Took me 18 months but I finally shipped. AI agents that actually capture subscribers and make money.
Finally shipped the thing I've been working on forever.
Quick backstory: I kept building AI agents that people would use once, get their answer, and bounce. No email. No payment. Nothing.
The AI part wasn't the problem. That's easy now. The problem was everything around it.
The stuff that was annoying me:
- People use my agent → leave → I have no way to reach them
- I want to charge for access but there's no easy way
- I want it on Discord AND my website AND Slack but that's like 3 different builds
- Connecting to Calendly or my email list required hacky workarounds
Couldn't find anything that just... did all of that.
So I built it.
What it does:
Upload your content. Get an AI agent. Then:
- Gate it behind email (they sign up before chatting)
- Or charge for it (subscription or pay-per-chat)
- Connect to 50+ tools (Calendly, Stripe, Mailchimp, HubSpot, etc.)
- Deploy anywhere (web, custom domain, Discord, Slack, Telegram, WhatsApp)
The cool part — interactive responses:
The agent doesn't just spit out text. It can actually do things.
- "Design a thumbnail" → opens canvas editor → user edits → exports PNG
- "Build a landing page" → generates React + Tailwind → live preview → user edits → exports code
- "Analyze this data" → writes Python → runs it → returns charts
- "Book a call" → shows Calendly widget → books directly
It's the difference between "here's how to do it" and "here, it's done, tweak it if you want."
What people are building with it:
- AI tutor that charges $29/mo
- Design assistant that captures emails and upsells to paid
- Code reviewer that charges per review
- Customer support bot that actually handles forms and bookings
Being honest about the timeline:
- V1 has been live since July 2023
- Took me 18 months to rebuild V2 (yeah, way too long)
- Just shipped today
- Free tier is real, not a trial
What I learned:
- Building in silence sucks. Should've shipped updates publicly.
- The AI isn't the product. The stuff around it is.
- People care more about "can it book calls?" than "14 artifact types"
Would love feedback:
- Does this solve something for you?
- What would you build?
- What's missing?
Link: https://boostgpt.co
Thanks for reading ✌️
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Congrats on shipping after 18 months. That's a long grind but the result looks solid.
Your framing nails it: "The AI isn't the product. The stuff around it is." This is what most AI-wrapper builders miss. The AI part is commoditized — the capture, monetization, and distribution layer is where the real value sits.
The interactive responses concept is interesting. Embedding actual tools (canvas, code execution, booking) inside the chat changes the value prop from "assistant" to "automated workflow." That's a meaningful upgrade.
A few questions:
Email gating vs. friction — Do you see drop-off when people hit the email wall before chatting? Or does pre-qualifying intent actually improve downstream conversion?
Multi-platform deployment — When someone deploys the same agent to Discord + web + Slack, how do you handle context persistence across channels? (Does the agent "remember" a user across platforms?)
What surprised you most about user behavior in V1 that shaped V2?
The "building in silence sucks" lesson is real. Curious how you plan to approach distribution this time — IH, Twitter, somewhere else?