Hey early stage founders!
Looking to connect with people building in:
🍽️ SaaS
🚀 Tech
📲 Automation
🧠 AI tools
📱 Product Development
💻 Devs
Drop what you're working on before the weekend ?
BREAKING: Claude can now watch videos for you!
You can plug in a YouTube, Tiktok or Instagram URL and let Claude break it down for you
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Building @ the intersection of AI and Neuroscience is the most revolutionary opportunity since the dotcom boom.
With enough research and development, who's to say you can't produce software that will change the way businesses will operate for the next century...
Time has come
@PsudoMike Small Ottawa teams building high merit tech while everyone ignores them has been the winning economic innovation strategy for Canada for the last 21 years
how to build an AI-first SaaS in 2026
1. start with a big market. finance, healthcare, real estate. then zoom into a sub-niche.
2. map the niche’s workflow end-to-end. literally write every step they do daily. ex: leads → scheduling → quoting → follow-ups → payments.
3. highlight where money changes hands. deposits, invoices, negotiations. those moments are where software captures value.
4. identify the repetitive mechanical tasks. anything someone does the same way every day is an automation opportunity.
5. quantify the pain. if a business owner spends 100 hours a year on something and their time is worth $300/hour, that’s a $30k problem.
6. manually perform the workflow yourself. most AI SaaS actually starts as a service. that’s why so many new YC companies begin with humans in the loop.
7. document every step. separate judgment tasks from mechanical tasks. agents handle the mechanical work.
8. turn those steps into agent workflows and connect them to real tools (email, slack, stripe, crm, APIs).
9. build media while you build the product. post daily about the workflow. use AI to research content ideas and scripts. the audience becomes your distribution.
10. launch narrow, show proof (hours saved, revenue generated), then expand into adjacent workflows until you become the default execution layer for that niche.
people saying everyday that saas is dying
it’s evolving into agents + software + media.
full breakdown in the latest episode of
@startupideaspod
lots of sauce in this one
all for free because i can't wait to see what you build
watch
Finally launching Appthetics.com 🎉
No way I actually built this SaaS in a week!
You can now vibe-design beautiful mobile app UIs and iterate on your ideas instantly.
Claude + Nano Banana is going to make multiple millionaires this year.
This is the same as when people figured out Facebook ads in 2016-2017.
People were making millions with terrible websites and average products just because they figured out the traffic game before everyone else.
We're in that exact window again.
But this time, your alpha will be creation speed.
The stack to launch your own brand didn’t even exist 12 months ago, but now it’s here:
→ Claude or ChatGPT: $20-30/month
→ Higgsfield/Flora: $40/month
→ Shopify: Free for 3 days, then $1/mo for 3 months
→ CapCut: Free
→ YouTube/Twitter for learning: Free
Total cost to start: Under $100. And it used to cost $15k/month in salaries.
Here’s how to use it:
Step 1: Find and validate products with Claude
You don't need to guess anymore.
Give Claude 20 trending products, and ask it to analyse trends.
Then give it your product criteria to write product descriptions, generate 10 ad angles, create email sequences, and draft your entire landing page copy.
Step 2: Generate unlimited creative with Nano Banana
One product photo can become 50 lifestyle variations.
You can test different audiences without reshooting, swap models for persona testing, change backgrounds for seasonal angles, and create localised versions for different markets.
Step 3: Turn statics into video with Kling
Take your winning images and add motion.
These tools turn a flat product shot into a 5-second video that stops the scroll. Layer an AI voiceover on top and you've got a UGC-style ad without hiring a single creator.
Step 4: Edit everything in CapCut
Cut your clips, add text overlays, sync to music, export in every aspect ratio. You can do this in 30 minutes.
Step 5: Learn the strategy on YouTube
The tactics are all free.
Every week there's a new breakdown of what's working, the information asymmetry is gone, and the only advantage left is who actually executes.
This stack + YouTube gives you the opportunity to build a $1M brand all for under $100/month.
Countless millionaires are going to be made from this.
I spent some time testing Alibaba’s new AI agent platform "Accio", which 99.9% of people haven't tried, and it genuinely surprised me.
It spots trends, turning them into concrete product ideas, designs the products and then matches you with real suppliers on Alibaba who can build them.
Crazy!
It reads reviews and complaints to figure out why products underperform, then suggests how to fix that in a new concept.
Kinda felt like an AI ecommerce co-founder.
Not affiliated with alibaba (duh), but thought it was cool so did an episode @startupideaspod on it.
I'm sharing the episode in case you might find it interesting too.
youtu.be/PrP_aGVLBMI?si…
Tempts me to build an ecommece company.
99% of AI agent tutorials on YouTube are useless.
After building 47 real agents with n8n + Claude, I stopped watching them.
Instead, I use 3 system prompts that make agent-building stupidly simple.
🔖 Bookmark this.
Bonus: Comment “Agent” & I’ll DM the full guide ↓