u/mikebcity

That’s right. You heard it here first.

OpenAI’s latest models and Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 have stolen the spotlight from FABLE. Anthropic wants to maintain the narrative that it has the ultra-premium product, but OpenAI and China are sending a different message: the race is only getting started.

Anthropic is trying to carefully control the rollout of its latest technology because frontier AI is incredibly expensive to build and operate. It cannot afford to burn through cash forever.

Sam Altman is taking no prisoners. OpenAI is playing to win, and it is willing to move faster, spend more, and compete more aggressively than anyone else.

Then there is China. Yes, the concerns about state funding and intellectual property theft are real. But pretending China is only copying would be a mistake. Chinese AI companies are also innovating, improving rapidly, and releasing increasingly capable open-source models.

The market has already caught up. That competitive pressure is going to accelerate the AI arms race and eventually commoditize intelligence itself. China is speeding up that process by open-sourcing powerful models and making advanced AI less scarce.

The consumer is the ultimate winner.

And this is why Anthropic keeps extending the FABLE 5 access deadline. It needs to keep FABLE included in the subscription to maintain whatever momentum, engagement, and competitive advantage it still has.

I kept falling into YouTube rabbit holes of "make 10K from your laptop" content that always ended with a 997 course pitch.

So I built the thing I actually wished existed — a dead-simple directory where every opportunity has real earning data, startup costs, and time to first dollar. No courses. No MLM. Just real businesses and side hustles people are actually

doing.

What is in it so far:

• 147 opportunities across 10 categories

• Auto-updates every 2 hours via scrapers plus manual curation

• Auto-generated OG images for each listing (so they look legit when shared)

• Every listing shows: earning potential, difficulty, startup cost, time to revenue

Stack:

• Go + PostgreSQL

• Tailwind + custom OKLCH color system

• OG images generated with Nano Banana Pro + Azure Blob

• Hosted on a 12 dollar VPS

The good:

• Pipeline runs itself. I spend about 30 minutes daily reviewing what the scrapers found.

• SEO is working — already indexing on Google for long-tail side hustle terms.

The bad:

• Only 1 newsletter subscriber (hi mom).

• Scrapers sometimes pull garbage — still tuning the filter logic.

• Need to add user submissions eventually.

What I would love feedback on:

• Does the list view actually feel scannable? I killed the card grid because it felt like Pinterest.

• Is the "opportunity score" on listing pages helpful or noise?

• Would you trust a directory like this? What is missing?

Site is checkthisout.com would genuinely appreciate any honest thoughts.

thx