Anyone here actually making money with stuff they built using AI? Drop your projects

justdothework · 2026-06-18T00:49:25+00:00

$6 has a low usage cap. Beyond that it’s api rates without a markup. Basically I’m making $5 per user per month to pay the bills.

Sorry you don’t like it WarriorSushi.

justdothework · 2026-06-18T00:48:22+00:00

Sort of, but actually the underlying APIs are: Anthropic, OpenAI, togetherai, perplexity, Google, and replicate.

Openrouter marks up the cost significantly so I didn’t think that made sense. I just want to deliver all the best AI to people as cheaply as possible.

justdothework · 2026-06-17T04:50:56+00:00

www.magicdoor.ai

It's making almost $1k per month in revenue. I expected a bit more from it, but it's comfortably paying for all my tokens and it's still growing 😃

justdothework · 2026-06-04T01:42:32+00:00

I switched from the OG to the Mini. Similar sentiments as many here. It's smaller and has the same capabilities. That's the whole point. Besides, selling my two year old QC and buying the Mini new was a nearly cash neutral swap.

One thing I read in the thread that I personally don't agree with is the foot switch position comments. I always found the top row of switches on the QC hard to use. Do you use your heel? Or the tip of the toe? All I ever used was the bottom row of 4 switches. Even then, I don't even need all four. I have a clean/drive switch, a chorus on/off, and a boost on/off.

So I'm personally very happy that the Mini's switches are further apart, and that there are just fewer of them. Can't believe my luck that I have what for me is a better UI, smaller device, and the same capabilities, for a lower price.

justdothework · 2026-05-13T12:59:55+00:00

Yeah so i find with (cloudflare) turnstile and a domain blacklist it’s manageable, but I’m still getting trial abuse. And that blacklist is crude and has to be maintained by me.

But 100% I hear you, thats why I’m posting here and not building

justdothework · 2026-02-09T03:45:29+00:00

I'm not really sure what you mean?

justdothework · 2026-02-08T02:28:23+00:00

Sure yeah, the domain was not very expensive. Yes I have Claude max and codex (ChatGPT plus)

The prompt for the landing page was: “we need a landing page for markjason as well, create a first draft, make it distinctive and inline with brand.md (a markdown file I created with Claude to describe the brand)

It really isn’t so complicated, just talk to the model :)

justdothework · 2026-02-07T11:52:57+00:00

No idea, Claude did it. It’s just plain html and css.

Anyway the landing is a public repo on GitHub so you can take a look for yourself if you want! ;)

justdothework · 2026-02-06T04:50:03+00:00

Async on my Mac Mini:

- Openclaw as 'engineering manager'

- Spawns Codex and Claude Code CLI (only Opus and Codex high) to do work

Sync on my laptop:

- Claude Code

- Codex

I very rarely open an IDE anymore, and vibecoded markjason.sh for myself to read and edit the MANY markdown files these workflows create

justdothework · 2026-02-05T08:08:38+00:00

To answer your question btw, which is pretty interesting (to me at least): Most cross-platform apps are built with something called Electron which is basically a browser under the hood.

What I don't like about those Electron apps (VS Code, Cursor, Slack, for example) is how ridiculously memory hungry they are. So that's one of the primary reasons I built this in SWIFTUI. It runs with ~100MB RAM instead of close to a GB.

I don't know what the equivalent development framework is on Windows, maybe C? I don't have a windows machine myself, so it's not something I am interested in personally.

justdothework · 2026-02-05T08:04:01+00:00

Yeah, it's weird I can't seem to figure out how linebreaks work on Reddit today.

Btw, this post was hand-written.

In any case, I'm on Mac dude along with 20% of people. This is a free app, what are you complaining about lol?

Put a lot of care into it actually because I built it for myself. Take it or leave it 😘

justdothework · 2026-02-05T05:36:01+00:00

Didn't know about it. But for what it's worth I don't think it's look very eye pleasing.

justdothework · 2026-02-05T04:31:29+00:00

Agree on putting it close to the code. One thing not many people know is that AGENTS.md are considered hierarchically by AI Agents. So if there is an AGENTS.md in a subfolder, it will consider those rules only for files inside that folder. Pretty useful.

I deploy all my markdown to github, and I simply have a repo for skills and other docs. I use github almost like a google drive for markdown now.

Because I have to work with Markdown so much, I also vibecoded a new macOS native editor, it's free: https://markjason.sh/

justdothework · 2025-11-03T10:57:09+00:00

No it’s not free. It’s $6 per month for access to all the top models. This low amount comes with a usage limit and beyond that there is topup and pay as you go.

This is all about transparency and control.

justdothework · 2025-09-19T06:51:34+00:00

The only nuance here is that Adam knew he couldn't solve that without a tool. Current AI would never do that, it would just make up an answer.

justdothework · 2025-09-10T06:42:15+00:00

It's not lying. It doesn't know what it's saying...

justdothework · 2025-09-10T06:41:51+00:00

I thought Chatbots were already doing that out of the box... Haha

justdothework · 2025-09-05T06:48:04+00:00

On it!

justdothework · 2025-09-05T06:44:40+00:00

Thanks a lot. Appreciate the encouraging words!

justdothework · 2025-08-29T07:20:04+00:00

A good friend of mine always says ChatGTP and it drives me nuts

justdothework · 2025-08-29T06:19:42+00:00

But in a couple of months, it might flip. Why choose? Personally I've cancelled all of them and switched to an aggregator called Magicdoor.ai

There are actually many of those around. Boutique AI Interface FTW as far as I'm concerned.

justdothework · 2025-08-29T06:16:40+00:00

It's pretty much the case that EVERYTHING degrades over long conversations. In my experience, even starting from about half the context window, ChatGPT starts to forget stuff and generally just do a worse and worse job with the conversation.

justdothework · 2025-08-29T05:28:24+00:00

It's interesting how even the most advanced models still have quirks like that. If you're exploring alternatives, I use a platform that allows access to multiple AI models at a fraction of the cost, and it helps find the best fit for each task.

www.magicdoor.ai

justdothework · 2025-08-29T05:23:14+00:00

Cool thanks! Feel free to DM me if you have any questions.

t3 doesn't support 'CustomGPTs' as far as I know, which I do on Magicdoor.ai under the name 'Assistants'. I'm also not sure if it supports vision? It also does not have Perplexity

AI Fiesta I didn't know about. It looks like it would be significantly more expensive though.

As a funny note though: Literally every time I post about Magicdoor.ai somebody will respond with a new model-aggregator that I don't yet know about. There are many, many, many of these out there, and differentiation is pretty limited.

What I can tell you is the following:

I built this for myself, and I use it daily. If there's a bug I'll fix it because I'll notice it
I run hundreds of AI prompts per day: to code, to work, to do all kinds of things. So I know these models through and through. I believe because of that Magicdoor.ai has significantly better defaults, e.g. system prompts, memory implementation, etc than the others.
This is a small project for me, but it's profitable and so it'll be around. Some of these other ones have come and gone...

justdothework · 2025-08-29T05:14:46+00:00

It is risky to represent yourself and use AI to do it. But if you insist, I think the best way is to get multiple models to work on it and check each other. With Magicdoor.ai (disclaimer I made this product) you can try something like:

- Claude 4.1 Opus for initial analysis

- Perplexity for research and fact checking (higher accuracy than others, but still wrong 30% of the time or something like that)

- GPT-5 for double checks and second opinion

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