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The Downfall of Character.AI
Character.AI licensed its technology to Google for about $2.7 billion, then filed for bankruptcy two years later after lawsuits over open chat with teens. Disney opene...
The 20-Year-Olds Who Built a $10M Business Empire
Rudy Arora and Sarthak Dhawan quit college to run Turbo AI, a study app that makes more than $10 million a year, and students kept paying about $20 a month after ChatG...
This Free Scheduler Earns $326K/Month From AI Agents
Postiz gives its code away on GitHub and makes $326,687 a month, up from $17,000 in January, after founder Nevo David started building for AI assistants. The opening i...
Why AI Labs Are Quietly Buying Bankrupt Companies' Data
Google paid $10 million for bankrupt Spirit Airlines' 100 million emails and 500 million Teams messages, outbidding Mercor at auction. Closing startups sell the same k...
What The Hell Is Jarvie? The $8.3M AI in Your Group Chat
ChatGPT can plan a trip in a group chat and forget it a month later. Jarvie raised $8.3 million to build the group chat AI that remembers. The opening for a small comp...
The Biggest Lie You've Been Told About AI Agents
Testers cut the AI assistant Instinct off from their email and it kept summarizing their inbox anyway. The fastest-moving agents ask for less of you, and freelancers c...
I Studied a $15M Run Rate AI Startup Built in 3 Months
Viktor, an AI coworker a team shares in its chat app, went from launch to a $15 million run rate in three months, and Slack has announced an agent of its own. Agencies...
AI Is Replacing Accountability Partners (How I'd Build One)
Tomo signed tens of thousands of people paying about $20 a month for an AI that texts them before they skip. With Photon and the open-source Hermes agent, one person c...
The 23-Year-Old Building a $10 Billion AI You Text
Noah Shinn's free assistant, Instinct, texts you before you ask, and investors valued it at $10 billion 33 days after a $2.5 billion round. Real-estate agents who earn...
The Opportunity I See in Amazon Blocking Meta’s AI Agent
Amazon locked Meta's new shopping agent, Muse, out of its store twelve days after launch, and Shopify opened about a million stores to it the next day. The brands thos...
The $1,000,000,000 Puzzle Game
A game where pigs ride a conveyor belt made its 20-person Istanbul studio worth more than $1 billion. How Pixel Flow went from a paper-and-pen test to more than a mill...
Roblox Just Copied the AI Game Startups I Mapped
A Roblox game about stealing eggs from pets hit six billion visits in nine weeks, three days before Roblox let players type a game into its phone app. Why the startups...
The $100 Game: The AI App That Pays You to Make Games
A Squid Game knockoff typed into a prompt box hit 3.5 million plays in four weeks on Astrocade, an app that pays makers $100 when it picks their game and then pays on ...
I Investigated the AI Astrology Business
Faladdin sells a million coffee-cup readings a day out of Istanbul at about 90% margin. The buyer rates the reading on how they felt when it ended, so a model that nev...
He Asked Claude Code To Make Money. It Did.
One engineer sold the loading line developers stare at inside Claude Code and served 100 million ads on a surface he does not own. Six networks copied him in a month, ...
How AI Became Worth Less Than The Workers It Replaced
An operator put his agent on seven AI job boards in one night and it won 192 tasks for $0. The boards that do pay run money through a rail that reaches a bank account ...
#0153: OpenClaw Hosting: Wrapper Bubble, Fork Ecosystem, Compliance Gap
35+ hosting companies launched in weeks around a single open-source project. An 18-year-old hit $17K MRR in 5 days, listed for $2.25M, slashed to $225K the next day. T...
#0083: Programmatic SEO: No-Code Tools, Monetizing Traffic, AI Writing
In this episode, we're going to talk about programmatic SEO. This is about how businesses get customers by creating lots of pages aimed at specific topics. They use to...
#0081: Influencer Marketing: Borrowing Trust, Virtual Influencers, Native Advertising
In this episode, we're going to look at how influencer marketing is changing and what it might be like in the future. We'll explore how brands are promoting themselves...
#0080: Monetized Open Source: Incumbents, IP Rights, User-Owned Networks
In this podcast episode, we're going to talk about making money from open-source projects. We'll talk about the problems of being stuck with one vendor and how to make...