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While I was drinking coffee this morning and focusing on living my best Frog and Toad life, I came across something pretty interesting that would make a fun side hustle experiment.

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AI Music Side Hustle

What I was reading is the latest newsletter from Brooks Conkle’s Destroy That Box newsletter.

What he’s doing is using an AI music creation tool to spin up a LoFi music channel on YouTube.

If you’re new to it, LoFi is really popular on YouTube so I think this is a great idea.

A while back the Exploding Ideas guy was creating “soundscape” audio and raking in loads of cash from Spotify…before it dried up.

I can’t remember exactly what happened with his Spotify earnings, but it was something about how they pay out for “music” that is just something like “river sounds”…if I remember correctly.

Anyways, Brooks is using a tool called Suno where you can create songs with lyrics, as well as instrumentals. To give you an example, this one cracked me up.

At a minimum, I see this as a cheap way to get background music for YouTube channels.

But here’s the thing with this tool, as well as the other AI music tools that I’ve checked out - you can only use the “music” you create for commercial purposes if you are on one of their paid plans.

There’s also some stuff in the terms of service that leads me to believe they trained their AI on copyrighted music, which means this is something that could come back to bite you in the end.

All that being said, I still think it’s a super interesting idea for a side hustle.

You could probably do other stuff as well, like put the MP3 files up on AudioJungle and similar sites to sell the files to people who need background music.

Or, start your own site selling something like LoFi beats. Or make it a free marketplace and monetize with ads.

I’m sure there’s other things you can do as well. Maybe these ideas will give you some new ones.

Back to Frog and Toad life…

Have a great rest of your weekend,

Shawna

P.S. ConvertKit has a free newsletter plan now for up to 10,000 subscribers, while Beehiiv only gives you 2,500 subs for free. Something to think about if you wanna test the newsletter waters.

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