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Etsy & Print on Demand

Selling AI-made PDFs on Etsy: the 8× income math and the fee nobody mentions

Half-true — works only if you do the unspoken work 2026-10-31 · 7 min read

David Kowalski's viral pitch for AI-built Etsy PDFs gets the core economics right but skips a mandatory 12–15% fee and months of Pinterest legwork.

Print shop machines from $1 to $1M: what Superline's video skips

Half-true — works only if you do the unspoken work 2026-10-29 · 7 min read

Superline's $1-to-$1M clothes-printing video shows real margins but dodges the ROI math. Here's what a DTG or screen-print shop actually earns.

The 'PNG business model': selling AI clip art on Etsy in 2027

Half-true — works only if you do the unspoken work 2026-10-15 · 7 min read

A viral video calls selling AI clip art on Etsy the laziest way to make money. Here's what Etsy's fees, AI rules, and seller data actually say.

Claude Code Etsy automation: the $1k/day print-on-demand math

Half-true — works only if you do the unspoken work 2026-09-29 · 7 min read

Wholesale Ted automates an Etsy print-on-demand shop with Claude Code. The workflow is real — but the $1k/day depends on sales work the video skips. Here's the math.

Print on demand 2.0 and TapStitch: the margin math the video skips

Half-true — works only if you do the unspoken work 2026-09-20 · 7 min read

A YouTube video says TapStitch makes a real clothing brand possible with no money. The garment margins are real — the customer-acquisition math is not.

The Printify pitch inside a Mailchimp video: does 'six figures a month' hold up?

Misleading — the headline number is real but unrepresentativ 2026-09-04 · 7 min read

A Printify ad promises six figures a month in passive income from print-on-demand. Printify's own data says the median Etsy seller makes ~$574. Here's the gap.

The $13,964/month Etsy pitch that's really a course business

Half-true — works only if you do the unspoken work 2026-08-12 · 7 min read

LaCresha Sims shows $13,964/month from home. The dashboards are real — but her Etsy shop made $1,203 while her course made $80,801. Here's what that means.

Claude Design t-shirt side hustle: the $11,000 a month math vs reality

Half-true — works only if you do the unspoken work 2026-05-01 · 7 min read

Alek's video pitches Claude Design plus Printify on Etsy and TikTok Shop as a route to $11k a month. Here's the math, fees, and saturation it skips.