back to udemy, fiverr and selling niche scripts/apps with a side order of flipping to the mix is my current path, potentially going to re-train for new roles that are currently appearing because of ai.

oh and i need to learn to drive all over again, so that’s nice. at least, i need to learn new measurements or do the calculations and i need to be able to pass tests that seem to be more vindictive than useful, but hey ho, you put in the coin and you take a spin.

with fiverr i’m going to be adding a layer of ai spice to the mix, a middleman agency/studio setup for people who want someone to handle their ai workflows but utilizing me as the person they hand things off too.

concerning udemy it’s been good to me over the years and i know there is a lot of training and teaching to be done, specific areas of society using ai tools to enhance what they are already doing or to break out of where they are in life and create a better life (myself included here)

i can visualize it very clearly for both udemy/fiverr as i’ve done those both at different times over the years and building for both has’nt really changed — fiverr might be a bit more involved because i really need to keep up on pricing on the saas side for the rendering.

i think i could build a middleware tool for me as a creator relatively straight forward in terms of actions, the idea would be something more using comfy.org and nodes but i’m not there yet — another part could be n8n once i’ve built those other elements.

obviously pricing, bandwidth, failovers, remaking and such like is going to be a fine balance to start with so i’m building in some wiggle room because i know what fiverr clients tend to be like.

of course a lot of this depends on the “clouds” and they get costly, have to balance out what’s worth the time, where i can save time, where i can do stuff while mobile to kick things off and then also deploying a homelab that can maybe take a load of (costs) and do ai inference locally across the network.

i think we both as remote workers are heading that way at the moment, cutting costs, working from home, having all our assets locally, doing ai experiments locally, backups, storage, location security — kinda where my head goes when i’m mapping that out.

also i have to take in account that i’ve been out of the loop of the “demand” side in the last year. it’s like i took a gap year and i’m now re-entering the job market when i know that apple is out here redesigning chipsets in 6 months — a lot changes faster these days.

might not be an audience for the stuff i make on fiverr anymore as a 50 something year old man, that market last year was crazy as the market had enough of twenty something inflencers and they were just not doing well in a/b split tests in facebook metrics.

i still think my “age” of ugc could do ok, i’m sure they just want the tried and tested, real to camera, reletable stuff but i’m hoping i can build an ai agency component on the side of that too. i’m not truly sure what that looks like at the moment for brands i work with as they already have a lot of that in place but costs/speed/tech could make that unruly.

the content creator in the ai age is really appealing to me.

i’m seeing a bunch of decade or old creators that are finally using ai to make thumbnails or re-write seo ready titles and descriptions, even conversation starters in the comments, i’m sure they will expand on that.

i can certainly see a world where every part of the conversation tree is remixable, including down the website, the original video shot, b-roll and just every interation possible.

not sure where reputation management sits now but i’ve really not heard a lot about that these days although being here, i’m more interesting in the parody laws! :)