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[00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:02.400] And now, onto the show.
[00:01:02.720 --> 00:01:08.640] It's time for another round of business idea giveaways, this time with an AI-assisted theme to them.
[00:01:08.640 --> 00:01:11.920] We've got 15 at least of these to go through.
[00:01:11.920 --> 00:01:22.000] And to help me out, he's no stranger to the side hustle show, longtime listener serial side hustler from doyaevenblog.com and codeplaybook.com.
[00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:23.440] Pete McPherson, welcome back.
[00:01:23.440 --> 00:01:24.080] Thank you, Nick.
[00:01:24.080 --> 00:01:25.600] I appreciate you having me on again.
[00:01:25.600 --> 00:01:29.600] You bet we were just last on only a few months ago, episode 659.
[00:01:29.600 --> 00:01:40.080] If you want to go back in the archives and check that out, there was a lot of interest around that because you were talking about using AI to build software, sometimes recurring revenue software, the holy grail of side hustles.
[00:01:40.080 --> 00:01:40.480] That's right.
[00:01:40.480 --> 00:01:54.160] And so episode 659, if you want to go check that one out, we talked a little bit about idea generation in that episode, but today we figured we'd just open up the brainstorming wish list here and just throw out some ideas.
[00:01:54.160 --> 00:01:59.960] And so I want to tee this up with an idea that has kind of been on the top of my mind.
[00:01:59.600 --> 00:02:02.440] And I want to get your take on how feasible this would be.
[00:02:02.760 --> 00:02:14.280] And so I'm calling this kind of the content curator tool, for lack of a better word, because every week, me and my assistant, we spend some time looking for interesting side hustle stories.
[00:02:14.280 --> 00:02:16.840] And we include those in our newsletter at the bottom.
[00:02:16.840 --> 00:02:17.800] Like, hey, we found this.
[00:02:17.800 --> 00:02:19.400] You might also be interested in this.
[00:02:19.400 --> 00:02:24.360] Oh, so-and-so made, you know, 5,000 bucks last month selling ice cream at community events.
[00:02:24.360 --> 00:02:26.040] They're like, oh, okay, I didn't know you could do that.
[00:02:26.040 --> 00:02:29.160] Like just random little side hustle stories like that.
[00:02:29.160 --> 00:02:33.160] So one, could you build a curated newsletter and you train it on your own voice?
[00:02:33.160 --> 00:02:39.480] Like, I think I'm still big on like the newsletter model, but the curation part is time consuming, especially if you got to recreate it every single day.
[00:02:39.480 --> 00:02:49.080] The second use case that I see would be like, okay, could you create a summary of 10 of these that you find every week and build me an outline that I could use for an episode, right?
[00:02:49.080 --> 00:02:51.080] And so that would be a very specific use case.
[00:02:51.240 --> 00:02:57.080] I think you could do this in just about any industry, hobby, niche, like in the car business.
[00:02:58.040 --> 00:03:00.600] Everybody in the car business subscribes to automotive news.
[00:03:00.600 --> 00:03:06.680] So could you create a digital automotive news that had a unique voice, had a unique perspective?
[00:03:06.680 --> 00:03:12.120] We've talked to local curators who, you know, talking about community events in their local hometown.
[00:03:12.120 --> 00:03:14.840] There's a lot of work that goes into building something like that.
[00:03:14.840 --> 00:03:21.320] I'm wondering if there's a way to scrape, for lack of a better word, but like somehow automate that curation process.
[00:03:21.320 --> 00:03:21.560] Yes.
[00:03:21.560 --> 00:03:23.640] Well, there's always a way, period.
[00:03:23.640 --> 00:03:25.640] The question is, is it viable or not?
[00:03:25.640 --> 00:03:27.560] I would argue this is a great idea.
[00:03:27.560 --> 00:03:33.560] The first thing that pops into my head were these old RSS feed conglomerators.
[00:03:33.560 --> 00:03:35.320] I can't even remember the names of them.
[00:03:35.320 --> 00:03:38.040] Feed Burner, and there was a handful of others.
[00:03:38.040 --> 00:03:41.240] A lot of these things stopped working or closed down.
[00:03:41.240 --> 00:03:45.920] I don't know if you remember this, like probably maybe six years ago, eight years ago, or something.
[00:03:45.920 --> 00:03:47.920] Yeah, like Feedly was one that I used.
[00:03:47.920 --> 00:03:51.280] I remember people complaining, like, are you kidding?
[00:03:51.280 --> 00:03:53.680] I use this every day.
[00:03:53.680 --> 00:03:54.800] Yeah, Google Readers.
[00:03:54.800 --> 00:03:55.200] Yeah.
[00:03:55.200 --> 00:03:55.760] Yeah.
[00:03:55.760 --> 00:04:00.320] I think it would be totally viable to be able to input certain sources.
[00:04:00.320 --> 00:04:02.960] Maybe it's like, maybe it's like a creator you already follow.
[00:04:02.960 --> 00:04:03.840] Maybe they have a blog.
[00:04:03.840 --> 00:04:05.040] Maybe they have a YouTube channel.
[00:04:05.040 --> 00:04:06.640] Maybe they have social media.
[00:04:06.640 --> 00:04:12.160] It would be cool if you could put in any channel like that or even their email address.
[00:04:12.480 --> 00:04:20.320] There are ways to just like create a fake email address for your app, receive that email, and then automatically do something with it.
[00:04:20.320 --> 00:04:38.960] So yeah, I think it'd be cool to create this like conglomerator with a bunch of different sources and then fine-tune with AI probably some different prompts that'll like format it into what you want to see, have it emailed to you daily or weekly to like comb through.
[00:04:39.200 --> 00:04:40.480] Yeah, I think that's totally viable.
[00:04:40.480 --> 00:04:40.720] Yeah.
[00:04:40.720 --> 00:04:41.920] I think that's a great idea too.
[00:04:41.920 --> 00:04:46.240] Like I think that's actually viable for financial gains, not just like, can you make it?
[00:04:46.240 --> 00:04:46.960] I think that's good.
[00:04:46.960 --> 00:04:49.200] Yeah, it could be a consumer-facing thing.
[00:04:49.200 --> 00:04:52.800] Like, could you send, you know, do the formatting and send that out to people?
[00:04:52.800 --> 00:04:57.280] Like, here is the, here are the coolest articles we found about gardening or parenting or whatever this week.
[00:04:57.520 --> 00:05:00.240] You know, put your own unique spin on it or whatever.
[00:05:00.240 --> 00:05:05.120] And it could be an internal tool as well to help guide, you know, future episode content and stuff.
[00:05:05.120 --> 00:05:05.600] Hey, totally.
[00:05:05.680 --> 00:05:08.400] Get a load of these top 10 side hustles of the week that you never heard of.
[00:05:08.400 --> 00:05:09.440] Boom, boom, boom, boom.
[00:05:09.600 --> 00:05:10.480] I think that would be fun.
[00:05:10.480 --> 00:05:14.720] Would you like to hear a really somewhat similar idea, actually, that's on my list?
[00:05:14.720 --> 00:05:15.520] Let's hear it.
[00:05:15.520 --> 00:05:23.600] I initially called this, there's a bunch of, I have a feeling we're going to release a bunch of really crappy names, by the way, because we don't, it's just ideas.
[00:05:23.600 --> 00:05:26.320] So I named this Content Bank.
[00:05:26.320 --> 00:05:33.880] This was originally an idea for creators, like us, podcasters or YouTubers or marketers or whatever.
[00:05:33.880 --> 00:05:35.240] Originally, it's not anymore.
[00:05:35.240 --> 00:05:37.880] I'm going to read what I wrote, and then I'm going to read my new idea.
[00:05:37.880 --> 00:05:48.360] I wrote down a searchable database of all of your content aggregated across all of your channels, social, email, YouTube, blog, podcast, everything.
[00:05:48.680 --> 00:05:55.560] Just a database, links to everything, maybe even like a little AI summary of a piece of content.
[00:05:55.560 --> 00:06:00.680] And here's the thing, and here's what triggered this new idea: searchable.
[00:06:00.680 --> 00:06:08.040] And the more I think about this, I actually think a cool side hustle app would be search on steroids.
[00:06:08.040 --> 00:06:14.760] As in, what if you had your own search bar that you could specify where it searches?
[00:06:14.760 --> 00:06:17.080] So I'll just give you a really personal example.
[00:06:17.080 --> 00:06:18.520] I would use this all the time.
[00:06:18.520 --> 00:06:21.640] I'm pretty sure I would use this like three times an hour if I had it.
[00:06:21.640 --> 00:06:28.280] A search bar that would search my Google Drive, my Facebook account, my Obsidian.
[00:06:28.280 --> 00:06:34.360] Obsidian's like my note-taking app on my computer, my calendar, and Apple reminders.
[00:06:34.360 --> 00:06:35.480] That's all I want.
[00:06:35.480 --> 00:06:37.000] Like, I don't want it to search anything else.
[00:06:37.000 --> 00:06:45.640] But if I could have a tool that I just search for something and it searches all of those things and gives me results, I would pay handsomely for this, Nick.
[00:06:45.640 --> 00:06:46.280] What do you think?
[00:06:46.520 --> 00:06:48.040] I guess I don't see myself using it.
[00:06:48.040 --> 00:06:48.760] Oh, really?
[00:06:48.760 --> 00:06:49.880] Well, here's the use case for me.
[00:06:49.880 --> 00:07:01.800] I'll get emails from listeners to be like, Do you remember the episode where you talked to so-and-so and she had a business, you know, and they're trying to find, and it's like, usually, that triggers enough.
[00:07:01.800 --> 00:07:03.240] Like, oh, yeah, that sounds familiar.
[00:07:03.240 --> 00:07:05.480] I think you're thinking of this person or this episode.
[00:07:05.480 --> 00:07:09.240] And so I can kind of go through my own mental database for that.
[00:07:09.240 --> 00:07:14.280] But I often joke that I wish my house was as easily searchable as Gmail.
[00:07:14.280 --> 00:07:15.440] Like, where do we put the keys?
[00:07:14.840 --> 00:07:17.280] Where do we find the, you know, the kids' sweatshirt?
[00:07:17.440 --> 00:07:28.080] You know, so there is a there is something valuable in search, but I'm not, I don't know if I don't have that much, that big of a library or like that big of a problem finding stuff.
[00:07:28.080 --> 00:07:28.560] I definitely do.
[00:07:28.560 --> 00:07:29.760] I would use this all the time.
[00:07:29.760 --> 00:07:31.680] Also, why can't you search your house like that?
[00:07:31.680 --> 00:07:32.400] The big fail.
[00:07:32.400 --> 00:07:38.800] So we registered like our kids' emails, you know, when they were born, like, you know, first name, last name at gmail.com.
[00:07:38.960 --> 00:07:42.080] Cannot for the life of us figure out where we put the password.
[00:07:42.080 --> 00:07:46.160] Like it was pre-recovery account, you know, set up a backup.
[00:07:46.320 --> 00:07:46.960] Like none of that.
[00:07:46.960 --> 00:07:49.360] And so they're like, I forgot my password, Google.
[00:07:49.360 --> 00:07:51.600] And Google's like, well, what was the last password you remember?
[00:07:51.680 --> 00:07:52.960] You're like, no, no, no, you don't understand.
[00:07:52.960 --> 00:07:54.240] We don't remember any of them.
[00:07:54.320 --> 00:07:55.600] So it's like unrecoverable.
[00:07:55.840 --> 00:07:58.320] What if you could build an app that could search your house?
[00:07:58.320 --> 00:08:01.680] Like you have blink cameras these days outside and inside.
[00:08:01.680 --> 00:08:06.080] I have three personally, mostly outside, just security cameras or whatnot.
[00:08:06.080 --> 00:08:08.240] I know there's a way to tie into that.
[00:08:08.240 --> 00:08:18.960] And I watched a couple of YouTube videos months ago, like six months ago, of people coding, searching live video or almost live.
[00:08:18.960 --> 00:08:24.720] As in, like, the AI was analyzing the video like once a second or so.
[00:08:24.720 --> 00:08:25.360] Okay.
[00:08:25.360 --> 00:08:28.000] And you could say, like, where's the red ball?
[00:08:28.000 --> 00:08:29.120] And it would show you the red ball.
[00:08:29.280 --> 00:08:30.960] Like, this was six months ago technology.
[00:08:30.960 --> 00:08:33.120] You could probably build something that could search your keys.
[00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:34.720] Yeah, that's an interesting one.
[00:08:34.720 --> 00:08:38.560] So, so Content Bank is for creators who've been in the game for a long time.
[00:08:38.560 --> 00:08:44.800] They've got a huge body of work that they want to be able to find specific documents or specific clips or something like that.
[00:08:44.800 --> 00:08:45.760] Multi-channel.
[00:08:45.760 --> 00:08:49.360] It has to search blog, email, YouTube, that stuff.
[00:08:49.360 --> 00:08:58.080] One thing we do do is we keep in creating clip shows is searching transcripts for specific, like we did this on the recent burnout episode.
[00:08:58.080 --> 00:09:05.480] I need to find the episodes where people are specifically talking about how they felt burnout, how they dealt with it, how they overcame that.
[00:09:05.640 --> 00:09:08.120] And so trying to find those specific clips.
[00:09:08.120 --> 00:09:10.360] But that's those transcripts are all in Google Drive.
[00:09:10.360 --> 00:09:11.880] So it's like a one-channel search.
[00:09:11.880 --> 00:09:13.240] Yeah, still a good idea, though.
[00:09:13.240 --> 00:09:14.840] You want me to go again or you got one?
[00:09:14.840 --> 00:09:15.400] I got one.
[00:09:15.400 --> 00:09:19.800] This actually comes from my wife who does photography as a side hustle.
[00:09:19.800 --> 00:09:22.840] And I was like, what would be on your wish list of an app?
[00:09:22.840 --> 00:09:31.880] And she's like, I want to know the angle of the sun for like lighting purposes for photography based on a Google Map location or a Google Earth location.
[00:09:32.200 --> 00:09:36.440] I want to go here and I want to figure out at six o'clock, is it better to show up at six o'clock?
[00:09:36.440 --> 00:09:37.880] Is it better to show up at eight o'clock, right?
[00:09:38.280 --> 00:09:39.480] Where's the angle of the sun?
[00:09:39.480 --> 00:09:49.000] And I feel like this has got to be totally viable based on whatever just historic atmospheric data or astronomical data.
[00:09:49.000 --> 00:09:50.760] Astronomical data.
[00:09:51.080 --> 00:09:52.280] I have no idea.
[00:09:52.520 --> 00:10:03.160] I'll tell you what, instead of commenting whether I would use that, because I wouldn't, because I wouldn't have any need for it, I was totally picturing in my head, first of all, I think you could mostly ignore Google Maps.
[00:10:03.160 --> 00:10:10.680] I think there are actually APIs, which if you want me to break down what an API is, I'm totally willing to, or I'll just skip it for now.
[00:10:10.680 --> 00:10:15.880] I think there are APIs out there by third-party companies you and I have never heard of.
[00:10:15.880 --> 00:10:22.920] You probably do some Googling and discover a lot of that data is readily available.
[00:10:22.920 --> 00:10:24.280] It's not in an app form.
[00:10:24.280 --> 00:10:30.120] It's not like your wife could like choose on a map, like I am here and it's 7:30 a.m.
[00:10:30.120 --> 00:10:32.520] on a Tuesday, July, whatever.
[00:10:32.520 --> 00:10:34.760] Like that, yeah, you could build around that.
[00:10:34.760 --> 00:10:37.560] But I think that data would actually be really easy to find.
[00:10:37.560 --> 00:10:38.840] That's my guess.
[00:10:38.840 --> 00:10:40.040] Yeah, I'm kind of with you.
[00:10:40.040 --> 00:10:46.240] Based, you know, latitude, longitude, and then you'd add the interface layer on top of it to make it usable.
[00:10:46.240 --> 00:10:49.680] Also, I'll just continue brainstorming ideas here.
[00:10:50.000 --> 00:10:58.160] One thing that would take that the extra mile for me, I could see doing is when in the next five days is it going to be best to shoot?
[00:10:58.160 --> 00:10:59.360] Let's say you had that option.
[00:10:59.360 --> 00:11:02.560] It'd be like, no, Tuesday is actually stormy, cloudy, or whatever.
[00:11:02.560 --> 00:11:09.840] But it could say, hey, Wednesday, it's supposed to be partly cloudy with a late sunset at 9:27 p.m.
[00:11:10.000 --> 00:11:12.320] and that light would be perfect or something like that.
[00:11:12.320 --> 00:11:12.720] Yeah.
[00:11:12.720 --> 00:11:13.040] All right.
[00:11:13.040 --> 00:11:13.920] What else you got?
[00:11:13.920 --> 00:11:14.240] Okay.
[00:11:14.480 --> 00:11:22.560] Let's stick with this theme of readily available data because I know for my next idea here, the data's out there.
[00:11:22.560 --> 00:11:24.720] Somebody just has to like finesse it.
[00:11:24.720 --> 00:11:28.160] So I called this voice to KCAL.
[00:11:28.160 --> 00:11:30.960] This has been on my idea list for like a year and a half.
[00:11:30.960 --> 00:11:36.960] I love calorie tracking until I hate calorie tracking what I eat.
[00:11:36.960 --> 00:11:46.640] There are apps that do it really well, but you're like searching for your food exactly and then there's serving size and then it's so on and so on and so on.
[00:11:46.640 --> 00:11:47.920] Like it's kind of cool.
[00:11:47.920 --> 00:11:51.760] And then you do it for like four meals and you're like, wow, this is a massive pain.
[00:11:51.760 --> 00:11:52.160] Yeah.
[00:11:52.320 --> 00:11:55.520] I've used MyFitnessPal like off and on for years.
[00:11:55.520 --> 00:11:58.800] And the reason it's off and on is because it's tedious.
[00:11:58.800 --> 00:11:59.840] It's such a hassle.
[00:11:59.840 --> 00:12:06.480] So first of all, a billion-dollar idea would be to make that 10 times easier, however, you can.
[00:12:06.480 --> 00:12:08.560] That's just my billion-dollar idea.
[00:12:08.560 --> 00:12:15.840] Have you seen the ones that do, like, you're just supposed to take a picture of your plate and it somehow knows what that food is and it gives you an estimate?
[00:12:15.840 --> 00:12:16.160] Yes.
[00:12:16.160 --> 00:12:16.640] Okay.
[00:12:16.640 --> 00:12:17.360] Great idea.
[00:12:17.360 --> 00:12:20.160] I actually think that's way harder than what I'm about to say.
[00:12:20.560 --> 00:12:21.920] Mine's like an in-between.
[00:12:21.920 --> 00:12:25.600] It's not as useful as that, but it's more useful than typing it in.
[00:12:25.600 --> 00:12:47.560] I would like to just talk at the app and say, like, I just had a cover culverts double deluxe butter burger which is amazing by the way best fast food burger you can buy your your entire day's allotment of calories in one in one sitting oh my god it's it's so much i don't even know how many but it's a lot And I just had fries and a large Coke Zero.
[00:12:47.560 --> 00:12:48.680] I just want to say that.
[00:12:48.680 --> 00:12:51.480] Literally hit the record button, say that.
[00:12:51.480 --> 00:12:53.640] The app will transcribe it.
[00:12:53.640 --> 00:12:59.960] It'll send it to AI for some formatting, some structuring, which is actually really simple to do.
[00:12:59.960 --> 00:13:05.240] Like it'll break it down into, okay, meal object one, burger.
[00:13:05.240 --> 00:13:08.840] The name of it, Culver's Double Deluxe, or whatever that is.
[00:13:08.840 --> 00:13:11.640] And then query that same database that MyFitnessPal is.
[00:13:11.880 --> 00:13:13.320] Like how many calories is that?
[00:13:13.320 --> 00:13:15.000] I know that data is out there.
[00:13:15.000 --> 00:13:22.920] I think the easiest version of the slide hustle, I think the picture thing is actually better, but actually, I could be wrong, but I actually feel like that's way harder.
[00:13:22.920 --> 00:13:23.560] I don't know.
[00:13:23.560 --> 00:13:24.600] I just want to talk to it.
[00:13:24.600 --> 00:13:33.480] I just want to record for 20 seconds, say my entire meal, say I had two servings of this or three servings of this, and then boom, calories.
[00:13:33.480 --> 00:13:34.200] No, I like it.
[00:13:34.200 --> 00:13:40.600] And then the exit plan, obviously, that would be a great acquisition target for a MyFitnessPal, which I think is owned by Under Armour.
[00:13:40.600 --> 00:13:48.120] So there's definitely some players out there in this space who would be, you would think they would want to add this to their tech stack.
[00:13:48.120 --> 00:13:49.240] Yeah, I would hope so.
[00:13:49.240 --> 00:13:49.720] They better.
[00:13:49.720 --> 00:13:52.200] Else, I'm not going to use their app anymore.
[00:13:52.520 --> 00:14:03.080] More with Pete in just a moment, including a couple quick ways to validate demand for your product idea, plus lots more AI ideas to spark your creative energy coming up right after this.
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[00:16:17.480 --> 00:16:25.160] I want to talk real quick about demand validation because we're just throwing out ideas from personal pain points, which I think is a great place to start.
[00:16:25.160 --> 00:16:37.000] But another angle that you can use if you're more analytical, I want to see like if there's anybody actually looking for this, one tool you could use is hrefs, but I imagine any keyword research tool would probably have similar functionality.
[00:16:37.080 --> 00:16:41.080] You can plug in one of the AI tool directories.
[00:16:41.080 --> 00:16:45.400] I use MattWolf's future tools.io for this example.
[00:16:45.400 --> 00:16:48.840] And then you want to look for their organic keyword footprint.
[00:16:48.840 --> 00:16:50.440] Like where are they getting traffic from?
[00:16:50.440 --> 00:16:53.400] And I looked for keywords that started with AI in this case.
[00:16:53.400 --> 00:17:04.600] And some of the stuff that comes up that they're already ranking for that you know there's demand for because there's like a certain search volume around this was AI portrait generator, which I thought was kind of interesting.
[00:17:04.760 --> 00:17:12.120] You've seen people do pet portraits inspired, you know, make my dog look like a you know Renaissance era so-and-so.
[00:17:12.200 --> 00:17:13.800] It's like, okay, that's a thing.
[00:17:13.800 --> 00:17:17.240] AI recipe generator had 2,000 monthly searches.
[00:17:17.240 --> 00:17:22.120] AI symptom checker, which you can't imagine anyway that would go wrong, but 1500 searches for that.
[00:17:22.120 --> 00:17:30.680] A couple of interesting ones were AI Minecraft Skin Generator with 500 searches a month and a keyword difficulty of seven, meaning not very difficult.
[00:17:30.680 --> 00:17:32.760] And that's on a scale from zero to 100.
[00:17:32.920 --> 00:17:38.840] AI prayer generator, 400 monthly searches with a KD keyword difficulty of zero.
[00:17:38.840 --> 00:17:41.480] Can you use AI to start generating prayers for people?
[00:17:41.480 --> 00:17:42.840] I thought that was fantastic.
[00:17:42.840 --> 00:17:50.160] And then the AI base combiner had a, and then there are actually a lot of variations of kind of like a face mesh type of keyword.
[00:17:44.680 --> 00:17:51.280] People looking for that kind of tool.
[00:17:51.520 --> 00:17:58.800] About 250 searches specifically for the face combiner tool, I guess, to maybe see what your future kid might look like.
[00:17:58.800 --> 00:18:02.960] I don't know what would be the use case of combining faces, but people are looking for it.
[00:18:02.960 --> 00:18:03.600] That's interesting.
[00:18:03.600 --> 00:18:12.400] And then another method that you can look for and absolutely free, you know, without paying for hrefs or another tool, is just to look for on Reddit.
[00:18:12.400 --> 00:18:34.560] Is there an app that, you know, in quotes, is there a tool that is there, or you know, looking for an app blank, you know, and those types of keywords, people will be like typing in you maybe see something exists, or you might have other people chiming in, oh, I totally wish that existed, or alternative to blank, you know, alternative to Canva, alternative to hrefs, alternative to convert kit, stuff like that.
[00:18:34.560 --> 00:18:40.880] So you see people teeing up those types of things as a way to validate demand.
[00:18:40.880 --> 00:18:42.000] Like, well, it's not just in my head.
[00:18:42.000 --> 00:18:43.280] Other people are looking for this too.
[00:18:43.280 --> 00:18:44.000] Yeah, for sure.
[00:18:44.000 --> 00:18:44.240] All right.
[00:18:44.240 --> 00:18:45.520] What's next on your list?
[00:18:45.520 --> 00:18:46.560] Okay, I got a fun one.
[00:18:46.560 --> 00:18:52.640] I don't know if this is in demand per se, but I would try it as a parent, and maybe you would too.
[00:18:52.640 --> 00:18:58.160] I'm calling this Chore Forge, F-O-R-G-E, ChoreForge.
[00:18:58.160 --> 00:18:58.800] Okay.
[00:18:58.800 --> 00:19:04.160] And this would be a game for families, presumably people with kids.
[00:19:04.160 --> 00:19:10.480] And I would like to turn household chores into a like productivity game.
[00:19:10.480 --> 00:19:11.040] That's it.
[00:19:11.040 --> 00:19:16.560] Like we each have our own little user account and avatar, and it's cute and it's cartoony.
[00:19:16.560 --> 00:19:26.480] And we, the parents, can customize the chores, obviously, that we do, that our children do, et cetera, and customize the rewards.
[00:19:26.480 --> 00:19:29.280] Charts, points, leveling up.
[00:19:29.280 --> 00:19:29.840] You know what I mean?
[00:19:30.040 --> 00:19:38.840] Like some sort of productivity game, but based on familial chores where each person can be competing against each other.
[00:19:38.840 --> 00:19:40.440] My daughter and my son could be competing.
[00:19:40.440 --> 00:19:41.720] It's just a random idea.
[00:19:41.720 --> 00:19:42.120] Okay.
[00:19:42.280 --> 00:19:43.640] I would love kids versus parents.
[00:19:43.640 --> 00:19:47.560] Like when we pit the kids against each other, it's like a recipe for heartache and sadness.
[00:19:47.560 --> 00:19:50.360] But if they're competing against the parents, they're all in.
[00:19:50.360 --> 00:19:51.000] I like that too.
[00:19:51.000 --> 00:19:51.800] Yeah, it's brilliant.
[00:19:51.800 --> 00:19:52.040] Okay.
[00:19:52.040 --> 00:19:57.880] So you're like, okay, get, you know, earn five points, take out the trash, empty the dishwasher, earn 10 points, like stuff like that.
[00:19:57.880 --> 00:19:58.280] Yeah.
[00:19:58.280 --> 00:20:05.000] And not only that, I'll tell you, my kids personally, and probably everybody else's, they love cute creatures.
[00:20:05.000 --> 00:20:07.320] It kind of reminds me of the old Tamagotchi.
[00:20:07.320 --> 00:20:08.200] Do you remember those things?
[00:20:08.200 --> 00:20:08.600] Sure.
[00:20:08.600 --> 00:20:11.000] Yeah, little Tamagotchi toys from the 90s.
[00:20:11.000 --> 00:20:18.360] If they could start as like a small cat, a kitten, or a small dog, or a raccoon, or a horse, or literally anything.
[00:20:18.360 --> 00:20:22.040] And if they could see their character progressing, leveling up.
[00:20:22.040 --> 00:20:23.800] Oh, yeah, it's all about leveling up.
[00:20:23.800 --> 00:20:27.320] Two and a half weeks left, 100 points, and then your character levels up.
[00:20:27.320 --> 00:20:29.320] If they see that happen, they're locked in.
[00:20:29.320 --> 00:20:30.040] Yes.
[00:20:30.040 --> 00:20:32.680] I'll probably never have to tell them to do this ever again.
[00:20:32.680 --> 00:20:34.280] Yeah, it's like the evolution of your Pokemon.
[00:20:34.280 --> 00:20:36.120] Yeah, they're like, what other chores can I do right now?
[00:20:36.120 --> 00:20:38.040] I want to see my character level up, right?
[00:20:38.040 --> 00:20:38.280] Yeah.
[00:20:38.280 --> 00:20:39.080] Tour forge.
[00:20:39.080 --> 00:20:40.440] I think this could actually be big.
[00:20:40.440 --> 00:20:41.880] That's that's kind of cool.
[00:20:41.880 --> 00:20:42.360] Yeah.
[00:20:42.360 --> 00:20:42.600] Okay.
[00:20:42.600 --> 00:20:43.960] What's next on my?
[00:20:43.960 --> 00:20:53.000] Well, this is actually one I've been trying to build in Claude, and it is the podcast transcript editor suggestor thing, right?
[00:20:53.000 --> 00:20:54.840] Where I record for 60 minutes.
[00:20:55.400 --> 00:21:00.440] I want to trim the bottom 10% of this episode where it was just, you know, it got boring, it got repetitive.
[00:21:00.440 --> 00:21:03.320] Like, that's what I typically do as part of my editing process.
[00:21:03.320 --> 00:21:10.040] And historically, that's been a manual review of, you know, reviewing the transcript and saying, okay, here's where it kind of went off the rails.
[00:21:10.360 --> 00:21:12.200] This question didn't really land.
[00:21:12.200 --> 00:21:13.720] Okay, I'm going to trim that.
[00:21:13.720 --> 00:21:24.880] And what I've been trying to do is, you know, feed in examples of past, you know, before and after transcripts into Claude and saying, based on the style of the side hustle show, here's the next raw recording episode.
[00:21:24.880 --> 00:21:28.480] Can you please provide your editing suggestions and your ad break suggestions?
[00:21:28.480 --> 00:21:30.000] Like, where's a natural breakpoint?
[00:21:30.320 --> 00:21:37.200] And it hasn't quite hit yet where it's like, yes, that's a dialed-in process.
[00:21:37.200 --> 00:21:44.000] And it kind of chokes on it because it's like, sometimes these are 20, 30 pages of, you know, if you record an hour of audio, like it's a really long document.
[00:21:44.000 --> 00:21:45.760] I'm having a hard time with that.
[00:21:45.760 --> 00:21:49.200] But that's something that I've been trying to build for my personal use case.
[00:21:49.200 --> 00:21:51.840] And imagine other podcasters might use that as well.
[00:21:51.840 --> 00:21:54.080] Yeah, we're really close on that.
[00:21:54.080 --> 00:21:59.200] I feel like the past six or seven months, AI models continue to get better.
[00:21:59.200 --> 00:21:59.920] We know this.
[00:21:59.920 --> 00:22:03.440] The context windows continue to get larger.
[00:22:03.440 --> 00:22:06.720] Now it's a million tokens on some of these models or whatnot.
[00:22:06.720 --> 00:22:11.040] I think within even a couple of months, we're going to see a new round of context windows.
[00:22:11.040 --> 00:22:20.320] And right now, like that hour podcast and that transcript, it's like 30 pages, that's like right at the limit where you're starting to overload the models.
[00:22:20.320 --> 00:22:23.280] I think three months from now, it's not going to be a deal anymore.
[00:22:23.280 --> 00:22:28.400] I think you'll be able to just be like, here's literally 500,000 words from this podcast.
[00:22:28.400 --> 00:22:29.680] Tell me this exact thing.
[00:22:29.680 --> 00:22:31.920] And I think that'll be, I think that'll be better.
[00:22:31.920 --> 00:22:34.000] Yeah, give me the best 80% of it.
[00:22:34.640 --> 00:22:35.520] Give me the best 90%.
[00:22:35.520 --> 00:22:39.600] Maybe there's like a sliding spectrum on what you want the suggestions to be.
[00:22:39.600 --> 00:22:43.040] And of course, you can't just, I wouldn't just hand that off to the editor and say, go.
[00:22:43.040 --> 00:22:44.960] It's like you're still going to have a manual review process.
[00:22:44.960 --> 00:22:47.680] But the hope is it would speed up that process a little bit.
[00:22:47.680 --> 00:22:48.000] Totally.
[00:22:48.000 --> 00:22:49.680] You want to stick on podcasting for a moment?
[00:22:49.680 --> 00:22:50.160] Sure.
[00:22:50.160 --> 00:22:51.600] Here's what I hate about podcasting.
[00:22:51.600 --> 00:22:52.400] I love podcasting.
[00:22:52.400 --> 00:22:55.680] I've done 400 interviews, like whatever.
[00:22:55.680 --> 00:23:01.240] What I stink at is following up with my guests to give them some marketing materials.
[00:23:01.400 --> 00:23:09.240] And here's a Google Drive with some share images and some, oh, I don't know, copywriting for Facebook or Instagram or whatever.
[00:23:09.240 --> 00:23:09.800] I hate that.
[00:23:09.800 --> 00:23:11.320] And I hate sending those emails.
[00:23:11.320 --> 00:23:13.640] Like, I never do that stuff because I'm lazy.
[00:23:13.640 --> 00:23:14.840] No, me neither.
[00:23:14.840 --> 00:23:17.000] Can AI do that for me?
[00:23:17.000 --> 00:23:17.560] Right?
[00:23:17.880 --> 00:23:22.520] So, a lot of these AI podcasting tools are focused on editing.
[00:23:22.520 --> 00:23:23.240] And rightfully so.
[00:23:23.240 --> 00:23:25.400] That's another huge time slot, by the way.
[00:23:25.400 --> 00:23:31.160] And maybe a little bit of marketing, like show notes or time stamps or stuff like that.
[00:23:31.160 --> 00:23:32.360] That's all well and good.
[00:23:32.360 --> 00:23:41.240] I feel like there's not as much that will automatically take my transcript and email my guest with stuff that they could use.
[00:23:41.240 --> 00:23:42.920] I haven't seen a whole lot of that at least.
[00:23:42.920 --> 00:23:44.200] So I think there's an idea there.
[00:23:44.200 --> 00:23:49.080] Yeah, here's a handful of clips that were auto-generated in Riverside.
[00:23:49.080 --> 00:23:53.160] And here, yeah, there's something to that because it's, I never do that.
[00:23:53.160 --> 00:23:55.400] And it's like sometimes it's two or three days later.
[00:23:55.560 --> 00:23:56.920] Like, shoot, I forgot to send you a message.
[00:23:56.920 --> 00:23:58.840] Your episode went live on Thursday.
[00:23:58.840 --> 00:24:01.080] And thanks again for joining me.
[00:24:01.080 --> 00:24:02.440] But that's usually the extent of it.
[00:24:02.440 --> 00:24:05.960] Like, I don't typically ask or bank on anybody sharing it.
[00:24:05.960 --> 00:24:08.040] And it's like when they do, it's like a bonus.
[00:24:08.040 --> 00:24:09.480] And let's be really clear here, Nick.
[00:24:09.480 --> 00:24:14.760] Nick did not actually send me that message after our last podcast interview a couple of months ago.
[00:24:14.760 --> 00:24:15.160] I don't think.
[00:24:15.160 --> 00:24:15.960] I don't remember seeing it.
[00:24:16.200 --> 00:24:16.680] Yeah, exactly.
[00:24:16.680 --> 00:24:17.480] So you can vouch for that.
[00:24:17.480 --> 00:24:18.280] Like, it doesn't happen.
[00:24:18.280 --> 00:24:18.600] Exactly.
[00:24:18.600 --> 00:24:18.840] Yeah.
[00:24:18.840 --> 00:24:19.480] Nick needs this.
[00:24:19.640 --> 00:24:21.160] So I'm going to create it.
[00:24:21.480 --> 00:24:24.040] You may get another one, a different category, or you got another one.
[00:24:24.040 --> 00:24:28.520] I've got one that is top of mind lately, and I'm calling this scam detector.
[00:24:28.520 --> 00:24:28.920] Oh.
[00:24:28.920 --> 00:24:37.400] So sometimes you get text messages, and it'll say, you have unpaid parking tickets in the city of Seattle, and we're going to revoke your license.
[00:24:37.400 --> 00:24:41.720] And it's like from a, you know, click here, and it's like a dot ru domain.
[00:24:41.720 --> 00:24:43.880] And you're like, okay, it's very clearly a scam.
[00:24:43.880 --> 00:24:44.600] I'm going to delete this.
[00:24:44.600 --> 00:24:46.160] I'm going to ignore it.
[00:24:44.920 --> 00:24:49.200] But sometimes the line is a little bit more blurred.
[00:24:49.520 --> 00:24:54.400] Like, I got this IRS letter the other day, and it was about a return from four years ago.
[00:24:54.560 --> 00:24:56.160] Like, is this legit?
[00:24:56.160 --> 00:24:57.600] Like, it looks legit.
[00:24:57.600 --> 00:25:01.120] And I sent it to my accountant, and he was like, Yeah, that's that's legit.
[00:25:01.120 --> 00:25:03.440] But I was like, Is this an IRS scam?
[00:25:03.440 --> 00:25:05.360] You know, it was just a weird thing.
[00:25:05.360 --> 00:25:13.520] And a couple Thanksgivings ago, I had a really, really convincing crypto ransomware scam, and it was from you know, an email from me.
[00:25:13.520 --> 00:25:18.240] And so, like, this somehow was like a phishing attack, like from it looked like it's spoofed from my email account.
[00:25:18.240 --> 00:25:23.440] We've hacked your system, we're gonna destroy your reputation, we're gonna do blah, blah, blah.
[00:25:23.440 --> 00:25:27.760] And we demand this $3,000 Bitcoin transfer to this wallet address.
[00:25:27.760 --> 00:25:36.400] And I spent like all night trying to lock down all my stuff, like two-factor, change the passwords, you know, with the tech team.
[00:25:36.400 --> 00:25:44.640] We couldn't find any evidence of a breach anywhere, but it was like, I'm there's no way I'm going to sleep with this going on.
[00:25:44.640 --> 00:25:48.240] And it's like finally realized just basically by copying and pasting.
[00:25:48.240 --> 00:25:51.920] Like, this is you know, a scam that hundreds of people had received.
[00:25:51.920 --> 00:25:57.920] But it was like, it looked to me, you know, having never received something like that before, it looked super legit and it definitely had me stressed out.
[00:25:57.920 --> 00:26:04.000] So, scam detector is the tool that you can kind of crowdsource that kind of wisdom and protect yourself.
[00:26:04.000 --> 00:26:06.240] Yeah, let me throw out a knowledge nugget.
[00:26:06.240 --> 00:26:09.840] So, first of all, that's a billion-dollar idea for sure.
[00:26:10.160 --> 00:26:25.840] I think as people get older and AI gets better, and then my mother, two years from now, or even really now, but especially like two years from now, my mother could receive a phone call from an AI Petek that sounds exactly like me asking for money.
[00:26:25.840 --> 00:26:26.160] Yeah.
[00:26:26.160 --> 00:26:28.960] And probably even from my cell phone number, I'm guessing.
[00:26:28.960 --> 00:26:31.160] So, yeah, I think that's actually a billion-dollar idea.
[00:26:31.160 --> 00:26:32.680] Here's my nugget of wisdom, though.
[00:26:29.840 --> 00:26:37.320] For all the things we've said, I'm going to drop back from the ideas just for a second.
[00:26:37.480 --> 00:26:38.920] Bird's eye view.
[00:26:38.920 --> 00:26:43.720] For all of these ideas, I can get lost in a little bit of overwhelm.
[00:26:43.720 --> 00:26:44.760] Like, oh my gosh, yeah.
[00:26:44.760 --> 00:26:50.360] And I would need to check spam text messages and spam emails and spam calls and spam AI and spam that.
[00:26:50.360 --> 00:26:56.920] I think there's a version of every single one of these ideas that can be done in a weekend.
[00:26:56.920 --> 00:27:07.960] Maybe you just start with spam text, for example, or maybe you just start with this one little core feature, this one simplest version of that.
[00:27:07.960 --> 00:27:10.760] I just wanted to like remind everybody in the ether.
[00:27:10.760 --> 00:27:23.320] Or how about you only specialize in those class action lawsuit claims where you get this like sketchy looking postcard and it's like, go to this, you know, 20-word long domain, you know, to submit your claim.
[00:27:23.320 --> 00:27:24.600] And you're like, is this real?
[00:27:24.600 --> 00:27:29.800] Because of course I could ask for your personal information to pay you out if this eventually settles.
[00:27:29.880 --> 00:27:31.880] You're like, dude, is this for real?
[00:27:31.880 --> 00:27:36.280] Is it even worth the $30 I might get from this to submit this information?
[00:27:36.280 --> 00:27:45.320] Yeah, that's also just a content business right there, like a blog or a podcast, like preventing spam or helping elderly parents, especially in my case.
[00:27:45.320 --> 00:27:49.640] I think about this all the time because my mom and dad are like, hey, did you see this thing?
[00:27:49.640 --> 00:27:54.600] And I'm like, that's somebody from Russia off their laptop right now, like trying to spam you.
[00:27:54.600 --> 00:28:00.040] No, this is for real, especially with, you know, you and I, somebody with hundreds of hours of their voice on the internet.
[00:28:00.040 --> 00:28:02.840] It's definitely a conversation we've had to have with mom and dad.
[00:28:02.840 --> 00:28:03.240] Yeah.
[00:28:03.240 --> 00:28:03.560] Okay.
[00:28:03.560 --> 00:28:04.200] I got one.
[00:28:04.200 --> 00:28:04.920] Yeah, go ahead.
[00:28:04.920 --> 00:28:14.120] So, this next idea I love because I think everybody listening to this could find a network that they are already tapped into.
[00:28:14.120 --> 00:28:16.560] Maybe you are an accountant and you know accountants.
[00:28:16.560 --> 00:28:21.360] Maybe you are a teacher, a yoga instructor, and you know yoga instructors, so on and so forth, right?
[00:28:21.360 --> 00:28:30.000] I think this idea anybody could use and customize to some network of people they have access to.
[00:28:30.000 --> 00:28:40.560] So, the network I'm going to use is teachers because my wife is a teacher and a lot of her family are teachers, and my mom was in education, and I've been around teachers my entire life.
[00:28:40.560 --> 00:28:46.640] And teachers, like everybody else in this world, send an absurd amount of email.
[00:28:46.640 --> 00:28:48.240] I did as an accountant too.
[00:28:48.240 --> 00:28:51.520] I worked at spreadsheets, but I sent 10 emails an hour as an accountant.
[00:28:51.520 --> 00:28:52.480] It's kind of weird.
[00:28:52.480 --> 00:28:55.600] A lot of those emails look exactly alike.
[00:28:55.600 --> 00:28:58.560] And so, I talked to my wife about this like six months ago.
[00:28:58.560 --> 00:29:01.680] I was like, Can I actually just build you some email templates?
[00:29:01.680 --> 00:29:11.120] Because she emails her students for the same spring concert every single May, and it's exactly the same, except for like two or three tiny details.
[00:29:11.120 --> 00:29:24.160] And I was like, I could build this template for you, and then this time next year, you could just hit a button, customize the few details, and it sends it out to your current students with the right day and the right time and the right whatever.
[00:29:24.160 --> 00:29:26.000] So, it's a simple idea, right?
[00:29:26.000 --> 00:29:36.080] Email templates, been around forever, but I think now more than ever, it's easy to target yoga instructors, chess players, pickleball people.
[00:29:36.240 --> 00:29:44.640] I don't know, any network that you might have, probably send a specific type of email, especially like career people, right?
[00:29:44.640 --> 00:29:46.400] Profession-based people.
[00:29:46.400 --> 00:29:50.080] Offer them email templates, and I think there's a good side hustle cache there.
[00:29:50.080 --> 00:29:52.960] Okay, so this would be what do they call it in Gmail?
[00:29:52.960 --> 00:29:54.160] Like a custom response.
[00:29:54.480 --> 00:30:02.840] There's something built in to Gmail, like for you can save certain templates, but like this on steroids and dialed into a specific industry.
[00:30:02.840 --> 00:30:03.720] It'd be interesting.
[00:29:59.920 --> 00:30:04.600] I just thought about this.
[00:30:05.160 --> 00:30:10.520] I wonder if I could hook up an AI app to my wife's inbox.
[00:30:10.520 --> 00:30:13.560] They use Google Drive or workplace or whatever it's called these days.
[00:30:13.560 --> 00:30:20.120] I wonder if I could like scan the last 100 emails she sent out and create three templates based on that.
[00:30:20.120 --> 00:30:24.760] Like, oh, I see that you send this almost exact same email.
[00:30:24.760 --> 00:30:26.120] Boom, boom, boom, boom.
[00:30:26.120 --> 00:30:27.400] And they're like, recommend a template.
[00:30:27.400 --> 00:30:28.200] I bet that's possible.
[00:30:28.200 --> 00:30:29.000] That'd be cool.
[00:30:29.480 --> 00:30:29.880] Yeah.
[00:30:29.880 --> 00:30:30.360] Cool.
[00:30:30.360 --> 00:30:42.040] Another one that you had on your list was the broken link checker, but for YouTube channels, which I thought was really interesting because there's a dozen tools and plugins that will do this for WordPress and scrapes your several crawls your site and tests all these links.
[00:30:42.040 --> 00:30:45.960] And you get back this big report of like, here's 100 broken links that now you have to go fix.
[00:30:45.960 --> 00:30:47.880] It would be great if it could actually fix them for you.
[00:30:47.880 --> 00:30:49.640] And maybe that's level two.
[00:30:49.640 --> 00:30:53.560] But you say, why isn't there anything that will do this for your YouTube descriptions?
[00:30:53.560 --> 00:30:54.280] Stuff like that.
[00:30:54.280 --> 00:30:56.120] I'd pay for this, by the way.
[00:30:56.440 --> 00:31:03.160] I've gotten videos taken down, actually three in the past couple of months, just because there was a broken link.
[00:31:03.160 --> 00:31:06.280] And YouTube was like, I think this is spam content.
[00:31:06.280 --> 00:31:11.320] You can click here to, you know, fight this accusation or whatever it is.
[00:31:11.320 --> 00:31:21.640] Yeah, I would love a tool where I can just connect my YouTube channel, scans all my videos, and then tells me to update this, update that, checks for broken links and that sort of stuff for sure.
[00:31:21.640 --> 00:31:37.160] I will admit that I haven't done a ton of research and searching around this, but what I would love to see is the travel rewards points redemption optimizer type of tool where you can punch in, hey, I've got 200,000 Chase Ultimate Rewards.
[00:31:37.160 --> 00:31:40.360] We've got another 100,000 on Delta, another 100,000 on United.
[00:31:40.360 --> 00:31:41.000] Where can we go?
[00:31:41.000 --> 00:31:41.160] Right?
[00:31:41.160 --> 00:31:42.040] It's kind of open-ended.
[00:31:42.040 --> 00:31:43.240] And maybe you give it some constraints.
[00:31:43.240 --> 00:31:44.680] Like, I want to take a family of four.
[00:31:45.200 --> 00:31:49.760] We want to go over spring break, which is these dates, plus or minus a week.
[00:31:49.760 --> 00:31:53.760] And, you know, other than that, we're fairly destination agnostic.
[00:31:53.760 --> 00:31:56.400] You know, what's the best redemption?
[00:31:56.400 --> 00:31:59.280] And so far, I've been playing around with points.
[00:31:59.280 --> 00:32:02.240] Yeah, which is okay.
[00:32:02.240 --> 00:32:08.640] It's an interesting one where you can kind of do some of those types of searches, but it's still really tedious.
[00:32:08.640 --> 00:32:16.000] And it would be cool to have some custom curated recommendations based on your points balance and what you could get for those.
[00:32:16.000 --> 00:32:16.880] Totally.
[00:32:16.880 --> 00:32:22.320] I've used points.me several times, but it's kind of tedious.
[00:32:22.320 --> 00:32:23.760] It's kind of a pain.
[00:32:23.760 --> 00:32:27.440] And you have to be like really specific in your search.
[00:32:27.440 --> 00:32:32.640] Oh, we're searching this airline or this date and this destination and that sort of stuff.
[00:32:32.640 --> 00:32:34.160] And then it tells you the good part.
[00:32:34.160 --> 00:32:36.480] Like, oh, yeah, you could use these rewards.
[00:32:36.480 --> 00:32:36.800] Yeah.
[00:32:36.800 --> 00:32:40.240] Which I understand on the back end of that, like there's a lot of data and combinations.
[00:32:40.240 --> 00:32:42.080] And well, you want this airport or this airport.
[00:32:42.080 --> 00:32:46.880] Like there's a lot of moving parts that go into that, which is probably why it's so tedious.
[00:32:46.880 --> 00:32:48.480] Yeah, that's a good idea.
[00:32:48.480 --> 00:32:59.840] More AI-assisted product ideas with Pete coming up, including Sticky Task, a virtual boss for solopreneurs, and even an AI mastermind coming up right after this.
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[00:35:17.440 --> 00:35:18.800] Here's a really easy one.
[00:35:14.760 --> 00:35:22.000] I don't think anybody's going to make a ton of money with this one.
[00:35:22.240 --> 00:35:23.760] And it might already exist.
[00:35:23.760 --> 00:35:26.880] You tell me, but I'm calling this sticky task.
[00:35:26.880 --> 00:35:40.240] This is a Chrome extension where, almost like a sticky note, you write down your most important three-ish to-do items and it stays visible across all of your tabs.
[00:35:40.240 --> 00:35:49.120] You alt tab, you go to the next tab, you open up a new tab or whatever, and you can still see your three to-do list items sitting right there in the corner or whatever.
[00:35:49.120 --> 00:35:51.360] This has to exist in some format.
[00:35:51.360 --> 00:35:52.640] Yeah, that seems really simple.
[00:35:52.640 --> 00:35:56.000] If it doesn't, I hope somebody builds that because it, yeah, keep you focused.
[00:35:56.000 --> 00:35:59.120] Bonus points, if you wanted to make it more advanced, this might not exist.
[00:35:59.120 --> 00:36:06.720] It could integrate with your tools: Apple Reminders, Trello, Todoist, Notion, or something else.
[00:36:06.720 --> 00:36:12.080] Like you could have it scan your to-do list app of choice and then have your things right there.
[00:36:12.080 --> 00:36:12.800] I think that'd be cool.
[00:36:12.800 --> 00:36:13.520] I think that would be cool.
[00:36:13.520 --> 00:36:14.400] Would you charge for that?
[00:36:14.880 --> 00:36:17.680] What do you see as the this is something we haven't talked about in the whole episode?
[00:36:17.680 --> 00:36:19.200] It's like, well, how would you monetize that?
[00:36:19.200 --> 00:36:22.400] You know what I thought about an hour ago before we started recording?
[00:36:22.400 --> 00:36:25.840] I feel like a side hustle idea is this.
[00:36:25.840 --> 00:36:27.360] This is going off topic just a little bit.
[00:36:27.360 --> 00:36:28.880] You tell me if you want me to be quiet.
[00:36:28.880 --> 00:36:33.600] Brian Harris from Growth Tools had this realization a couple of years ago.
[00:36:33.600 --> 00:36:36.000] Software is becoming easier.
[00:36:36.000 --> 00:36:38.960] And so maybe we should make it free.
[00:36:38.960 --> 00:36:44.640] Maybe you could make some sort of app that people pay $29 a month for.
[00:36:44.640 --> 00:36:46.960] Like literally just clone it, like duplicate it.
[00:36:46.960 --> 00:36:52.720] You could do that these days pretty easily, but make it zero dollars, absolutely free.
[00:36:52.720 --> 00:36:57.920] And the idea is, hopefully, you can get more people in your funnel.
[00:36:57.920 --> 00:37:10.120] This would now be the top of funnel activity, and you could do services or even online courses or memberships or any other monetization strategy on the bottom end of the funnel.
[00:37:10.120 --> 00:37:19.480] Again, that's not my brand new idea, but I feel like with AI coding, it's easier and faster than ever to create the next Calendly.
[00:37:19.480 --> 00:37:20.680] Let's just say Calendly, right?
[00:37:20.680 --> 00:37:23.480] Like the scheduling manager or whatever.
[00:37:23.480 --> 00:37:27.320] Create Calendly, but 100% for free.
[00:37:27.320 --> 00:37:31.960] And then see if that can grow your audience, your email list, for example.
[00:37:31.960 --> 00:37:34.280] And then you can do other stuff on the back end to make more money.
[00:37:34.280 --> 00:37:34.600] I don't know.
[00:37:34.600 --> 00:37:39.560] That's a little, that's a little different, a little off topic, but I feel like that's a, I feel like that's a viable strategy.
[00:37:39.560 --> 00:37:39.800] It is.
[00:37:39.800 --> 00:37:51.160] And this could be really disruptive because historically, you know, last generation, software companies, Microsoft, Oracle, you know, some of these software companies, some of the most profitable in the world, right?
[00:37:51.240 --> 00:37:56.200] It's like digital product, you know, very low incremental cost of serving that extra customer.
[00:37:56.200 --> 00:38:04.440] But if software has this constant downward pressure on price as people build alternatives, side hustlers build their own apps, then I don't need to pay for this anymore.
[00:38:04.520 --> 00:38:05.720] I'll build my own.
[00:38:05.720 --> 00:38:07.480] Then, then what happens?
[00:38:07.480 --> 00:38:09.160] And, you know, how else do we make money?
[00:38:09.160 --> 00:38:14.360] It's like a weird, well, what else, you know, if we're going to use Brian's model, well, maybe it's just a lead generator, right?
[00:38:14.360 --> 00:38:18.360] Get people into my ecosystem, get people into my world, which is totally viable.
[00:38:18.360 --> 00:38:18.760] For sure.
[00:38:18.760 --> 00:38:18.920] Right.
[00:38:18.920 --> 00:38:20.200] But then you got to figure out the back end.
[00:38:20.200 --> 00:38:23.560] You got to figure out, well, what is it that these people really want and value that I can help them with?
[00:38:23.560 --> 00:38:23.880] For sure.
[00:38:23.880 --> 00:38:24.760] What else we got?
[00:38:24.760 --> 00:38:30.360] So this was not an AI, but it kind of, your, your sticky task kind of reminded me of it.
[00:38:30.360 --> 00:38:31.880] I came across this service.
[00:38:31.880 --> 00:38:33.880] It was called Boss as a Service.
[00:38:33.880 --> 00:38:39.400] And it was basically for entrepreneurs, solo, solopreneurs, solo service providers, where it's like, the grass is always greener.
[00:38:39.560 --> 00:38:40.840] You know, I want to be my own boss.
[00:38:40.840 --> 00:38:42.440] I don't want anybody telling me what to do.
[00:38:42.440 --> 00:38:46.880] But then you sit down on day one, you're like, dang, I'm not really sure what I should do.
[00:38:44.840 --> 00:38:51.600] So you need this boss as a service where it helps you basically somebody looking over your shoulder.
[00:38:51.920 --> 00:38:55.360] It could be a virtual mentor, somebody you check in with, somebody for accountability.
[00:38:55.360 --> 00:38:59.920] But it was this service that was like, hey, you know, keeping on top of you on your tasks, your to-do list.
[00:38:59.920 --> 00:39:04.080] And so similar to this sticky task type of thing, you know, this remote, remote boss.
[00:39:04.080 --> 00:39:06.640] And it could be, you could even be a virtual type of thing right now.
[00:39:06.640 --> 00:39:08.880] I think there's probably more power in having to be an actual human.
[00:39:08.960 --> 00:39:10.480] It's like, well, shove off, robot.
[00:39:10.480 --> 00:39:12.000] Like, who are you to tell me what to do?
[00:39:12.000 --> 00:39:18.800] But there might be something to having a virtual remote boss or virtual AI boss to keep you on task.
[00:39:18.800 --> 00:39:20.400] I literally have that on my list.
[00:39:20.400 --> 00:39:21.280] That's on my thing.
[00:39:21.280 --> 00:39:26.560] It's not called that specifically, but in my head, that's the function it was.
[00:39:26.560 --> 00:39:27.760] I'm seeing if I can find it.
[00:39:27.760 --> 00:39:28.480] I think I called it.
[00:39:28.480 --> 00:39:29.360] Oh, I got it right here.
[00:39:29.360 --> 00:39:30.160] It's not the date.
[00:39:30.160 --> 00:39:30.800] It's horrible.
[00:39:30.800 --> 00:39:34.800] I called it daily AI manager thingy.
[00:39:34.800 --> 00:39:35.200] Okay.
[00:39:35.200 --> 00:39:36.080] Patent pending.
[00:39:36.080 --> 00:39:36.800] Right, exactly.
[00:39:36.800 --> 00:39:38.320] Copyright 2025.
[00:39:38.320 --> 00:39:48.560] In my head, I was thinking, some AI that has all of the context, my goals, my life, my work, my projects, and that sort of stuff.
[00:39:48.560 --> 00:39:53.520] I feed it all that information and it has access to my to-do list.
[00:39:53.520 --> 00:39:56.880] Maybe it's Notion, maybe it's Todoist, maybe it's Trello, whatever, right?
[00:39:56.880 --> 00:40:01.120] And every morning, it sends me an email or a text or a call for that matter.
[00:40:01.120 --> 00:40:03.760] You could do this via AI voice these days.
[00:40:03.760 --> 00:40:08.240] It calls me to be like, hey, you got this thing coming up that you said you wanted to do.
[00:40:08.240 --> 00:40:12.880] And don't forget you have a call with Nick at 2 p.m.
[00:40:13.200 --> 00:40:17.440] But you're going to be busy after that, with your other friend doing this.
[00:40:17.440 --> 00:40:22.160] So you really need to prioritize this today during these hours or whatever.
[00:40:22.160 --> 00:40:23.760] So, it's kind of the same idea, right?
[00:40:23.760 --> 00:40:26.160] Like this boss is just making sure you're doing the right things.
[00:40:26.160 --> 00:40:27.440] I think it's a brilliant idea.
[00:40:27.440 --> 00:40:36.280] Yeah, that definitely seems like something that could be built, could be fairly automated, especially if it could read into the context of your business and say, These are your top priorities.
[00:40:36.600 --> 00:40:38.200] These are what you said were going to be your top priorities.
[00:40:38.200 --> 00:40:39.560] Here's some deadlines you got coming up.
[00:40:39.800 --> 00:40:40.920] I think that'd be really cool.
[00:40:40.920 --> 00:40:43.720] Have you heard of, I think it's called My Body Tutor?
[00:40:43.720 --> 00:40:45.640] We talked about MyFitnessPal, but this is like a different one.
[00:40:45.720 --> 00:40:46.200] Oh, yeah.
[00:40:46.200 --> 00:40:51.480] So, this is a service where for hundreds of dollars a month, basically, they will check in with you.
[00:40:51.480 --> 00:40:56.280] You'll do your meal tracking, and then they'll check in with you three times a week, you know, by text message.
[00:40:56.280 --> 00:40:58.680] I think, are you on track for your goals?
[00:40:58.680 --> 00:41:03.880] And that's all it is: it's just accountability, but it's like that the power of having somebody look over your shoulder.
[00:41:03.880 --> 00:41:06.600] All of a sudden, you stop eating ice cream and cookies and stuff.
[00:41:06.600 --> 00:41:08.840] It's like just that extra little insight.
[00:41:08.840 --> 00:41:16.360] And it's like, I think it's going to have to be human or have some human element to it, but maybe, maybe it's worth experimenting if a robot could have the same role.
[00:41:16.360 --> 00:41:22.600] This is also on my list, not for fitness-related goals, but for entrepreneur and creative-related goals.
[00:41:22.600 --> 00:41:28.040] So, I ran this program for one month called Most Productive Month Ever, MPME.
[00:41:28.360 --> 00:41:32.280] And I basically asked people, What are your goals for this one month?
[00:41:32.280 --> 00:41:33.800] Just one month, 30 days.
[00:41:34.120 --> 00:41:35.960] And how often can I book you?
[00:41:35.960 --> 00:41:39.080] Once a day, three times a week, et cetera.
[00:41:39.080 --> 00:41:41.480] And so, people submitted their stuff.
[00:41:41.480 --> 00:41:49.160] I heard their goals, and then I just called them three times a week or five times a week and say, Hey, how's it going?
[00:41:49.160 --> 00:41:50.760] Did you do what you said you were going to do?
[00:41:50.760 --> 00:41:51.320] That's it.
[00:41:51.320 --> 00:41:52.840] And people paid for it.
[00:41:52.840 --> 00:41:57.320] And the first time I did this, I did this as like a challenge sort of thing, right?
[00:41:57.320 --> 00:42:03.400] The first time I did this, the only product I've ever done with a 100% success rate.
[00:42:03.400 --> 00:42:11.000] And so, on my list, on my like SaaS company ideas list, I thought maybe I could automate this entire thing, but I'm with you.
[00:42:11.000 --> 00:42:16.560] I think that needs a little bit of a human touch because no one cares about offending a robot, right?
[00:42:14.840 --> 00:42:18.960] Like it's not the same level of accountability.
[00:42:19.680 --> 00:42:28.160] But I mean, the scratch your own itch thing, I think I could automate a lot of the parts of the process, but still have like a human touch somewhere on the back end.
[00:42:28.160 --> 00:42:30.640] Anyway, I'm rambling now, but yeah, it's a good idea for sure.
[00:42:30.640 --> 00:42:31.760] No, this is good.
[00:42:31.760 --> 00:42:36.000] Did you build at one point an LMS or a course hosting software?
[00:42:36.000 --> 00:42:36.400] I did.
[00:42:36.800 --> 00:42:38.160] Is it not live anymore?
[00:42:38.160 --> 00:42:39.920] Well, it was an awful experience.
[00:42:39.920 --> 00:42:40.960] The product was great.
[00:42:40.960 --> 00:42:44.320] I stand by what I built and it works and it's fine.
[00:42:44.320 --> 00:42:50.880] However, I was not prepared for people actually implementing what I built.
[00:42:50.880 --> 00:42:51.600] It's complicated.
[00:42:51.600 --> 00:42:53.200] I don't want to go into it, but it did not work.
[00:42:53.200 --> 00:42:54.960] And so I shut it down.
[00:42:55.280 --> 00:42:55.760] Yeah.
[00:42:55.760 --> 00:42:56.160] Okay.
[00:42:56.480 --> 00:43:04.080] The reason I ask is Teachable sent me a note and said, you've been paying us $450 a year or something like that.
[00:43:04.080 --> 00:43:08.640] We're going to jack up your rate to $1,600 a year effective next month.
[00:43:08.640 --> 00:43:10.640] And I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa.
[00:43:11.200 --> 00:43:12.320] That's not what I signed up for.
[00:43:12.320 --> 00:43:12.720] What's going on?
[00:43:12.800 --> 00:43:14.480] That's like almost quadruple the rate.
[00:43:14.480 --> 00:43:16.400] And they're like, well, we added all these extra features.
[00:43:16.400 --> 00:43:17.440] Like, I didn't ask for that.
[00:43:17.440 --> 00:43:18.160] I didn't ask for those.
[00:43:18.160 --> 00:43:19.360] This is what I signed up for.
[00:43:19.360 --> 00:43:22.880] And so they're like, well, we'll make it, we'll throw you a bone.
[00:43:22.880 --> 00:43:24.080] We'll make it half off.
[00:43:24.480 --> 00:43:25.440] That's still double.
[00:43:25.440 --> 00:43:27.040] That's still double what you're charging.
[00:43:27.040 --> 00:43:33.840] So I feel like these software companies could do themselves a favor by reading about the frog in the boiling water, right?
[00:43:33.840 --> 00:43:35.760] Just bump it up 10% a year.
[00:43:35.760 --> 00:43:37.040] I'm not even going to notice, right?
[00:43:37.040 --> 00:43:43.200] But instead, they go for this huge rate, which all of a sudden has me shopping alternatives, asking Pete, if, like, hey, can I buy your thing instead?
[00:43:43.200 --> 00:43:47.680] Like, there's so many, you know, been putting the word out for teachable alternatives.
[00:43:47.760 --> 00:43:49.600] It's like, this is not core to the business.
[00:43:49.600 --> 00:43:55.840] And all of a sudden, you made it a noticeable line item instead of something that was just like, whatever, we pay for it once a year, forget about it.
[00:43:55.840 --> 00:43:57.280] So, there's something to that.
[00:43:57.280 --> 00:43:58.440] Like, building alternatives.
[00:43:58.320 --> 00:43:58.520] Yes.
[00:43:58.640 --> 00:44:00.200] And we talked about this in the last episode.
[00:44:00.200 --> 00:44:01.080] Unbundling.
[00:44:01.480 --> 00:44:02.840] I don't need all these bells and whistles.
[00:44:02.840 --> 00:44:04.200] Just make it something simple.
[00:44:04.200 --> 00:44:05.320] Maybe there's something to that.
[00:43:59.840 --> 00:44:05.640] For sure.
[00:44:05.800 --> 00:44:08.680] And if you'll allow me a tiny bit of self-promotion.
[00:44:08.680 --> 00:44:15.560] So Code Playbook was the course that I teach people how to Vibe code using AI.
[00:44:15.880 --> 00:44:17.400] I did the same thing.
[00:44:17.400 --> 00:44:21.960] I actually looked at the page services, the big course providers.
[00:44:21.960 --> 00:44:25.720] I looked at this, I called it Easy Course, like about a year ago.
[00:44:25.960 --> 00:44:27.720] The one I told you a minute ago that failed.
[00:44:27.720 --> 00:44:28.520] I looked into that.
[00:44:28.520 --> 00:44:29.480] That was my own product.
[00:44:29.480 --> 00:44:31.080] And I was like, this kind of sucks.
[00:44:31.560 --> 00:44:38.600] And I ended up building Code Playbook from scratch to be like my own little custom LMS.
[00:44:38.600 --> 00:44:39.640] And also, I recorded it.
[00:44:39.640 --> 00:44:40.600] The videos are right there.
[00:44:40.600 --> 00:44:43.960] And you can also like clone it in five and a half seconds.
[00:44:43.960 --> 00:44:49.960] And I don't say this to say how awesome I am because it's not perfect, although it is pretty sweet.
[00:44:49.960 --> 00:44:51.000] I don't mind saying.
[00:44:51.000 --> 00:44:53.000] But it didn't take me that long.
[00:44:53.000 --> 00:44:54.120] And it was free.
[00:44:54.120 --> 00:44:55.880] And I don't pay for it at all.
[00:44:56.760 --> 00:44:58.840] I paid for the domain name, codeplaybook.com.
[00:44:58.840 --> 00:45:00.360] That's the only expense I've had, period.
[00:45:00.360 --> 00:45:01.560] It's deployed for free.
[00:45:01.560 --> 00:45:02.600] It's hosted for free.
[00:45:03.000 --> 00:45:08.680] I built the LMS or CMS, LMS, learning LMS.
[00:45:08.680 --> 00:45:14.360] I built the LMS in like maybe like six hours of work-ish.
[00:45:14.360 --> 00:45:16.360] And if you wanted to duplicate it today, you could.
[00:45:16.360 --> 00:45:19.960] It'll take five and a half seconds and then you'll have to like customize it for your own thing.
[00:45:19.960 --> 00:45:24.680] But it's just mind-boggling that companies are jacking up their rates like this.
[00:45:24.680 --> 00:45:29.400] And there are people like me out here that would be like, no, no, I could do this for free right now.
[00:45:29.400 --> 00:45:31.800] I could sell it for a tenth of your cost.
[00:45:31.800 --> 00:45:36.040] And yeah, massive opportunities for like every industry.
[00:45:36.040 --> 00:45:38.120] Disruption is the word you used earlier.
[00:45:38.120 --> 00:45:39.800] I think we're, I think we're right there.
[00:45:39.800 --> 00:45:40.920] Yeah, that's kind of crazy.
[00:45:40.960 --> 00:45:45.440] So I'll keep shopping around, but at least I bought myself a little bit of time there.
[00:45:45.440 --> 00:45:49.280] I have a kid-related one or parenting-related one.
[00:45:44.840 --> 00:45:49.440] Okay.
[00:45:49.520 --> 00:45:54.480] I don't have a great name for this, but I'm calling it like, you know, anything but make it baseball.
[00:45:54.480 --> 00:45:56.160] You know, broccoli, but make it ice cream.
[00:45:56.160 --> 00:45:59.280] Like the thing they need to learn, but make it something they like.
[00:45:59.280 --> 00:46:09.760] And I think there's a way to format it in such a way: hey, you need to learn about World War II, but put it in context that they're going to understand, you know, Yankees versus Red Sox or something like that.
[00:46:09.760 --> 00:46:11.920] Oh, am I blowing smoke here?
[00:46:12.080 --> 00:46:13.680] Is there something to this?
[00:46:13.680 --> 00:46:14.240] I think so.
[00:46:14.400 --> 00:46:18.400] You lost me in the first part, but the last analogy started to click.
[00:46:18.400 --> 00:46:26.400] Like, I want my kids to learn about this, but they are really into Minecraft, Sonic the Hedgehog, fishing.
[00:46:26.400 --> 00:46:27.760] Those are my kids, right?
[00:46:28.080 --> 00:46:31.440] So teach them this, but baseball.
[00:46:31.440 --> 00:46:32.320] Yes, yes.
[00:46:32.320 --> 00:46:34.000] Give it in Minecraft terms.
[00:46:34.000 --> 00:46:34.640] Absolutely.
[00:46:34.640 --> 00:46:35.040] Yeah.
[00:46:35.360 --> 00:46:36.160] That's cool.
[00:46:36.160 --> 00:46:36.640] Yeah.
[00:46:36.640 --> 00:46:37.360] I would like that.
[00:46:37.360 --> 00:46:38.240] I'd like to see that.
[00:46:38.240 --> 00:46:48.640] You had another one that was similar, and it was like the 30-day learning journey, learning roadmap for any skill, which I thought was really cool.
[00:46:48.640 --> 00:46:50.400] Wait, this is the best name I had, Nick.
[00:46:50.400 --> 00:46:51.440] You didn't even share the name.
[00:46:51.440 --> 00:46:54.240] This is the only one that I named, and I was like, I like this name.
[00:46:54.240 --> 00:46:55.680] Okay, plug the name.
[00:46:56.000 --> 00:46:57.600] Tiny Syllabus.
[00:46:57.600 --> 00:47:00.720] Actually, I don't know if that's a great name or not, but it just resonated.
[00:47:00.720 --> 00:47:02.320] Yes, I love this idea.
[00:47:02.320 --> 00:47:06.400] I think this is, well, here, I'll just read it in my notes here.
[00:47:06.400 --> 00:47:10.320] Give it a topic like, I want to learn how to garden.
[00:47:10.320 --> 00:47:11.920] I want to learn how to fish.
[00:47:11.920 --> 00:47:13.600] I want to start a YouTube channel.
[00:47:13.600 --> 00:47:14.800] I want to lose 15 pounds.
[00:47:14.800 --> 00:47:15.360] I want to do this.
[00:47:15.360 --> 00:47:16.080] I want to do that.
[00:47:16.080 --> 00:47:23.040] And then get a 30-day learning journey via email is what I would choose, right?
[00:47:23.040 --> 00:47:24.640] Like, I just want to enter in a topic.
[00:47:24.640 --> 00:47:27.040] You'd make it a drip email course, basically.
[00:47:27.040 --> 00:47:33.880] Yeah, one email a day, very short, very specific, but like a curated outline for a course.
[00:47:34.040 --> 00:47:46.760] Like, don't hit me with it all at once, but just tell me one interesting and cool thing to learn each day with links to YouTube videos or AI summaries or articles that would help me.
[00:47:47.080 --> 00:47:48.120] I think this is cool.
[00:47:48.120 --> 00:47:49.800] I would, I actually thought about building this.
[00:47:49.800 --> 00:47:53.560] This is still on my to build list because I don't actually think it'd be that hard.
[00:47:53.560 --> 00:47:57.800] It would be really, it would rely on AI heavily, probably.
[00:47:57.800 --> 00:48:10.280] But I think with the latest round of models that could do really good Google searching and what's the right word I'm looking for here, like scraping Google, scraping YouTube videos.
[00:48:10.280 --> 00:48:10.680] Okay.
[00:48:10.920 --> 00:48:15.400] That combined with AI, I think could put together like a really cool thing.
[00:48:15.400 --> 00:48:19.400] 30-day learning journey via email on any topic, period.
[00:48:19.400 --> 00:48:21.400] Yeah, that seems really viable.
[00:48:21.400 --> 00:48:22.680] It seems really valuable.
[00:48:22.680 --> 00:48:26.200] It seems like you could even use it to build paid products.
[00:48:26.200 --> 00:48:29.800] You could use it to build, you know, free lead gen challenges.
[00:48:29.800 --> 00:48:32.360] You, there's, there's a lot you could do with that.
[00:48:32.360 --> 00:48:39.080] Like the 30-day, well, like Tiffany Aliche, like the 30-day live richer challenge, you know, we're going to drip this out.
[00:48:39.080 --> 00:48:48.360] We did a 30-day money cleanse, which is probably similar, but we did a 30-day, you know, side hustle type of challenge, you know, plan, launch, hustle.
[00:48:48.360 --> 00:48:50.440] You know, years and years, probably 10 years ago, we did this.
[00:48:50.440 --> 00:48:51.720] And maybe you feed it on your own.
[00:48:51.720 --> 00:49:01.400] It's not just completely AI generated, but like if you are a creator, feed it on, you know, your own material and, you know, have it organize that, structure that in a way that makes sense.
[00:49:01.400 --> 00:49:05.400] And they're like, look, this is going to be the learning progression and drip that out.
[00:49:05.400 --> 00:49:06.760] You can turn that into a paid product.
[00:49:06.760 --> 00:49:07.720] Yeah, totally.
[00:49:07.720 --> 00:49:08.680] That's a good idea.
[00:49:08.680 --> 00:49:09.800] Well, that's a good Nick.
[00:49:09.800 --> 00:49:20.560] There was one more I do want to get your take on, and you called it like the AI roundtable or the mastermind, where you could, you know, give different personas to different members of your virtual mastermind.
[00:49:14.680 --> 00:49:22.080] And a few people mentioned this.
[00:49:22.160 --> 00:49:34.800] We did an AI use case roundup, and a few people mentioned using ChatGPT or using other AI tools as kind of like a sparring partner or a mastermind or almost a silent co-founder in some ways.
[00:49:34.800 --> 00:49:36.320] We're like, what do you think of this idea?
[00:49:36.320 --> 00:49:38.160] Or like, here's the direction of the business.
[00:49:38.160 --> 00:49:38.880] What do you think?
[00:49:38.880 --> 00:49:45.600] And just, you know, using it as a conversation starter or as somebody to bounce these ideas off of.
[00:49:45.600 --> 00:49:51.120] And you took it a step further with this virtual mastermind where you could kind of create custom personas here.
[00:49:51.120 --> 00:49:54.880] Yeah, I was almost hoping you wouldn't bring it up because I literally started building this yesterday.
[00:49:55.200 --> 00:49:56.560] I got the domain.
[00:49:56.880 --> 00:49:58.560] Yeah, it's already, it's like halfway done.
[00:49:58.560 --> 00:49:59.920] I think it's a brilliant idea.
[00:49:59.920 --> 00:50:00.880] I do.
[00:50:00.880 --> 00:50:08.160

Prompt 2: Key Takeaways

Now please extract the key takeaways from the transcript content I provided.

Extract the most important key takeaways from this part of the conversation. Use a single sentence statement (the key takeaway) rather than milquetoast descriptions like "the hosts discuss...". 

Limit the key takeaways to a maximum of 3. The key takeaways should be insightful and knowledge-additive. 

IMPORTANT: Return ONLY valid JSON, no explanations or markdown. Ensure:
- All strings are properly quoted and escaped
- No trailing commas
- All braces and brackets are balanced
Format: {"key_takeaways": ["takeaway 1", "takeaway 2"]}

Prompt 3: Segments

Now identify 2-4 distinct topical segments from this part of the conversation.

For each segment, identify:
- Descriptive title (3-6 words)  
- START timestamp when this topic begins (HH:MM:SS format)
- Double check that the timestamp is accurate - a timestamp will NEVER be greater than the total length of the audio
- Most important Key takeaway from that segment. Key takeaway must be specific and knowledge-additive.
- Brief summary of the discussion

IMPORTANT: The timestamp should mark when the topic/segment STARTS, not a range. Look for topic transitions and conversation shifts.

Return ONLY valid JSON. Ensure all strings are properly quoted, no trailing commas:
{
  "segments": [
    {
      "segment_title": "Topic Discussion", 
      "timestamp": "01:15:30",
      "key_takeaway": "main point from this segment",
      "segment_summary": "brief description of what was discussed"
    }
  ]
}

Timestamp format: HH:MM:SS (e.g., 00:05:30, 01:22:45) marking the START of each segment.

Prompt 4: Media Mentions

Now scan the transcript content I provided for ACTUAL mentions of specific media titles:

Find explicit mentions of:
- Books (with specific titles)
- Movies (with specific titles)  
- TV Shows (with specific titles)
- Music/Songs (with specific titles)

DO NOT include:
- Websites, URLs, or web services
- Other podcasts or podcast names

IMPORTANT: 
- Only include items explicitly mentioned by name. Do not invent titles.
- Valid categories are: "Book", "Movie", "TV Show", "Music"
- Include the exact phrase where each item was mentioned
- Find the nearest proximate timestamp where it appears in the conversation
- THE TIMESTAMP OF THE MEDIA MENTION IS IMPORTANT - DO NOT INVENT TIMESTAMPS AND DO NOT MISATTRIBUTE TIMESTAMPS
- Double check that the timestamp is accurate - a timestamp will NEVER be greater than the total length of the audio
- Timestamps are given as ranges, e.g. 01:13:42.520 --> 01:13:46.720. Use the EARLIER of the 2 timestamps in the range.

Return ONLY valid JSON. Ensure all strings are properly quoted and escaped, no trailing commas:
{
  "media_mentions": [
    {
      "title": "Exact Title as Mentioned",
      "category": "Book",
      "author_artist": "N/A",
      "context": "Brief context of why it was mentioned",
      "context_phrase": "The exact sentence or phrase where it was mentioned",
      "timestamp": "estimated time like 01:15:30"
    }
  ]
}

If no media is mentioned, return: {"media_mentions": []}

Prompt 5: Context Setup

You are an expert data extractor tasked with analyzing a podcast transcript. 
I will provide you with part 2 of 2 from a podcast transcript. 
I will then ask you to extract different types of information from this content in subsequent messages. Please confirm you have received and understood the transcript content.

Transcript section:
ou feed it on your own.
[00:48:51.720 --> 00:49:01.400] It's not just completely AI generated, but like if you are a creator, feed it on, you know, your own material and, you know, have it organize that, structure that in a way that makes sense.
[00:49:01.400 --> 00:49:05.400] And they're like, look, this is going to be the learning progression and drip that out.
[00:49:05.400 --> 00:49:06.760] You can turn that into a paid product.
[00:49:06.760 --> 00:49:07.720] Yeah, totally.
[00:49:07.720 --> 00:49:08.680] That's a good idea.
[00:49:08.680 --> 00:49:09.800] Well, that's a good Nick.
[00:49:09.800 --> 00:49:20.560] There was one more I do want to get your take on, and you called it like the AI roundtable or the mastermind, where you could, you know, give different personas to different members of your virtual mastermind.
[00:49:14.680 --> 00:49:22.080] And a few people mentioned this.
[00:49:22.160 --> 00:49:34.800] We did an AI use case roundup, and a few people mentioned using ChatGPT or using other AI tools as kind of like a sparring partner or a mastermind or almost a silent co-founder in some ways.
[00:49:34.800 --> 00:49:36.320] We're like, what do you think of this idea?
[00:49:36.320 --> 00:49:38.160] Or like, here's the direction of the business.
[00:49:38.160 --> 00:49:38.880] What do you think?
[00:49:38.880 --> 00:49:45.600] And just, you know, using it as a conversation starter or as somebody to bounce these ideas off of.
[00:49:45.600 --> 00:49:51.120] And you took it a step further with this virtual mastermind where you could kind of create custom personas here.
[00:49:51.120 --> 00:49:54.880] Yeah, I was almost hoping you wouldn't bring it up because I literally started building this yesterday.
[00:49:55.200 --> 00:49:56.560] I got the domain.
[00:49:56.880 --> 00:49:58.560] Yeah, it's already, it's like halfway done.
[00:49:58.560 --> 00:49:59.920] I think it's a brilliant idea.
[00:49:59.920 --> 00:50:00.880] I do.
[00:50:00.880 --> 00:50:08.160] I am blown away by the people I hear about who use ChatGPT as like a therapist or a friend or whatever.
[00:50:08.160 --> 00:50:08.560] Yeah.
[00:50:08.560 --> 00:50:10.000] I can't remember who I was talking to.
[00:50:10.000 --> 00:50:13.600] I was talking to somebody last week that was like, I, oh, I remember who it was.
[00:50:13.600 --> 00:50:15.040] I won't mention their name.
[00:50:15.040 --> 00:50:20.960] I take a walk every single night and just talk to ChatGPT for 30 minutes.
[00:50:20.960 --> 00:50:22.400] And I was like, what?
[00:50:22.720 --> 00:50:23.600] Are you serious?
[00:50:23.600 --> 00:50:24.480] That's amazing.
[00:50:24.480 --> 00:50:28.160] That's a little scary on some other levels.
[00:50:28.160 --> 00:50:30.160] But a lot of people are doing this.
[00:50:30.160 --> 00:50:33.200] Even more people will be doing this in the future, I feel like.
[00:50:33.200 --> 00:50:39.920] And for creators and entrepreneurs specifically, I think the mastermind thing, I'll just spoil it for you.
[00:50:39.920 --> 00:50:43.680] So in my own app, I am having customizable personas.
[00:50:43.680 --> 00:50:44.720] You literally name them.
[00:50:44.720 --> 00:50:50.320] You literally give them an avatar image using AI, generated with AI.
[00:50:50.320 --> 00:50:52.880] And you can customize their experience.
[00:50:52.880 --> 00:50:55.120] You can customize the projects they work on.
[00:50:55.120 --> 00:50:56.320] You can customize their style.
[00:50:56.320 --> 00:50:57.520] You can customize their wealth.
[00:50:57.520 --> 00:50:58.320] You can customize that.
[00:50:59.120 --> 00:51:05.320] I think doing that and literally just creating a mastermind group chat is a multi-million dollar idea.
[00:50:59.920 --> 00:51:06.600] I think there's really something there.
[00:51:06.920 --> 00:51:09.880] I don't think mine's gonna make that much money, but I think it's great.
[00:51:09.880 --> 00:51:23.480] And not just that for creators and entrepreneurs, but I think this is one of those ideas you could build for teachers, you could build for firefighters, you could build for this person or this person or this person, like this group chat for fill-in-the-blank.
[00:51:23.480 --> 00:51:24.760] I think it's a brilliant idea.
[00:51:24.760 --> 00:51:27.800] Yeah, this was something actually at Ford.
[00:51:27.800 --> 00:51:29.640] They would curate these dealer groups.
[00:51:29.640 --> 00:51:30.920] I think they called them their 20 groups.
[00:51:30.920 --> 00:51:31.880] I don't know if there were 20 members.
[00:51:31.880 --> 00:51:43.320] I don't know why I had that name, but they would take similar size dealers in different areas of the country where they weren't competing with each other and they could get together usually virtually, but I think sometimes in person too, be like, well, how much are you paying your service manager?
[00:51:43.320 --> 00:51:46.120] Or what percentage, you know, gross margin you typically get?
[00:51:46.280 --> 00:51:47.000] Like, how do you do that?
[00:51:47.000 --> 00:51:49.720] Or what was an advertising campaign that really worked for you?
[00:51:49.720 --> 00:51:55.640] And so it was kind of that idea, but bringing it virtually and using AI to do some of that.
[00:51:55.640 --> 00:51:56.280] Wow.
[00:51:56.280 --> 00:51:57.480] Do you want me to cut that?
[00:51:57.480 --> 00:51:58.840] Like, if you don't want it, you don't want that out there, right?
[00:51:59.000 --> 00:51:59.720] No, no, leave it in.
[00:51:59.720 --> 00:52:00.040] That's fine.
[00:52:00.040 --> 00:52:01.160] I don't care.
[00:52:01.160 --> 00:52:02.040] Do you have a site for it?
[00:52:02.040 --> 00:52:03.720] Can we be like, we can promote it?
[00:52:03.720 --> 00:52:04.600] Okay, I did.
[00:52:04.600 --> 00:52:06.360] And then I purchased a domain name.
[00:52:06.360 --> 00:52:07.800] And then I found a better name.
[00:52:07.800 --> 00:52:12.520] And I sent both of those names to my best friend and said, hey, which one of these names do you like better?
[00:52:12.520 --> 00:52:13.880] And she said, I hate both of them.
[00:52:13.880 --> 00:52:15.320] And so now I don't know what I'm going to name it.
[00:52:15.320 --> 00:52:16.680] So, no, I don't have a site yet.
[00:52:16.680 --> 00:52:21.400] Well, let me know after the fact, and we're happy to plug it in for people listening in the future.
[00:52:21.400 --> 00:52:22.600] So you got Code Playbook.
[00:52:22.600 --> 00:52:23.880] You got this virtual mastermind thing.
[00:52:23.880 --> 00:52:25.640] You got Do You Even blog?
[00:52:25.640 --> 00:52:26.280] What's next?
[00:52:26.680 --> 00:52:28.280] What's on the radar for the rest of this year?
[00:52:28.280 --> 00:52:29.640] On the radar for the next this year.
[00:52:30.280 --> 00:52:33.640] I'm selling my second company in the past couple of months.
[00:52:33.640 --> 00:52:35.800] So I got one of those offloaded.
[00:52:35.800 --> 00:52:41.160] I got two or three more apps existing that I'm probably going to sell in about a year.
[00:52:41.160 --> 00:52:44.520] And I got one more that I started today, which is a really small one.
[00:52:44.520 --> 00:52:46.320] It's not going to be like an ongoing thing.
[00:52:44.760 --> 00:52:51.120] So, yeah, the game plan for the next year is to do more of these ideas that we've talked about.
[00:52:51.440 --> 00:52:56.720] Try and build them up using, first and foremost, my existing audience, to be really honest.
[00:52:56.720 --> 00:53:01.280] And then maybe a little bit of paid advertising if I have the profits to spend on that.
[00:53:01.280 --> 00:53:02.640] And then selling them.
[00:53:02.640 --> 00:53:03.840] And then retiring early, Nick.
[00:53:03.840 --> 00:53:04.800] That's what we're here for.
[00:53:04.800 --> 00:53:06.640] Living that fire lifestyle, man.
[00:53:06.640 --> 00:53:07.280] Trying to.
[00:53:07.280 --> 00:53:07.600] All right.
[00:53:07.600 --> 00:53:09.120] Well, I really appreciate you joining me.
[00:53:09.120 --> 00:53:14.320] I get a kick out of just brainstorming these ideas and the back and forth and the energy that I get from that.
[00:53:14.400 --> 00:53:17.360] I really appreciate you stopping by, taking the time to do that.
[00:53:17.360 --> 00:53:21.280] Make sure to subscribe to Pete's newsletter, do you evenblog.com for that?
[00:53:21.280 --> 00:53:25.920] If you want to learn how to build these apps yourself, codeplaybook.com.
[00:53:25.920 --> 00:53:34.560] We talked a little bit about the nuts and bolts of what it's going to take, the different tools, cursor, and stuff like that to use and how to prompt them in our previous episode, 659.
[00:53:34.560 --> 00:53:38.960] If you want to go back and listen to that one, Pete's last appearance on the show.
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[00:53:53.280 --> 00:53:55.520] You answer a few short multiple choice questions.
[00:53:55.520 --> 00:54:04.160] It spits back out eight to ten of our recommended greatest hits episode based on your answers, conveniently packaged in a little curated playlist you can add to your device.
[00:54:04.160 --> 00:54:05.040] You can go learn what works.
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[00:54:30.000 --> 00:54:31.320] Hustle on.

Prompt 6: Key Takeaways

Now please extract the key takeaways from the transcript content I provided.

Extract the most important key takeaways from this part of the conversation. Use a single sentence statement (the key takeaway) rather than milquetoast descriptions like "the hosts discuss...". 

Limit the key takeaways to a maximum of 3. The key takeaways should be insightful and knowledge-additive. 

IMPORTANT: Return ONLY valid JSON, no explanations or markdown. Ensure:
- All strings are properly quoted and escaped
- No trailing commas
- All braces and brackets are balanced
Format: {"key_takeaways": ["takeaway 1", "takeaway 2"]}

Prompt 7: Segments

Now identify 2-4 distinct topical segments from this part of the conversation.

For each segment, identify:
- Descriptive title (3-6 words)  
- START timestamp when this topic begins (HH:MM:SS format)
- Double check that the timestamp is accurate - a timestamp will NEVER be greater than the total length of the audio
- Most important Key takeaway from that segment. Key takeaway must be specific and knowledge-additive.
- Brief summary of the discussion

IMPORTANT: The timestamp should mark when the topic/segment STARTS, not a range. Look for topic transitions and conversation shifts.

Return ONLY valid JSON. Ensure all strings are properly quoted, no trailing commas:
{
  "segments": [
    {
      "segment_title": "Topic Discussion", 
      "timestamp": "01:15:30",
      "key_takeaway": "main point from this segment",
      "segment_summary": "brief description of what was discussed"
    }
  ]
}

Timestamp format: HH:MM:SS (e.g., 00:05:30, 01:22:45) marking the START of each segment.

Prompt 8: Media Mentions

Now scan the transcript content I provided for ACTUAL mentions of specific media titles:

Find explicit mentions of:
- Books (with specific titles)
- Movies (with specific titles)  
- TV Shows (with specific titles)
- Music/Songs (with specific titles)

DO NOT include:
- Websites, URLs, or web services
- Other podcasts or podcast names

IMPORTANT: 
- Only include items explicitly mentioned by name. Do not invent titles.
- Valid categories are: "Book", "Movie", "TV Show", "Music"
- Include the exact phrase where each item was mentioned
- Find the nearest proximate timestamp where it appears in the conversation
- THE TIMESTAMP OF THE MEDIA MENTION IS IMPORTANT - DO NOT INVENT TIMESTAMPS AND DO NOT MISATTRIBUTE TIMESTAMPS
- Double check that the timestamp is accurate - a timestamp will NEVER be greater than the total length of the audio
- Timestamps are given as ranges, e.g. 01:13:42.520 --> 01:13:46.720. Use the EARLIER of the 2 timestamps in the range.

Return ONLY valid JSON. Ensure all strings are properly quoted and escaped, no trailing commas:
{
  "media_mentions": [
    {
      "title": "Exact Title as Mentioned",
      "category": "Book",
      "author_artist": "N/A",
      "context": "Brief context of why it was mentioned",
      "context_phrase": "The exact sentence or phrase where it was mentioned",
      "timestamp": "estimated time like 01:15:30"
    }
  ]
}

If no media is mentioned, return: {"media_mentions": []}

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[00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:02.400] And now, onto the show.
[00:01:02.720 --> 00:01:08.640] It's time for another round of business idea giveaways, this time with an AI-assisted theme to them.
[00:01:08.640 --> 00:01:11.920] We've got 15 at least of these to go through.
[00:01:11.920 --> 00:01:22.000] And to help me out, he's no stranger to the side hustle show, longtime listener serial side hustler from doyaevenblog.com and codeplaybook.com.
[00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:23.440] Pete McPherson, welcome back.
[00:01:23.440 --> 00:01:24.080] Thank you, Nick.
[00:01:24.080 --> 00:01:25.600] I appreciate you having me on again.
[00:01:25.600 --> 00:01:29.600] You bet we were just last on only a few months ago, episode 659.
[00:01:29.600 --> 00:01:40.080] If you want to go back in the archives and check that out, there was a lot of interest around that because you were talking about using AI to build software, sometimes recurring revenue software, the holy grail of side hustles.
[00:01:40.080 --> 00:01:40.480] That's right.
[00:01:40.480 --> 00:01:54.160] And so episode 659, if you want to go check that one out, we talked a little bit about idea generation in that episode, but today we figured we'd just open up the brainstorming wish list here and just throw out some ideas.
[00:01:54.160 --> 00:01:59.960] And so I want to tee this up with an idea that has kind of been on the top of my mind.
[00:01:59.600 --> 00:02:02.440] And I want to get your take on how feasible this would be.
[00:02:02.760 --> 00:02:14.280] And so I'm calling this kind of the content curator tool, for lack of a better word, because every week, me and my assistant, we spend some time looking for interesting side hustle stories.
[00:02:14.280 --> 00:02:16.840] And we include those in our newsletter at the bottom.
[00:02:16.840 --> 00:02:17.800] Like, hey, we found this.
[00:02:17.800 --> 00:02:19.400] You might also be interested in this.
[00:02:19.400 --> 00:02:24.360] Oh, so-and-so made, you know, 5,000 bucks last month selling ice cream at community events.
[00:02:24.360 --> 00:02:26.040] They're like, oh, okay, I didn't know you could do that.
[00:02:26.040 --> 00:02:29.160] Like just random little side hustle stories like that.
[00:02:29.160 --> 00:02:33.160] So one, could you build a curated newsletter and you train it on your own voice?
[00:02:33.160 --> 00:02:39.480] Like, I think I'm still big on like the newsletter model, but the curation part is time consuming, especially if you got to recreate it every single day.
[00:02:39.480 --> 00:02:49.080] The second use case that I see would be like, okay, could you create a summary of 10 of these that you find every week and build me an outline that I could use for an episode, right?
[00:02:49.080 --> 00:02:51.080] And so that would be a very specific use case.
[00:02:51.240 --> 00:02:57.080] I think you could do this in just about any industry, hobby, niche, like in the car business.
[00:02:58.040 --> 00:03:00.600] Everybody in the car business subscribes to automotive news.
[00:03:00.600 --> 00:03:06.680] So could you create a digital automotive news that had a unique voice, had a unique perspective?
[00:03:06.680 --> 00:03:12.120] We've talked to local curators who, you know, talking about community events in their local hometown.
[00:03:12.120 --> 00:03:14.840] There's a lot of work that goes into building something like that.
[00:03:14.840 --> 00:03:21.320] I'm wondering if there's a way to scrape, for lack of a better word, but like somehow automate that curation process.
[00:03:21.320 --> 00:03:21.560] Yes.
[00:03:21.560 --> 00:03:23.640] Well, there's always a way, period.
[00:03:23.640 --> 00:03:25.640] The question is, is it viable or not?
[00:03:25.640 --> 00:03:27.560] I would argue this is a great idea.
[00:03:27.560 --> 00:03:33.560] The first thing that pops into my head were these old RSS feed conglomerators.
[00:03:33.560 --> 00:03:35.320] I can't even remember the names of them.
[00:03:35.320 --> 00:03:38.040] Feed Burner, and there was a handful of others.
[00:03:38.040 --> 00:03:41.240] A lot of these things stopped working or closed down.
[00:03:41.240 --> 00:03:45.920] I don't know if you remember this, like probably maybe six years ago, eight years ago, or something.
[00:03:45.920 --> 00:03:47.920] Yeah, like Feedly was one that I used.
[00:03:47.920 --> 00:03:51.280] I remember people complaining, like, are you kidding?
[00:03:51.280 --> 00:03:53.680] I use this every day.
[00:03:53.680 --> 00:03:54.800] Yeah, Google Readers.
[00:03:54.800 --> 00:03:55.200] Yeah.
[00:03:55.200 --> 00:03:55.760] Yeah.
[00:03:55.760 --> 00:04:00.320] I think it would be totally viable to be able to input certain sources.
[00:04:00.320 --> 00:04:02.960] Maybe it's like, maybe it's like a creator you already follow.
[00:04:02.960 --> 00:04:03.840] Maybe they have a blog.
[00:04:03.840 --> 00:04:05.040] Maybe they have a YouTube channel.
[00:04:05.040 --> 00:04:06.640] Maybe they have social media.
[00:04:06.640 --> 00:04:12.160] It would be cool if you could put in any channel like that or even their email address.
[00:04:12.480 --> 00:04:20.320] There are ways to just like create a fake email address for your app, receive that email, and then automatically do something with it.
[00:04:20.320 --> 00:04:38.960] So yeah, I think it'd be cool to create this like conglomerator with a bunch of different sources and then fine-tune with AI probably some different prompts that'll like format it into what you want to see, have it emailed to you daily or weekly to like comb through.
[00:04:39.200 --> 00:04:40.480] Yeah, I think that's totally viable.
[00:04:40.480 --> 00:04:40.720] Yeah.
[00:04:40.720 --> 00:04:41.920] I think that's a great idea too.
[00:04:41.920 --> 00:04:46.240] Like I think that's actually viable for financial gains, not just like, can you make it?
[00:04:46.240 --> 00:04:46.960] I think that's good.
[00:04:46.960 --> 00:04:49.200] Yeah, it could be a consumer-facing thing.
[00:04:49.200 --> 00:04:52.800] Like, could you send, you know, do the formatting and send that out to people?
[00:04:52.800 --> 00:04:57.280] Like, here is the, here are the coolest articles we found about gardening or parenting or whatever this week.
[00:04:57.520 --> 00:05:00.240] You know, put your own unique spin on it or whatever.
[00:05:00.240 --> 00:05:05.120] And it could be an internal tool as well to help guide, you know, future episode content and stuff.
[00:05:05.120 --> 00:05:05.600] Hey, totally.
[00:05:05.680 --> 00:05:08.400] Get a load of these top 10 side hustles of the week that you never heard of.
[00:05:08.400 --> 00:05:09.440] Boom, boom, boom, boom.
[00:05:09.600 --> 00:05:10.480] I think that would be fun.
[00:05:10.480 --> 00:05:14.720] Would you like to hear a really somewhat similar idea, actually, that's on my list?
[00:05:14.720 --> 00:05:15.520] Let's hear it.
[00:05:15.520 --> 00:05:23.600] I initially called this, there's a bunch of, I have a feeling we're going to release a bunch of really crappy names, by the way, because we don't, it's just ideas.
[00:05:23.600 --> 00:05:26.320] So I named this Content Bank.
[00:05:26.320 --> 00:05:33.880] This was originally an idea for creators, like us, podcasters or YouTubers or marketers or whatever.
[00:05:33.880 --> 00:05:35.240] Originally, it's not anymore.
[00:05:35.240 --> 00:05:37.880] I'm going to read what I wrote, and then I'm going to read my new idea.
[00:05:37.880 --> 00:05:48.360] I wrote down a searchable database of all of your content aggregated across all of your channels, social, email, YouTube, blog, podcast, everything.
[00:05:48.680 --> 00:05:55.560] Just a database, links to everything, maybe even like a little AI summary of a piece of content.
[00:05:55.560 --> 00:06:00.680] And here's the thing, and here's what triggered this new idea: searchable.
[00:06:00.680 --> 00:06:08.040] And the more I think about this, I actually think a cool side hustle app would be search on steroids.
[00:06:08.040 --> 00:06:14.760] As in, what if you had your own search bar that you could specify where it searches?
[00:06:14.760 --> 00:06:17.080] So I'll just give you a really personal example.
[00:06:17.080 --> 00:06:18.520] I would use this all the time.
[00:06:18.520 --> 00:06:21.640] I'm pretty sure I would use this like three times an hour if I had it.
[00:06:21.640 --> 00:06:28.280] A search bar that would search my Google Drive, my Facebook account, my Obsidian.
[00:06:28.280 --> 00:06:34.360] Obsidian's like my note-taking app on my computer, my calendar, and Apple reminders.
[00:06:34.360 --> 00:06:35.480] That's all I want.
[00:06:35.480 --> 00:06:37.000] Like, I don't want it to search anything else.
[00:06:37.000 --> 00:06:45.640] But if I could have a tool that I just search for something and it searches all of those things and gives me results, I would pay handsomely for this, Nick.
[00:06:45.640 --> 00:06:46.280] What do you think?
[00:06:46.520 --> 00:06:48.040] I guess I don't see myself using it.
[00:06:48.040 --> 00:06:48.760] Oh, really?
[00:06:48.760 --> 00:06:49.880] Well, here's the use case for me.
[00:06:49.880 --> 00:07:01.800] I'll get emails from listeners to be like, Do you remember the episode where you talked to so-and-so and she had a business, you know, and they're trying to find, and it's like, usually, that triggers enough.
[00:07:01.800 --> 00:07:03.240] Like, oh, yeah, that sounds familiar.
[00:07:03.240 --> 00:07:05.480] I think you're thinking of this person or this episode.
[00:07:05.480 --> 00:07:09.240] And so I can kind of go through my own mental database for that.
[00:07:09.240 --> 00:07:14.280] But I often joke that I wish my house was as easily searchable as Gmail.
[00:07:14.280 --> 00:07:15.440] Like, where do we put the keys?
[00:07:14.840 --> 00:07:17.280] Where do we find the, you know, the kids' sweatshirt?
[00:07:17.440 --> 00:07:28.080] You know, so there is a there is something valuable in search, but I'm not, I don't know if I don't have that much, that big of a library or like that big of a problem finding stuff.
[00:07:28.080 --> 00:07:28.560] I definitely do.
[00:07:28.560 --> 00:07:29.760] I would use this all the time.
[00:07:29.760 --> 00:07:31.680] Also, why can't you search your house like that?
[00:07:31.680 --> 00:07:32.400] The big fail.
[00:07:32.400 --> 00:07:38.800] So we registered like our kids' emails, you know, when they were born, like, you know, first name, last name at gmail.com.
[00:07:38.960 --> 00:07:42.080] Cannot for the life of us figure out where we put the password.
[00:07:42.080 --> 00:07:46.160] Like it was pre-recovery account, you know, set up a backup.
[00:07:46.320 --> 00:07:46.960] Like none of that.
[00:07:46.960 --> 00:07:49.360] And so they're like, I forgot my password, Google.
[00:07:49.360 --> 00:07:51.600] And Google's like, well, what was the last password you remember?
[00:07:51.680 --> 00:07:52.960] You're like, no, no, no, you don't understand.
[00:07:52.960 --> 00:07:54.240] We don't remember any of them.
[00:07:54.320 --> 00:07:55.600] So it's like unrecoverable.
[00:07:55.840 --> 00:07:58.320] What if you could build an app that could search your house?
[00:07:58.320 --> 00:08:01.680] Like you have blink cameras these days outside and inside.
[00:08:01.680 --> 00:08:06.080] I have three personally, mostly outside, just security cameras or whatnot.
[00:08:06.080 --> 00:08:08.240] I know there's a way to tie into that.
[00:08:08.240 --> 00:08:18.960] And I watched a couple of YouTube videos months ago, like six months ago, of people coding, searching live video or almost live.
[00:08:18.960 --> 00:08:24.720] As in, like, the AI was analyzing the video like once a second or so.
[00:08:24.720 --> 00:08:25.360] Okay.
[00:08:25.360 --> 00:08:28.000] And you could say, like, where's the red ball?
[00:08:28.000 --> 00:08:29.120] And it would show you the red ball.
[00:08:29.280 --> 00:08:30.960] Like, this was six months ago technology.
[00:08:30.960 --> 00:08:33.120] You could probably build something that could search your keys.
[00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:34.720] Yeah, that's an interesting one.
[00:08:34.720 --> 00:08:38.560] So, so Content Bank is for creators who've been in the game for a long time.
[00:08:38.560 --> 00:08:44.800] They've got a huge body of work that they want to be able to find specific documents or specific clips or something like that.
[00:08:44.800 --> 00:08:45.760] Multi-channel.
[00:08:45.760 --> 00:08:49.360] It has to search blog, email, YouTube, that stuff.
[00:08:49.360 --> 00:08:58.080] One thing we do do is we keep in creating clip shows is searching transcripts for specific, like we did this on the recent burnout episode.
[00:08:58.080 --> 00:09:05.480] I need to find the episodes where people are specifically talking about how they felt burnout, how they dealt with it, how they overcame that.
[00:09:05.640 --> 00:09:08.120] And so trying to find those specific clips.
[00:09:08.120 --> 00:09:10.360] But that's those transcripts are all in Google Drive.
[00:09:10.360 --> 00:09:11.880] So it's like a one-channel search.
[00:09:11.880 --> 00:09:13.240] Yeah, still a good idea, though.
[00:09:13.240 --> 00:09:14.840] You want me to go again or you got one?
[00:09:14.840 --> 00:09:15.400] I got one.
[00:09:15.400 --> 00:09:19.800] This actually comes from my wife who does photography as a side hustle.
[00:09:19.800 --> 00:09:22.840] And I was like, what would be on your wish list of an app?
[00:09:22.840 --> 00:09:31.880] And she's like, I want to know the angle of the sun for like lighting purposes for photography based on a Google Map location or a Google Earth location.
[00:09:32.200 --> 00:09:36.440] I want to go here and I want to figure out at six o'clock, is it better to show up at six o'clock?
[00:09:36.440 --> 00:09:37.880] Is it better to show up at eight o'clock, right?
[00:09:38.280 --> 00:09:39.480] Where's the angle of the sun?
[00:09:39.480 --> 00:09:49.000] And I feel like this has got to be totally viable based on whatever just historic atmospheric data or astronomical data.
[00:09:49.000 --> 00:09:50.760] Astronomical data.
[00:09:51.080 --> 00:09:52.280] I have no idea.
[00:09:52.520 --> 00:10:03.160] I'll tell you what, instead of commenting whether I would use that, because I wouldn't, because I wouldn't have any need for it, I was totally picturing in my head, first of all, I think you could mostly ignore Google Maps.
[00:10:03.160 --> 00:10:10.680] I think there are actually APIs, which if you want me to break down what an API is, I'm totally willing to, or I'll just skip it for now.
[00:10:10.680 --> 00:10:15.880] I think there are APIs out there by third-party companies you and I have never heard of.
[00:10:15.880 --> 00:10:22.920] You probably do some Googling and discover a lot of that data is readily available.
[00:10:22.920 --> 00:10:24.280] It's not in an app form.
[00:10:24.280 --> 00:10:30.120] It's not like your wife could like choose on a map, like I am here and it's 7:30 a.m.
[00:10:30.120 --> 00:10:32.520] on a Tuesday, July, whatever.
[00:10:32.520 --> 00:10:34.760] Like that, yeah, you could build around that.
[00:10:34.760 --> 00:10:37.560] But I think that data would actually be really easy to find.
[00:10:37.560 --> 00:10:38.840] That's my guess.
[00:10:38.840 --> 00:10:40.040] Yeah, I'm kind of with you.
[00:10:40.040 --> 00:10:46.240] Based, you know, latitude, longitude, and then you'd add the interface layer on top of it to make it usable.
[00:10:46.240 --> 00:10:49.680] Also, I'll just continue brainstorming ideas here.
[00:10:50.000 --> 00:10:58.160] One thing that would take that the extra mile for me, I could see doing is when in the next five days is it going to be best to shoot?
[00:10:58.160 --> 00:10:59.360] Let's say you had that option.
[00:10:59.360 --> 00:11:02.560] It'd be like, no, Tuesday is actually stormy, cloudy, or whatever.
[00:11:02.560 --> 00:11:09.840] But it could say, hey, Wednesday, it's supposed to be partly cloudy with a late sunset at 9:27 p.m.
[00:11:10.000 --> 00:11:12.320] and that light would be perfect or something like that.
[00:11:12.320 --> 00:11:12.720] Yeah.
[00:11:12.720 --> 00:11:13.040] All right.
[00:11:13.040 --> 00:11:13.920] What else you got?
[00:11:13.920 --> 00:11:14.240] Okay.
[00:11:14.480 --> 00:11:22.560] Let's stick with this theme of readily available data because I know for my next idea here, the data's out there.
[00:11:22.560 --> 00:11:24.720] Somebody just has to like finesse it.
[00:11:24.720 --> 00:11:28.160] So I called this voice to KCAL.
[00:11:28.160 --> 00:11:30.960] This has been on my idea list for like a year and a half.
[00:11:30.960 --> 00:11:36.960] I love calorie tracking until I hate calorie tracking what I eat.
[00:11:36.960 --> 00:11:46.640] There are apps that do it really well, but you're like searching for your food exactly and then there's serving size and then it's so on and so on and so on.
[00:11:46.640 --> 00:11:47.920] Like it's kind of cool.
[00:11:47.920 --> 00:11:51.760] And then you do it for like four meals and you're like, wow, this is a massive pain.
[00:11:51.760 --> 00:11:52.160] Yeah.
[00:11:52.320 --> 00:11:55.520] I've used MyFitnessPal like off and on for years.
[00:11:55.520 --> 00:11:58.800] And the reason it's off and on is because it's tedious.
[00:11:58.800 --> 00:11:59.840] It's such a hassle.
[00:11:59.840 --> 00:12:06.480] So first of all, a billion-dollar idea would be to make that 10 times easier, however, you can.
[00:12:06.480 --> 00:12:08.560] That's just my billion-dollar idea.
[00:12:08.560 --> 00:12:15.840] Have you seen the ones that do, like, you're just supposed to take a picture of your plate and it somehow knows what that food is and it gives you an estimate?
[00:12:15.840 --> 00:12:16.160] Yes.
[00:12:16.160 --> 00:12:16.640] Okay.
[00:12:16.640 --> 00:12:17.360] Great idea.
[00:12:17.360 --> 00:12:20.160] I actually think that's way harder than what I'm about to say.
[00:12:20.560 --> 00:12:21.920] Mine's like an in-between.
[00:12:21.920 --> 00:12:25.600] It's not as useful as that, but it's more useful than typing it in.
[00:12:25.600 --> 00:12:47.560] I would like to just talk at the app and say, like, I just had a cover culverts double deluxe butter burger which is amazing by the way best fast food burger you can buy your your entire day's allotment of calories in one in one sitting oh my god it's it's so much i don't even know how many but it's a lot And I just had fries and a large Coke Zero.
[00:12:47.560 --> 00:12:48.680] I just want to say that.
[00:12:48.680 --> 00:12:51.480] Literally hit the record button, say that.
[00:12:51.480 --> 00:12:53.640] The app will transcribe it.
[00:12:53.640 --> 00:12:59.960] It'll send it to AI for some formatting, some structuring, which is actually really simple to do.
[00:12:59.960 --> 00:13:05.240] Like it'll break it down into, okay, meal object one, burger.
[00:13:05.240 --> 00:13:08.840] The name of it, Culver's Double Deluxe, or whatever that is.
[00:13:08.840 --> 00:13:11.640] And then query that same database that MyFitnessPal is.
[00:13:11.880 --> 00:13:13.320] Like how many calories is that?
[00:13:13.320 --> 00:13:15.000] I know that data is out there.
[00:13:15.000 --> 00:13:22.920] I think the easiest version of the slide hustle, I think the picture thing is actually better, but actually, I could be wrong, but I actually feel like that's way harder.
[00:13:22.920 --> 00:13:23.560] I don't know.
[00:13:23.560 --> 00:13:24.600] I just want to talk to it.
[00:13:24.600 --> 00:13:33.480] I just want to record for 20 seconds, say my entire meal, say I had two servings of this or three servings of this, and then boom, calories.
[00:13:33.480 --> 00:13:34.200] No, I like it.
[00:13:34.200 --> 00:13:40.600] And then the exit plan, obviously, that would be a great acquisition target for a MyFitnessPal, which I think is owned by Under Armour.
[00:13:40.600 --> 00:13:48.120] So there's definitely some players out there in this space who would be, you would think they would want to add this to their tech stack.
[00:13:48.120 --> 00:13:49.240] Yeah, I would hope so.
[00:13:49.240 --> 00:13:49.720] They better.
[00:13:49.720 --> 00:13:52.200] Else, I'm not going to use their app anymore.
[00:13:52.520 --> 00:14:03.080] More with Pete in just a moment, including a couple quick ways to validate demand for your product idea, plus lots more AI ideas to spark your creative energy coming up right after this.
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[00:16:17.480 --> 00:16:25.160] I want to talk real quick about demand validation because we're just throwing out ideas from personal pain points, which I think is a great place to start.
[00:16:25.160 --> 00:16:37.000] But another angle that you can use if you're more analytical, I want to see like if there's anybody actually looking for this, one tool you could use is hrefs, but I imagine any keyword research tool would probably have similar functionality.
[00:16:37.080 --> 00:16:41.080] You can plug in one of the AI tool directories.
[00:16:41.080 --> 00:16:45.400] I use MattWolf's future tools.io for this example.
[00:16:45.400 --> 00:16:48.840] And then you want to look for their organic keyword footprint.
[00:16:48.840 --> 00:16:50.440] Like where are they getting traffic from?
[00:16:50.440 --> 00:16:53.400] And I looked for keywords that started with AI in this case.
[00:16:53.400 --> 00:17:04.600] And some of the stuff that comes up that they're already ranking for that you know there's demand for because there's like a certain search volume around this was AI portrait generator, which I thought was kind of interesting.
[00:17:04.760 --> 00:17:12.120] You've seen people do pet portraits inspired, you know, make my dog look like a you know Renaissance era so-and-so.
[00:17:12.200 --> 00:17:13.800] It's like, okay, that's a thing.
[00:17:13.800 --> 00:17:17.240] AI recipe generator had 2,000 monthly searches.
[00:17:17.240 --> 00:17:22.120] AI symptom checker, which you can't imagine anyway that would go wrong, but 1500 searches for that.
[00:17:22.120 --> 00:17:30.680] A couple of interesting ones were AI Minecraft Skin Generator with 500 searches a month and a keyword difficulty of seven, meaning not very difficult.
[00:17:30.680 --> 00:17:32.760] And that's on a scale from zero to 100.
[00:17:32.920 --> 00:17:38.840] AI prayer generator, 400 monthly searches with a KD keyword difficulty of zero.
[00:17:38.840 --> 00:17:41.480] Can you use AI to start generating prayers for people?
[00:17:41.480 --> 00:17:42.840] I thought that was fantastic.
[00:17:42.840 --> 00:17:50.160] And then the AI base combiner had a, and then there are actually a lot of variations of kind of like a face mesh type of keyword.
[00:17:44.680 --> 00:17:51.280] People looking for that kind of tool.
[00:17:51.520 --> 00:17:58.800] About 250 searches specifically for the face combiner tool, I guess, to maybe see what your future kid might look like.
[00:17:58.800 --> 00:18:02.960] I don't know what would be the use case of combining faces, but people are looking for it.
[00:18:02.960 --> 00:18:03.600] That's interesting.
[00:18:03.600 --> 00:18:12.400] And then another method that you can look for and absolutely free, you know, without paying for hrefs or another tool, is just to look for on Reddit.
[00:18:12.400 --> 00:18:34.560] Is there an app that, you know, in quotes, is there a tool that is there, or you know, looking for an app blank, you know, and those types of keywords, people will be like typing in you maybe see something exists, or you might have other people chiming in, oh, I totally wish that existed, or alternative to blank, you know, alternative to Canva, alternative to hrefs, alternative to convert kit, stuff like that.
[00:18:34.560 --> 00:18:40.880] So you see people teeing up those types of things as a way to validate demand.
[00:18:40.880 --> 00:18:42.000] Like, well, it's not just in my head.
[00:18:42.000 --> 00:18:43.280] Other people are looking for this too.
[00:18:43.280 --> 00:18:44.000] Yeah, for sure.
[00:18:44.000 --> 00:18:44.240] All right.
[00:18:44.240 --> 00:18:45.520] What's next on your list?
[00:18:45.520 --> 00:18:46.560] Okay, I got a fun one.
[00:18:46.560 --> 00:18:52.640] I don't know if this is in demand per se, but I would try it as a parent, and maybe you would too.
[00:18:52.640 --> 00:18:58.160] I'm calling this Chore Forge, F-O-R-G-E, ChoreForge.
[00:18:58.160 --> 00:18:58.800] Okay.
[00:18:58.800 --> 00:19:04.160] And this would be a game for families, presumably people with kids.
[00:19:04.160 --> 00:19:10.480] And I would like to turn household chores into a like productivity game.
[00:19:10.480 --> 00:19:11.040] That's it.
[00:19:11.040 --> 00:19:16.560] Like we each have our own little user account and avatar, and it's cute and it's cartoony.
[00:19:16.560 --> 00:19:26.480] And we, the parents, can customize the chores, obviously, that we do, that our children do, et cetera, and customize the rewards.
[00:19:26.480 --> 00:19:29.280] Charts, points, leveling up.
[00:19:29.280 --> 00:19:29.840] You know what I mean?
[00:19:30.040 --> 00:19:38.840] Like some sort of productivity game, but based on familial chores where each person can be competing against each other.
[00:19:38.840 --> 00:19:40.440] My daughter and my son could be competing.
[00:19:40.440 --> 00:19:41.720] It's just a random idea.
[00:19:41.720 --> 00:19:42.120] Okay.
[00:19:42.280 --> 00:19:43.640] I would love kids versus parents.
[00:19:43.640 --> 00:19:47.560] Like when we pit the kids against each other, it's like a recipe for heartache and sadness.
[00:19:47.560 --> 00:19:50.360] But if they're competing against the parents, they're all in.
[00:19:50.360 --> 00:19:51.000] I like that too.
[00:19:51.000 --> 00:19:51.800] Yeah, it's brilliant.
[00:19:51.800 --> 00:19:52.040] Okay.
[00:19:52.040 --> 00:19:57.880] So you're like, okay, get, you know, earn five points, take out the trash, empty the dishwasher, earn 10 points, like stuff like that.
[00:19:57.880 --> 00:19:58.280] Yeah.
[00:19:58.280 --> 00:20:05.000] And not only that, I'll tell you, my kids personally, and probably everybody else's, they love cute creatures.
[00:20:05.000 --> 00:20:07.320] It kind of reminds me of the old Tamagotchi.
[00:20:07.320 --> 00:20:08.200] Do you remember those things?
[00:20:08.200 --> 00:20:08.600] Sure.
[00:20:08.600 --> 00:20:11.000] Yeah, little Tamagotchi toys from the 90s.
[00:20:11.000 --> 00:20:18.360] If they could start as like a small cat, a kitten, or a small dog, or a raccoon, or a horse, or literally anything.
[00:20:18.360 --> 00:20:22.040] And if they could see their character progressing, leveling up.
[00:20:22.040 --> 00:20:23.800] Oh, yeah, it's all about leveling up.
[00:20:23.800 --> 00:20:27.320] Two and a half weeks left, 100 points, and then your character levels up.
[00:20:27.320 --> 00:20:29.320] If they see that happen, they're locked in.
[00:20:29.320 --> 00:20:30.040] Yes.
[00:20:30.040 --> 00:20:32.680] I'll probably never have to tell them to do this ever again.
[00:20:32.680 --> 00:20:34.280] Yeah, it's like the evolution of your Pokemon.
[00:20:34.280 --> 00:20:36.120] Yeah, they're like, what other chores can I do right now?
[00:20:36.120 --> 00:20:38.040] I want to see my character level up, right?
[00:20:38.040 --> 00:20:38.280] Yeah.
[00:20:38.280 --> 00:20:39.080] Tour forge.
[00:20:39.080 --> 00:20:40.440] I think this could actually be big.
[00:20:40.440 --> 00:20:41.880] That's that's kind of cool.
[00:20:41.880 --> 00:20:42.360] Yeah.
[00:20:42.360 --> 00:20:42.600] Okay.
[00:20:42.600 --> 00:20:43.960] What's next on my?
[00:20:43.960 --> 00:20:53.000] Well, this is actually one I've been trying to build in Claude, and it is the podcast transcript editor suggestor thing, right?
[00:20:53.000 --> 00:20:54.840] Where I record for 60 minutes.
[00:20:55.400 --> 00:21:00.440] I want to trim the bottom 10% of this episode where it was just, you know, it got boring, it got repetitive.
[00:21:00.440 --> 00:21:03.320] Like, that's what I typically do as part of my editing process.
[00:21:03.320 --> 00:21:10.040] And historically, that's been a manual review of, you know, reviewing the transcript and saying, okay, here's where it kind of went off the rails.
[00:21:10.360 --> 00:21:12.200] This question didn't really land.
[00:21:12.200 --> 00:21:13.720] Okay, I'm going to trim that.
[00:21:13.720 --> 00:21:24.880] And what I've been trying to do is, you know, feed in examples of past, you know, before and after transcripts into Claude and saying, based on the style of the side hustle show, here's the next raw recording episode.
[00:21:24.880 --> 00:21:28.480] Can you please provide your editing suggestions and your ad break suggestions?
[00:21:28.480 --> 00:21:30.000] Like, where's a natural breakpoint?
[00:21:30.320 --> 00:21:37.200] And it hasn't quite hit yet where it's like, yes, that's a dialed-in process.
[00:21:37.200 --> 00:21:44.000] And it kind of chokes on it because it's like, sometimes these are 20, 30 pages of, you know, if you record an hour of audio, like it's a really long document.
[00:21:44.000 --> 00:21:45.760] I'm having a hard time with that.
[00:21:45.760 --> 00:21:49.200] But that's something that I've been trying to build for my personal use case.
[00:21:49.200 --> 00:21:51.840] And imagine other podcasters might use that as well.
[00:21:51.840 --> 00:21:54.080] Yeah, we're really close on that.
[00:21:54.080 --> 00:21:59.200] I feel like the past six or seven months, AI models continue to get better.
[00:21:59.200 --> 00:21:59.920] We know this.
[00:21:59.920 --> 00:22:03.440] The context windows continue to get larger.
[00:22:03.440 --> 00:22:06.720] Now it's a million tokens on some of these models or whatnot.
[00:22:06.720 --> 00:22:11.040] I think within even a couple of months, we're going to see a new round of context windows.
[00:22:11.040 --> 00:22:20.320] And right now, like that hour podcast and that transcript, it's like 30 pages, that's like right at the limit where you're starting to overload the models.
[00:22:20.320 --> 00:22:23.280] I think three months from now, it's not going to be a deal anymore.
[00:22:23.280 --> 00:22:28.400] I think you'll be able to just be like, here's literally 500,000 words from this podcast.
[00:22:28.400 --> 00:22:29.680] Tell me this exact thing.
[00:22:29.680 --> 00:22:31.920] And I think that'll be, I think that'll be better.
[00:22:31.920 --> 00:22:34.000] Yeah, give me the best 80% of it.
[00:22:34.640 --> 00:22:35.520] Give me the best 90%.
[00:22:35.520 --> 00:22:39.600] Maybe there's like a sliding spectrum on what you want the suggestions to be.
[00:22:39.600 --> 00:22:43.040] And of course, you can't just, I wouldn't just hand that off to the editor and say, go.
[00:22:43.040 --> 00:22:44.960] It's like you're still going to have a manual review process.
[00:22:44.960 --> 00:22:47.680] But the hope is it would speed up that process a little bit.
[00:22:47.680 --> 00:22:48.000] Totally.
[00:22:48.000 --> 00:22:49.680] You want to stick on podcasting for a moment?
[00:22:49.680 --> 00:22:50.160] Sure.
[00:22:50.160 --> 00:22:51.600] Here's what I hate about podcasting.
[00:22:51.600 --> 00:22:52.400] I love podcasting.
[00:22:52.400 --> 00:22:55.680] I've done 400 interviews, like whatever.
[00:22:55.680 --> 00:23:01.240] What I stink at is following up with my guests to give them some marketing materials.
[00:23:01.400 --> 00:23:09.240] And here's a Google Drive with some share images and some, oh, I don't know, copywriting for Facebook or Instagram or whatever.
[00:23:09.240 --> 00:23:09.800] I hate that.
[00:23:09.800 --> 00:23:11.320] And I hate sending those emails.
[00:23:11.320 --> 00:23:13.640] Like, I never do that stuff because I'm lazy.
[00:23:13.640 --> 00:23:14.840] No, me neither.
[00:23:14.840 --> 00:23:17.000] Can AI do that for me?
[00:23:17.000 --> 00:23:17.560] Right?
[00:23:17.880 --> 00:23:22.520] So, a lot of these AI podcasting tools are focused on editing.
[00:23:22.520 --> 00:23:23.240] And rightfully so.
[00:23:23.240 --> 00:23:25.400] That's another huge time slot, by the way.
[00:23:25.400 --> 00:23:31.160] And maybe a little bit of marketing, like show notes or time stamps or stuff like that.
[00:23:31.160 --> 00:23:32.360] That's all well and good.
[00:23:32.360 --> 00:23:41.240] I feel like there's not as much that will automatically take my transcript and email my guest with stuff that they could use.
[00:23:41.240 --> 00:23:42.920] I haven't seen a whole lot of that at least.
[00:23:42.920 --> 00:23:44.200] So I think there's an idea there.
[00:23:44.200 --> 00:23:49.080] Yeah, here's a handful of clips that were auto-generated in Riverside.
[00:23:49.080 --> 00:23:53.160] And here, yeah, there's something to that because it's, I never do that.
[00:23:53.160 --> 00:23:55.400] And it's like sometimes it's two or three days later.
[00:23:55.560 --> 00:23:56.920] Like, shoot, I forgot to send you a message.
[00:23:56.920 --> 00:23:58.840] Your episode went live on Thursday.
[00:23:58.840 --> 00:24:01.080] And thanks again for joining me.
[00:24:01.080 --> 00:24:02.440] But that's usually the extent of it.
[00:24:02.440 --> 00:24:05.960] Like, I don't typically ask or bank on anybody sharing it.
[00:24:05.960 --> 00:24:08.040] And it's like when they do, it's like a bonus.
[00:24:08.040 --> 00:24:09.480] And let's be really clear here, Nick.
[00:24:09.480 --> 00:24:14.760] Nick did not actually send me that message after our last podcast interview a couple of months ago.
[00:24:14.760 --> 00:24:15.160] I don't think.
[00:24:15.160 --> 00:24:15.960] I don't remember seeing it.
[00:24:16.200 --> 00:24:16.680] Yeah, exactly.
[00:24:16.680 --> 00:24:17.480] So you can vouch for that.
[00:24:17.480 --> 00:24:18.280] Like, it doesn't happen.
[00:24:18.280 --> 00:24:18.600] Exactly.
[00:24:18.600 --> 00:24:18.840] Yeah.
[00:24:18.840 --> 00:24:19.480] Nick needs this.
[00:24:19.640 --> 00:24:21.160] So I'm going to create it.
[00:24:21.480 --> 00:24:24.040] You may get another one, a different category, or you got another one.
[00:24:24.040 --> 00:24:28.520] I've got one that is top of mind lately, and I'm calling this scam detector.
[00:24:28.520 --> 00:24:28.920] Oh.
[00:24:28.920 --> 00:24:37.400] So sometimes you get text messages, and it'll say, you have unpaid parking tickets in the city of Seattle, and we're going to revoke your license.
[00:24:37.400 --> 00:24:41.720] And it's like from a, you know, click here, and it's like a dot ru domain.
[00:24:41.720 --> 00:24:43.880] And you're like, okay, it's very clearly a scam.
[00:24:43.880 --> 00:24:44.600] I'm going to delete this.
[00:24:44.600 --> 00:24:46.160] I'm going to ignore it.
[00:24:44.920 --> 00:24:49.200] But sometimes the line is a little bit more blurred.
[00:24:49.520 --> 00:24:54.400] Like, I got this IRS letter the other day, and it was about a return from four years ago.
[00:24:54.560 --> 00:24:56.160] Like, is this legit?
[00:24:56.160 --> 00:24:57.600] Like, it looks legit.
[00:24:57.600 --> 00:25:01.120] And I sent it to my accountant, and he was like, Yeah, that's that's legit.
[00:25:01.120 --> 00:25:03.440] But I was like, Is this an IRS scam?
[00:25:03.440 --> 00:25:05.360] You know, it was just a weird thing.
[00:25:05.360 --> 00:25:13.520] And a couple Thanksgivings ago, I had a really, really convincing crypto ransomware scam, and it was from you know, an email from me.
[00:25:13.520 --> 00:25:18.240] And so, like, this somehow was like a phishing attack, like from it looked like it's spoofed from my email account.
[00:25:18.240 --> 00:25:23.440] We've hacked your system, we're gonna destroy your reputation, we're gonna do blah, blah, blah.
[00:25:23.440 --> 00:25:27.760] And we demand this $3,000 Bitcoin transfer to this wallet address.
[00:25:27.760 --> 00:25:36.400] And I spent like all night trying to lock down all my stuff, like two-factor, change the passwords, you know, with the tech team.
[00:25:36.400 --> 00:25:44.640] We couldn't find any evidence of a breach anywhere, but it was like, I'm there's no way I'm going to sleep with this going on.
[00:25:44.640 --> 00:25:48.240] And it's like finally realized just basically by copying and pasting.
[00:25:48.240 --> 00:25:51.920] Like, this is you know, a scam that hundreds of people had received.
[00:25:51.920 --> 00:25:57.920] But it was like, it looked to me, you know, having never received something like that before, it looked super legit and it definitely had me stressed out.
[00:25:57.920 --> 00:26:04.000] So, scam detector is the tool that you can kind of crowdsource that kind of wisdom and protect yourself.
[00:26:04.000 --> 00:26:06.240] Yeah, let me throw out a knowledge nugget.
[00:26:06.240 --> 00:26:09.840] So, first of all, that's a billion-dollar idea for sure.
[00:26:10.160 --> 00:26:25.840] I think as people get older and AI gets better, and then my mother, two years from now, or even really now, but especially like two years from now, my mother could receive a phone call from an AI Petek that sounds exactly like me asking for money.
[00:26:25.840 --> 00:26:26.160] Yeah.
[00:26:26.160 --> 00:26:28.960] And probably even from my cell phone number, I'm guessing.
[00:26:28.960 --> 00:26:31.160] So, yeah, I think that's actually a billion-dollar idea.
[00:26:31.160 --> 00:26:32.680] Here's my nugget of wisdom, though.
[00:26:29.840 --> 00:26:37.320] For all the things we've said, I'm going to drop back from the ideas just for a second.
[00:26:37.480 --> 00:26:38.920] Bird's eye view.
[00:26:38.920 --> 00:26:43.720] For all of these ideas, I can get lost in a little bit of overwhelm.
[00:26:43.720 --> 00:26:44.760] Like, oh my gosh, yeah.
[00:26:44.760 --> 00:26:50.360] And I would need to check spam text messages and spam emails and spam calls and spam AI and spam that.
[00:26:50.360 --> 00:26:56.920] I think there's a version of every single one of these ideas that can be done in a weekend.
[00:26:56.920 --> 00:27:07.960] Maybe you just start with spam text, for example, or maybe you just start with this one little core feature, this one simplest version of that.
[00:27:07.960 --> 00:27:10.760] I just wanted to like remind everybody in the ether.
[00:27:10.760 --> 00:27:23.320] Or how about you only specialize in those class action lawsuit claims where you get this like sketchy looking postcard and it's like, go to this, you know, 20-word long domain, you know, to submit your claim.
[00:27:23.320 --> 00:27:24.600] And you're like, is this real?
[00:27:24.600 --> 00:27:29.800] Because of course I could ask for your personal information to pay you out if this eventually settles.
[00:27:29.880 --> 00:27:31.880] You're like, dude, is this for real?
[00:27:31.880 --> 00:27:36.280] Is it even worth the $30 I might get from this to submit this information?
[00:27:36.280 --> 00:27:45.320] Yeah, that's also just a content business right there, like a blog or a podcast, like preventing spam or helping elderly parents, especially in my case.
[00:27:45.320 --> 00:27:49.640] I think about this all the time because my mom and dad are like, hey, did you see this thing?
[00:27:49.640 --> 00:27:54.600] And I'm like, that's somebody from Russia off their laptop right now, like trying to spam you.
[00:27:54.600 --> 00:28:00.040] No, this is for real, especially with, you know, you and I, somebody with hundreds of hours of their voice on the internet.
[00:28:00.040 --> 00:28:02.840] It's definitely a conversation we've had to have with mom and dad.
[00:28:02.840 --> 00:28:03.240] Yeah.
[00:28:03.240 --> 00:28:03.560] Okay.
[00:28:03.560 --> 00:28:04.200] I got one.
[00:28:04.200 --> 00:28:04.920] Yeah, go ahead.
[00:28:04.920 --> 00:28:14.120] So, this next idea I love because I think everybody listening to this could find a network that they are already tapped into.
[00:28:14.120 --> 00:28:16.560] Maybe you are an accountant and you know accountants.
[00:28:16.560 --> 00:28:21.360] Maybe you are a teacher, a yoga instructor, and you know yoga instructors, so on and so forth, right?
[00:28:21.360 --> 00:28:30.000] I think this idea anybody could use and customize to some network of people they have access to.
[00:28:30.000 --> 00:28:40.560] So, the network I'm going to use is teachers because my wife is a teacher and a lot of her family are teachers, and my mom was in education, and I've been around teachers my entire life.
[00:28:40.560 --> 00:28:46.640] And teachers, like everybody else in this world, send an absurd amount of email.
[00:28:46.640 --> 00:28:48.240] I did as an accountant too.
[00:28:48.240 --> 00:28:51.520] I worked at spreadsheets, but I sent 10 emails an hour as an accountant.
[00:28:51.520 --> 00:28:52.480] It's kind of weird.
[00:28:52.480 --> 00:28:55.600] A lot of those emails look exactly alike.
[00:28:55.600 --> 00:28:58.560] And so, I talked to my wife about this like six months ago.
[00:28:58.560 --> 00:29:01.680] I was like, Can I actually just build you some email templates?
[00:29:01.680 --> 00:29:11.120] Because she emails her students for the same spring concert every single May, and it's exactly the same, except for like two or three tiny details.
[00:29:11.120 --> 00:29:24.160] And I was like, I could build this template for you, and then this time next year, you could just hit a button, customize the few details, and it sends it out to your current students with the right day and the right time and the right whatever.
[00:29:24.160 --> 00:29:26.000] So, it's a simple idea, right?
[00:29:26.000 --> 00:29:36.080] Email templates, been around forever, but I think now more than ever, it's easy to target yoga instructors, chess players, pickleball people.
[00:29:36.240 --> 00:29:44.640] I don't know, any network that you might have, probably send a specific type of email, especially like career people, right?
[00:29:44.640 --> 00:29:46.400] Profession-based people.
[00:29:46.400 --> 00:29:50.080] Offer them email templates, and I think there's a good side hustle cache there.
[00:29:50.080 --> 00:29:52.960] Okay, so this would be what do they call it in Gmail?
[00:29:52.960 --> 00:29:54.160] Like a custom response.
[00:29:54.480 --> 00:30:02.840] There's something built in to Gmail, like for you can save certain templates, but like this on steroids and dialed into a specific industry.
[00:30:02.840 --> 00:30:03.720] It'd be interesting.
[00:29:59.920 --> 00:30:04.600] I just thought about this.
[00:30:05.160 --> 00:30:10.520] I wonder if I could hook up an AI app to my wife's inbox.
[00:30:10.520 --> 00:30:13.560] They use Google Drive or workplace or whatever it's called these days.
[00:30:13.560 --> 00:30:20.120] I wonder if I could like scan the last 100 emails she sent out and create three templates based on that.
[00:30:20.120 --> 00:30:24.760] Like, oh, I see that you send this almost exact same email.
[00:30:24.760 --> 00:30:26.120] Boom, boom, boom, boom.
[00:30:26.120 --> 00:30:27.400] And they're like, recommend a template.
[00:30:27.400 --> 00:30:28.200] I bet that's possible.
[00:30:28.200 --> 00:30:29.000] That'd be cool.
[00:30:29.480 --> 00:30:29.880] Yeah.
[00:30:29.880 --> 00:30:30.360] Cool.
[00:30:30.360 --> 00:30:42.040] Another one that you had on your list was the broken link checker, but for YouTube channels, which I thought was really interesting because there's a dozen tools and plugins that will do this for WordPress and scrapes your several crawls your site and tests all these links.
[00:30:42.040 --> 00:30:45.960] And you get back this big report of like, here's 100 broken links that now you have to go fix.
[00:30:45.960 --> 00:30:47.880] It would be great if it could actually fix them for you.
[00:30:47.880 --> 00:30:49.640] And maybe that's level two.
[00:30:49.640 --> 00:30:53.560] But you say, why isn't there anything that will do this for your YouTube descriptions?
[00:30:53.560 --> 00:30:54.280] Stuff like that.
[00:30:54.280 --> 00:30:56.120] I'd pay for this, by the way.
[00:30:56.440 --> 00:31:03.160] I've gotten videos taken down, actually three in the past couple of months, just because there was a broken link.
[00:31:03.160 --> 00:31:06.280] And YouTube was like, I think this is spam content.
[00:31:06.280 --> 00:31:11.320] You can click here to, you know, fight this accusation or whatever it is.
[00:31:11.320 --> 00:31:21.640] Yeah, I would love a tool where I can just connect my YouTube channel, scans all my videos, and then tells me to update this, update that, checks for broken links and that sort of stuff for sure.
[00:31:21.640 --> 00:31:37.160] I will admit that I haven't done a ton of research and searching around this, but what I would love to see is the travel rewards points redemption optimizer type of tool where you can punch in, hey, I've got 200,000 Chase Ultimate Rewards.
[00:31:37.160 --> 00:31:40.360] We've got another 100,000 on Delta, another 100,000 on United.
[00:31:40.360 --> 00:31:41.000] Where can we go?
[00:31:41.000 --> 00:31:41.160] Right?
[00:31:41.160 --> 00:31:42.040] It's kind of open-ended.
[00:31:42.040 --> 00:31:43.240] And maybe you give it some constraints.
[00:31:43.240 --> 00:31:44.680] Like, I want to take a family of four.
[00:31:45.200 --> 00:31:49.760] We want to go over spring break, which is these dates, plus or minus a week.
[00:31:49.760 --> 00:31:53.760] And, you know, other than that, we're fairly destination agnostic.
[00:31:53.760 --> 00:31:56.400] You know, what's the best redemption?
[00:31:56.400 --> 00:31:59.280] And so far, I've been playing around with points.
[00:31:59.280 --> 00:32:02.240] Yeah, which is okay.
[00:32:02.240 --> 00:32:08.640] It's an interesting one where you can kind of do some of those types of searches, but it's still really tedious.
[00:32:08.640 --> 00:32:16.000] And it would be cool to have some custom curated recommendations based on your points balance and what you could get for those.
[00:32:16.000 --> 00:32:16.880] Totally.
[00:32:16.880 --> 00:32:22.320] I've used points.me several times, but it's kind of tedious.
[00:32:22.320 --> 00:32:23.760] It's kind of a pain.
[00:32:23.760 --> 00:32:27.440] And you have to be like really specific in your search.
[00:32:27.440 --> 00:32:32.640] Oh, we're searching this airline or this date and this destination and that sort of stuff.
[00:32:32.640 --> 00:32:34.160] And then it tells you the good part.
[00:32:34.160 --> 00:32:36.480] Like, oh, yeah, you could use these rewards.
[00:32:36.480 --> 00:32:36.800] Yeah.
[00:32:36.800 --> 00:32:40.240] Which I understand on the back end of that, like there's a lot of data and combinations.
[00:32:40.240 --> 00:32:42.080] And well, you want this airport or this airport.
[00:32:42.080 --> 00:32:46.880] Like there's a lot of moving parts that go into that, which is probably why it's so tedious.
[00:32:46.880 --> 00:32:48.480] Yeah, that's a good idea.
[00:32:48.480 --> 00:32:59.840] More AI-assisted product ideas with Pete coming up, including Sticky Task, a virtual boss for solopreneurs, and even an AI mastermind coming up right after this.
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[00:35:17.440 --> 00:35:18.800] Here's a really easy one.
[00:35:14.760 --> 00:35:22.000] I don't think anybody's going to make a ton of money with this one.
[00:35:22.240 --> 00:35:23.760] And it might already exist.
[00:35:23.760 --> 00:35:26.880] You tell me, but I'm calling this sticky task.
[00:35:26.880 --> 00:35:40.240] This is a Chrome extension where, almost like a sticky note, you write down your most important three-ish to-do items and it stays visible across all of your tabs.
[00:35:40.240 --> 00:35:49.120] You alt tab, you go to the next tab, you open up a new tab or whatever, and you can still see your three to-do list items sitting right there in the corner or whatever.
[00:35:49.120 --> 00:35:51.360] This has to exist in some format.
[00:35:51.360 --> 00:35:52.640] Yeah, that seems really simple.
[00:35:52.640 --> 00:35:56.000] If it doesn't, I hope somebody builds that because it, yeah, keep you focused.
[00:35:56.000 --> 00:35:59.120] Bonus points, if you wanted to make it more advanced, this might not exist.
[00:35:59.120 --> 00:36:06.720] It could integrate with your tools: Apple Reminders, Trello, Todoist, Notion, or something else.
[00:36:06.720 --> 00:36:12.080] Like you could have it scan your to-do list app of choice and then have your things right there.
[00:36:12.080 --> 00:36:12.800] I think that'd be cool.
[00:36:12.800 --> 00:36:13.520] I think that would be cool.
[00:36:13.520 --> 00:36:14.400] Would you charge for that?
[00:36:14.880 --> 00:36:17.680] What do you see as the this is something we haven't talked about in the whole episode?
[00:36:17.680 --> 00:36:19.200] It's like, well, how would you monetize that?
[00:36:19.200 --> 00:36:22.400] You know what I thought about an hour ago before we started recording?
[00:36:22.400 --> 00:36:25.840] I feel like a side hustle idea is this.
[00:36:25.840 --> 00:36:27.360] This is going off topic just a little bit.
[00:36:27.360 --> 00:36:28.880] You tell me if you want me to be quiet.
[00:36:28.880 --> 00:36:33.600] Brian Harris from Growth Tools had this realization a couple of years ago.
[00:36:33.600 --> 00:36:36.000] Software is becoming easier.
[00:36:36.000 --> 00:36:38.960] And so maybe we should make it free.
[00:36:38.960 --> 00:36:44.640] Maybe you could make some sort of app that people pay $29 a month for.
[00:36:44.640 --> 00:36:46.960] Like literally just clone it, like duplicate it.
[00:36:46.960 --> 00:36:52.720] You could do that these days pretty easily, but make it zero dollars, absolutely free.
[00:36:52.720 --> 00:36:57.920] And the idea is, hopefully, you can get more people in your funnel.
[00:36:57.920 --> 00:37:10.120] This would now be the top of funnel activity, and you could do services or even online courses or memberships or any other monetization strategy on the bottom end of the funnel.
[00:37:10.120 --> 00:37:19.480] Again, that's not my brand new idea, but I feel like with AI coding, it's easier and faster than ever to create the next Calendly.
[00:37:19.480 --> 00:37:20.680] Let's just say Calendly, right?
[00:37:20.680 --> 00:37:23.480] Like the scheduling manager or whatever.
[00:37:23.480 --> 00:37:27.320] Create Calendly, but 100% for free.
[00:37:27.320 --> 00:37:31.960] And then see if that can grow your audience, your email list, for example.
[00:37:31.960 --> 00:37:34.280] And then you can do other stuff on the back end to make more money.
[00:37:34.280 --> 00:37:34.600] I don't know.
[00:37:34.600 --> 00:37:39.560] That's a little, that's a little different, a little off topic, but I feel like that's a, I feel like that's a viable strategy.
[00:37:39.560 --> 00:37:39.800] It is.
[00:37:39.800 --> 00:37:51.160] And this could be really disruptive because historically, you know, last generation, software companies, Microsoft, Oracle, you know, some of these software companies, some of the most profitable in the world, right?
[00:37:51.240 --> 00:37:56.200] It's like digital product, you know, very low incremental cost of serving that extra customer.
[00:37:56.200 --> 00:38:04.440] But if software has this constant downward pressure on price as people build alternatives, side hustlers build their own apps, then I don't need to pay for this anymore.
[00:38:04.520 --> 00:38:05.720] I'll build my own.
[00:38:05.720 --> 00:38:07.480] Then, then what happens?
[00:38:07.480 --> 00:38:09.160] And, you know, how else do we make money?
[00:38:09.160 --> 00:38:14.360] It's like a weird, well, what else, you know, if we're going to use Brian's model, well, maybe it's just a lead generator, right?
[00:38:14.360 --> 00:38:18.360] Get people into my ecosystem, get people into my world, which is totally viable.
[00:38:18.360 --> 00:38:18.760] For sure.
[00:38:18.760 --> 00:38:18.920] Right.
[00:38:18.920 --> 00:38:20.200] But then you got to figure out the back end.
[00:38:20.200 --> 00:38:23.560] You got to figure out, well, what is it that these people really want and value that I can help them with?
[00:38:23.560 --> 00:38:23.880] For sure.
[00:38:23.880 --> 00:38:24.760] What else we got?
[00:38:24.760 --> 00:38:30.360] So this was not an AI, but it kind of, your, your sticky task kind of reminded me of it.
[00:38:30.360 --> 00:38:31.880] I came across this service.
[00:38:31.880 --> 00:38:33.880] It was called Boss as a Service.
[00:38:33.880 --> 00:38:39.400] And it was basically for entrepreneurs, solo, solopreneurs, solo service providers, where it's like, the grass is always greener.
[00:38:39.560 --> 00:38:40.840] You know, I want to be my own boss.
[00:38:40.840 --> 00:38:42.440] I don't want anybody telling me what to do.
[00:38:42.440 --> 00:38:46.880] But then you sit down on day one, you're like, dang, I'm not really sure what I should do.
[00:38:44.840 --> 00:38:51.600] So you need this boss as a service where it helps you basically somebody looking over your shoulder.
[00:38:51.920 --> 00:38:55.360] It could be a virtual mentor, somebody you check in with, somebody for accountability.
[00:38:55.360 --> 00:38:59.920] But it was this service that was like, hey, you know, keeping on top of you on your tasks, your to-do list.
[00:38:59.920 --> 00:39:04.080] And so similar to this sticky task type of thing, you know, this remote, remote boss.
[00:39:04.080 --> 00:39:06.640] And it could be, you could even be a virtual type of thing right now.
[00:39:06.640 --> 00:39:08.880] I think there's probably more power in having to be an actual human.
[00:39:08.960 --> 00:39:10.480] It's like, well, shove off, robot.
[00:39:10.480 --> 00:39:12.000] Like, who are you to tell me what to do?
[00:39:12.000 --> 00:39:18.800] But there might be something to having a virtual remote boss or virtual AI boss to keep you on task.
[00:39:18.800 --> 00:39:20.400] I literally have that on my list.
[00:39:20.400 --> 00:39:21.280] That's on my thing.
[00:39:21.280 --> 00:39:26.560] It's not called that specifically, but in my head, that's the function it was.
[00:39:26.560 --> 00:39:27.760] I'm seeing if I can find it.
[00:39:27.760 --> 00:39:28.480] I think I called it.
[00:39:28.480 --> 00:39:29.360] Oh, I got it right here.
[00:39:29.360 --> 00:39:30.160] It's not the date.
[00:39:30.160 --> 00:39:30.800] It's horrible.
[00:39:30.800 --> 00:39:34.800] I called it daily AI manager thingy.
[00:39:34.800 --> 00:39:35.200] Okay.
[00:39:35.200 --> 00:39:36.080] Patent pending.
[00:39:36.080 --> 00:39:36.800] Right, exactly.
[00:39:36.800 --> 00:39:38.320] Copyright 2025.
[00:39:38.320 --> 00:39:48.560] In my head, I was thinking, some AI that has all of the context, my goals, my life, my work, my projects, and that sort of stuff.
[00:39:48.560 --> 00:39:53.520] I feed it all that information and it has access to my to-do list.
[00:39:53.520 --> 00:39:56.880] Maybe it's Notion, maybe it's Todoist, maybe it's Trello, whatever, right?
[00:39:56.880 --> 00:40:01.120] And every morning, it sends me an email or a text or a call for that matter.
[00:40:01.120 --> 00:40:03.760] You could do this via AI voice these days.
[00:40:03.760 --> 00:40:08.240] It calls me to be like, hey, you got this thing coming up that you said you wanted to do.
[00:40:08.240 --> 00:40:12.880] And don't forget you have a call with Nick at 2 p.m.
[00:40:13.200 --> 00:40:17.440] But you're going to be busy after that, with your other friend doing this.
[00:40:17.440 --> 00:40:22.160] So you really need to prioritize this today during these hours or whatever.
[00:40:22.160 --> 00:40:23.760] So, it's kind of the same idea, right?
[00:40:23.760 --> 00:40:26.160] Like this boss is just making sure you're doing the right things.
[00:40:26.160 --> 00:40:27.440] I think it's a brilliant idea.
[00:40:27.440 --> 00:40:36.280] Yeah, that definitely seems like something that could be built, could be fairly automated, especially if it could read into the context of your business and say, These are your top priorities.
[00:40:36.600 --> 00:40:38.200] These are what you said were going to be your top priorities.
[00:40:38.200 --> 00:40:39.560] Here's some deadlines you got coming up.
[00:40:39.800 --> 00:40:40.920] I think that'd be really cool.
[00:40:40.920 --> 00:40:43.720] Have you heard of, I think it's called My Body Tutor?
[00:40:43.720 --> 00:40:45.640] We talked about MyFitnessPal, but this is like a different one.
[00:40:45.720 --> 00:40:46.200] Oh, yeah.
[00:40:46.200 --> 00:40:51.480] So, this is a service where for hundreds of dollars a month, basically, they will check in with you.
[00:40:51.480 --> 00:40:56.280] You'll do your meal tracking, and then they'll check in with you three times a week, you know, by text message.
[00:40:56.280 --> 00:40:58.680] I think, are you on track for your goals?
[00:40:58.680 --> 00:41:03.880] And that's all it is: it's just accountability, but it's like that the power of having somebody look over your shoulder.
[00:41:03.880 --> 00:41:06.600] All of a sudden, you stop eating ice cream and cookies and stuff.
[00:41:06.600 --> 00:41:08.840] It's like just that extra little insight.
[00:41:08.840 --> 00:41:16.360] And it's like, I think it's going to have to be human or have some human element to it, but maybe, maybe it's worth experimenting if a robot could have the same role.
[00:41:16.360 --> 00:41:22.600] This is also on my list, not for fitness-related goals, but for entrepreneur and creative-related goals.
[00:41:22.600 --> 00:41:28.040] So, I ran this program for one month called Most Productive Month Ever, MPME.
[00:41:28.360 --> 00:41:32.280] And I basically asked people, What are your goals for this one month?
[00:41:32.280 --> 00:41:33.800] Just one month, 30 days.
[00:41:34.120 --> 00:41:35.960] And how often can I book you?
[00:41:35.960 --> 00:41:39.080] Once a day, three times a week, et cetera.
[00:41:39.080 --> 00:41:41.480] And so, people submitted their stuff.
[00:41:41.480 --> 00:41:49.160] I heard their goals, and then I just called them three times a week or five times a week and say, Hey, how's it going?
[00:41:49.160 --> 00:41:50.760] Did you do what you said you were going to do?
[00:41:50.760 --> 00:41:51.320] That's it.
[00:41:51.320 --> 00:41:52.840] And people paid for it.
[00:41:52.840 --> 00:41:57.320] And the first time I did this, I did this as like a challenge sort of thing, right?
[00:41:57.320 --> 00:42:03.400] The first time I did this, the only product I've ever done with a 100% success rate.
[00:42:03.400 --> 00:42:11.000] And so, on my list, on my like SaaS company ideas list, I thought maybe I could automate this entire thing, but I'm with you.
[00:42:11.000 --> 00:42:16.560] I think that needs a little bit of a human touch because no one cares about offending a robot, right?
[00:42:14.840 --> 00:42:18.960] Like it's not the same level of accountability.
[00:42:19.680 --> 00:42:28.160] But I mean, the scratch your own itch thing, I think I could automate a lot of the parts of the process, but still have like a human touch somewhere on the back end.
[00:42:28.160 --> 00:42:30.640] Anyway, I'm rambling now, but yeah, it's a good idea for sure.
[00:42:30.640 --> 00:42:31.760] No, this is good.
[00:42:31.760 --> 00:42:36.000] Did you build at one point an LMS or a course hosting software?
[00:42:36.000 --> 00:42:36.400] I did.
[00:42:36.800 --> 00:42:38.160] Is it not live anymore?
[00:42:38.160 --> 00:42:39.920] Well, it was an awful experience.
[00:42:39.920 --> 00:42:40.960] The product was great.
[00:42:40.960 --> 00:42:44.320] I stand by what I built and it works and it's fine.
[00:42:44.320 --> 00:42:50.880] However, I was not prepared for people actually implementing what I built.
[00:42:50.880 --> 00:42:51.600] It's complicated.
[00:42:51.600 --> 00:42:53.200] I don't want to go into it, but it did not work.
[00:42:53.200 --> 00:42:54.960] And so I shut it down.
[00:42:55.280 --> 00:42:55.760] Yeah.
[00:42:55.760 --> 00:42:56.160] Okay.
[00:42:56.480 --> 00:43:04.080] The reason I ask is Teachable sent me a note and said, you've been paying us $450 a year or something like that.
[00:43:04.080 --> 00:43:08.640] We're going to jack up your rate to $1,600 a year effective next month.
[00:43:08.640 --> 00:43:10.640] And I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa.
[00:43:11.200 --> 00:43:12.320] That's not what I signed up for.
[00:43:12.320 --> 00:43:12.720] What's going on?
[00:43:12.800 --> 00:43:14.480] That's like almost quadruple the rate.
[00:43:14.480 --> 00:43:16.400] And they're like, well, we added all these extra features.
[00:43:16.400 --> 00:43:17.440] Like, I didn't ask for that.
[00:43:17.440 --> 00:43:18.160] I didn't ask for those.
[00:43:18.160 --> 00:43:19.360] This is what I signed up for.
[00:43:19.360 --> 00:43:22.880] And so they're like, well, we'll make it, we'll throw you a bone.
[00:43:22.880 --> 00:43:24.080] We'll make it half off.
[00:43:24.480 --> 00:43:25.440] That's still double.
[00:43:25.440 --> 00:43:27.040] That's still double what you're charging.
[00:43:27.040 --> 00:43:33.840] So I feel like these software companies could do themselves a favor by reading about the frog in the boiling water, right?
[00:43:33.840 --> 00:43:35.760] Just bump it up 10% a year.
[00:43:35.760 --> 00:43:37.040] I'm not even going to notice, right?
[00:43:37.040 --> 00:43:43.200] But instead, they go for this huge rate, which all of a sudden has me shopping alternatives, asking Pete, if, like, hey, can I buy your thing instead?
[00:43:43.200 --> 00:43:47.680] Like, there's so many, you know, been putting the word out for teachable alternatives.
[00:43:47.760 --> 00:43:49.600] It's like, this is not core to the business.
[00:43:49.600 --> 00:43:55.840] And all of a sudden, you made it a noticeable line item instead of something that was just like, whatever, we pay for it once a year, forget about it.
[00:43:55.840 --> 00:43:57.280] So, there's something to that.
[00:43:57.280 --> 00:43:58.440] Like, building alternatives.
[00:43:58.320 --> 00:43:58.520] Yes.
[00:43:58.640 --> 00:44:00.200] And we talked about this in the last episode.
[00:44:00.200 --> 00:44:01.080] Unbundling.
[00:44:01.480 --> 00:44:02.840] I don't need all these bells and whistles.
[00:44:02.840 --> 00:44:04.200] Just make it something simple.
[00:44:04.200 --> 00:44:05.320] Maybe there's something to that.
[00:43:59.840 --> 00:44:05.640] For sure.
[00:44:05.800 --> 00:44:08.680] And if you'll allow me a tiny bit of self-promotion.
[00:44:08.680 --> 00:44:15.560] So Code Playbook was the course that I teach people how to Vibe code using AI.
[00:44:15.880 --> 00:44:17.400] I did the same thing.
[00:44:17.400 --> 00:44:21.960] I actually looked at the page services, the big course providers.
[00:44:21.960 --> 00:44:25.720] I looked at this, I called it Easy Course, like about a year ago.
[00:44:25.960 --> 00:44:27.720] The one I told you a minute ago that failed.
[00:44:27.720 --> 00:44:28.520] I looked into that.
[00:44:28.520 --> 00:44:29.480] That was my own product.
[00:44:29.480 --> 00:44:31.080] And I was like, this kind of sucks.
[00:44:31.560 --> 00:44:38.600] And I ended up building Code Playbook from scratch to be like my own little custom LMS.
[00:44:38.600 --> 00:44:39.640] And also, I recorded it.
[00:44:39.640 --> 00:44:40.600] The videos are right there.
[00:44:40.600 --> 00:44:43.960] And you can also like clone it in five and a half seconds.
[00:44:43.960 --> 00:44:49.960] And I don't say this to say how awesome I am because it's not perfect, although it is pretty sweet.
[00:44:49.960 --> 00:44:51.000] I don't mind saying.
[00:44:51.000 --> 00:44:53.000] But it didn't take me that long.
[00:44:53.000 --> 00:44:54.120] And it was free.
[00:44:54.120 --> 00:44:55.880] And I don't pay for it at all.
[00:44:56.760 --> 00:44:58.840] I paid for the domain name, codeplaybook.com.
[00:44:58.840 --> 00:45:00.360] That's the only expense I've had, period.
[00:45:00.360 --> 00:45:01.560] It's deployed for free.
[00:45:01.560 --> 00:45:02.600] It's hosted for free.
[00:45:03.000 --> 00:45:08.680] I built the LMS or CMS, LMS, learning LMS.
[00:45:08.680 --> 00:45:14.360] I built the LMS in like maybe like six hours of work-ish.
[00:45:14.360 --> 00:45:16.360] And if you wanted to duplicate it today, you could.
[00:45:16.360 --> 00:45:19.960] It'll take five and a half seconds and then you'll have to like customize it for your own thing.
[00:45:19.960 --> 00:45:24.680] But it's just mind-boggling that companies are jacking up their rates like this.
[00:45:24.680 --> 00:45:29.400] And there are people like me out here that would be like, no, no, I could do this for free right now.
[00:45:29.400 --> 00:45:31.800] I could sell it for a tenth of your cost.
[00:45:31.800 --> 00:45:36.040] And yeah, massive opportunities for like every industry.
[00:45:36.040 --> 00:45:38.120] Disruption is the word you used earlier.
[00:45:38.120 --> 00:45:39.800] I think we're, I think we're right there.
[00:45:39.800 --> 00:45:40.920] Yeah, that's kind of crazy.
[00:45:40.960 --> 00:45:45.440] So I'll keep shopping around, but at least I bought myself a little bit of time there.
[00:45:45.440 --> 00:45:49.280] I have a kid-related one or parenting-related one.
[00:45:44.840 --> 00:45:49.440] Okay.
[00:45:49.520 --> 00:45:54.480] I don't have a great name for this, but I'm calling it like, you know, anything but make it baseball.
[00:45:54.480 --> 00:45:56.160] You know, broccoli, but make it ice cream.
[00:45:56.160 --> 00:45:59.280] Like the thing they need to learn, but make it something they like.
[00:45:59.280 --> 00:46:09.760] And I think there's a way to format it in such a way: hey, you need to learn about World War II, but put it in context that they're going to understand, you know, Yankees versus Red Sox or something like that.
[00:46:09.760 --> 00:46:11.920] Oh, am I blowing smoke here?
[00:46:12.080 --> 00:46:13.680] Is there something to this?
[00:46:13.680 --> 00:46:14.240] I think so.
[00:46:14.400 --> 00:46:18.400] You lost me in the first part, but the last analogy started to click.
[00:46:18.400 --> 00:46:26.400] Like, I want my kids to learn about this, but they are really into Minecraft, Sonic the Hedgehog, fishing.
[00:46:26.400 --> 00:46:27.760] Those are my kids, right?
[00:46:28.080 --> 00:46:31.440] So teach them this, but baseball.
[00:46:31.440 --> 00:46:32.320] Yes, yes.
[00:46:32.320 --> 00:46:34.000] Give it in Minecraft terms.
[00:46:34.000 --> 00:46:34.640] Absolutely.
[00:46:34.640 --> 00:46:35.040] Yeah.
[00:46:35.360 --> 00:46:36.160] That's cool.
[00:46:36.160 --> 00:46:36.640] Yeah.
[00:46:36.640 --> 00:46:37.360] I would like that.
[00:46:37.360 --> 00:46:38.240] I'd like to see that.
[00:46:38.240 --> 00:46:48.640] You had another one that was similar, and it was like the 30-day learning journey, learning roadmap for any skill, which I thought was really cool.
[00:46:48.640 --> 00:46:50.400] Wait, this is the best name I had, Nick.
[00:46:50.400 --> 00:46:51.440] You didn't even share the name.
[00:46:51.440 --> 00:46:54.240] This is the only one that I named, and I was like, I like this name.
[00:46:54.240 --> 00:46:55.680] Okay, plug the name.
[00:46:56.000 --> 00:46:57.600] Tiny Syllabus.
[00:46:57.600 --> 00:47:00.720] Actually, I don't know if that's a great name or not, but it just resonated.
[00:47:00.720 --> 00:47:02.320] Yes, I love this idea.
[00:47:02.320 --> 00:47:06.400] I think this is, well, here, I'll just read it in my notes here.
[00:47:06.400 --> 00:47:10.320] Give it a topic like, I want to learn how to garden.
[00:47:10.320 --> 00:47:11.920] I want to learn how to fish.
[00:47:11.920 --> 00:47:13.600] I want to start a YouTube channel.
[00:47:13.600 --> 00:47:14.800] I want to lose 15 pounds.
[00:47:14.800 --> 00:47:15.360] I want to do this.
[00:47:15.360 --> 00:47:16.080] I want to do that.
[00:47:16.080 --> 00:47:23.040] And then get a 30-day learning journey via email is what I would choose, right?
[00:47:23.040 --> 00:47:24.640] Like, I just want to enter in a topic.
[00:47:24.640 --> 00:47:27.040] You'd make it a drip email course, basically.
[00:47:27.040 --> 00:47:33.880] Yeah, one email a day, very short, very specific, but like a curated outline for a course.
[00:47:34.040 --> 00:47:46.760] Like, don't hit me with it all at once, but just tell me one interesting and cool thing to learn each day with links to YouTube videos or AI summaries or articles that would help me.
[00:47:47.080 --> 00:47:48.120] I think this is cool.
[00:47:48.120 --> 00:47:49.800] I would, I actually thought about building this.
[00:47:49.800 --> 00:47:53.560] This is still on my to build list because I don't actually think it'd be that hard.
[00:47:53.560 --> 00:47:57.800] It would be really, it would rely on AI heavily, probably.
[00:47:57.800 --> 00:48:10.280] But I think with the latest round of models that could do really good Google searching and what's the right word I'm looking for here, like scraping Google, scraping YouTube videos.
[00:48:10.280 --> 00:48:10.680] Okay.
[00:48:10.920 --> 00:48:15.400] That combined with AI, I think could put together like a really cool thing.
[00:48:15.400 --> 00:48:19.400] 30-day learning journey via email on any topic, period.
[00:48:19.400 --> 00:48:21.400] Yeah, that seems really viable.
[00:48:21.400 --> 00:48:22.680] It seems really valuable.
[00:48:22.680 --> 00:48:26.200] It seems like you could even use it to build paid products.
[00:48:26.200 --> 00:48:29.800] You could use it to build, you know, free lead gen challenges.
[00:48:29.800 --> 00:48:32.360] You, there's, there's a lot you could do with that.
[00:48:32.360 --> 00:48:39.080] Like the 30-day, well, like Tiffany Aliche, like the 30-day live richer challenge, you know, we're going to drip this out.
[00:48:39.080 --> 00:48:48.360] We did a 30-day money cleanse, which is probably similar, but we did a 30-day, you know, side hustle type of challenge, you know, plan, launch, hustle.
[00:48:48.360 --> 00:48:50.440] You know, years and years, probably 10 years ago, we did this.
[00:48:50.440 --> 00:48:51.720] And maybe you feed it on your own.
[00:48:51.720 --> 00:49:01.400] It's not just completely AI generated, but like if you are a creator, feed it on, you know, your own material and, you know, have it organize that, structure that in a way that makes sense.
[00:49:01.400 --> 00:49:05.400] And they're like, look, this is going to be the learning progression and drip that out.
[00:49:05.400 --> 00:49:06.760] You can turn that into a paid product.
[00:49:06.760 --> 00:49:07.720] Yeah, totally.
[00:49:07.720 --> 00:49:08.680] That's a good idea.
[00:49:08.680 --> 00:49:09.800] Well, that's a good Nick.
[00:49:09.800 --> 00:49:20.560] There was one more I do want to get your take on, and you called it like the AI roundtable or the mastermind, where you could, you know, give different personas to different members of your virtual mastermind.
[00:49:14.680 --> 00:49:22.080] And a few people mentioned this.
[00:49:22.160 --> 00:49:34.800] We did an AI use case roundup, and a few people mentioned using ChatGPT or using other AI tools as kind of like a sparring partner or a mastermind or almost a silent co-founder in some ways.
[00:49:34.800 --> 00:49:36.320] We're like, what do you think of this idea?
[00:49:36.320 --> 00:49:38.160] Or like, here's the direction of the business.
[00:49:38.160 --> 00:49:38.880] What do you think?
[00:49:38.880 --> 00:49:45.600] And just, you know, using it as a conversation starter or as somebody to bounce these ideas off of.
[00:49:45.600 --> 00:49:51.120] And you took it a step further with this virtual mastermind where you could kind of create custom personas here.
[00:49:51.120 --> 00:49:54.880] Yeah, I was almost hoping you wouldn't bring it up because I literally started building this yesterday.
[00:49:55.200 --> 00:49:56.560] I got the domain.
[00:49:56.880 --> 00:49:58.560] Yeah, it's already, it's like halfway done.
[00:49:58.560 --> 00:49:59.920] I think it's a brilliant idea.
[00:49:59.920 --> 00:50:00.880] I do.
[00:50:00.880 --> 00:50:08.160] I am blown away by the people I hear about who use ChatGPT as like a therapist or a friend or whatever.
[00:50:08.160 --> 00:50:08.560] Yeah.
[00:50:08.560 --> 00:50:10.000] I can't remember who I was talking to.
[00:50:10.000 --> 00:50:13.600] I was talking to somebody last week that was like, I, oh, I remember who it was.
[00:50:13.600 --> 00:50:15.040] I won't mention their name.
[00:50:15.040 --> 00:50:20.960] I take a walk every single night and just talk to ChatGPT for 30 minutes.
[00:50:20.960 --> 00:50:22.400] And I was like, what?
[00:50:22.720 --> 00:50:23.600] Are you serious?
[00:50:23.600 --> 00:50:24.480] That's amazing.
[00:50:24.480 --> 00:50:28.160] That's a little scary on some other levels.
[00:50:28.160 --> 00:50:30.160] But a lot of people are doing this.
[00:50:30.160 --> 00:50:33.200] Even more people will be doing this in the future, I feel like.
[00:50:33.200 --> 00:50:39.920] And for creators and entrepreneurs specifically, I think the mastermind thing, I'll just spoil it for you.
[00:50:39.920 --> 00:50:43.680] So in my own app, I am having customizable personas.
[00:50:43.680 --> 00:50:44.720] You literally name them.
[00:50:44.720 --> 00:50:50.320] You literally give them an avatar image using AI, generated with AI.
[00:50:50.320 --> 00:50:52.880] And you can customize their experience.
[00:50:52.880 --> 00:50:55.120] You can customize the projects they work on.
[00:50:55.120 --> 00:50:56.320] You can customize their style.
[00:50:56.320 --> 00:50:57.520] You can customize their wealth.
[00:50:57.520 --> 00:50:58.320] You can customize that.
[00:50:59.120 --> 00:51:05.320] I think doing that and literally just creating a mastermind group chat is a multi-million dollar idea.
[00:50:59.920 --> 00:51:06.600] I think there's really something there.
[00:51:06.920 --> 00:51:09.880] I don't think mine's gonna make that much money, but I think it's great.
[00:51:09.880 --> 00:51:23.480] And not just that for creators and entrepreneurs, but I think this is one of those ideas you could build for teachers, you could build for firefighters, you could build for this person or this person or this person, like this group chat for fill-in-the-blank.
[00:51:23.480 --> 00:51:24.760] I think it's a brilliant idea.
[00:51:24.760 --> 00:51:27.800] Yeah, this was something actually at Ford.
[00:51:27.800 --> 00:51:29.640] They would curate these dealer groups.
[00:51:29.640 --> 00:51:30.920] I think they called them their 20 groups.
[00:51:30.920 --> 00:51:31.880] I don't know if there were 20 members.
[00:51:31.880 --> 00:51:43.320] I don't know why I had that name, but they would take similar size dealers in different areas of the country where they weren't competing with each other and they could get together usually virtually, but I think sometimes in person too, be like, well, how much are you paying your service manager?
[00:51:43.320 --> 00:51:46.120] Or what percentage, you know, gross margin you typically get?
[00:51:46.280 --> 00:51:47.000] Like, how do you do that?
[00:51:47.000 --> 00:51:49.720] Or what was an advertising campaign that really worked for you?
[00:51:49.720 --> 00:51:55.640] And so it was kind of that idea, but bringing it virtually and using AI to do some of that.
[00:51:55.640 --> 00:51:56.280] Wow.
[00:51:56.280 --> 00:51:57.480] Do you want me to cut that?
[00:51:57.480 --> 00:51:58.840] Like, if you don't want it, you don't want that out there, right?
[00:51:59.000 --> 00:51:59.720] No, no, leave it in.
[00:51:59.720 --> 00:52:00.040] That's fine.
[00:52:00.040 --> 00:52:01.160] I don't care.
[00:52:01.160 --> 00:52:02.040] Do you have a site for it?
[00:52:02.040 --> 00:52:03.720] Can we be like, we can promote it?
[00:52:03.720 --> 00:52:04.600] Okay, I did.
[00:52:04.600 --> 00:52:06.360] And then I purchased a domain name.
[00:52:06.360 --> 00:52:07.800] And then I found a better name.
[00:52:07.800 --> 00:52:12.520] And I sent both of those names to my best friend and said, hey, which one of these names do you like better?
[00:52:12.520 --> 00:52:13.880] And she said, I hate both of them.
[00:52:13.880 --> 00:52:15.320] And so now I don't know what I'm going to name it.
[00:52:15.320 --> 00:52:16.680] So, no, I don't have a site yet.
[00:52:16.680 --> 00:52:21.400] Well, let me know after the fact, and we're happy to plug it in for people listening in the future.
[00:52:21.400 --> 00:52:22.600] So you got Code Playbook.
[00:52:22.600 --> 00:52:23.880] You got this virtual mastermind thing.
[00:52:23.880 --> 00:52:25.640] You got Do You Even blog?
[00:52:25.640 --> 00:52:26.280] What's next?
[00:52:26.680 --> 00:52:28.280] What's on the radar for the rest of this year?
[00:52:28.280 --> 00:52:29.640] On the radar for the next this year.
[00:52:30.280 --> 00:52:33.640] I'm selling my second company in the past couple of months.
[00:52:33.640 --> 00:52:35.800] So I got one of those offloaded.
[00:52:35.800 --> 00:52:41.160] I got two or three more apps existing that I'm probably going to sell in about a year.
[00:52:41.160 --> 00:52:44.520] And I got one more that I started today, which is a really small one.
[00:52:44.520 --> 00:52:46.320] It's not going to be like an ongoing thing.
[00:52:44.760 --> 00:52:51.120] So, yeah, the game plan for the next year is to do more of these ideas that we've talked about.
[00:52:51.440 --> 00:52:56.720] Try and build them up using, first and foremost, my existing audience, to be really honest.
[00:52:56.720 --> 00:53:01.280] And then maybe a little bit of paid advertising if I have the profits to spend on that.
[00:53:01.280 --> 00:53:02.640] And then selling them.
[00:53:02.640 --> 00:53:03.840] And then retiring early, Nick.
[00:53:03.840 --> 00:53:04.800] That's what we're here for.
[00:53:04.800 --> 00:53:06.640] Living that fire lifestyle, man.
[00:53:06.640 --> 00:53:07.280] Trying to.
[00:53:07.280 --> 00:53:07.600] All right.
[00:53:07.600 --> 00:53:09.120] Well, I really appreciate you joining me.
[00:53:09.120 --> 00:53:14.320] I get a kick out of just brainstorming these ideas and the back and forth and the energy that I get from that.
[00:53:14.400 --> 00:53:17.360] I really appreciate you stopping by, taking the time to do that.
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[00:53:21.280 --> 00:53:25.920] If you want to learn how to build these apps yourself, codeplaybook.com.
[00:53:25.920 --> 00:53:34.560] We talked a little bit about the nuts and bolts of what it's going to take, the different tools, cursor, and stuff like that to use and how to prompt them in our previous episode, 659.
[00:53:34.560 --> 00:53:38.960] If you want to go back and listen to that one, Pete's last appearance on the show.
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[00:54:30.000 --> 00:54:31.320] Hustle on.