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Writing podcast episode intros, content scripts, and hook research documents, edited directly by Codex via the Google Docs plugin.

"We can press command T before we even type anything in and we can just type in Google Docs and navigate to it and use it like a normal web browser. And since Codex knows exactly what we're working on, I can open this up and it will write directly on this do..."

Riley Brown

Receiving Codex-generated podcast interview guides and other documents for sharing

"I just asked it to go ahead and add it to this Google document. As you can see here, I now have a full interview guide for Paul that I can actually share with him, which is incredibly useful."

Peter Yang

Building a pitch deck for the Andreessen Horowitz Academy

"I built the pitch deck in Replit, thank you. And I've been using Claude and ChatGPT. I'm using all of these services as a way to speed up my work."

Gagan Biyani

Building autonomous agents and software for a small team, running 10-20 hours per day

"The biggest change for our little tiny team of two and a half humans is we run Replit between me and Amelia. We run it 20 hours a day now. When we started the show, it didn't quite work. At the end of last year, the models got better, and it'd be like an ho..."

Jason Lemkin

Creating graphics for LinkedIn Live series promotions

"Find cool people to talk to. Do a little graphic in Canva. Wham, Riverside FM studio or whatever. It's recorded. It's on LinkedIn."

Sheri Fitts

Designing ads for sandwich boards, now primarily used for editing AI-generated images.

"All you need is Canva to make the ads. And you don't even have to sign up for that subscription until you've sold an advertiser spot. We'll either do Canva or ChatGPT. Canva is kind of phasing out a little bit. We just do that if something needs edited that..."

Rachel Smith

Generating alternative mobile app designs and simplifying onboarding flows

"Having Claude Design actually in Claude Code is just incredibly useful because now I can just say, 'Hey, refer to simple 1 4 inside this canvas and update the app to match it,' instead of having to import stuff from Claude Design and vice versa."

Peter Yang

Creating website redesign proposals in Japandi style, editing design boards via comments or voice, and viewing designs on mobile

"Design mode is the coolest feature of Claude projects. Look at this — this is basically Figma, right? We have this board that I can look at here, and I can actually make edits to it. Now it is simply an artifact that you can use. So underrated it's unbeliev..."

Riley Brown

Driving high-intent patient leads for a dental implant practice

"Right now you have Google Ads that are working obviously, right? I would just actually continue to encourage you to just keep increasing Google ad spend. You're spending 12,000 a month — you're in Orange County. You could probably go to several hundred thou..."

The Game w/ Alex Hormozi

Driving paid search traffic to local business landing pages using problem-agitate-next step headline formula

"I manage his Google Ads, which — when you find the right keywords and you set up the right headlines — I've got a little trick: problem, agitate, next step. Tired of termites? Scared of termites? Afraid termites are infecting your home? Do you want them gon..."

Mike Stewart

Development environment for Lean theorem proving

"this is how a simple lean code looks like like in VS code you have like an info goal view"

Robert George

Managing and configuring OpenClaw agent through SSH

"So, I use VS Code. I also have Codex open. I also have Claude Code open. I also have Devon open, right? So, VS Code is what I use to mess with R2."

Ryan Carson

Accessing non-natively supported AI models (DeepSeek V4 Pro, Gemini 3.7 Flash) inside Cursor IDE

"I'm using this via Open Router. If you were to sign up for Open Router and just ask Cursor how to set it up, you get it set up in like 2 minutes inside Cursor."

Riley Brown

Dynamically selecting the cheapest AI model provider based on uptime, data retention, and pricing

"Go on OpenRouter. What OpenRouter does is you pick Kimi, Sacks, and then you get all the providers there. And then you pick which provider you want based on uptime and data retention and other issues and you can dynamically pick the lowest one."

Jason Calacanis

Tracking in-app subscriptions for iOS apps

"I like to keep a super lean tool stack. Firstly, RevenueCat just for tracking subscriptions."

Will Mayer

Paywall and subscription management for iOS app

"I'm also using other tools like RevenueCat, which is super popular paywall and subscription management tool. It costs around $200 to $300 depending on our revenue of the month."

Ryan Yao

Running Salesforce headlessly as a backend CRM/data system without logging into the UI

"We run Salesforce headless. We don't even log into Salesforce — and these are opportunities and threats."

Jason Lemkin

Core CRM system of record for the firm, increasingly accessed via Claude MCP

"We use Salesforce a lot. We have a 20-year instance. We're deeply embedded in it. And more and more people are using it via Claude."

Rory O'Driscoll

Selling Bankroll Coffee online.

"What's funny is that Shopify actually sponsors quite a bit of our podcast. They're fantastic. It's how I sold Bankroll Coffee in the beginning."

Graham Stephan

Running an e-commerce store with dedicated sourcing, developer, and email agents managing product research and store operations

"I've got a separate Grok Bot account that I pay the $200 for because I'm so crazy about keeping the context separate and it's just Shopify. I'm training it to use the Shopify developer tools and to source products. Grok Bot does an outstanding job of resear..."

Billy Howell

Inference disaggregation partnership to increase total throughput

"We're doing disaggregation with AMD and with AWS, where you think about in the work of inference, is there a part that can be done by somebody else and is there a part that can be done by you. We're seeing similar numbers with AWS."

Andrew Feldman

Cloud infrastructure for SaaS application

"We had no idea about AWS as it relates to like app usage. So like our early day bills on AWS and like the first time we set up Snowflake were like crazy high."

Zach Cherin

Creating a 3D model of a concept phone and rendering it from multiple angles to provide consistent image references for AI video generation

"I wanted to turn it into a 3D model, and I gave it to Codex to create this 3D asset in Blender. And then 5 minutes later, I had this 3D model of a phone that I want to make. Astra is really good at using 3D models, and it can pass in images of the 3D model ..."

Riley Brown

Creating and editing 3D models and assets for video games and interactive websites; controlled entirely by Codex

"Blender is just a free app that we're running on our computer and Codex can control it. You can create full 3D models in Blender. If you ever create a 3D graphic or a 3D render inside Blender, you can always just say, 'Please put this on a website.'"

Riley Brown

Voice cloning clients' voices to produce podcast content in multiple languages (including Spanish), dubbing videos into 13 languages

"Because of ElevenLabs — have you heard of that? I use it to dub all my videos. This video will be in 13 different languages in our clone voices. I take his script, I clone his voice. Now he reads it perfectly in any language we want. I mix the jingle on the..."

Mike Stewart

Transcribing voice recordings from Plaud for use as AI prompts

"I use ElevenLabs for transcription. They're probably the best speech-to-text model."

Lex Fridman

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

Programming with helpful error suggestions for developers coming from other languages

"I made a major feature in Python. The basic gist of the feature was if you type another programming language into Python right now, with this new feature, if you type puts hello world into Python, it would say, did you mean print hello world?"

Matt Van Horn

Creating believable simulations and models

"I personally have moved almost entirely from Excel to Python models where I can actually like get like believable simulations of things"

Blake Scholl

Converting ChatGPT Work spreadsheets to Google Sheets for viewing and sharing financial comparison data

"Because we've set up the Google Sheets or we have the Google Drive plugin, it can automatically create Google Sheets and you'll be able to open it up right away. There you go. It is really color-coded and you can see here Alphabet, Microsoft, and Apple."

Riley Brown

Running and tracking overall business operations

"Google Sheets — I feel like I have to mention it. I sort of run everything through that."

Jake Glacer

Storing and querying business data including form responses, Instagram DM exports, and customer information as a searchable database connected to the AI operating system

"The second it's in a database like Supabase, you can ask it anything. To set up the database, we're going to be using Supabase. It's going to be free for you guys."

Liam Ottley

Storing lead magnet form submissions (name, email, follower count, platform) in a database connected to the deployed app

"In order to do that, we are going to be using Supabase. Supabase is free to get started. And since earlier we set up this Supabase integration, we have all of the tools enabled, and now we can very easily use it to create a database for this data."

Riley Brown

Sending vendor/manufacturer outreach emails, with Codex browser agent drafting messages inside the app

"I used to let it go into Superhuman and set all of these up for me, but I really want to click the send button before — just to check its work."

Yana Welinder

Email client with high retention due to refined product experience

"If you've used Superhuman, you've likely stayed using Superhuman just because every little element of that product is hyperrefined to make you want to continue using it."

Matt Swulinski

Browser access within Claude Cowork for tasks where dedicated MCP connectors don't exist

"In my personal Cowork I use Chrome a lot. As time proceeds and there's more and more MCPs and connectors, those are more comfortable, but the Chrome connector is a critical piece of the puzzle for when you don't have those connectors and integrations and yo..."

Daniel Blum

Running AI browser extensions for Codex and Claude computer use workflows

"If you want to use the browser, you need to have the browser extensions installed inside Chrome. I just use Chrome and I know they have browser extensions. The desktop app plus the Chrome extension can really allow your computer plus AI to do a lot of work ..."

Claire Vo

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