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🗓️ 18 August 2025
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In this week’s First $1,000 segment, hear how one side hustler launched a paid weekly book summary subscription, combining AI tools with personal commentary to stand out in a crowded space.
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0:49.8 | Book summary subscription breaks out. Hey what's up welcome to side hustle school |
0:59.2 | chris gilabot your host here in this segment it is our first one thousand dollar segment |
1:04.3 | comes out every week we get to hear how a side hustler made their first thousand dollars |
1:09.1 | how did they go from idea to income? Specifically, we're going to |
1:12.4 | hear today how one side hustler launched a paid weekly book summary subscription. He combined |
1:18.1 | AI tools with personal commentary to stand out in a crowded space. Now, this space, the book summary |
1:24.7 | space, I'll have to kind of share my bias here. I'm not a huge |
1:28.4 | fan of it as an author. I believe in writing books. And I think it's hard to sometimes distill |
1:34.1 | there are these services that take, you know, 300 page books and give you like a three minute |
1:38.5 | summary and say, hey, now you understand everything from the book when obviously that's not the |
1:42.8 | case. I mean, you can learn a little bit about the concept, just like if you read the flap copy, which is what's on the back of the book or the inside cover of a book jacket. But of course, there's so much more to it. We're going to avoid that whole debate, though. I'm just noting it because here on the podcast, I want to give you lots of different ideas, lots of different |
2:01.0 | stories of projects and people doing different things. |
2:03.8 | It doesn't always have to be my thing or something I love. |
2:06.4 | And there are lots of companies offering these book summaries. |
2:09.0 | So it's definitely a category. |
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