I almost jumped in........
After a slew of youtube videos showed up on my home page; "digital is the way to go", other than etsy fees it's all profit and makes money over and over again. Don't worry about the million competitors!!!!
Blah, blah.
I actually upgraded chatgpt fully planning on using this tool to into the digital market! I picked gpt's brains with many prompts, got to the point where I asked what niche should I jump into. Gpt gave me a list of categories, trends, marketing ideas and I settled on digital products for baby nurseries.......and off I went to create.
I popped my head up after about 12 hrs. of creating designs and yes using AI for some. Then I had a thought I should go take a look at the competition and see what's selling.
Seriously, omg......and I take full responsibility for my stupidity. I went to etsy, looked up this category and found ONE page of digital products for the nursery! ok, what? Why did gpt give me this info? Hours of design work down the drain!
Today I was watching an interview about AI and I swear I was hit by a 2x4 when I heard:
Imperfection is what makes us human. Don't lose your humanness to AI. In the future people will not want cookie cutter perfect items - they will be wanting and willing to pay more for handcrafted items.
wow, that's pretty powerful.
