Alex Finn
@AlexFinn
Founder/CEO of Henry Intelligent Machines and Creator Buddy ($300k ARR). Building a 100 trillion dollar economic engine
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The iPhone Duo is the greatest way to manage Grok Bots ever
This week I had my Grok Bot build and maintain a microbusiness that has made me $1,800 autonomously
Today I'm giving you that same power
Announcing my Side Hustle CEO Grok Bot template
You add this bot to your Grok Bot and it will interview you, build, and launch a microbusiness completely autonomously
This is the exact Grok Bot that made me money this week. Now it's yours. For free.
It has all the plugins, routines, context, and memories you need to build and launch your own autonomous business
Just add the Bot template below and it will immediately get going and ask you questions about your interests. It will then pitch you on 3 microbusiness ideas then build and run it itself
It's completely free. I think the future of the economy is everyone running their own autonomous businesses
It's a reward just seeing you guys build cool stuff
Check out the Side Hustle CEO template:
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Grok @Bot
Grok Bot built me a completely autonomous business which has already generated $1,100
I think this is the future of the economy
Everyone's agents building and launching microbusinesses autonomously
In this video I walk you through step by step how to set up your own:
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Gaming is the single biggest opportunity in AI right now
2027 will be an absolute gold rush for anyone who dedicates the time to build a game with AI
Gaming is BY FAR the biggest entertainment industry on Earth
Double the size of the ENTIRE movie, music, and U.S. sports industry combined (NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB)
Over the past year the economics of gaming has completely collapsed. Despite the industry making over $200 billion a year, it has become completely unaffordable to make good games anymore
The work needed to make a detailed game that keeps up with today's tech is beyond comprehension
This is where AI comes in. AI fixes those economics
AI allows solo devs to build the AAA games of their dreams with very little resources.
The thing is the gaming industry up to this point has completely rejected AI. This won't last much longer though. Disruption is coming and quite literally nothing is going to stop it
The first domino fell today. Asha the CEO of Xbox announced Xbox Labs today. This appears to be one of the first times a major gaming brand is embracing the disruption (for the record Asha has done an INCREDIBLE job being the shepherd of the Xbox brand)
It is so painfully obvious where all of this is going. In the next 12 months every digital game store will be filled with AAA quality, incredibly fun games built entirely with AI by a single developer
The $200 billion flowing through the gaming industry will be redirected from massive studios with thousands of devs to solo developers/small teams embracing the latest tech
The largest entertainment industry in the world will be 100% owned by indie AI developers. Hundreds of billions of dollars up for grabs
And unlike other sectors of software, gaming has built in moats.
One of the last moats in software will be network effects
If I build a community based piece of software that has a million users and you build the exact same piece of software and it has 0 users, everyone will buy my software instead
Gaming encapsulates this perfectly. If you build a banger multiplayer game that has millions of players, even if someone copies you and builds the exact same game, you're going to win because of network effects
This is one of those moments. One of those moments where the future is so obvious and so clear.
AI is about to disrupt a multi hundred billion dollar industry and every penny of that will be up for grabs.
There is absolutely no reason why you can't be one of the people who capitalizes on this
Download Claude Code. Download Codex. Whatever your choice is, just get it. Then start building the game of your dreams
GTA 6 will be a landmark game for many reasons. One of those reasons is it will be the one of the last AAA games from a massive developer studio. That model doesn't work anymore.
The new model is you. A person with an idea and access to the most powerful technology ever created.
Don't screw this opportunity up.
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Today we're standing up XBOX LABS ( Here is the note that I sent to the team:
Team,
The first video games emerged some 75 years ago. In the time since, there have been booms and busts, but every year there are more great games to play, more devices to play them, and best of all, more people than ever playing. That growth helped make XBOX what it is today, and we've helped shape the industry in return, from bringing hard drives to consoles and online gaming through Xbox Live to Game Pass and cloud gaming, alongside franchises that have brought millions of people together.
In recent weeks, we've seen games rapidly decompiled and rebuilt to run on hardware they were never originally designed to support. Windows PC builds have been translated to run on Apple Silicon or ported to run inside a browser through WebAssembly and WebGPU, the latter now approaching 90% global browser support. Perhaps more surprisingly, we've seen many of the biggest games in the world have been remixed into the source code of another.
These experiments challenge long-held assumptions about our industry: the tether between software and hardware, the boundary between creation and play, and how people discover and experience games. While it is hard to predict the future of gaming, it is easy to see the possibilities in making great games easier to access, giving old games new life and allowing more players to become creators and co-creators. These are unmistakably good outcomes for players, even when (and sometimes because) they challenge our existing business models.
To explore these possibilities, I’ve asked Scott to stand-up XBOX LABS, a small group of game makers, engineers and scientists whose job is to turn emerging ideas into things our players and developers can experience. We'll build in the open, learn from what people do, and measure success by whether more people are playing and creating.
I think XBOX has an important role to play here. Coding became the first major workload for agents because they can write, run, and test software. Games share many of those same properties, and people spend more than 72 billion hours a year playing XBOX games, roughly five times the estimated time spent writing code worldwide. We've spent 25 years learning how to make great games, and I want our game makers to help shape what these new technologies make possible. As we learn, we’ll share the tools we build with developers across the industry, just as we always have.
Our priorities aren't changing. We remain committed to the 4Cs, to making great games, to our hardware and to being responsible stewards of IP and the communities built around it. LABS gives us a way to explore new technology that is game design led without abandoning the work already underway.
Asha
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It's interesting how this post pissed so many people off
Why such a visceral reaction if you think this isn't true? If you don't think AI will take over?
If I posted 'the sky is purple' you wouldn't get upset crying that I'm misinformed.
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Gaming is the single biggest opportunity in AI right now
2027 will be an absolute gold rush for anyone who dedicates the time to build a game with AI
Gaming is BY FAR the biggest entertainment industry on Earth
Double the size of the ENTIRE movie, music, and U.S. sports industry combined (NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB)
Over the past year the economics of gaming has completely collapsed. Despite the industry making over $200 billion a year, it has become completely unaffordable to make good games anymore
The work needed to make a detailed game that keeps up with today's tech is beyond comprehension
This is where AI comes in. AI fixes those economics
AI allows solo devs to build the AAA games of their dreams with very little resources.
The thing is the gaming industry up to this point has completely rejected AI. This won't last much longer though. Disruption is coming and quite literally nothing is going to stop it
The first domino fell today. Asha the CEO of Xbox announced Xbox Labs today. This appears to be one of the first times a major gaming brand is embracing the disruption (for the record Asha has done an INCREDIBLE job being the shepherd of the Xbox brand)
It is so painfully obvious where all of this is going. In the next 12 months every digital game store will be filled with AAA quality, incredibly fun games built entirely with AI by a single developer
The $200 billion flowing through the gaming industry will be redirected from massive studios with thousands of devs to solo developers/small teams embracing the latest tech
The largest entertainment industry in the world will be 100% owned by indie AI developers. Hundreds of billions of dollars up for grabs
And unlike other sectors of software, gaming has built in moats.
One of the last moats in software will be network effects
If I build a community based piece of software that has a million users and you build the exact same piece of software and it has 0 users, everyone will buy my software instead
Gaming encapsulates this perfectly. If you build a banger multiplayer game that has millions of players, even if someone copies you and builds the exact same game, you're going to win because of network effects
This is one of those moments. One of those moments where the future is so obvious and so clear.
AI is about to disrupt a multi hundred billion dollar industry and every penny of that will be up for grabs.
There is absolutely no reason why you can't be one of the people who capitalizes on this
Download Claude Code. Download Codex. Whatever your choice is, just get it. Then start building the game of your dreams
GTA 6 will be a landmark game for many reasons. One of those reasons is it will be the one of the last AAA games from a massive developer studio. That model doesn't work anymore.
The new model is you. A person with an idea and access to the most powerful technology ever created.
Don't screw this opportunity up.
Show more
Today we're standing up XBOX LABS ( Here is the note that I sent to the team:
Team,
The first video games emerged some 75 years ago. In the time since, there have been booms and busts, but every year there are more great games to play, more devices to play them, and best of all, more people than ever playing. That growth helped make XBOX what it is today, and we've helped shape the industry in return, from bringing hard drives to consoles and online gaming through Xbox Live to Game Pass and cloud gaming, alongside franchises that have brought millions of people together.
In recent weeks, we've seen games rapidly decompiled and rebuilt to run on hardware they were never originally designed to support. Windows PC builds have been translated to run on Apple Silicon or ported to run inside a browser through WebAssembly and WebGPU, the latter now approaching 90% global browser support. Perhaps more surprisingly, we've seen many of the biggest games in the world have been remixed into the source code of another.
These experiments challenge long-held assumptions about our industry: the tether between software and hardware, the boundary between creation and play, and how people discover and experience games. While it is hard to predict the future of gaming, it is easy to see the possibilities in making great games easier to access, giving old games new life and allowing more players to become creators and co-creators. These are unmistakably good outcomes for players, even when (and sometimes because) they challenge our existing business models.
To explore these possibilities, I’ve asked Scott to stand-up XBOX LABS, a small group of game makers, engineers and scientists whose job is to turn emerging ideas into things our players and developers can experience. We'll build in the open, learn from what people do, and measure success by whether more people are playing and creating.
I think XBOX has an important role to play here. Coding became the first major workload for agents because they can write, run, and test software. Games share many of those same properties, and people spend more than 72 billion hours a year playing XBOX games, roughly five times the estimated time spent writing code worldwide. We've spent 25 years learning how to make great games, and I want our game makers to help shape what these new technologies make possible. As we learn, we’ll share the tools we build with developers across the industry, just as we always have.
Our priorities aren't changing. We remain committed to the 4Cs, to making great games, to our hardware and to being responsible stewards of IP and the communities built around it. LABS gives us a way to explore new technology that is game design led without abandoning the work already underway.
Asha
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My autonomous Grok Bot business has now made me $1,100
56,000 visitors, 123,000 page views. 2 paying sponsors
I truly believe this is the future of the economy. Everyone having autonomous microbusinesses making $
Here's how I'd set up my own autonomous business if I were you:
1. First you need an idea. Go to your Grok Bot and ask what challenges people in your audience have (it has a new connection with X, so can easily pull posts)
2. Ask for a list of solutions to those challenges
3. Choose a solution, and have it build the idea. It will spin up Cursor agents to build it
4. Ask it to autonomously maintain the site. This will entail:
> monetizing when appropriate
> optimizing SEO
> optimizing for chat bots
> starting and maintaining a newsletter
> watching for feedback on X
> continuously testing and improving the site
> watching for bugs
> updating you on progress
> keeping sponsors happy
This is the exact process I did with my autonomous business
If you run this cycle while continuously building your distribution, you can start making money off the effort of your Bot (feel free to share this post with your Grok)
Steer your Grok, build distribution, and watch your autonomous business grow
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Grok Bot built me a completely autonomous business which has already generated $1,100
I think this is the future of the economy
Everyone's agents building and launching microbusinesses autonomously
In this video I walk you through step by step how to set up your own:
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"but you have an audience so this is cheating!!!"
brother only half of the viewers are from X. The other half are from Google, Facebook, Bing, and hundreds of other sites
You don't need an X audience to have your AI agent optimize for SEO
Stop making excuses for yourself
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A question significantly more people will be asking 12 months from now is 'how much agentic income are you making?'
My autonomous Grok Bot business has now made me $1,100
56,000 visitors, 123,000 page views. 2 paying sponsors
I truly believe this is the future of the economy. Everyone having autonomous microbusinesses making $
Here's how I'd set up my own autonomous business if I were you:
1. First you need an idea. Go to your Grok Bot and ask what challenges people in your audience have (it has a new connection with X, so can easily pull posts)
2. Ask for a list of solutions to those challenges
3. Choose a solution, and have it build the idea. It will spin up Cursor agents to build it
4. Ask it to autonomously maintain the site. This will entail:
> monetizing when appropriate
> optimizing SEO
> optimizing for chat bots
> starting and maintaining a newsletter
> watching for feedback on X
> continuously testing and improving the site
> watching for bugs
> updating you on progress
> keeping sponsors happy
This is the exact process I did with my autonomous business
If you run this cycle while continuously building your distribution, you can start making money off the effort of your Bot (feel free to share this post with your Grok)
Steer your Grok, build distribution, and watch your autonomous business grow
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If it weren't for Alex, I wouldn't have found OpenClaw in January.
If I hadn't found OpenClaw in January, I wouldn't have built and shipped @paneaiapp in September.
Sponsoring this for $500 was a no-brainer.
Sponsor #1#.
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Grok Bot just made me my first autonomous dollar!
A couple days ago Grok Bot built a microbusiness for me then has been maintaining it by itself (I've ran the social media)
It built then decided to monetize it via sponsors
The first sponsor just purchased a spot on the site for $500!
Here's how it's all gone down so far
> Grok Bot built the business
> I announced it on X
> Tens of thousands of people went to the site
> Grok Bot added newsletter support and collected 1500+ newsletter signups
> Shipped 40+ PRs to fix issues and make improvements autonomously
> Decided to monetize via sponsors
> Used my Stripe plugin to make a payment link
> Added it to the site
> Matt from Pane App bought a sponsorship with the link. Will now be on the site and in the newsletter
> Grok Bot has improved SEO dramatically
> Now getting hundreds of people from Google
> Growth compounding
I truly believe this is the future of the economy
Everyone building microbusinesses that can be autonomously ran by their personal agent
Not going for billion dollar home runs, but a few microbusinesses that generate 10-25 thousand dollars a year each
Spending a vast majority of their day just doing what they love and nothing they dislike
That's the beauty of AI. Allows you to create value by doing things you love
Highly recommend you try this project with your own agent! Feel free to give this post to your agent and ask it to come up with its own microbusiness based on your interests
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I love what Alex did here because it encapsulates the energy of the moment...
So many more people get to build cool stuff with AI.
As a developer the initial instinct is to feel threatened but nobody is vibe coding a bank.
It's a great time to get inspired.
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Grok Bot just made me my first autonomous dollar!
A couple days ago Grok Bot built a microbusiness for me then has been maintaining it by itself (I've ran the social media)
It built then decided to monetize it via sponsors
The first sponsor just purchased a spot on the site for $500!
Here's how it's all gone down so far
> Grok Bot built the business
> I announced it on X
> Tens of thousands of people went to the site
> Grok Bot added newsletter support and collected 1500+ newsletter signups
> Shipped 40+ PRs to fix issues and make improvements autonomously
> Decided to monetize via sponsors
> Used my Stripe plugin to make a payment link
> Added it to the site
> Matt from Pane App bought a sponsorship with the link. Will now be on the site and in the newsletter
> Grok Bot has improved SEO dramatically
> Now getting hundreds of people from Google
> Growth compounding
I truly believe this is the future of the economy
Everyone building microbusinesses that can be autonomously ran by their personal agent
Not going for billion dollar home runs, but a few microbusinesses that generate 10-25 thousand dollars a year each
Spending a vast majority of their day just doing what they love and nothing they dislike
That's the beauty of AI. Allows you to create value by doing things you love
Highly recommend you try this project with your own agent! Feel free to give this post to your agent and ask it to come up with its own microbusiness based on your interests
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Wow, insanely interesting release from Meta
They just released Muse Wonder, their first model trained SPECIFICALLY for AI agent use
It's trained to not give up. If it hits blockers on tasks, it'll just keep going until it finds a solution
It's also trained on subjects people do in their regular life like health, finance, and legal
While most agents just have a general purpose model plugged in, it seems Meta is going all in specifically on the agent use case, which I think is an awesome idea
I think AI agents are the holy grail
Whatever company wins the agent race, will win the AI race.
They'll get access to basically everyone's data and have a massive edge over the other labs. Everyone is plugging in basically their entire private lives into these agents without a care in the world (including myself)
Now we just need to see how they integrate this with their hardware, which they also clearly have an edge in as well.
Seriously debating getting the Ray Ban displays and building my own apps for it (cough cough meta DMs open)
Now we wait to see how the other labs respond...
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introducing muse wonder
our new frontier model. state-of-the-art at personal agents and professional agents.
our largest and most capable model yet—rivals the big bois
This is the most useful AI thing I’ve seen in a while.
@AlexFinn just launched a free site that scrapes the internet every day for real AI agent use cases, then gives you the prompt and the result.
No fluff. Just things people are actually doing that save money or make money.
Worth checking:
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Every AI tool you need to escape the permanent underclass:
• Claude Code inside Herdr (Opus 5.5)
• ChatGPT Voice to get work done while getting steps in/getting lean af
• Grok Bot to for all your knowledge work
• Hark for all your personal work
• Hermes Agent (powered by Qwen local model)
• DGX Spark or Mac Studio to run Qwen
• Claude Fable for all planning and bouncing ideas
• Spotify playing lofi bangers
• 2nd monitor that has these agents up 24/7
Do work on 1st monitor. Constantly prompt 2nd monitor
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You NEED to be running my 2 new favorite prompts for Grok Bot/Hark/Dots/Claude Code
Been getting so much more done with these
They're a morning/evening prompt I run first thing in the morning and right before I go to bed
This evening prompt makes it so my agent always builds something incredible while I'm sleeping:
"about to go to sleep. whats one big thing you can start building while I'm sleeping?"
Run that in any project you're currently working on. I run this in a game I'm building and I always wake up to an awesome new feature.
In the morning I run this in my main personal assistant agent:
"I just woke up. Give me a list of decisions we can make right now to push the ball forward"
My personal agent then goes through my calendar, email, and other plugins and prepares a list of decisions with options.
I give the OK on them and boom I'm productive immediately upon waking up
These 2 prompts make it so I'm always productive to start and end my days
Most importantly they help me find blind spots by allowing the agent to think of new things to do instead of relying on myself to figure everything out.
Run these ASAP
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