Short answer: Sam Nadler says each semester he and his 11-year-old daughter build a small business, with proceeds going to an orphanage. This one sells 3D printed hoodie charms, launching in about three weeks.
Watch this answer from Episode 12 (starts at 11:01) · Episode 12 notes and transcript
From Episode 12: Recipes from Receipts: AI Cooking, Kidpreneur E-Com & Replit’s $250M Raise, starting at 11:01.
Sam Nadler [11:01]: Very cool, Jordan. I think to transition here, we're gonna cover a little bit of a kind of fun, also pet project of mine. Let me quickly provide a little bit of context. About every semester, 11 year old daughter and then I try to build a little kind of business for her, and we do it for a couple different reasons. Number one is, it's fun. It's a way for us to connect and, expose her to some tools, at a very early age. Number two, I want to instill that entrepreneurial spirit. And then number three, all the proceeds of whatever we're selling go to a good cause. We, support an orphanage that we're connected with. So, it's been a fun little activity, but, I've used a couple AI tools, or we've used a couple AI tools in our latest project that I thought was, probably an applicable use case for a lot of different people. But just to give you a quick, very quick demo of, like, what we're building. So we're building a little ecommerce website, and, basically, the concept is to three d print these little hoodie charms and sell these for a couple dollars. Obviously, all proceeds going to benefit the organization that we're connected with. And we have a three d printer, and we've, created the designs of the three d print files. And, we haven't created all of our inventory, but we're we're going through that.
Sam Nadler [12:32]: Our expected launch date is in about three weeks, right, as we hit fall. The goal is to, have these little three d printed charms to decorate your hoodies as fall comes along. For all the images on our website, these are all AI generated images that originally started as just taking a picture of the charm we three d printed, then generating a picture of the hoodie, and then generating the picture of roughly the demographic of her age group. So we took a picture in the case of these dolphins. We took a picture of the dolphin charm. We printed out, yeah, I think 20 little dolphins. It added the pink hoodie, and then we added this, girl in jeans and white Converse. And, I think it's, a, takes minutes. I think the images are extremely high quality. This top image is something we created together.
