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In today’s edition:
💡 A killer idea riding a mega trend (that isn’t AI)
🛠 A simple prompt to find your perfect side hustle
🔋 How a child’s drawing inspired a $1B business + more
🔍 a16z, ElevenLabs, a $1T/yr market + more
🍻 A product for anyone escaping to the sun anytime soon
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💉 Clinical Peptide Management App
Time for a pep talk
Available Domain: PepRX.com
The Problem: Chris Dixon famously said “what the smartest people do on the weekends is what everyone else will do during the week in ten years.” So, what are my smartest friends up to on their weekends? Well they’re either tinkering with AI or looking into the peptide space. The peptide revolution now includes longevity treatments (NAD+, Thymosin), performance optimization (BPC-157, TB-500), and fertility treatments (HCG) as well as the best known peptide of all…ozempic. All of which means that that the global peptide therapeutics market is projected to hit $50B by 2028. So, as millions of people start getting prescribed peptides through doctors and telehealth services, they're entering a complex world of dosing schedules, side effects, and stacking protocols. Someone should probably build an app to help with this. Here’s what we’re thinking.
The Solution:
💡 The Idea: A white-labeled clinic app that helps patients to manage any peptide therapy program.
🛠️ Product:
Patients sign up to the clinic’s app and select their prescribed peptides, and the app auto-generates their complete protocol: dosage schedules, dose titration, cycling plans, storage reminders, and expiration alerts all in conjunction with the clinic who confirm everything is correct.
The patient can track every dose and side effect, and progress photos/bloodwork upload directly to clinics for protocol optimization.
The dashboard displays active compounds, cycle end dates, and auto-refill calculations, plus an education library with videos and clinic-approved guides - replacing sketchy Reddit advice with professional protocols.
🧑💻 Prototyping: Try the demo | Get the demo prompt
💼 Business Model: White-label SaaS sold to longevity clinics, men's/women's health clinics and more at $149-399/month per provider or $3-8/patient/month (whichever is higher)
⭐ End Goal: Sell to a major telehealth peptide platform (Maximus, Hone Health, Defy Medical) to allow them to expand their footprint at a 6 - 9x revenue multiple.
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🎯 A Simple Prompt to Find Your Perfect Side Hustle
The Context: Some people are out here trying to build unicorns. Others just want a side hustle that throws off a few thousand dollars a month alongside your job. Well if you fall into the latter category, here’s a prompt to get bespoke side hustle ideas.
Step-by-step:
Go to your LLM of choice
Enter this prompt:
"Evaluate my skills [List your top 3 skills] and available time [X hours]. Suggest 5 side hustles. Rank them by: 1. Fastest time to first dollar. 2. Lowest startup cost. 3. Profit potential in 90 days.”
Based on the output, pick the side hustle that you believe has the most potential
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🔋 Founder Fuel
🤑 The Money Shot: This $1B business was inspired by a child’s drawing. Here’s how.
📈 Trends with Benefits: CES 2026 has been totally dominated by physical robots. Could that be the big theme of 2026?
💬 Prompt Drop: This prompt lets you turn any YT video into an infographic using Nano Banana Pro. Pretty cool!
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🔍 Founder Finds
🤑 a16z just raised $15B (as we alluded to in the opening line). Here’s a deep dive into the raise (probably like a16k words)…
🚀 ElevenLabs just launched Scribe v2, the most accurate transcription model ever released.
🧬 Ali Ansari believes that human data will be a $1 trillion/year market. Here’s why.
💬 Michael Burry (The Big Short), Jack Clark (Anthropic co-founder) and Dwarkesh Patel (podcaster) just debated the future of AI. Here’s how it went.
📖 Paul Graham’s essay on How to Work Hard is as timeless as all of his other essays really…
🍺 Drunk Business Idea: Motorized Pool Lounger
Looking to get away from the cold and spend some time relaxing in a pool in the sunshine Worried you’ll exhaust yourself by... floating?
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