How to Build a Sellable Side-Project in 5 Months: From Idea to Acquisition

In just five short months, <a href="https://www.teamsmart.ai/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">my idea</a> went from concept to acquisition. This is my second acquisition this year, and I’ll share how I did it in this post. <h2>The beginning of the story</h2> It all started when the ChaptGPT/AI hype dominating Twitter got the best of me, and I wanted to experiment with whatever all the buzz was about. I decided to build a small project using <a href="https://openai.com/blog/openai-api" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">The OpenAI API</a> to learn more. I was careful to keep it small and manageable because I already work for <a href="https://apideck.com/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Apideck</a>, have two young children, and spend most of my free time working on <a href="https://universal.page/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">universal.page</a>. So basically, I didn’t have the time for this. For a short period, I was blocked from progressing on universal.page due to some <a href="https://lukso.network/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">LUKSO</a> contract updates, so this gave me a little window of time to experiment with AI stuff. That’s when I created <a href="https://www.teamsmart.ai/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">TeamSmart AI</a>, a browser extension allowing you to add different AI characters to your team and have them as sidekicks wherever you go. Within just one month, <a href="https://twitter.com/jake_prins/status/1645337173548322817" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">I made my first sale</a>! These are the steps I took I believe to have contributed most to the success of this side project. <a href="https://jakeprins.medium.com/how-to-build-a-sellable-side-project-in-5-months-from-idea-to-acquisition-4c4f9af2f5ad">Learn More</a>