Speaker 1What is going on with GitHub right now? There's so much good stuff being released like on a daily basis that I'll open a project, see what it does, and I'll end up thinking about the 10 ways I can use that to help me make money and to be more productive. So today, what am I going to do? I'm going to show you five projects, five GitHub repos, and three AI skills that I'm playing around with. One makes a launch video for the thing that you've built. Another I'd use to find problems, customers already spending money trying to solve, and a few could just make your existing business just easier to run. So most of them are free to download. You still have model costs, though, but they're mostly free to download. I'm recording this at night because this is the stuff I end up going down rabbit holes down at night and weekends. I thought I'd bring you along with the journey because I did one of these videos about a month ago. Showed you some GitHub repos that I was using. You loved it, so I'm back. These are some of the most interesting GitHub repos and the most interesting AI skills on the internet right now. If you care about building businesses with AI, if you care about skills, so let's get into them and not waste a second of your time. So have you seen Bragg? So look at this video. It was made with a skill called Bragg. You give it your project or with the newer version, you can actually give it a website link and it'll make a short launch video with music, motion, and yes, copy for your post. Now, when you look at some of the stuff that they do, it's pretty insane. We're not talking about, we're not talking about, you know, your Will Smith spaghetti, you know, video, right? We're talking about high quality stuff and the limit really does feel like your imagination. So my favorite detail, I think people ask, okay, what do I like about this the most? One of the examples that they used is a fake series A launch from 2016 and you can just choose the tone. So choosing the tone, really interesting. It's really like, you know, I don't know, I don't know. It's really like choosing the vibe and, you know, we're starting to see, not starting to see, we are seeing, you go onto Twitter, go onto X and you just see like all these highly funded venture backed startups with these insane videos and they spend like a hundred, two hundred, three hundred thousand dollars on them. Hey, you know, you can get something pretty interesting out for really not a lot of money using something like Bragg. By the way, the version I'm talking. About is Bragg Slim, which is designed for Opus 5.5. So install it in your coding agent. I can include the command and then just say like make a 20 second launch video for this and then you hand it your website. It's like literally as simple as that. Give you your website and you can ask for vertical. You can ask for square and I believe you can ask for landscape. It'll make a thumbnail. And you can ask it to redo the individual scene, thankfully, because that's going to happen. So, I mean, you're going to have a part of it that, you know, one part of it that might feel off. So you can, you know, go somewhere specific to, you know, with the feedback. There's a bunch of ways that I think people are going to use this to make money. You know, one is just, you know, if you're just starting out. And maybe you want to, you know, get into this startup ecosystem. Just go through who's launching things on Product Hunt and, you know, just go and build these launches that don't have videos. Hey, I made you a launch video. What do you think? At the very least, it's a conversation starter. You know, they might want more of that type of work. They might not like it. But, you know, I think this whole idea around. Instead of like cold email, cold outreach, do things for people. Send it to them permissionlessly. And there's a good chance it starts the conversation and you can start, you know, hopefully creating value for them. So, yeah, brag. The skill is free. You pay for the model you're running with it. I'll include how you can install it. And that's number one. The second one is something called. Agent Reach. So what Agent Reach does is it's going to help your agent get information from the social Internet. So YouTube, Reddit, X, by setting up the tools those sites need. So you can actually ask it to research a topic across different sources without doing all the collection yourself. So I would use it for customer research because to me. I think, like, there's just so much insight in customer research. I know it's like sounds boring, but like, you know, pick software people already pay for and ask, what are customers still doing by hand and bring me the original posts? So valuable, right? What if you're like a cleaning company? You know, I know that cleaning company owners are exporting their schedules every Friday to work out what everyone should get paid. So I'd be. Curious about that, you know, they have scheduling software, they're paying for it, and somehow this part of the job ends up in a spreadsheet and then you might be able to make a small tool that takes that export and does the calculation so they keep the software they know and you're helping the annoying bit around it. I think there's so many businesses like that and it, you know, people on X are saying, you know, SAS is dead, SAS is dead. I think SAS is evolving. But I think for like these boring little businesses, there's opportunity here. You know, getting, it's just a little tool that could add value. So how would I use that? I would use it by searching for things like I export it or I copy this into and does anyone know a workaround? And then you just get a few recent examples from different people and then you ask one of them to show what they're doing. You still need that conversation before assuming there's a customer here. And yeah, this is just really simple to install. I think that if you're already selling something, you can use the same research to improve how you're explaining it too, right? It's not just for startup ideas and stuff like that. So maybe something like payroll takes my entire Friday is a pretty good starting point for copy if that's the problem your product solves. So there's so much gold in here. Basically, the idea is the internet has a lot of insights and gold. You just got to get it out. And I think that LLMs aren't necessarily the best. So they need things like this. That's number two. Number three is Voice Studio. Have you seen this? So it's an app you download onto your computer. For AI voice work, the way I think about it is it's like an open source 11 labs, a similar kind of kind of thing to 11 labs, if you know that. So it could generate speech. You can use a recording of your own voice or you can dub a video into another language, which is actually, to me, one of the most interesting things. So it has local models. So you basically run them on your own hardware. OK, so how would you know how would I? Use this? Well, I would try to just do a short recording of yourself, download the app, install the model it prompts you for, give it a clean voice sample and a few lines to say. And then I'd want to hear what comes back before doing anything like intense and ambitious. So just start there. By the way, your computer affects how quickly it's going to run. So, you know, you do need a little bit of a quicker computer. Think about all the little business videos a business makes to explain something, how to use the product, how to book an appointment, how to get started after you've paid. So you can use this to make versions for customers who speak another language with a fluent person checking the result. That's like a really, really big deal. I think onboarding is an interesting place to start. So if I'm a software company and I already have, let's say, Spanish speaking customers, maybe all my customers are Spanish speaking. Maybe all my tutorials, a lot of people have this. A lot of tutorials are in English. You have a reason to ask whether that's creating problems for support, right? So I'd ask which three questions keep coming up and I'd start with those videos. So you're making something that could get used the next time that question comes in. A lot of us assume that, you know, we speak one language or the other, but people speak a lot of languages. So this is pretty, pretty big. You can do it with your own company, but also do it with your own company. I think there's a huge business around doing it for other people's companies. You know, if people's products are changing regularly. those videos are going to need updating so i can imagine someone being happy to hand that job over once they trust you to keep the instructions accurate and just charge them a monthly fee so this app is free um but check the commercial license as well as the apps and only clone voices you have permission to use i do think that uh it does have like a lot of some like famous voices because it's i think has access like archive.org and a few other things um but check it out um and that one's just yeah it caught my attention okay number four ppt master i can see your eye i know powerpoint but stay with me on this one because i think it could be useful for a few of you actually quite a few of you what ppt master does is it takes documents or notes and it turns them into an edible editable presentation so you can give your own powerpoint present template too by the way um if you a lot because i know a lot of people have like their own company design when someone asks you to change a price or move something around you can open the file and edit it and to try it add ppt master to your coding agent and follow the setup guide for i think it has python dependencies then give it a document and say turn this into a five slide proposal using this template so i'll link the instructions rather than making you sit through the instructions um the first thing i'd put it through is a proposal i'd already i've already written with the private information removed so you know what a good answer looks like and you can see how much editing it needs then i would try using it after a sales call so you've got your notes the agreed scope and the price so have it turn those into something that you can use and then you can use it after a sales call so you've got your notes the agreed scope and the price so have it turn those into something that you can use and then you can review and send it while the conversation is still fresh there is one thing that matters here i think write the deck for the person who wasn't on the call your contact is probably going to forward it to somebody so that person is going to need to understand why you're doing this and why they're being asked to approve you can also help a sales team that keeps rebuilding the same material right i'd ask what slide do you always end up uh you know redoing yourself maybe every rep is going to have to redo it and then you're going to have to redo it and then you're going to have to redo it and then you're going to have to redo it and then you're going to have to redo it has like a slightly different comparison thing um but give them one good very good give them one good version using approved information and then see what else they need so i think that that could become useful ongoing work if you understand the product well um and so yeah that that one i think it's like a boring one but uh one of those that like a lot of us still spend time in powerpoint and uh changing the way we think about it so i think that's a good one i think that's a good one them is pretty annoying so number five open rig so open rig lets you organize coding agents into a team so you can have one working on a change and another checking it and there's a way to actually like pass the work between them so it works with codex it works with cloud code actually works with both so i think that's really cool this starts to make sense when you're already using agents and you're doing a lot of the coordinating yourself you're copying a result into another change and you're doing a lot of the coordinating yourself you're copying a result into another maybe you're asking it for a review and then you're taking that feedback back to the first one so there's a two agent starter for exactly this so you install the tool and you follow that walk through in a test project it needs mac or linux set up with node and tmux and it changes some agent settings so you're going to want to read those before running it i would give it a small job like a quote calculator for a website and i'd have the agent build it and the other check the result against the business pricing um obviously make sure it works it makes sense um i could see this being useful for people who build websites for clients client work um because you know how there's like just small additions after you launch i i've been in that business so i i feel it a lot you'd obviously still review the work before delivering it but you're going to spend less time passing instructions between windows so i think that's really cool um for people who are just like starting to have more and more agents and want agents to talk to each other uh open rigs are really cool one and a fun one that i'm playing with by the way i have no affiliation with with any of these uh github repos or skills uh just find them cool things i'm testing and uh yeah let me know what you think of them or if there's other githubs uh repos or skills that you're using so number six free tools uh i think it was cory haynes who built this uh skill um for those of you who don't know skill set of instructions your agent could reuse for a particular job some of them come with scripts some of them come with examples too you're basically giving it a process to work through rather than writing these like massive gigantic prompts every single time um free tools is from cory haynes right um and he has like a whole marketing collection and it helps you work out what you could build and give away to attract the right customers in general i like this because if you enjoy building things you can put some of that energy into getting people to find your business we don't want to just like on this podcast in general i'm not just trying to give people uh ideas i also want to give you growth tactics in terms of how you can get your thing out there um but yeah with free tools like think about a packaging supplier someone's launching a product uh is trying to work out whether they need to order like two thousand or five thousand or a thousand boxes what if like a calculator that shows what those options cost that would be pretty helpful and if they ask for a quote afterwards they've already told you something about what they're buying so i would you know if i was building this i'd let them see the result before asking for their email then it offered to turn the estimate into an actual quote without without making them enter everything again um i think a lot of businesses in general need some version of this um and what's cool is like obviously that's a hypothetical example of essentially like a lead magnet for that icp or for that use cases use case but i think there's tons of examples where you're going to um need to attract people convert them and free tools hey people love free tools and they're looking for ways to go down the funnel and that's why i think this is an interesting one i've used not free tools before this particular one but free tools the concept in general and it's been just so helpful in my career so i'm i've been using it for a long time i've been using it for a long time i've been using it for a long time this month which is grill me uh which is actually a good name for this particular uh skill i think it's by matt pocock you give it an idea or a decision and it interviews you about it so you want to install the collection you run the grill me and explain what you're thinking um it asks questions and rounds and follows up based on your answers and i'd use it before building something i'm like especially excited about because that's probably the most probably what i'm most likely to skip over an awkward question so what do i mean by that say i'm thinking about making local ads for franchises who's paying me the franchise owner the headquarters and does the person paying me have permission to actually approve the ad i can imagine confidently building a dashboard and then discovering that every ad needs to go through someone at head office that is like the little thing that i would love to learn uh early so the instruction i'd add is you know something like keep track of anything i say probably about they probably have budget they probably gave us access those are assumptions i would want written down and then i'd ask which i should check first and take the question to a potential customer so the skill helps you prepare the customer is the one who can tell you what's actually happening um and by the way you don't i feel like as i'm as i'm saying this people are going to be like these are just for big decisions you can use this for smaller decisions too right should we offer an annual plan is the feature worth building for one big client i think it's useful to have something just keep asking questions when you're already halfway to opening the code editor we can all be asking ourselves more questions all be asking ourselves to be grilled more um because through the grilling i think we get more clarity we get more insight um so that's why i think this one's interesting and certainly a level up all right impeccable impeccable is the last one paul because built it to give coding agents more specific design guidance and i think it's worth a look if you've been asking your ai to make things look better but you're not really getting too far so you install it in your project you run the setup and you tell it who the product's for keyword then you have commands like critique and polish there's all Also, bolder and quieter, which I like. Sometimes quieter is exactly what I want from an AI-generated website, by the way. So if you look at the creator's conference site example, they started with the mock-up and a brand reference and they turned it into a working site and they checked it in the browser and fixed things like awkward crops and overlapping elements. So I would start with critique on a page that I've already built. So see whether it notices something I missed, then ask it to fix the parts that I agree with. So you can focus on onboarding or checking out instead of changing the whole site. And by the way, I do think there's work here for someone with a good eye. So if you find a small product you like, like just some small product that you like, where the website is just hard to understand what you're buying, you just put together a couple of specific suggestions and then you can go ahead and do it. And then you can go ahead and do it. And then you show the founder what you change. What do I mean by that? I mean like maybe the pricing is like confusing on mobile or the signup form just like asks too much of people. That gives you something useful to discuss. So I'd want to be able to explain why the change helps beyond preferring how it looks. And then you can sell that to people. Like if you have a good eye and you start using this skill, you can start selling that to people. And it's kind of like what we talked about. We talked about with the product hunt thing, right? It opens the conversation and even if you don't sell it initially, it's like, okay, great, you know, but do you want any other design services? Do you want me to do market research? Do you, you know, would you pay me $1,000 a month if I do this? And then, you know, I can hear the comment section. Yeah. Okay. But like, that's not a big business, you know, that's $1,000 a month, 10 clients, $10,000 a month. This is where it starts, right? Every big business starts as a small business and you learn. You learn and through that you build a moat, you can build technology. You go from services to technology, you know, I'll cover that in separate episodes. And I have pieces of it, but you know, just so you know, using these skills is kind of, it's kind of interesting just in general to like use these skills, use these GitHub repos as a way to get cash flow and then build a business around it. Obviously, if you're going to use Impeccable to do, help do the work. Yeah. But I think your judgment is still a big part of what someone's going to hire you for, right? But I think it's a good place to be able to spot the problem and able to make the fix. And I'm glad things like this are coming out because let's be honest, some of the outputs on LLM designs, there's something to be desired. It's free to install, by the way. Your coding agent costs are going to be separate. I would try it. I would try it on a copy of your own site first before doing it with others, but check it out. That's the episode. Hope it's been helpful. Hope it got your creative juices flowing. If I had to pick one to try tonight, I think it would be Bragg. You get something you can send to someone. I like that, like a video. So just take a project that you've built something, an idea you've built something, make a video on it. You give people a reason to look at it. The other one that I want to spend more time with is Acer. It's an agent reach. If I was looking for a business to start, understanding some of the customer pains there are helpful. We do have some of these skills built into ideabrowser.com, which is literally free to sign up to get your idea of the day if you want to validate ideas and trends. But it does also do skills around a lot of complaints and things like that. Just interesting to see other products out there. But yeah, these are some of the skills and GitHub repos I've been playing with. And what can I say? I'll put all the links below. Hope this has been helpful. Again, I will do things that I will create videos, episodes of the podcast that are valuable to you. Just let me know what those things are. I follow you. I live to serve. Have a creative day. And I'll see you next time.
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