How He Made $200,000 in a Week Teaching AI - Ep. 48 with Nat Eliason

I think storytelling is one of the most essential skills of the AI age, and our sponsor for today’s episode, LTX Studio, is helping storytellers visualize their stories. With LTX Studio, you can bring your stories to life, complete with a cast, storyline, and settings, all according to your style and specifications. Check them out here: https://bit.ly/LTXStudioEvery Nat Eliason’s career arc is borderline absurd—but it works. In the last five years, he ran an SEO agency, got into crypto, made $600,000 from a course on the note-taking tool Roam Research, flipped real estate in Austin for a 6x return, and published a book with Random House. He’s now writing a book of science fiction and running a viral course about building apps with AI. I’ve known Nat for a long time, and I think he knows where the puck is headed better than anyone. He’ll see a new tool or trend, master it, build a business around it, and move on. Nat’s pulled it off with crypto, Roam, real estate—and now AI. His app-building course has over 800 students and racked up $200,000 in pre-sales in one week. Nat was one of the first guests I had on the podcast and I was delighted to have him on again. We spent an hour talking about how coding with AI is creating new behaviors in programming, Nat’s best practices for using the coding tool Cursor, and his take on the future of writing with AI. This episode is a must-watch for writers, creators, and anyone interested in the future of product building. If you found this episode interesting, please like, subscribe, comment, and share! Want even more? Sign up for Every to unlock our ultimate guide to prompting ChatGPT here: https://every.ck.page/ultimate-guide-to-prompting-chatgpt. It’s usually only for paying subscribers, but you can get it here for free. To hear more from Dan Shipper: Subscribe to Every: https://every.to/subscribe Follow him on X: https://twitter.com/danshipper Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Episode start 00:01:45 - Introduction 00:11:45 - The origins of Nat's viral course on building apps with AI 00:18:46 - How coding with AI has evolved over the last two years 00:22:22 - Nat creates an app using Composer, Cursor's AI assistant 00:26:06 - Tactical tips for coding with Cursor 00:29:06 - How coding with AI is creating new behaviours in programming 00:32:41 - What excites Nat the most about the future of AI 00:38:58 - A demo of Hubbard, the AI editor Nat built for his science fiction writing 00:44:52 - When does it makes sense to build custom software 00:49:18 - Nat's take on the future of writing with AI Links to resources mentioned in the episode: Nat Eliason: @nateliason Nat’s viral course about building apps with AI: https://www.buildyourownapps.com/ The book Nat published about crypto: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0593714040 Dan’s piece about how AI empowers creators: https://every.to/chain-of-thought/ai-and-the-age-of-the-individual