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In today's edition:
💡 An idea to free your team's AI chats
⛽️ Side hustles, AI mastery, family recipes + more
🔍️ Reddit validation, Steve Jobs, Sam Altman + more
🍻 An idea to make waking up genuinely alarming
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🛰️ Multiplayer AI Workspace for Teams
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Available Domain: Assemblee.ai
👤 Source: Oliur (designer and founder of UltraLinx) tweeted looking for this exact tool. His words: "If this doesn't exist, I think I may have to build it." Someone should just build it for him…
❌ Problem:
AI usage inside most teams is a black box. Your designer has 40 Claude chats, your marketer has 60, and nobody can see, reuse or build on any of it. The company's best thinking is trapped in personal accounts, and everyone is paying to re-solve the same problems.
The demand is so real that YC built their own internal tool for this (QM) and open-sourced it this week. The catch? It's self-hosted. A 3-person team doesn't want to become a DevOps shop, they want to open a URL and see what's cooking. Here's the idea.
✅ Solution:
A hosted cloud workspace organised by projects, where every team member's AI chats live side by side - readable, joinable and forkable by anyone on the team, with a live board showing which agents are running, who kicked them off and what they're doing.
Everyone connects their own Claude or ChatGPT subscription and OAuths their MCPs once, and they sync across every project and teammate with permission scoping.
Jump into a teammate's chat mid-stream to contribute or redirect their agent, or spin up a parallel agent on the same context. Think Figma's multiplayer moment, but for AI work instead of design files.
🧑💻 Prototyping: Google AI Studio Demo | Remix this Build
💡 The Half Baked Take: BYO subscriptions means zero inference costs, so this has actual SaaS margins in a category where everyone else is reselling tokens at a loss. Nice.
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⛽ Fuel for Taking Action
💡 Idea Inspiration: Check out these five side hustles that you can start immediately from our list of previous ideas.
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🔍️ Everything Else from Today
🛠️ AI Tool: Ready to validate your business idea? Kinda mines Reddit and web data for market size, competition and real demand. Super cool tool!
📚 Must-Read: Sequoia's Alfred Lin just broke down the one value that separates good from great companies. Whatever you're building, this matters.
📺 Must-Watch: In this classic clip, Steve Jobs breaks down the most important job of a CEO. It isn't strategy, and it isn't product.
✖️ Trending Tweet: This is Sam Altman's blueprint for actually making things happen.
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🍺 Drunk Business Idea: Gun Alarm Clock
Sleep through six alarms every morning? Wish waking up felt less like a gentle suggestion and more like a home invasion?
Introducing GlockClock™, the world's first bedside alarm clock that wakes you with the sound of a 118 decibel gunshot. Three modes: Single Shot for light sleepers, Burst for chronic snoozers, and Full Auto for anyone with a 5am flight to catch.
GlockClock™ - Alarmed and dangerous.
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