Speaker 1This is an amazing opportunity. This is a new product. It works great. You're getting probably $10,000 worth of tokens for your subscription. Use it to make money. Stop organizing your Gmail for the sixth time. That's not going to change your life. Anything you see on Twitter that people are getting wrong about Grokbot? Yeah, everything. Let's hear it. Everything that I see on Twitter is like, whoa, I just had Grokbot make this knowledge graph and it called my dad and this
Speaker 2and that. It's just advanced forms of procrastination. Yeah. It's got a bias for
Speaker 1action. It just does that. I couldn't automate it with Codex. Couldn't automate it with Notion. Grokbot took over immediately. It was doing stuff that I couldn't set up. I don't think you need a lot. I don't think you need to customize. I don't think you need to make 80 different agents. They're just good to go. They know what to do and they can work on it even when your laptop's closed.
Speaker 2It's already done. What the crap? Oh my gosh, it works. That's crazy. Okay, that was very easy. Jeez. If someone is brand new to Grokbot and they want to use it to build something, like you're saying, what's like a good first step or an agent that can get someone to revenue? This is a pro tip. I can't go three feet nowadays without hearing about Grokbot. What is Grokbot? Well, we all know we have ChadGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok, which is owned by Elon X, Twitter, whatever. That's Grok. Grok just came out with Grokbot, which is an agent. It's an AI agent that's groundbreaking. It's amazing. It's an agent that's going to be used to do things like this. It's amazing. It does stuff for you. We've talked about agents before, but this seems to be the best one so far. So last year I had a friend named Billy Howell on the pod. You guys loved him. He was one of my best episodes of last year. We'll link it in the show notes. He's on the cutting edge of these agents. So I had him on to teach us and tell us what is Grokbot? How can we use it? How can we prompt it? Most importantly, how can we make money with it? If you hear a few acronyms you're not familiar with, CLI, command line interface, it's just a way of interacting with a computer. API, it's just a way of interacting with AI. It's a way that software interacts with each other. But don't worry about all that. If you ever wanted an AI agent to run a business for you, start a business for you and make money for you, today you're going to hear it from a guy who's actually doing that today. And then after I hang up with Billy, I go ahead and download Grokbot for the first time and build an app. Guys, it blew my mind. Okay. Open clause, cool, right? But it's pretty confusing. This is as confusing as signing up for a Facebook account is. It's I had a working sellable app. So interview first and then build second. Okay. So why don't we just start broadly and tell me how you're using Grokbot today. Okay. So I'm using it to run
Speaker 1Arlington Bagel, which is my local events and restaurant news newsletter. It runs editorial, it runs research and it runs the sales team as well as the Shopify for the lovely hats. But what I like about it is I can only give each of those agents one thing to do at a time. And I've noticed, I don't know, Chris, do you use Grokbot at all? I never have, but I want to. Whoa. Okay. Yeah. Okay. So yesterday I set up a second Grokbot account. It's cheaper now. And I was like, I just want to try this. It's been doing some great stuff. I tweeted some of it, like it's helping me schedule junk pickups, helping me like find tea times, find... Cheap wizards tickets, a bunch of cool stuff like that. But I've got fricking, I've got 20 bots and everything I think that I can do, I can do with Grokbot. And so that's the problem. I sit texting Grokbot all day and that happens even worse, I think, to people and tools like ChatGPT or Claude because of how projects are set up and how threads are set up. And so all that is to say, Grokbot makes you very mission focused, but if you're using it for everyday life stuff, I don't think you're going to get like the... The max potential. I don't think it's going to click for you. Does that make sense?
Speaker 2Yeah. But like, for instance, right now I need to rent like a pump to get the water out of my pond and I need to browse Facebook Marketplace for skid steers. Like there's so many things on my to-do list right now. You don't think it would be good for that or like good. It's not like using its full potential for stuff like that.
Speaker 1No, it is. I mean, it is good for that. I guess I just think if you're going to be using something that's so like it's mission focused, it wants to, it wants to ship, it wants to build stuff. Like, I think that's what you should be using it for. Like, yeah, it's built for builders, not to be like a personal assistant. You're saying. Yeah. Yeah. The reason why I like it is it just really clicks because a it's, it's a missionary and it's built for builders and B because I told myself, Hey, you're going to use this just for the newsletter and to grow the revenue of the newsletter. You're not going to add a bunch of agents to do your taxes and take your dog for a walk and stuff. And that's just, I've made more progress on this newsletter in the last, you know, two weeks than I did in, in three months. And so, yeah, I said this the other day, my, my intern left because he got a different job and I replaced the intern, which is something I couldn't do for two months. I couldn't automate it with Codex, couldn't automate it with Notion. And then Rockbot took over almost immediately, like in 48 hours. It was doing stuff that I couldn't set up.
Speaker 2I just want to take two things you just spoke about and kind of put them together. So you talked about your intern left. So you replace it with Rockbot. Is it safe to say like, instead of saying, you know, it's best to use Rockbot as X, Y, or Z it's best for builders replace Rockbot with a word intern. Like, let's say whoever's listening to this had never had an intern or a personal assistant or whatever in their life. What you're saying is that that amazing PhD level helper, it's best to point them at one thing because you don't want to get a new employee and say, try this. Can you do this? Can you go get my coffee? Can you, they're like, Whoa, coffee. I thought we're doing Facebook ads, right? It's, it's like the same principle. It's hiring a human, focus them, have them doing one thing or working on one project at least. Is that accurate?
Speaker 1I think, I think that's exactly it. Yeah.
Speaker 2Can you share your screen and show kind of what tasks it's doing to grow your newsletter so we could see like how it works, how you talk to it?
Speaker 1Okay. So if you've never seen Rockbot before, this is one of the things that makes it great. It doesn't look like chat GPT. It looks like Apple iMessage. Yeah. Or Telegram or Discord, whatever. So you have each of your agents here and I've got a chief of staff one. That's the one I started with. And basically I connected him to my Google Drive and my Notion where I already had a bunch of documentation and plans and, and work documents for this newsletter. And I said, go through and read and reread everything. And then tell me what are the first three agents you would build to get the ball rolling, replacing this intern.
Speaker 2Okay. So you're, you're saying like, Hey, give me ideas. Ideas on how I can use you.
Speaker 1Yeah. And I thought it would be funny just to associate it with breakfast.
Speaker 2Okay. And Arlington, Virginia. And so it is the top line chief of staff. That's like the, the bot that runs all the other bots. And then everything below it are agents that are running concurrently or could be running concurrently that Rockbot is creating to do all these tasks. Is that right?
Speaker 1Yeah, correct. So you have to ask it and it, it won't create one of the, these without you telling it to, to my knowledge, it hasn't done that. Okay. They have their own computer, but the cool thing is that all the agents share it. So if you've saved passwords in there or installed something in the terminal, they can all use that tool. If you've got documents, right? So instead of them all having to go into a notion or Google drive, every time they can just store stuff on their own computer and folders, they can, they can also access your computer too. But so how, how I like to think it, if, if, if all this is sounding crazy, it's like now I've got two computers to worry about. I think. Let them do what they naturally do and work on work product product on their computer. And then when it's done, when it's done, they put that deliverable either in your chat or in, in Google drive and send you a link. Uh, that way that's not like, all right, work on my computer a little bit. Then go take this and work on yours. And if you have them work in the cloud, um, if you have them do tasks on their computer, which they will do by default, then they can work on it even when your laptop's closed, which is a cool thing.
Speaker 2Do you have your credit card uploaded? Yeah.
Speaker 1So you can go click add on all of them, and then you don't have to go to authentication. The first time the bot asked to use it, it was like, Oh, I'm going to go to authentication. It was like, Oh, I'm going to go to authentication. It was like, Oh, I'm going to go to authentication. It was like, Oh, I'm going to go to authentication. It was like, Oh, I'm going to go to authentication. It was like, Oh, I'm going to go to authentication. It was like, Oh, I'm going to go to authentication. It was like, Oh, I'm going to go to authentication. it then you can do the authentication or put the api key in so you can get everything set up without getting slowed down uh that like the first time when you're getting everything ready okay can you tell it what models to use for certain tasks no i that's something that people i think are asking about uh and that they might add in at some point i know a lot of people are another thing they're doing is logging into clog code or codex on the on the grok bot's computer and being like okay you use clog code yeah to build this for me or to do these tasks and i don't know that i really don't know that anyone watching this needs that i think those are for like the hardcore yeah i'm building 20 different apps and i'm maintaining an enterprise level software so you
Speaker 2could do that okay um so give me some examples so what does bagel outbound do yeah so outbound right
Speaker 1now i think i have to click in i've never talked to outbound directly to actually see oh uh every week the chief of staff actually i told it what to do and i haven't checked in that's good news that nothing's broken every every week the the chief of staff works with the bagel outbound and instead of this is another way about thinking about ai that i think helped will help people not uh not burn out not be like this is impossible and it's chunking work like this so instead of boiling the ocean and telling bagel outbound you know make me a list of every business in arlington and get me their phone number in their email instead i'm just like every week let's focus on five maybe it's five that we've mentioned or five that follow us on instagram and let's get their information and let's prep a custom package with what an ad would look like and and send it to them so just kind of chunking that work and then also i think feeds the agent better context and helps it iterate better because instead of it doing something wrong a hundred ways it's only going to do something wrong five ways and then i can correct it i can't review a hundred different ad packages um so that's kind of how i've thought about setting up this outbound has has grokbot found
Speaker 2new subscribers for you yet or any any sponsors for you what is it what would have been the most impressive things that it's done for your newsletter the most impressive was it found an
Speaker 1old email in my gmail that i had missed from like a month and a half ago uh that led to a led to us in this guy's business and meeting him and now we're putting together an ad package for him and figuring out um the sponsorship so the outbound i'm not quite i haven't this is like a month old i haven't really been sending out i've been kind of being like let it work build the list and make better ad copy but it's handling all the emails with readers and current and previous sponsors and it's done a great job what are some best practices
Speaker 2for using it like you've you already said a few of them you want to chunk it up you don't ask it into too many things try to have it focus on one thing anything else like on how you should prompt it talk to it or what plugins or connectors like are you just can't live without so here's another
Speaker 1best practice i think i have an age in that its only job is to know about how beehive works and specifically like how our beehive works beehive is where we send the newsletter it's got all our stats it's it's where we you know put in ads and stuff too so it's really important uh and i pretty much just told the chief of staff i was like hey uh can you fire hose this guy with the beehive docs and and teach it what it needs to know and anytime we have a question about stats and beehive or laying something out or how should this work it goes to this guy and it works you just have a beehive guy it's like a real office right you have an excel guy uh what other types of guys are there
Speaker 2an ads guy seo ads guy seo guy what businesses or ideas do you have that are tempting you with
Speaker 1rockbot right now that you haven't chased yet i well uh anything anything with code i noticed i just had it make a uh just simple let me see if i can show you this i did this i did and again this is an example of tinkering and not working on a real monetized project that i warned you guys not to do but yeah i was sitting on the beach in nags head and wanted a way to kind of remember trips like this so i i gave it github and cloudflare and got it logged in and now it can just create static sites for me so every time i go on a trip i text it some pictures and when i was there and where and it looks way better on mobile i've never seen it on desktop but it's like a little scrollable like magazine with uh pics it picks a cover photo and which ones it likes and lays it out to be artsy that's really cool and so something like this what i would do was i wouldn't sell a bunch of junk websites like this i think i would want to help someone customize landing pages for their leads so people who are in sales like um well i for example i was talking i was buying season ticket package for the wizards the other day go wizards and the way they were showing like the packages and where the seats were was kind of archaic but they had all the information and i was like man like i think you could sell so many more of these if you just made a like billy like here's the seats you could have and here's why we picked them because chris like you and i we know we can make anything exist with code but most people out there don't and i think with grokbot you could teach people to do that in a way that makes sense to them just like using imessage so teach them how to set up so that they can go into grokbot and be able to buy tickets you've got a list you've got a spreadsheet you've got pictures make them a quick site use my github and cloudflare and i can show it to him during our sales call and that's i mean that's applicable to anyone that does sales and i think you could do that with anything um you know you could do you could do the same thing with helping people manage shopify's you could say okay we're gonna go in and you could do it for them right so you could you could start with your agents do like it done for you and so i've got my bagel bagel shop bot and i could be like okay bagel shop bots jacked into your shopify it's gonna find you know your average it's gonna analyze your average card value like your chargebacks all this stuff that you didn't know and then make a report and then we'll get you set up so that you can just have this run on a routine with your own shop bot every week um but you could just do it as a service too uh and what i would do is uh you can actually start you can do sections so you can segment out like by client and i think they're adding in a team's thing i haven't been able to figure out how to do it but i read something from someone at spacex so it could be like it's exactly for this agency use case so say you have a team of five and they're all cracked at optimizing shopify well you could use that team on you know chris's croissants right client and then you could have that same team on a different project so i think they're kind of going where where i'm thinking on this which is setting up grok bot agent teams and then using them on different small businesses
Speaker 2okay what so you got what perplexity computer claude co-work um manis what would you say makes grok bot different from everything else out there that might be similar well it's
Speaker 1one it's got grok which feels like the most unneutered ai agent right now which i yeah i think it's just gotten worse and worse um grok has or the others have well i think i just noticed the others doing a lot of like the what do they call like the text watermarking like they will not write stuff in my voice that they used to yeah and grok bot is like i said very mission and like solution oriented so i like have to stop it uh i i was like you know i was asking i was like hey can you look into like the pricing for someone to come pick up some junk from my house and it was like okay it's this much money i'm gonna go fill it out for tomorrow at 1 p.m and i was like well like hang on uh let me ask my wife first uh and the other ones are way more like safety they have more safetyism baked in about are you absolutely sure and you're like yes and then it'll go and be like well i wasn't sure so i needed i wanted to make sure with you it's kind of like how like a a new intern might act yeah yeah you know so it's got a it's got a bias for action grok bot it just does stuff it yeah i mean you can tell that it's people like spacex people working on this and it reminds me very much of interacting with like spacex and tesla people um the i and the the interface is super simple these little icons here are some of the secret sauce i think because they're so easy to to recognize and then a lot of other agents it's either just this gray box with a name or some crazy ai generated thing um and then you can tell that it's people like spacex people working on this um so this just helps you save so much time finding out there's my research bot it's my bagel sales bot a bit on mobile it's the best i think for virtual computer the way this computer pops out on your phone so you can see what it's doing uh it's just really easy to use the mobile app is not an afterthought which i think it was kind of slapped onto a lot of other existing products um i haven't done teach a task yet but you can record yeah yeah so you can record yourself doing a task I guess that would be like if you're automating something
Speaker 2have you ever tried um do you use replit like what's your yeah i love replit okay replit yeah i've got you know dozens of replit projects in the works and the the most time-consuming part of replit is prompt reprompt fix fix this not this no you didn't do it right back and forth back and forth the last mile have you ever thought of either starting from scratch with grokbot via replit or having grokbot go into your replit to an old project and saying this is what i want it needs to work like it needs to work as if you're a user here's my credit card number go through the whole process make sure that the product works sign up flow works keep testing over and over and over look at the actual code and like just keep tweaking it until it's a fully functional
Speaker 1product have you ever tried using it for that yeah you're talking about like the last 20 percent of yeah which is harder than the first 80 percent yeah i have thought about that because i have so many replit things that are stuck at 80 percent um but i know i hadn't thought of doing that with grokbot because i more so wanted to use grokbot to go into my replit and be like here's where all these projects stand here's like what the issues are here's where they're deployed that'd be amazing uh yeah so i kind of lose track of that because
Speaker 2i built this tool that it it makes it easy for people to easily create and send liability waivers think docu sign but only for simple liability waivers um and it just you can create a link easily you can send it out to tons of people easily and then you can store the signed waivers in your account easily but there's just a lot of moving parts it's like pricing and the stripe integration wasn't working and then like the actual product of filling out the form making sure it worked the email resend api everything it would just be so nice to say like it just needs to freaking work it just needs to work keep playing with it and fixing it in replit keep prompting replit until it fully works as it's supposed to here's my vision get it there i want
Speaker 1to try that i think i could do that i think i'll try that yeah i think if you want an idea of something that would really help you out i think you could do that i think i'll try that yeah i think you could do that i think you could do that yeah i think you could do that yeah i think you could do that yeah i think you could do that yeah i think you could do that yeah i think you could do that yeah i think you could do that yeah i think you could do that yeah i think you could do that yeah i think you could do that yeah i think you could do that yeah i think you could do that yeah i think you could do that yeah i think you could do that yeah i think you could help like business owners is social media like ideation and management um i i have so many friends that need help just with content calendar stuff and things like defining like their their social brand and their uh their content pillars right i think rock bot would be great for that it's helped me kind of define and set up templates so that i like don't have an excuse not to post on this newsletter and they're not like perfect or amazing but the thing has to exist first yeah and then you can tweak it and play with it and i really want to get it on video editing i have an inkling if i can teach it some of the stuff that like i've done with codex on video editing i could do complete in the cloud my laptop doesn't need to be open drop a video file okay grokbok come in grab that cut out dead hair uh add transitions i think i could get it to do that really well and yeah yeah the in the one other thing i'm just going i'm rolling here the one other thing that i thought of my answer for your earlier question on what would i do what have i been itching to do with grokbot that i haven't done yet uh and that is i just want to give it a shopify and a credit card and an idea and start it from scratch and say go facebook ads do everything yep the it's it's really good at finding out what integrations to use and it'll pop up like in here like hey there's not an official integration but you can put an api key in here kind of like what replit started doing first and so i have been editing i've had like three shopify store ideas one is college themed game day cowboy boots which is really i maybe probably people not in the south don't know that that's a big thing right now oh yeah uh and so that i mean i was so i just i went back for a game day and i was like i never thought i'd see people in charlottesville wearing cowboy boots on a game yeah but they don't have logos on them and every sec school does oh yeah so that's one idea and then another one is i love this like i don't know does your your your wife or like your wife friend either talk ever talk about like products they see on instagram whenever they say whenever they mention a product that was a really good ad or that they bought it like it just sears into my brain and i write it down and so one is like these like i don't know it's like the water bottle thing you know every year there's a new water bottle well so now there's there's a blanket some blanket that girls love and uh the name is escaping me but it's like it's like it's like it's like it's like
Speaker 2but it's minky two hundred dollar blanket or minky couture or are they from utah utah is like the
Speaker 1blanket capital of the world is it yeah wait let me pull up my i've got it on my phone rock when you
Speaker 2drive down i-15 in utah i'm not exaggerating every other billboard is a blanket billboard really it's
Speaker 1the most random thing oh yeah well anyway maybe we should because blanket was the one i decided i wanted to go with maybe i should go to utah and get blankets it's called uh it's called lola uh
Speaker 2yeah minky couture and lola those are the blankets that i want to go with i want to go to utah and get blankets like the two that's like the coke and pepsi of blankets in utah okay expanding outside of utah they're like really soft and plush and yeah yeah it's a killer it's such a great product just to
Speaker 1have it's you can give it as gifts and i like it uh and then the other one was it's random uh i'm really into like terrycloth clothes recently like we went to this beach wedding and i bought a bunch and i was like this is great i want to i want to make a brand that's like this uh or at least or at least like start with a brand that's like this uh or at least like start with a brand that's like this start with like one hero product and so i i went into grokbot and i created a sourcing bot and i was like your job is to research these three ideas and use import yeti to try to look at these brands that i like and then write me a memo on each brand and uh what you think a good price point is what you think you could get the cost to realistically and what kind of hero product you would do and then pull that all together and give me like which product out of the these three ideas would you go for uh and i made sure to be like do do two rounds of adversarial review with there's like a different bot in here um i think chief of staff it used so that you get real feedback and they would they would find things like oh like that supplier's website 404s or so get out all the stupid ai stuff that you usually run into uh and it did like i think the best research of any bot i've ever used to do like product research
Speaker 2it was pretty amazing i'm kind of obsessed with this idea of having it just run with a shopify store because what what is the shopify store it is designing a site aka picking a template or a theme there's tons to choose from you can buy one you can get one for free it is facebook ads right it can do that it can make creative it is going to the facebook ad library to see what comparable brands are doing well it is google ads i'm sure it could do that just fine it is sourcing products you can drop ship them or you can actually source them it can do that and go to all the baba aliexpress whatever it can do competitive research it's a slick brand good design it can do
Speaker 1that um like what well i guess like ai first that's the other great thing is building in shopify i think is a good idea because the the agent can do a lot of most of the store stuff from the terminal and can build you a custom store using the shopify developer package and i think once you do it once you could scale i think you could stack different stores uh fairly easily once you get all those pipelines flowing i mean like i got my shopify bot set up for the arlington bagel the other day and i i don't want to scroll up in like docs but someone wanted a return and it's immediately went in and was like hey we've got this overdue return that you didn't notice i wrote an email for someone uh you just need to confirm that you want me and i'll process this return and i'll email them and it's just like a fish in water yeah man that is cool um all right and i also the other reason i'm crazy about this is i i think with the cost of developing software going to zero there's something about building something in the real world that yeah yeah i think is worth doing and that you still could have like an edge in yeah anything you see on twitter that people are getting wrong about grok bot yeah everything everything um let's hear it i just i know i'm fixated on this but i want people watching to like take a look at it and i'm like oh my god i'm so excited about this i'm so excited about this this away is like this is an amazing opportunity you're getting this is a new product it works great you're getting probably ten thousand dollars worth of tokens for whatever your subscription a hundred dollar two hundred dollar subscription doesn't matter uh use it to make money stop stop organizing your gmail i fall into this trap stop organizing your gmail for the sixth time like yeah you can use it to triage some but like that's not going to change your your your life or or how you work with ai is doing that same thing use this as an excuse to take an idea that you've had seriously and explore it because that's the best one that i found at exploring ideas and then going to market um so everything that i see on twitter is like whoa i just had grok bot make this knowledge graph and it called my dad and and this and that and i i don't know i think people
Speaker 2advanced forms of procrastination yeah yeah yeah i i just get frustrated
Speaker 1that uh i don't know that that a lot of people put out the same kind of tasks it is funny because
Speaker 2like long before ai long before these agents doing the thing like selling the thing starting the thing was always the hard and the scary part and so we always did market research and talked to people about our idea and got an llc because that felt like we were making progress when you're not actually making progress making progress is selling something and it you would think you would hope that like having an agent do you do it for you takes that fear away but it's really the You're just transferring that fear to the agent, you know?
Speaker 1- And I still do. do it chris i did i was i did it earlier when i was like well i've had this outbound thing running for uh a week and i haven't said go on and i should say go and then if the people are like this sounds like ai i could be like okay sorry i had an ai you know what i mean instead of tweaking and tweaking and um i don't think you need a lot i don't think you need to customize i don't think you need to make 80 different agents and have them ingest a bunch of stuff i think they're just good
Speaker 2to go i think they know what to do yeah if someone is brand new to grokbot and they want to use it to build something like you're saying what's like a good first step or an agent that can get someone
Speaker 1to revenue well i mean this is probably second nature for a lot of people listening but you just have to nail what your value prop is and what your offer is and grokbot's really good at that do what i said like with those products and be like what do you think we can get the cost to on this what do you think the price point is what's our hero product so even if you're selling consulting or services have grokbot do chief of staff and say i want to sell gutter cleaning okay what's my hero product oh it's a it's a summer end of summer um gutter clean or spring refresh or whatever uh i think grokbot says i think you could price it this price point this price point or this price point i think you could hire someone based on where you live this is the going rates uh here's what i think you would would spend on a website and then build the website based on that offer right uh so i think nail nail the offer first with grokbot and then build three agents that monitor like your inbox and your website and that's all you need right you you need a google sheet and gmail to sell anything right so you can teach grokbot to sell with just gmail and a google sheet um just get
Speaker 2that offer nailed down okay um billy this has been amazing where can where can we find you if we want to learn more about billy i've got a great youtube channel
Speaker 1billy j howell and then twitter billy j howell on twitter follow me there um i've got some free resources that i'll probably put back in my bio so that you guys can get some help with like prompting and vibe coding um and please go go do what i said go go take that idea or that offer and go talk about it with grokbot and build a three agent team and run it for a week and make your first sale and then tag me on twitter that's or dm me on twitter that's what i love i love when people dm me uh yeah i don't need anything else from you crazy people yeah billy thank you thanks chris
Speaker 2pleasure okay now i'm gonna try grokbot for myself and build an app and if you're listening to this on audio only i walk you through all the steps it's a little better on video if you want to watch on spotify or in a few days it'll be live on youtube but you still get the gist of it on audio only don't say i didn't warn you okay so i just got out of massage and during the massage i of course didn't have my phone so i'm gonna go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and so i of course was able to think and i was thinking about grokbot believe it or not and i was wondering what it could do i've never used grokbot before this is not sponsored by grokbot this is just me wanting to try the new ai thing so grokbot is an agentic ai tool in other words it's an ai tool that goes out and actually does stuff for you and not just returns answers to you so some of my best videos have been the ones where i'm out and about doing something i get a business idea and then instead of just building it i build it on screen so that's what this is going to be today i'm going to build a business idea that i had so i want to build a product that does not exist i want to build it for myself because i think this will help me be more productive but i think i could also sell it i could sell access to it i think other people would find it productive so you've maybe heard of the concept of time boxing right a lot of successful people time box they literally go to their calendar and say you know 7 a.m to 8 a.m meditation 8 a.m to 9 a.m emails 9 a.m they schedule and plan out their entire day so they're more productive not my thing but it's hard for me to be accountable to a calendar event that no other human is a part of right whereas if i put money into something i will be accountable to it i will do that thing but that's not what this idea is my idea is to lock me out of my inbox for the majority of the day so i have to get caught up on my emails in a specific time frame so it's like forced time boxing right as opposed to like oh i put it in my calendar so now i'm gonna do it no you won't i won't you won't so originally this was going to be an app that locked everything on my computer except for my mail app or gmail.com that way while working during the workday i was forced to get caught up on my emails during that time i couldn't get distracted browse twitter whatever but i don't really like that so instead i'm going to do the opposite and i'm going to lock down gmail.com and my mail app for 90 plus percent of the time 95 plus percent of the time on some days it will be completely locked like on the weekend so i don't work but during the week it will be unlocked it will be completely locked so i'm going to lock down gmail.com and i'm going to lock down gmail.com until 10 or else i won't get another shot until the next day i think that pressure will force me to be more productive and i can use this app for other things not just email but for making sure that i just do what i need to do on the computer like it will literally block certain websites or certain apps so either i have to stay in there or i can only use it for a defined period of time so i could vibe code this but i want grokbot to vibe code it for me because i just had this conversation with billy and i'm like oh my god i'm going to lock down gmail.com and i'm going to and he's a grokbot expert and he said he's never tried it he's never had grokbot going to wrap up for him prompt it for him and then fix it test the website test the software look at the code test it back and forth because that's the hardest and most tedious part of vibe coding something is getting it to being perfect or close enough to perfect to sell the thing or to use the thing yourself so that's what i'm going to do here okay i'm installing grokbot okay okay all right it wants me to connect a bunch of stuff i don't want it to do a bunch of stuff billy said my friend said that you want to treat grokbot like an employee right a good boss and i'm not saying i'm good to boss because i'm not very good at doing this a good boss does not tell an employee do this now try this do this do this do this do this try this work project work on that project i do that it's not good a good boss says this is your job just do this just focus on this that's what i'm going to do here so i'm not going to connect it to any of this stuff okay now i'm going to go into clod and i want clod to know what i'm doing all right here's my prompt i'm i can use myself and eventually sell i want to prompt grokpot to go into my replit account to build this for me not just build it but build test fix build test fix over and over until it's ready the app needs to allow me to open windows of time where my mac mail app plus gmail.com is only accessible from 5 a.m to 10 a.m every day of the week outside of those hours i cannot visit either gmail inside my arc slash curl browser or even open my mail app this is intended to force me to get to inbox zero every morning since this will be my only opportunity i can unlock this lock with a password but ideally only my wife knows this i guess it needs to function like a mac app or a chrome extension or both but grokbot needs to first build a workable version of this that i can use for myself and ultimately build a website and sell this app as a sas on this website using my stripe baby and anything else it needs write a beautiful prompt that is grokbot friendly using all the technical coding terms i know nothing about so i can just build this with as little intervention for me as possible it is okay to approve any and all replit overages and charges without my approval not exceeding 100 a day i really don't want to mess with this grokbot testing the app for bugs and asking replit to fix it over and over go okay push back from claude the blocker has to live on your mac yes replit builds web apps a website can never force quit your mail app so the real build is a mac menu bar app plus a browser expense extension two things an ai agent physically cannot do for you create your apple developer account and your chrome web store dev account budget 20 minutes total for those test the habit first for zero dollars it is structured in phases with an autonomous build test okay so i don't know what any of this stuff means but i'm gonna try it we're gonna copy it we're gonna go back to grokbot claude named it morning lock so we'll just we'll go with that even though i don't like it okay there's the prompt okay so it's working ask me for anything you need so i can walk away and be confident you can work uninterrupted credit card number logins etc okay we're gonna authorize stripe uh we're gonna go back to stripe test mode authorize resend okay that was very easy so it's gonna do github and replit next okay i'm not a hundred percent that i'm seeing what i think i'm seeing but it looks like extension test that means chrome extension i think it's already building this thing in the background and it just tested 23 different things and all of them were green so that's kind of wild github okay so it says open that sign that device continue authorize okay github is ready it's already done what the crap is it already done they just put the thing in my downloads it's right there okay mac menu bar app is okay so just built a chrome extension okay open chrome colon slash slash extensions okay there it is okay those are all the domains it's gonna block okay there's the accountability password confirm and start it already works oh my gosh guys i've only been recording this you're seeing the edit version but it's only been recording for 31 minutes and 37 seconds and it's done and then i can change things it's locked right now oh yeah of course it's locked yeah because it's supposed to be locked oh my gosh it works that's crazy but let's say you know today is friday at 4 34 p.m so we're gonna say it should be unlocked on friday until 10 p.m today save schedule okay now go to gmail and it works change it back save schedule go back to gmail and it's locked okay that's amazing look and i have this tweet pulled up right here i was gonna like live tweet this but i didn't have time to hit tweet How's the Mac app coming? Need my Replit login? Glad it's sticking. Check the Mac app. Ooh, what if I had Grokbot go into my Replit account and finish all of the projects that I have like 90% finished? Spelled the goddard wrong, whatever. All right, we're good. It's signed into Replit. It's signed into GitHub for me. GitHub is a place where you can store code. Okay, it's pizza night. So I got to step away for a minute. I'll be right back. Guys, I did it. We did it. Together, we have a sellable product here. It's done. I want to show you something real quick. Okay, right here. Okay, so look what happens. When I click this little lock icon up here on my Mac, I think you can see that. This pops up. And I added some more features off camera because I couldn't help myself. And now it does all kinds of other things. So unlocks my mail. But then in addition, the Chrome extension right here. Okay, look at this. It pulled in my most visited websites. That was one prompt. And I can block all of them. I can block none of them. I can block all but one. So, hey, stop looking at YouTube studio. And this this could be embarrassing, right? You can see everything I look at here. There's no editing here. RV rental websites, whatever. I can block all of these, none of these. So I can lock in and then I can even send my password to a spouse, a loved one, whatever. So they have to be the one to unlock it for me. So I didn't tell it how to look, what colors to use, what the user interface should look like. It just built this for me. Freaking incredible. And it works. And I'm using it now. I need to sell it. That's going to be on part two. So stick around and look, here are my prompts here. It wasn't that long. It didn't take that long. Can you have a list out all the most commonly used apps and websites on that computer and browse or to make it easier for the user to block ones they struggle with? Boom, done. The icon doesn't work. Boom, fix. Cool. Everything works. So I don't know if this is clear or not, but this is not a sponsored video for Rockpot. Nobody paid me to post this video. I just think this is transformative and you can profit from it. So please enjoy. Please share with a friend and we'll see you next time on The Kerner Office.
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