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In today's edition:
💡 The ultimate app for overwhelmed homeowners
🔋 Claude Code on your phone, 50k X followers, a $3.6B Salesforce exit + more
🔍 Screenshot-saving, Cursor acquisition, body-morphing robots + more
🍻 A desktop accessory for the disgruntled office worker
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🏡 Home Concierge App
Home Work
Available Domain: Homestretch.ai
👤 Source: Anand Sanwal, co-founder and CEO of CB Insights ($100M/yr business), recently posted about wanting someone to build a "new-home-in-a-box" service. Thanks for the idea, Anand.
❌ Problem:
If you’re lucky enough to own a home right now, then for a brief few days (or maybe weeks) you were unlucky enough to have to actually move house. Moving house is the worst (I did it myself last year) - it’s time consuming, energy sapping, super stressful. And then, once you move in, you have a ton of work to do all the time to actually maintain your home.
Well Anand Sanwal recently moved house which gave him an idea in this space that we think someone could run with to take some of the stress out of moving into and maintaining your home. Here's the idea.
✅ Solution:
An AI concierge that helps you to move into and maintain every aspect of your home.
It ingests every detail of your property (square footage, lot size, build year, region, the systems inside) from listings and public records, then hands you a tailored move-in playbook.
From there it tracks every maintenance job (filter swaps, gutter cleans, servicing) and nudges you before things break, then layers on insurance, warranties, and vetted local tradespeople. A second brain for your home.
🧑💻 Prototyping: Google AI Studio Demo | Remix this Build
💡The Half Baked Take: Anand’s original pitch hits on an important pain point, but misses the fact that people don’t move home very often. No LTV (lifetime value) in this model. You need to combine it with maintenance to increase customer value over time.
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⛽ Fuel for Taking Action
⚒️ Founder Tutorial: How to Run Claude Code From Your Phone
Type
/rcin your Claude Code session and scan the QR code with the Claude app to mirror your live session straight to your phone, prompts, approvals and all.Or skip the laptop entirely: connect a GitHub repo at claude.ai/code, fire a fully-briefed task, and a cloud machine clones, builds and pushes a branch while your machine stays off.
🧠 Idea Inspiration: This dad built a paper YouTube for his kid. Scan a QR card and the video plays with no ads, no algorithm, no suggestions. Love this idea.
🆓 Playbook: Zara added 50k X followers in 9 months while still sounding like herself. Here’s how she did it.
🤑 Money Shot: These Irish guys turned a €2,200 bank loan for flights into a $3.6B Salesforce exit. Here's how.
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🔍️ Everything Else from Today
🛠️ AI Tool: Pool sorts your screenshot chaos into AI-organised "pools" and finds the original link behind each one. Bringing order to chaos…
📈 Trends with Benefits: Tim Ferriss just shared that he's on track to sell 80% fewer books in 2026 than he did in 2022. Here’s why.
📚 Must-Read: Cursor just got acquired for $60B today. This article breaks down the company’s wild ride. It’s insane.
✖️ Trending Tweet: Check out these 32 rules for building a viral product, from a guy who makes >$80K per month.
🧬 Science Corner: Columbia built robots that adapt their own bodies, reorganising and repairing themselves to fit whatever the task throws at them. Wild.
🔮 Future Tech: MIT's Tomás Vega created a tongue-controlled trackpad for people with paralysis, a custom mouth retainer that drives phones, tablets and computers hands-free. Quietly extraordinary.
🍺 Drunk Business Idea: Desktop Punchbag
One more passive-aggressive email away from losing it? Need to throw hands but legally can't?
Introducing the DeskJab™, a mini punching bag that suctions to your desk so you can fire off a flurry of jabs between meetings instead of at Karen from accounts.
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