He Gave an AI $200. It Built Him a $100K Business in 13 Days⏐Ep. #284

Chris Koerner (0:00)

So you're at like almost 10,000 monthly recurring revenue?

Robby Houston (0:03)

83, 74 right now.

Chris Koerner (0:05)

It's 100 grand a year.

Robby Houston (0:06)

Yeah, and we've only been open for 13 days.

Chris Koerner (0:09)

Oh my gosh. So you're not a Koerner, you're not a technical person?

Robby Houston (0:12)

No, the cool thing is you don't need really anything other than an internet connection to make this work. I wonder if I can do the same experiment with OpenClaw and give it a budget and see if it can make any money. And it blew up almost immediately. He did his own market research, everything. This is what we need to do to stand this business up. I didn't prompt him or anything. It's just a conversation of, you know, what do you think you would be good at? And then came back to me and was like, hey, I think there's an opportunity here. Where we are with agentic AI right now is 2007 social media. I think that we're on the precipice of something huge. I mean, if you're jumping on infrastructure that's 100 days old, you're going to be so far ahead of everyone else. Wild.

Chris Koerner (0:52)

Imagine logging into the internet 100 days into the internet. Exactly.

Robby Houston (0:56)

Yeah, that's where we are today with agentic AI.

Chris Koerner (1:02)

So I just came across this guy named Robby and Robby did something interesting. You may have heard of OpenClaw, which is a new AI agent slash personal assistant. He is not technical. He's not a coder. He works in operations at a full time job, but he downloaded OpenClaw and asked it, hey, you have $100, turn it into $20,000. And would you believe it actually did and not in the way he expected? Not in the least, he is 13 days into this experiment and he's making $8,500 a month in revenue and about $6,000 a month in net profit. And so within a couple of months, he's going to have his $20,000 in profit. So if you're not technical, if you don't know what OpenClaw is, but you want to invest a little bit of money to make a lot of bit of money, here's a story that might inspire you. And yes, this could be replicated. This is not just a one-off experiment. Please enjoy.

Robby Houston (1:51)

23, there was a guy named Jackson Great House Falls who did an experiment called Hustle GPT. You ever heard of that one?

Chris Koerner (1:58)

I remember that. Was that on X?

Robby Houston (2:00)

Yeah. Yeah, it started on X. This was when GPT-4 came out. And he wrote a tweet that said, I gave GPT-4 a budget of $100 and told it to make as much money as possible. I'm acting as its human liaison, buying anything it says to. Do you think it'll be able to make smart investments and build an online business follow along? And that was kind of the premise. And it got 16 million views when this was captured. But I'm sure it was more than that.

Chris Koerner (2:24)

Where can I see that tweet?

Robby Houston (2:26)

Yeah, I can share my screen.

Chris Koerner (2:28)

And share it.

Robby Houston (2:29)

Yeah. So that was kind of the genesis of everything that I've done so far.

Chris Koerner (2:35)

OK. So this inspired you and you took his prompt and basically did it yourself.

Robby Houston (2:39)

Yeah. With a few caveats. So I saw OpenClaw when it first came out. It just like randomly hit me one day. I was like, I wonder if I can do the same experiment with OpenClaw and give it a budget and see if it can make any money. And the first few attempts failed miserably. The first one. So I had it watching my TikTok because my original plan was kind of a side hustle was going to be to do TikTok shop. So I saw a bunch of people doing that and I was like, well, you know, if all else fails, I can sell vacuum cleaners on TikTok like everybody else. Right. And so I had it watching my TikTok and it would like scrape my videos. And my comments and all that stuff. And so I just posted a video on TikTok and said, basically, I'm giving my AI a budget of $200. We're going to see how much money it can make. The Claude Max subscription is 200 bucks. So if it can keep itself alive, that'd be awesome. And it blew up almost immediately and got over a million views.

Chris Koerner (3:40)

And do you mind if I play it right now?