In this 31‑minute YouTube tutorial, Chris Koerner demonstrates how to use the newly released agentic AI tool GrokBot (built on Grok, similar to ChatGPT and Claude) to autonomously develop, test, and deploy a sellable productivity product called “Morning Lock.” Koerner starts by questioning the hype around AI agents and sets a challenge: can he create a functional Chrome extension and Mac menu‑bar app without any coding knowledge in under an hour? He outlines the problem he wants to solve – forced time‑boxing of email inboxes to boost productivity – and crafts a detailed prompt for GrokBot to build the app, integrate it with Replit, GitHub, and Stripe, and iterate until it works. The AI proceeds to generate code, create a Chrome extension that blocks Gmail and the Mac Mail app outside defined hours, and a menu‑bar app with an accountability password feature. Koerner watches the AI test and fix the product, authorizes necessary accounts, and sees the finished extensions installed and functional. He showcases UI features such as site‑blocking lists, password‑protected unlocks, and custom scheduling. Throughout, he emphasizes that the process required minimal human intervention, highlighting the AI’s ability to handle build‑test‑fix loops, manage overages, and push code to repositories. Koerner then promotes his PlaymakersAI community, hints at a future monetization plan (SaaS with Stripe), and invites viewers to share their own AI‑generated money‑making stories. The video includes a non‑sponsored disclaimer and a call‑to‑action for a podcast and referral incentive.
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It's already done. What the crap? Oh my gosh, it works. That's crazy. Okay, that was very easy. Oh geez. It's an AI tool that goes out and actually does stuff for you and not just returns answers to you. We have a sellable product here. That was one prompt. It just built this for me. Freaking incredible. Now I need to sell it. Everyone's talking about AI agents and lately they've all been talking about GrokBot, which is the tool built on Grok, which is like ChatGPT and Claude that will go out and do stuff for you. So today I'm gonna find out, Is the hype real? Is it not? Can I build and code a sellable software product without any coding knowledge in less than an hour? I wanna build a Chrome extension and an app, a Mac app specifically for something that I need solved. I've never touched GrokBot in my life. Today we're gonna see if we can do it, and I'm gonna share my screen and show you exactly how to do it too, because let's get real, none of us really know how to code. Let's dive in. Okay, so I just got out of a massage and during the massage I of course didn't have my phone, 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 gonna be today. I'm downloading GrokBot for the first time ever. Here's the 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 timeboxing, right? A lot of successful people timebox. They literally go to their calendar and say, you know, 7:00 AM to 8:00 AM meditation, 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM emails, 9:00 AM to— 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 timeframe. So it's like forced timeboxing, 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+% of the time, 95+% 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 usable. until like 10 AM. That way I will feel pressure to get caught up on all my emails because that's something that I struggle to do. That way I have to finish my emails 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. Hey, please subscribe to this channel if you're enjoying this content because it takes a lot of work. So thank you. So I could vibe code this, but I want GroqBot to vibe code it for me because I just had this conversation with Billy and he's a GroqBot expert and he said he's never tried it. He's never had GroqBot go into Replit 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. 'Cause 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 gonna do here. Okay. I'm installing GroqBot. 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 Billy said that you want to treat GroqBot like an employee, right? A good boss. And I'm not saying I'm a good boss cuz 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 gonna do here. So I'm not gonna connect it to any of this stuff. Okay, now I'm gonna go into Claude and I want Claude to know what I'm doing. All right, here's my prompt. I'm gonna use GroqBot to code an app for me that I can use myself and eventually sell. I wanna prompt GroqBot 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 AM to 10 AM every day of the week. Outside of those hours, I cannot visit either Gmail inside my Arc slash Chrome 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 SaaS on this website using my Stripe API and anything else it needs. Wrote 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 wanna mess with this. GrokBot needs to keep testing the app for bugs and asking Replit to fix it over and over. Go. Okay. Pushback 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 extension. 2 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 $0. It is structured in phases with an autonomous build test fix loop. Okay, so I don't know what any of this stuff means, but I'm going to try it. We're going to copy it. We're going to 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, et cetera. Okay. We're going to authorize Stripe. We're going to go back to Stripe test mode. Authorize. Resend. Okay. That was very easy. So it's going to do GitHub and Replit next. Okay. I'm not 100% 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. 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 it just built a Chrome extension. Okay, open chrome://extensions. Okay, there it is. Okay, those are all the domains it's going to 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 edited version, but it's only been recording for 31 minutes and 37 seconds and it's done. And then I can change the settings. It's locked right now. Oh yeah, of course it's locked. Yeah, 'cause 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 PM. So we're going to say it should be unlocked on Friday until 10:00 PM 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 even 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 got it 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. Hey, if you want to learn how to build stuff with AI, check out playmakersai.com. It's my own private community where we are becoming AI consultants. We are finding paying customers paying hundreds or thousands or sometimes tens of thousands of dollars per month. We've got hundreds of hours of content 3 to 8 live calls with experts every week, myself included. And it's all found at playmakersai.com. We'll see you there. Guys, I did it. We did it together. We have a sellable product here. It's done. I want, 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. I 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 2. So stick around. And look, here are my prompts here. It wasn't that long. It didn't take that long. Can you have it list out all the most commonly used apps and websites on that computer and browser to make it easier for the user to block ones they struggle with? Boom, done. The icon doesn't work. Boom, fixed. Cool. Everything works. So I don't know if this is clear or not, but this is not a sponsored video for Grokpot. Nobody paid me to post this video. I just think this is transformative and you can profit from it. Please enjoy. Please share with a friend. We'll see you next time on the Koerner Office. If you or someone you know went to ChatGPT and said, make me money, and then it did? I wanna hear from you. I want to have you on my podcast to hear your story. If it's you, great, you'll get free publicity. If it's your friend, great, I'll give you $1,000 for sending your friend. Send them to tkoyes.com and fill out the form and we'll have you on the podcast.
