🗞 What's New: 8 ways to use AI agents as an indie hacker

Here's what you'll find in this issue:

• There's a lot of hype around AI agents, but not a lot of actionable advice. Here are 8 ways they can improve your business.
• From free side project to $12k MRR in 11 months: the story behind an AI-powered mockup generator.

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For all the buzz around AI agents, there's been little discussion on which use cases are relevant for founders. And even the discussions I do see are thin on details about how to set the agents up.

So this piece by Aytekin Tank hits the spot. He's the founder of Jotform — a bootstrapped startup doing between $50–100M in revenue — and the author of an awesome book called "Automate Your Busywork."

In his breakdown, he gets into steps on how to set up agents for automating customer support, capturing sales leads, automating content creation, and much more.

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Too many people think the latest AI tools mean they get to put in less effort. (Just look at AI reply spam.)

In reality, the opposite is true. Better tools mean more competition. And more competition means you need to go that extra mile to stand out.

—@channingallen

When Pranay Agarwal noticed that creating product mockups was unnecessarily complicated, he built a simple solution as a nights-and-weekends project.

Fast forward to today, and his AI-powered mockup generator Mockey is bringing in $12,000 monthly just 11 months after introducing paid subscriptions.

Some of the secrets to his success? Starting with a laser-focused MVP (just T-shirt mockups), leveraging AI at the perfect moment, and implementing a clever freemium model that converts free users when they hit download limits.

But these only scratch the surface of his impressive growth:

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Special thanks to Yushavel Calderon for the graphic design, and to Aytekin Tank and James Fleischmann for contributing posts.

—Channing