Chris Koerner on The Koerner Office Podcast

The Simplest AI Side Hustle for Beginners

⏱ 33 min video · 3 min read4 Jun 2026Worth watching

TL;DR

Chris Koerner builds two no-code AI apps (an instant quote generator and a job profit tracker) for garage door repair businesses using Lovable, then live-demonstrates finding and texting 50 real business owners using scraped Google Maps data, achieving a 30%+ response rate and a confirmed interested lead within one hour. The video is a full end-to-end playbook for a recurring-revenue AI tools side hustle.

Key points

78% of customers hire the first company that gives them a quote, making speed-to-lead the core problem Chris is solving for home service businesses

Using Lovable (a no-code AI builder), Chris built two sellable web apps in under 15 minutes by having ChatGPT generate optimized prompts first — the apps included payment processing via Paddle with no manual setup

He scraped 513 garage door business phone numbers in the DFW area using Outscraper for $111, cleaned the data down to 153 verified cell numbers, and filtered for repair companies using Google Sheets conditional formatting

Texting 50 business owners via Straight Text (iPhone blue bubble) produced a 30%+ response rate within 10 minutes and at least one confirmed interested prospect within one hour

The proposed business model is $50 per closed lead from AI voice agent calls, with no upfront cost or contract — designed to eliminate price as a barrier to validation before raising rates

Actionable insights

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Before prompting Lovable, ask ChatGPT to generate a thorough Lovable-specific prompt — it will produce a far more complete app and even include follow-up prompts for iteration

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Use Outscraper to scrape Google Maps by keyword (not category), then clean data in Google Sheets: standardize phone formats, remove duplicates, filter to mobile-only numbers, and tag businesses with 'repair' in the name using conditional formatting

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Lead with a short, local, curiosity-driven SMS under 160 characters ('Do you still fix garage doors?') to confirm identity before sending the sales pitch — shorter texts with a local reference get significantly higher response rates

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Set up a GoHighLevel AI voice agent (available on 30-day free trial) as the core product: configure it to collect name and address, summarize calls via email, and optionally forward high-urgency callers directly to the business owner

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Start with a zero-risk offer (no contracts, no upfront fee, pay-per-closed-lead) to validate demand quickly, then raise prices and add retainers once you have proof of results

Notable quotes

“78% of customers will hire the first company that gives them a quote. They don't want the best company or the cheapest company. They want the one that gives them a quote the fastest.”

“I literally have tingles on the back of my neck right now because I just got a yes. Like, no, I don't have his money. Yes, he probably won't close. Most deals never close. But I got a yes in under an hour, guys.”

“If this business doesn't work out, which most don't, I don't want it to be because of the price. I want to have a killer offer, even if it doesn't make me a lot of money, so then I can adjust and raise my prices later on.”

Worth watching?

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Worth watching the full video?

Watch if you want to see a genuinely live, unscripted demonstration of building and selling an AI product in under an hour — the summary covers every step, but the real-time texting and prospect response sequence is worth seeing to believe the response rates are real.

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