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In today’s edition:
💡 A platform for creators to capitalize on their viral content
🛠 How to create killer slide decks in Lovable
🔋 From side project to a $425M exit + more
🔍 OpenAI revenue, Anthropic investment + more
🍻 The meeting accessory that's totally lit
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The Problem: Self-help content does really well online. Take Dan Koe who just published an article on how to fix your entire life in one day, which went mega viral. Over 100 million impressions and tens of thousands of bookmarks later, the piece may even net Dan a $1 million prize. But here's the dirty secret of the creator economy: 95% of those readers will never do a single thing with that article. It'll sit in their bookmarks folder - the graveyard where good intentions go to die. The creator loses too. All that attention, all that value, and no way to capture it beyond hoping they subscribe to their newsletter. The content isn't the bottleneck anymore, implementation is. And right now, there's no infrastructure to turn viral content into actionable outcomes. It’s time to change that. Here's what we're thinking.
The Solution:
💡 The Idea: A platform that lets creators automatically turn their protocols and frameworks into paid, AI-managed cohort courses
🛠️ Product:
Creators paste any article, thread, video, book or transcript into the system. AI extracts the framework and generates a 7-day or 30-day implementation sprint with daily actions, time estimates, and reflection prompts. Creator reviews, tweaks for voice, sets a price ($19-199), and gets a branded link to share.
Readers pay to join and get auto-sorted into cohorts of 10 - 50 people by timezone and start date. An AI facilitator runs the entire experience - posting daily actions via email/SMS/WhatsApp and nudging participants to follow the framework.
Creators get a dashboard showing completion rates, revenue, and which content drives the most sprint sign-ups - turning viral posts into an evergreen income stream they can run monthly with zero additional effort.
🧑💻 Prototyping: Try the demo | Get the demo prompt
💼 Business Model: Free for creators to build sprints. Platform takes 15% of cohort revenue.
⭐ End Goal: Acquisition by a creator economy platform (Kajabi, Teachable, Beehiiv, or ConvertKit) at 10-15x ARR as the "implementation layer" that turns content into courses without the course-building.
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📊 How to Create Killer Slide Decks in Lovable
The Context: People think Lovable is great for building software - and it is - but it's actually a secret weapon for building slide decks too. Instead of wrestling with PowerPoint or paying for design tools, you can prompt Lovable to generate a fully interactive, beautifully designed presentation in minutes. Here's how.
Step-by-step:
Open Lovable and paste in this prompt, replacing the bracketed sections with your specific details.
Review the generated deck and iterate by asking Lovable to tweak specific slides - "Make slide 3 more visual" or "Add a competitor comparison table to slide 7."
Share your deck as a live link or screenshot each slide into a PDF for email.
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🔋 Founder Fuel
🤑 The Money Shot: This bootstrapped side project sold for $425M. Here's how.
📈 Trends with Benefits: Compound engineering is a big deal for programmers right now. Here’s Kevin Rose explaining how it works.
💬 Prompt Drop: Here’s every NotebookLM prompt that’s gone viral on Reddit, X, and research communities.
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🔍 Founder Finds
📈 OpenAI just hit $20B in annualized revenue. Next stop? $100B. Insane numbers.
💰 Anthropic is raising $25B at a $350B valuation, with Sequoia joining despite already backing OpenAI and xAI. VCs are betting on every horse in the AI race.
🎙️ David Senra just dropped his interview with Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke. Two hours of founder wisdom from the guy who turned a snowboard shop into a $130B company.
3️⃣ Elad Gil says there are 3 archetypes of hyper-successful founders. Which one are you?
🛠️ Check out this step-by-step guide on how to automate your life with Claude Code, even if you're not technical.
🍺 Drunk Business Idea: Laptop Ring Light
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