Welcome to Half Baked, the newsletter serving up startup ideas as surprising as Zoom appointing Jeffrey E. Epstein to its Board of Directors (might be time for a name change…) 😬
In today's edition:
💡 An idea for anyone whose newsletter died at edition four
⛽️ Fable 5.1, a $0 to $100M playbook, a $5B in 20 months + more
🔍 AI's coming collapse, Altman's Stanford lecture, an annoyingly simple side hustle + more
🍻 An idea to really sink your teeth into
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🗞️ AI Media Company Platform
Press Play
Name.com Domain: Pressworks.app
👤 Source: Cody Schneider says businesses can now use AI agents to run an entire media business inside their own business. Great observation.
❌ Problem:
Every business knows it should publish content. So the founder writes three LinkedIn posts, records half a podcast and launches a newsletter that quietly dies after edition four.
AI can now perform most of that work, but stitching together the agents, prompts, scrapers, publishing tools and analytics is still a technical project. Nobody gives a business the entire media machine. Here’s the idea.
✅ Solution:
A platform that launches and operates an AI-powered media company for any business. Enter your website, customer profile and industry, then choose your channels: directory, newsletter, podcast, LinkedIn, X or TikTok.
A team of agents researches the industry, identifies stories and content gaps, produces the content and publishes it automatically. Performance data flows back into the system, so each new article, episode or post is shaped by what actually generated traffic and leads.
Start with B2B software companies in one expensive niche and sell a managed “directory plus newsletter” package. Once the system reliably produces qualified traffic, expand into social accounts, podcasts and a self-serve subscription.
🧑💻 Prototyping: Product Demo
💡 The Half Baked Take: This is an agency disguised as software at the beginning, but if you can turn the winning workflows into repeatable templates, you could become the publishing infrastructure behind thousands of tiny industry media empires.
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🎧 Turn Every Sales Call Into a Coaching Session
Founders juggling calls, texts and video across five different apps lose the details that actually close deals.
Dialpad on T-Mobile for Business puts it all in one app, then uses AI to do the work you don't have time for: it transcribes and summarizes every call automatically, scores sentiment and CSAT in real time, and flags the exact moment a prospect objected so you know what to fix next time.
Plans start at $25 a user a month, backed by a 100% uptime SLA.
💡 Ideas to Inspire You
💻️ SaaS: There's a SaaS idea buried in this: every person who likes your team's posts is a lead worth chasing.
📱 Mobile App: An idea from our archives that's hitting a lot of trends at once. Hiking, but you claim trails like territory.
🛍️ E-commerce: Check out this awesome 3D printed product. What else could you create and sell?
💵 Side Hustle: Chasing a side hustle? Here's an idea from the archives that gets you paid while you hunt.
⛽️ Fuel for Taking Action
🎓 Founder Tutorial: Here’s an excellent guide on how to master Fable 5.1. & Mythos 5.1. Check it out.
🛠️ AI Tool: Meta shipped Muse Spark 1.3 and OpenCode has it free for now. Go see what it can do.
📘 Playbook: The $0 to $100M sales playbook, from an Excel-sheet CRM to hunting entire verticals instead of leads. Rare to see one this specific.
🤑 Money Shot: These guys went from zero to a $5B valuation in 20 months by selling AI to the markets nobody bothered with. Here's how.
📼 Missed the Masterclass? It’s on Tape
How to Turn Strangers into Customers, yesterday's masterclass with ActiveCampaign.
From idea to sent campaign in minutes, written in your voice, landing when each person is most likely to open, all through Active Intelligence.
🔍️ Everything Else from Today
📰 Breaking News: It’s official! Nvidia will be purchasing Hugging Face for a cool $12.9B. Great outcome!
📚 Must-Read: Here’s why AI will collapse into something far simpler than the discourse expects, and the one question every agent founder should be answering.
📺 Must-Watch: Sam Altman’s 2015 Stanford lecture is a must watch for any aspiring entrepreneur. Use it to find your next business idea.
⭐️ Reader's Pick: The guys at My First Million found a side hustle so simple you'll be annoyed you're not already doing it.
🍺 Drunk Business Idea: Smart Toothbrush
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