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Dec 8 • 16 tweets • 6 min read
ChatGPT has crossed 1M+ users in just 5 days.

To compare, it took Netflix 41 months, FB - 10 months, and Instagram - 2.5 months.

But many haven’t yet realized its full potential.

Here are the 10 mindblowing things you can do using it right now:
1/ Generate code

ChatGPT can help you generate code to build your app/website from scratch.

You save time and effort and can focus on the more important tasks.

100X engineer just arrived.

Rakshit, who had zero programming knowledge, used this feature to create a Twitter bot.

medium.com/@rlodha1/how-i…
2/ Track fitness

Alex created a weight loss, diet, and workout plan on top of ChatGPT.

3/ Debug code

ChatGPT is your 24/7 debugging companion. It finds the bugs, fixes them, and even explains the solution.

4/ Have a personal assistant

Integrate ChatGPT to your WhatsApp and automate the manual and repetitive tasks: write emails, get quick answers to any questions, fasten research, and more.

5/ Marketing Plan

Create a marketing/SEO strategy, audit your website, do keyword research, write articles/copy, and more—all in less than 30 minutes.

6/ Create a Virtual Machine

Research Scientist Jonas Degrave ran a virtual machine (Linux terminal) inside ChatGPT.

engraved.blog/building-a-vir…
7/ Creative liberty

Write essays, music, sitcom/movie scripts, and jokes.

8/ Develop plugins

ChatGPT created a working WordPress plugin on the first try.

wptavern.com/chatgpt-create…
Remember I told you about @labnol who created a ~$10M/yr business with 0 employees building plugins?

Now with the help of ChatGPT, you can do the same.

9/ Game development

An 11-year-old developed a game using the ChatGPT prompts. Thousands of people have already played it.

mpost.io/11-year-old-bo…
10/ Medical aid

You can develop a 24/7 chatbot to seek treatments for a few medical problems.

Of course, as mentioned below, you need to check for biases and misinformation, but this is a good start.

Bonus: If you don’t know how to use ChatGPT to 10X your productivity, here's a cool tool to get you started.

Whether you’re a software engineer, marketer, product designer, artist, or student, this will help you.

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Dylan Jacob made $20M in revenue in 2 years with 0 full-time employees.

Then, he hired a small team and scaled it to $150M+ in revenue in 5 years.

Business: Adult beverage cans
Customers: 2.5M+
Traffic: 1M/month

Here's the breakdown of his business:
• The company is Brumate.

• It sells drinkware—multi-functional can coolers, mugs, feature-packed coolers, and other hydration solutions to keep your wine/beer cold for a longer time.

• It has ~150K 5-star reviews.

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Eric Barone has made $300M+ (yes, that's not a typo) in revenue in 6 years with 0 employees.

He developed a game that has sold 20M copies to date.

At this rate, he can easily become the first one-person founder to do 1B+ in sales.

Here's how he did it:
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The premise was simple: You inherit a large farm.

You now have to grow crops, raise livestock, build relationships with the villagers, and start a family.
2/ Going full-time

Eric decided to work solo to retain 100% creative control.

He learned everything—adding 3-D graphics, animations, & music—as he built the game.

By Dec 2011, he was so obsessed with the game (he worked 8-15 hrs/day) that he gave up on finding a job.
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There is a founder who is doing $10M/year in revenue with 0 employees 🤯

Business: Google add-ons
Traffic: 5M visits/month
Installs: 40M

Here's the breakdown of his business:
1/ The founder @labnol:

• First professional blogger in India
• Builds add-ons for Docs, Sheets, Slides, etc
• Only full-time employee
• Little competition as super-niche
• Customers include LinkedIn, Disney, and the US Embassy.
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He wrote (and still does) about tech stories and how-to guides.

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Matt Mochary has coached @naval, the founders of Reddit, Coinbase, Notion, OpenAI, and leaders at Sequoia, Y Combinator, Benchmark, and many others.

Here are his 5 mental models that will help you become a strong leader:
1/ Find your Zone of Genius

There are 4 zones:

a. Zone of Incompetence

These are things others do better than you (eg: car repair). Outsource them.

b. Zone of competence

The things you do just fine, but others are as good as you or better (eg: cooking). Outsource them.
c. Zone of Excellence

The things you're better at than most, but don't love doing. Outsource them, too.

d. Zone of Genius (ZOG)

The things you're excellent at and enjoy doing. Ensure you spend the most time doing them.

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Isn't it fascinating?

• The site gets 2M visits/month.
• Customers include Google, Meta, Amazon, and Twitter.

Here's how he built it and operates the business alone🧵
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• It has ~3000 paying customers.
• The founder is Gary Brewer.

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No sales team. No marketing team. No customer service team.

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