Welcome to Half Baked, the newsletter serving up startup ideas as thought-provoking as Dario Amodei's 10,000-word essay on AI's teenage years 🧠 😱
In today’s edition:
💡 An AI platform transforming the musician’s experience
🛠 Building landing pages with Claude Code (Day 2)
🔋 From 100 VC rejections to a $4B AI empire + more
🔍 OpenAI's new tool, Clawdbot rename, Anthropic launch + more
🍻 A gadget that makes bad haircuts impossible
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🎵 AI-Powered Practice Studio
Pitch perfect
Available Domain: Practicestudio.ai
The Problem: The music education market is worth $2.5B and growing, yet 85% of people who pick up an instrument quit within the first year. Why? Practice is lonely, feedback is slow, and most learners have no idea if they're actually improving. YouTube tutorials show you what to play but can't tell you how you sound. Private lessons cost $50-100/hour and happen once a week at best. Meanwhile, you're building bad habits in between. What musicians actually need is a system that combines song learning, real-time audio feedback, and technique analysis - all in one place. Here's what we're thinking.
The Solution:
💡 The Idea: An AI-powered practice platform that listens to you play, coaches you in real-time, and periodically analyzes your technique via video.
🛠️ Product:
Pick any song from the library and the AI breaks it into stems (vocals, guitar, bass, drums) so you can isolate parts, slow them down, and loop difficult sections until you nail them.
As you play along, the AI listens through your mic and scores your pitch, timing, and dynamics in real-time - giving you instant feedback like "nice chord transition" or "you're rushing the chorus."
Every few sessions, record a short video and get AI analysis of your hand position, posture, and technique with specific tips to improve.
🧑💻 Prototyping: Try the demo | Get the demo prompt
💼 Business Model: $15/month for real-time audio coaching. $40/month adds video technique reviews and optional human feedback from verified instructors.
⭐ End Goal: Acquisition by Spotify, Fender, or a music education company like Yousician at 8-12x revenue.
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🛠 Building Landing Pages with Claude Code (Day 2 of 5)
The Context: Welcome back to our 5-day Claude Code mini course. Yesterday you installed Claude Code. Today we're building a complete landing page from scratch - and you'll be shocked how fast it happens.
Step-by-step:
Create a new folder for your project and open it in your terminal by typing
cd ~/Desktop/my-landing-page(or wherever you want it).Type
claudeto start Claude Code, then describe what you want: "Build me a landing page for a productivity app called FlowState. Include a hero section, 3 feature cards, testimonials, and a waitlist signup form. Make it modern and minimal."Watch as Claude writes the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files - review each file it creates and type
yto approve or give feedback to adjust.Open the
index.htmlfile in your browser to see your new landing page live.
Tomorrow: Build your first mobile app with Claude Code
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🔋 Founder Fuel
🤑 The Money Shot: This sci-fi nerd from Copenhagen turned 100 VC rejections into a $4B AI empire. Here's how.
📈 Trends with Benefits: Remotion is everywhere right now. The React-based video framework just launched Skills, letting you create videos by talking to AI instead of writing code.
💬 Prompt Drop: The CLEAR Framework is a 5-step mental model for getting dramatically better outputs from any AI tool. Worth checking out!
🆓 Founder Resource: This guy literally explains everything you need to create top-tier landing pages with AI (in 1 hour).
💵 Founder Deal: Get 12 months of ElevenLabs for free with their startup grant program.
🔍 Founder Finds
🤖 OpenAI launched Prism, an AI workspace for scientists that handles LaTeX, citations, and collaboration. Their VP: "2026 for science will be what 2025 was for coding."
🦞 Clawdbot got forced to rebrand to Moltbot after Anthropic hit them with a trademark request. Brutal.
🔌 Anthropic embedded interactive apps inside Claude. You can now use Slack, Figma, Asana, and Canva directly in your chat window.
🧠 Manus just launched "Skills" - a library of pre-built AI workflows you can one-click import. Like an app store for AI agents.
💰 Beast Industries just raised $200M from Bitmine to build a DeFi-powered financial services platform. MrBeast going full crypto.
🎴 Francois, a Half Baked reader, is raising for his Kickstarter - check it out if you can!
🍺 Drunk Business Idea: Smart Hair Clipper
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