The Startup Ideas Podcast

with Kevin Rose

Kevin Rose demonstrates his AI-powered news aggregation system and explains how AI democratizes building complex products for solo developers.

with Kits

Deep dive into advanced Claudebot usage for business and life automation through personas, security practices, and smart home integration.

with Alex

A comprehensive guide to using Claudebot as a 24/7 autonomous AI employee that builds features, tracks competitors, and improves workflows while you sleep.

with Furcon

A demo of Nebula, an AI agent platform that enables one-person businesses by automating entire workflows from content creation to analytics through natural language commands.

with Boris

Boris demonstrates Claude Cowork's capabilities and shares his advanced workflow strategies for maximizing productivity with agentic AI.

with Samuel Thompson

A step-by-step demonstration of building a complete AI-powered info product business from idea to ads in under an hour.

with Professor Ross Mike

A comprehensive guide to mastering Claude Code through proper planning, avoiding automation pitfalls, and building with audacity.

with Ryan Carson

Ralph is an autonomous AI coding loop that builds entire features overnight by breaking work into small user stories with clear acceptance criteria.

with Chris Kerner

Six scalable side hustle ideas leveraging modern distribution tactics like short-form video, AI, and untapped platforms to build businesses from $10K to $10M annually.

Greg demonstrates Alibaba's Axio AI agent platform that streamlines e-commerce product research, supplier sourcing, and market analysis from trend identification to manufacturer outreach.

A beginner's tutorial on creating Claude Skills to build AI employees that provide consistent, high-value output for specific business tasks.

Greg Isenberg reverse engineers 8 mobile apps making $50K+ monthly and provides frameworks for identifying profitable app opportunities in 2026.

with Sahil Bloom

A comprehensive 7-question personal annual review framework to extract maximum learning from the past year and set up 2026 for success.

Analysis of Claude's leaked agent mode interface, Hyrox fitness trend opportunity, AI tools review, hotel concierge startup idea, and the Thousand People Framework for market targeting.

A comprehensive guide to 10 proven prompting techniques that can 10× the effectiveness of Claude Code and Opus 4.5, based on Anthropic's official recommendations.

Greg Isenberg covers OpenAI's agent skills launch, face yoga trend opportunities, and provides a startup idea plus viral app validation framework.

Hands-on review of ChatGPT's new image model, testing its capabilities against Nano Banana Pro across multiple creative styles and use cases.

with Rob Hoffman

Six proven playbooks for acquiring SaaS customers, reverse-engineered from companies making $20K-$300K MRR

Nine financial discipline rules that keep startups alive, based on lessons from WeWork's collapse and running a holding company.

Greg shares a solo female travel safety startup idea, gamification trends, AI startup debates, and his SaaS growth framework in a new episode format

with Chris Ro

A tactical framework for making mobile apps stand out through animations, mascots, widgets, and design polish using AI tools.

with Mickey

A comprehensive tier-list evaluation of vibe coding platforms in 2025, ranking tools from Cursor (S-tier) to Windsurf (D-tier) based on technical capability, community support, and founder trustworthiness.

with James (The Boring Marketer)

Head-to-head comparison of Claude Opus 4.5 vs Gemini 3 Pro for building SaaS applications, with deep dive into Claude Skills optimization.

A practical tutorial showing how to get 100x more value from creative AI tools using Glif's AI agents for thumbnails, videos, influencers, and automated content.

with Alex

Alex demonstrates building a complete wellness app from idea to MVP in under an hour using AI agents across multiple platforms for parallel development.

with Amir

Amir demonstrates how Claude Skills creates specialized AI employees that outperform generic prompting through deterministic workflows, custom scripts, and precise context loading.

with Dan Koe

Dan Koe reveals his systematic AI-powered content creation workflow that generates millions of followers across platforms using prompts, research, and strategic repurposing.

with Taylor (Hackathon Winner), Zang (New Mom Builder), Namesh (Daily Documenter), Various Hackathon Participants

Greg Isenberg documents the world's largest AI hackathon with $1M in prizes, showcasing how AI tools enable anyone to build meaningful software solutions.

with Roberto Nixon

Roberto Nixon reveals his complete end-to-end workflow for creating viral short-form videos, from scripting to publishing, using AI tools and proven psychology principles.

with Jonathan Courtney

How to build a million-dollar business by going against the AI/digital trend and creating high-value in-person experiences that people crave.

with Amir

OpenAI's new Agent Builder democratizes multi-agent workflow creation with a visual interface, eliminating the need for coding while enabling custom chatbots and automations.

with Guillermo Rauch (Vercel CEO)

Vercel's CEO demonstrates how V0 enables rapid prototyping while sharing 5 AI startup ideas including AI Camera, conversational forms, and deepest research tools.

A systematic workflow for using Perplexity, Claude, and Sora 2 to create viral video content that builds audiences and drives startup success.

with PJ Ace

PJ Ace reveals his complete viral AI video workflow that generated 230M+ views, from script to final edit.

with Cody Schneider

AI search (GEO) offers high-converting traffic for businesses with long purchase cycles, but requires strategic brand mention placements on ranking pages rather than chasing volume.

AI represents the greatest technology shift ever, democratizing startup creation and enabling anyone to build products without technical skills in an unprecedented gold rush.

with Rowan Cheung

How The Rundown uses 7 AI agents to make a 15-person team operate like 50 people while generating millions in revenue.

with James (The Boring Marketer)

Use AI workflows to scrape Google Maps data, identify underserved high-value local business niches, and build profitable media assets that generate leads for boring businesses.

Complete playbook for building $100K MRR mobile apps by serving daily habits with AI features and focused distribution

with Eric Simons, Albert Pai, KP

How Bolt.new pivoted from near-shutdown to $8M ARR in 8 weeks by building the simplest AI code generation interface

with Cody Schneider

How to scale creator marketing campaigns using zero-follower creators to achieve better ROI than Facebook ads through for-you-page algorithms.

with Ben

Ben built 250M+ download AI apps using mimesis: copy viral patterns, make them stupid simple, and productize trending content formats.

with Cluey founders, Robin Guo (A16Z), HF0 residents, Various SF startup founders

A 3-day immersion into San Francisco's AI gold rush revealing extreme founder models, rapid scaling startups, and new paradigms for building in the AI era.

with Logan Kilpatrick

Logan Kilpatrick from Google demonstrates Nano Banana, the new image generation model that enables product placement, character consistency, and Photoshop-like editing through natural language.

with Cody Schneider

Step-by-step paid advertising playbook for bootstrapped startups using modern AI tools

with Lee (Cursor VP)

A comprehensive tutorial on maximizing Cursor AI agent productivity, featuring advanced workflows, custom configurations, and production-ready automation strategies.

Greg Isenberg breaks down Sam Altman's prediction about billion-dollar solo companies, exploring the new startup path of audience-first building with AI agent automation.

with James (The Boring Marketer)

How to use Claude Code to build and optimize boring local businesses for SEO domination within 24 hours

Start with manual service work to learn edge cases, then replace human labor with AI agents while keeping service pricing to build a profitable AI business.

with Flo (Founder of Lindy AI)

Live demonstration of building AI agents with natural language that can perform computer tasks autonomously, showing the path to fully autonomous companies.

A comprehensive guide to building profitable voice AI agent businesses across multiple industries with specific startup ideas, technical stacks, and implementation strategies.

with Jonathan Courtney

A deep dive into Alex Hormozi's $100M webinar funnel, revealing the multi-phase email campaigns, high-volume ad testing, and direct response tactics that converted strangers into customers at massive scale.

with Nico

Shortcut AI transforms Excel from a 40-year-old manual tool into an intelligent agent that can build complex financial models in minutes using plain English commands.

with Roman

How to create winning AI ads that generate $200K+ monthly revenue using systematic testing, automation, and proven frameworks.

Comprehensive playbook for building profitable MicroSaaS businesses with real examples, growth strategies, and 5 steal-worthy startup ideas

Greg tests Gemini 3.0's design capabilities across personal websites, SaaS dashboards, and mobile apps, discovering surprisingly sophisticated results that challenge traditional vibe-coding limitations.

with Chris

A comprehensive guide to maximizing AI coding productivity using Claude Code, Cursor, and advanced techniques for solo developers.

with Logan Kilpatrick

A hands-on demonstration of Google's Gemini 3.0 building complete web applications from single prompts, showcasing vibe coding as a new paradigm for rapid product development.

with Cody Schneider

A step-by-step playbook for building million-dollar businesses by exploiting mispriced attention through YouTube creator partnerships and affiliate marketing.

Greg Isenberg explores GenSpark AI's multi-agent workflows across chat, images, video, slides, and phone calls to determine if it's worth using.