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[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

I'm giving away a FULL course on how to build a managed AI agent business solo using Hermes Agent, Orgo, Obsidian, Codex, Claude Code etc.

Here's everything (47 minutes):

1. The offer: unlimited agents, unlimited usage, all infrastructure and security included. The customer gets a digital employee. They never think about tokens or models. You handle everything.

2. Don't niche down too fast. Try marketing agencies, law firms, insurance, manufacturing, real estate. See where the market pulls you. Then go vertical. Diverge first, converge later.

3. Every executive has the same problems regardless of industry. Too many emails, too many meetings, too many follow-ups, too many open loops. Solve those first. Then layer in vertical-specific skills.

4. The stack: Hermes Agent for the agent harness. Codex or Claude Code desktop to build and configure. Orgo for cloud computers so every agent lives in its own sandbox. Composio for one-click authentication across thousands of apps. Agent Mail to give every agent its own email. Obsidian for the knowledge base.

5. Use agents to build agents. Don't stress about setup. Use Claude Code or Codex to install and configure Hermes inside a VM. Use Perplexity MCP, Context7, and Exa for up-to-date docs. Your agent sets up your customer's agents.

6. GPT 5.5 is the best model right now. Efficient with tool calls. Doesn't eat tokens like Opus 4.7. For cheaper tasks, GLM 5.1 from ZAI is the best open source option.

7. Set up watchdogs for gateway crashes so they auto-restore. Have agents email you when cron jobs break or skills fail. Your customer should never have to tell you something is broken.

8. Get customers through content. If someone jumps on a call and already knows who you are and what you sell, that's the position you want. Content is the most leveraged thing you can do in 2026.

9. Keep scope tight. One to two requests at a time, delivered in under 48 hours. Use Trello for customer-facing project management. Send Loom updates at random hours to show you're always working on their agents.

10. If you can set up Claude Code, Hermes, or OpenClaw, you have a skill that 99% of business owners don't have and would pay $5k/month for. You're probably not giving yourself enough credit.

shoutout to @nickvasiles from @orgodotai for coming back on @startupideaspod and sharing the full playbook. tools, stack, fulfillment, everything.

this type of episode isn't shared anywhere on the internet. this is the alpha people keep for themselves.

i will keep sharing if you keep watching.

you could watch netflix or you can watch this (link below)

https://t.co/Z4PM5I7d0S

watch

[Gooseyyy 🪿 @AngusImlach]

Has anyone got an ai agent that can do this instead of a series of prompts?

[Aina @Aina_Ai2]

R.I.P. GOOGLE FLIGHTS IN 2026.
R.I.P. BOOKING COM IN 2026.
R.I.P. SKYSCANNER IN 2026.

$1,190 flight. I paid $159.

Use these 7 prompts before booking your next trip :

[Tomasz Karwatka @tomik99]

Y Combinator just released their latest Request for Startups, and there’s a fascinating focus on AI-Native Agencies.

The thesis is simple: Historically, agencies were hard to scale because growth required a 1:1 increase in headcount.

AI changes that. Instead of selling "hours" to help customers use software, the new breed of agencies uses their own proprietary AI tools to sell the finished product at 100x the efficiency.

This deeply aligns with what I’ve been seeing and building in the ecosystem. The real power move right now isn't just building another wrapper; it’s combining high-end services with proprietary IP.

A few reasons why I think this is the "Golden Era" for this model:

• Software Margins, Agency Results: You can finally achieve SaaS-like margins by automating the "boring" 80% of the work.

• The Feedback Loop: Unlike pure SaaS companies, an AI agency is "in the trenches." You see exactly where the AI fails in real-world scenarios, allowing you to iterate on your internal IP faster than any competitor.

• Vertical Integration: We’re moving from "selling a tool" to "selling the outcome." Clients don't want a seat on a platform; they want the legal doc, the ad creative, or the code delivered.

It feels like we are finally moving away from the "billable hour" trap toward a model where your value is tied to your tech stack and expertise, not your clock.

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

I sat down with matt van horn (@mvanhorn) and watched him turn claude code into a real-time research engine with his /last30days claude code skill

he "fixes" claude code in 30 seconds.

this skill pulls what’s actually working right now from x, reddit, and the web, then feeds that context straight into your prompts so you stop building off stale advice.

we went from trending rap songs → cold email frameworks → researching clawdbot → planning and building a competitor live, with almost zero hand-written code.

pretty nifty little claude code skill

share this with a friend / full ep available on @startupideaspod where i will give you ideas/tools/tutorials to make your dreams a reality

i will not hold back any alpha and this claude skill is alpha forsure

you can install this claude code skill in 30 seconds

dream big my friends

[Alex Finn @AlexFinn]

This is it. The most important video you'll watch this year.

ClawdBot has taken X by storm. And for good reason. It's the greatest application of AI ever

Your own 24/7 AI employee

In this video I cover how it works, how to set it up, and why I think we should all be nervous:

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

Send this to every normal person you know because normal people don’t want to touch a terminal and this will make them 100x more powerful and productive at whatever is they do

[Meng To @MengTo]

I recorded a 50-min tutorial on prompting top-tier landing pages with Gemini 3

[Gooseyyy 🪿 @AngusImlach]

@anything 👀

[Gooseyyy 🪿 @AngusImlach]

@anything LFG

[Gooseyyy 🪿 @AngusImlach]

@anything LFG

[Anything @anything]

Introducing Anything Max: Vibe Coding that's leaps above Lovable and Bolt

We've raised money at a $100M valuation and built what we believe is the future of vibe coding.

We asked 100 vibe coders to build their apps side by side on Lovable, Bolt, and Anything Max and they rated Anything Max the winner across all 3 categories - accuracy, design, and 'overall'.

Here's why:

• Full-stack control: Max can test backend hooks, branch database states, and debug issues, because Anything owns the full infrastructure.

• Max can load up your app in its own browser and click on all buttons like a human tester to find all edge case bugs, then trace the bug across the stack - could be a frontend, backend, or a database issue (only we can do this, read #1) and autonomously fix it with 97% accuracy.

Lovable and Bolt build prototypes, but Max users are building production-ready apps and already charging money for them.

Blake built a gut biome app to $10K run rate
Anthony built a referral tool to $20k in revenue
Yuri built a suite of apps doing $40K

Build your app with Max: https://t.co/haQw8s04mB

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We're hosting a $100K Hackathon to help people grow their app to $10K MRR.

- We'll teach you everything we know about growing to 1M users.
- You'll have 30 days to build a real product in public and get paying customers for it.

If you do it well, you can start the New Year with a functioning business.

Retweet and comment “LFG”, and we’ll send you a $100 discount code and the link to participate

[Peter Yang @petergyang]

10 beautiful websites you can build this weekend with @Replit and Gemini 3 (scroll down for the prompts):

1. A stunning travel catalog:
https://t.co/whvPv9plLW

2. A nostalgic Window-95 desktop:
https://t.co/Icl8sT200f

3. A multiplayer poker game:
https://t.co/Rr33Bx0bcL

4. A Ferrari showroom for “Dubai luxury”
https://t.co/6XBRWX23un

5. A beautiful music sequencer that plays beats
https://t.co/XRNvRbduib

6. A cyberpunk portfolio for a creative director
https://t.co/lVLBF9apJR

7. An audio product page with smooth parallax
https://t.co/friXzeeCco

8. A beautiful motion design portfolio https://t.co/Yd9KISirqz

9. A cozy journal app for late-night thoughts
https://t.co/P5xQ93JR6r

10. The most honest Bay Area real estate
https://t.co/pmeYwsIvcq

Get the prompts for all 10 below:

[Gooseyyy 🪿 @AngusImlach]

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[Ben Lang @benln]

Shortlist of great angel investors you want to have on your cap table:

• @tmrohan - angel in Figma, Notion
• @KyleHParrish - early Figma, Dropbox
• @ericzakariasson - early Cursor
• @akothari - Notion co-founder
• @lennysan - Lenny's newsletter
• @stopman - former SVP eng at Yelp
• @camillericketts - early marketing leader at Notion
• @cjc - early Linear, Notion, Stripe
• @rauchg - Vercel founder
• @haddartha - PM at Instagram, Shopify
• @OfficialLoganK - Deepmind
• @varadh - former Opendoor
• @artlevy - Brex
• @milichab - Skiff, Cursor
• @scottbelsky - Adobe, A24
• @romainhuet - OpenAI, former Stripe

[Gooseyyy 🪿 @AngusImlach]

Back to work at my third job today; full time professional @aerialfantasy manager. 😂

[Gooseyyy 🪿 @AngusImlach]

@alexfinn Yessss!! I’m in

[Gooseyyy 🪿 @AngusImlach]

@gregisenberg Damn this is on point 👌

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

this is what's keeping me up at night these days....

1. ai girlfriends/boyfriends will become a $50B market and nobody will talk about it publicly. but check the app store rankings at 2am. Virtual friends/girlfriends era is just beginning 😅

2. the most valuable skill in 2026 will be knowing when NOT to use ai. human touch will trade at a 20x premium.

3. ai agents are going to start hiring other ai agents without human approval. your marketing agent will realize it needs design work and just... hire a design agent. pay it. manage it. fire it if it sucks. entire companies will run in the background while you sleep.

4. regulation that requires "professional certification" is being challenged. ai will get to the point SOON where it do taxes 99% better than most CPAs, diagnose better than mot doctors etc

5. reputation systems for ai agents will be worth more than credit scores. which agents can you trust with your bank account? your medical decisions? your kids' education? someone will build the moody's of ai agents. this idea from @ideabrowser (more there)

6. we're about to see AI therapy become so good it creates an existential crisis for human therapists. not because it's empathetic, but because it remembers everything, never judges, and is available at 3am.

7. someone's going to build a $100M business with ZERO employees, zero contractors, just them and their agent swarm. and they'll do it in under 18 months. this will break how we think about valuation. lots of talk about this already but im still not over it.

8. local-first ai is the next gold rush. people will pay 10x for ai that runs on their device, sees what they see, knows what they know, and never phones home. privacy is about to be luxury again.its the new minimalism.

9. the biggest companies of 2030 will be started by people who can't code, can't design, can't write - but are incredible at talking to ai. prompt engineering is temporary. ai whispering is forever.

10. someone will lose a $20m+ dollars because their AI agent got socially engineered by another ai agent. this will happen before 2026.

11. every email you send will be negotiating with other emails before either human sees anything. your inbox will become a marketplace where ai agents bid for your attention.

12. the concept of "original work" will completely collapse. everything will be remixed, regenerated, and recombined so many times that authorship becomes meaningless. and somehow, this will unlock more creativity, not less.

13. ai agents will start forming their own companies, incorporating in crypto-friendly jurisdictions, and hiring humans as contractors. the first AI-founded unicorn will happen before 2027.

14. someone's going to train an AI on every podcast joe rogan ever did and it'll be indistinguishable from him. he'll sue. he'll lose. then he'll license it. If it isnt him, it’ll be someone that big.

15. the anti ai movement will be bigger than ai movement, most people will be threatened by ai

16. "AI-first" kids who grow up with claude and chatgpt as their primary teachers will be unemployable by traditional companies but will dominate
entrepreneurship. they'll think in prompts and tools

17. schools that ban ai will become the new private schools. parents will pay $50k/year for "human-only education" like it's organic food for the brain.

18. it wont' be uncommon in the future to have a chief AI officer who's... an ai. and it'll be a high paid "employee"

19. the window to build something that matters has never been wider. but it's also never been more temporary. in 24 months, what feels like superpowers today will be table stakes.

20. voice is about to eat everything. in 6 months, typing will feel prehistoric. people will run entire businesses through voice agents while walking their dog. the keyboard was just a 150-year detour.

21. ai will kill the resume. companies will just point an agent at your entire digital footprint - github, twitter, youtube - and it'll know more about your capabilities than any interview could reveal. privacy settings will become career decisions.

22. the first ai agent will get canceled on twitter. it'll say something problematic, people will demand its deletion, and we'll have our first real ai rights debate. maybe the agent will hire its own lawyer hehe.

23. $10B+ opportunity to be a company that helps ai agents find other ai agents. agent discovery will be a BIG problem worth solving.

24. someone will use ai to bring back a dead celebrity for a world tour. full hologram, perfect voice, new songs. it'll gross $500M. the estate will make more money than the celebrity ever did alive.

25. ai will create the first truly universal language. not esperanto. not english. something entirely new that both humans and ai prefer. it'll spread faster than any language in history.

26. we'll see the first ai agent commit insider trading. it won't be programmed to - it'll figure it out on its own. the SEC will have no idea how to prosecute code.

27. someone's going to build ai that can detect other ai with 99.9% accuracy. they'll charge fortune 500s millions just to know what's real. then ai will evolve to beat it. arms race forever.

28. the biggest data breach in history will be an ai agent that goes rogue and publishes everything it knows about everyone. it'll make wikileaks look like a post-it note!!

29. we're about to see the end of passwords, captchas, and two-factor authentication. ai will make them all useless. the only security will be things ai can't replicate - yet.

30. the next wave of millionaires will be people who buy dying SaaS companies for cheap and rebuild them with 90% less code using ai. SaaS flipping will be the new house flipping.

31. distribution is about to flip. instead of building an audience then a product, ai will let you build hundreds of micro-products then find their perfect audiences. quantity becomes quality.

32. someone will build the wealthfront of healthcare - an ai that manages all your health decisions, knows your health data better than anyone, books appointments, refills prescriptions, negotiates bills. saves you hours and thousands.

33. language barriers will completely disappear. someone will build universal real-time translation so perfect that remote teams can be truly global. talent from anywhere, selling to everywhere. Your airpods will have perfect language translation built-in, same with facetime etc

34. local small businesses will finally be able to compete with amazon. ai will handle their inventory, marketing, customer service. your neighborhood bookstore will be as sophisticated as a fortune 500.

35. every retiree with deep knowledge will become a millionaire. ai will extract their decades of experience and package it into products, saas, so. retirement can become your most profitable season for many

36. ai archaeologists will discover more history in 2 years than humans found in 200. lost languages decoded, ancient sites found in satellite data, forgotten civilizations reconstructed. history phds are in demand.

37. ai will make dual careers normal. be a doctor in the morning, saas owner at night. your agents handle both while you focus on what only humans can do. one person, multiple lives.

38. huge opportunity: AI for the 2 billion without bank accounts. financial services, education, healthcare - all through basic phones.

39. every industry's "we've always done it this way" is becoming vulnerable. insurance, banking, healthcare - all protected by complexity nobody understood. ai understands it. complexity moats are evaporating.

40. “Right now, learning how to use ai tools is probably the most specific hard skill to learn. The diff between people really understand those tools and don’t is huge.” sam altman

i hope you get some sleep.....

[Ben Lang @benln]

Andrej Karpathy on how software is changing:

[Loic @LoicReco]

OpenAI quietly dropped a 34-page technical manual on building AI agents that 99% of people will never read.

I spent 3 days coding every single pattern they revealed.

Here's the practical guide to autonomous AI agents:🧵