I Built a $10K/Month Website with Only AI

[00:02] apps that typically generate around thousands a month. So, literally in this because I already have my own web app that I created with AI that makes me want to put you guys on game. No gatekeeping. Honestly, let's just jump

[00:16] this. It's perfect for this task. So, we're going to be going through every single thing from ideation to literally marketing in this video. I'm I'm telling you guys it's it's that simple. You just need a really good idea and after that

[00:29] makes a web app successful and profitable is the marketing. So, this is the first prompt. We just need some ideas for the web app and also our give me some ideas for a web app that people will actually use, especially

[00:43] good idea or you're not going to make anything good. So, let's send it and that we could brainstorm on. This is good if you know what I mean, you ever get like thinking block and you just need AI to just lay out things for you

[00:56] This is a good way to do it. Anyways, it's going to start researching now. And over here. So, it literally searches it up in its own like virtual environment. So, I managed to slow-key go through this cuz it it it really scrapes it live

[01:10] going to need you to like the video, buddy. Yeah, I'm watching. All right, so it finished scraping. So, let's check out the ideas right here. Innovative web app ideas for students 2026. Okay. So, number one are apps that address the

[01:22] currently face. So, like food and housing insecurity. The one is called Swipe Share. Reduces food waste hunger by connecting students with extra meal swipes. Interesting, okay. Sublo. Simplifies the stressful process of

[01:36] finding short-term summer or semester abroad housing. Interesting. You know, something we probably can't do in this one sitting. So, let's try to find a better idea. Grant Grabber. An AI-driven engine that matches students with micro

[01:49] grants and niche scholarships they can actually qualify for. Okay, I like this one. I might do this one. Yeah, I just looked over the other ones and honestly, mean? Really really wouldn't attract students that much. But this one I like,

[02:02] are always looking for scholarships. Okay, so let's copy all this, and we're going to we're going to use this idea. to actually start building our app. And yes, notice how we just went from idea

[02:15] mean? We're wasting no time here. I want to format the font for three basic steps I want the AI to do. Here is the app idea.

[02:29] Boom, and you paste it in there. Grant grabber. So first of all, create an grabber. So first of all, create an onboarding and authentication onboarding and authentication process so that students can receive

[02:42] scholarships in their major {slash} interest. First We need onboarding, you know what I mean? Where your customers are just going to click away. Because obviously, nothing's tailored to them. So having an

[02:55] will help, you know what I mean? Keep them on the site. And number two, make sure the web is scraped for the web is scraped for scholarships in their interest, and it

[03:09] shows up like the Instagram home page on their dashboard. So two things we did here. We already made a design choice. The on their dashboard, like the Instagram home page, which will only be available

[03:24] to sign up and log in. Meaning you get more users. And the third and final thing we're going to add for this first prototype is the design choices. So I want the site to follow

[03:37] to follow Apple design choices. It will be on white background mainly.

[03:49] And super modern. So now let's send this and uh Man who's make us something amazing. Now, after designs our basic prototype, next we'll add payment for features. So, that's how you That's how you

[04:03] essentially monetize your basic service. Make the user pay for extra features can't be something that's useless. Okay, so now it's just giving us the blueprint and what to add. So, let's go through all these and take out anyone that feels

[04:17] deadline reminder, I kind of don't want that. Apple design UI, I want to keep that. Application tracker, this one is is pretty useful, so I'll probably keep that. Scholarship detail page, I'll keep that. Instagram style scholarship feed,

[04:30] I'll keep that. You know what I mean? AI-powered web scraping, man, perfect. authentication. Okay, that's perfect. Features like this you add when your main features are working good. You know what I mean? So, let's build now. Grant

[04:42] right, perfect. It is now in preview mode. For our payments, we will probably be using Stripe. That's just the one I'm most uh comfortable with and I've used like Lemon Squeezy and things like that.

[04:55] make sure you specify it to the AI. Make sure you know what you're doing, you where it gets tricky. All right, so the task is progressing now and yeah, now it's off to coding. So, I'll come back when this is done cuz it may take a

[05:08] through. But, when it's done, it should it should give us something awesome. Guys, guess what? Guess who finished? Man who's AI finished, bro. Made grant

[05:21] Finished that and it's It did that relatively quick, actually. is our pretty much our profile page. It's exactly how I imagined it, too. blah blah blah. So, let's go to onboarding and let's let's see how it

[05:36] is. All right, first let's put our major. I do major in data science, so hey, I heard I saw you guys comments, by the way. You guys said I type like old the way. You guys said I type like old man.

[05:48] I do. So, I gave you saying anything. And select your academic interest stem. Yeah, stem. DPA, I'm not going to lie to you, bro. We got a 1.5 over here. I'm joking. I'm joking. But, let's just put 1.5. Actually, let's

[06:02] put 3.0. We are a sophomore. I don't know. So, boom. Makes our profile setup is made. So, we got the tech leader scholarship. We got a tracker over here things we apply to. We have a basic like scholarship app for students.

[06:18] Hey, we can log out right here. Perfect. And when we click get started, we sends us to sign up. Boom. And we're already signed up right here. So, you know what authentication is powered by Manu. So, we're going to do the follow up where we

[06:31] scholarship data and display it dynamically in the Instagram style feed. actually be It'll actually be like giving us things we want. So, let's do this as Manu suggested. Shout out to Manu. And then

[06:45] after we get like the AI and the main features working, guys how to implement the Stripe payments and what to monetize so that you can get like an actual good the biggest issues people have with theirs. I'll show you guys in this

[06:58] theirs. I'll show you guys in this video. No worries. I got you. So, we can now view the details and blah blah blah. And then apply now, which will just send us to there. So, now the last step pretty much is to add the

[07:12] extra feature and the payment, which will be through Stripe. So, here's what we're going to do, okay? So, for free tier users, they will only be limited to seeing five scholarships in their homepage. And if users pay an extra

[07:25] $4.99 a month, they will have up to 100 scholarships on their homepage. So, let's let's contextualize that into a prompt. So, here's the prompt. I pretty much just said they can upgrade to a $4.99 a month plan so they can have up

[07:37] to 20 scholarships for their respective interest and major and upgrade from the five. So, users who pay as little as $5 a month can pretty much get more access to scholarships related to their interest. It's a scholarship matching

[07:49] send it. Um it will probably integrate freemium model, which is probably the best business practice for for making a try it out a bit, and then they'll be like, you know, you know what? Maybe I

[08:03] feature. Anyways, Manuels just made a Stripe sandbox so we could test payments since it sent me an email. All right, it's finally done. So, as you can see, it added the upgrade now at the top of the screen. We're only viewing five

[08:17] scholarships on the free version, and we have to upgrade, obviously, to go to the paid one. So, now, you got to publish it, you know what I mean? And this is where most of your time's going to go to, which is marketing. So, publish,

[08:30] and then publish now. Anyone with the link. All right, so this is the site for with it for now, but you can buy your own and obviously apply it. So, this is what I mean? Get started, and then boom, you you sign in through Manuels, and

[08:44] And yeah, it kind of just loads your scholarships. Since I already signed up, really good deadlines, too. Yeah, it gives you the best scholarships for you, and then you can obviously upgrade right here. So, now, we are on the last part

[08:58] after you fully build your website, what I mean? You can obviously go farther showing you it's possible, you know what I mean? So, now we're going to copy our Yes, Reddit. I'm going to go in the search bar, and we are going to search

[09:11] up scholarship. Cuz our target audience is student looking for scholarships and tools to find scholarships because that is a whole big part of the college people want to pay for school. It's a big market. Let's just click on the

[09:25] they're asking best scholarship websites that actually reward. And look, see, finding scholarships using all these sites, but it doesn't really help them, this is a perfect time to join the conversation. You just type in, "Hey, I

[09:40] conversation. You just type in, "Hey, I found a good site. Here is the link." Put your site right here. And then guess what you do for marketing right here. And you're going to do this hundreds of

[09:54] time. Find niche scholarships and find niche Reddit groups and students looking for sites like yours and go under them and comment them to help them out you're quite literally helping people out if you're making tools like this. In

[10:06] my opinion, the best methods that work for web apps is obviously Reddit and TikTok. Those Those are the best two. I made over like five bands a month, you But hey, go out there and do it. Make your site, start marketing right now.

[10:21] So, you know what? Don't pay your developers. Manifold's AI literally just makes an entire site and business in one single workflow, as you just saw me do. So, just just don't don't spend money on web developers. Just do yourself, bro.

[10:34] build an app for free. You know what I mean? So, check out Manifold's in the building your apps. All right, guys. I'll see you in the next one.