wait, i legit slept on google’s AI suite. gemini writes, flow films, notebooklm researches, stitch designs, project mariner automates. i filmed a 38-minute tutorial with google’s VP of gemini and it just rewired my whole workflow.

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have you used chatgpt NEW "agent mode" yet? 9 craziest things chatgpt agent mode can do for founders: 1. autonomous competitor research - give it 50 competitor websites, it analyzes pricing, features, positioning, finds gaps, builds a competitive matrix while you sleep 2. lead generation on autopilot - feeds it your icp, it finds 500 qualified prospects, researches each company, writes personalized outreach, tracks responses 3. content calendar that writes itself - creates 90 days of social posts, blog topics, email sequences based on your audience data and engagement patterns (still requires a human editor in my opion) 4. customer interview analysis - transcribe 20 customer calls, it finds patterns, extracts pain points, suggests product features, writes user stories 4. financial scenario modeling - builds 10 different growth scenarios with unit economics, cash flow projections, break-even analysis for each business model tweak 5. product roadmap optimization - analyzes user feedback, support tickets, feature requests, prioritizes backlog based on impact vs effort scoring 6. market sizing and TAM research - researches your market from scratch, finds industry reports, calculates addressable market, identifies expansion opportunities 7. partnership outreach campaigns - identifies potential partners, researches decision makers, crafts partnership proposals, tracks outreach status 8. conversion funnel optimization - analyzes your entire customer journey, identifies drop-off points, suggests a/b tests, writes copy variations 9. investor deck creation - researches comparable companies, pulls market data, writes compelling narratives, creates financial projections, formats slides i still think it's just scratching the surface. some stuff has more to be desired. overall experience, was an 8.2/10. every major LLM will add agent mode, just like every major LLM added deep research. basically gives any solo founder a team of 10 PHD interns. bottom line: it'll save you 5-10+ hours a week on stuff you hate doing anyway. excited to see where agent mode goes in 6 months. still early days, but this feels like the future of how founders will operate. we're entering the era of the 10x solo founder.

have you used chatgpt NEW "agent mode" yet? 10 craziest things chatgpt agent mode can do for founders: 1. autonomous competitor research - give it 50 competitor websites, it analyzes pricing, features, positioning, finds gaps, builds a competitive matrix while you sleep 2. lead generation on autopilot - feeds it your icp, it finds 500 qualified prospects, researches each company, writes personalized outreach, tracks responses 3. content calendar that writes itself - creates 90 days of social posts, blog topics, email sequences based on your audience data and engagement patterns (still requires a human editor in my opion) 4. customer interview analysis - transcribe 20 customer calls, it finds patterns, extracts pain points, suggests product features, writes user stories 4. financial scenario modeling - builds 10 different growth scenarios with unit economics, cash flow projections, break-even analysis for each business model tweak 5. product roadmap optimization - analyzes user feedback, support tickets, feature requests, prioritizes backlog based on impact vs effort scoring 6. market sizing and TAM research - researches your market from scratch, finds industry reports, calculates addressable market, identifies expansion opportunities 7. partnership outreach campaigns - identifies potential partners, researches decision makers, crafts partnership proposals, tracks outreach status 8. conversion funnel optimization - analyzes your entire customer journey, identifies drop-off points, suggests a/b tests, writes copy variations 9. investor deck creation - researches comparable companies, pulls market data, writes compelling narratives, creates financial projections, formats slides i still think it's just scratching the surface. some stuff has more to be desired. overall experience, was an 8.2/10. every major LLM will add agent mode, just like every major LLM added deep research. basically gives any solo founder a team of 10 PHD interns. bottom line: it'll save you 5-10+ hours a week on stuff you hate doing anyway. excited to see where agent mode goes in 6 months. still early days, but this feels like the future of how founders will operate. we're entering the era of the 10x solo founder.

you don't understand there's a 1000+ $25k MRR+ apps that will be built from X and AI in the next 18 months you sign up to X while working your full-time job you become reply guy in niche you get creator payouts from tweeting ($2k/month) and its your little pre-seed round every reply teaches you about market gaps, every thread shows you pain points you're doing customer discovery and literally getting checks for it you find a problem everyone complains about you vibe code it you already have 10k people who trust you you launch to your built-in audience $25k mrr in 6 months still working full time job your competitors pay $50k for customer research you got paid $12k while learning the same insights they hire consultants to find product-market fit you found it for free in the replies they raise $2M to solve problems they think exist you're solving problems you know exist because people told you directly $25k MRR, 85% margins business worth $1.5M you own 100% sleepless nights over retention but you figure it out still full time job keeps growing, $50k/MRR X payouts now $5k month too. you got paid to learn what to build then got paid to build it probably quit full-time job acquire another saas or repeat with a new X account this app is insane you don't understand freedomtown

you don't understand there's a 1000+ $25k MRR+ apps that will be built from X and AI in the next 18 months you sign up to X while working your full-time job you become reply guy in niche somehow you get creator payouts from tweeting ($2k/month) and its your little pre-seed round every reply teaches you about market gaps, every thread shows you pain points you're doing customer discovery and literally getting checks for it you find a problem everyone complains about you vibe code it you already have 10k people who trust you you launch to your built-in audience $25k mrr in 6 months still working full time job your competitors pay $50k for customer research you got paid $12k while learning the same insights they hire consultants to find product-market fit you found it for free in the replies they raise $2M to solve problems they think exist you're solving problems you know exist because people told you directly $25k MRR, 85% margins business worth $1.5M you own 100% sleepless nights over retention but you figure it out still full time job keeps growing, $50k/MRR X payouts now $5k month too. you got paid to learn what to build then got paid to build it probably quit full-time job acquire another saas or repeat with a new X account this app is insane you don't understand freedomtown

you don't understand there's a 1000+ $25k MRR+ apps that will be built from X and AI in the next 18 months you sign up to X while working your full-time job you become reply guy in niche you get paid you to tweet ($2k/month) and its your little pre-seed round every reply teaches you about market gaps, every thread shows you pain points you're doing customer discovery and literally getting checks for it you find a problem everyone complains about you vibe code it you already have 10k people who trust you you launch to your built-in audience $25k mrr in 6 months still working full time job your competitors pay $50k for customer research you got paid $12k while learning the same insights they hire consultants to find product-market fit you found it for free in the replies they raise $2M to solve problems they think exist you're solving problems you know exist because people told you directly $25k MRR, 85% margins business worth $1.5M you own 100% sleepless nights over retention but you figure it out still full time job keeps growing, $50k/MRR X payouts now $5k month too. you got paid to learn what to build then got paid to build it probably quit full-time job acquire another saas or repeat with a new X account this app is insane you don't understand freedomtown

claude code might be the most IMPORTANT piece of software in years and is the BLUEPRINT for the next $100+ in software opportunities. it took the single most terrifying piece of software ever created (the terminal!!) and made it 10x more friendly. if you're a non tech person, you're brutally afraid of the terminal, kinda the final boss of computing. it's a menacing black screen where one wrong character could nuke your entire project. where EVEN experienced developers would triple-check every keystroke. it's like trying to perform surgery with a chainsaw. technically possible, but most people would rather not. claude code changed everything. now you just talk to your computer like a human: "deploy my app to vercel with SSL" and it handles the surgery for you. writes the commands, catches mistakes, fixes errors automatically. suddenly the most intimidating interface on earth became as easy as sending a text. every industry has its own "terminal." intimidating tools that require months of training: 1/photoshop: 47 toolbars, 200 keyboard shortcuts, layers that make no sense blender: looks like a spaceship control panel, crashes if you breathe wrong 2/excel: pivot tables that feel like advanced calculus autocad: where one wrong click deletes 6 hours of work imagine telling photoshop "remove this background and make it look professional." or telling blender "create a spinning logo animation." or telling autocad "design a simple house floor plan." the opportunity is massive because these tools already have huge markets. millions of people pay thousands for training or hire specialists because the software is "too scary." I *think* within 3 years, every major software company will have a "claude mode" - a natural language layer on top of their existing tools. we'll see a complete inversion of software economics. instead of charging more for "advanced features," companies will charge more for "advanced simplicity." the easier it is to use, the more valuable it becomes. this also creates a new category of power users: people who become incredibly productive not because they mastered complex interfaces, but because they mastered talking to software. prompt engineering (or context engineering?) becomes the new keyboard shortcuts. claude code proved you can take the most unapproachable interface ever built and make it feel natural. I think thats why so many of us are obsessed with it.

do VC-backed founders or bootstrapped founders get more stressed? my observations having done both... bootstrapped founders start with maximum stress - they're broke, everything depends on them, and there's no safety net. but this stress creates incredible focus. every decision matters because resources are scarce. you learn to say no to everything except what drives revenue. over time, that stress transforms into confidence. you understand your customers deeply because you had to. you know your unit economics because survival depended on it. you build sustainable systems because you couldn't hire your way out of problems. and you're probably in a micro niche instead of swinging for the fences and trying to create the next chatGPT. your little world is easier to defend. VC-backed founders get different superpowers. they can take bigger risks, move faster in competitive markets, and hire world-class talent from day one. the stress shifts from "will we survive" to "how do we maximize this opportunity." both paths create different types of resilience. bootstrapped founders become masters of efficiency and customer intimacy. vc-backed founders learn to scale teams and capture large markets quickly. the stress never disappears - it just changes shape. bootstrapped stress is about scarcity. funded stress is about abundance and opportunity cost. both can build incredible companies. the path matters less than matching your personality and market opportunity to the right approach. i personally prefer bootstrapping. eat more pain initially, and have no one to report to. feels like freedom to me. but totally get the upside of being a locked in VC founder. that's fun in a different way. different games, different scoreboards, both can win.

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