Nano Banana Seek-and-Find / Learn-to-Draw Books on KDP

01The Full Story: Two Low-Competition Categories Almost Nobody Knows AI Can Do

What makes this project smart is that it doesn't fight for scraps in the beaten-to-death “AI coloring book” red ocean. Instead it uses Google's Nano Banana to attack two niches that used to require a human illustrator and that hardly anyone realizes AI can now produce reliably: kids' step-by-step drawing books (a subject broken into 6 basic-shape steps that teach a child to draw it) and full-page seek-and-find books (hunt for specific little animals/objects inside one big scene). Creator Wholesale Ted reverse-engineered comparable titles with an Amazon sales-estimator tool: one drawing book published about two months earlier is estimated to sell 23-29 copies a day (roughly $250-300/day); the same author shipped three books on the same day, estimated at $711-800/day combined. On the seek-and-find side, one title is estimated at 5,000-9,000 copies a month, and that author has already self-published 30+ books. The business model is pure passive income: lay the art out as a PDF, upload to KDP, KDP prints on demand and ships, you pocket the spread. One honest caveat has to be stated up front: every one of those revenue figures comes from a third-party estimator, not real dashboard data, so the true numbers may be materially inflated — which is why this is tagged Creator-Reported. But the replicable, genuinely valuable part isn't the number. It's two things: (1) picking low-competition categories that AI can produce reliably and that parents love to buy; (2) owning the specific techniques that make Nano Banana reliably output step-by-step drawing sequences and panel-swapped seek-and-find pages.