I Studied 100 Amazon Merch Best Sellers… Then Designed This (Live Research)

About this video

The creator demonstrates live research starting from Amazon Hot New Releases, screenshotting listings 1-50 and then 51-100 — 100 designs in total in the transcript — and feeding batches of screenshots into Claude AI (he says ChatGPT or Gemini can also be used). His spoken prompt, entered with a whisper tool, asks for patterns in design style, niche angle and keywords, explicit trademark/copyright checking, and 5-10, later 15-20, unique design concepts without copying brands. Claude returns spreadsheets with product title, BSR, price, reviews, trending theme, IP status marked avoid/safe/caution, theme counts, average BSR and POD opportunity scores, plus design concepts with text, audience, description, image prompt and why it works. He flags the July 4th 2026 250th anniversary as the biggest opportunity, using generic ‘250 years 1776-2026’ language and avoiding the official American 250 logo. He then creates designs in Ideogram AI from spreadsheet prompts — e.g. ‘Land of the free since 1776, 250 years strong’, ‘Surviving motherhood one meltdown at a time’ and ‘250 years of barbecue, beer, and freedom’ — checks spelling errors, upscales, removes backgrounds, and exports a 4500x5400 PNG at 300 dpi in Kittl/KD for Merch by Amazon. Earnings figures in the video are the creator’s claims.

Key takeaways

• Screenshot Amazon Hot New Releases in batches and have Claude/ChatGPT extract patterns, themes, BSR, price and IP status into a spreadsheet
• Build trademark and copyright avoidance into the research prompt itself, with IP status flagged avoid, safe or caution per listing
• Prioritise timed themes from the analysis, notably the generic 1776-2026 250th anniversary angle while avoiding the official American 250 logo
• Turn spreadsheet concepts into Ideogram AI designs, manually checking spelling, upscaling and removing backgrounds before export at 4500x5400 PNG, 300 dpi
• Creator claims this process can make an easy $100 a week and over $1,000 a month at scale — presented as his claim, not verified results

Episode details: published May 15, 2026 · 21:08 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are RJ Martinez’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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