# How I'd Make My First $10,000 With Claude

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[00:00] If I had to start completely over today,
[00:02] zero audience, zero money, and zero
[00:03] team, and I had to make my first $10,000
[00:06] with Claude, here's exactly what I'd do.
[00:08] And I'm not guessing. Last year, I built
[00:09] a software company over half a million
[00:11] dollars a month in revenue. It took me a
[00:12] full year, a team of engineers, over
[00:14] seven figures invested capital before
[00:16] turning a profit. And the whole thing
[00:18] was a massive grind. But today, AI does
[00:20] 90% of what I had to do and figure out
[00:22] the hard way. Which means if I had to
[00:24] rebuild from zero right now, with no
[00:26] audience and no team, I could do it
[00:27] faster, cheaper, and with way less
[00:29] stress than the first time around. And
[00:30] in this video, I'm going to walk you
[00:31] through the entire system. The exact
[00:33] seven-stage stack that I used to find a
[00:35] niche, validate a real product, and
[00:37] build it live with Claude and one hidden
[00:39] AI tool that I'll reveal in just a
[00:40] second. And then turn that into over
[00:41] $10,000 a month in monthly recurring
[00:43] revenue. Let's get into it. Most people
[00:45] chasing AI right now chasing the wrong
[00:47] thing. There's so much noise out there
[00:49] on YouTube, on Twitter, on every corner
[00:50] of the internet. And 90% of it leads you
[00:52] into one of two traps. The first trap,
[00:55] building for everyone instead of someone
[00:57] specific. Most people building with AI
[00:59] right now trying to make the most
[01:00] generic possible product. An AI
[01:02] productivity app, an AI fitness tracker,
[01:04] an AI tutor for students. No specific
[01:05] person, no specific problem. Just anyone
[01:08] who wants the thing. Here's the math
[01:10] that nobody's actually calculating. If
[01:11] your app is for everyone at $10 a month,
[01:14] you need a thousand paying users to
[01:15] $10,000 a month. And you're competing
[01:17] with apps that have a hundred million
[01:19] dollar marketing budgets and a five-year
[01:21] head [music] start. You're not running a
[01:22] software business at that point. You're
[01:23] running a marketing war machine that
[01:25] you'll never win. Because when your
[01:26] audience is everyone, your audience is
[01:29] no one. Here's the other version of the
[01:31] same trap. Building something cool with
[01:33] no plan to actually sell it. There are
[01:35] people right now using AI tools to write
[01:37] code and build apps every single weekend
[01:39] just for fun. With no audience to sell
[01:41] and no specific problem that they're
[01:42] solving. That's not a business, that's a
[01:44] hobby. The fix, the solution, is the
[01:46] complete opposite. Pick one specific
[01:48] person, build for one specific problem,
[01:50] and charge a real premium price. Trap
[01:52] number two is chasing every shiny new AI
[01:54] tool. New tool drops, everyone makes a
[01:56] reaction video. New model comes up,
[01:58] everyone pivots. Most creators in the
[01:59] space are running on the dopamine of new
[02:02] product releases. Here's a test. When
[02:04] was the last time that you actually
[02:06] built something with the last AI tool
[02:08] that you got excited about and made a
[02:09] free account? If you're being honest,
[02:11] most people never even used it. They
[02:12] just watched someone else use it on
[02:14] YouTube, make a free account, and then
[02:16] now they're stuck again. I've been
[02:17] teaching the same business model for the
[02:18] last 6 years. Why? Because it actually
[02:20] works and I've made over 32 million to
[02:22] prove it, and it's still working. The
[02:24] fundamentals don't change just because a
[02:25] new tool dropped on Tuesday. If you're
[02:27] chasing tools, you're not building
[02:29] anything. You're just consuming content
[02:31] about other people who might be building
[02:33] something. So,
[02:33] >> [music]
[02:34] >> if those two paths are traps, what's the
[02:36] actual lever? This is the shift that
[02:38] most people never make. You do not need
[02:40] a thousand strangers to like your app.
[02:42] You need 100 specific people to need it.
[02:45] Same revenue, completely different
[02:46] difficulty in this game of business. So,
[02:48] path one, generic AI [music] app for
[02:50] everyone. You have thousand users paying
[02:51] 10 bucks a month, bleeding churn, people
[02:53] canceling after the first month.
[02:55] Constant marketing, competing with
[02:56] companies have billion-dollar budgets.
[02:57] Best case, you're working as hard as a
[02:59] full-time job for 10 grand a month. Path
[03:01] two, focused AI app built for one
[03:03] specific person solving one specific
[03:05] problem solved at a premium price point.
[03:06] 100 customers paying 97 bucks a month.
[03:08] That's 9.7k a month in monthly recurring
[03:10] revenue. Three more customers and you're
[03:12] at 10k a month. 100 specific people in a
[03:14] niche where they already pay for
[03:16] solutions, that's not hard. And that's
[03:18] what I'm going to show you how to do
[03:19] right now. Now, before I show you the
[03:20] system, you need to understand where the
[03:22] real money is. Because here's what most
[03:24] people get completely wrong. They pick a
[03:25] niche [music] based on what they find
[03:27] interesting. That's how you end up
[03:28] building an app for left-handed bonsai
[03:30] gardeners in Iceland. I look at this
[03:31] very differently. I ask one question.
[03:33] What are people already paying for? If
[03:35] the willingness to pay is already
[03:37] proven, you do not have to invent a
[03:39] market. You just have to be the better
[03:40] AI-powered version of what they're
[03:42] already buying. I call this the five
[03:44] problems that people already pay for
[03:47] framework. Five categories of big
[03:49] problems where the willingness to pay is
[03:51] already proven and AI just simply
[03:53] unlocked a way to solve them for 10
[03:55] times faster and easier. Number one,
[03:56] personal optimization. Fitness,
[03:58] nutrition, sleep, productivity. [music]
[03:59] Look at MyFitnessPal, Strava Premium,
[04:01] Notion. People are already paying 10
[04:03] bucks to $100 a month for apps that help
[04:05] them optimize their lives and their
[04:07] productivity. And AI just unlocked
[04:09] personalized coaching at app prices.
[04:11] Number two, skill acquisition. Language
[04:13] learning, music, coding, design.
[04:15] Duolingo is a multi-billion dollar
[04:16] company. Masterclass charges nearly 200
[04:18] a year. People will pay real money to
[04:20] get [music] something. And AI can now
[04:22] deliver one-on-one tutoring at the price
[04:24] of an app subscription. Number three,
[04:26] mental and emotional support. Anxiety,
[04:28] sleep, relationships, dating,
[04:29] confidence. Calm and Headspace are
[04:31] billion-dollar businesses. The
[04:32] willingness to pay is massive. And AI
[04:34] gives people 24/7 access to support
[04:37] [music] that they used to wait weeks
[04:38] for. Number four, money and career.
[04:39] Investing, side hustles, career
[04:41] coaching, interview prep. People pay
[04:42] thousands for courses and coaches in
[04:44] this category. And AI can now deliver
[04:46] personalized strategy at a fraction of
[04:48] the cost. Number five, niche obsessions.
[04:50] Running, fishing, gaming, parenting,
[04:52] specific hobbies. These are small
[04:53] markets, but the people in them are
[04:55] obsessive and they pay [music] a lot of
[04:57] money. AI lets you deliver expert-level
[04:59] personalization in markets too small for
[05:02] big companies to bother with. These are
[05:03] goldmines. People already pay and AI
[05:06] removes 90% of the build cost. And
[05:08] nobody's building the focused niche
[05:10] version yet because everyone's [music]
[05:11] still chasing the next shiny AI model.
[05:14] That's your opening. Now, here's a
[05:15] system. I call this the first [music]
[05:17] 10K AI app stack. Seven stages, each one
[05:20] feeds the next. The end result is a real
[05:21] product making real [music] money. Stage
[05:23] one, niche research. Stage two, concept
[05:26] validation. In stage three, positioning
[05:28] and copy. Stage four, pricing. Stage
[05:30] five, the build. Stage six, the landing
[05:31] page. And stage seven, traffic and
[05:33] launch. Here's the part people miss.
[05:35] Claude does almost all of the thinking
[05:37] work. And base 44, this new hidden AI
[05:39] tool I was telling you about, is one
[05:40] that actually does the building. Two
[05:42] tools, seven stages, a real product on
[05:44] the other side. Let's run it. So, stage
[05:46] one is to pick a niche from one of those
[05:48] five categories and go deep. For this
[05:50] video, I'm going to go with skill
[05:51] acquisition. And within that, I'm
[05:53] picking pre-med students studying for
[05:54] the MCAT. If you don't know what MCAT
[05:56] is, it's a medical exam that college
[05:58] students in the United States have to
[05:59] take in order to be accepted into
[06:01] medical school. It's a 7-hour test,
[06:03] super stressful, and students study up
[06:05] to a year in order to pass it. And I
[06:06] personally suffered through this because
[06:08] I was a pre-med college student at UCLA
[06:10] 6 years ago. So, I totally see the value
[06:12] of something like this. But, pay
[06:13] attention here. I want you to pick your
[06:15] own niche. Anyone studying for a hard
[06:17] exam works. The LSAT for law school, the
[06:18] bar exam, CPA, NCLEX for nurses, FAA
[06:21] exams for pilots, or skip exam prep
[06:23] entirely and pick fitness coaching,
[06:25] language learning, money, dating,
[06:26] anything from one of those five
[06:27] categories I just talked about. The
[06:29] system works the same way regardless of
[06:31] niche. I'm going to go with pre-med
[06:32] because they're smart, they're hard
[06:34] working, they're anxious about results,
[06:35] and they're willing to invest money for
[06:37] anything that gives them a competitive
[06:39] advantage. I also was in their shoes, so
[06:41] I can add my personal touch. The MCAT
[06:43] prep market is hundreds of millions of
[06:45] dollars a year. Kaplan, Princeton
[06:46] Review, Blueprint, all charging
[06:48] thousands,
[06:49] >> [music]
[06:49] >> massive willingness to pay, zero
[06:51] shortage of pain. Now, I'm going to ask
[06:52] Claude to research this niche for me.
[06:54] What I'm asking Claude for is the top
[06:56] pain points ranked by money lost, the
[06:58] language these students actually use,
[07:00] and where they hang out online, and what
[07:02] they're already paying for. And look
[07:03] what comes back. Top pains ranked
[07:05] [music] by money lost, the exact phrases
[07:07] that pre-med college students use when
[07:09] they talk about the preparation, the
[07:11] forums and the communities that they
[07:12] live in, the tools and the prep services
[07:14] that they're already paying for, and how
[07:15] much they're spending. Everything that I
[07:17] need to understand the market. And in
[07:19] about 30 seconds, I have a complete map
[07:22] of the entire market, the pain, the
[07:23] language, the competitors, the price
[07:25] points that they already accept, [music]
[07:26] and I haven't built anything yet. Stage
[07:28] two, narrow that research into one
[07:30] specific sellable [music] concept. I
[07:32] take what Claude just gave me, and I
[07:34] push it forward. I ask Claude for the
[07:36] top three app concepts that would solve
[07:38] the highest money pain I could
[07:39] realistically build with no-code [music]
[07:41] tools and charge them around 97 bucks a
[07:43] month. The concept that wins, a
[07:45] personalized AI MCAT coach that builds
[07:47] an [music] adaptive study plan based on
[07:49] the student's weak areas, their test
[07:51] date, and their daily availability.
[07:53] Plus, a tutor chat for any subject
[07:55] question. So, that's the product.
[07:56] Specific pain, specific audience,
[07:58] specific price point, already proven
[08:00] willingness to pay. So, now we're on
[08:01] stage three, positioning and sales copy.
[08:03] This is where people get stuck for weeks
[08:06] [music] writing the website, writing the
[08:07] pitch, trying to figure out how to make
[08:08] it sound compelling. Claude does this in
[08:10] less than 90 seconds. I asked Claude to
[08:12] write a homepage hero section, [music]
[08:14] three core feature blocks, and a
[08:16] guarantee section, and a closing call to
[08:18] action. I tell it the audience, the
[08:19] price, and the emotional angle, fear of
[08:21] running out of time before the test. And
[08:23] look [music] at what comes back. A hero
[08:25] headline that hits the exact pain,
[08:27] running out of time, burning out, paying
[08:28] thousands for tutors. A sub-headline
[08:30] that frames the AI as the personal
[08:32] coach. Three feature blocks, a
[08:34] guarantee, a closing CTA. This used to
[08:36] take a week, just took 90 seconds with
[08:38] AI. [music] We'll plug this into the
[08:39] landing page in step six, so hang with
[08:41] me. Now, we're on stage four, pricing.
[08:42] Now, this is a quick one. I'm just going
[08:44] to go with $97 a month. There's three
[08:45] reasons for that. One, it's below the
[08:47] $100 mental barrier, which dramatically
[08:48] improves conversion. Two, it's roughly
[08:50] 10 times cheaper than a private MCAT
[08:52] tutor, which gives me a clean comparison
[08:53] [music]
[08:54] story. And three, at 97 a month, I only
[08:57] need 100 customers to hit $9.7 thousand
[09:00] in monthly recurring revenue. Round that
[09:01] up, it's 10K a month. Pricing locked,
[09:03] now we build. Stage five, this is the
[09:05] part everyone thinks is the hardest.
[09:06] It's not. And listen, I'm not a
[09:07] developer, I don't know how to code.
[09:09] time I built software, I hired a full
[09:11] engineering team and burned through six
[09:12] figures before I made a single dollar
[09:14] online. This time, I'm just going to use
[09:16] Claude and this one hidden AI tool
[09:18] called Base 44. A quick note, link below
[09:20] for Base 44, 30% off. It's because Base
[09:22] 44 saw the impact I had on my students,
[09:24] I negotiated for a sick discount for
[09:26] you. This is the same tool I'm going to
[09:27] use right now. Use it to follow along.
[09:29] Here's the workflow. Claude writes the
[09:30] build prompt. Base 44 takes that prompt
[09:33] and builds the actual software. I asked
[09:35] Claude to write me a Base 44 build
[09:37] prompt for an MCAT prep app with
[09:39] features I want. Sign up, diagnostic
[09:41] quiz, adaptive study plan generator, and
[09:43] an AI tutor chat. And Claude gives me
[09:45] the prompt, I copy it, open base 44, and
[09:48] paste it in. Now, while base 44 is
[09:50] building this, and this only takes
[09:51] [music] a few minutes, let me tell you
[09:52] why this part of the system is the
[09:54] unlock. The reason most people never get
[09:56] past the idea [music] phase is because
[09:58] of the build phase. You have an app
[10:00] idea, but you don't know how to code.
[10:01] You either teach yourself programming
[10:02] for 2 years, or hire a developer for
[10:04] $50,000, or chase down a technical
[10:06] co-founder for months. All three of
[10:08] those options kill 99% of ideas before
[10:10] they ever launch. Base 44 deletes that
[10:12] entire problem. The version of me from a
[10:15] few years ago, the one that hired the
[10:16] engineering team, invested multiple six
[10:18] figures, and took over a year just to
[10:20] get [music] a software company off the
[10:22] ground, I couldn't have done that. I
[10:23] don't have the tools, but you do. And
[10:25] there it is, base 44 made the entire
[10:26] software app for us. So, let me show you
[10:29] what just got built. Here's the
[10:30] dashboard. Days until the MCAT counter,
[10:32] current week of the study plan, a quiz
[10:33] score tracker, a base task panel, an AI
[10:36] tutor card on the right. I click into
[10:38] the diagnostic quiz, real MCAT
[10:39] questions, multiple choice, subject
[10:41] coverage across biology, chemistry,
[10:43] physics, psychology, the whole exam. I
[10:45] click into the AI tutor, real chat
[10:47] interface, conversation history sidebar.
[10:49] I can ask any MCAT subject question and
[10:51] get an expert-level answer. I click into
[10:53] the study plan, week-by-week breakdown,
[10:55] daily [music] tasks pulled from my weak
[10:57] areas first. Stop and think about this
[10:58] for a second. A real software product, a
[11:00] real working app, built in minutes from
[11:03] a single prompt that Claude wrote. What
[11:05] used to take months to build this
[11:06] product, and the version of me from a
[11:07] few years ago, six-figure team minimum
[11:09] investment, base 44 just did in a few
[11:12] minutes [music] from a prompt. Stage
[11:14] six, the landing page. Same workflow, I
[11:16] go to Claude and I ask it to write a
[11:18] base 44 prompt for a marketing landing
[11:20] page using the sales copy that we
[11:22] generated in stage three. Paste in a
[11:23] base 44 and click run. And while that's
[11:26] building, this is the part of the
[11:27] workflow that most people skip, and it's
[11:29] the most important one. The landing page
[11:31] is actually what converts traffic into
[11:34] customers. Most products fail not
[11:36] because they're bad, but because nobody
[11:38] can find them [music] and nobody
[11:39] understands what they do in the first 5
[11:42] seconds. There it is. Here with the
[11:44] headline. Score 515 or more on the MCAT
[11:47] without burning out, falling behind, or
[11:49] paying $5,000 for a tutor. Three feature
[11:51] blocks, personalized study plan, AI
[11:53] tutor on demand, adaptive tracking.
[11:56] Pricing section, $97 a month, six
[11:58] feature checklist. Comparison anchor
[12:00] showing private tutors [music] that
[12:02] charge 100 to 300 dollars an hour,
[12:04] 14-day money-back guarantee, final call
[12:06] to action. Live, polished, on brand with
[12:08] the app. Two prompts, two builds, and we
[12:10] have a real product and real sales page.
[12:12] And remember, we just need 100 of these
[12:14] students to pay 97 bucks a month. It's
[12:16] not a marketing miracle. You don't need
[12:18] a million people to subscribe. It's just
[12:19] 100 pre-med college students to
[12:21] subscribe to this. Stage seven, traffic.
[12:23] Now, let me be clear. You do not need
[12:24] ads. You do not need a huge audience.
[12:26] You need one focused content channel.
[12:28] I'd use Instagram Reels. audience lives
[12:30] on Instagram and TikTok. Short-form
[12:32] content gets free distribution if you
[12:33] know how to make it. And once again,
[12:35] Claude does the heavy lifting. I asked
[12:37] Claude for 10 viral script concepts
[12:39] targeting pre-med students 6 to 12
[12:41] months out from their test. Pattern
[12:42] interrupts in the first 3 seconds. Soft
[12:44] CTA driving to the link in bio. And look
[12:46] at what comes back. Hooks that make a
[12:48] pre-med student stop scrolling
[12:50] instantly. Scripts that you can film
[12:52] faceless if you want. Total time
[12:53] invested? About 30 seconds. You film
[12:55] five of these a week, you drive traffic
[12:56] to your link in bio, your link in bio
[12:57] goes to your landing page, and your
[12:59] landing page sells
[13:00] a month subscription. 100 customers,
[13:02] $10,000 a month in recurring revenue.
[13:04] That's the system. So, let me recap what
[13:06] we just did. We used the five problems
[13:08] people already pay for framework to find
[13:10] a niche where money was already moving.
[13:12] We picked pre-med students studying for
[13:14] the [music] MCAT. And then we ran the
[13:15] first 10K AI app stack, research,
[13:18] validation, copy, pricing, build,
[13:19] landing page, and traffic. Using Claude
[13:21] as the thinking layer and Base 44 as the
[13:24] building layer. The version of me who
[13:26] built that first software company could
[13:27] not have competed with this. He didn't
[13:29] have these tools, but you finally do
[13:30] now. So, here's the question. Are you
[13:32] going to keep watching reaction videos
[13:33] about the next AI tool? Are you actually
[13:35] going to build something right now
[13:36] today? So, here's what I do this week.
[13:38] One, pick a niche in the five
[13:39] categories. Do not [music] overthink
[13:41] this. Two, open Claude and run the niche
[13:43] research prompts. Get your map of the
[13:45] market in 30 seconds or less. And three,
[13:47] have Claude write you a base 44 build
[13:49] prompt and run it. Real product live by
[13:51] the end of the day. Four, film five
[13:53] reels and start posting. Today, not next
[13:55] week. That's it. Four steps and you can
[13:56] have a real product live by the end of
[13:57] the week. So, that's the system. Niche
[13:59] research, validation, copy, pricing,
[14:01] build, landing page, traffic. Claude
[14:03] does all of the thinking for you. Base
[14:05] does all the building for you. You just
[14:06] do the launching. Two links below this
[14:08] video, here's how it works. The first
[14:09] link in the description, base 44, I
[14:11] negotiated to get you 30% off. It's the
[14:13] same tool that you watch me build this
[14:14] entire product with in less than a few
[14:16] minutes. Click it, sign up for any of
[14:17] the paid plans and claim your 30%
[14:19] discount and you could have your first
[14:20] app launched by the end of this week.
[14:22] And once you've grabbed any of the paid
[14:23] plans through that link, you're also
[14:24] going to get a free gift directly from
[14:26] my company to you. Click the second link
[14:28] below in the video to claim that. That
[14:29] gift is a full course on digital
[14:31] products plus
[14:32] >> [music]
[14:32] >> a VIP ticket to a private workshop that
[14:34] I'm hosting later this week. All of this
[14:35] is a package that we normally sell for
[14:37] over $500. I'm going to give that to you
[14:38] for free when you sign up for base 44.
[14:40] This is the exact playbook that's helped
[14:42] my top students build five-figure and
[14:44] six-figure businesses online. It teaches
[14:46] you how to find what people already pay
[14:48] for, how to position it, and how to
[14:49] actually sell it once it goes live. The
[14:50] system that you just watch build your
[14:52] product. This course and private
[14:53] workshop I'm hosting later [music] this
[14:55] week is where I'll show you step-by-step
[14:56] how to turn that product into real
[14:58] monthly revenue. So, here's your order.
[15:00] First, sign up for base 44 with the
[15:01] first link down below. Then, step two,
[15:03] claim your free course through the
[15:05] second link below and then show up on
[15:07] time to the workshop starting later this
[15:08] week. One builds your product, the other
[15:10] one shows you how to get paid for it.
[15:11] Stop watching, start building. So, tap
[15:13] those two links below and I'll see you
[15:14] in the next one.