How I Made Money With AI With No Experience ($10,000+ Per Month)

I had zero experience selling anything online when I started with AI in 2023. No coding background, no marketing degree, no audience.

I want to walk you through the exact two methods that got me my first real income, and the one I am running right now that clears more than $10,000 a month, so you can see the real numbers, the real links, and the real plan behind all of it.

Key Takeaways

Method 1: I Sold AI Prompts On Gumroad And Made My First $577.10

I did not start with a course or a service. I started with something small: a prompt pack. I packaged what I was already using myself, ChatGPT, Grok, and Claude prompts for content, SEO, and marketing, into a single product and listed it on Gumroad.

My first product, AI Profit Machine, sold 21 copies at $29 each and put $577.10 in my account.

That is not a huge number, and I want to be honest about that. But it was the first time I watched money land in my account from something I built with AI, with no audience, no paid ads, and no prior sales experience. I have kept expanding that same product since, and it now includes over 20,000 prompts and 200-plus n8n automation templates rather than the smaller pack I launched with.

The lesson I took from this method is simple. You do not need a huge catalog to start. You need one focused product that solves one problem, and a place to sell it that does not require you to build your own checkout system from scratch.

Method 2: I Sold Automation Services Through My Website And YouTube Channel

Once I had proof that people would pay for AI-assisted work, I moved into services. I built kwebby.com, a site that combines free SEO and utility tools with paid automation and digital marketing services, and I used it as my storefront for client work.

The lead engine behind it was my YouTube channel. I was not running ads. I was publishing content about AI, prompting, and automation, and viewers who wanted the same systems built for their own business reached out through the site.

You can see above demo video from which I got 5 clients with just 500 views on the video.

You Show what you can do, People will hire you!

My PayPal records for this period average out to roughly $2,000 a month, run entirely as a side hustle alongside everything else I was building.

I want to be direct about why this method worked when a lot of "AI automation agency" advice does not. I was not cold pitching strangers.

Here's My Paypal Sales video from 1st Feb to 30th June, 2025;

Every lead came warm, already familiar with my work from watching my content, which meant the sales conversation was mostly a formality by the time someone filled out my contact form.

Method 3: I Launched Promptslove, And It Now Clears $10,000-Plus A Month

The natural next step was to stop trading hours for client work and build something that scales without me personally delivering every project. That became promptslove.com.

Dodopayment's Terms doesn't allow me to share my sales data but let me show my milestone in it in previous single month;

Promptslove is a single lifetime membership, $199 once, that bundles three desktop apps I built, OpenField for generative image and video work, UIPitch for AI-assisted web and UI design, and RanknestAI for SEO and AI search visibility, alongside 20,000-plus prompts, 200-plus automation templates, and a growing library of courses.

Premium members join daily, and the site now turns over more than $10,000 a month.

This is the version of the business I actually recommend you aim for. Method 1 and Method 2 both traded my time for money in some form, a sale here, a client project there. Promptslove is the first one that compounds. Every new piece of content, every new tool I add, and every new member adds to something that keeps running while I sleep.

The Exact Method I Use, Step By Step

Here is the system underneath all three of those results, broken into the order I actually follow it. I, me, this is not theory. This is the same sequence I ran to get from a $29 Gumroad sale to a $10,000-plus monthly business.

Step 1: Learn AI Before You Try To Sell It

You cannot package what you do not understand. Before I sold a single prompt, I spent real time learning how these models actually respond to structure, context, and constraints, not just typing casual questions into a chat box.

I now share what I learned through the prompt library and the course library on Promptslove, including courses like Create Your SaaS With AI and AI Agents Creator, specifically because this step is the one people skip. Skipping it is why most "AI side hustle" attempts produce generic, forgettable output.

Step 2: Market Yourself Before You Have Anything To Sell

I built an audience before I had a polished product, not after. YouTube, X, and Instagram were my three channels, and if I had to recommend just one to you, it would be YouTube.

Video content about AI has a compounding effect that a single tweet or post does not. A tutorial you publish today can still bring in a lead a year later, which is exactly how my kwebby.com service business kept generating warm inbound leads long after I stopped actively pitching anyone.

Step 3: Build A Landing Page That Can Actually Accept Payment

You do not need a developer for this step anymore. I design and ship my own landing pages with AI now, using UIPitch, which lets you describe a page, generate real markup instead of a static image, and export working code you can host anywhere.

Once your page exists, you need somewhere to publish it. I researched the realistic free and low-cost options so you do not have to guess:

I personally lean on UIPitch because it exports a real WordPress or Shopify theme too, not just static files, which matters the moment you want a blog or a store attached to the same site.

Step 4: Pick A Payment Processor, And Know What It Actually Costs You

This step is where I see the most money quietly lost. Every payment processor advertises simplicity, but the fee structure is what decides how much of each sale you actually keep.

I use DodoPayments now, but I started on Gumroad, and I still think Gumroad is a reasonable choice for a first digital product. Here is the real fee comparison, pulled directly from both companies' own pricing pages.

Source: Gumroad, official pricing, Gumroad Help Center, Gumroad's fees, Dodo Payments, official pricing

The honest way to read this table is not "DodoPayments wins." Gumroad's Discover marketplace can put your product in front of buyers who have never heard of you, which is worth its 30% cut if you have no audience yet. DodoPayments does not send you any traffic at all. It is simply cheaper on raw processing, which matters once you are driving your own traffic through YouTube, X, or Instagram the way I described in Step 2, and you no longer need a marketplace to find your buyers for you.

Step 5: Find The Gap Before You Create A Single Piece Of Content

Most people create content first and hope it lands. I reverse that. Before I write anything, I want to know what people are actually searching for and where the competition has left a real gap.

I run this research inside RanknestAI, starting with its keyword research tool for real search volume, difficulty, and intent rather than estimates. I also check its AI visibility reports to see whether ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity already mention competitors in my niche, since that gap is just as real as a keyword gap now.

That single research pass tells me exactly what to build content around before I spend a single hour filming or writing.

Step 6: Turn Research Into Content, Then Repurpose It Everywhere

Once I know the gap, I do not write from a blank page. I use RanknestAI's AI Flow, a node-based content studio where you chain research, generation, and editing steps together on one canvas, to turn that keyword and competitor research directly into a full piece of backend content.

From there, the same research gets repurposed automatically into social formats, including AI Carousels for Instagram, so one research pass produces both a long-form piece and the short-form content that promotes it. This is the exact same loop behind every article I publish on the Promptslove blog.

Step 7: Shoot It, Publish It, And Always Close With A Call To Action

The last step is the one people forget under the pressure of actually making content: end with a clear next step. Every video I upload to my YouTube channel closes with a direct call to action pointing back to my site, not a vague "check the link in my bio."

That single habit, a specific destination at the end of every piece of content, is what turned my content into the lead engine behind Method 2 and the daily signups behind Method 3.

My Honest Take On Why This Actually Worked

I do not think I am unusually talented at this. What I did differently is treat each method as a real test instead of a hobby.

The $577.10 from my first Gumroad product told me people would pay for AI-assisted work before I ever built a services website. The $2,000 a month from kwebby.com and my YouTube channel told me a warm content-driven audience converts far better than cold outreach ever did for me.

Promptslove only exists because I already had proof from methods 1 and 2 that this entire loop works.

If you are starting today with zero experience, the same as I did in 2023, I would not skip straight to building a $199 lifetime membership. I would start with Step 1 through Step 4 on a single small product, exactly like my first prompt pack, and only move toward a bigger platform once you have real sales proving people want what you are building.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Do I need coding experience to make money with AI like this?

No. I had no coding background when I started in 2023. Tools like UIPitch let you design and export a working landing page with AI, and platforms like Gumroad or DodoPayments handle the checkout without you writing any backend code.

How much money can I realistically make selling AI prompts?

My own first product made $577.10 from 21 sales at $29 each. That is not a full income on its own, but it is proof of concept, and the same product now generates far more after years of updates, more prompts, and a larger audience finding it.

Is Gumroad or DodoPayments better for selling AI products?

It depends on whether you already have an audience. Gumroad's Discover marketplace can find you buyers for a 30% cut, which helps if you have no following yet. DodoPayments charges less on raw processing, 4% plus 40 cents domestically versus Gumroad's 10% plus 50 cents, which matters more once you are driving your own traffic.

What platform should I use to market myself first?

I would recommend YouTube first. Video content compounds over time in a way a single social post does not, and it was the main lead source behind my kwebby.com automation business.

How do I find a real gap in my niche instead of guessing?

I use RanknestAI's keyword research and AI visibility tools before creating any content, checking real search volume and whether AI assistants like ChatGPT and Perplexity already recommend competitors in the space I am targeting.

How long did it take to go from $577.10 to $10,000-plus a month?

It happened in stages, not overnight. Method 1 in 2023 proved the concept, Method 2 built a warm audience and a steady side income, and Promptslove, the current $10,000-plus a month result, only launched after both of those methods had already proven people would pay.

Final Thoughts

I, me, every method in this article started from the same place you might be starting from right now: no audience, no experience, and one small product. The path from a $577.10 first sale in 2023 to a business clearing $10,000-plus a month in 2026 was not one big launch. It was learning AI properly, marketing myself before I had anything polished to sell, building a landing page with the same AI tools I was learning, picking a payment processor that kept my margin intact, and researching every piece of content before I made it.

If you want the exact prompts, tools, and courses I used to build every step of this system, you can find all of it at promptslove.com.