🔧 AI Tool and Software Ideas: An end-to-end process of generating ideas for your (first) next AI tool... that people will actually want and will pay for

Alright, real talk. The uncomfortable, keeping-you-up-at-3am kind.

Jobs are dying. Like...actually proper dying. Not in some far-off "robots are coming" way. Right now. AI is about to put a hole in the job market bigger than my coffee budget…

Check out this cheerful graph from the International Monetary Fund:

Those parabolic curves smashing into the ground? Those are wage levels if/when we get to AGI (Artificial General Intelligence).

Now, of course we can go back and forth about if/when AGI will get here. But…if I’m in a job looking at that chart I’m not going to wait for the theoretics to resolve. I need to do something.

"No worries!" you might say, "I'll just become an indie hacker!"

Well...about that. Indie hacking is dead too. Don't believe me? The godfather of indie hacking himself, Pieter Levels, called it:

It's not that indie hacking failed - it's that it succeeded so hard it became the default.

Everyone is now "building in public" and "launching fast". Hell, it’s been what I’ve been doing for the last few years too so I’m in the same boat.

What’s next up then? How to not just survive but thrive moving forward? Literally the $1M question right now.

It’s AI right?

Just build AI tools, right? Kyle is an AI guy and he’ll tell me AI is the answer.

Oh lord no.

Want to see something properly depressing? Go browse any AI directory. It's not just a graveyard - it's a mass grave of abandoned projects. My inbox is flooded with desperate founders begging for marketing help because their "revolutionary AI tool" is drowning in obscurity.

And these aren't bad tools! Some of them are actually brilliant. But the tool quality itself doesn’t matter.

Why? This is why:

80% Distribution, 20% product - that is what you need to pay attention to.

Because the market is busy. And about to become busier.

AI is allowing anyone to build…which means more competition, more noise and less chance of you building something that’ll hit.

Well crap. What’s the fix?

I answer this question and more in my latest AI Business Playbook.

Get it now.