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Claire Vo
- Founder of ChatPRD
- $10,000+ estimated monthly revenue
- Published July 4, 2024 by Fardeen Khan
- Reviewed and edited by Niall Doherty
Claire Vo is the founder of ChatPRD, which she describes as 
A chatbot that helps PMs write product documentation and make their product better.
(PRD = Product Requirements Document. PM = Project Manager.)
Dan Shipper recently interviewed Claire and tweeted…
[ChatPRD] now used by over 10,000 product managers and is pulling in six figures in revenue.
The surprising part…
She built all of ChatPRD herself—over the weekend—with AI, while working a day job.
Claire is the CPO at @launchdarkly and she originally built ChatPRD for herself—before realizing it would be valuable for her team and product managers everywhere.
Claire can code but she says using ChatGPT helped speed up the process of building 
One day, she created a 5-page PRD in a few hours that took her team by surprise…
It was because I had, over the course of months, sort of prompted ChatGPT into a place where I could really work with it in a rapid fashion to get high-quality outputs that wasn’t just going to happen using plain ChatGPT.
Then the GPT Store opened up…
I thought, okay, I’m just going to drop my… prompt into the GPT store, got the great name ChatPRD… shared it with my team… they all loved it.
Claire then decided to turn it into a real product…
I dusted off VS code [Code Editor], and I was like, I think we can build this. So I built it over the course of Thanksgiving week with my kids home while they were napping…
Launched it, I think, on November 28th, so it’s six months old, and… people started buying… I started to add a little bit more features and raising the price… now I have 10,000 users on the app.
There’s a free version of ChatPRD on the GPT Store and premium pricing starts at $5/month.
Unclear how many free vs paid users there are, but apparently it’s a 6-figure business already, so likely $10,000+ in monthly revenue 
Claire was early into the GPT Store which probably helped her app draw eyeballs. And she says building in public has also been key, mainly via X where she has 21k followers.
Think about what Claire has done here
She basically built a tool with AI to speed up her own work, then released it as a product for others to use.
Can you do something similar?
Or maybe you could team up with an expert/influencer in some niche, build a chatbot that greatly improves their workflow, then release it as a product together 
Another option is to build custom GPTs for clients for a fee.
Creating GPTs is much easier than you might expect.
Here’s a good step-by-step tutorial on YouTube that walks you through an example…
- How to Create Custom GPT | OpenAI Tutorial…
Note however that you still can’t monetize GPTs directly on the GPT store 
That’s why Claire had to crack open a code editor and build her own website + a premium version of her app.
But this is likely to change soon 
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