Yesterday I made my first sale.

Not like it was the first time ever I sold something online. I sold things before. Photoshop mockups, icon packs, used electronics and unwanted furniture. But in all of these cases, I always used an intermediary (like ebay, for example).

But yesterday was the first time I sold something myself. I product I built myself, through a funnel I built myself, on a website I built myself.

And it will be fair to say that I would never got there without AI. Using AI tools, It took me a few months to get from knowing a bit how to code to creating fully-fudged web apps, setting up servers, databases, authentication providers and payment services. Something I would never imagine to be capable of, not in such timeframe, just a few years ago.

We live in crazy times for creators. Never ever it was so easy to build things for the global market. As Guillermo Rauch (Vercel’s CEO) recently noticed, it soon will be easier to generate the right software for your need than to find the right software for your need built by someone else.

So if you ever pondered on an idea of becoming a solo entrepreneur, an independent creator, an indie hacker, or whatever else we call it these days, I assure you there was never a better time to start.

Ok, but how

Now, on how to get there. As always, there are several options.

AI-powered code editors

The way I leverage AI in my work to build things is assisted coding. Which means that for the most part, I still work with code in a code editor. I just rarely write it myself. I mostly just prompt and edit.

Remember Andrej Karpathy, and “the hottest new programming language is English”? That’s that in practice. It doesn’t mean not touching code. It means generating code with natural language and then iterating on it.