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alright guys

so welcome to another video here in the members area

so I got permission from Akif

Akif is the guy who created these tools

so um

these tools as you could see

I don't know if you hold on

let me fix my screen

cause I know this is a little messed up here

oh it's actually fixed

never mind I thought the screen was cut off anyways

Akif you guys know Akif

maybe you do maybe you don't

he's the guy who I paid $750 for these tools here

uh so you guys proud

I don't know if I don't know if you seen my

one of my latest videos uh

basically talking about automation

and some of you know that I like to hire virtual

I like to find ways to automate things right

and really automation is not just software or like

you know machines

but it's really more just like

finding ways to simplify my process and do less work

that's really what it comes down to

cause I'm so busy every day

there's really

not a day that goes by where I'm not busy

I'm not doing something um

and I genuinely enjoy that

but you know it's a part of life

it is what it is so

um I was looking on a forum at the time for uh

Mid Journey API

so let me kind of show you what that means

so let me search here Mid Journey API

and if you could see like

there's like these photos here

these services basically what an API is

is when softwares can communicate with each other

and the only thing about this is that like

I wanted a way for mid journey images to be created

while I can step away from the computer right

so before I look into like a virtual assistant

like somebody who's working for me

I wanted to look at like

what kind of software options are available

you know at the end of the day

mid journey is a sort of like AI

so like why can't I figure something out there

so I was reading on like a whole bunch of forms

and I was pointed to these APIs

I paid for this exact service

uh the creator is a guy named uh

Gizam Gizam

something like that I think his name is pronounced G E

Z I m and indie hackers let me show you guys this guy

um

happy Gism I don't

I don't think his name is Happy Gism

yep this is actually him

alright anyways

so the guy who owns this software

and this is like a little FYI

this is gonna be kind of a long story

but hey you guys are the members

so you get extra content here

um

so I paid for this software

and it turns out that the guy would

got a cease and desist from Mid journey

because he's not allowed to run this software

and offer it as a service

and basically what it does is like

it allows us users to like I said

use mid journey without our computers being on um

which is like automation right

which is exactly what I was looking for

in a virtual assistant I want the work to be done

without me having to sit on my computer doing it

cause I already have enough work

so obviously right when I paid for the service

I forgot how much I paid

I think like 30 bucks or something like that

um I think 30 or 20

I don't remember exactly what it was

but it didn't work and

and when I when I mean

it didn't work like

I couldn't even log into the account

to get it started to working

so I hopped onto the Telegram and I asked like

what's going on

and of course the developer didn't reply

and the guy who owns the company right

he stopped servicing everyone

and really what it is

is that he received a cease and desist from mid journey

so now he's just offering the service just for him

just to collect some money

cause not everybody asks for a refund

like I didn't ask for a refund

I just didn't wanna keep getting charged

so I figured out how to cancel

but I couldn't even log in

I had to contact credit card companies

things like that to cancel

and so this is an API

and the important thing here is that

whenever you want softwares to communicate

without a computer accessing it

it's referred to as an API

it's like a

it's like the way that these softwares communicate

they talk to each other right

so then I started looking at other APIs

which I did pay for so I paid for this one

okay and I paid for another one

and there's actually a different website

yeah takes you to a website but this one is

it's trash it gets your account banned on mid journey

so would not recommend and so

I kind of came to the conclusion that all these API

services get you banned right

now mind you

I had not read

any kind of information online about this

at this point I was just testing things

the first one like I said

was a complete fail the guy was getting sued

and I actually have proof that he was getting sued

because this is the guy who owns it

his he's right here

and um

he he created like a post on Indie Hacker saying

he launched this service he was making $16,000 a month

and then he received a cease and desist

which basically halts him from offering the service

it doesn't halt him from collecting money

now you might say to me wait a minute

so he's not allowed to offer the service

but he's still collecting money

the answer is yes which is crazy to me

like if you're not running a service

how are you making money off it

doesn't make sense but that's exactly what he's doing

so you could read his story here

um basically

he wanted to create images for children's books

uh

but then he found out mid journey doesn't have an API

so he created the API created a service for it

and that's kind of how it went down

so there's like

I think either two or three services I paid

uh for mid journey 3 services

I paid 3 different services

the reason why I say I think

2 or 3 is because this one is not considered a service

it literally just takes your money and does nothing

uh it looks like it's a service

but they don't they don't actually work anymore

um I wish they did

but they didn't right

so I kind of started looking into this

and there was this form I can't forget

can't remember where the page was

I think it was called Warrior Form

I'm pretty sure it was Warrior Form

and I found this guy named Akif

who selling these custom made tools that he created

uh with like scripts and codes

I told him I don't wanna

I don't wanna use scripts and codes

I just wanna ask Chrome extensions

and if you can do that

I have an audience that would also wanna

probably use it too he said look

I'm not cheap my three tools are well

each tool is $325 each

and if you wanna buy all three together

I'll give you the third one for free

which is 7:50 I asked him what are the tools

he said the first one is the creation tool

the second one is the upscale tool

which I believe is this one

and then the next one is the download tool

so I said okay

I risked it

I paid him in cryptocurrency and we went from there

so I got the tools

and explain to me kind of how they worked

and I actually figured out and and honestly

it worked really really well so two things here

Mid journey bans people based on API controls

or based on API access so if you're connecting via API

meaning your computers off

and there's code going on the background

and you're connecting to mid journey

they ban you they detect it and they ban you

and you know

what a ban looks like in mid journey is like okay

I'm paying for the mid journey service

and they're banning me does that make sense

so that's what it looks like so I even if I pay

I can't access the software right

and that's kind of how it is now you might say well

why would they do that

why would mid journey ban someone

for paying for the software

and using it like what's what's the harm in that

if I buy a book and I choose to

to read it or do anything I want with it

why would the book ban me as a company right

why would they ban me from reading the book

well here's the thing

mid journey the way they make money right

is by you paying them to make images

but the less images you make

the more money they make does that make sense

so that's how they get rich is

is that the less images you generate

the more money they make

because it's like you're not using those credits fully

so there are people who pay for subscriptions

and they're not too active on the platform right

they're not creating a lot

so keep that in mind

and so that's kind of mid journey's goal

you know even though it is their goal to create good

image software type stuff

their goal is to make as much money as possible

and they don't want

you to create as many images as possible

and I actually Learned that because if

if they if there wasn't their goal

then they wouldn't be banning anyone okay

so let's get down to it

so I I use the tools and what do the tools do

all they do is they allow me

to not have to pay for virtual assistance

so anybody who's watching this

I'm gonna add a whole chapter in the course

in the Super Stock AI course

so I'll just whip it out right here

Super Stock AI course hold on

let me type it in properly uh

super stock AI course okay

so I'm going to put a chapter on

how to hire virtual assistance

and it's generally good for all kinds of businesses

it's not just good for super stock for

for stock photography

but it is really good for anything but um

as far as like hiring virtual assistants

I'll kind of lay down my cost right now to you

if I have a virtual assistant who's gonna work exactly

uh part time

so exactly 20 hours a week

that 20 is half of the 40 right

so they're about doing roughly about four hours a day

so from Monday to Friday

they're doing about four hours a day right

some of them like to do you know

two or three days where they just stack on more hours

and then have the rest of the week off

and then I have two full time ones right

two full time virtual assistants

and these virtual assistants are flexible

they'll do anything for me

I'll just list them out and they'll do it

and they'll learn

and I'll create videos to show them what I want

which is by the way how I created the red bubble course

like the red bubble course

I wanted virtual assistants to help me out

and do more work on there

so

I had no option but to teach them exactly what I want

and that's when I created the red bubble course

and then I said

why don't I just offer this on YouTube as well

and like people started accessing it

so that's kind of how it went down

but anyways

if I can you know

kind of lift the weight off virtual assistance

and spend less money on virtual assistance

not only am I making more money

but it's generally better because I have more control

because a lot of the things people don't understand is

when you hire a virtual assistant

it's not like your problems all go away

those virtual assistants need to be trained

they need to be encouraged

they need to be motivated

you know

a lot of the times they're wasting time on the job

they're not doing their work properly

they might be sitting on the

you know the computer and texting somebody

and they're not really

giving you that full time that you paid for

you know cause what you're doing is

you're paying for their time

like if I pay somebody four hours a day every day

that's part time

and there they live in the Philippines

so Philippines part time income

like if I was to go to any

let's just say if someone was to work in a restaurant

Philippines

they wouldn't even make $100 a month part time right

but working for me

I give them the low income on a full time wage

for part time workers so that's about $400 a month

which is the bare minimum for a full time worker

so really I'm giving them

over a time

and a half of what they would normally make anywhere

else and I expect not only the respect

but the work to be done right

and when I say respect

that don't mean that they have talk to me nice

I don't really care about that

I care about the work being done

that's what I mean by respect

cause I've had virtual assistance before

where I'll hire them right

and we'll agree on everything

and then they'll just not do the work

and expect to be paid or maybe

sometimes they just drop off the face of the earth

and just not care about the work

is like okay

I trained you all this time

I paid for your training cause I do pay for that

I pay for all the software

I give them access to everything

and then they just disappear on me right

and that's why I kind of really

really really trust the virtual assistants I have now

and I take care of them really well

I pay them during holidays

I give them time off uh

you know I give them gifts all the time bonuses

there was a virtual assistant who told me like

his computer broke I just gave him

I sent him an extra 500 bucks to buy him a new one

you know things like that

so I treat them very very well

but the thing is is that

if I can decrease the

amount of problems I have in my life

trust me I

I wanna decrease them I might sit there

communicating with virtual assistance every day

you know in the beginning for 2

3 hours a day you know

because I'm trying to teach them trying to train them

and so for me

if I can use a machine that decreases that time

it dramatically helps me out

so I'll kind of share with you how I use these tools

and I'm actually doing this

you know behind the developers back

because I told him

I wouldn't be sharing it on my YouTube channel

and technically this is not my public YouTube channel

this is just for the members

so I'll be happy to share this

and I'm happy to show you kind of how I'm doing this

um and

you know we'll see

you know I'll just kind of see and show you progress

supports over time

so if you recognize this mid journey account

this is the same mid journey account I've used for my

um tutorials in the course right

and so I actually like using this account because it's

it's like separate from my actual stuff

so I I can show things more freely

a lot of the times

when I have a course or something like that

I try to create brand new accounts

so I can separate it from my own personal assets

because what happens is

is people will message me and say oh

I found out you

you own this account or that account and you know

I don't like to have my work really shown out there

because it takes all my hard work and effort

throws it out the window like

somebody discovered one of my real t public accounts

and literally just copied every single

one of my designs um

it's frustrating it's annoying

you know

I've worked really really hard on that but you know

it is what it is so anyways

let's go ahead and get into this

so I'm gonna share with you kinda the automation phase

step 1 which is the upskit of the creation right

so how does this work so first thing

let me just pause my screen real quick

and hop into chat GPT and I'll show you how this works

okay so I'm here on chat

GPT

and you can see here

I have a whole bunch of like text that's written

that's not by coincidence

I've actually done this before

so basically

the way this works is

the first thing I'll do is I'll test a style of images

that I like okay

so what I did here is I went to the explore page

on mid journey

I found like a picture of like some Italian pasta right

so I I think it was like let me find the first image

it was not Italian pasta sorry

it was shrimp um right here

okay and this is what I like is I

I don't think it was at home

let me find the here it is

this is this is the images and I created a remake of it

right

so essentially these were the variations of images

so some shrimp

and what I recommend is I always recommend like

let your ideas expand use one idea turn into another

turn to another turn to another

cause a lot of people get held up on like

for stock photography oh

what niche should I pick

the reality is that there's so many niches out there

so many images you just need to create create create

create don't get held up on the niche idea right

obviously some niches have more demand than others

but it's like you can't worry about niches right now

right now you too

you just need to make a whole bunch of images right

so anyways so these were the type of images right

and from that

I had created like some more pictures of shrimp

and then in my head it came all right

what about shrimp and pasta right

so these were like variations here

testing different styles

so you can see here I had stylization 700

stylization 400 and by the way

I didn't even read the whole prompt

but then I just changed one word

I wrote shrimp Alfredo pasta

and then that was it and then it came out like this

so you could see the images here

and it looks pretty good like it

it doesn't look bad at all right

and these are the prior to the upscale

so there's no upscale yet

all right

and then I just started writing things like chicken

Alfredo pasta

whatever and so I like the style

so what I have here is

I have a set prompt style that I like

and I'm gonna create more of

so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take this prompt

and I'm going to copy it right

and I'm gonna copy it in all of its details

so in my case I'll say create create more like this

now I'll show you what the original prompt is

but ideally you would have something like this

where you don't need to if you're gonna do this

you know with my strategy

like with the automation

if you if you're not gonna use this automation

trust me you don't have to

like you could just sit there manually doing it

I just like to step away from things and

and figure out how to automate

like I said so what I'm gonna do here is I'm gonna say

create more like this and I'll and I'll type in here

create more

let's see like this right

and I'll paste the prompt

and what I'll do is I'll type in dash dash q right

cause I always want that high quality one

and then I'll put in a slash

and then I'll get another prompt that's similar to it

just a little bit different

so for example I'll type in a prompt like this right

so this is a little bit different

but the images are are similar right

so what am I seeing

I'm seeing a plate of pasta white bowl etc

then we have something here

so I'll take this and I'll do the same thing

I'll just literally copy this prompt and paste it here

and really what the dash is

is this dash represents a different prompt every time

you could see here

on these prompts that I created earlier

I have these different dashes right

so I'll go over here

and I'll just type in this little dash

and um let me type in my quality parameter

so dash dash q and then space 1 and then a space

and that's another prompt right

so it's here

it's getting the idea of like pastas Alfredo

macaroni uh Kalan Tally out of Kalantani

I don't know how to pronounce these selling tiny

I don't know but different types of pastas right

and then I'll go to like something like this

Italian pasta meal I'll copy this

and these are like I said

based on prompts that I've already created

and they just come out decent looking right

so Q space 1 and then another slash

so right now I have 3 samples of different prompts

all with the quality indicator

the other indicators are all gonna be right here right

so I don't need anything else to customize

and at this point I'm just gonna hit enter

now in order to get to this point

where I could just give it different prompts

and it will create them for me uh

first of all

let me check here if it adds the slash yep

it adds the slash

that's the most important thing is this dash

dash q and the slash

and I'll tell you why in just a second um

once it creates all these prompts

then I can kinda have the machine take over

so let me show you what I mean here

so if I scroll up I'll say

provide me a list of prompts

that allow variation in color setting

scenario and style based on this prompt

include dash dash Q

1 and the n at the end of each prompt

and separate between prompts with a slash

here is an example so remember

the first prompt that it's getting is its

knowing that difference in prompts with the slash

and it also needs this at the end

so that's that's my goal

so then it did the same thing here

then I told it don't number them right

I said provide me a list

and then here I said remove all the numbering

there we go

and notice how it's just doing the same thing over

and over

and then what I'm telling you is to just create

more for me right

so here I'll say continue generating

so I have my list

and it will just keep creating list and list and list

and I do also like to ask it in a text format

a dot txt format so I literally type in dot t x t

so it looks something like this right

and then what I do is I just copy this whole thing

and then I'll put it into a machine to work for me

so I'll kind of show you what this looks like now

so first off let me drag this outside of this window

so I like to separate these windows here

and what I'll do is I'll have this just like that

and I'll I'll wait till this is finished

just so we can you know

wait for this to come be completed

okay so let's give this a second

we're reading this together

but it's keeping it's keeping hold on the um

on the style here

so let me let me go to the scroll here section

it's keeping hold on the format

excuse me not the style the format that I need

which is this dash dash Q 1

and it's and it has clearly a lot of prompts right

so so it's got all kinds of prompts

and why am I doing this

the reason why I'm doing this is because mid

journey is good enough

at a point right now where I don't need to

specify anything

everything can be taken care of through AI

essentially AI is taking over what I would normally do

so I'll take like this section here

like just a section like this and I'll copy this right

and I'll be mindful of how many I am

I am adding to my list so this was a prior list

it's called prompts dot txt

and I'll just paste it here

now

you could name this file whatever you wanna name it uh

but I have a few of these here these dash cues

so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna click control F

and I wanna know how many prompts exist

so I'm typing in this dash and I have 33

I don't want 33 I want like about 25 why

because if I have 25 prompts that creates 100 images

right and I wanna have a systematic approach behind

how I do these things

so I'll type in this dash here and then I'll type in

so that's 33

so I'll I'll I'll delete some of these right

so I'll go over here and I'll like delete up to here

let's say and then we'll count how many right

so let me type in that slash 1 more time and see

now we have 29 so I'll delete a few more okay

and I'm not worried if I miss a few or if I lose a few

in translation at the end of the day

I have chat GBT to create for me as much as I need

right

so I'll just hit enter here and see how many we got 27

so all I need to do is delete like two more

so I will delete this one and I'll delete that one

and it should be taken care of now right

so I'm looking for 25 that's the goal

so let me type in the slash hit enter 25

there we go perfect

now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna hit file save okay

and truthfully

if I really wanna stick to this 25 concept

I just did it manually

but if I wanna stick to this 25 concept um

I can really ask it to do 25 at a time right

so it is what it is but anyways that's saved

so now what I'm gonna do is

I'm gonna go to the window where I have my mid journey

so now you guys see this I'll delete this

get this out of the way and I'll go to mid journey now

and here now that I'm at mid journey

and I have the creation tool

I'll hit choose file and I'm gonna select my file

so this is the prompt stop

txt file that I just clicked on here

so this is the same thing

and what it's going to do is I'm going to select it

okay and and as actually even before I select this

I should customize what I'm seeing here

so I don't want 3 by 2 images

let's just say I want 4 by three or 6 by 5

6 by 5 is fine let's say I pick 6 by 5 right

it's ever to whatever is to your liking okay

my mid journey version is version 6

I like it raw on raw personalized

I'll keep off which I don't honestly I don't even use

um but you know it is what it is

I like diversity in my creations

and I'll keep stylization on 300

so all my settings here I'm happy with right

I'll hit choose file I'll select prompts at txt

I'll create a wait time of 6 seconds

let's just say to 29 seconds

this is what the guy told me so hey it is what it is

so I'll hit start and now

it's effectively starting to do these creations for me

right so it's done one of the creations right now

in fact I'm not sure if it's this tool

maybe it's a different tool

let me hit inspect

if nothing comes up here then I know yeah

nothing came up right so it's the other tools

but basically the way they work is let me remove this

um basically

the way they work is that

these tools will keep running

now I don't wanna click around too much

because I think it loses its place when I do

but you can see that it's working now

so you get the point so if I really wanted to

I'm on one computer

I can go over here and start working

I feel like this setting is a little too fast

if you ask me right

just me personally

so I don't like to use this fast setting

in fact um

you know I'll

I'll you know

it's not much I could do now

but I'll let it run but the point is

is like it's

I don't know how many creations one

two three

four

you have to realize that every single prompt it creates

it's creating four images right

so what I might do here is I might create like

for example a gap between like

you know 15 seconds and 29 seconds right

something like that

so I wanna wanted to wait a little bit more

but it's okay you know

it is what it is for the tutorial sake

why not um

but 1 2

3 4 5

6 right

I think you can create up to 13 total creations at once

and mind you

the reason why my mid journey is so slow at this point

is because I really used up a lot of my plan

even though they say you get unlimited generations um

when the when the excuse me

when the plan is at its at its slowest or excuse me

you get unlimited relaxed generations

that's not 100% true because they get throttled

they get throttled a lot right

so like the the

speed at which it creates this image

is not going to be the same speed

now then it was like

um you know

a week into it right

like even if I finish my 15 fast hour generations

if I do that and it's like

let's just say I create another hundred generations

those are gonna be slower

or they're gonna be faster still than these

but the good thing is that it's like

it's constant

like you could see how it's constantly adding

constantly adding

based on the timer and what it's adding here

so this is like an automation that number one

doesn't interact with the API

but more importantly

I can do other things while this is working

like I can go out for a walk

right or clean

you know my room or or or

you know go sit out in the sun or

you know whatever it is

I could do whatever I want right

while this is doing work for me

which is a benefit it's a huge benefit

and I'll tell you why it's a benefit

it's like in this business

the stock photography business then and I know

you know psychology is like uploader psychology is

I am working hard and I'm not getting any money

that's what people think right

but if you look at it my way

and you should look at it my way

at this point into the game

if you're especially this far

is that you're not doing it for today's money

you're not uploading images to make money today

you're uploading images to make money into your future

so all of these images being created right here

I'm not sacrificing my life my energy my time

I'm letting a machine do it all for me

why would I sit there and break my back doing it right

now once again

granted I do wanna change

like I would have changed the settings a little bit

but hey it's a tutorial whatever so you see one

two three four

these are 16 images that were created

literally within seconds that took no effort of mine

here we have another set completed or

or close to being completed 65

75% complete this is 55% complete

this one's almost done right

96 complete and then we got few others but um

that's that's awesome right

like so now it's not 16 20 24 images now completed

these are all images that will be uploaded

to stock photography sites

and by the way they will make me money

it's just a matter of time right

isn't it's not about you know

doing all this right here

right now and getting it all done now

it's about over time it will make me money

so you could see here

how many images is being prompted

it's a lot right so we have 1 2

3 4

5 and also it depends the speed depends on your uh

mid journey account right

so you wanna keep that in mind

your mid journey account is gonna control the output

here right

so here we have 11 images in the queue

uh 10

10 of them just kind of finished or close to 10

I think 11 um

one of them is being almost done right

these are these images that are in the queue

I think I can have about 13 total for this plan

I think I paid $30 for this plan

I'm not sure uh

but you can kind of see like

what's going on is like pretty decent

this one's pretty slow uh

some are slower than others

this one's 20% 18%

so I think this

one might be leaving a little faster than this

I'm not sure uh

but you get the point right

so you see how it's rolling

and it's doing three at a time right now and

and like I said it's just creating

creating creating creating

how it would normally work is

people would sit down in front of a computer

and I'm probably sure you guys do this right now

is you're sitting down in front of a computer

right and you're writing your prompts yourself

your brain freezes because you're thinking about okay

what do I write next what do I write next

what should I write here what should I write there

and by the way look at this output

so we just got job reaches maximum

what I'm gonna do is

I'm gonna refresh the page right now okay

refresh the page

and um let me go here to create okay

and you can kind of see

every single one of those images

were stopped submitting

so that that list of images that q completely stopped

because I refreshed

or not even maybe because maybe I didn't even refresh

it's maybe that's not the reason why it stopped

but maybe because I hit that maximum then I refreshed

so it's gonna keep going

but I I really wouldn't wanted to to be 100% honest

you know I you know it is what it is but uh

something that you could do here and here it is

I don't know it's not here

never mind but um

something that you could do is as this is generating

right you can slow down the speed so for the next run

I'll kind of show you how I slow things down

and what I'm looking for

but know this that the more it works

the slower it needs to become through time right

so you know this is one of those machines is like

you're not going to be able to break the system

mid journey it on purpose

the more images you create the slower be over time

you're not gonna be able to break that system

this is just the way it is

and you know that it's done right

when it stops typing stuff here

so not the best in terms of uh

you know how the system works

but you know overall it's not too bad

you know because it does take away that effort

really how to make this work smoothly

is just not having to worry

about the timing so I would increase my timing here

that's really the best opportunity

but I'll kind of show you that in just a minute

once these these three are finished right

so let me actually just test this just for fun

I'll type in mid journey here

let me see here mid journey and I'll log in

let's go to create and you can kind of

see some of the images that are created here

these are still supposedly in the queue

but these are images that I hadn't seen yet

this is a clear photo of a bowl of shrimp linguine

garnished with parsley in a white kitchen

let's go here so this is where is it

uh none of these are shrimpling weenie

I guess the other ones that were in the queue

so you got you got 3 in the queue here

you got the other ones that are being created

let me actually refresh the this again

see if any more yep

there you go so these were from the past q right

so now we've effectively completed the 25

so I'm gonna give it like a little bit of a minute

and I'll kind of explain in a different video

I'm gonna record another video

for the members area here on

like explaining the best use case

and how to actually run this smoothly over time

because there are some things you wanna be aware of