GPT-6 Astra makes 2 kinds of businesses MUCH easier to start: outsourced work turned into software, and physical product businesses that used to require $2M to in upfront capital to start 2 years ago. The magic is that Astra can move across the messy middle: browser, codebase, docs, Blender, parts lists, suppliers, PRs. On today’s @startupideaspod, @rasmic shows how he took an AI HomePod idea to Raspberry Pi setup, Blender layout, shopping list, supplier path, and code changes in one session. Watch: Everyone on X is posting game demos, that's cool but... I think we'll also see an EXPLOSION of physical product businesses: tiny hardware, niche ecommerce, custom gadgets, home lab projects, and creator merch with utility. Idea → mockup → parts list → supplier → cart → code → prototype. Pretty big deal.

NVIDIA just released a repo that scans AI agent skills for security risks BEFORE you run them, which matters more than people realize now that everyone's installing random tools, skills, and MCPs from GitHub. I break down that one AND 4 other GitHub repos trending over the last 30 days in this episode of @startupideaspod: 1. A skill that kills AI slop finally (better writing) 2. A CRM thats built for AI agents (so you can have agents follow up, reach out etc) 3. An agent that edits your videos for you (so you can focus on creative) 4. An opensource CapCut alternative built for agents (because editing is a headache) All free, all open source. Watch my breakdown of the 5 GitHub repos trending over the last 30 days below The tools people will be talking about in six months are on GitHub today. That's the fun part of digging through GitHub right now.

EVERYTHING you NEED to know about Jack Dorsey's AI agent "Slack killer" Buzz (set up, use-cases etc in 38 mins) What we get into: 1. What Buzz actually is and should founders switch from Slack? 2. How to swap the model under any agent and keep all your context? 3. How to talk to your agents live with audio huddles? 4. How to get agents to build and deploy real apps for you, like a full CRM from one ask? 5. How to set up the context loop that feeds your live app data back to your agents? 6. How to share compute so a few people split one machine running a local model? 7. Who it's actually for right now, and what's still rough? Full breakdown on the pod @startupideaspod. Thanks to @hot_town for jumping on and clearly explaining @jack and team's latest product. My TLDR take is Buzz is a glimpse into the future of work. Some of you will roll your eyes at that, and I get it, it's alpha software and it's slow in places. But the core idea, that your context is the foundation and agents build out from there, is right, and that's worth seeing early. Watch Curious what you think

If your whole workflow is one Claude Code instance on your MacBook, you're leaving 10x on the table. Here's why. On your laptop, running 2 agents at once means two copies of your code, and you're constantly fighting over which worktree you're on and whether everything's synced. It caps out fast. Cloud agents in VMs let you run as many as you want without worrying about any of that. Each one gets its own machine, so the work never collides. Spin up 10, let them all run, and nothing steps on anything else. Watch full ep below on @startupideaspod. Thanks to @ryancarson for sharing the sauce. Cloud agents are probably the future. So is doing half your work from your phone, which sounds insane until you try it once. Then you don't go back.

My friend Corey makes $1,000/hour doing the simplest AI business I've seen all year. Only 5% of businesses use AI beyond ChatGPT, the other 95% need you. He sits with a small business owner for 45 minutes, finds where they lose 5-10 hours a week, and prescribes off-the-shelf AI tools that fix it. He charges $999 for that assessment. He's a doctor writing prescriptions. The tools already exist. He just knows which ones. Everyone wins. 50% of his clients then hire him to implement it, and that's where the $1,000/hour work comes from. Corey came on the podcast @startupideaspod and gave away a full course for free. Like actually the full way you can copy his system and run it yourself on your own: - The exact offer (with a money-back guarantee that makes it a no-brainer) - The 4-phase system to deliver it - A template you can download and use today - 6 things to upsell after the assessment - 7 ways to get clients with zero audience and zero capital Even if you never start this exact business, watching @coreyganim break it down will get your brain working on your own productized AI service. That's the real reason to press play. Link: Or watch below (1hr course) Yeah, I know it's an hour. But if you're serious about startup ideas in the AI age right now, this is one of the most useful hours you'll spend all week. Corey holds nothing back. I love this era. A laptop, a few conversations, and a real business. Go get it.

Grok 4.5 might be the BEST model to run inside Hermes or OpenClaw RIGHT NOW. I've been sleeping on Grok to be honestNot anymore. It's more than 60% cheaper than Opus 4.8 and lands around $2.49 per task versus ~$12 for Fable in Claude Code. And it's fast. So what happens when you give Hermes + Grok 4.5 its own email, its own phone number, its own debit card, and access to every tool you use? You pretty much get an AI co-founder. Everything you need to know about Grok 4.5 + Hermes below. Full episode is available to watch at @startupideaspod ( thanks @nickvasiles for coming on) I slept on Grok. Not sleeping on it anymore. Watch

If I was starting a new company today, I'd start an agent business. SaaS was a multi-billion dollar market. Agents are a multi-trillion dollar one. How to build I'd build an agent business from 0: Spot the niche → find a workflow with a paycheck → shadow the human → spec the agent → run it manually first → build the smallest useful version → sell the pilot like labor → productize the repeatable parts. Entire episode is live on @startupideaspod 100% free like always. SaaS sold software and let your team use it to get the job done. An agent business sells the job already done. That shift matters because labor is a multi-trillion dollar market, far bigger than software ever was. Watch

Jev is HERE and this is the CLEAREST explanation of what it is and what NEW businesses it unlocks. (and at the end I'll tell you how to get Jev even if you're on the waitlist) WHAT IT IS You know how you open your inbox and have to decide what's junk, what needs a reply, and what can wait? Jev does that part. It looks at each thing and says "this is junk, I'm 94% sure." It doesn't write anything back to you. It just sorts. 1,700 emails for 18 cents, instantly. That sounds kinda trivial but the important part WHAT IT UNLOCKS My explanation of Jev sounds small until you realize HOW MANY jobs are exactly this. Someone reading a stack of applications. Someone deciding which support ticket goes to which team. Someone looking at inbound and deciding who's worth calling back. A few ideas on what it unlocks: 1/ Instant quotes that are actually instant. Every quote form on the internet says "we'll email you by end of day." Build the version that answers in under a second, for roofers, movers, insurance, legal intake. 2/ Lead scoring as a product. Every agency and service business has a contact form full of junk. Score every submission and send the real ones straight to the owner's phone. 3/ Support triage for companies with no support team. The ticket gets classified and routed before anyone opens it. 4/ Clipping tools. Pass in a transcript, get the best moments scored in three seconds. Every clipping product just got a cheaper engine. 5/ Application piles. Grants, permits, insurance claims, job apps, loan docs. Someone reads that stack one item at a time today. 6/ Marketplace matching. Someone types what they need and gets matched to the right local business instantly instead of waiting for callbacks. 7/ Browser agents that actually move FAST. That makes bulk browser work practical: pulling quotes from five carriers, filing the same form for 200 clients, checking supplier inventory in real time etc. TLDR; find an expensive queue and put Jev at the front of it. HOW TO GET IT I didn't realize you can skip the waitlist because Jev is live on the Vercel AI Gateway right now, so you can start calling it today. In this episode, we share how. Episode now live on @startupideaspod (thanks to @ryanvogel for coming on and spilling the sauce today) Watch: Jev is a big deal because this is a whole new way to do AI Really cool Happy Jev day.

WHAT IS AN AI "SOFTWARE FACTORY" AND IS IT HYPE (31 MINUTE BREAKDOWN) I think it's a silly name for a genuinely USEFUL idea! A software factory is 5-6 markdown files that sit next to your code and tell your agents how you like to work, so you can build high quality apps 24/7. It's going viral because AI coding has a trust problem. The model can build the feature, but with no structure around it you end up babysitting the agent, wondering what changed and hoping it didn't break something important. So you build with agents the same way a factory builds physical products! 1. Each feature gets its own station, which in software means its own branch, so multiple agents can work at the same time without stepping on each other. 2. The build station gives the agent rules for how to write the code, because "it works" is very different from "a developer could open this repo next month and understand what happened." 3. The proof station makes the agent show evidence. Screenshots, videos, speed numbers, before-and-after states. It has to prove the thing works instead of saying it works. 4. The review station runs the work through a code review agent, and if it doesn't clear the bar, it goes back through the line. 5. Then you show up at the end to merge. For a 100+ years people have run production this way, and it worked because the structure is good. The full episode on what’s a software factory is NOW live on @startupideaspod with the wonderful @rasmic Watch: So is it hype?!? I don't think it is, because of what it does to your output! WITHOUT a factory, you build ONE feature at a time and you're the bottleneck at every step, prompting, checking the diff, testing it yourself, hoping nothing else broke (spoiler alert it often does). WITH a factory, EACH feature runs in its own isolated copy of the app, so you can have 10+ of them going at once, and each agent has to prove its own work and pass a code review before it ever reaches you. Instead of supervising the work, you're APPROVING finished work that already has evidence attached. REALLY interesting to see how work with agents is evolving to be….well, similar to working with people!

iPhone Duo is here. Here are 9 startup ideas I’d build for it: 1. Mobile sales room: prospect profile on one side, live call notes + objection scripts on the other 2.Pocket CAD for trades: plumber/electrician sketches room measurements with Pencil, app converts to parts list, code notes, quote. Beats Autodesk. 3. Contractor estimating app: blueprint/PDF on one side, materials calculator + margin controls on the other 4. Jewelry trade in app: customer sees instant offer, buyer sees authenticity checks, comps, resale margin. 5. Two sided live translator for businesses: clerk and customer each see their own language on opposite screens. Sell to hotels, clinics, immigration lawyers, luxury retail. 6. Pocket notary / witness app: signer sees the doc, operator sees ID verification, fraud checks, and legally required prompts. Charge per notarization. 7. Field medical consent: patient sees plain-language consent, clinician sees risks, contraindications, charting, signature. 8. Tow truck accident intake: driver captures scene/photos closed, unfolds on hood for customer claim, repair authorization, rental, tow payment. 9. On site insurance adjuster: damage capture outside, policy rules + claim estimate inside. (I'll add more Duo ideas to and maybe talk more about it on @startupideaspod) Quick framework for finding iPhone Duo startup ideas (how I'd think about it): - A phone is great when the job starts in the real world: a photo, scan, call, message, location, or quick note. - An iPad is great when you sit down to create: draw, write, edit, design, review. - BUT, Duo is interesting in the messy middle: when someone starts with a phone, suddenly needs more space, has another person involved, AND there’s money or approval on the line. I think the best Duo ideas should feel weird on a normal iPhone and unnecessary on an iPad.