What's New: OpenAI previews an exciting future in Reddit AMA
(from the latest issue of the Indie Hackers newsletter)
Here's what you'll find in this issue:
- Top OpenAI execs did an AMA on Reddit, complete with exciting previews. Hint: ChatGPT may be singing to you soon.
- Google Search has a new competitor: ChatGPT's "search the web" feature.
- $5K MRR with a suite of no-code products. Kieran Ball left a career in accounting to do his own thing.
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OpenAI previews an exciting future in Reddit AMA 💬
OpenAI has now checked off an internet rite of passage: The Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA).
CEO Sam Altman, Chief Product Officer Kevin Weil, SVP of Research Mark Chen, VP of Engineering Srinivas Narayanan, and Chief Scientist Jakub Pachoki answered questions about everything AI for over an hour yesterday.
In the news 📰
🤖 AI-generated garbage is flooding Medium.
💰 Start planning your Black Friday offer now.
🔎 How to identify untapped PPC opportunities.
🥊 Microsoft and Google are at war again.
🧼 The surprising afterlife of used hotel soap.
OpenAI is getting closer to competing directly with Google Search 👀
OpenAI has rolled out its basic "search the web" feature to most paid users, finally connecting their ChatGPT interface to the internet in real time.
The company has also quietly added an autocomplete feature to ChatGPT Web. It now suggests searches based on the terms you're typing.
Here's what else you need to know.
Harry's Growth Tip 🧠
Marketing Examples brings you short, sweet, practical marketing tips. Here's the latest:
“The best headlines tease at stories.”
— Thomas Kemney
Breaking out of an accounting career to launch no-code apps 📱
Kieran Ball tried and failed to learn how to code. Then, he struggled to find a technical cofounder. Turns out, these "failures" led him to no-code.
He doubled down and built several no-code SaaS products. Then, he launched a newsletter on the topic, then built a no-code SaaS boilerplate called Bullet Launch.
Now, no-code makes him $5k+ per month, plus what he brings in from no-code freelancing.
He's learned that distribution is everything.
Channing's tweet pick 🐦
Surrounding yourself with other indie hackers who are just as smart and driven as you is a really underrated superpower in our community. If you can't do it in a physical space start a Telegram group or Discord and do it digitally. —@channingallen
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Special thanks to Jay Avery for editing this issue, to Gabriella Federico for the illustrations, and to Stephen Flanders, Darko Gjorgjievski, Katie Hignett, and James Fleischmann for contributing posts. —Channing
