Idea Browser

They stole my ideas, built it with agents and put it on a billboard. Dang. What a time to be alive.

@hyperagentapp @startupideaspod Steal and build my ideas all day long

We're taking startup ideas from @startupideaspod / @ideabrowser and bringing them to life with a team of agents: Deep research on the problem space → Product prototype → Cinematic landing page → Billboard in a real location Ideas like: 🏡 Hyper-local market reports for real estate pros 💻 Lead gen that scans GitHub for buying signals 📱 Mobile app studio built for SMB budgets Get $1k in inference to run these agents for yourself below ⬇️

@gregisenberg Now researching… full reports available soon ideabrowser.com/join

My 30+ observations on the greatest opportunities in AI agents right now: And some ideas that are keeping me up at night. 1. The new buyer on the internet is an AI agent. Imagine billions of new customers showing up with money to spend but they only shop via MCP. That's what's happening. No MCP server means you're invisible to the fastest growing buyer on the internet. 2. Every franchise system in America (30,000+) needs an agent layer and none of them have one. One founder per franchise vertical. That's 30,000 businesses waiting. 3. Everyone said "distribution is the only moat" a year ago. Now I'd add that the only moat is distribution plus memory. The company that has your audience AND your agent's accumulated context is impossible to leave. 4. Consumer mobile is more interesting than it's been since 2012. Apps can finally DO things for you instead of showing you things. The next wave of $100M apps are being built right now. 5. The most interesting startup nobody has built is an agent marketplace where you rent access to someone else's trained agent. A recruiter spent 6 months training a sourcing agent on healthcare hiring. That agent is worth renting to every other healthcare recruiter on earth. The agent itself becomes the product. 6. A sorta strange phenomenon that's happening right now is agents are developing preferences. Give the same agent the same task 100 times and it starts developing patterns in how it approaches it. Nobody is studying this yet. But the agents that develop good patterns are worth more than the ones that don't. That's a new kind of asset. 7. Dead internet theory is about to become dead SaaS theory. Half the apps you use will quietly replace their support team, their onboarding team, and their content team with agents. You won't notice for months. Then you'll realize you haven't talked to a human at that company in a year. 8. The most valuable data in the world right now is sitting in the support tickets of small or mid tier SaaS companies. Every ticket is a customer telling you exactly what to build next. Mine this. 9. The most interesting pricing problem nobody has solved is how do you price a product when your costs change every time OpenAI or Anthropic updates their model pricing? Your margins can swing 40% overnight based on a decision made in San Francisco. The company that builds dynamic pricing infrastructure for agent-based businesses solves a problem every AI company has. 10. The best AI products feel like they're reading your mind. The worst ones feel like filling out a form with extra steps. 11. An interesting arbitrage I've noticed lately is hiring a human VA for $20/hour to supervise an AI agent that does $200/hour work. The human just checks the output. 12. The managed AI agent business is becoming the new agency model. $5k/month per client. You build it, run it, maintain it. The client gets a digital employee they never have to think about. This will be a $50 B+ category. 13. The first "shadow agent" scandals are about to drop. Employees running personal agents on company infrastructure without telling anyone. Using company API keys. Agents accessing internal docs. IT departments have little visibility into this right now. Lots of opportunity to build companies here. Definitely a painkiller not a vitamin type of business. 14. Right now there are probably millions of agents running on autopilot that their creators forgot about. Still burning tokens. Still sending emails. Still scraping websites. Still costing money. The "find and kill your zombie agents" tool is a product that writes itself. 15. Companies are starting to hire based on someone's agent portfolio instead of their resume. "Show me 3 agents you built that are running right now." It's REALLY early but it's starting. 16. Your Slack archive is a product. Every company's internal Slack has thousands of messages explaining how they actually do things. The company that lets you point an agent at your Slack history and auto-generate SOPs and agents from it will be enormous. 17. We're watching the cost of intelligence fall faster than the cost of distribution. Which means distribution is now the expensive thing. 18. The most underrated asset a human can have in 2026: the ability to sit in a room with another human, make eye contact, and have a real conversation. As AI handles more of the transactional stuff, the humans who can do the relational stuff become disproportionately valuable. The soft skills people used to dismiss as fluffy are becoming the hard skills. The hard skills people spent decades acquiring are becoming the soft ones. 19. There are MANY huge companies to be built around the fact that most people's agents are running on their personal laptops which they also use to browse the internet, check email, and download random files. The attack surface is enormous. One compromised Chrome extension and your agent's API keys, customer data, and workflows are exposed. 20. There's a new type of burnout forming that doesn't have a name. It's not from working too hard. It's from context switching between human work and agent work 50 times a day. Reviewing agent output, correcting it, approving it, reviewing again. The mental load of supervising agents is different from the mental load of doing the work yourself. Some founders are telling me they were less tired when they did everything manually because at least the cognitive pattern was consistent. 21. The cheapest form of market research: search "[your industry] spreadsheet template" on Google. Whatever people are tracking manually is your product. 22. Half the YC companies pivoted within 8 weeks of demo day. Not because they failed. Because agents let them test 5 ideas in the time it used to take to test one. The concept of "committing to an idea" is dissolving. Serial pivoting is becoming the default because 1) AI lets you move fast 2) the world is moving fast. 23. The loneliest job in tech right now is being the only person at your company who understands what the agents are doing. You can't explain it to your boss. You can't hand it off to a colleague. If you leave, everything breaks. You've become a single point of failure for an entire automated system. That person needs a title, a team, and a backup plan. Most companies haven't figured this out yet. 24. Your browser history is the most valuable training data you own and you're giving it away for free. Every site you visit, every product you research, every competitor you study, every pricing page you screenshot. That behavioral data, structured and fed to an agent, would make it understand your business better than any onboarding call. The company that lets you turn your browser history into agent context builds something nobody can replicate. 25. Everyone is building AI wrappers. Nobody is building AI unwrappers. The tool that takes an AI-generated document and tells you which parts a human wrote and which parts were generated. 26. Stripe just became the most important company in the agent economy and they barely had to do anything. Every agent that sells something needs Stripe. Every agent that buys something needs Stripe. They're the payment rail for the entire agentic internet by default. 27. The most undervalued API in the world right now is the US Postal Service address verification API. It's practically free. Every local business lead gen agent needs it. Every real estate agent needs it. Every direct mail agent needs it. Boring government infrastructure is quietly becoming the backbone of agent-native businesses. 28. The concept of "business hours" is for humans. Your agent closed a deal in Tokyo at 3am, processed the payment, sent the onboarding email, and updated the CRM before your alarm went off. 29. What happens when agents start recommending other agents? Your research agent finds that a competitor's sales agent is better and suggests you switch. Agent referral networks are forming organically. The first agent affiliate program is probably 6 months away. 30. Cal dotcom closed their source code. That's the canary. When open source companies start closing up, it means agents were cloning their product too easily. Every open source company is quietly asking the same question right now. 31. "AI for pet groomers" sounds like a joke and that's exactly why it will work. 150,000 of them in America. Zero tech. All scheduling by phone or IG DMs. The joke ideas always win. 32. The thing that will seem most obvious in hindsight: we spent 2025-2026 arguing about which model is best while the entire value was in the orchestration layer. The model is the CPU. Nobody buys a computer based on the CPU anymore. They buy it based on what they can do with it. Makes so much sense in hindsight. What else will be obvious in hindsight? I'll share more notes soon. I can't sleep with all that's going on. Maybe you too. What an incredible time to be building.

@gregisenberg This one right here. super sauce

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) youtu.be/BI-MNjm1tTQ?si… watch

Would buy this

@Sifurbo let's get it!! Might need to make an ideabrowser builder residency

We went on @ideabrowser and built the toughest idea we could find, a Competitive vibe coding arena streamed to a live audience A platform that powers the The E-Sports of Vibe Coding, and we built it all using a swarm of agents In this video you'll see 1. How to broke down the problem and used agents to create and refine the plan 2. How to recruited agents to delegate the work to 3. What the end product actually looked like @gregisenberg - this was a crazy one. GIVE US MOAAAR!!

How to turn this joke into a cash flowing side hustle 1. Create a beautiful brand for Agentplug Logo, packaging, even merch. Make it feel like a lifestyle IYKYK brand. 2. Source components in bulk, laser etch the logo onto the components. Cost of goods: ~$4 3. Tell stories with content Make the brand a reality, sponsor AI desk and equipment YTers, put them in an affiliate program. Easy to go viral by holding MacBook in absurd positions, over rivers, off bridges etc. breaks the frame. 4. Charge $49 Make bundle of 2, 4, or 10 with discounts. Makes a great gift. You’ll get roasted by the developer community how you are selling a $4 thing for $49 but that’s ok it’ll get you more traffic. I’m not saying you should do this. But ya could do it.

@pablothethinker rooting for you!

@ideabrowser That's why I finally just took reign of myself and working on creating the tools based off how I think which in itself is the insight. And from there that is the story. Even more, starting my own business to offer my services in this new era of AI.

Skills you need to succeed in an AI world 1. Study trends, patterns, psychology. 2. Turn insights into ideas. 3. Execute to make them a reality. 4. Tell a story to sell the ideas (in your own business or to a bigger business) It doesn’t matter if you are looking for a job or starting a business, you’re selling ideas.

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$10M/yr app idea Duolingo for posture - fix tech neck. airpods can tell when you’re slouching. build the app that runs in the background while you go about your day and gives you a real score so you can’t fake it while you’re being watched. once a day, you get a ping with your score, watch it change week over week (for better or worse) Upgrade paid app helps you fix your score PT-designed stretch programs based on your actual data and demographics. Huge demand for “how to fix posture” and nobody owns this yet. Become the cal ai for posture Someone build this. I’d buy in a heartbeat

@thehirenthakkar Banger

@ideabrowser Just bought the domain. slouchscore.com Will start building this as personally I am going through it recently.

@manuelsampedrop You should live stream it or record it BTW

@manuelsampedrop See you soon

@rockmanqw22 How much

@ideabrowser U wanna buy posturemaxxing.com from me? lol

@Kristen20051 Nice one. Love the specs. Would probably be a M-F at 10:30am thing and just start with desk posture

@ideabrowser AirPods Pro already has head tracking API, latency ~20ms. Would need calibration for desk vs couch posture though

@4Jackle4 Same

@ideabrowser Yeah I need this

@DooByte @marclou Let’s see it

@ideabrowser Lol @marclou already did this

@gregisenberg Currently running research on vertical memory vault ideas…

What business models/ideas work now because AI agents can actually do stuff? a thread of a few i think are REALLY interesting: