Hey Guys,
Here’s the question behind this edition: how do you build income without burning cash you can’t spare?
Most of the 12 items below cost little or nothing to try.
One shows a website that costs about $11 to start.
Another reveals what Google added to its AI content rules this month, and why it matters if you publish anything.
Let’s get into it.
📌 TL;DR
Microsites: Jesse Cunningham builds one site per sub-niche per city, each with its own tracked phone number.
Custom GPTs: They retire on December 11, 2026. Migrate yours to plugins now.
Dots vs Muse: Nate Herk compares two always-on AI agents. Muse is free to start, Dots needs a paid plan.
Scripts: Keep each section to 3 to 5 ideas and lead with a story.
Free AI sites: 10 tools, including Google Vids and duck.ai.
YouTube uploads: vidIQ says to spend your time on the title and thumbnail, not the tags.
GPT Image 2.5: 107 use cases and a free prompt document.
Small channels: Ryan grew 1,400 subs in 30 days by starting with the viewer’s pain.
Google and AI content: Fact-check everything before you publish.
YouTube’s algorithm change: Original work gets promoted and re-uploads lose reach.
KDP ads: Three campaigns, 60 cent starting bids, and a check after 5 to 7 days.
File organizing: Spend 15 minutes on a rulebook and let AI do the filing.
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1. Build one small website per niche per city, and track every one
Who said it: Jesse Cunningham, who teaches a rank-and-rent microsite method and runs a community around it.
One of his community members builds a microsite in 12 minutes for about $11 a year, and has built close to 100.
Key points:
Jesse says to pick one industry and one metro, then build one microsite for every sub-niche in every city.
He says plumbing is really five businesses (water heaters, drains, sewer lines, repiping, leak detection), and 5 sub-niches times 20 cities is 100 sites.
Put a unique phone number on each site and never interlink them.
Do this: Prove one sub-niche in one city first, then clone the winner.
My take: I like that he says to prove one before building 100.
It keeps the downside small.
Treat the bigger numbers as his vision, and judge it by what one test site does for you.
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2. Custom GPTs retire on December 11, 2026
Who said it: The Paperless Agent, a channel on AI and real estate tech that walks through the migration on screen.
ChatGPT is retiring custom GPTs on December 11, 2026, and the migration takes a few moments.
Key points:
The Paperless Agent says you can only migrate GPTs you built yourself.
It says custom actions won’t transfer, so you reconnect those tools as plugins afterward.
Plugins can do far more than GPT actions could.
Do this: Open each GPT you built and click “migrate to plugin” this week.
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3.Two always-on AI agents, one free to start
Who said it: Nate Herk, who tested both apps for about a day each and builds with Codex and Claude Code daily.
Muse’s free tier gives you up to 100 million tokens a week, while Dots needs a paid ChatGPT subscription.
Key points:
Nate says Muse has the better interface, with a visible memory file, a schedule tab and a native WhatsApp connector.
Dots fits you better if you already live in Codex and ChatGPT, and its Astra model is stronger for coding.
He found Dots buggy and rushed, though it connects to Slack in about three clicks.
Do this: Start with Muse if you’re new to this.
Pick Dots if Codex is already your workspace.
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4. Keep each part of a script to 3 to 5 ideas
Who said it: A guest on Ed Lawrence Experiments who coaches YouTube scripting, and who says they doubled their business in 2025 using sales-tracking data.
Working memory holds about 3 to 5 things at once, according to the guest.
Key points:
The guest says too much information too fast makes viewers tap out.
Stories lower the mental load because people picture one thing.
Add depth after the story or a visual demo has set the foundation.
Do this: Open your next video or email with one short story, then layer in the detail.
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5. 10 free AI sites worth bookmarking
Who said it: Cool Dude Explains, a channel that rounds up free tools.
As of September 2026, Google Vids is free for anyone with a personal Google account, with 10 video generations a month.
Key points:
The channel says duck.ai gives you GPT-5, Claude, Llama 4 and Mistral with no account and no data collection.
Photopea is a free browser editor that opens PSD files.
Tally builds forms that look premium, and Lumen5’s free tier adds a watermark.
Do this: Go to vids.new and make one short video from a topic you already know.
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6. Your YouTube upload checklist, minus the myths
Who said it: vidIQ, a YouTube growth tool company that audits channels for a living.
Titles get cut off around 60 characters, so vidIQ says to put the important words first.
Key points:
Karakov says build every site so it can sell links if it never ranks, which lets you run many small bets without losing money.
Scrape a site for broken outbound links, register any expired domain it points to, and you inherit that link.
Domains close to high "harmonic centrality" sites may help you get crawled into AI training data, and he calls it untested theory.
Do this: Before your next site, write down how it earns back its cost if it never ranks (link sales, a flip, a pivot).
If there's no answer, rethink it.
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7. 107 things GPT Image 2.5 can make for you
Who said it: Dom the AI Tutor, who tested 107 use cases and wrote a nearly 100-page prompt document.
You can photograph something confusing, like the symbols on a washing machine, and get a full labeled explanation back.
Key points:
Dom says GPT Image 2.5 keeps a product consistent from every angle.
He says it turned his living room photo into a scored space audit with a redesign.
The numbers in his investment summary pages came out exactly as he typed them.
Do this: Photograph one thing you never understood and ask for a visual explainer.
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8. Five lessons from 1,400 new subscribers in 30 days
Who said it: Ryan of Claude + Remotion, who edits his videos with a Claude-powered agent and says it grew his channel by 1,400 subs in 30 days.
Ryan says his best-performing hook starts with the viewer’s felt pain, such as “Are you applying to 20 jobs a day and getting zero responses?”
Key points:
Ryan says a clear message beats fancy editing, and a client told him she didn’t get what his video was about.
Pick a sub-niche inside a popular topic and own it.
Ask what viewers would want to know next after your top two videos, then make that.
Do this: Look at your two best posts and write down the next thing someone would want to know.
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9. Google now says to fact-check all AI content before publishing
Who said it: WordsAtScale, a site that teaches AI-assisted SEO and shows its own Search Console data.
Google’s guidance on generative AI content, updated October 1, now says it is critical to manually fact-check and review AI-generated content before publishing.
Key points:
WordsAtScale says the update lands during a spam update that started about a week earlier.
Google’s quality raters look at effort, originality, talent and accuracy.
His free fact-check prompt reviews a draft in five passes: claims, fixes, effort, originality and risk.
Do this: Run every unpublished draft through those five passes before it goes live.
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10. YouTube now favors original shorts over re-uploads
Who said it: vidIQ, which audits channels and tracks YouTube policy changes.
YouTube announced it is updating its recommendation system to prioritize original shorts and cut the reach of channels that re-upload other creators’ clips with no significant changes.
Key points:
vidIQ says YouTube wants your own voice, storytelling or point of view added to any clip you use.
The change ties into YouTube’s spam and monetization policies.
YouTube’s automated detection will make mistakes, so expect some gray areas.
Do this: Add commentary, context or a real point of view to anything you build on.
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11. Set up three KDP ad campaigns in one sitting
Who said it: ExtraEmeka, a KDP publishing coach who teaches this setup to his students.
Emeka says to start bids between 40 and 60 cents when your book is brand new.
Key points:
Emeka says to use manual targeting, broad keywords (10 to 15) and dynamic bids down only.
Set a $100 daily budget, which signals to Amazon that you want sales (you won’t spend that).
Check after 5 to 7 days and switch off the targets that eat clicks without sales.
Do this: Launch the keyword, category and ASIN campaigns, then review in a week.
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12. Write a 15-minute rulebook and let AI file your documents
Who said it: Jeff Su, who says he’s run this system daily for the past 5 months.
Jeff says the rulebook takes around 15 minutes to create, then AI reads, renames and files each document that lands in your inbox folder.
Key points:
Jeff says the rulebook needs three things: an organization framework, naming conventions and a filing workflow.
It works in the desktop apps for ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, and not in a normal web chat.
Schedule a daily task that proposes changes for you to approve.
Do this: Make an inbox folder, download his free starter rulebook and file four documents with it today.
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Talk soon,
Tony
P.S. Custom GPTs retire on December 11, 2026. If you built any, migrate them this month so you’re not rushing later.