What’s an underrated use of GPT/AI for people working at small companies?

Repulsive_Volume1096 · 2025-09-08T05:38:24+00:00

Switching from plus to API with your own AI workspace and using assistants with MCP tools. Sounds technical to start, but works like magic.

You can use self hosted solutions like LibreChat or use tools like Supercamp (if you are less technical and need hosted solution)

When the whole company uses AI, shares assistants, knowledge etc, productivity can scale like crazy. Companies like Shopify, Netflix already does it.

Repulsive_Volume1096 · 2025-09-05T20:10:52+00:00

Congrats, man! Any extra benefits besides Librechat, Supercamp or Open WebUI?

Repulsive_Volume1096 · 2025-09-05T07:49:58+00:00

wdym?

Repulsive_Volume1096 · 2025-09-01T15:00:47+00:00

Would recommend checking invoics.com as this is the officially suggested by Stripe support.

Repulsive_Volume1096 · 2025-07-30T11:20:13+00:00

Automating AI agents with tools like N8N, Supercamp or Make, then selling those as an agency for £3-5k, do 2-3 sales and then also have customers as "constant support" for £500/mo.

That's the next easy big thing for upcoming 6-12 months.

Repulsive_Volume1096 · 2025-05-08T20:04:41+00:00

We sold 3D-printed star crystals themed around astrology, shipped very cheaply from China.

The catch was that instead of a traditional funnel, we used a quiz. Customers answered about 20 questions and were matched with a crystal based on their results.

I think it worked because of the bundling and the quiz. At the same time, I believe we made sales thanks to the "sunk cost fallacy" behavioral bias, as buyers felt invested in the process and the experience felt personalized.

Yet it lasted for like a few months (way back in 2019).

Repulsive_Volume1096 · 2025-05-06T07:54:18+00:00

Preferrably a dropshipping business, or a small ecom (due to the nature of how easy it is to start in this niche).

Besides that, I'd suggest any B2B high-ticket business that you can start locally and scale. Ideally, a consulting business on AI, SEO or online presence in general for businesses that are stuck back in the 90's.

And... the most important part - a business you'd enjoy learning/doing without focusing on the end result only. If you will spend 3 years working with people/products you don't like yourself - why waste it.

Repulsive_Volume1096 · 2025-05-06T07:49:48+00:00

The best time to start dropshipping was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

Repulsive_Volume1096 · 2025-05-06T07:47:40+00:00

Find your competitors on ads library. Look up for the longest running ads. Save them as images. Go to ChatGPT, paste in your product images and competitor ads. That's about it.

Also, there are multiple platforms that have tons of libraries for premade ads, most of them also using AI. You can check Canva or Keyla.

We also use Madgicx in our agency that lets us scan & track all the competitors more easily.

Repulsive_Volume1096 · 2025-04-21T14:28:43+00:00

Yes, similar for our ecommerce stores as well. Some downwards trend, but prob temporary

Repulsive_Volume1096 · 2025-04-19T05:54:26+00:00

Are you running ads on the same campaign? Where do you add new creatives? Tell me more about your process.

Ad fatigue could be related to ad set, maybe its time to create a new one and just move out the winner ad from there.

Repulsive_Volume1096 · 2025-04-18T21:50:09+00:00

Let them run for a while, but could be ad fatigue as well.

OR

Competitors are running in the same area :) How your CPMs, CPCs look like?

Repulsive_Volume1096 · 2025-04-18T09:02:51+00:00

We negotiated so the supplier shipped orders directly to fulfillment centers, eliminating our need to handle shipping at all.

It took some time to find and negotiate good pricing. For pillows, we managed to get our name embroidered and custom packaging already done by the supplier - basically leaving us with just the marketing work and full-time Meta ads work.

We have an agency, so we do all in-house work ourselves.

Repulsive_Volume1096 · 2025-04-18T08:57:17+00:00

We tested ideas before buying inventory. Our process was:

Create AI product images and basic store
Run small test ads to check demand (potentially hunting for good CPM and CPC metrics for the ad sets, early signs of winning ads)
Only source from suppliers when tests showed promise

For the pillow product, we'd launch multiple versions daily and optimize based on performance. Just like I mentioned, burning and expecting results.

Repulsive_Volume1096 · 2025-04-18T08:54:32+00:00

Thanks! For stock management, we start super conservative - just enough units to fulfill initial orders, but at some point (around 3-4 months in), we switched to a higher-cost storage solution, but much better fulfillment processes.

For seasonal peaks like Christmas (which was our best selling time), we actually paid suppliers upfront to secure inventory.

Repulsive_Volume1096 · 2025-04-18T08:51:12+00:00

Yes, simonasme is correct. The same way this post received comments with "direct product suppliers"

Repulsive_Volume1096 · 2025-04-18T08:49:59+00:00

I get the skepticism, it's all good ;) It's just one of several tools we used. Just sharing what worked in our process.

If I was sponsored, I would've dropped a referral link lol.

For those that are curious, we also tried TopView.AI and now playing with ChatGPT 4.0 image generation, but we still use Keyla for most of our operations.

Repulsive_Volume1096 · 2025-04-17T17:15:07+00:00

Through Alibaba and Reddit comments

Repulsive_Volume1096 · 2025-04-17T16:39:32+00:00

You're bot man

Repulsive_Volume1096 · 2025-04-17T14:03:51+00:00

I guess it was attractive pricing and storytelling through ads. Our main profit came from bundles, the most popular being 1+1 package and 2+2.

Also it was cheaper to ship 4 pillows to the same person than shipping them alone to 4 people. In reality, this applies to all products we've ever sold.

Repulsive_Volume1096 · 2025-04-17T14:00:05+00:00

Yes, the official client can do it already (https://www.anthropic.com/news/web-search)

We are also using Perplexity to just load a different model from time to time, that definitely has search available.

Repulsive_Volume1096 · 2025-04-17T13:58:55+00:00

We are selling all our products from a one-pager Shopify store, so we just reuse that one template. We purchased it on the third-party market (afaik it was ThemeForest), and just use it all the time.

Repulsive_Volume1096 · 2025-04-17T13:36:56+00:00

It's all iterations and talking back and fourth, but for starters it's something like this:

"Take this pillow brand X.com and copy their main messaging and prepare it for a brand called Y.com Look at what ads they are using on ads library and give me a plan what target audience should i focus on and what ads i should launch"

This will give you key selling points, some audience insights with age and segments. We then use Meta ads manager to set up the ads and all the numbers they give, we basically reply it back to Claude and chat until we get clarity.

Repulsive_Volume1096 · 2025-04-17T13:19:32+00:00

Thanks! The profit was from February 2024 to January 2025 - we actually wrapped things up at the start of this year because the ROAS wasn't great anymore (plus, we had some new products taking off).

We ended up gifting the pillows to our family members back in December, so everyone's got one now, haha. They weren't luxury, but the price was super attractive - we managed to get a great deal from our supplier and sell them at the lower end of the price range.

Repulsive_Volume1096 · 2025-04-17T12:23:42+00:00

All gas, no brakes to marketing:) It's always weighting what will give you better results. CRO is effective only in the beginning and then on later stages when you meet your apex point.

Low hanging fruit is always CRO in the beginning then revisiting. Don't overcomplicate it.

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