How to build a $1M+ startup using AI (Full Tutorial)

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everyone before we get into the episode i have a quick announcement so if you're hearing this that means you're listening on a podcast podcasting app like spotify and this episode will be a lot better if you go and watch it on youtube and the reason being is we had a friend greg is on the pod and we asked him to use ai to come up with a business idea and implement it in only one hour and to put the pressure on we actually had him screen share so we could see exactly what he was doing and it was mind blowing and so if you're working out if you're on a run if you're on the train and you're listening to this via podcast podcasting apps it's fine you could still listen and get a lot of value but if you can go to our youtube page my first million and watch this and i think it'll make a lot more sense alright enjoy the episode i think i'm gonna blow your mind today by the end of this episode sam we're going to see me replace a developer a salesperson a designer a marketer a researcher product manager with ai agents okay i'm in i feel like i could rule world i know i could be what i want to from at all in it like a days off on a role travel never look are you gonna tailor this to someone like me who's like a a ne stall i'm gonna tailor this to anyone who is an idea person so anyone who listens to your podcast my first million or my podcast to start up ideas podcast anyone who considers themselves an idea person solo printer someone who wants a side hustle someone who wants a business to make money and is interested in trends and ideas okay i i'm into this dude okay so we're gonna go through six steps the first is how to find the right idea and trend the second is sketching out the idea i'm gonna talk about the tools i use i'm also gonna give away all the workflows so people can just copy them we're gonna scope out the mvp using a tool called man we're gonna vibe code prototype using bolt dot new we're gonna vibe market the business and automate it using lin ai and then we're gonna use a a ai agent product manager using idea browser because i'm above the age of thirty i feel little uncomfortable using the word vibe but do we get a pass can i say the v word you could say the viewer i don't know let's yeah well we wait for for now we can we can both say the v word even though it's cringe as hell alright i'll try it on let's get into it alright so what's the first step the first step is i'm assuming you don't have an idea okay so let's go find an idea so every single day idea browser dot com this is act i created this for myself okay so it basically uses so every single day a new idea comes with a trend so today's idea is to create an ai seo agency and it it gives you a name l boost and it basically says that there's four hundred million people questioning chat etcetera someone to start an agency to specializing in l m large language model seo did your methodology give you this idea for idea browser dot com a hundred percent this is basically product greg and like i basically i run a holding company as my day job and we're constantly inc innovating and investing in ideas so we basically said how can we have an unfair advantage using ai to find the latest trends and ideas alright i'm into us but there's a twist so it says we're gonna offer a free ai powered audit quiz that instantly shows businesses where they rank in ai searches most will be shocked they don't exist and then we're gonna sell premium optimization services to fix it so for example like hampton i don't know how much of your traffic organic seo let's say a thousand people a day from search what people are noticing is that l search as a part of organic search is maybe down five or ten percent dude we are just now getting people we have gotten a bunch people who have signed up and they found us via chat gp right so it would be cool if hampton for example would show up more often i agree you know so this is like a good idea right and it gives you like an opportunity score a problem score and this uses all ai agents and you can quote you can go in in and stuff like that like it tells you exactly what business model you should use what your pricing should be what are you know com competing customers it really does all the work for you you know the go to market strategies what is the target audience it actually scrape and goes through facebook groups youtube channels like this reddit and it basically set it it it's almost like your ai founder in that sense one of the cool features is let's just say you know let there's a lot of ideas that are really good but sam for example you might not be the best person to go after this idea so you can basically go through a founder fit score and say i'm sam i'm the founder of hampton i specialize in community is this a good idea for me and then it uses ai to basically generate an assessment to see if we should actually go and do this idea okay this is awesome and do you have a bunch of people and this is a product too i didn't i just signed up for it you have a lot of customers for this i haven't publicly posted about it wow alright so this is awesome alright so it give me a six and a half out of ten yeah so it says your skill alignment gotta i talked you kinda savage it because your skill alignment is four on ten which i don't disagree with you agree with yeah so it just goes through this and it gives you some immediate actions to do what you should do okay maybe we should partner with an ai and seo expert you know maybe you should launch a community driven platform for client engagement anyways the point of this is this is awesome yeah and there's way there's way more you can do you can also you know tells you exactly what your offer should be it gives you different frameworks like alex for mo has the value equation which i really like dude this is gonna be a huge product that you made this is really cool and it and it and it's all yeah special to this and it also has this ai assistant like we can ask it like you know what are the key risks of the business and you could have a full on it's like chat g for ideas there is a feature and we can go to it maybe at the end if we have time okay where you upload your own idea and it generates a a report based on all our all the data of like youtube and reddit it and all of ai basically but step one is to use this website to get an idea that's fair the one is you want it you wanna and you know this you wanna build an idea based on the trend because it's easier yeah so look fine you know use something like idea browser dot com to get an idea based on a trend and then go so that's step one hey really quick if you're enjoying this episode the team at hubspot they actually went and summarize the entire thing and so it's in a pdf that's really easy to read so you can refer back to it all you have to do is click the link below but this thing is awesome i just proof read it and it walks you through greg's entire five step system from idea paying customers using nothing but free tools and ai prompts so you should go and check it out it's a very easy sum amortization of this entire episode again the link is below alright now back to the show okay so i think ideas are important i think that for a lot of people just starting out ideas are unimportant because it's just like just just just get into something and you'll figure it out but i think that if you have a proven track record of like i i execute so execution or going forward is not a problem for me and then if you have that personality ideas are actually incredibly important i talked to kevin ryan who's i believe he's a billionaire but he's founded a mongodb which is a thirty five versus fifty billion dollar company business since insider gil group z but he started all these amazing companies and he started to be his incubator and he told me the ideas are incredibly important and he was like i get one good idea a year and i wanna make sure it's important and great because i go hard on that idea and so i have to make that i'm going in the right direction and so i actually have grown to become a believer that ideas are actually really important it's not just execution if you have a past of you move forward i think you're right so that step one step two is okay i kinda cheated in the sense that you do need a human being involved in this process it's not a hundred percent with ai so step two is you gotta sketch out the idea so i use a tool i'm not affiliated by the way with tl draw i like have you tl d draw or teal have you seen this no what is this basically like going to everything that as you're talking i'm going to it tl yeah well i wanted to give away like the stack i'm gonna give away the stack that i use so basically it's kinda like a fig jam competitor i think it's free to sign up and i just wanted to sketch out what this quiz would look like so because you if you remember the idea is we need to do two things we need a people are gonna land on this website it gave a idea browser gave us the name l boost we need to learn about the business so for example hampton you know what's the url what type of customers you want then we need to do research with agents and then we need to check that you know is hampton coming up in chat is hampton coming up in in claude is hampton coming up in g and then we need to give it a score so i just drew this out and the reason i drew this out is because i've noticed and this is a tip for everyone listening i noticed that when you go to an l i use i'm using man and and i can talk about that and you give it an image like that you're gonna get better results that's crazy and how long did it take you to draw that out like seven minutes i hate drawing on computers yeah the beauty about teal draw although though i will say is like it makes it for like bad drivers like you and i to just like make these boxes so it's for us it's for us big jam is also really good okay it's it's tl l draw dot com yeah tl l d r r dot com exactly the next step is to scope out our minimal viable product right so we need to figure out how we actually get build this thing right there's so many question marks and instead of going to a product manager or instead of try to figuring out yourself you and i are lazy right we're just gonna go and get ai to do this whole thing for us so sam have you ever heard of mattis no i'm on their website right now it says man is a general ai agent that bridges minds and actions it doesn't think it delivers results it excels at various tasks and work in life and getting everything done while you rest alright that sounds great to me yeah so it's it's very you know people might ask like how is this different than chat eb or or cloud or or or or some of those and it's almost like a chat g super supercharged so i'll i'll go through my prompts but basically it's almost like we're watching you know if people are saying we're it literally goes and search the internet for you and based on that like learn stuff and then execute on the task so it's like having a hundred agents working for you but doesn't open ai research do this too yeah but not like first of all i can watch it happen in real time and give it feedback which is kinda cool well sorry open has operator too the operator yeah this is like a super supercharged version of operator so while you think this is better than operator i mean i'll i have to give a disclosure which is it's chinese so like be careful i mean i'm not like putting you know my financial data and uploading it right so do they like sub like they like put like ps like capitalism is horrible and like you know we're gonna come and dominate you eventually totally it it's it's you know it's there's a subtle subtle nuance to that for sure in in in in the in the vibe so but i will say it's it's extremely good at for this use case so i'm gonna go through the prompts and we're gonna and by the end of this section we're gonna have a good idea of like what we're building and all the specs and i just signed up for as we are talking is it it has all these like cool like research data analysis all these other they're like toggle that i couldn't use these do does this cost money or this free free to use initially they give you like a lot of these they give you like a they get you hooked they're like drug dealers they get you hooked and then you have to buy you know then you have to buy credits it's a credit system alright okay i have an account now yeah and by the way this was invite only up until recently so your unfair advantage like people listening to this like get on this now before everyone finds out well i looked at their traffic it looked like they went live in march because they had like zero traffic and then in march they had twenty three million site visits to insane yeah okay so have you heard of whisper flow i feel like i love whisper flow whisper flows is my favorite ai tool okay so i love whisper too you use it on a phone and or desktop so i literally just the whisper flow by the way it's it's a i think it might be free too maybe i paid a hundred dollars but basically i click a button on my computer and anywhere where i would normally be typing it transcribe transcribed what i'm saying so i'm just talking all day instead of typing exactly so that's what i did here it's like i basically did a prompt whereas like i'm starting you took the idea from my idea of browser i uploaded the image and i'm like i'm starting an agency for l seo i just basically explained what i'm doing i'm not gonna go through the full prompt but the key here is when you're doing the initial prompt don't forget to say ask me any questions before you get started so we have the right strategy for this and i've noticed that by putting that in there that small one you know one sentence you're gonna get better output so you were talking to it and got the text and also you attach the image yeah you you should attach any any images or documents that you think are relevant to whatever it is you're trying to do understood and then and then so the reply was this is interesting here's a bunch of questions that i have to ask before we get started okay yeah so it i mean it asked the right questions i would i would say like who is the target audience for the quiz what is the main goal for the person what is the key differentiator between traditional seo and l seo so it asks these questions and then you know i use whisper flow as you can see like it's so casual i'm using whisper flow just to respond okay wow so wow is coming up it's it's it gets you even crazier so you know i say things like the ultimate business goal to be give to give them a benchmark for where they're ranking in l now and then we provide a service for helping them level up their l seo with tools and service so i'm basically giving some more information wait would you and would you ask it to critique the idea oh yeah i do that all the time so you'll be like does this make sense or do you think it should be different like could i just say it like my goal to scale to a hundred million in revenue in ten years dude sometimes i'll take an idea provide the browser i'll put it in and then you know ask it to critique it and then through the conversation with man i'm like you know i don't wanna do this anymore and this is better you think than because i do the same thing with open ai but with my own company so with open ai chat i'll upload like my financials i'll up upload like a book that i like like for example it could be like a warren buffett book and i'll be like ask warren what would warren say about this how would warren solve these problems that i'm facing yeah that's that's a really good actually hack for using any of these l is like pretend your x y z person you look up to what how would how would would warren buffett start this business why or why not would sean and por start this business why or why not yeah or sometimes i'll be like pretend that you're a bc g or mckinsey consultant and you're like cold hearted and all about operations explain to me how that personality type would execute on this problem or yeah that's a good hack people should definitely do that okay so man is awesome but you're saying that man for what you're doing right now this is better than chat oh yeah it's it's night and day it's actually night and day wow okay and so chat gb is not gonna do this for example like it start you know we're clarifying some stuff it literally creates a to do list for the project this is like literally like what a project manager product manager would do okay this is insane right so phase one research and planning clarify quiz objectives you know phase two question and prompt development create detailed quiz questions draft specific clear and actionable questions for each category phase three validation and final visualization validate questions and prompt with users and then the the delivery report and send quiz materials to user provide the finalized quiz materials to the user it's basically putting an entire project plan for what i'm doing with madness right now wow i feel like all of my employees need to know how to do all this yeah send this to everyone send this to everyone it's just gonna make you a lot more productive so what was the second so the first thing that you did was you explained the business and then what was and then it asked you a bunch of questions you answered the questions and then what so we got the project plan and then it goes and gets to work it's your product manager it's your ai product manager and it actually goes and creates the two things that we actually need because remember we're trying to product tie we're kind to create like essentially a saas software to basically score how a company like hampton is gonna you know come out in a l in a in a chat eb so we need two things we need to what are the questions that we need to ask the business and how do we test on the different l and and i don't know how to do that so that's why we're gonna we ask man to do it and matt figured it out for us holy shit so what you're looking at sam is the the quiz detailed questions that we can make as like almost like a type form on our product what's name of our product it's called l boost alright so you go to l boost dot com and right on the first page you see like a quiz and you're gonna start taking that quiz yeah we're gonna sam we're gonna like i i i'm gonna actually show you how i vibe coated it in like four minutes and we're gonna actually go through that product after okay how's your heart rate right now i feel like i'm taking notes and i'm like i need everyone at my company to know exactly how to do this and i'm like do i hire a greg like how do i teach all of my or or am i like do i just have to good at this and i have to teach everyone like is my job as as the boss just to be like teaching people how to use ai is that it i don't think this is something that you can outsource yeah so then you're saying that i need to get good at this and then i need to teach people i mean unfortunately wow okay yeah the unfair advantage and the returns that you're gonna get by understanding of these tools is just worth it like why would you wanna outsource it well because i'm not an expert in it but i guess i to become an expert but how do you stay on top of all of this it's my job you know it's my job to stay on top of this stuff i know but tell me how like how did you know man is awesome because i'm under or dude that's such a that's such a cop out like you know are you playing on twitter all day are you in like what are you doing i i do have tweed notifications for like some creators that i like and that i'm i'm you know following everything that's new that's coming out and i'm also what when i say a nerd i love playing with the tools not just like but you're just hearing this through word mouth word being just like just the trades you're reading the trades yeah you're you're reading the trades you know it's just the trades is that some is that some it's not pc weekly anymore it's a guy on twitter and then i would say like what i like about the podcast and you probably like this too is that it's an opportunity to actually learn in public so i'm just learning in public on the podcast alright well this is cool what know what so we got these two quizzes and exactly you know how we can yeah we have that basically the the quiz for the business and then we have the prompt testing for the l m's but when i went through it i actually felt that this was too long like no one's gonna answer a thousand questions so i basically said is there any way to make the quiz shorter or it's huge quiz and then i also i downloaded a l seo mini course from the v marketer dot com another you know whatever it's a course and i just uploaded the content to make it even better because i was reading i'm nerd and i was reading this stuff and i was like i wanna make sure that we have this course and all this content in here so i just pay basically the point here is you can paste anything into here for contacts pdfs documents and stuff like that this was a free course this was a pay i paid well i'm it's c cofounder mine started this course okay so you got it for free but it's paid course and is this the thing on school it's a thing on school yeah okay got it so it's a hundred and fifty bucks and you got some course and you put it in there understood so it's like thank you and then it goes i'm gonna review the transcripts and refine the the prompts and the quiz questions so then it goes my plan and doesn't it sound like a human my plan is to analyze the transcript you provided to extract key insights relevant to l seo and how businesses are found l and then it's gonna work on the strategies to shorten and consolidate the quiz and then it's gonna revise both the quiz questions and the prompt template it's like such a it's it's so pleasant dealing with an employee like this yeah it's gonna be like hey my grandma died i gotta go the funeral in tampa i'll be back in two weeks and then it's like gonna take a ten day vacation mattis takes the vacations oh okay cool so it is a great employee so it goes and does it for us we've got the files to review and i wanna give away one more tip on man so or actually it works on any l so we talked about this in the beginning you know we're lazy right so how do we i i know what i wanna do next now that i have the quiz it's like i wanna go vibe code i wanna build this product but i need to know what is the best prompt yeah to prompt in this case i'm using bolt dot new and so the best thing you can do is actually ask man or chat t what is the best prompt so say i say can you create a prompt that i can get my ai developer that i would use to generate this landing page with a multi step funnel that asked the l questions include all the necessary fields that i need to have and have a clean modern design by the way this is a another huge hack is to ask it the prompt that you should ask it it it might be the biggest hack of of using l like well is ask for the prompt you will never be able to prompt the the person the guy you know the software that sees all the prompts so yeah i also use k cabrera do know k cabrera k b i use the product i love k cabrera i'm i'm not affiliated with that at all but i i i know the founder and it's like a net worth tracker so it doesn't it's just like mint to whatever you could just track all your finances and they have an ai chat integration and then i was like alright what questions do you think i should ask you on happiness on life strategy whatever like tell me some questions you think i should ask you and it gave me a list of all the questions that i should ask that i never even thought of and i started having in conversation with it was really amazing and so asking the l what you should ask you is useful amen brother so we asked it and it does it beautifully i'm gonna go open it up just to show you what that prompt looks like it's a super long prompt so it goes through the project goal it's like develop a high converting landing page and integrate a multi step quiz funnel and this is the prompt that you're going to give to bolt dot new which is the thing that's gonna make the website correct yeah wow so it's a really long prompt yeah like really long like obviously you and i would have never done this yeah that would have taken a week like it's like learning a turn paper look at this dude yeah wow okay so thank you mattis and the people's republic of china and we then move on to silicon valley startup called bolt dot new and i will show you how i one prompted the website so and is bolt dot new the same thing as cursor lovable and all this other stuff there's bolt dot new lovable cursor and i mean there's a lot of them now wind surface is another one that just i think got acquired for three billion i know if you saw that yeah i did that that that was the same thing yeah it's like a similar thing so cursor and win are for more technical people got it today lovable and bolts are for non technical people who wanna ship shot software and why do you prefer this one over lovable you know the i i started using this first i find it i find the output to be really good but use whatever works for you understood okay so you typed in or you copied that huge thing in there and then i get this web okay and it says you're cut by the way i'm not like creating copy here right you know i'm not doing anything and i literally one shot at it and says your customers are searching for you on l but you're not there sad face our free quiz helps you understand your visibility and chat per complexity and other a ai models and what to do about it take the free l seo quiz now oh my god okay so click your words guy not bad this is more than not bad your customers are yeah i mean that's it's the best sam you're the human to the best but you know a close second but i like how it says there's even a there's even a testimonial from a ceo of a major internet company and you wanna know something i would leave that in there boy i would just leave it as we're seeing here's the testimonial we're seeing a much higher conversion rate from perspective users coming from organic traffic versus organic search from the ceo of a major internet company i think the ceo of a major internet company has probably said that before so it's not totally it's not wrong to keep that in there it's like defined major yeah yeah a person has said that so i don't know if they've said it about m l l m boost dot com but like a person has said that for sure so let's get into the quiz so it creates the quiz wait so it did you do any work before this because i'm on bolt dot new right now it takes takes like a few minutes to make the website if you're using the free account like i am right i'm pretty sure i have a free kale maybe i have a paid account okay so while we were talking i just said make a personality quiz website and i got a web page that like i just clicked start now right and it works the web the website works yeah it it's crazy that's really crazy i awesome yeah so there's this thing that you can literally just say english to and software comes out of it which is bonkers and so it says what type of business do you wanna operate let's just say like a service business do you have a website for your or we can just do like you actually we can do hampton would be a service business actually yeah do you have a website yes i do how often do you publish new weekly yeah week weekly or more often what topics did your content typically cover how to guides like this is relevant i'll to let's go to case studies go to case click play studies you can click both oh wow okay but before today how familiar were you with l seo somewhat familiar k do you use do you or your team use ai tools like chat for business all the time yeah are your competitor is visible in ai search to your your knowledge i am not sure how important is seo for your business currently somewhat important join hampton dot com people don't search ceo communities but but in ll m's they'll ask it ceo questions and it would be amazing if we were recommended put your name sam par okay company named hampton look at this look at this i want the report well like they put a little privacy thing that's a small detail that i that again so they should put like the chinese emoji flag at the end and that's like the symbol for gotcha totally made in china privacy know we respect your privacy will only use information use your information to send you your quiz results and related l seo information we will never share your information with third parties this is the little details that if you don't use man or an l like that and and ask it to do the prompt for you you will miss boom so in twenty four hours sam you're gonna get a personalized l seo score you're get an analysis of your current ai search visibility you're gonna get specific recommendations for improvement and additional resources to help you to help optimize your business for l visibility we just built a saas in like thirty minutes well but it's not doing though is it gonna do the work for me it's not you have to then hire the person to like the consultant like so who's gonna do a personalized ll seo score this software so what man created the the all i have to do to get it to to to to for this to work all i have to do so bolt has to these like integrations so let me see my my analysis analyzed me baby i have to just put in all i have to do is get it chat t api key and hook it up and i'll give i can get your score how hard will that be in under an hour you can have chat analyze the data and i you know you would probably wanna have an integration with super base so do you you know super base no dude okay so a super base is it's just it's a database so this is just the front end right and simpler english words i would say it's just the thing that is showing it but you need to hook it up to a database a place where you can store the data and you could also and then if you wanna take payments you're gonna wanna add stripe as well what okay so and the way that you would create this report for me is by doing what so in the man details it tells you exactly what we should prompt chat per complexity all that stuff and we just need an api key because it will cost money to actually use the intelligence of those l of of those elements but what would we ask chat so we can actually go back to man and and see that so here's the testing so section one no brand and company info prompts to check if an l can accurately retrieve basic information about the company and its offerings so if you actually filled southampton hampton just so it would take your information to your quiz information and then company name i would say hampton yeah yeah yeah right yeah so it's gonna take all that quiz information and it's going to just put it in all these questions and the then we're gonna have agents basically figure this out for us and it's gonna output a score and the agents would be chat gp yeah and they would be i would be asking chat gp itself how does join hampton rank yeah what where you'd act actually you would probably the prompt would be yeah what the prompt would be like what can you tell me about hampton then it it would the then the output would go to super base this is getting a bit technical but then the output would go to super base and it would say this is what we learned about hampton and then chat or open ai would say okay based on that it performed well not well you know we're gonna give a score of seventy on a hundred and then now you have that score so super base is the one that's giving the score super bases is what stores the data open ai chat gp is what crunch the numbers man is what's given us the questions that we should ask and chat gp is the one that is analyzing if it ranks well and then what would i have to do better to rank well that's a great question so that's where it's you basically send people the report and you say like you scored really well here you didn't score well here we can help you like that's the business model we can help you you know get better l seo for two thousand dollars a month here's a package for five thousand dollars a month here's a package oh you well i know but if i bought the two thousand dollar package what would it be doing oh would be eighty percent here's here's the thing that no one says eighty percent of or ninety percent of good l seo is just good regular seo so getting backlinks links backlinks another thing that's really worth doing is in a world where you have tools like rep i think you had him on the show bolt you know creating calculators and software that's also a high quality signal for a lot of these l m's alright this is blowing my mind i think the next piece is gonna blow your mind even more okay do it so you might be thinking okay cool greg you build something and it's a prototype but the hardest part about getting a business to to a million dollars a year of revenue or two million dollars a year is getting customers how the hell do you get customers well let's do what i call vibe marketing so i'm using a tool called lin lin dot ai today we're gonna go through two to three lin workflows to that you can copy that can help you get you customers on a autopilot okay and so i and i'm showing this by the way it's not even so that you copy it it's just so that people listening to this could in their own businesses and own ideas could could be thinking about okay how can i use a tool like this that's what i'm doing with all these tools you don't need to use madness you don't need to use you know bolt you don't need to use idea you don't need these lin but just think like this so this is a flow that i use for our design agency lc that does designed for ai interfaces or an ai age that has literally made us millions of dollars and it could be used for l boost too the way it works is this i take my tweets i create content on twitter i post it to linkedin okay i literally just copy and paste it then if i have a post on linkedin it looks at who comments and likes it then it puts all that data so sam might like and come and say like cool cool post it goes into that database and it it gives it gives me data and enrichment so i basically it says sam par oh he he he lives in new york hampton he's got five thousand followers whatever it is so it decides if a lead is qualified or not it says l scores the prospect based on zero to five based on our secret sauce it's a criteria if the lead is qualified we actually get their email and phone number on prospect and you have to have a prospect account we have have a prospect account yes so it'll give me your email that it updates it and then it we have a a slack channel that says sam par potential customer just commented and for us like for our business we our average con our average deal size is a million dollars so we're only trying to find like ceo look at these like our list of customers like it's the gm of nike it's the president dropbox right and you make content that the gm or whoever liked yes and my dude dude all the i well almost didn't wanna share this what videos what video titles do you have that are all about marketing things like this all my vibe marketing stuff i just did like a a presentation on vibe marketing i go through like a bunch of workflows watch that that's a good primary start with that oh my god sorry to give you homework work so you're making me weak at the knees greg we are nerds dude it if this is making us we get the knees yeah it is the next thing is gonna make you like super weeks just because i know how much money i have to spend doing this normally and how much work and how tedious it is like people who have like dude before i literally had a person comb through this like going through my likes okay so checks out so we notify the potential prospects and then what happens is we have a salesperson if if the salesperson hurts the message it automatically sends them a text message or email wait hurts what does heart mean like heart like like a heart if they i trust your at like i'm asking you how to define something and you're just saying the words over and over again so you the yeah you know the symbol of love yeah but where is there a symbol of love on linkedin slack wait okay you can that's you're okay so i post something on linkedin the gm of salesforce who i wanna sell to clicks it and says you go sam or whatever you rock sam i get notified in slack that i that he said you go girl and then someone on my team clicked heart and then what then that person gets a personalized email or text message oh my god yeah insane right what does the email say it's personalized i i you know you you might to say i don't know like how does this well it's like hey like saw saw that you know imagine this right let's just use the example of you know we'll use lc c like design agent so let's just say check out this you know we just designed dropbox dash it's an an ai version of dropbox and then i noticed that the or it it notices that the vp of product of shopify likes it so personalized email goes out and says hey shopify like how can we transition shopify from a cloud company to an ai company i'd love to jam with you on it i saw that you liked my post that's crazy it's crazy but it's even crazier is the next thing i'm gonna show you and i know it keeps saying that but this is this is gonna blow your mind it's a bit more complicated so bear with me for a second and then i'm gonna show you by way i don't i don't wanna forget i'm gonna show you how you can find some of these workflows so what if and by the way both these things we can use for l boost what if you can have an email negotiator as a ai agent so basically what if it you can have someone negotiate on behalf of you automatically using ai so you're i like for example if i'm like i'm i'm apartment shopping right now and like it could like email apartments that i like well no so let's just say let's use the example of l boost just because we were talking about it so let's just say on l boost we created a pricing page and it was like there's three packages for seo three thousand dollars a month five thousand dollars a month and then contact us you know someone clicks contact us they're like hey i'll pay up upfront but i wanna discount but i wanna a discount no problem so it goes in so it gets we get the email and then it checks the knowledge base so knowledge base could be anything from like notion google drive dropbox a website even and so you do have to do some upfront human work of like saying okay if someone you know contact us and wants a discount you know we don't wanna we won't go lower than ten percent or fifteen percent if it finds a response it automatically responds to the inbound lead now it gives it an objective so the prompt here you can see on the right hand side in the prompt is your job is to negotiate with the email in respond to their questions until a decision is made in regards to the partnership opportunity did you write this prompt so lindy has a template detection i recommend people go and check them out you can actually just copy these some of these workflows prompts so it goes hey first name appreciate the interest we only discount ten percent for fall deals as it is our busiest time for collab let me know what you decide you know keep responses to one to two sentences never make offerings so this is insane do all of your employees know how to do all this stuff incredibly well i mean dude we're like inc integrating ai products and have agencies for for this stuff so yes how many how many employees do you have we're probably like fifty five sixty and if you didn't have this stuff how much bigger would it like how i i wanna know how much you're saving doing this oh we're probably saving well first of all we're doing it we're doing things out at at a speed and and scale we wouldn't be able to do with human beings realistically so there's money that we had left on the table like millions of dollars a year that per year especially on the lc side like these big partnerships deals like it's so important that you reach out to someone like five minutes ten minutes twenty five minutes after they are engaged or else they might even forget about you you know what i mean like in that linkedin example so i would say we're probably saving five billion dollars a year plus goddamn damn yeah could could i just hire like are there agencies that i or i wish that like i had a full time staff member who just did this stuff who just allocated everything that we do and was like let's automate it you get you know i don't mean to plug all all my stuff but you could you can you can go to boring marketing dot com and that's what you guys do like very small like i don't know how many clients couple couple dozen clients yeah we spend more of our time building software in technology that automate this but i just want you to come on every week and just show me how to do everything like this professor greg so this is kinda cool so you can i don't know if you know this sam but you can you can actually use i call it claude people american it's called claude actually everyone makes money i call club but you can use cl claude claude is that is that canadian in french you call it you you call claude not not not cloud claude okay yeah you can use claude to basically call a phone number and have a full on community you know voice i've been the recipient of those i think those are horrible they're eighty five percent there but it's worth playing with it because lin was like not it sixty six months ago it was like twenty percent there and now it's close so i i don't know if i would use it to to you know reach out to customers but sam this is what you should do you create a one eight hundred number it's like one eight hundred join hampton people call it and you ask for feedback so we you call it you know you get feedback and someone says i had an amazing experience with hampton it was awesome and it's anonymous feedback then it gets stored in a database so we stored an air table and then we let our team know and summarize we summarize the call and this is using twilio air table and then we posted to slack so we know every single day we're getting feedback around what people are saying about some of our products and services we should do that for m you should a hundred percent you should totally do it i can build it for you too yeah let's do it i wanna build that once sometime time i want yeah m hotline that people call and can say whatever and we make a segments out of it yeah easy easy peasy oh so those are three workflows worth considering now i have to make mention there are other tools that you could use besides lend there's gun loop and there's any eight n do these names are are funky gum loop they're super bass these are some like interesting names i i like things that are really easy to to do like i like that there's templates on lin i find n eight n n eight n is almost like the cursor and windsor for vibe marketing it's like a bit more you know it's a bit more technical so i like lin and gum loop because they're they're a bit more simple for guys like us you can actually go through and and look at all the different templates and workflows that you can go and cut and duplicate if you if you don't wanna create the flows yourself oh my gosh okay newsletters into twitter content if you're you know a med a medical scribe your custom ai medical scribe and by the way there's like i don't know why people don't do this but more people don't do this but there's thousands of one million dollar a year plus business ideas just taking lin and got loops workflows and just selling it into the real world right sell a medical scribe to like two hundred ninety nine dollars a month i invested in a startup up that's doing that okay i hope to start i hope the customers don't see that you can just use lin dude this is a good one haven't seen this elon lin calls your team to ask them what they got done this week oh my god that's insane that's insane this is last last thing because i know we have to head in a couple and i know this is a this a comment i always get on my podcast with people are like okay greg but you know that's just a service business that's just a service business you just showed us how to like build a service business well number one it's a ai powered service business like the quit we created saas but okay i hear you comment i hear you if this if we were actually building this business how can we take it from being a service business to more of a tech business software business so one thing i always do is you know if you're if you get to step five you have a business it's probably doing hundreds of thousands of dollars a year if not millions and you probably have ideas on where you can take it so what i what i usually do sam is i'll go back to idea browser and use idea agent and upload an idea i have and just see if it's good or not so so before this you know ahrefs right yeah i love hs ahrefs i always call h h ahrefs but yeah i like it i don't actually know how to pronounce it so while going through man and building this i was like it got me thinking that ahrefs i think it do you know how much revenue they're doing like they're big yeah like eighty or ninety like they're in the hundred million dollar range and it's bootstrap so incredible business awesome but there's probably an opportunity to create like an ai like an ahrefs for l seo yeah right and there's probably that niche and i think sem mirage they're publicly traded to sem mirage also has like a is a competing product so i just went on idea browser posted my i was like well you know give me break breakdown sc sem rush is like a four hundred fifty million dollar a year oh wow yeah so it's like if you can get one percent of that five percent of that ten percent of that so i just went and i i'd looked at some you know some of the data here and it tells me exactly what i should do so tells me exactly what my offer should be tells me my pricing i like looking at like the value equation so like i mentioned the the perceived out you know the out for mo stuff the value ladder this is russell bun b like if we were going to create an ai version of ahrefs what would this look like well we'd wanna create an interactive seo audit tool great we've already created that we'd would wanna create a starter plan okay ninety nine dollars a month and it literally just tells you exactly what to do well but but you're you're skipping a big thing which is you have to build the software like like you're telling me to create the monthly plan it's like yeah okay i could accept that money but how do i create the thing that crawls the the the web and tells me how many backlinks i have that's the old way of thinking sam you used to have to create what's the new way you used to have to go and create it if you think that ai ahrefs is a good idea you literally go back and you repeat all the steps so you go that are you overs selling this like can i actually have bolt dot new whatever it's called make all of the code that create like there must be a reason why h eight reps has three hundred developers on staff or they did up until this was all invented at least but like you know what like there is like proprietary things there right i mean the short answer to your question actually is bolt lovable that's a good place to get your front end build something simple once you're ready to scale it using tools like cursor rep win surf which are more technical you know developers today are using those products and their ten x developers it's just so much faster so listen i'm not saying it's as easy as one two three four five six it's hard building a start is hard there's it's a roller coaster there's gonna be things that you learn but the reality is this is the framework for how to build it and you can build it using tools like this i'm hyped i'm hyped i was telling ari i messaged her in the middle of this episode i said schedule greg another a time to come on right now because my mind is blown this is absolutely insane did you message her or did you do some like neuro link agent to message her like there was it a workflow that you had created in the past brother i am a ne i'm not there yet like i literally messaged my team i said i have some mind blowing stuff to show you i'm calling you in twenty minutes mind blowing and i took screenshots of that lin and i'm just gonna say we must do this immediately this was amazing amazing i'm happy that was the goal my goal was to share some sauce get get get you thinking hopefully not piss off your team too much but i think they're gonna come out of the other side of this way more productive you're the man greg i call your youtube channel just the greg guys youtube channel but it's the startup up ideas channel right or start up idea show on the gray is youtube channel exactly thank you you're the best thank you for having me awesome that's it that's the pot i feel like i could rule to word i know i could be what i want to from at all in it like a day's off on a travel never looking back

Episode Notes

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Episode 712: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) talks to Greg Isenberg ( https://x.com/gregisenberg ) talk about how to find a startup idea and build it in a couple hours using AI. 

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Step 1: Find an idea

(7:57) Step 2: Sketch out the idea

(9:48) Step 3: Scope out the MVP

(18:25) Step 4: Vibe code a prototype

(36:06) Step 5: Vibe marketing the business

(49:14) Step 6: AI agent product manager



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Links:

• Want Greg's guide to Build an AI Startup in 3 Hours with <$500? Get it here: https://clickhubspot.com/wrc

• Idea Browser - ideabrowser.com 

• TLDraw -  https://www.tldraw.com/ 

• Wispr Flow - https://wisprflow.ai/ 

• Manus - https://manus.im/ 

• Bolt - https://bolt.new/ 

• The Vibe Marketer - https://www.thevibemarketer.com/ 

• Kubera - https://www.kubera.com/ 

• Lindy - https://www.lindy.ai/ 

• Lovable - https://lovable.dev/ 

• Windsurf -  https://windsurf.com/ 

• Cursor - https://www.cursor.com/ 

• Supabase - https://supabase.com/ 

• Prospect AI - https://www.prospectai.co/ 

• Boring Marketing - https://www.boringmarketing.com/ 

• Gumloop - https://www.gumloop.com/ 

• N8N - https://n8n.io/ 

• Ahrefs - https://ahrefs.com/ 

• Semrush - https://www.semrush.com/ 


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