Welcome to Half Baked, the newsletter serving up startup ideas as often as AI models are solving impossible math problems 🧮
In today's edition:
💡 Leaning into a specific vibe coding vertical
⛽️ $50M in 15 months, 20 SEO prompts, the GPT 6 set-up guide + more
🔍 25 patterns of high performers, YC on your 20s + more
🍻 An idea that goes right over your head
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🎮 Multiplayer Game Platform
Bring your own player two
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👤 Source: Riley Brown shared this idea for a platform that helps people turn their AI-built games into something they can play with friends.
❌ Problem:
Picture this - you’ve jumped on the vibe coding trend and used AI to build a game. Lovely. Now you want to play it with your friends. Suddenly you’re dealing with servers, multiplayer networking and everyone seeing a slightly different version of reality.
Alex Finn argues that AI could let tiny teams challenge expensive game studios. And the prize is enormous: gaming generated over $200bn in 2025. If AI unleashes a wave of new creators, those creators will need somewhere to host their games, find players and make money. Here’s the idea.
✅ Solution:
Build a platform for hosting and discovering multiplayer games, with documentation designed for coding agents.
The platform would provide the multiplayer infrastructure: shared game state, player lobbies and hosting. The agent handles the integration, then returns a playable link for the group chat. List games in a searchable arcade so strangers can discover them too.
🧑💻 Prototyping: Product Demo
💡 The Half Baked Take: Every creator brings a game. Every game brings an invitation to friends. Nail that loop and your hosting platform could become the discovery engine for the next generation of games.
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A few weeks ago someone on this team got an email from one of our partners. Right name, right context, arriving the week it would have made sense. It was phishing. We caught it, but not by much, and not because anyone was being clever that morning.
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💡 Ideas to Inspire You
💻️ SaaS: Here’s an incredible opportunity to be at the forefront of robotics. Check it out.
📱 Mobile App: Don’t have time to read books? Here’s an app we’d love to see built that could solve that problem.
🛍️ E-commerce: An e-commerce idea we'd back: turning group chats into hardcover books. Nice.
🤖 Hardware: Retro tech is making a comeback! Here are the coolest retro-inspired devices out there right now.
💵 Side Hustle: Here’s a prediction worth a second look. There’s definitely a side hustle buried in this.
⛽️ Fuel for Taking Action
🎓 Founder Tutorial: OpenAI’s new Astra model is a beast at SEO. Here are 20 prompts to turn it into an SEO expert.
🛠️ AI Tool: Meta just officially launched Muse, their new personal AI assistant. Check it out!
📘 Playbook: This is the ultimate GPT 6 Astra set-up guide to get you up and running in no time. (As you can tell, this model release is a big deal…)
💸 Founder Deal: Granola captures action summaries for every meeting. They're giving Half Baked readers 100% off their first month. Claim the deal.
🤑 Money Shot: Three OpenAI researchers quit after DeepSeek and hit $50M revenue in 15 months. Here's how.
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🔍️ Everything Else from Today
💰 Bag Secured: Mistral just raised a €3B Series D, the largest equity round ever raised by a European tech company, just three years after launch.
📚 Must-Read: Here are 25 patterns of high performing individuals by Tim Denning. Study and apply them if you want to get ahead.
📺 Must-Watch: The first trailer for the OpenAI movie just dropped - could it be this generation’s Social Network? I really hope so…
✖️ Trending Tweet: Check out the YC guide on how to spend your 20s in the AI era. A must read for everyone (if you’re in your 20s, or not…).
⭐️ Reader's Pick: This guy makes $65k a month selling eBooks he didn’t write. And he reckons anyone can make money quickly by doing the same. Cool side hustle.
🍺 Drunk Business Idea: Book Projector
Love reading a book before bed? Struggle to find a comfortable reading position before you drift off?
Introducing SkyLit™, the world's first headboard-mounted book projector. A 4K short-throw unit clamps to your bed frame, throws a 120-inch page onto the ceiling above you, and turns it with a wave of your hand.
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