10 Things to Sell On Etsy to Make $5,000/Mo According to ChatGPT 💻

About this video

The creator asks ChatGPT for ten product types to sell on Etsy to reach a high monthly income, then critiques each answer from her experience working with Etsy sellers. She stresses that the tool’s underlying data was from 2021 or older, so it offered general categories with no current trend insight. On handmade jewellery, she says she has seen success mainly at the high end and at the cheap fashion end, less in the middle, and that jewellery now sells mainly as a gift rather than a self-purchase. Personalised home decor only works for her if it is personalised, with smaller engraved pieces and keepsakes as gifts and large wall pieces aimed at the end user. She rejects printable art, preferring customers who value time over money and will pay for a finished product. For candles, soaps and oils she recommends complete gift boxes and strong packaging and visual presentation rather than competing on scent. Knit and crochet are questioned on profit per hour, with a suggested alternative of adding knitted or embroidered detail to finished items. She calls custom T-shirts, hoodies and tote bags saturated and says the highest-volume print-on-demand sellers she works with generally do not focus on them. Vintage needs a repeat source or multiple units behind a listing so it never sells out and loses its history, though furniture offers higher order values if freight shipping works. For digital downloads she would skip planner templates in favour of higher-value website templates, outsourced to a virtual assistant who can also handle customer support. Original art prints should be tested in person at markets or pop-ups before Etsy, and wedding and event supplies are better run as a bought-in supply business using overseas suppliers than as a fully handmade shop. She concludes the tool’s generic closing advice on quality, marketing and pricing contains no tactics that would build the income it was asked about.

Key takeaways

• Treat AI product lists as starting points, not strategy: the recommendations were based on older data and named saturated, generic categories with no current trend or tactic detail.
• Design for gifting where the category allows it — jewellery, candles and home decor perform better, in her experience, when instantly giftable, packaged as sets or boxes, and personalised.
• Protect profit per hour: avoid time-heavy handmade routes and low-value downloads in favour of finished products, higher-value templates, or outsourced production and support.
• Avoid one-off listings that sell out and lose their sales history; vintage and art need repeat supply, multiple units, or in-person testing before scaling on Etsy.
• You do not have to handmake everything: for wedding and event supplies she recommends a reselling/supply model with supplier customisation to get both order volume and higher order values.

Episode details: published December 7, 2023 · 10:45 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Dylan Jahraus’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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