I built a store with AI, but will it make sales?

So last weekend I set a challenge for myself. I had to find a winning product, release a website and make a sale in the first 24 hours only using AI. Here's what happened. First I had to find a product. I didn't want to spend too much time on this, so I used Claude's Deep Research tool, which scraped the web to find product opportunities. A bit of back and forward and that lead me to this product here. This is an anti-snore mouthpiece and it was growing in popularity in the US, but it was relatively unknown in Australia. So a good opportunity there. Then I had to create the brand that includes things like the logo, the colour palette, the copywriting, tone of voice, everything. Just told Claude to do it all. Next, I needed a content library. The supplier's images were terrible, so I used those as references to build new images. For this I went to Higgsfield and used Nano Banana 2 to create a huge library of new content. The reason why we create our own images is because the supplier images in most cases don't show the product well and they make it look cheap. So now that we have our branding and we have our images, it's time to build the website. I created my Shopify account and straight away went to themes and use Shopify's theme generator. To be honest, this wasn't as helpful as I thought it would be, but it set a good foundation to build from. From there I jumped in, added all my AI images and used Sidekick to generate new blocks and sections. Took me about an hour to perfect it all. The product was imported to my store from Zendrop, which is a dropshipping app. I made sure the product that I chose had good reviews and it was actually a decent product. We don't wanna sell crap. Zendrop is a good option because it has fast shipping speeds and you're able to put a custom in parcel card into the order. So the website was done. It was functioning correctly up until this point. I think I spent about four hours on the project. But now it was time to make our first sale. And the fastest way to do this is through Meta Ads. So four extra manual steps here needed to create the ad account, need to connect the Pixel, create Instagram account, create Facebook account. Didn't take that long, but had to do that manually. Now for the ad creatives, I wanted a few statics and I wanted to experiment with some video. UGC statics are easy. I just use some of the best images I created through Nana Banana 2, reprompted them to add some text overlays, social proof, feature call outs. So that was easy. The video UGC was a bit more challenging, but we got there in the end. Using Sora 2, I generated this video. You heard of these things? Honestly, my wife was this close to making me sleep on the couch permanently before I started using this. And this video. For the Meta ad structure, we start with one campaign, one ad set. Kept the targeting very broad through all of our creatives into there. We're on a low daily budget and we're just starting out, so this is the best approach. 3 Days Later.. It's now been three days. So was this experiment successful? And did we get a sale in the first 24 hours? Here are our sales from day one. Ah, and this is day two, we got one order. Day three, another order. And these are the ads that have had the most spend in the account. So looking back, I guess the goal of this whole project wasn't to make money, but it was to show that AI can actually be useful. There's a lot of different opinions out there at the moment and a lot of empty promises as well. They show you a new thing and you think it's amazing, but they don't actually back it up with the results. I'll also say that the reason we got sales is because the product was positioned really well. Creative is one thing, but if you can't educate on how your product solves a real problem, then everything will just fall flat. Lastly, dropshipping is not a long-term approach. Use it as a tool to validate ideas and get product market fit.