His Random Weekend Project Now Makes Millions - Ep. #305

Jon Cheney (0:00)

I built a business in a weekend with AI. By six weeks in, I had done 180 grand.

Chris Koerner (0:04)

So that first one, you said it brought you two to $300,000.

And I'm not trying to underplay or undersell what you built in a weekend, but you vibe coded something. And that's something that a lot of people watching this have also done. You didn't start an apparel manufacturing company over the weekend. You vibe coded something, and we're in this very brief, unique moment in time where the vast majority of people have never heard that phrase, and they have no idea that you're just using natural language to ask a software tool to make your own software tool, right?

Jon Cheney (0:32)

Anyone can do this. I'm an average guy. I don't know how to code. And I just got it. I was like, I'm going to try to build a business today and see if I can get a customer by tomorrow. And then it was like kind of a dare. It was totally an accident. I was not that day anticipating where I would be today.

Chris Koerner (0:47)

I genuinely don't believe that anyone is actually afraid of failure. You stranded on an island all by yourself. You know you've got to build a raft that can get you like five miles. Are you going to not build that raft because you're afraid you'll fail? No, you have to build the raft, right? But let's say this was like Truman Show and you're being live streamed on that stranded island. You might not build that raft because you are afraid of the perception of failure from other people watching. No one's afraid of failure. We're just afraid of what people will think if we fail. Flip that switch in your brain. Just go do it.

I had a guest on a couple months ago, Jon Cheney. You may remember him as the guy that made two and a half million bucks in a year, vibe coding websites for business owners. Well, he happened to make 180 grand in his first six weeks by employing one little trick. And you're going to hear exactly how this works. How do you sell yourself? How do you get anything you want? Well, today, let's get very specific about that because my last episode with Jon didn't quite go deep enough on how he found customers. So this one will please enjoy.

Jon Cheney (1:46)

Look, getting customers is where most people kind of struggle, right? They come up with this awesome idea. And Chris, you're so good. My kids, I put my kids onto your channel. Like they love those ideas. They're trying to figure out like, how am I going to make money for the summer? And they're all ages like nine to 14 They're young, but there's some ideas in there. They're like, I could do this, right? And but then they're like, but how do I get customers, dad? How do I do this? And obviously, yeah, you can go door to door and you can go to Main Street door to door and find businesses or just pick up the phone or jump on LinkedIn and all those things work. And you should do that. You should hustle for sure. But I like to find ways to make noise. And there's a lot of ways to make noise. And we can talk about a bunch of these things on this call from, you know, ranging from, you know, social media posting, which is a huge thing. And we need to cover that because it's a huge way that I make money and or that I get customers, I get eyeballs on me, right? But traditional news, like traditional news, and, you know, whether that's like print, like a newspaper or, you know, digital print or just like the traditional news. Like when I first launched this company, I reached out to just the news desk. You know, you just get on a website on, you know, on channel two news or channel five or Fox or whatever it is. It's filled out of form. Yeah, there's just like, they're always looking. These guys are all, they're creative people and they're looking for cool angles, cool stories. So be a good storyteller, right? I mean, that's something that everybody knows is an awesome way to make money if you're a good storyteller. So be a good storyteller and reach out to these local news stations. So I reached out to KUTV here in Utah and I just said, Hey, I built a business in a weekend with AI. It's a cool kind of hook.

I like that. That's crazy business in a weekend. That's a cool story. Let's do it. And so they came out. I mean, literally, I'm not kidding you. That day, later that afternoon, they said, Hey, we want to put this on the news tonight. And I was like, yeah, come on out. So I cleaned my office up. Right. And they literally had the camera sitting right here on me. If you look up KUTV channel news, channel two news, Jon Cheney, you'll find the broadcast, the little three-minute segment they did on me. And then over the next few days, I had people adding me on LinkedIn and reaching out and saying, Hey, I saw you on the news. And I said, Hey, I've got a company that needs some help with AI and sweet. And I got, I know I got one deal that was a 20k deal a month, 20k a month. Another one was 10k a month.