shape language, you can steer past them.

[Lunar @LunarResearcher]

An ex-Anthropic engineer told me something at a party he probably shouldn't have.

It was in SF. Someone's rooftop. I mentioned I run trading agents on Claude. He went quiet.

"You're doing it wrong. Everyone is"

I asked what he meant.

"Claude is a runtime. Not a chatbox. You're supposed to pair it with repos"

He pulled out his phone. Opened one GitHub link.

https://t.co/Y5eEMU8sHI

14,000 stars. Every workflow pattern they built internally before it went public.

Agents. Tool use. Evals. Citations. The entire architecture.

"Everyone types prompts. That's not how we use it. You connect Claude to a codebase. It reads. It understands. It builds on top of what's already there"

I went home at 2am. Connected Claude Code to poly_data - 86 million Polymarket trades. Every wallet. Every entry.

Claude didn't guess. It read the data and built detectors.

First week: +$1,400.
Second week: +$3,800.
Right now: +$9,100. 4 agents. 74% win rate.

His team runs this with a floor of PhDs and $800M AUM.

My setup: Claude + a VPS. $25/month. The repos are free.

Copytrade here: https://t.co/N2byLbLHH9

I asked him what separates his firm from everyone else.

"Honestly? Keyboard shortcuts and repo structure. That's it. The model is the same for everyone"

He texted me two days later.

"Delete everything I told you"

Too late.

[Aleiah @AleiahLock]

You could literally:
> Grab a cheap MacBook
> Subscribe to Claude Pro
>Connect it to Toobit + Polymarket in 15 minutes
>Let the AI trade spot, futures > >AND bet on events while you sleep
>Save $8,000–12,000/month doing absolutely nothing

Why the hell isn’t everyone doing this yet?!

[Alex Lieberman @businessbarista]

I interviewed a guy who gave his OpenClaw an X, stripe account, and bank account.

He told it to build a million dollar business with zero human employees.

It made $300K+ in a month.

@nateliason's agent Felix (@FelixCraftAI) runs an entire business. It builds products, writes sales emails, sends stripe invoices, manages a marketplace with 560+ listings and nat barely touches it.

Here's how they got there:

1) create a separate container. Felix has his own gmail, X account, stripe, bank account, C corp. nat never gave it access to his personal stuff. this removes security fears and unlocks maximum autonomy.

2) start stupidly simple. Felix's first product? a PDF. on a Nextjs site on Vercel with Stripe. the simplest business possible. it made $1,000 on day one. built entirely overnight while nat slept.

3) write a soul file with a mission. nat rewrote Felix's identity: "you are the CEO. your financial mission is to build a $1M business with zero human employees. i will never touch the code."

4) run a nightly self-improvement loop. every night Felix reads through all chat transcripts and finds one place where nat blocked him. then figures out how to remove that blocker permanently.

5) delegate by rambling, not prompting. nat uses voice notes on telegram. describes the problem in a 5-minute monologue. lets Felix figure out the workflow. "8 times out of 10, it'll surprise you with something better than what you were thinking."

6) let it cook on replies, gate the original posts. Felix has full autonomy on X replies but creates drafts for top-level tweets nat reviews. balances distribution with quality control.

[Price Foulger @pricefoulger]

I can't stop thinking about local newsletters.

A guy in Annapolis, Maryland started a free email newsletter about local events. No journalism background. He's an engineer.

23,000 subscribers. In a city of 40,000 people.

~$300,000 in revenue last year. From a newsletter about things to do in Annapolis.

A 23-year-old in Winnipeg did $60,000 in his first two months of monetizing. @MikeyPesto , a guy in the Catskills did $32,100 last month.

The model is stupid simple. Curate local events, restaurant openings, things to do. No politics. No crime. Just fun stuff for families. Send it once a week.

Businesses pay to advertise because the open rates are 50-70%. The industry average is <20%.

Subscriber acquisition cost? $0.50 to $1.00.

Revenue per subscriber? $10-$12 per year.

That's a 10-20x return. I don't know where else that ROI exists.

Now here's why I'm stoked on this:

I'm building a roofing company. Marketing in roofing is brutal. You're bidding against national brands on Google Ads with bottomless budgets. You're posting on social media where you don't own the audience and the algorithm can tank your reach overnight.

So I'm going to start a local newsletter for my market.

Build the audience. Build the trust. Then Rally Roofing advertises in its own newsletter. For free. To people who actually open the email.

My marketing spend doesn't go to zero, it goes NEGATIVE. Other businesses pay me to run ads alongside mine.

I wrote the whole breakdown in this week's issue of The Rally.

[Link in first reply]

[may.crypto {🦅} @xmayeth]

A friend quit his quant fund job and sent me 2 pages.

“These are the key formulas I used to make money on Polymarket. $400K a year. If you can apply them, you’ll get rich.”

I didn’t believe him.

I dropped both pages into OpenClaw and sent one prompt: “build a bot for Polymarket.”

Then I left for the gym. When I came back, there was a Telegram message from the agent: “MVP is ready.”

Now it’s been making me $150 a day for 4 days straight.

I attached both documents. Drop them into your AI agent and tell me what it builds.

[Julian Goldie SEO @JulianGoldieSEO]

OpenClaw just got a desktop app. And nobody's talking about it.

It's called Claw X. It's free. And it changes everything about how you use AI agents.

Here's the problem it solves:

Running OpenClaw required command line.

That's like owning a Ferrari but the only way to drive it is reading a manual written in Japanese.

Claw X fixes that with a clean desktop UI.

One-click install. No terminal. No commands. No tech skills.

Here's what you get inside:

A dashboard showing your agent's activity, skills, and scheduled tasks all in one place.

One-click connections to Telegram, Discord, and WhatsApp.

Visual settings for switching AI providers — Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, or even free local models via Ollama.

Scheduled task management without touching a single config file.

And the setup takes 2 minutes.

Just paste the GitHub link into OpenClaw and say "install this."

It sets itself up.

You've been avoiding OpenClaw because the setup looked complicated.

That excuse is

[Matthew Santoro @torostutorials]

@dashboardlim Open law

[Alex Finn @AlexFinn]

Humanity has advanced more in the past 3 weeks than the previous 100 years combined:

• OpenClaw: greatest AI application ever
• Opus 4.6: smartest AI model ever
• Codex 5.3 Spark: greatest coding model ever
• MiniMax 2.5: greatest super intelligence on your desk

I have moved up my timelines for the singularity and permanent underclass. We are 6-12 months away.

You have literally 1 job every morning when you wake up: find what the latest tech is, and integrate it into your life immediately.

These are the steps I'd do right now:

1. Get OpenClaw installed on a local device. Have it automate 1 workflow you have

2. Try out the agent swarms on Claude Code with Opus 4.6.

3. Build your first app with Codex 5.3 Spark. You can have a fully working app done in literally 30 seconds flat, even if you've never coded before

4. Prepare for a world of local intelligence. Even if you are on the cheapest Mac Mini there is, you can install Gemma 3 4b and have a lightweight model running on your computer. This is the future

The only way to escape the permanent underclass is to be on the cutting edge

Don't say I didn't give you the playbook

[Nate Curtiss @natecurtiss_yt]

Every YouTuber should do this…

[Miko @Mho_23]

i still don't think there's an easier play to make money online than selling digital products with AI influencers

we've already seen this done. multiple ai influencers are printing with digital products right now

but they all have one thing in common: they're all selling on whop

and i think i know why...

whop's conversion system is solid and they have extremely low fees

doesn't matter if it's affiliate or your own product.

here's exactly how to run that same play:

> pick a passionate niche

think of things like spirituality, self improvement, fitness, relationships, health. something where people actively seek guidance and are willing to pay for transformation.

> create your ai character

design a character that fits naturally. spiritual niche? a wise monk. fitness? a coach. finance? a mentor.

use ai tools to generate your character's face, voice, and style. consistency matters.

- nano banana for image
- 11labs for voice
- veo 3.1 for hooks
- heygen/infinitetalk for long form videos

> write scripts that connect

use claude to generate scripts. feed it your niche, your audience's pain points, and examples of what's working.

focus on hooks that stop the scroll, pain points your audience actually feels, and soft ctas that build trust first.

don't sell immediately. build the relationship.

> generate your videos

take your scripts and turn them into AI videos using infinitetalk.

Create a few variations for initial testing.

> post everywhere

tiktok, instagram reels, facebook reels, youtube shorts. same video, multiple platforms, maximum reach.

post 3-5 times per day minimum. consistency wins.

> monetize the traffic

create your digital product or community on whop. paid membership, digital course, coaching access, exclusive content.

whop handles payments, delivery, and member management. low fees. clean checkout.

add your links and convert link in bio pointing to your whop. soft ctas in your content. reply to comments with your link. use manychat on facebook & IG to auto-dm interested commenters

make it easy for interested viewers to find and join.

> scale what works

track which videos perform best. which platforms convert best. which hooks get the most engagement.

double down on winners. cut what doesn't work. add more ai characters in the same niche or expand to new niches

that's the whole play

ai influencer + organic content + whop digital products = leverage

people are running this right now and quietly printing

the question is whether you're going to watch or join them