Welcome back to this week’s Side Income Roundup, Monday, May 25.
Three big moves landed in a single week and they all point in the same direction. ChatGPT is fast becoming a real shopping channel, and the doors just opened for solopreneurs to show up there both organically and with ads.
📢 Klarna’s new ChatGPT shopping app is the first one regular buyers will actually use
🛠 GoDaddy builds full WordPress sites from a conversation, plus Shopify shows which of your products ChatGPT is recommending
⚡ Replace flagged YouTube music with AI in two clicks, plus Instagram quietly punishes reposters
📝 Last week’s quiet cart method post
🤖 ChatGPT Ads Manager opens to anyone with $100
Let’s get into it.
THIS WEEK’S BIG IDEA
📢 Klarna just launched a shopping search app inside ChatGPT
Klarna just launched a Shopping Search app inside ChatGPT that lets buyers describe what they want in plain English and get real prices and product results from over 100 million items, without leaving the chat. It’s the first ChatGPT shopping integration most regular shoppers will actually use.
The merchants who get listed inside Klarna’s network first are the ones ChatGPT picks for everyone else.
Our Take: Check whether your store or product you promote can be listed inside Klarna’s merchant network. Get in early on this opportunity.
TOOLS OF THE WEEK
🛠 GoDaddy Airo for WordPress
A new AI assistant inside WordPress that builds a full site (and a WooCommerce store if you want one) from a single conversation, then keeps optimizing it.
🛠 Shopify Agentic Storefronts admin page
A new Shopify Admin page showing which products appear inside ChatGPT and Copilot, the sales they drive, and how to fix product data to rank better.
Our Take: If you’ve been dragging your feet on a real WordPress site, Airo’s free trial gets you live tonight. If you’re on Shopify, open Agentic Storefronts and fix three weak product titles.**
TODAY’S QUICK WINS
⚡ YouTube creators can now replace copyrighted music with AI-generated tracks
YouTube Studio’s new “Create” button inside Replace Song swaps in one of four royalty-free AI instrumentals, clears the Content ID claim, and restores monetization without re-uploading the video.
⚡ Instagram updates its algorithm to benefit original creators
Instagram is now classifying accounts that mostly repost as aggregators and cutting their reach in Explore and recommendations, while rewarding original posts.
Our Take: If you have old YouTube videos flagged for music, open Replace Song and swap in an AI track to restore monetization. On Instagram, replace your next repost with one original Reel from your own week.
FROM OMC
📝 The Quiet Cart Method: 3 Emails That Recover 22% of Lost Sales
Last week’s post walks through the exact 3-email sequence that quietly recovers an average of 22% of abandoned carts, including the one email almost nobody sets up that does most of the heavy lifting.
Our Take: Audit your cart recovery sequence this week. If you only have one email or none at all, build out the full three so you stop watching ready-to-buy visitors disappear.
AI SPOTLIGHT
🤖 OpenAI just opened ChatGPT Ads Manager to any US business
OpenAI just opened a self-serve Ads Manager that lets any US business run ChatGPT ads directly, with CPC bidding and small budget controls. The previous $50,000 minimum spend and agency-only access are gone, so a solopreneur can finally run a $100 test.
Our Take: Get on the waitlist this week and earmark $100 for a small test. Early advertisers on any new platform always grab the cheapest clicks, and ChatGPT users are about to become the most valuable audience online.
UNTIL NEXT WEEK…
Here’s your move this week:
✅ Check if your store or affiliate offers can get listed inside Klarna’s ChatGPT shopping network
✅ Try Airo’s free trial to build a WordPress site, or open Shopify’s Agentic Storefronts page
✅ Run YouTube’s Replace Song tool on one old flagged video to restore monetization
✅ Get on the ChatGPT Ads Manager waitlist with a $100 test in mind
The pattern this week is clear. ChatGPT is becoming a real shopping and discovery channel, and the operators who show up there first are the ones who’ll own the cheapest attention for the next 12 months.
Talk soon,
Aidan
P.S. This Wednesday I’m sharing the playbook for turning your first 100 email subscribers into real revenue, including the one email pattern that does most of the selling. Keep an eye on your inbox.
