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Comment by kennethologist | Hacker News Reader

Apparently Pieter Levels: " Interior AI now has >99% profit margins

- GPU bill is $200/month for 21,000 designs per month or about 1¢ per render (no character training like Photo AI helps costs) - Hosted on a shared VPS with my other sites @ $500/mo, but % wise Interior AI is ~$50 of that

+= $250/month in costs

It makes about $45,000 in MRR and so $44,730 is pure profits! It is 100% ran by AI robots, no people

I lead the robots and do product dev but only when necessary"

https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1773443837320380759

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This guy makes money by selling "how to get rich using AI" courses and marketing himself on social media (which he is phenomenal at). I'm not really inclined to believe his sales numbers.

He is NOT selling any courses. Can you please point me to any of his courses? He has a book he wrote about making software/projects called Make. This book is several years old and doesn't mention AI.

Gent is shilling his book about passive income or whatever. Sure I believe his numbers.

> $45,000 in MRR and so $44,730

I’ve found a lot of these numbers from people selling passive income methods are extrapolated.

Levels has been one of the most open entrepreneurs out there. I'd be surprised if he lied on revenue

All of that just to sell a book?

Entrepreneur influencers are some of the worst trash.

Is that an agent based setup? Seems like it’s using a few different models wired together manually.

His robots are just automated scripts which do the bulk repetitive tasks unlike the agents that comment OP thought.

And yet "Unfortunately, we cannot offer refunds as costs incurred for generating AI images are extremely high."

Yeah, he claims because at any point in time there are people redesigning their interiors. I'd say that at any point in time there are people you can convince to give you their money, and if you don't offer refunds, it's not far from a scam.

most other services (Stripe, ChatGPT, Google Workspace) also don't seem to offer refunds?

And neither do most restaurants either; what's to prevent someone from getting a service and then a full refund?

exactly 99% gross profit, but can't offer refunds due to cost

I roll my eyes every time I see a tweet of his. "Entrepreneur influencers" are uniquely unbearable.

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