AI-made search pages brought a side project its first paying customer
TinyPopups is a small tool for showing product updates and new feature notices on a website. The product was built quickly with . Instead of making a detailed search plan, AI was used to find phrases people might search when looking for this kind of tool.
AI then produced several page types, including , alternatives pages, use-case pages, and feature pages. The pages covered practical searches such as feature announcement popups, product update widgets, changelog popups, website notification bars, and alternatives to competing tools. Those pages were published with little extra planning.
This week, someone searched Google for a simple feature announcement tool, reached one of the pages, and became the . The main lesson is that AI can make it cheap for a to test many kinds of that would be too time-consuming to write by hand.
Key points
- TinyPopups helps websites announce product updates and new features.
- AI was used to brainstorm what potential customers might search for.
- The pages included comparisons, alternatives, , and feature-focused pages.
- One Google visitor from those pages became the .
- AI can help s test faster and cheaper.