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The Koerner Office: Business Ideas & Growth Advice

You don’t need to code. You need to sell.

My buddy built a custom app for an auto mechanic with AI. It took 30 minutes.

No coding. No templates. Just a prompt. Then he charged $50/month.

He’s doing this over and over. Here’s how:

You've heard of vibe coding. Well, this is it.

Talk to an AI tool like Replit, Cursor, or V0…

And it builds the app for you.

You don’t even need to know what a “stack” is. You just need to know what problem you’re solving, and who will pay for it.

His first client was a mechanic who needed a place for techs to log how many cars they saw per day.

The “solution” he thought he needed was Airtable + Softr = $250/month

Billy built him a custom AI-powered web app in a day, and charged $50/month.

Once you learn the tools (Replit, Bolt, Lovable, V0):

You don’t build software, you build businesses.

Every CRM you hate?
Every spreadsheet you duct-taped together?
Every Google Doc that breaks?

Those are products waiting to happen.

Want to do this yourself? Here’s the play: Pick a boring business & ask them what system frustrates them:

- Build an MVP in Replit or V0
- Show a demo
- Charge $30–$300/month
- Repeat with another client

This works.

Bonus move?

- Take that same app you built…
- Change the branding
- Tweak the copy

…and sell it to 10 more people in that niche.

Small businesses don’t want options. They want simple, fast, done-for-you.

If you can sell you don’t need to write code.

AI will build what you describe.

Your job is to describe it clearly and ask someone to pay for it. That’s it.

The guy in this story is Billy Howell. He came on my podcast to outline his exact process. Links in the top comment below! Enjoy!