Most AI courses teach prompt engineering. This isn't one of those.

The AI Side Hustle Cookbook is a 50-recipe book on the part nobody writes about clearly: closing the loop from "interesting demo" to "someone is paying me for it". Every recipe ships full working code, a deploy step, the pitfalls that bite production, and how to charge money for it.

Pick one. Finish it. Ship it. Repeat.

What you get (bulleted)

• 50 recipes across 4 sections: Foundations, Builds, Ship & Sell, Run It

• Full working code in every recipe (Python + Node where it fits)

• ~220-page PDF, engineer-minimal design, JetBrains Mono code

• 20 specific things to build (agents, content tools, mini-SaaS, bots, services)

• 15 recipes on shipping: deploy, take payments, get your first 3 customers

• 7 recipes on running it: cost caps, observability, when to kill a project

• An index by use case ("I have $0 and one weekend...", "I want recurring revenue...")

• Every revision for life when an API changes, the fix lands in the next edition

Who it's for

Built for technical builders. If you can read code and use a terminal, this book picks up where the docs stop.

Specifically:

• Engineers who want a side hustle that actually ships

• Indie hackers tired of demos that don't make money

• Freelancers who want to productize a service into a real offer

• Builders sitting on a Claude Code subscription wondering what to do with it

50 recipes total. Full TOC inside.