I fixed Claude Code for you in 30 seconds
The Startup Ideas Podcast
Intro
Greg introduces the episode and teases Matt Van Horn's Last 30 Days Claude Code demo.
I sit down with Matt Van Horn, creator of the "Last 30 Days" skill for Claude Code, as he demonstrates how this tool turns anyone into a real-time research expert. By pulling trending data from X, Reddit, and the web, Last 30 Days supercharges Claude Code prompts with current intelligence. Matt walks through live demos, from discovering popular rap songs to generating cold emails to building a Moltbot competitor, showing how non-engineers can ship products using AI tools with almost no coding background.
Timestamps
00:00 – Intro
01:39 – What Is "Last 30 Days"
03:29 – Live Demo: Most Popular Rap Songs
04:47 – Cold Email Frameworks Demo
07:04 – Growing an X Following Using Recent Data
07:49 – Researching Moltbot to Build a Competitor
08:26 – Best Practices for Last 30 days
09:26 – Growing an X Following Using Recent Data Results
11:17 – Best Practices for Webdesign Research
13:44 – Building an Enterprise Moltbot Clone Live
17:43 – Generating Figma Prompts and Nano Banana Images
21:54 – Advice for Non-Engineers Getting Started with Claude Code
Links Mentioned:
Last 30 Days Skill: https://startup-ideas-pod.link/last30days
Key Points
Last 30 Days searches X, Reddit, and the web for content from the past month, creating highly optimized prompts for Claude Code.
The tool requires Claude Code access, an OpenAI API key (for Reddit data), and an XAI key (for X/Twitter access).
Matt demonstrates using minimal prompts to generate cold email frameworks, research trending topics, and kickstart new product builds.
Compound Engineering serves as a planning tool to turn research into structured project roadmaps.
Non-engineers can ship functional products by combining Claude Code with ChatGPT for troubleshooting errors via screenshots.
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