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Make a simple daily web game with AI and grow it by letting people share their scores.

💰 Starter Story makes about $40k a month doing this. ~$40K/month, ads + subscriptions (reported on Starter Story)

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Who it’s for

Anyone with a fun game idea, no coding experience needed.

Adapt it to your industry

  • Teacher: a small quiz game for your class
  • Shop or brand: a daily puzzle that brings customers back
  • Event organizer: a simple trivia game for your audience

Step by step

  1. Write down one problem a specific group of people pays to solve (for example “gym owners losing members”).
  2. Open ChatGPT, Claude or Grok and paste the prompt below to sharpen the idea and list what the first version must do.
  3. Use Claude or ChatGPT (canvas/artifacts) or Cursor to make the first version of the product for one type of customer.
  4. Create a Stripe account and a Payment Link so people can pay from day one.
  5. Make a one-page website that explains the problem, the fix and the price.
  6. Show it to 10 people from your target group and change what confuses them.
  7. Launch where those people already gather, then ask every new user for feedback.

Ready-to-copy prompt

Write a spec for a daily 5-question map game: show a clue, the player taps a location, score by distance, and share a spoiler-free result grid.

Start with AI

Opens the AI with this guide and the prompt filled in.

Open in ChatGPT (opens in new tab)Open in Claude (opens in new tab)Open in Grok (opens in new tab)
Cost
$0–100/month to start (AI plan, builder, domain)Our estimate
Time
~1 weekend (sourced)From the source

How to make money from it

Pricing idea: Keep the game free and earn from light ads, a small paid tier with extra modes, or sponsors.

Finding your first 10 customers

  • Share it in communities about the game’s topic.
  • Add a “share your score” button so players bring friends.
  • Post a short clip of gameplay on social media every day for a week.

Ideas, not promises. Results vary.

Details: source, numbers and tags

What they did

Frank Smith described the game to Claude, built a spec, and asked Claude whenever he got stuck. Stack: Claude Max, Vercel, MapLibre, Upstash Redis for leaderboards, Google Sheets for questions and Stripe for Pro subscriptions.

How it went

He reports about 700,000 monthly active users and about $40,000 a month, mostly programmatic ads plus about 1,800 Pro subscribers, with a 53% organic share rate.

Worth knowing

He credits shareability and zero-friction web play; most traffic is word of mouth, not his audience.

Difficulty
IntermediateOur rating
Time to build
~1 weekend (sourced)From the source
Monthly cost
Not reported
Revenue
~$40K/month, ads + subscriptions (reported on Starter Story)Third-party reported: Reported by a third party (interview, podcast or article); not verified by us
Engagement
122,841 YouTube viewsfetched Oct 15, 2026
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Posted · Added Oct 16, 2026

Original builder recipe

  • Claude
  • Vercel
  • MapLibre
  • Upstash Redis
  • Stripe
  1. Describe the game or mod you want.
  2. Build it with your agent in small playable steps.
  3. Playtest after each step.
  4. Share or publish, respecting copyright.

Tags

Agent Claude
Industry Games Sports

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