Welcome to Half Baked, the newsletter serving up startup ideas as often as Cloudflare goes down (really guys, again?) 😵
In today’s edition:
💡 Fighting back against a broken system
🛠 How to grow on social media with 0 followers
🔋 Taking on Uber Eats to build a €2.3B business + more
🔍 Warner Bros acquired, Apple execs fired + more
🍻 A product to bring you closer to mother nature
Let’s goooo 🚀
Half Baked x Bolt 10-Day Founder Hackathon Winners
As promised, here are the winners from the hackathon:
🥇 Best Product Winner: Claim.watch by Bartosz Idzik - $7.5K Prize
🥈 Best Product Runner Up: Preventr by Dr Igor Oliveira - $2.5K Prize
📼 Best Video Pitch Winner: Auroquiz by Laszlo - $2.5K Prize
📢 Build in Public Award Winner: Rise Alarm by Dan Fishman & Max Gallinek - $2.5K Prize
Congrats to all the winners and a big thank you to everyone who submitted a project, you smashed it. More hackathons coming soon. Stay tuned…
💸 $1,000 Giveaway: We’re partnering with Warp this week to give away $1,000 to support one of you on your founder journey. To enter just:
Winner will be announced next Monday. Good luck!
🏥 AI for Medical Bill Auditing
Fiscal therapy
Available Domain: Billopsy.com
The Problem: I don’t need to explain how messed up the US healthcare system is. So you won’t be surprised to hear that up to 80% of hospital bills contain errors. That’s because (understandably) the average patient doesn't know what "CPT Code 99214" means, so they just pay the $2,000 bill out of fear of retribution. And these aren’t just rounding errors, they contribute to a wider, $88 billion problem the US is facing. It’s time to fight back against the system. Here’s how.
The Solution:
💡 The Idea: An AI-powered app that audits your medical bills for errors, inflated charges, and incorrect codes, then generates dispute letters and negotiates on your behalf.
🛠️ Product:
A users takes a photo of their itemized hospital bill and uploads it to the platform. The AI instantly extracts every line item, procedure code, and charge, flagging duplicates, unbundled services, incorrect codes, and compares this to your insurance coverage.
The user can then see a clear breakdown of potential errors (color-coded by severity), estimated overcharges, and how your costs compare to Medicare rates and regional averages through a "Bill Health Score", showing how fair your charges really are.
The app generates personalized dispute letters and appeal templates, guiding you through the process to get the error corrected. Over time you could even use AI agents to negotiate on a user’s behalf.
💼 Business Model: Success fee model where you keep 10% - 20% of what a user saves
⭐ End Goal: Get acquired by a healthcare fintech player or a consumer finance app for a potential 6-10x revenue multiple
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⚡ Run Multiple Warp Agents at Once — and Get 10x More Done
Founders juggle everything - bug fixes, data analysis, user feedback - and context switching kills momentum. Warp lets you run multiple agents in parallel and monitor them effortlessly so you can stay focused on the high-leverage work.
Start multiple agents: Kick off several tasks at once - fix a bug in one pane, analyze an Excel file in another, and pull + summarize user transcripts in a third.
Track progress at a glance: Each pane shows a live status indicator so you always know which agents are running, waiting, or done.
Use the Agent Management Panel: View all active agents in one place, cancel stuck tasks, jump into conversations, or approve actions when an agent needs input.
Stay in flow: Warp sends lightweight notifications when an agent hits an error or needs approval, so you can focus until intervention is required.
📈 How to Grow on Social Media with 0 Followers
The Tool: If you have 0 followers on social media, growing your account is super hard. Posting original content is screaming into the void. So, the fastest way to grow is to draft high-value comments on big accounts. Here’s how to use the “ReplyGuy” strategy to grow.
Step-by-step:
Create a Twitter List of the top 20 influencers in your niche.
Check this list twice a day, looking for posts <15 minutes old. You can also turn on notifications so you get notified the second they post.
Paste the link to the tweet into Gemini (ChatGPT can’t read tweet links annoyingly) with this prompt: "Write a disagreement-style reply to this tweet that adds a unique, contrarian perspective. Keep it under 280 characters, lower case, no hashtags, casual tone."
Post it. If you are early and controversial (politely), you can ride their viral wave. You can also use this strategy on other social platforms too.
😨 Stop Being Scared of Your Internet Bill
Scared to look at your internet bill every month? Us too. Luckily, T-Mobile will lock in your business' internet rate for the next 5 years. No more surprises.
To see if you qualify all you have to do is:
Go to this website
Enter your business address
Click “Check Availability”
That’s it. It takes 5 seconds, and could save your business
🔋 Founder Fuel
🤑 The Money Shot: This guy took on Uber Eats and Deliveroo to build a €2.3B business. Here’s how he did it.
📈 Trends with Benefits: VCs are deploying a “Kingmaking” strategy to crown the winners in the AI market. Bold strategy Cotton.
💬 Prompt Drop: Steal this mega prompt to create static ads for your brand with Nano Banana.
🆓 Free Resource: This guide, used internally at Cursor, shows you how to get started with Cursor.
💵 Deal of the Day: Get 20% off Google Workspace’s Standard Plan here. T&C’s apply.
🔍 Founder Finds
💰 Netflix just announced they have acquired Warner Bros in a $72B deal. This is HUGE in the streaming wars.
🍎 Apple has lost a huge number of executives, mainly in their AI department, this week. I wonder what they’re cooking up…
🛠️ Shortcut just launched v0.5 of their Superhuman Excel Agent. Will be great for building financial models in your startup.
📹 Greg Isenberg just analyzed 8 apps that hit $50K MRR in under 180 days and explains what they all have in common.
👮 Forbes 30 Under 30 came out earlier this week. I wonder how many of this cohort will end up in jail?
🍺 Drunk Business Idea: Grass Treadmill
Ever miss touching grass but also missing your step count? Wonder why your only connection to nature is a plant dying on your desk?
Introducing RunWild™, the world’s first treadmill with real, living grass, finally letting you “ground” yourself without abandoning your Wi-Fi. Each step helps you reconnect with your roots.
RunWild™ - where the grass is greener.
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