NEW Claude Code AI Side Hustles Making People RICH

[00:00:00]So, what if I told you that you can combine Claude code with Nana banana AI to autonomously copy online businesses earning over 100k per month? Seriously, it's kind of crazy, but the way that Claude code can now automate content and product generation is genuinely game-changing. So, thank you to Hugs.love for sponsoring today's video, and [music] now let's just jump straight into it. And first up, I'll be using Claude code to automate the creation of kids educational books, because I'll tell you what, these are super popular.

[00:00:31]Take this educational book. It's a fun book that answers popular questions that kids often ask. It's a black and white encyclopedia-style book, which I'm pretty sure is AI-generated. And well, if we come and take the daily best sellers rank for it and pop it into a sales estimator, you can see it estimates it's selling anywhere from 4,800 to over 7,900 copies per month.

[00:00:53]And we can estimate the royalties, too.

[00:00:55]Because my guess is that this book is being sold through Amazon's self-publishing program, KDP. You just upload a PDF of your book, and Amazon will list it for sale, and each time a customer buys it, their print-on-demand service will print your book and ship it out. They'll remove their fees and they'll let you keep the rest of the profit as a commission. And using their KDP profit calculator, we can estimate it's earning $13.33 per book sold. Wow. Which, if you do take time to do the math, comes out to a really nice daily or monthly royalty check for this creator. But, yes, either way, let me now show you how I used AI tools to make my own kids encyclopedia book, like this one here, super fast by utilizing the simple AI workflow here.

[00:01:40]And first up in our workflow is Claude code, which is, of course, Claude's computer-based agentic coding assistant.

[00:01:46]Using this, we can automate the creation of all of our book images. So, if you don't have this yet, download it and install it onto your computer. Then, next up, we need to give Claude the skills to autonomously generate images and videos for us because you see, as insanely powerful as Claude code is, it does not have the ability to generate images or videos currently. However, there is a workaround to this. And that is that you can install an external AI image generation tool that has a built-in Claude agent feature. And right now, the most popular one is by far Hexfield. And I don't just say that because they kindly agreed to sponsor this video, it's because it is by far the biggest with the most popular AI image and video generation tools included in it. Plus, they also, of course, have a built-in Claude agent feature, which Claude code can install conveniently itself. So, to do this, first of all, after you've downloaded and installed Claude code on your computer, open it up and make sure that you have selected code mode. Next, come to Hexfield. Click the CLI option in the menu. Then, with CLI selected, make sure that you choose Claude from the model list, and then copy this first command code here. Then, come back to Claude code and paste it in. Claude code will now go through the installation process on your behalf. It may ask for your permissions for things. So, for me, I just clicked to allow all and said yes to everything. Although I'll be transparent, I'm not that techy. I did also accidentally use Opus for this. I'm sure Sonnet would have been fine instead if you'd prefer to use a cheaper Claude model to save some credits. Either way, the process took 5 minutes and then it was done. Nice. Then, next up, I needed to authorize it to have access to my Hexfield account. So, I copied the next command code line and then pasted it into Claude code and I clicked enter.

[00:03:31]And again, it handled the process for me. It automatically opened up an authorization window where I agreed to allow access to my Hexfield account.

[00:03:39]Then, after this, I just needed to give Claude access to all of Hexfield's features and skills. So, I just copied the third command code line and pasted it into Claude code and clicked enter.

[00:03:49]And And it. It was installed, no problem. So, now that we've given Claude Code the ability to create images and videos, here's how to actually do it.

[00:03:59]All you've got to do is create a new Claude Code chat session, then tell it exactly what types of images you want it to autonomously batch create for you.

[00:04:07]So, as you can see, I explained to it what style of images I needed it to make for me, told it to make them in a 3x4 aspect ratio, and I also listed all 100 page images I wanted to make for me using Nana Pro containing all the different questions I wanted it to answer in a fun encyclopedia style format. And I also uploaded a reference image for it to use as a style guide.

[00:04:30]And yes, before anyone asks, as you probably already guessed, I didn't come up with all 100 questions myself to answer. I used Claude to help me create these, and I also made the reference image with Nana Banana Pro in advance manually. I spent a few minutes manually making several different versions of these, and from these options, I picked the one one that I liked the best, and I downloaded it. But yeah, that was it.

[00:04:54]Claude went ahead and ran the integration by itself, and it was pretty cool because what it did was at first made a test image, and then it compared it against my reference image that I had uploaded to see if it matched. And when it analyzed both images and saw that it did match, it then offered me the choice of making all images or a small test batch first. I chose for Claude to just go ahead and make all the images for me, and I'll tell you what, it did it perfectly. Check out the images it made.

[00:05:22]All of these get saved, by the way, inside of your Heggerty Field media library when you generate them with Claude. It honestly blew my mind how perfect they were for what we were making. But yes, next up, I needed to turn them into a book. And to do that, I used Canva, which, as my long-time subscribers know, is my favorite AI-powered graphics design tool, which, by the way, also has a free 30-day trial currently right now to its Pro account, which includes all of its AI tools. So, if you want to access this for free, I'll include my affiliate link to it in the video description below. Then, once I logged in, I clicked to create a new project and I sized it to be 8.5 by 11 in, which is the standard page size for children's encyclopedia books. Then, I came and uploaded the first image that I made with Claude and I then opened up the image editing settings and I used two tools. I used the AI background remover tool to remove the white background and make it transparent and I used the AI upscaler to upscale it into high resolution. Then, I came to the settings menu and I turned on printing margins and I then refreshed the page.

[00:06:24]Now, Canva had added in a little dotted ruler guideline for me to use so that I could resize my image to fit within the printing area. And then, once I had done that, I just clicked to create a new page and I repeated this process with my next image. And then, once I had all of my images uploaded and had all of my book pages created and looking the way that I wanted, I just downloaded it as a print-ready PDF within Canva. And then, yeah, that was pretty much it. It was ready to be uploaded to Amazon KDP and sold as a book. Yay. Now, for this video, I don't have time to go into all of the boring technical details such as how to actually upload a kids book to Amazon like I did here or to optimize it for free search engine traffic and things like that. But, if you would like a full step-by-step tutorial for it or a tutorial for any of the business ideas that I'm going to talk about in this video, please just let me know in the comments because if there is enough demand for a specific tutorial video, then I can set aside the time to record it and make it for you. But, yes. Either way, let me now show you the next way that people are using Claude code to get rich. And that is to create downloadable image packs such as clip art fast and then to sell them on Etsy. Clip art is selling really, [music] really well right now on Etsy. I've seen so many new stores pop up in the past year or so and have fast success. For example, you take the store. It's just over 10 months old and it's already had over 14,900 sales. Wow. And that's all from creating these cute clip art packs featuring AI art. The key to their success is that generated packs in a big range of niches targeting lots of Etsy search engine keywords bringing in lots of free traffic. And each pack contains roughly 20 to 60 images. Now, of course, before Claude Code, making this would have been very slow. But now, well, it can be done fast. So, to make my own clip art pack, I first of all used Nano Banana and Hexfield to generate a bunch of images for me so that I could pick one to use as my reference. And I chose to use Google's other AI image model Nano Banana 2 because I think it's slightly better than the pro model at creating the cute whimsical art such as this here, which is currently super trendy.

[00:08:39]It created lots of great for me, but out of all of these, this one was my favorite. So, I downloaded it. Then I opened up Claude and I started a new chat. I uploaded in my reference and I gave it a niche and I asked it to come up with 25 clip art image ideas and it brainstormed some starting ideas for me.

[00:08:57]And then, next up, I started a new Claude Code session and I uploaded my reference image into it and explained what I wanted the images to be like along with the file name of my reference images. And I also added in some tweaked versions of the ideas that Claude Chat had helped me come up with. And then that was it. I again let it go ahead and do its magic. Similar to before, it made a test image and compared it to my reference image to make sure that it matched in style and then it went ahead and created the full batch. And look, it did an amazing job. Super cool, right?

[00:09:30]So then, onto the next business. But first, if you are enjoying this video, please consider giving it a like because, well, I've recently had a huge influx of people who hate AI come and dislike my videos, which can honestly be very demotivating, which is why when I do receive support like this, it genuinely means a lot. So, thank you if you choose to do so. But, anyway, I digress. Let's now move on to the next way that people are making money with Claude code, and that is with this or that videos. These are super popular right now. They're basically just a bunch of different AI generated images on specific themes like build your favorite house, choose your favorite gift, things like that. And there are two ways that people are making money with them. The first is by posting them to YouTube as long-form videos and earning money from YouTube's monetization program, which splits ad revenue with us creators. For example, you take this video here, right? This one was posted just 6 months ago, and as you can see, it has already gained over 11 million views. And it's kind of crazy, but the views are still climbing.

[00:10:34]Seriously, every day it is passively gaining anywhere from 100,000 to 200,000 views. And so you think about it, right?

[00:10:41]On average, most creators on YouTube earn anywhere from $3 to $7 per 1,000 views, otherwise known as RPM. So, if you do the math, it means then that we can estimate that from this one single video, this creator is earning a very nice passive monthly income. But, that's not all because if you're in a country that can take part in TikTok's monetization program, Creator Rewards, then you should be aware that these videos are making creators a lot of money on here, too. So, for example, you take this TikTok account here. It's had a lot of videos go viral and gain millions of views in the past couple of months, such as this video here, posted just 7 weeks ago as of me filming this video. This one is slightly different take on the formula because instead of it just being images, it's turned a few of them into these surreal videos. And this extra twist has definitely made this super popular. And it's gained over 24.6 million views. And I'll tell you what, ever since TikTok overhauled the monetization program a few months ago, people have been getting super high RPMs. From $1 to even $7 per 1,000 views. Now, $7 RPMs, that is obviously on the high side. But if we just even bump it down to a more conservative 50 cent to $2 RPM for this creator, for this one single video they posted, it still comes out to really nice estimated earnings. So then, let me now show you how I quickly made my own this or that video fast by using this AI tool workflow here. And first up in our workflow is the chat version of Claude.

[00:12:19]You can again either use the version you've installed on your computer or the web-based version. Both work fine. But basically, I just used it to help me brainstorm on different image ideas for a this or that video themed around a build-your-dream influencer style home.

[00:12:33]Then once I had my list of image ideas, I started a new session within Claude code, and I asked it to use banana to make square hyperrealistic photos of each of the dream room ideas that I had brainstormed. And then that was that. I let it do its magic. I went away and made myself a hot drink. And by the time I was done, the images were ready. And check it out, they look great. Now, at this point, I had a choice. Either I could one, just stick to using these photos, or two, I could do what that viral TikTok video did and mix and match photos with some videos. And so for me, I chose to do the second one. And that was pretty simple. I just opened up Pexels, came to my library, and picked my favorite photos, and clicked the turn to video button. This opened up my image in the video generator. I then just picked my favorite low-cost video model, Kling 3.0, and I set it to be 5 seconds and 720p resolution. Since let's be honest, TikTok videos don't need to be in 4K resolution, you know? And yeah, Clean animated my image for me, easy. So then, once I had my images and my videos, I then came to the next tool in our workflow, which is the graphics editing tool that I used earlier, Canva.

[00:13:45]And I'll tell you why I'm using it. It's because if you click to create a new project and select to make a video, you'll find that in the built-in template section, they have lots of templates created already for this or that videos, which is super convenient.

[00:13:59]So, I picked the template which matched my niche the best, and then I customized it with my poll clips. And so, first up, I uploaded my video clips of the polls that I wanted to swap into my scene, and then I dragged and dropped them over the placeholder images to replace them. And then I came in and I customized the text to say poll number one, and then poll number two. And then, once I had it looking the way that I wanted, I went and I opened up Canva's video editing timeline, and I clicked to add a new scene, which added a blank scene into my video for me. And then I selected the same template that I used earlier. And again, I customized it, this time uploading photos of the closets and modifying the text. And then, well, I just kept repeating this process for each of the different scenes that I had created. And so, check it out. Here's what it looks like finished. So, as you can see, Claude did a fantastic job at creating the different images for my video, and because I was able to use a template in Canva to create this, making this final video here actually took me less than 10 minutes, which was very nice.

[00:15:03]So then, if you'd like to learn about even more ways that people are starting online businesses using AI tools, be sure to watch my next video here on screen, and I will see you in the next video.