Ultrasound-to-portrait Taobao shops beat Agent SaaS at actually getting paid
sujingshen · x · 2026-10-18
An observation on AI monetization: while everyone assumes the money is in building Agents, SaaS and subscriptions, someone opened a Taobao shop buying ChatGPT accounts to turn prenatal ultrasound images into "baby portraits" — and got paid first. The takeaway: technical barrier isn't the ceiling; proximity to paying customers is.
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