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Build & Sell AI Tools to Local Businesses

Follow this exact playbook to build AI-powered apps and land paying clients in under an hour.

Based on: The Simplest AI Side Hustle for Beginners by Chris Koerner on The Koerner Office Podcast

The Simplest AI Side Hustle for Beginners

Why You Need This Checklist

What if you could build a fully functional software product, complete with a website, payments, and a database, without writing a single line of code, and then land a paying client in under an hour? That sounds like a claim you'd see on a late-night infomercial, but Chris Koerner from The Koerner Office Podcast actually did it on camera, in real time, with no audience plants.

Here's the problem most people ignore: 78% of customers hire the first home service company that responds to them. Not the best. Not the cheapest. The fastest. That means every garage door repair guy, plumber, or HVAC tech who's too busy on a job site to answer his phone is bleeding money every single day. He knows it. He hates it. And he will pay someone like you to fix it.

Imagine having a system where you build an AI voice agent and an instant quote generator for local business owners using free or near-free tools, then text 50 of them, and within 40 minutes have someone reply saying they're interested. That's not a fantasy. That's what Chris demonstrated step by step, on screen, with a live clock running.

The opportunity here is staggering. If there are even 20,000 garage door companies in the US and you can close just 1% of them at $500 per month, you're looking at $100,000 per month in recurring revenue. Your costs? Nearly zero. No employees required. No office. No technical background.

Chris has built and sold businesses across dozens of industries, and what makes his approach different is that he doesn't just tell you the idea, he shows you the exact tools, the exact prompts, the exact texts, and the exact results. He used Lovable to build two polished web apps in about 20 minutes total, set up a fully functional AI voice agent in GoHighLevel in minutes, scraped 513 local business leads for $111, and got a 30% response rate within 10 minutes of sending 50 cold texts.

This checklist captures every single step from that video so you can follow the same process yourself, today. No guessing, no rewatching, no pausing and scrambling for notes. Just open the checklist, work through it top to bottom, and by the end you'll have two live AI-powered products, a warm list of local business leads, and your first outreach campaign already sent.

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Every checklist item comes with actionable notes to guide you — things like "Don't forget to do this before you start," "Avoid this common mistake," or "Set a reminder for 30 days out." Nothing vague, just clear next steps.

DECIDE Identify your target home service niche — choose high-ticket businesses that receive after-hours calls and have not been consolidated by private equity
DO Go to ChatGPT and enable the 'Thinking' mode from the dropdown before writing your prompt
DO Ask ChatGPT to generate the best possible Lovable prompt for an instant quote generator tailored to your chosen niche
DO Copy the full ChatGPT output including the five follow-up prompts it provides for after the initial build
BUILD Create a free account on Lovable.dev and paste the ChatGPT-generated prompt to start building your instant quote generator

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