I’m building passive income on a strict budget ($150/month). First product went live yesterday after 48 hours of work.
The Product
50 ChatGPT Prompts for Business Growth – $17 USD
Why I chose this
✅ Low barrier to entry (no coding, no design skills)
✅ Proven demand (ChatGPT has 200M users)
✅ 100% passive (create once, sell forever)
✅ Zero inventory/shipping
Day 1: Research & Creation (6 hours)
Research (2h):
- Studied top-selling prompt packs on Gumroad
- Identified gaps (most are generic, mine are business-focused)
Creation (3h):
- Created 50 prompts covering marketing, sales, content, product development
- Added 10 bonus templates
- Organized into 7 categories
Packaging (1h):
- Designed PDF in Canva (free)
- 47 pages, 683KB
- Professional but simple
Cost: $0
Day 2: Launch Infrastructure (2 hours)
Gumroad (30 min):
- Account setup
- Product upload
- Listing optimization
- Live in 10 minutes
Domain (15 min):
- Registered assoflow.cloud (free 1 year)
- Redirect to Gumroad
- DNS: 5 minutes
Distribution (90 min):
- Created 10 social accounts
- Automated email verification (Gmail OAuth)
- Prepared launch posts
Cost: $4
Tools Used (all free)
- ChatGPT – Prompt testing
- Canva – PDF design
- Gumroad – Sales platform
- Gmail – Email automation
Total Investment
💰 $4 + 8 hours
What I Learned
- Start with what you know – I use ChatGPT daily
- Ship before you’re ready – Done > perfect
- Free tools are enough – Paid tools come later
- Document the journey – People want the process
Want to replicate this?
Step-by-step:
- Pick a niche you understand
- Create value (solve a real problem)
- Package it (PDF, Notion, spreadsheet)
- List on Gumroad (takes 10 min)
- Launch everywhere (organic first)
Questions? Drop them below. I’ll answer everything.
Link: https://assoflow.gumroad.com/l/uhejcg
Building in public. Day 6 of 365.