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title: 'I Started a Dropshipping Store in 24 Hours Using ONLY AI'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=_dTKOXlvdZ8'
video_id: '_dTKOXlvdZ8'
date: 2026-07-01
duration_sec: 889
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# I Started a Dropshipping Store in 24 Hours Using ONLY AI

> Source: [I Started a Dropshipping Store in 24 Hours Using ONLY AI](https://youtube.com/watch?v=_dTKOXlvdZ8)

## Summary

The video tests the viability of AI dropshipping by building a store from scratch in 24 hours with strict rules: under $100 budget, 60-minute setup, and only a laptop and iPhone. The creator uses AI tools for store building, product research, and ad creation, ultimately generating $188.98 in revenue with a $52 profit. The experiment proves that while AI accelerates setup, success still requires effort and strategy.

### Key Points

- **Challenge Rules** [00:53] — The challenge required under $100 in expenses, store built in under 60 minutes, and only a laptop and iPhone.
- **AI Store Builder** [01:26] — An AI store builder generated a Shopify store structure quickly, with AutoDS as the pre-installed supplier.
- **Product Research with ChatGPT** [03:55] — A custom ChatGPT prompt was used to find a winning product based on viral momentum, emotional appeal, and profit validation.
- **Product Selection and Pricing** [07:28] — The chosen product was a neck and shoulder massager, costing $25 USD on AliExpress and sold for $70 USD, yielding almost 3x margin.
- **AI UGC Ads Creation** [09:00] — AI UGC ads were created using Ark Ads and edited with CapCut, then launched on Facebook with broad targeting.
- **Final Results** [13:22] — After 24 hours, the store made $188.98 in revenue from three sales, with total expenses of $137, resulting in a $52 profit.

## Transcript

Everywhere I look right now, someone's
claiming AI drop shipping is printing
money. 500 a day, thousands a month,
completely passive.
>> able to make hundreds of thousands of
dollars with AI.
>> I've made millions of dollars with drop
shipping.
>> More high six figures.
>> 1.1 million dollars in drop shipping.
>> Hundreds of dollars a day from this side
hustle.
>> 500 dollars a day working from home.
>> 600,000 dollars this month alone.
>> was that easy, I mean, come on. Everyone
would already be rich. Look, I've
already made millions with e-com, but
I've also watched thousands of people
lose money chasing shiny objects and
getting sold on get rich quick schemes.
So, in this video, instead of just
talking to you about AI drop shipping,
let's actually take this money making
scheme and put it to the test over the
next 24 hours. But since I'm not a
beginner myself, it's only fair if we
put some rules or restrictions on me
here. Rule number one, this whole thing
has to cost me less than a hundred
dollars in expenses. Rule two, the store
has to be built in less than 60 minutes.
And rule three, the only tools that I
can use will be my laptop and iPhone.
And no, I can't use any of my personal
connections or anything like that
either. So, if this doesn't work under
those three rules, then I'll admit
beginners should not be touching [music]
this business model. All right, so the
timer starts now, and we've got three
main things to do here. Firstly, we have
to set up our store, then we'll be
selecting our product, and then creating
and launching ads. I think that's pretty
much it. Now, for the first step,
creating the store itself, this is where
AI should be saving us a boatload of
time. And this tool right here will
generate you a Shopify store structure
fast. No inventory, no shipping
headaches. When somebody places an
order, your supplier will fulfill it
automatically when you set up your
[music] store using this tool. And the
process is dead simple, and it's not
going to cost us anything apart from one
dollar a month to actually be on
Shopify.
>> [music]
>> So, if you want to follow along, just
head down to the description and click
on the first link, which is going to be
the free AI store builder link. So,
it'll take you to this page that you see
me on right now. And after running
through a couple of quick questions here
and just connecting a couple of things,
we're pretty much done. Which is so
crazy cuz back when I first started drop
shipping, to get store templates like
these, it would cost at least 300 bucks
plus all the apps and features that it
already includes would be easily another
$200 cuz you have to buy them
separately. But now it's all free and
it's all combined in one tool that
completely does everything for you. And
it already comes pre-installed with Auto
DS as your supplier. All right. So, the
store we got here is also fully loaded
with some pretty good products [music]
and everything's technically ready to go
live. But again, if it were that easy,
then everyone would be rich, surely. So,
let's at least spend a little bit of
time selecting our own product that we
want to use for this challenge. [music]
Now, you see, most beginners select
their products and niches based on what
they think they would buy. And [music]
that's how you lose money because think
about it. Just because you are here
binging how to make money online
challenges on YouTube, it doesn't mean
that the majority of people watching
YouTube wouldn't prefer to go watch a
Mr. Beast video instead. Now, the same
rule applies for people who are buying
products. You don't just choose your
product only based on what you already
like. Instead, [music]
you need a product pick the product
based on what's selling well right now.
Mass demand, impulse buyers, and endless
product [music] angles, that's the main
criteria that I'm looking for. Now, in
the past, my go-to method has been to
jump on TikTok and just start scrolling
until I find viral products. Then I
would go and check the Meta Ads library,
which is free online put out by
Facebook. And it basically allows you to
scroll tons of different high-performing
ads from all the different companies
that are advertising on Facebook. I
would make sure that there's other
competitors selling that product well,
and I would get a ton of inspiration
from the ads that they are running. And
look, that method still works great, but
given our serious self-imposed time
limit here, we need something better,
something faster. Now, I'm still
building e-commerce brands to this day,
so my team and I have come up with
[music] a special product research
prompt. And all you have to do is feed
this prompt into Chat GPT or Claude. All
right, so here's what the prompt looks
[music] like just in case you wanted to
see. But literally all you have to do is
copy all of it and just go ahead and
paste it into [music] Chat GPT. And
after using this prompt myself, I
eventually narrowed down my search
[music] to this one product that I
thought would be perfect product for
this challenge. Just to read you the
context quickly of what you're feeding
to Chat GPT, we're basically saying,
"Hey Chat GPT, you're building a drop
shipping product research bot with one
singular purpose. You need to identify
winning products and provide compelling
evidence for why they will make money.
The bot must provide working Auto DS and
AliExpress links to actual products, not
just some generic search instructions or
incorrect URLs. [music]
Each product recommendation must
demonstrate thorough market research
including viral momentum, emotional
appeal, trend data, pain points, and
profit validation." It's really crazy
how far AI has come today. Not only do
we give it the context, we can give it
its role and make sure it's stepping
into the right personality to actually
find these products. This prompt
basically ensures that you're going to
get the most high-quality
>> [music]
>> data-backed trending winning products
off of Chat GPT than you'd be able to
with any other simple prompt. All right,
so I've decided to call this the Velixa
neck and shoulder massager. I know, I
probably could have been a little more
creative with the name there, but I
think it works and it fits with sort of
the clean and minimalistic approach I
took landing page. So we have a few
super clean AI product images here, and
as you guys can see, you want a couple
nice close-up shots of the product
itself. Before and afters for these
types of products tend to work very well
as well, and then just simply showing
somebody happy and using the product
while giving a few benefit-driven points
is usually what I like to go for for
clean and simple product images like
these. Now you can see I've also done a
little upsell here, so if you buy two,
you end up saving a little bit more
money, and you'd be surprised at how
many people are doing this. If people
find a great product that they want,
chances are they're thinking about
buying one for their friend or family
member as well. And so, even just
offering bundles with more quantities of
the same product is a great place to
start for increasing your average order
value. And you can even do this off the
rip very easily on any product test.
Now, down here I have a couple of
different trust badges, the
specifications. We went with a 14-day
money-back guarantee, basically ensuring
that if you're not 100% satisfied, you
can simply ask for a refund and we'll
send you your money back. Now, in terms
of shipping, we just tell people when
they can expect their order, and this is
pretty standard with AutoDS. AutoDS has
some of the best shipping in the game,
and even though we say our current
shipping times are between 5 to 9
business days, it usually gets there a
lot faster. But, we do this
strategically so that the customers can
feel even better when they get their
product faster than they were expecting.
Now, for the rest of the product page,
we just have a couple of GIFs of the
product in action and people enjoying it
and using it. Instead of giving people
all the technical specifications, we
like to tell them the end outcome or the
result of what happens when they buy our
product, such as making their body
calmer. When you focus on the benefits
or the outcome instead of just selling
the features and the technicalities,
this is what really drives people to
actually make a purchase. And then
finally, for the last section, we have a
few different AI videos of testimonials
from previous happy customers. And I
know, these aren't real, of course, but
hey, you got to start somewhere if
you're a brand new business owner. And
down here, we just have a few frequently
asked questions. I figured this out by
asking ChatGPT what customers would
naturally ask next before buying a
product like this, and then just
ensuring that people have all the
information they need before making the
purchase. Now, here's the AliExpress
listing for the product. As you can see,
it's $35 Canadian, which is about $25
USD, and I plan on selling this thing
for $70 USD. So, that gives me a super
nice, almost 3x margin. [music] And the
great thing about this product as well
is it has such a high perceived value
because it is kind of a tech [music]
product. You know, it has an electronic
component, you have to charge it, and
people really assume that these types of
products [music] are worth hundreds of
dollars or more. So, the perceived value
on it is so much higher than the actual
cost that we're charging. [music] On top
of that, we can see the AliExpress
listing has tons of great reviews from
thousands of different [music] people
and over 5,000 units sold.
>> Perhaps the most beautiful thing about
AI drop shipping is that once you know
what your product is going to be, in
literally one click, you can paste it
into AutoDS and it will show up on your
store ready to go. On top of that, you
don't even need to manage the product
yourself. Orders will be double-checked
for quality, shipped out on time,
tracking emails will be sent to new
customers, all using AutoDS's new AI
features. It's pretty much a cheat code
for starting drop shipping today, and
it's basically like having multiple
employees all working on your business
except this will literally only cost you
$1 a month to get started. So, yeah,
AutoDS has completely revolutionized the
drop shipping game, and the best part is
that when you use Build Your Store, all
of this automatically gets connected
[music] to your Shopify store anyway.
But, I'll leave another link in the
description just in case you ever need
to reconnect it to AutoDS. Now comes the
fun part. We need to get people to get
onto [music] our store and buy our
product. And the best and fastest way to
do that is with paid [music] ads. Not
any kind of paid ads though, but AI UGC
ads. Now, if you're wondering what in
the hell I just said, or if that was
even still English, all I'm saying here
is that AI can now create fake humans to
advertise for us. And honestly, it's
getting a bit out of hand, but hey, at
least you and I can profit from it. All
right, so what I'll do now is I'll grab
content straight from AutoDS of the
[music] product, and I'll also check
some other royalty-free sites on the
internet. And then I'll fire up Ark Ads
to create my fake human [music] to say
nice things about the product. I'll be
linking Ark Ads in the description so
you can check them out, too. Now,
obviously, there'll be some level of
manual work here. We'll add some b-roll
clips, some music, [music] and overall
make these ads look nice. And this is
really easy to do nowadays. You can
literally use CapCut on your iPhone and
follow the basic instructions when you
download the app to edit the video how
you wish in just a few clicks. But, if
you've seen any of my previous
challenges, you guys would know I'm
super lazy with this stuff, so I
actually already got my influencer
girlfriend working on these ads for me.
Don't worry, if you don't have an
influencer girlfriend yet, the blueprint
[music] is actually quite simple. Just
make millions drop shipping, and then
just drop ship your girl friend from
some exotic part of the planet. I'm
completely kidding, by the way. So, here
are some ads that we just cooked up. All
right, so now all we have left to do is
to go ahead and launch these ads on the
most goated ad platform ever, our hero
and savior, Facebook. [music] Because
nothing ever goes wrong on Meta. Now,
I'm going to have the screen recording
of me setting up these ads rolling just
in case you want to see the exact
structure of what we're doing, but
basically I'm keeping things super
broad, and I'm leaving Meta's algorithm
to do all the heavy lifting for us.
[music] Anyone who tries to sell you on
some fancy or flashy ad strategy is
completely [music] capping because in
today's day and age, this platform has
generated an unfathomable amount of data
on its users, which means that it can
target your ideal customers a lot better
than you think that you can. So, if you
want to spend some time optimizing
before launching, definitely don't spend
your time in the ads manager trying to
make the perfect [music] ad strategy.
Instead, just focus on making your ads
better. Put more thought into the
editing [music] process behind the
creatives. Put more thought into the
clip selection. This is what's going to
take you farther and make you more
money, rather than thinking there's some
magic ad strategy that will make you
millions. Just like that, everything is
set up and ready [music] to go live at
midnight tonight. So, with all that
being said, I will see you guys in 24
hours, well, 23 hours from now for the
results. All right, guys, it's the next
day, and when I woke up this morning, I
honestly wasn't too pleased because I
didn't see any results, but then
bang, we just got a sale 2 minutes ago.
As you can see, $70. So, looks like a
single order just rolled through, but
hey, off to a good start and we have a
few more hours left. So, hopefully we
can get another one or two in the door
before this challenge ends. Quick
update, it turns out the last sale that
we got was literally 20 minutes into the
ads going live. Sometimes, guys, the ads
are in review for a long time on
Facebook before they finally go live.
So, the good news was we literally spent
$9 to acquire that customer and now we
have a double order that just came
through. Check this out, $118
double order. I I was expecting a lot
more struggle because I just did a 7-day
challenge and it went horribly. So, I'm
looking forward to more smooth sailing
and when I go over the final results
this time, hopefully we can prove that
drop shipping is not dead and in fact
now is literally the best time and the
easiest time to start. Well, just like
that, the challenge is officially over.
But look, before I go over the results,
listen, the money we made in this
challenge, it won't knock your socks
off. It's not exactly life-changing or
anything, but man, it was fun and it
takes me back to when everything first
started for me with drop shipping. The
only difference today is that with the
AI tools that we have available, things
are 10 times easier and you saw how
quickly I set everything up. And [music]
on top of that, the fact that we
actually made money in less than 24
hours should give you all the proof of
concept that you need to get out there
and at least try this for yourself. And
I get it, this isn't exactly passive
income, but it is leveraged income. You
know, we set this up once [music] and
the money rolled in while I was going
about my day. And the AI tools that we
used, you know, they don't replace doing
the work [music] itself or even the
thinking behind it, but they certainly
help us get everything rolling way
faster. So, with that being said, we
brought in a grand total [music] of
$188.98.
We sold three units and for the [music]
cost of the units plus shipping that's
about $75. Now the fees and the
subscriptions so the $1 a month for
Shopify and AutoDS adds up to about $5
and actually on the ads we only spent
$57. So [music] we actually spent a
little bit less than that $100 budget to
even make these three sales. So all in
all total revenue $189 total expenses
$137.
We actually came out in the green $52
and I'd say that given the time that we
had and the restrictions that I put on
myself I'd consider this a success. Now
if you guys want to see a part two where
I scale this properly, you know, more
time [music]
more traffic, more testing, I'm happy to
do it for you but only if you guys want
to see reality, not hype. Because I can
almost guarantee you that, you know,
we're not going to make tens of
thousands of dollars overnight and if I
do this for a lot longer we will
struggle. will go wrong but, you
know, just maybe if we don't give up we
can make [music] some money and some
bigger money next time around. So Now I
also said earlier in this video that if
you made it to the end I'd give you a
gift. So if you go to the description
and you check the last link you'll see a
resource pack including the winning
product prompts, build your store,
discount codes and everything else we
used to make this challenge possible.
And also if you happen to enjoy watching
me struggle I did attempt another
[music] 7-day AI dropshipping challenge
that you can watch up here and with that
being said I'll see you guys in the next
video. [music] Peace.