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Two emails in one day. I know. This one’s worth it.
This morning I showed you the 5 Claude features. Tonight I’m giving you the system that turns features into income.
Every software I’ve launched in the last year, including two that crossed 1,000 paying members, went through the same 4 steps. Most people skip straight to step 3, and that’s exactly why 99% fail.
Here’s the system:
Step 1: Find the idea. Stop brainstorming “cool apps.” Go where people complain: Reddit threads, YouTube comments, Facebook groups in your niche. A repeated complaint is a business idea wearing a disguise.
Step 2: Validate BEFORE you build. This is the step that saves you months. Check the search volume, study the competitors, see what they charge and what their users hate about them. If the numbers don’t work on paper, they won’t work in code. Only build when you have a green light.
Step 3: Build it with AI. The part everyone fears is now the easy part. Copy-paste prompts into an AI builder and you have a working product in a weekend for about $50. My 65-year-old dad did it in a day.
Step 4: Get customers. The step that separates the 1% from everyone else. Daily organic posts with the hook-and-comments framework, simple image ads, and listing where buyers already search. Building is easy. Distribution is the business.
Print this. Every failed app skipped step 2 or step 4. Every winner ran all four.
Want to watch the entire system run live? That’s literally what my free workshop is. I find an idea, validate it, build the software, and show you the exact customer machine behind $18 million in sales, all on screen, in real time.
Save your seat: getmakerai.com/jm
Talk tomorrow,
Jonathan
P.S. If you missed this morning’s email: I broke down the 5 Claude features most people have no idea exist. Catch up here: https://youtu.be/dcbCp7w55qM
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