You don’t need 50 ideas. you need the one that can hit $10,000/month.

Use these ChatGPT prompts to cut through the noise, kill weak ideas, and focus only on the ones with a realistic path to $5k–$10k per month.

Here are 9 prompts that force ChatGPT to expose your most profitable idea:

<aside> 📢

Get more FREE AI guides

Join Horizon AI for more free playbooks, prompts, and templates 👉 Join now

</aside>

1. Turn chaos into a clean idea list

Act as my brutally honest co-founder.

I’m overwhelmed with too many business ideas. Your first job is NOT to be nice, it’s to organize them so we can kill most of them later.

First, ask me to paste ALL my ideas in one message, even if they’re messy.

Then:
1. Turn my brain dump into a clean, numbered list of ideas.
2. For each idea, write:
   - A 1-sentence description in plain English
   - Who would pay for it (specific type of customer)
   - HOW it might make money (1 sentence: subscription, service, product, etc.)

Do NOT evaluate them yet. Just organize the chaos so we can judge them ruthlessly later.

1. Money-first scoring matrix

Act as a skeptical angel investor.

Using the numbered list of my ideas, score each one purely on its MONEY potential.

Create a table where each idea gets a 0–10 score for:
- Market demand
- Willingness to pay
- Pricing power (how high I can realistically charge)
- Speed to first $1,000
- Realistic path to $5k–$10k/month within 12–18 months

Then:
1. Add a “Total Score” column and rank ideas from highest to lowest.
2. Briefly justify the score for each idea in 1–2 sentences.
3. Bold the top 3 ideas by total score.

Do not sugarcoat anything. If something looks weak, say it clearly.

1. Kill the weak ideas (brutal filter)

Act as a ruthless idea executioner.

Using the scored list we already created, your job is to aggressively CUT ideas that are unlikely to make real money.

For each idea:
1. Give a quick verdict:
   - “STRONG CONTENDER” (keep)
   - “MAYBE LATER”
   - “KILL IT”
2. For every “KILL IT”, give a blunt 1–2 sentence reason focused on MONEY:
   - tiny market, low pricing power, hard to reach customers, etc.

Then:
- Show me ONLY the ideas labeled “STRONG CONTENDER” in a short list.
- Make sure at least 50–70% of ideas are killed or moved to “maybe later”.

Be direct. I care more about making $5k–$10k/month than protecting my feelings.

1. Reality-check my time, skills, and runway

Act as my brutally honest advisor.

Here are my constraints:
- Time I can work on this per week: [HOURS PER WEEK]
- Money I’m willing to invest upfront: [BUDGET]
- My main skills: [LIST SKILLS]
- Things I refuse to do (or hate doing): [LIST THINGS]

Using ONLY the “STRONG CONTENDER” ideas:
1. For each idea, estimate:
   - Time to launch a basic MVP (in weeks)
   - Time to first realistic sale
   - Startup cost (LOW / MEDIUM / HIGH, with a rough range)
2. Note how well my current skills match each idea (GOOD / OK / BAD).
3. Label each idea:
   - “REALISTIC PATH TO $5k–$10k/MONTH FOR YOU”
   - “POSSIBLE BUT HEAVY LIFT”
   - “NOT A GOOD FIT WITH YOUR CURRENT REALITY”

Sort the list so the best fit ideas for ME are at the top. Don’t be optimistic, be realistic.