November 9, 2026 | Read online | Podcast
Welcome to Half Baked, the newsletter serving up startup ideas faster than these base jumpers were catapulted out of a chimney 🚀
Welcome to the 348 new readers who joined yesterday. In today’s edition we’re covering:
💡 An idea for founders drowning in 2,000 unread messages
⛽ Premium agents, app ideas, a $30k/month app + more
🔍 Gaming trend, Demis Hassabis, robot fishmongers + more
🍻 An idea to make your bad investments a fashion statement
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💡 Unified Communication Platform
One inbox to rule them all
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👤 Source: Noah Morris wants his scattered messages in one place. We can see why.
❌ Problem:
We’re all drowning in DMs. Email for clients. Slack for the team. LinkedIn DMs for networking. Replying to messages has become a full-time job.
✅ Solution:
Launch Relay, a platform connecting email, workplace chat and messaging accounts into one feed.
It turns messages into a prioritised briefing: decisions, customers needing answers and teammates waiting on you. Group related conversations and draft replies for approval.
Charge monthly for using it, with API plans for developers.
🧑💻 Prototyping: Demo
💡 The Half Baked Take: How we’d validate this: Connect email and Slack for five founders, unify their messages and see who pays to continue after a week.
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🤖 Your AI Assistant Needs Less Hand-Holding
Still extracting last year’s data, pasting it into AI and explaining yourself twice? Very efficient.
Omnisend’s BFCM AI playbook has 12 prompts for performance, deliverability, segmentation and campaign planning. Connect Claude or ChatGPT and work in one chat.
New to Omnisend? It’s email and SMS for ecommerce. Use HALFBAKED30 for 30% off paid plans.
⛽ Fuel for Taking Action
💡 Idea Inspo
Request for Startup: YC managing partner Harj Taggar has advised 1,000+ companies. Now he’s spotted the premium AI agent he wants someone to build.
E-commerce Idea: I put together a LEGO set with my kid over the weekend. It reminded me of this gem of an idea from edition #597. Can someone make this?
🛠️ 10xecution
Tutorial: Greg Isenberg has sold three startups and advised Reddit. Here’s how he’d find, build and grow an iOS app with AI agents.
AI Tool: Anthropic just dropped their most powerful models ever. Here’s what Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 can do.
🤑 Money Shot(s)
Young Money: This 20-year-old NYU student has built 45+ apps. Starter Story says his latest is doing $30k/month. Here’s how.
Bag Secured: David Park says he scaled Jenni AI to $10m ARR, then sold the business. Here are the 47 steps it took him to go from $0 to exit.
👥 A Growing Team Deserves A Plan Review
Adding at least 10 lines to a new SuperMobile account? Perfect Ten offers up to $10,000 in savings through 36 monthly bill credits. Check the eligibility before your next move.
🔍 Everything Else From Today
🚀 Just Launched: This guy just raised $11.2m to teach AI to decode plants’ electrical signals. What a time to be alive.
📈 Trends-with-Benefits: AI game development is exploding right now, particularly on this platform. a16z breaks it down.
📺 Must-Watch: DeepMind co-founder and Nobel laureate Demis Hassabis explains how AI could change the team you need to build a company. One to watch before your next hiring plan.
✖️ Trending Tweet: This company raised a $22m Series A and put robots on working fishing boats. Ole Lehmann breaks down the surprisingly valuable job they do to each fish.
⭐️ Reader’s Pick: Missed Friday’s favourite? Readers clicked seven side hustles worth starting in 2027 more than any other editorial link.
🍻 Drunk Idea: Stock Jewellery
Is your portfolio deep in the red right now? Any chance you’re an Nvidia shareholder (thanks Jensen)?
Introducing Neck Worth™, the ultimate way to tell the world exactly how you’re doing financially. This necklace turns your stock chart into jewellery, so everyone can admire your poor decisions.
Neck Worth™ - Buy high. Wear low.
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