Is AI The Next "Big Thing" for online business

[GNews]

Is AI the next 'boom' in terms of online business now that crypto is dying down?

Everything happens in waves
dot com era (EMDs & 2 to 4 letter domains )
contextual ads & commission programs ( google adsense & cj)
Affiliate marketing (wickedfire era)
Crypto ( If a woman would told her man buy Bitcoin in 2011, he cherishes her forever LOL)
Now.... is it AI?

 

[Prose]

Things have changed, for sure. Crypto started as a tool for buying drugs online. We didn’t hoard it hoping to get rich one day. We used it because we needed it to make “anonymous” transactions.

I know some users and dealers who accidentally woke up with more money than they knew what to do with. Not because they saw themselves as crypto investors, but because they had crypto ready to spend.

Crypto had real utility before regulators, and law enforcement got smarter. Now it’s mostly held by people who’ve never used it for anything but watching charts and posting memes, hoping to strike it rich.

 

[chubes]

I think AI is already the big thing right now, rather than the next big thing. Maybe the masses have not fully adopted it yet, but it's going to become unavoidable soon.

The capabilities of these tools are seriously mind-blowing. And I think it is only going to get crazier.

Two years ago, I could barely tinker with CSS files. Now I'm building custom plugins, themes, API integrations, even published a Chrome extension. There is nothing I wouldn't try at this point. This is all because of AI.

I think a lot of people are in the same boat. Check out the "vibe coding" or "build in public" SaaS trends over on X. Lots of people are using AI to build & sell software.

It's enabled a lot of creative people to spread their wings and build what they could only dream of before.

 

[bernard]

I think so for sure.

If you've been following on X, there was this trend of making family photos into Studio Ghibli drawings with ChatGPT.

I sent some pics to my friend with it and asked if he heard about it, but his response was basically "haven't paid attention, too much happening all the time".

Most people are not playing around with ChatGPT and it's obvious that there's a lot of wrapper-apps that can make money now. It's all in the marketing and reach of course.