Good morning/evening

Well as I have written about my recent use of AI in coding a bot and then using it to help self install a solar power system. I thought I would ask it about a business and what it would suggest I do.

I started by telling the AI my hobbies, it  knows about the bot obviously and the solar, so I also said that I like writing articles, I mentioned that I have Helium miners and like BTC and even though I like to test and try things, I really don't plan on starting a business that an AI has suggested to me, I just thought it would be fun to see what it comes up with, so here goes.

Firstly the AI suggested I start a crypto media business

Phase 1: Content Engine

Create:

• Blog articles
• X/Twitter posts
• YouTube videos 
• Newsletter

It has suggested that I document what has worked for me in crypto and what has failed......That would be exactly what I have done on Pub0x and Bulb! 

I asked the AI about a timeline for this, how long would it take before I start earning money

Month 1-6

Mostly zero revenue.

Focus on:

• Building content library.
• SEO.
• Email list.

Target:

• 50 articles.
• 100 email subscribers.

Month 6-12

Start monetizing.

Affiliate Links

Examples:

• Hardware wallets
• Exchanges
• VPNs
• Crypto tax software

Could realistically generate:

$50-$500/month

It also went further saying that in a year I could sell guides on what or what not to do in crypto, have a couple of hundred subscribers and by year three I could be earning $3,000 - $10,000 per month!

The AI suggested that I start off writing 1 article each week (I try to set that as my goal anyway), turn every article into 10 social media posts using AI, start a newsletter right away, create a YouTube channel right away and build up an email list.

I went on to tell the AI that actually I am not good at selling myself, never use affiliate links and don't really want people local to me knowing that I am invested in crypto. The AI then told me that was quite a sensible choice lol. So then the AI comes up with this.

Not a personal brand.

A website.

The website is the asset.

The author becomes secondary.

Think:

• Articles.
• Research.
• Opinions.
• Case studies.
• AI-generated graphics.
• Newsletter.

You can use a pen name if you want.

The site earns through:

• Display ads.
• Affiliate links (which don't have to be aggressively pushed).
• Sponsorships.

Or then there was this option

This is actually where I think your AI experience becomes interesting.

Examples:

• Position sizing calculator.
• Bitcoin cycle dashboard.
• DCA planner.
• Portfolio tracker.
• Crypto tax helper.

Most are fairly simple projects now thanks to AI coding assistance.

The advantage:

You sell software.

Not yourself.

Then the AI went off on a tangent and suggested without any prompts that perhaps content was not the way to go and I should build a niche tool instead, perhaps like a Bitcoin probability tracker that I would charge $5-$10 per month for!

An anonymous website focused on practical crypto lessons and experiments, then gradually add small tools built with AI.

The website attracts readers.

The tools generate revenue.

You remain largely anonymous.

And most importantly, you're not forced into becoming a crypto influencer, which is a job many people discover they hate after they've already built an audience.

As the AI had mentioned earlier about ads and sponsorships like that is so easy to get, I said I know a lot of people with their own websites that earn nothing

That's a very good observation, and it's why so many "make money blogging" articles are wildly misleading.

The reality is that most blogs earn nothing. Not a little. Literally nothing.

The reason is usually one of three things, not enough traffic, the wrong traffic and no monetization plan.

A site might have 50 articles and still only get 200 visitors per month but advertisers don't care about article count, they care about eyeballs.

For example:

• 500 visitors/month = essentially no ad revenue
• 5,000 visitors/month = maybe £10-50/month
• 50,000 visitors/month = now you're getting somewhere
• 500,000 visitors/month = potentially a business

A lot of bloggers never reach the traffic needed.

Suppose you write:

• "My thoughts on Bitcoin today"

People read it once and leave.

Compare that to:

• "Best Hardware Wallets in 2026"
• "How to Recover a Lost Seed Phrase"
• "Trezor vs Ledger"

People search Google for those every day.

Search traffic is often worth far more than opinion pieces. It then told me that many bloggers just add ads and hope but that ads don't generate revenue unless your traffic is huge.

For example:

10,000 page views/month might only make £10-£50.

People are often shocked by how low it is but sponsorship is even harder

Traffic

If you have:

• 50,000+ monthly visitors

Companies start noticing.

If we're talking about realistic options for someone with your interests, experience, and personality, I'd focus on businesses where:

• You don't need to become an influencer.
• You don't need to reveal your crypto holdings.
• You don't need a huge audience.
• AI can do a lot of the heavy lifting.
• The barrier to entry isn't massive.

The AI has suggested that I do crypto research, not signals and not buy this coin or that coin but more like

• Scam investigations.
• Protocol reviews.
• Stablecoin analysis.
• Tokenomics breakdowns.
• Narrative reports.

'There are investors with money who don't have time'. That one is funny because I am one of those investors who does not have time! But it does go on to tell me that a small paid newsletter at £5/month with 100 subscribers is £500/month and some of the things I should put in my paid subscription newsletter are

Bitcoin Cycle Dashboard

Track:

• Historical cycle comparisons
• Halving data
• MVRV
• Pi Cycle
• Business cycle indicators

Stablecoin Yield Tracker

Compare:

• Lending rates
• Risks
• Chains
• Historical yields

Crypto Position Sizing Calculator

Simple but useful.

That is all well and good, but there are so many free subscriptions out there I have no idea why anyone would want to pay for mine! Hell I have 1 paid subscription/patreon myself just to help keep up and I don't even read that all the time!

So as far as my AI suggestions go I would have to say that it got it all wrong lol, I feel bad just putting affiliate links on my articles (it took years before I would even call them articles!) I am terrible at even adding links to my past articles so I am not great at selling myself, my own YouTube channel would not be for me in the slightest and I would not even consider setting up a subscription newsletter, so it is a good job that I really don't want to set up my own side business. Perhaps I did not give the AI enough information to work with or perhaps this is a quite generic response but I thought it would be fun to see what it came up with.

So what are your thoughts? Have you asked AI to help you earn money or what it would suggest you start as a business or side hustle and what did it suggest? Was it practical at all? Luckily I do not plan on following this advice, but as always thank you for reading and please feel free to comment.