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AudioConvert: Convert your audio into accurate, searchable text.
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Ai News
OpenAI has expanded its affordable ChatGPT Go subscription to 16 more Asian countries, offering premium AI capabilities for under $5 monthly in select markets.
The Browser Company launched Dia, an AI-powered successor to Arc, now open to all Mac users with free and $20/month Pro tiers, following its $610M acquisition.
Gemini Enterprise lets companies automate tasks and deploy AI agents across marketing, finance, HR, and all without coding
Sora hit 1 million downloads in under five days, outpacing ChatGPT’s original iOS debut and topping the US App Store within 72 hours.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai revealed that the company is now processing 1.3 quadrillion tokens per month across its platforms, with 13M+ devs building with Gemini.
Adobe launched a series of new AI agents specifically for B2B marketing teams, including Audience, Journey, and Data Insights systems.
Amazon introduced Quick Suite, an agentic platform to connect info across platforms and apps, allowing users to complete research, automate processes, and take actions.
Microsoft is partnering with Harvard Medical School to enhance Copilot’s health responses using licensed content from Harvard Health Publishing.
Anthropic launched plugin support for Claude Code in public beta, enabling devs to package and share custom commands, agents, and MCP servers via a single command.
Crypto News
Crypto crash: Bitcoin and Ethereum plummet after Trump imposes 100 per cent tariffs on China
The broader crypto market experienced its largest liquidation event, valued at $19 billion, on October 11 following the tariffs announcement
BNB Surpasses 1,160 USDT with a 6.56% Increase in 24 Hours
ZEC recovered all its value lost during Friday's market meltdown and also hit a recent high of $291 before dipping to the $270 level.
XRP plunges 42% after U.S.-China tariff shock, XRP price prediction now hinges on whether bulls can defend $2.30 support.
Robert Kiyosaki Advocates for Investment in Silver and Ethereum.
Productivity: Follow a strict rule
It’s your first day in army camp. Wake-up is 6:00 a.m. sharp. If you don’t get up, cold water will be splashed in your face. No mercy. You hesitate for a second, thinking you can steal a few more minutes of rest, but before you know it, cold water hits your face. You’re wide awake now, shivering, heart racing. Lesson learned.
Now picture the same thing at home. The alarm rings at 6:00 a.m., you hit snooze, roll over, and drift back to sleep. No one splashes water this time, but something still slips away: momentum, discipline, trust in yourself.
Next day in camp, will you sleep in again? No chance.
So, follow a strict rule.
Lesson: Structure + habit-building > mere motivation.
Idea of the Week:
Today’s story is about math. But not the boring kind.
It’s about a guy who built a simple calculator website and turned it into a $10,000/month passive income.A few years ago, a developer named Erik noticed something strange.
Every time he Googled “BMI calculator” or “loan calculator,” dozens of random websites showed up — all ugly, all filled with ads and yet somehow, all ranking high on Google. So he did what any curious internet builder would do. He built his own.
A plain, single-page BMI calculator.
Then a mortgage calculator.
Then a calorie calculator.
All clean, fast, and ad-optimized. He didn’t write blogs, he didn’t chase backlinks. He just built tools.
And people loved it. Because when someone searches for a “mortgage calculator,” they don’t want to read a 2,000-word SEO article.
They just want the calculator. Fast-forward to today. Erik’s website "Calculator.net" now gets over 40 million visits every month (yes, million).
That’s roughly the same traffic as Airbnb or Zoom. With display ads across the site, he reportedly earns $10,000–$12,000 USD per month, entirely from passive ad revenue.
All from simple calculators built once and hosted forever. So what can we learn from Erik?
Utility > Content
While the world writes blogs and scripts, Erik built tools.
People don’t bookmark blogs. They bookmark tools.
Simplicity scales.
Each calculator page is lightweight, loads in under 0.3 seconds, and ranks like a charm because Google loves speed and usability.
Evergreen demand.
Calculators don’t trend — they’re timeless. People will still Google “BMI calculator” in 2050.
Zero maintenance.
No social media, no new content every week, no newsletters. Once it’s built, it just works.
Now imagine applying this idea in smaller niches:
A tax calculator for freelancers in India.
A protein calculator for gym beginners.
A ROI calculator for Tiktok ads.
You could build 5 of these over a weekend with GPT and some HTML.
Rank them. Add AdSense.
That’s your alley dispatch for the week. Next one drops soon.
— Arman from Fringe Alley