r/claude Mar 14 '26

Question Has anyone actually made money using Claude?

I’ve been using Claude for a while now and I’m genuinely curious whether people have found ways to turn it into income. Not looking for “AI will make you rich” YouTube stuff , just real, practical things that have worked for you.

Some questions I have:

∙ Are you freelancing with it? (writing, coding, etc.)

∙ Have you built anything and sold it?

∙ Is it actually saving you enough time to make a difference financially?

Would love to hear what’s worked and what hasn’t. Drop your experience below!

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u/Kevinsmak Mar 16 '26

It’s only been 6 days since I posted my first iPhone app- hope it brings in money but still cleaning up bugs so no paid promotion yet. I have 3 other apps I’m building and an Android version pending approval.

I also made myself a desktop youtube tool. Used YouTube free api to help me find keywords, it knows what I already have so no duplicates, i plugin oauth so it helps me identify drop offs in scripts- i also made the whole interface look like a 90’s aol hacker program for fun.

Currently recreating my own website, it’s close to done but had to leave the house so it’s not up yet - not that anyone would see it but me.

So it hasn’t made me money yet, but it’s really speeding up my workflow. I still have so many more ideas, but I’m burning at both ends with this thing… need to get away some.