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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...
#0078: No-Code: Smaller Firms, Competitive Advantages, Opportunity Costs
In this episode, we're looking at how no-code tools are changing the way software is developed. We'll see how these tools make it easier to work with things like web3,...
#0076: Fractional Ownership: Web3, Tokenization, Valuations
In this episode, we're going to talk about fractional ownership. This means owning a part of something valuable, like big buildings or digital items like NFTs. We'll s...
#0075: FIRE Movement: Financial Independence, Active Investing, Milestones
In this podcast episode, we're diving into the FIRE movement, which stands for Financial Independence, Retire Early. We'll look at the different ways you can do it, th...
#0074: Print on Demand: Pull Manufacturing, Scale Effects, Monetizing Trust
In this episode, we're going to talk about on-demand manufacturing and how it's changing things. We'll see how building trust and telling stories can make products mor...
#0073: The Creator Economy: Non-Fungible People, Value Ladders, Monetization Options
In this podcast episode, we're going to explore the Creator Economy. We'll see how technology is making it easier for people to start their own businesses without need...
#0070: Product-Led Growth: Time-To-Value, Onboarding, Non-SaaS Businesses
In this episode, we'll talk about how companies are changing from focusing on sales to focusing on their products to grow. We'll look at why it's getting more expensiv...