He Can't Code but His AI Agents Make Him $5K/Month⏐Ep. #289

Vadim Strizheus (0:00)

In the last 30 days, I made $5,000. That's really all you need to build a good startup business in today's world. And literally, I have no coding space, I have nothing at all. And I was able to quit my normal job, and I already made five grand in my first month. My life fully has changed in the span of four or five months.

Chris Koerner (0:18)

Dude, that's inspiring. I'm inspired, man. I'm 20 years older than you, and I didn't know half these tools existed.

Vadim Strizheus (0:24)

This is easily a 50, 60K, 70K year job, and I have agents doing this for me. I just tell them what to do.

Chris Koerner (0:31)

Man, my mind is blown right now because I'm thinking of just like all these venture capitalists in Silicon Valley. They're not going to have projects to give money to, because what you're doing is something that a similar startup in Silicon Valley would need to raise 1 to 7 million bucks for. You would not be profitable today, period. End of story if it weren't for these agents, right?

Vadim Strizheus (0:50)

100%.

Chris Koerner (0:51)

And you're just promoting this on Twitter?

Vadim Strizheus (0:53)

Yeah, purely Twitter.

Chris Koerner (0:54)

Okay. And how technical is your background? Like, did you know how to code?

Vadim Strizheus (0:59)

I don't know. Anything about coding, nothing about tech, nothing at all. I still could not write you a single line of code.

Chris Koerner (1:04)

Oh my gosh. That's a huge find. What other tools are in your tool belt that people have to use like yesterday?

Lots of talk lately about OpenClaw, the new AI agent that can, you know, run your life or whatever. But what if OpenClaw is already outdated? Today, I'm talking to an 18 year old that just vibe coded an app. He has no technical experience whatsoever. And this app made $5,000 in the last 30 days. He just vibe coded it a couple of months ago. And it's a pretty complex app. It competes with a company that just raised $50 million. So we talk a little bit about how he built his app, you know, how to vibe code apps. But we also talked a lot at the end about AI agents. What type of agent is better than OpenClaw? A few agentic tools out there that are changing the game. Talks about what prompts we should use to vibe code better apps, what tools we should use, and just super inspiring. I mean, 18 years old doesn't know how to code. Please enjoy. Vadim, well, why don't you tell us who you are and what you do?

Vadim Strizheus (2:00)

Hey, I'm Vadim and I'm the founder of Vugola, which is a clipping starter for clippers and marketers. And I'm scaling that to be the number one clipping tool by the end of 2026

Chris Koerner (2:09)

OK, so talk to people about clipping. Like, it's been around for a few years now. Why is clipping important and what does it do?

Vadim Strizheus (2:18)

So, for example, all the streamers you see, all the podcasters you see, clippings only become more relevant in the future.

That's why I started building my startup primarily for clipping. Because, like, if you think about clipping, it's purely organic marketing and it's a win-win for both your client and the clippers. The clippers get paid a dollar per thousand views and then the client gets like a hundred million views. It's a win-win. And in the future, I firmly believe the future is short from content. There will only be more reels, more like posts. And clipping is going to be another, like, branch of this marketing where it's going to like complete takeover, especially like content rewards, WAP, like the things that they're doing and like changing the industry in itself. Like that's going to be just the future. That's why, how I got to clipping. Clipping essentially just in broken down terms is, if you're in a podcast, live stream, whatever you are. So like, if you post to your own YouTube channel, and then you post your own shorts to your own YouTube channel, that's only five channels of reach you have. But if you have clippers, they make up like 50 sub accounts in your name, repurpose all the like they clip, like a bunch of clips and short form content all 50 Now you have like 50 channels of eyeballs going all to you. So that's basically what clipping is.

Chris Koerner (3:22)

So I think like the big elephant in the room, the big question mark with clipping is, how effective actually is it at bringing short form viewers to long form viewers or listeners? I've done quite a bit of clipping. I've had an agency, I've done it on WAP, I've done it off WAP, I've got a bunch of accounts. I've got my verdict. I'm curious what you've seen.