System Reboot: Overcoming Doomscrolling
System Reboot: Overcoming Doomscrolling
It's time to stop dooms-scrolling and get do a fresh reboot.
"Doomscrolling" is a depressive state where you lose track of time, scrolling through a "feed" of endless content that barely registers in your mind.
This can feel like a "search" for dopamine that has run dry.
Instagram and Reddit and other apps seem to encourage this catatonic state, because views are views and clicks are clicks, they all equal money in this brave new world, as "attention" becomes the greatest global commodity.
Since it's such a rare commodity the tactics to gain this attention is constantly evolving, fear, hate, and "rage bait" are huge earners for these platforms.
So ask yourself, are you spending your time online in a positive way?
A.I, like it or hate it, seems here to stay, and you have a choice to either hop on board, to use the technology creatively and profit from it, or slump back in the couch and watch the same clip of Michael Jordan you've seen five hundred times, grumbling about the nature of the world.
Doomscrolling is total submission to an algorithm that sees you as a dollar sign and not much else. It's a scheme that only works if people remain under its lethargic spell.
Here are just a few emerging A.I technologies that people are turning into their own thriving businesses.
1. HeyGen
The real money moves with HeyGen are about acting as a digital middleman for businesses that are stuck in their own backyard.
Most local shops or creators only speak one language, which limits their reach.
You can take their existing videos and run them through a translation engine that doesn't just swap the audio—it actually re-renders their face so they look like a native speaker in places like Japan or Germany.
You charge a fee for this "global expansion," and they get a massive new audience without any extra filming.
Another solid play is running "Ghost Channels" on YouTube. You pick a popular niche like tech news or true crime and use a high-quality AI avatar as the host.
These avatars look and sound completely human, which avoids that weird robotic vibe that usually kills faceless channels.
You just feed the machine a script, and it generates a professional video that collects AdSense and affiliate commissions while you’re doing other things.
Getting started is actually pretty low-stakes. You just head over to
From there, you can experiment with cloning your own voice or translating a short clip to see how seamless it looks.
Once you see the "digital twin" in action, it’s easy to see how you can start offering these clips to local businesses or building out your own automated video empire.
2. Perplexity
The play with Perplexity is to act as a digital filter for people who are drowning in info.
Most high-level decision-makers don't have the time to dig through dozens of websites for the truth.
You can use the engine to scrape and synthesize thousands of sources into a clean, 2-page "Intelligence Report." You aren't selling basic data; you're selling the hours of time they would have spent finding it themselves.
You can also use it to build "Niche Guides" for communities that have a lot of questions but no clear answers.
Since the AI handles the heavy lifting of fact-checking and citing sources, you can put together high-value ebooks or manuals in an afternoon. It’s a way to turn "searching" into a finished product you can actually sell.
Getting started is simple: just go to
Once you see how fast it builds a complete picture, you’ll see how easy it is to package that info for clients who need clarity.
3. ElevenLabs
The real money with ElevenLabs comes from trading robotic voices for human character. Most creators use those flat, grating AI voices that kill engagement instantly.
You can step in by offering voiceover services or brand identities that sound like a gravelly detective or a prestigious historian. You're selling a "vibe" that makes content actually worth listening to.
Another path is voice cloning for busy professionals. You can clone a client’s voice (with their permission) and use it to narrate their blog posts or newsletters.
This saves them hours in a recording booth, and you get paid a recurring fee to manage their "audio twin."
To get started, just head to
4. Lovable
Normally, if a startup wants to build an app, they have to hire a developer for weeks. With Lovable, you just talk to the AI like it's a junior programmer.
You describe what the app should do, and it writes the code and builds the interface in real-time.
A huge opportunity here is the "Prototype Gap." You can find people with great ideas who are stuck at the starting line because they don't know how to code.
You can show up and build them a working MVP (Minimum Viable Product) in 48 hours and charge for the speed and execution.
Getting started is as simple as going to
You’ll see the code happen on one side and the app appear on the other. Once you get the hang of prompting it, you can start taking on small freelance gigs for rapid prototyping.
5. Midjourney
The "Sleeper MMORPG" communities are massive and always looking for unique visuals. Instead of just making "cool art," you can use Midjourney to generate hyper-specific UI kits, map textures, or character portraits that developers actually need for their games.
You can package these up as asset packs and sell them on the Unreal Engine Marketplace or Unity Asset Store. Because you can generate hundreds of variations in a few minutes, you can build a massive library of inventory icons or environment textures that would take a human artist months to paint by hand.
To get started, join the
It’s an easy way to turn a high-end GPU into a digital storefront.
So now you have some new ideas and hopefully feel a new dopamine rush, one that comes from the excitement of delving into new projects and using new tools. The horizon is full of opportunity, one must simply engage.
