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Faceless Channels - $80,000/Month, Doc-to-Video, One-Click Anime Video Generation: This Week's AI Wins (1)
Chris Bulen & Daniel Ebohon
May 05, 2026
Hi everyone 👋
It’s Chris & Daniel, from Startups.fyi.
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Startups FYI Spotlight
⭐ Turn Your Docs Into Smart Videos
Wouldn't it be great if your onboarding or training materials didn't look boring? This tool converts your document or article into a clean, structured video, with charts that animate, workflows that move, and updates that sync instantly when you edit the original. (Pre-revenue)
🎨 Anime Videos Without Crying Over Tutorials
If you have a story but zero animation skills, then this is your cheat code. All you have to do is drop in your characters, write your scenes, and let this easy-to-use tool handle the lip-sync, motion, and consistency. (Pre-revenue)
✨ Quick Fixes for Messy Text
Do you know that you can use this browser-based text utility to convert cases, clean up whitespace, count words, and format text. There are no downloads, no ads, and no malware roulette.
It was created by a solo founder who was fed up with caps-lock disasters and sketchy text-converter sites that appeared first on Google. (Pre-revenue)
🗂️ Turn Notion or Airtable Into a Real Product
If your whole business runs on Notion or Airtable, this no-code tool lets you turn that database into a client portal or mini app. Clients get a real dashboard. You look ten times more organized and the best part, there is zero coding involved. (Generating $300 MRR)
🏛️ All Your Community Chaos in One Dashboard
Running a community shouldn’t require ten apps and a headache. That is why I love this tool, it bundles CRM, events, fundraising, e-voting — everything — into one place. (Generating $5,000 MRR)
⚡ Slides That Don't Steal Your Time
Need a slidedeck now? Type a prompt. Done!
This easy-to-use tool generates clean, professional presentations in minutes, which is great when your brain says “no” but your deadline says “yes.” (Generating $10,000 MRR for the solo-founder)
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💻 From Zero Code to $23,000 in 60 Days
A 17-year-old with no coding experience opened Lovable, typed one prompt, and had a live Chrome extension on the Chrome Store in 20 minutes.
Then he started charging businesses $1,500 for what developers were billing $5,000 for — and pocketed $23,000 in his second month.
🤖 No Camera. No Audience. No Content. $80,000/Month.
While everyone else was grinding YouTube and begging for the algorithm to work in their favour, a 19-year-old with a Discord account and Claude-written bots quietly built an $80,000/month business — 20+ servers, $5 hosting, PayPal doing the rest.
🏠 $3,200/Month on Airbnb — No Mortgage, No Property, No Ownership
This guy pulls $3,200/month without owning a single wall or window. The model is rental arbitrage — and in 2026, Claude collapsed what used to take weeks into a 20-minute workflow.
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