He makes $100k/year from simple AI side hustles

In this episode of Startup Strategies, Ramsri Golla shares how he built two profitable AI SaaS products on the side while working full time as a lead data scientist. Starting with a $50 to $60 monthly hosting cost, Ramsri scaled Question.ai and Supermeme.ai to over $100K ARR without employees, paid ads, or venture capital.

Ramsri shares how he:

• Built and launched Question.ai years before the technology was ready, betting that AI models would eventually catch up.
• Open sourced his quiz generation models on GitHub to seed early users and kickstart organic distribution.
• Used SEO, Reddit, and founder led marketing over multiple years to reach real teachers instead of just developers.
• Turned Supermeme.ai into a viral product, hit number one on Product Hunt, and grew to nearly two million users while spending $0 on marketing.
• Timed product launches around short virality windows by stitching together emerging AI capabilities before they were fully mature.
• Converted free users into paying customers by limiting usage quantity instead of lowering model quality.
• Ran both products profitably while keeping a full time job, treating them as long term lifestyle businesses.
• Tracked AI progress by following model deltas instead of hype cycles and refused to plan beyond six months in a fast moving market.
• Rejected hustle culture productivity systems in favor of sustainable progress that fits real life.

And much more.

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