The Startup Ideas Podcast

Nick Vasilescu, founder of Orgo and operator of AI agent products, shares tactical playbooks for building one-person AI agent businesses. He covers designing irresistible offers, which industries to pursue, the full software and model stack, and how to spin up cloud-based agents that manage other agents. Short, practical steps for acquiring customers, structuring workspaces, and ensuring reliability.

They walk through seven tiny, cash-flowing AI agent business ideas you can build fast. You get a live demo of an in-cloud agent running Sonnet 4.6 and how to plug it into Slack as an always-on employee. They show real builds: a dead domain flipper, a restaurant liquidation broker, and a cold outreach hiring-signal machine. A five-step idea framework and dozens of other practical agent concepts are shared.

Meng To, designer, educator, and founder of Design+Code and Aura, breaks down design.md as portable design DNA for AI-made work. He walks through a live workflow for landing pages, motion, slides, and mobile mocks. They explore design drift, remixing with reusable skills, why taste sets work apart, and how a solo creator runs multiple products with agents.

Imran Muthuvappa, product builder and AI practitioner who demos Nebula, shows how to spin up AI agents that act like a chief of staff. He walks through agents for spotting blockers, tracking project status, running daily agendas, and prospecting leads. Short demos cover model choice, mini apps, integrations, and why personal software is taking off.

Andrew Wilkinson, Tiny founder and internet business investor, shares how AI agents now run parts of his work and personal systems. He covers Deep Personality, Harbor, and querying company data like an oracle. They explore autonomous companies versus hype, software moats getting weaker, custom internal tools, AI for email and health, and where he’s investing next.

Howie Liu, Airtable co-founder and CEO, joins for a fast-paced look at the agent economy and HyperAgent. They explore why AI agents may be hitting a major inflection point. There is a live build of a contrarian AI skill. They also get into fleets of agents, command centers, token economics, enterprise adoption, and custom API-powered workflows.

Riley Brown, an AI creator and educator known for hands-on workflow tutorials, gives a lively tour of Codex as an all-in-one AI workspace. They dig into browser and computer control, plugins for tools like Notion and Canva, Remotion for motion graphics, and why GUI-first tools may beat the terminal. There’s also a fun chess demo, Claude Code inside Codex, and talk about AI overwhelm.

A fast tour of ChatGPT Images 2.0 and what it can build for brands, ads, UI mockups, merch, and editorial art. It also dives into a surprising AI tool that filters the internet for you, a steal-worthy learn-to-draw app with AI feedback, and a practical playbook for spotting vertical AI businesses worth building.

Imran Muthuvappa, an AI builder known for practical agent tutorials, breaks down Hermes Agent in plain English. He covers why he switched from OpenClaw. He explores built-in memory, 40+ tools, Mac and Android setup, Telegram and Obsidian workflows, prompt ideas, and surprisingly cheap deployment options.

A live test drive follows an AI design tool from startup idea to wireframes, polished screens, a fundraising deck, and a quick video ad. There is plenty of real-time trial and error, including buggy hi-fi builds and smart feedback-driven edits. The most exciting parts are the product-thinking questionnaires, standout wireframes, and surprisingly strong deck creation.