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Business logic automation, coding agents, workflow automation

"As long as I'm allowed to use OpenAI and Anthropic, then I don't mind at all. Like they deserve it. These things are just incredible, miraculous products. What I worry about is that they cut us off and then we can't use it anymore."

Ryan Petersen

AI agents for personal/business tasks

"I've become on team Sam and OpenAI recently with my agents as my agents have taken control of my life. I've changed my allegiances to some extent."

Jason Lemkin

Analyzing LTV and conversion rates across different SaaS subscription plans to optimize pricing

"This is a pure math question. Put all of them on an Excel sheet. Look what your LTVs are. Look what your conversion rates are, and then move pricing so you can maximize earnings per click."

The Game w/ Alex Hormozi

Making sense of numbers and data

"Excel is my most favorite… when you first were able to make sense of numbers, your relationship with numbers changed."

Fei-Fei Li

Digital advertising and customer acquisition

"Don't even bother spending money on any platform that's not Meta until you reach $100,000 a month and spend on Meta. Meta is still the best winner."

Cliff Weitzman

Paid advertising and marketing to reach different consumer segments

"And we even like went back and forth for a while like what do we do on Meta back then? It was still Instagram. And what we realized is even though the price was quite a bit higher and we weren't seeing the return, it was just a different consumer."

Stephen Ellsworth

Video conferencing for client review meetings conducted remotely

"Video conferencing, still Zoom — we use Zoom — but now have Microsoft Teams, which is very different for us."

Wendy Ciehanski

Always-on team coordination channel replacing traditional meetings and project management tools during a 10-week zero-to-one product build

"The only thing that we had was one permazoom. So we had a Zoom meeting that was going 24/7 — people just hop in and out — and Claude Code, lots of Claude Code tokens, and that was it."

Eddie Kim

Hosting AI-built web apps, creating lead magnets, building secure sites with admin dashboards

"They've already added this Sites feature which adds hosting, database storage baked into it, authentication, all of these things are baked into Sites. I can just create a site and it will host it on ChatGPT. You can share it with your team. One of the best ..."

Riley Brown

Publishing the 2D roguelike deck-builder game as a public web page playable by anyone

"I told it to ship this game in ChatGPT Sites. Unlike the 3D games which are in GDAU, this is a 2D game so it's pretty easy to ship to ChatGPT Sites. Once you generate the web page, by default it's only available to people you share with, so you have to hit ..."

Peter Yang

Getting retail items (from Best Buy) delivered faster than driving there yourself

"I recently DoorDashed something from Best Buy and it was an amazing experience because it was faster than me driving to Best Buy and back because they found a local driver who was able to just pick it up. There was like no way that I could ever outperform it."

John Coogan

Last-mile parcel delivery logistics

"It's an interesting story that we use DoorDash for logistics. People don't think about that. DoorDash's quality is better than others, or it's as good as like a FedEx or UPS. But when you use DoorDash and it doesn't get delivered, they're like, 'Why did you..."

Ryan Petersen

AI inference and supplemental data or model serving

"I suggest you use Fireworks. Fireworks is amazing. Lyn, the founders — she's one of the co-founders of PyTorch."

Cliff Weitzman

Inference for open-weight models like Kimi K3 without using Chinese servers

"I inference on Fireworks, which is a really nice service where you can just pay by the token, and if you're using these open weight models, they're not that expensive by token. So that's a great way to do that."

David Heinemeier Hansson

Cross-referencing customer information and CRM data

"I'll use like the notion uh HubSpot Gong um MCP servers and then it can cross reference those things in HubSpot"

Alex Rattray

"it has our send grid API, my HubSpot API, my cow.com API"

Cody Schneider

Base models for fine-tuning and post-training work

"What we did to initially gain some popularity was like Llama was putting out base models. We fine-tuned those into something that we thought would be like something the market would want."

Dylan Rolnick

"We have a whole bunch of Llama and Mistral running and stuff internally and a bunch of OpenAI."

Mike Cannon Brooks

Identifying drug-supplement interaction issues and optimizing personal medication/supplement timing

"I invested in a company called Open Evidence, which is for medical. I used it — I have one supplement I have to take because my iron levels are low and I have to take this one medication. I was taking them at the same time and couldn't understand why I was ..."

Mark Cuban

"Open Evidence is a really good example. Hypocratic is a really good example. Love working with those companies."

Jensen Huang

Tracking employee spending by department, issuing virtual cards with pre-approved limits

"If you own a business and need a way to track spending and waste, I would really look at this one company called Ramp. We're not sponsored by them, although I'd be open to it, because they actually create virtual cards for all the team members and have pre-..."

Codie Sanchez

Querying spend data via natural language in the app

"I love the fact that you can open up the Ramp app and just ask a model like, 'How much did we spend on camera equipment last month?' and it'll just tell me. And that's amazing."

John Coogan

Working as a consultant/advisor

"For sure. I mean I I mean working with X has been one of the the the SpaceX II which we're now called has been one of the great joys of my life. It's been it's been I have learned more uh I I actually learned quite a bit going back in with Chris Snowflake t..."

Chad Peets

Launch services for space manufacturing missions

"SpaceX takes us up to orbit. They then drop us off. Again, like any other satellite, we spend between, call it, like 4 to 12 weeks up there."

Delian Asparouhov

Website setup and domain configuration

"I set up a new website for in fact this organizational singularity and I went on Cloudflare and the AI told me exactly how to run the exception rules and for domain forwarding."

Salim Ismail

"What's been really great for me is Cloudflare. They do all of my site hosting. I have all of my domains on Cloudflare and I also have a database where I can store static data."

Maddox Schmidtoffer

Technology infrastructure at McLaren

"Dell, you'll see Dell all throughout McLaren long before there was a commercial arrangement"

Zak Brown

"I have this wide Dell that's anti-glare and you can just fit a lot of terminals side-by-side."

Peter Steinberger

Filming events and making vlogs; mobile microphone/content creation device

"DJI is not a sponsor. This is Off Duty where we just share stuff we like. DJI used to be like the influencer go-to when I was first doing digital media. Everybody had their little DJI. That was like the go-to — I'm going to go to an event and film myself an..."

This Week in Startups

Wedding videography

"I don't think about geopolitics but I like that my wedding video had a drone in it and it was a DJI drone you think about that very positively."

TBPN

Building and hosting the facilitator.com website

"Our website is currently built on Framer. One of our facilitator.com website is built on Framer. I still pay an external agency when I want to do something there."

Jonathan Courtney

"framer is 30 bucks per month for the marketing website."

Jonathan Fishner

"Like Glean and Slackbot and different um we're testing three of them or so right now."

Brian Armstrong

"Glean. Like now I've given it an action as well to search like our internal Glean tool which is awesome because then I could see like oh well we talked about this customer in Slack."

Reed Robinson

Writing plans and tracking data in Google Docs and Sheets, connected to Claude so it can read and update documents

"It's connected to Google Workspace because I like to write plans and stuff that I actually want to read in Google Docs and Google Sheets. And I want to make sure that Fable can also read this and update the plan as needed."

Peter Yang

Allowing Hermes to draft emails, schedule meetings, edit Google Docs and Sheets, read Gmail inbox

"Google Workspace is the holy grail. If you're like me, you probably run your life using Google Docs, Sheets, Drive, Gmail, and Google Calendar. Letting Hermes draft emails, schedule meetings, and edit your Docs and Sheets just makes it way more useful. This..."

Peter Yang

Built a personal CRM to track 150 sponsors daily in real time; general consumer AI queries

"It's the first real ChatGPT competitor. It's one of the best pieces of software I've ever used. But it's also a Trojan horse to fight ChatGPT because the LLM's pretty good. It built me an entire CRM for every SaaS sponsor — it tracks every email about them,..."

Jason Lemkin

Building video games through vibe coding prompts

"And when I demoed Meta AI, the latest launch, one of the suggested prompts is like vibe code a video game, and it actually does a really really great job building a little miniature video game."

TBPN

Data warehousing for analytics platform

"So like our early day bills on AWS and like the first time we set up Snowflake were like crazy high."

Zach Cherin

"then we have MCPs into all of the tools that we use. So into into Snowflake, into um into Tableau"

Owen Jennings