March 17, 2025

TLDR: I’m developing an AI agent that will help me sell more on Etsy. Maybe it will help other Etsy sellers too.

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I’m working on something new.

It involves Artificial Intelligence and making money.

I’m finding myself asking these questions:

How can I make my life easier? Like to the point where I’m pretty much hands off?

Because I’m at an age when “normal” work doesn’t work.

And now we’ve found ourselves living in an age when oligarchs are taking over everything.

This is my way of fighting back.

I’m an Etsy seller. I started on January 1, 2024. Of course, I got zero sales in the first month. Then a couple sales the second month. Over the year, all metrics - views, favorites, sales - continued to increase at a rate I would’ve expected. Everything was looking pretty normal, pretty positive.

Until it wasn’t.

Something happened in September/October 2024. My metrics - views, favorites, sales - all bottomed out. WTF happened?

I don’t know.

As I’m struggling to get my metrics improved even now, I’m also learning more about Artificial Intelligence.

Etsy uses AI. Why not me?

Right now, I’m using AI to answer some simple (maybe) questions:

• What do customers want?

• What are customers looking for?

• What are customers buying?

• How can I be the person who customers want? How can I be the one they’re looking for? How can I be the one they want to buy from?

I’m working on a solution. And I’m getting closer.

Of course, this is for my benefit.

But what if 1) this actually works, and 2) this works for other Etsy sellers? I like the idea of the tide raising all boats.

I’m mindfully stroking my goatee.