The million-dollar idea became the $10K-a-month idea, while the difficult part stayed missing. We checked eight online businesses against current demand, costs and a route to the first buyer.
We gave 10 popular AI image models the same three tasks: a photorealistic face, exact text inside a hospital screen and a luxury fragrance ad, then compared every first result and failure.
We put Grok 4.6 against Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol in five real tasks. It did not win the set, but it proved it can call the best models its peers while charging much less.
Seedance made the best AI image-to-video clips in my three tests. Kling came surprisingly close for around one-third of the price.