Started on My App to Track Credit Cards

šŸ„ā€ā™‚ļø What I Learned This Week...

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Brooks Conkle
December 02, 2025

Howdy!

Every week I share the business projects Iā€™m working on and what Iā€™m learning ā€” excited to hang out with you.

Iā€™m asked what tools I use in my business. Hereā€™s my tool list, AI tool list, and money-making ideas to help you with your income stream building. Reply to this email and ask me anything - happy to help. A note: I always use referral links when I have them. I will make a commission if you purchase through the links, so thanks!

I finally found a bit more time to get started on a tool that I need.

Itā€™s a tool to track credit cards.

Hereā€™s a post I made if you want to understand why Iā€™m building it.

If you see a need for it or would just like to follow along, you can sign up for updates here.

Have you guys heard of Kalshi?

You can trade on the outcome of future events.

Very interesting site thatā€™s similar to a site like Polymarket.

Polymarket is currently not allowed in the U.S.

And many other sites that do sports betting arenā€™t allowed in many U.S. states.

But Kalshi is available in all 50 states.

I think itā€™s because of the way they set up their company ā€” theyā€™re a designated contract market and set up their company with the CFTC (Commodity Futures Trading Commission).

Itā€™s what many would quickly look at and label as a gambling site.

But because youā€™re betting on a simple yes or no outcome, it falls under a different set of rules.

Hereā€™s $10 for free if you want to test it out.

šŸ¶PetMurals

Ok, so PetMurals.com is now live and has gotten its first users.

No paid customers yet.

My plan is to run $200 of Facebook ads as a test to get a sense of the demand for the dog moms out there.

Iā€™m creating some ad ideas as I type! šŸ‘‡

The backstoryā€¦

My wife started talking about getting some holiday pictures for our dog, Beau.

Beau, while cute, is 100% not gonna set down for a photo with Santa.

So I made one for us šŸ˜

Which led me to an idea.

Could I make a simple tool where I drop my dogā€™s image and choose some outputs?

Yes, yes I could!

And now the site is live!

For the basic functionality, I used Googleā€™s AI Studio to build what you see above.

With another 5-6 12 hours of working with Claude Code (took longer than I thought), we brought it to life.

A few years ago, I would have added this to my long idea list that would have never happened.

But in 2025, youā€™re able to launch the full tool as a website as the MVP.

šŸ’µ TrackitandSave

Have you checked out Track it and Save yet?

Iā€™ve shipped a few new updates for the tool and will continue to do so.

And Iā€™m continuing to log in and use it often (just added some notes today to a subscription I have).

Thereā€™s a free tier, so if itā€™s a tool you can use, I hope you find it helpful.

Itā€™s been very helpful for me, so I decided to make the tool public.

I used a combination of Cursor, Lovable, Claude, and ChatGPT to build out the tool.

My friend Pete and I recently had a conversation talking shop about building AI softwares to sell. Watch here or below šŸ‘‡

Amazon Influencer Program [Update]

Iā€™ve made more than $3,000 in 2025.

I periodically make videos for brands that reach out, and I charge them (so I get paid there as well).

But, some updatesā€¦

I have 141 147 videos.

(plus 90 videos from other creators..)

My total earnings equal $4,752.19 $5,341.35

After expenses, Iā€™m making $103.25 $107.51 per hour.

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Want to start Amazon Influencer? Here are my best tips Iā€™ve learned at no cost to you. Enjoy!

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If you want to learn more about Amazon Influencer, an overview of the program is here, and my first update is here.

(If you want, you can check each weekly update. Iā€™ve come a long way from $2.81 per hour!)

All Projects

Other projects Iā€™ll update over time (or provide future updates) includeā€¦

Until next time!

Donā€™t just think outside the box ā€” keep destroying that box šŸ˜‰