Cohort 11 - Day 3 - 5-21-2025

Go. We had Laura and then she disappeared. But anyway, welcome, guys, to day three. We've got a lot of fun stuff to go over today. We'll go fast.

We'll do.

We'll. We'll be covering some sales and marketing things and, you know, really focusing on how do we get to that, how do we get to our first dollar, right, With a, with a new business or a new idea. So, you know, learning how to, how to continue to use ChatGPT to plan and discuss. We'll do another interview process, right, where you, where you just talk to ChatGPT and say, all right, I want you to interview me about my marketing plans now. And we'll do a few unique things there to make it really fun. But we'll go over some more API stuff and then I really would like to take some time today if you want. Right. It's kind of optional, but if you want to show us your project, get some direct feedback from me on some of what you're doing, you know, or ask specific questions about where you might be stuck on something, if you've been, if you've been diving in there, and a bunch of other, A bunch of other fun little things. So I want to, I want to pick up today where we left off yesterday, which was on the, you know, Surf Don't Swim topic. And, you know, I was thinking about it as I was getting ready. The Surf Don't Swim isn't, isn't necessarily applicable just to AI, Right? It's obviously this AI tsunami is massive and you want to be surfing here, right? But the reality is this is more of an entrepreneurship thing, right? You want to figure out how you can, for the least amount of risk, get the best, most powerful result. Right. I saw somebody post this morning, in fact, it was one of the singers from the Chainsmokers. He posts a lot on LinkedIn. And he has a fund, right? He has a fund. And so they, you know, they sing and make cool, cool beats and music and they also, they also invest in startups and things like that. And he made a, he made a comment or he put a post up that, that I kind of disagreed with a little bit. Right. And, and he was basically talking about how Uber made a decision early on. Let's let Laura back in here. Click Admit here. Make sure she, she gets in. But, but Uber made a decision early on to, to use Google, the Google Maps API in their app, right? And you know, that allowed them to get up and launch quickly, improve their idea, which is awesome. But then they said, you Know what, what is. What really is Uber, right? At its core, and, you know, the core is interface is a map, right? And so I think we should build our own, right? And so they went off and they built their own, and they. They probably spent. They probably spent, believe it or not, $50 million building that thing, building that map. And, okay, now they're in there. Now they're in control of their destiny. But they were worried. They were worried that, that maybe Google Maps would, you know, maybe they would shut down their API and they wouldn't let other people use it, or they'd try to control Uber by, you know, by having, you know, all this, know, control over the code and all of these things. And, and he said, yeah, but Uber made a great strategic decision here to build their own map. And, and I commented on it and I said, you know what, I agree with this a little bit, right? But I disagree with it mostly because. Because I think that, you know, obviously, if you have billions of dollars and you can spend $50 million to build your own map, I mean, okay, that's your. That's your choice. I can think of a lot of things to do with $50 million that are better than building a map. The thing that I think he failed to think about here was the fact that There are about 10 other maps that they could have switched to. If maybe you're building something that's just one of a kind and nobody else has done it, which, by the way, I find hard to believe. I don't think there's anything in the world where there's only one of a kind. There's always competitors, especially if it's something that's making money. People are going to see that, they're going to copy it and they're going to try to make it better, and they're going to improve upon it. That's entrepreneurship. But if you could switch out to, from that, to Apple Maps or to Mapbox or to any of the many different map services that are out there, then they could have saved that $50 million and maybe put it into marketing or whatever else they could have spent it on at the time, I'm sure they could have figured it out. But ultimately, guys, the more you can surf and be in a position where you have whatever that is that you're going, in this case, the map, right? If you have other competitors that are all trying to beat each other, you're always going to have options that you can switch to. If you, if you're like, hey, you know what I really like what they're doing over there, I'm going to switch over to that. Right. And it's just, you know, disconnect, reconnect. And that amount of work might be $10,000 or $20,000. Right. You know, Shane, you're, you're, you know, you raised a bunch of money and that's awesome, right? I've done the same thing, but man, I blew through that money so fast in my business. Right. It goes, it's crazy how fast $5 million can be spent when you have employees and you're growing, right? Yep. So as you're, you're continuing to make those decisions, figure out where you can surf, right? Just surf, surf, surf. Hey, we need this new thing. Can we integrate something else? Can we API something else in here so that we can be faster, stronger almost immediately and not even have to worry about maintaining that code? Right. We just have to make sure it works. We just have to maintain functionality. So guys, what are your, what any, any follow up thoughts from you guys on, on that whole discussion last night? I guess yesterday.

I was introspective on it and looking at my business and saying like, yeah, we're, we're a swimming company from a variety of places, but there are opportunities where we could, where we could surf that we've, we've thought about, of how do we connect more deeply and integrate more deeply with other vendors in our space. Right now we're very competitive with point of sales that are collecting customer data and we're extracting customer data from the point of sales. But they're eventually all going to have SMS marketing as a part of it. And to the degree that we can be like the data aggregator where we're bringing everything in would help us to surf better. So I was just looking at our business and saying like, yeah, we're, we're swimmers.

Yeah, I was too, by the way, I was too right with Seek. I was absolutely swimming. I had not really grasped this concept. I mean, we were certainly surfing in a couple places and I'm sure you are too, right? But, but, but the reality is until you really start thinking about what that means from a cost perspective and an efficiency perspective, and this is just as true for a, for a startup that's raised, you know, $15 million or. And a startup that hasn't raised a dime. Right? And if you can figure it out before you raise a dime, you're going to be in a way better position strategically all the way through because you're going to be thinking super efficiently, spend as little as Possible, but get to those dollars, right? Get to those dollars where you're actually making money. So we'll be talking about that more today. Any other. Any other thoughts, comments? I don't want to close the floor and if somebody else has something to say, but. Okay. All right, guys, well, let's dive in. Let's dive into some fun. Some fun new AI things. So I was using Manus yesterday, by the way. I hope all of you that asked for it. I think I sent codes to everybody that asked for it. You guys took five out of my six codes. So, you know, I know I wasn't saving them for anybody. I don't have anything to do with them, so I thought you might as well send them over to you. I don't know if I even get a bonus for sharing those with you, but. But I'm happy. I'm happy they'll. They'll get used. But I'm building a. I had somebody reach out to me. Let's see. I want to see if this actually. If this actually worked. Holy crap. That is so freaking cool. All right, I got.

Manus doesn't have an API.

I know. They will. They will. I'm. I agree completely.

Of what I'm building to do, like, solve a problem that I'm trying to have at work.

Yeah.

And I was like, oh, this is going to be great. I'll use Manus to scrape these PDFs and do all these things. And then couldn't get it to connect with replit because there was no API. And I spent like, time just like, this isn't fathomable. They have to have an API. But they didn't. So I ended up using GPT4 for these.

So Manus is a. It's only been live, like, to the public for, like, 90 days.

Yeah.

It's brand spanking new. So will they have an API? Absolutely. Right. They just turned on their paid program, like, a month ago. Like, they just started getting customers all, like, beta and stuff. And now it's kind of live. I want to show you guys what I did. So I had this guy reach out to me. He's texted me a few times, or he messaged. Messaged me a few times on LinkedIn. I don't know if I know him very well. Let me see if I can. Trying to remember who it was here. David McConkey. Yeah. This guy I kind of. I kind of know. I've met him, like, one time. He's got some ideas and whatever. Right. But this is just our little conversation. LinkedIn he said, hey, you know, he's been asking like, hey, should I join your class? Right? And I kind of am working against myself here, but that's okay because I just thought it was fun. But anyway, so he said, hey, would this be something to build? Like, so that's what I want. Utah has an HOA registry website. If you go there, you can search for hoas by name. You can just put in one letter and search and it will pull everything that has that letter. When it pulls up list of matches, you can click on each one individually and see data including names, addresses, and sometimes email and phone numbers. Right? So I want something that could pull all that data into a spreadsheet. Ideally, it would eliminate duplicates, but that would be easy enough to do manually. What do you think? I was like, yeah, you could easily build that in the course, right? So I kind of, you know, just answering this question there, right? But then I was like, I'm just going to see if I can do it really quickly. Like, instead of having him go and try to build some crazy tool, like, let's just see if Manus can pull it off. And so I started. It took four. So what? One thing that will happen, guys, is sometimes you work with Manus. So look at how much work it did here. So crazy. It took like hours and hours and hours and hours and hours. Wow. I am scrolling as fast as the browser will let me. Wow, that was crazy. So Utah has an hoa. I literally copied his prompt and then I said, eliminate duplicates. Provide a long and detailed CSV of all of this information. All right, great, I'll help you do that. And then it ran into. It was like, holy crap, there's a lot of information. I'm going to have to debug this and figure it out. And then it started going and then just started doing this process where it figured out it was going to do just one little bit at a time, just 20 names at a time, right? Because it was kind of overloading its memory or something. And then it got to the very end and it said, hey, the current task context has reached its limit and cannot continue. Manus can inherit the compressed context and all files into a new task to proceed. So all you do is just click inherit and continue. This is an important thing for you guys that are using manis. If you give it something really complex, it might say, okay, I've kind of run out of memory, I can't do this anymore. All you do is click inherit and continue and it will start a new One, it will pull all the things, everything. It's all the data, it's done. And then it will just keep going and it will remember what's going on. Okay? And I had to do that four times. And then this morning I said, okay, we've probably done enough. But, like, extracted 82,000 total rows, removed 79,000 exact duplicate entries, removed 941 similar duplicates based on HOA name and address. Removed five duplicates based on HOA number. I don't know if it should have done that, but it did it. That's fine. And then cleaned and standardized all data fields, right? So it took 82,000, got them down to two 2,000 unique HOA entries, right? And so I had gone in here to check it to kind of do it manually. And I just typed a. And I said, okay, search. And I was like, okay, it's got all this stuff. But then in order to get the phone numbers and emails, you have to click into each one and pull this data out, right? And so obviously for a human to do that would be super time consuming. And I had Manus go in and do it. And then here is the final result. Boom. We've got HOA name, registration date, last modified date, HOA number, address, city, state. It didn't get the zip, but who cares? Primary contact phone. Primary contact email. Chair phone, Chair email. Isn't that crazy? Like, this guy probably sells to hoas. I don't know what he does. I don't know why he needs it, but I'm just gonna message it back to him and he might be like, great, I don't need to take your class now. And I'll be like, whatever. But maybe he'll give me a good post on LinkedIn to show what's possible. I might even just do a quick comment, show him exactly what I did so that he understands it. But pretty cool, huh? Right? I mean, I don't know. I think that's pretty fun. I think that's pretty fun. Okay, so I'm going to jump in here. Let's see here. We're on Gen. AIPI was building something last night in, you know, my business. I wanted to be able to look up a user by. By their ID 112. Why? Why is that? Okay, hold on. 1, 2, 3, 12, 1, 12. No, is that not going up? I want to look up user112. I have a user. I want to be able to look up test results when people take this. And so I'm building a new thing and it's not quite working yet. Right. It's, it's pulling a little bit of data. I think it's just not pulling all of the data. So we'll worry about that later. I'm going to pull back open Memory Mapper here and you know what, guys, I actually would like to, Let me, let me pause here for a second. I'm going to open this up and keep working on a few things and get into a couple more advanced things inside of Replit here. But before I do this, does anybody have, does anybody want me to take a look at their, at their, you know, at their site, what you guys are working on? Anybody have something they want to show and, or you're stuck on something you want to, want to look at it?

I mean, I, I think I might be stuck on, stuck on something.

Let's look at it.

I'm happy to, happy to share here.

Yeah, please, please share and, and let's, let's work on it together.

Okay, so I, I totally restarted last night, a different project and so. Oh gosh, this is probably. I'm not going to bother scrolling all the way up.

Yeah.

But essentially what I'm trying to do is there. I receive a bunch of emails from Doc, our company receives a bunch of emails from DocuSign to our support email for contracts that customers, our existing customers upgrade to. And every month I manually go through open up the DocuSign, calculate some of the contract values and then go enter it into airtable. And I was like, oh, this is something that could easily be done here where we hook up to the Gmail API, pull, pull the PDFs, parse the PDFs, and then create records in airtable if we need to. And then there's a couple spots where we reference HubSpot or run like a Google Apps script, depending on the type of contract. And so I've got it to the point where I'm uploading some test contracts and seeing if it can process these. And I'm not sure why it's failing to update airtable. I have our airtable API keys and everything that it's been asking for in here. And for the most part I've just been solving for, hey, is it actually extracting the right information? And I think it, I believe it is at this point, but I'm running into that challenge.

Have you asked it? I was doing something exactly like this for about two hours yesterday. It was working on a company that wants me to come in and help them build something that will. They have 400. So they're a, they're a big, they're about $170 million company. They do a huge amount of like CFO outsourced CFO stuff and accounting and, and taxes and things like that. But, but they, every year they process 400,000 financial documents. Right. Like a bank statement. Right. And so I was like, all right, can I build something that can pull from a bank statement PDF all of the information that I want and automate its output to send it somewhere? So very similar in terms of, in terms of dealing with PDFs. PDFs kind of suck. You know, they're, they're okay if you, if you go directly to a tool. What I would do here, if you're running into some problems and what I ended up figuring out that I need to do is I need to give this problem to Manus and I need to say, hey, here is exactly what I need to build. This is what I need to happen. I want you to take this and this is the type of information that I want and I'm going to connect it this way. I want you to build all of the. They'll build it. It'll probably build in a bunch of Python things just like, you know it's done here, right. You, you built a bunch of PYS in here as well. But you could have Manus build all that out for you and then pull it in just like I did with that construction group. Right. I've found that Replit kind of struggles a little bit to build really good PDF, PDF things, PDF extraction tools. But Manus can do it, I've seen it do it. So building the tools to do it over there and then just connecting the UI and making it pretty and making it all connect together is what you do over here. And it looks like you're also using the OpenAI API. Now one of the things that you want to know about the OpenAI API, will you go ahead and just open a new tab, Shane, and just google OpenAI API and then click on pricing. So if you scroll down, you'll see that there's a bunch of different models here. Yeah, go down even further. I think there's even like a more complex. Yeah, yeah, yeah, go up a little bit right there. So you've got like reasoning models for complex multi step problems. You got OpenAI 03 OpenAI 04 mini you are using right now. OpenAI 40 mini. Right, which is. Yeah. Or maybe 4.1 mini. Right. But it's probably, it's probably 4O mini. So scroll down now a little bit More and then click on that detailed pricing. Scroll up a little bit higher. Yeah, yeah, right there. Right, right there. No, no, you got it, you got it. Yeah. There was another button for it above, but that works too. So these are all of the different models that your OpenAI API can point at. It will by default point to GPT4.0, right? That's. And 400 mini, actually, sorry. So the one that's right at the bottom of your screen, 15 cent input output, 60 cents. That's going to be your cheapest model to do all. That's the price per million tokens. And remember, guys, a token is about a word, right? So if you have a line of code or a line of whatever, you know, that might be 10, 13, 17 words, you know, just depending on what it is. But, but a million words is a lot of words. It's a lot of input and output. And so you can spend, you know, just pennies or, you know, fractions of pennies to do most things, but when you need to, you. When you need it to really look at bigger data and be able to parse everything a little bit stronger, you might need to tell Replit, hey, I want you to adjust the OpenAI API to a better model suited for this task. Which one do you think will work best? Right? Have that conversation with it, right? What do you think will work best? What do you do this. And so my guess is you're running into a little bit of trouble with parsing data because of the model that it's using. The 400 Mini is very powerful, but there are others that are way more powerful that are still extremely cost effective, but will be a thousand times cheaper than having humans do it. But, but it might cost you 20 bucks or 30 bucks, you know, you know, per day that you're using it, instead of two or three dollars per day that you're using it. But you're still only paying, you know, $1,000 a month for something that's now completely automated all the time. You know, so it might be a little bit more expensive. But, but yeah, have that conversation with Replit about, about how about which model might be the best one to actually parse everything. I would also work a lot on saying, hey, here's a document that I've uploaded, right? I need you to, you know, I need you to show me all of the data that it's getting out of it. Show me the output, right? I don't want to just see it when I click view results, show me the output and work on that. So you just kind of have to, you kind of have to Double check the AI's work at, at each step. Okay. From here I know this is what we should, the output we should be getting. Can you verify that this is what we're actually getting? Okay, yes. Great. Now let's move to the next step. Now are you taking this and are you appropriately assigning it this way? And then. Okay, great. All the way down to your, you know, your desired outcome. Right. And so that's not something we need to do right here because it'll take you a couple hours to work through that. But, but that's the process. Any questions on that, Shane? Nope. Very cool. Preston. Go ahead and go to Thomas.

So how do you decide you're talking about? Okay, you know, let's actually take this to Manus and let it decide. And now looking at different models and OpenAI, how do you decide which tool is the right one for the job? Right, because it seems like replit can maybe kind of do it. Manus might be able to do it better. OpenAI can set up the prompt. So how do you decide which one you use for a particular task?

Yeah, and I know this answer isn't the best, but it's experience. I just know, I just have tried it a lot. I've tried a thousand different things with all these different models. And I know that, you know, midjourney sucks at writing text right on a picture. You know, it's just not great at it. So I'm not gonna choose to do that. Right. If you use the wrong tool to try to get a result, you'll be, yeah, this AI sucks. Right? But, but really, you just gotta make sure you're pointing it at the right way. You can obviously talk to, you know, talk to one of the AIs about it, talk to Grok, talk to ChatGPT, whatever. I actually like Grok. Grok is kind of unfiltered in a weird way. Kind of like Elon. Right? But, but, but grok does give you some really good answers like, hey, this is what you should do here. And this one actually kind of sucks for it. And you might actually use the word sucks because Grok is kind of crazy like that.

But anyway, so the AI tools will know like, hey, this is the best tool. I mean, so what's. Until I have that experience to say, hey, Grok, which of these three to four tool, you know, or just leave it open ended, which tool would you use?

Yeah, say, hey, you know what, I'm. Yeah, and you can, you can ask Both of those questions at the same time. You can say, hey, I'm trying to do this. These are the three tools I'm considering which of these is best and if I haven't considered one of the right ones, what else could do this? Well, you know, just ask it that question and, and it will, it will help guide you through another place, guys, where I learn a lot of this stuff. I'll just, I'll just scroll through Reddit forums, right? And I'll just ask, you know, I'll ask Google. I'll just Google it, right? And Google will usually point me to a Reddit discussion where people are talking about this and they've run into it and then you can just have good discussions. Another place where you can ask, guys, is the Facebook group that, that, you know, you just joined yesterday, right? That group has now, I don't know, almost, almost 60 people in there that have all taken this course. Right. And I'm in there as well. If you ask a question in there, I will answer it. And other people will too, right? And some people will jump in and do research for you. And so that community is just barely, barely beginning. But I think it's going to be a powerful one. I think it's going to be a powerful community for, you know, as it continues to grow and we have people that are really highly trained on AI. So. Good question. Preston Thomas, go ahead.

Yeah, so I've done some work for this company that, long story short, develops solar projects and then sells them to high net worth individuals and businesses with large tax bills to claim the tax benefits. And software has been a huge Achilles heel for them because there's nothing kind of off the shelf or custom made. So I was kind of playing around and like, wow, I can solve a lot of their problems in a matter of days building this stuff out. But my question is there's several different elements of the business that could each be their own piece of software. You've got the front end salespeople originating these solar projects. They have to date not found a loan servicing platform that can just keep track of payments because there's multiple projects. So there's that element. And then they also want a portal on the back end for their investors to go in and, and see the status. My question is, would it be almost beneficial to build out kind of three separate applications in ReSplit to make sure it's doing each one of those functionalities and then is there a way for REP to ask replit to kind of combine all those into one clean piece of software or should I build function A and then say, hey, now we're building function out? I guess asking the question another way for a bigger software project where there's lots of different things, where there's different users that want to be able to do different things, what would you recommend as an approach for that?

Yeah, good question. Here's my number one question. As you're saying all that does all of the data. I know that the front end user interface, right? For the different types of users is different, right? They all have kind of unique needs. But does all of the data behind it. Is it all. Does it all need to be in the same database? Is it all the same data? You're just looking at the same data from different perspectives?

Yes, yes, that, that would be the goal of having it all be in one. Is that that data, different parts of the data are important to different user groups. But yes, that that data will be consistent.

Yeah. So yeah, because of that reason, I would build it as one project with different types of users. I'll share my screen. I'll show you what I built yesterday in about an hour. Risk analyzer. So I was working. But this is the bank statement thing, right? I was trying to figure out, you know, I was just uploading one of my old, you know, Zion's bank bank statements from like five years ago and, and just trying to get it to upload it and understand it and analyze it and. But it was part of this. And so you can see right here immediately this answers some of your question, right? Login as admin. Login is broker. Login as client. Right? And right now I just have a, you know, I can explore, I can explore the platform by just clicking on that instead of having to like type in a password every time I just said, hey, create a login that allows me to just jump in and see it as different things. And so, so then I've got, you know, this is all fake data, right? It's, it's all, it's all fake. But it was just showing. Hey, let's. Can we put together a risk platform for this Risk analyzer platform for this company. But you would then come in here as different users, right? But I mean, that's as simple as that, right? When you land on the wherever, right? Login is broker. Login as client. And then you could. I haven't even, like none of these buttons work. Request demo doesn't work. Sign in. Yeah, there's the sign in, but we're not. I haven't even created a database for any of this stuff to work yet, I wanted only a front end to be able to do that. And actually, as you go in and do this, all of the views are the same. Because again, I didn't build it out, but I wanted to show that this was possible, right, where you can have, you can log in as different types of users in my Gen IPI platform. I showed you this yesterday, right? You can log in. So right now you don't see the dashboard or you don't see the admin, right? If I log in as an admin here, then there it is, right? And now all of a sudden I have capabilities that other people don't have. I can see things differently. And so what you're talking about, what you're asking about is actually called a user permissions system. It's a permission system where you have certain access to data. And then you could say, yeah, hey, when I log in is this, this is what I want to do. When I log in is this is what I want to do. You just have to make that very clear to your agent. Hey, we're going to build a system that can do this, this and this. Or maybe you've already built one part of the system and you say, now I want to build a second system for a different user. I want it to use the same data. But here's how it's going to be different. Here's the types of tasks that I want them to be able to do. And then, hey, now we need a third system where it's going to be a new interface. I need you to create a login that allows you to click which one you're trying to log in as. And you could have it go login as admin and then it would pull up the login and that pathway just have three different pathways into three different things, all looking at the same database. I would not try to build, I'm trying to think how I would do that, how, you know, if you did build them in three separate replit projects, how I would pull that code in. It would be a little tough. It would be a little tough to do that.

I think the one project definitely would be your recommendation.

Yep, yep, that answers that.

Thank you.

Yeah, great questions, guys. These are, these are fantastic. And covering a couple things that I need to cover anyway. What else? What other questions?

Yeah, quick question. So you mentioned on that project that you didn't have a database. It was all front end stuff. Do you recommend only building front end stuff until you got the whole thing flesh out and then adding a database after that, or do you add it earlier on?

Because my project started, I added early.

You add the database early?

Yeah.

Yeah. Okay. If I'm just demoing something and I don't know what the data is supposed to look like, then I want it to use what's called dummy data, right? And it's just going to hard code that dummy data like you saw in that dashboard for, for that risk one. All that data looks really good and I don't have to then feed it, you know, feed it from the database. But, but ultimately I want, if I'm building something that I know if I, if I'm just trying to like test an idea with, you know, and I don't know if I'm actually going to do it, I just want to test and see what it looks like, then I don't need a database. But if I want something to work and I need it to actually work properly, then I need a database so that it will work properly, so that people can create usernames and logins and have persistence of data, so that when I do something, it saves my work so I can come back later. That's what the database is, right? It's saving your work, it's saving progress and all of the data that's in there. And you know, if you're doing it properly, I mean, everything should be, should be data database driven, right? So for example, if you come here in my, My Echoes thing. Yeah, we don't really have it yet, but let's say that there was a, let's say that there was a place here where it was like featured echoes, right? Those featured echoes. Maybe that's just like right here, right? Featured echoes instead of a feature preview, right? And you have all these tiles of showing these featured echoes of places to visit in the world. Maybe it's sponsored places or something like that, right? If you hard code all that data in, then you have to come in and you have to change the website itself every time. Like you're changing the hard coded data and it's really difficult. Whereas if you change, if you, if you say, hey, you know what? Instead I want this card to be here. I want you to design the card and make it look all beautiful and I want it to be, I want it to say, you know, the location. I want you to have a little, you know, brief description of it and I want you to show a picture and then I want you to show which user did that so they can click on it and go visit that place, right? You could have all of that be driven or populated. All of that data be populated from the database so that all you have to do is change the database. Or if that person goes in and change, like if that actual user goes in and changes their description or changes whatever, they can just automatically updates, right? You don't have to go in and change the website again, right? In a very, a very simple example, right. Would be back to Gen API. If we go into the database here. Well, let's pull up the. Let's pull up the website. Um, well, here, we'll do this. We'll just do it. We'll do the live website, right? But if I decide to go in and I say, you know what, I want to change the price of the AI in everyday life from $19 to. And you know what, I need to. Let's just sign out here so we can see the prices through courses, get access. So there's that price of $19. I can come into my database here and I can. Wow, look at how many things I have. That's so crazy. All right, let's go to courses. Here we go. AI in Everyday Life. So I've got, you know, the title, the description, the level, the COVID image. Ooh, hey, that. That's why that happened. Status published, created at updated at price 1900 pennies. Right. So that's how it's set up in my database. Right? But if I wanted to change it to, you know, $49, then I would just do this. Save one change. Boom. That's now, that's now live. So I can click right here. Boom, $49. Right. So it's database driven. I can change that and immediately update whatever, whatever products I have, whatever things I have. It's just right there. Okay. So going into your database is super easy. Understanding how your things are pulling data makes it really easy to then go in and, and do stuff like that. I don't actually want to charge 49.

Interesting.

Keep it at. We'll keep it at 19 bucks. I like that price. People are buying it at that price, so we'll keep it there. So yeah, again, because that database is this, this field right here and this field right here, by the way, are just reading it, right? And so you got to make sure. This is really important, guys. If you, you know, you got to check this. And you gotta check this, right? Because. And you know. Yeah, there it is right there as well. Right. You gotta make sure that anywhere it's doing it, it's not. It didn't hard coded into the Button. Right. So, hey, make sure this is reading the same, you know, the same spot. Right. And you just have to tell it right. Hey, this button needs to be, you know, needs to be reading the database price for this. And the way I would say that is it's reading on the courses table, right? It needs to be reading the price from the courses table, right. For that. For that course. And it will understand the context of everything else because it knows what you're talking about. Because you clicked on it, it sees, okay, I'm in, you know, JennaIPI.org courses number four. And so it knows what four is. It's ID4. Right. It understands what that means. Okay. So, yeah, the database is really, really critical. I like to do everything. Like I'm setting up that database as step two usually. Yeah, all right.

That was my question because just as I was moving things around, it seemed like it was going through as I'm still figuring out some of those fields, like, oh, now I've got to go redo this in the database. I didn't know if that was slowing it all down, but I guess that needs to be built out at some point anyway. So.

No, yeah, you're just, You're. It's going to start fake and then you got to make it real. And that's just a little bit of a task. Right? And so, yeah, there's. There's so many places where, where, where that will. That will become really, really important even for images. Right? Being able to update an image that's stored and referenced in the database, that should be. That should be the. The default. All right, guys, so I want to teach a little bit here. So some of you guys probably have really, really long. You know, I think it was. Shane, is that going to go like. I don't even want to scroll back up because it's so long. Look at how long this conversation is. Right? And so, yeah, please let me add database. That was kind of where this conversation started. But, but there's a cool little. There's a little. If you see right here, you get this little thing right here says your usage for this chat is $9.75. So I want to talk for a minute just about how Replit charges you money so you understand and how to be more efficient with really any AI. But Replit will demonstrate this here. So every single time you have a. What's called a checkpoint, right? Checkpoint made. This is going to cost you 25 cents, right? All checkpoints cost 25 cents. Now, some tasks you might ask it to Do a task and it might do three checkpoints while it builds that task while it does that task. And part of the reason why that will happen is because a checkpoint is basically usage. Just like we were just looking at Shane's screen a second ago, we were looking at OpenAI API pricing. You're doing the same thing here. You're, you're, you're using credits of, of the, of the, the AI that's behind the scenes here. And the AI, just so you guys know, that's behind the scenes here in Replit is anthropic. It's quad 3.7 sonnet, right? Unbelievable. Brilliant model that is very, very good at coding. It's the best, right? Build with Claude. So cool. So cool. I, I highly recommend, you know, play around with this stuff, guys. It's, it's really fun to play around with. You can do so many cool things. We'll talk about MCP in a second as well. I'm write that down so I don't forget. But remember, guys, that the way that you're charged for AI usage is based on token usage, right? It showed a price per million tokens, right? And so the more complex your task is, the more tokens, the more context and tokens it will use, right? Pretty simple, pretty straightforward. And sometimes it requires more context and more things going back and forth to figure this out. Right? So if you click on this thing, if you click on this little, you know, where your usage for this chat is,975 or whatever it is, you can actually jump in and you can see how you're getting charged in all of the different places you're getting charged, right? And so you have your monthly credits, $25. You paid $35 a month, right? I paid 180 a year because I got in earlier and that was awesome. Whatever. But I think it's 240 a year now if you do that plan. But so that's obviously cheaper, right? But, but if you, if you're paying 35 bucks a month for it, $10 goes to, hey, you know, you're using the platform, then you get $25 of credits. And then if you use more than that, you'll, you know, you'll get charged for every $10 you go over, right? And so for me to give you an idea, for me to build out Gen AIPI and launch, it took me about $112 in total, right? $25 of existing credits plus an additional, you know, 90 bucks or so. Okay, so this usage page, though, this is part of where it shows you how repl.it makes money. Now, it doesn't explicitly tell you, but when you look at this, you can understand. You've got the agent, you've got all these 20, you know, these checkpoints. I've done 395 of them. So I've spent this month $100. We're through the 21st of May, and I'm probably, I'll probably get up to 120, 130 bucks this month, right? No big deal. But then you have all of these other things, right? You have deployments, you have auto scale deployment, you have Postgres, SQL storage, PostgreSQL compute object storage. You got all these fun things here that you know, you're getting charged for every month, right? And so this is, this is your storage. This is where all your data lives. This is the compute. This is where a lot of, A lot of, you know, $21 out of my, out of my bill this month is from going to provide these services natively integrated into here. And then we'll just charge you more. So, you know, so we'll. So if you're paying, you know, $1.50 per gigabyte per month in a little bit of margin on your usage of any of these things, but I'll pay that, that extra, you know, tax all day long, especially in the beginning. It's a NEON database. It's a postgres. It's doing, it's. It's, you know, the one holding all of those, all of that data for you. You could, you could also just subscribe to NEON and have your own thing and have, you know, tons of storage and all these. I prefer to do as a startup. This is, well, this is the way that I like to be charged, even though I am paying more than I could otherwise. Everything is taken care of right here. I don't have to go anywhere. I can just click plus and boom, it's all natively integrated into here. And I get access to tons of other cool things. Okay? So, any questions? Oh, sorry. One more thing I need to say about that is really important. And this is where I was going. This chat right here, guys take into account the entire chat. And so the longer your chat gets, the longer your text. The text of your question is every single time. So you want to start new chats. Remember though, when you do start a new chat, you are resetting your agent's knowledge in your project and you can, you know, and that's why we built the readme and the progress right These MD files keep. Or it gets your. It gets your AI, your agent, back up to speed really, really fast. So here's what you do. Before you are. Before you're going to start a new chat, you say this. Please review the chat history and look at the status of the app and update the progress MD file to reflect the app's current state. Okay, so we're going to just send that. I'm going to share this with you guys. You can have that if you need it. Good thing to just save. But anyway, that's. That's what you say really quick. And so it will. It will review the agent chat history, look at the status of the app. It will look at everything, figure out what's going on, and then it's going to update this progress MD file to say, okay, here's now what we've done. Okay, so this will not take very long. And then we'll. We'll open a new chat here, right? Because we're already up to $9.75. I normally don't let my chats get over, you know, two or three dollars. And then I'm starting a new chat, and with my more complex things, I'm starting a new chat for every new feature, and then I'll stay on that chat. Even if that chat goes to $9, I'll stay on that chat until it's done, right? Until that new feature is completely done. Because then it just remembers. Okay. All right, cool. What would you like me to work on next? All right, so yeah, we've got some deployment stuff we'll worry about deploying here in a minute. Okay. But what we're going to do next is we're going to do a new chat. Okay. Why is my app not loading? One thing that's really important, guys, is you want to make sure that before you start a new chat, your app is working. If it is not working, you. You cannot roll back to a previous chat. Right. So if something I did here messed it up or whatever, right, Then I need to be able to roll back to a place where it's actually working. All right, something. Something weird happened. It looks like it just had a. A blip in the connection. I don't know if that was my WI fi or if that was their system that just freaked out for a second, but it should be. Why is it reviewing my message? I don't believe that it's actually reviewing my message. It just is going off on its own tangent here.

So when you start a new chat, can you go back to it like you can open AI or does it delete it? And now you've got a fresh new one and that's all you can access.

You've got a history right here. Right. So the history will go back to these, you know, different places here. You can go back to different chats and different things that are happening. Yeah, you can go to the chat, go to the chat right here. These chats that were started a couple days ago. Right. But yeah, so you can go back, but you can't, you can't roll back to older chats now. Actually, as I say that, and as I clicked on this, I remembered that they actually updated this. This was a new update that came out a couple days ago. You can roll back your, let's see, update legal documents, links, company name and the footer. That was the most recent thing. Yeah, this is the oldest stuff here. Yeah, this is pretty cool. So you can now roll back up to seven days. That was something they just updated. That's a brand new feature. But if you have a chat that was a while ago and need to roll back there, you know, you're stuck. So if you go on vacation and you're like, okay, I want to get back to my app. Oh, that broke something. Can I roll back? I can't. Okay, so just, you know, account for that in your workflow. Okay, but now that I've done this, now that it's updated the progress MD file, right. It's, you know, I don't have to really go through and check, but, but it's, you know, it's told me what it's done. By the way, one of the last things I did is I have it write my privacy policy. Right now the privacy policy is unreadable, so that's not great. But at least it exists now. So if they click on it, that's fine. Terms of service, I also don't love that the menu's gone and so I would probably have it. It should work more like this, right? You click on your privacy policy, then it just looks the same, stays the same, you keep the same menus, all that stuff. That's how I want it to be. So I'll get it there, but I don't really need to worry about it. But I had the agent write my things for me and now I'm ready to start a new chat. So the last thing I did was please review the chat history, update the progress. So now a new ch. Now what I'm going to do is say, and I have this, by the way, in my cool little replit tricks with this, please reference the README MD and Progress MD files to familiarize yourself with the project.

Okay, John, just interrupt. Are you going to share that link to the replit cheat sheet that you were just at?

Okay, yeah. You guys will get at the end of the class today, right? Or maybe tomorrow. Sometimes it takes me. Actually, I'm a hundred percent positive I will not be able to get this to you today. It's going to be very, very, very busy for me today. I'm, I'm done with all of my stuff at about 9pm I'm just like solid. But tomorrow I'll have a little bit of time and I'll, I'll send, I'll send this entire folder over to you. So you'll have software and tools and all these different things, coding guides, stuff like that. Different overviews of, you know, different, different kind of angles of, of looking at that financial stuff, advanced and all these fun things. So you'll be able to jump in and have access to all of that stuff. Okay, so please reference the README MD and Progress MD files and familiarize yourself with the project. So what I'm doing here, guys, is I'm bringing in my new developer. Hey, welcome to the team. Right? Here's what we do, here's what we're about. Read my readme, my business plan and my progress. Here's what we've done so far and familiarize yourself with the project. So it'll look at the project and we'll figure that out. Right? So this, this is critical. This is a critical step to getting your agent back in line immediately. And you're picking up right where you left off. It knows what's going on, it knows what's happening. And so it'll search for these files and it'll find them, It'll read them and say, okay, great, I now know what you're doing. Let's keep going. Okay, great. Hey, I see you have a comprehensive progress MD that helps track the implementation as well as a readme that provides a good overview of the project's vision, monetization strategy and go to market approach. Awesome. Now let me look at the file structure. So it's just going to start, you know, reviewing the project and say, okay, I want to understand what you're doing. Let's look at the database configuration. So it's, you know, here's this new developer getting up to speed, but now it's looking at everything with context. It understands what's going on. Okay, and now we're in a new chat and we're at zero. Right? Checkpoint made now free, Right? So you can always, by the way, guys, once you start in this new feature, if you start breaking things and you're just like, ugh, I've broken it all, you just go back to the beginning of the chat and be like, okay, let's roll back. Let's start over here. Let's try this again. So I do that pretty often. I probably roll back once a day, right. Depending on what I'm doing. I'm just like, nah, I just hate where you're going here. We were working better earlier. Let's go back. Okay. All right, Perfect. Based on reviews. Awesome. That's great. Is there anything else you want to do now? So we would then do that. Okay. The next thing I'm going to talk about, guys, is deployment. Okay? Deployment means we're going to make it available to the world to see, right? And it's not necessarily going to be immediately showing up on Google results, right? It's definitely not going to do that. But you're going to make a live site where you can then share it with your team or you can try it in a live environment and just make sure that things are working properly. So right here you click on Sorry, and I kind of just did this, but you click on new tab and you just click on deployments, right? Super easy easy. And you guys are all going to choose auto scale, all right? You can, you can look at these other things and you can learn about them if you want, but just follow the recommendations. Just click set up your deployment and then this, these right here is your auto scaling machine configuration. Again, you're just going to click approve. But what this means is, you know, have you ever, have you ever tried to buy a concert ticket or something and you get put into a queue or you get put into whatever and you know, the reason that you're put into a queue is because that system was not properly set up with good auto scaling. It can only let a certain number of people onto the website at once. Right? So if you're trying to grab the, the BYU football tickets or the, you know, Taylor Swift tickets or the Tabernacle Choir Christmas concert, you know, popular things that, that are, you know, everybody's trying to jump on. You have a million people clicking the button at once. Well, they put these limiters on them so that not everybody can get in at once. And, and they don't. You know, theoretically you should be able to do that with, with auto scaling machines. Now There are other things to consider with that. Like imagine. Imagine a hundred thousand people at the same time. Let's say you're like, hey, we're going to get this awesome, you know, expensive server setup going, and you had a hundred thousand people trying to buy 40,000 spots in the conference center at the same time. Like, everyone's clicking and all these seats are disappearing. Oh, sorry, that seat's been taken. That seat's been taken. That seat's been taken. It would be a bad experience. And so there's other reasons to throttle and limit people coming in. And if you want to figure out how to do that, just tell Replit. It'll do it for you. Okay. Only with a certain amount. So you just approve. What it's going to do is it's going to have all of your secrets, right? Your map box thing and your OpenAI API keys, all your different things that you have there. It's all there. You don't even have to worry about setting it all up. It's all there. You do have this primary domain. Now know that this is just a temporary domain, right? It's. It's just going to give you something. So we'll call this, you know, echoes Unavailable. Echoes app available. Perfect. Okay. And you know what? I'm actually going to say Echoes. We're going to say test app, because this is actually a real thing that I want to do, so I don't want to take up, not that it matters. Guys, this is temporary, right? We're going to point this actually, I'm actually going to point this@elements app.com eventually. Right now I have my old version of it pointed, you know, pointed@elements app.com that I'm going to switch it out. I'll switch it out in here and I'll show you guys exactly how to do that. This is just Echoes test app. And I could even just go dash. I can read this a little bit better. Dot replit app. Okay? So if you go and you build something, then you want to share it with people. It will be a dot replit app. And so they'll say, okay, this looks like this is a temporary thing. They're building it out, and that's fine. But you can do this now you have something live that you can share with people. Okay, so we'll just click deploy. Okay, once you've set that, or you can just leave the what it put there. You just click deploy. So just approve. Approve. Approve is really all you have to do. Then you can modify a couple of those things. It will then go through these four steps of provisioning, building, bundling, and promoting. When you have a lot of deployments like you've deployed a bunch of times, you will be able to roll back to previous deployments. If you deploy and you accidentally, oh, crap, that doesn't work. You can just roll back to the previous one really quick and it will change the live version to a working previous, working version that you had up and running. So just know that you can roll back things. You can roll back deployments as well. Now, there's two environments, guys. When you come in here and you're looking at preview, this preview is the current, what we're going to call dev environment. Okay. This is what you're working on right here. If you change things here, it does not change them on the live website. In order to make your. Your preview version match the deployed version, you have to redeploy. There'll be a button here that shows up in a second where you redeploy. You can go out there and then you can say, all right, I'm going to get working. I'm going to figure out this get started button. This get started button does nothing. Or this Learn more, whatever. Actually, it does do something. It does the repit off testing. We'll go back. There's actually something I want to talk about with that, but if I click Learn more, that's going to go here. That's great. But maybe I want to just start building out more things. And I really think this is a boring. I think this is a terrible, boring landing page so we can make it way more fun and. And bring it to life. And then when I'm ready, I can then go look at it in public. This deployment process takes, I don't know, three to five minutes. So we'll just kind of let it happen there. Man. I want to show another website I'm working on right now. That's really cool. I want you guys to question. How'd you. How'd you get to this deployments tab? I think I'm in a miss. It's just right up here. You've got this little plus button.

Yeah.

Right next to it. Just click there. And then deployments is right here. Oh, okay. Yeah, it's there. Sometimes it's in alphabetical order, but the ones that you use a lot, it will just kind of float to the top. Right. But yeah, just click on deployments and that brings you into your overview. Right. And the overview will look different for you until you're ready to promote. Right but yeah, this is where you're going to go test it. You can then try it on different browsers, you can try it on mobile, you can try it on whatever. Right. Obviously you can do all those things in here with the, you know, with these tools where you're looking at different screen sizes and stuff like that. I spent some time, I spent just a few minutes, maybe like 10 minutes yesterday after you guys got off and I, I fixed my, my Nav bar menu, so now it looks a little bit better. I actually think this is still a little bit close to the edge. You can see that's kind of getting cut off. But, but that's an easy, like, hey, let's just move that over. But now when I'm, you know, when I'm here, we've got the sign in features, how it works. That's, that's actually a good organization. And then full size looks pretty good. Now it doesn't have, you know, I had kind of some weird spacing and stuff yesterday. Now, now it all looks and kind of feels like. I don't feel like I'm looking at any paper cuts right now. Can it be better designed? Absolutely. But nothing's broken, right? Okay. Hey, we finished the deployment and again, redeploy would be the next thing that I would, that I would do if I, you know, if I make some changes and I'm like, oh, hey, I want to make sure that people can test those new changes, right. So I just redeploy. And that will match your dev environment in here to the actual deployed version. Now, I want this to be clear. Right now this is changing, but right now, the same database, there is only one database. There's not a dev environment database and then a production database, it's the same database. And so if you come in here and you add a bunch of stuff, you add users, you add content, you add whatever, then it's deploying to the same database. And that's cool, right? Because I just showed you with changing the price on that class. Or I could just change the database. Boom. And it's live on the production version as well. Replit just announced that they are enabling a feature where you can, if you want, have your databases be separate, where you have a dev database and a production database. And you can set those things differently if you want. Okay. All right. Deployments right here if you want to. So now you can click on this. I can click on this link and it will just take me, hey, boom, there I am live on the Internet. I could share this Link with all of you and you would all be able to click on it and mess with it. Right? If I click get started. 2, 3, 4, 5. Oh, I hate that. Five seconds to get to this replit auth. I'm not going to use that, so I'm going to have to rip that out later and just say, hey, you know, let's not use this auth system. Let's build a new one from scratch that's faster. This thing's way too slow. Or I could say it takes five seconds when I push this button. If you can't make this faster, I'm ripping out replit off anyway. So you can always click on that, then you can come over. Sorry, was there a question?

Yeah, just to clarify one thing. So you mentioned there was the preview environment. So you have to redeploy to update, like the UX ui, but any changes you hard code in the database will just automatically update without any redeployment.

Yeah, if you're pulling from the database, right. So like back to that Echoes example, right? If somebody goes in, in the preview environment or in the deployed, the production environment and changes their caption or changes the picture that's associated with that echo, then it would show up everywhere because that's pulled from the database itself. Good question. Here in deployments, guys, you're going to go to Settings and this is where you would link a domain, a real domain. I can say, hey, I want this to point@echoesapp.com okay? And then I would click next and I would update my DNS settings. Okay, now DNS Settings, guys, for those of you that have never done it before, it might sound a little scary, but it's so, so easy. So you can buy domains all over the place. You can buy it on GoDaddy, you can buy it on Namecheap, you can buy it on Squarespace. Google Domains used to be a thing, but it was bought by Squarespace. And so that's why I'm saying Squarespace. And you don't have to use the Squarespace website builder. If you do that, you can just host your domain there and then, and then point at it somewhere else. Right? But when you buy a domain, right, you'll, you know, you're, you'll have your products, you'll, you'll pull up your domains. So we'll find, we'll find my list of domains here. And this is some of my domains. I've got a bunch elsewhere. I don't even have the Echoes app in here. I think it's Actually in Squarespace, but it's going to be a similar thing. Okay, let's get rid of this ridiculous notification. Okay, so I have all of these domains and you can see one of the main things that's right here, right? You've got Manage. You can do all kinds of stuff with it. But DNS, because it knows you need to be able to do DNS. DNS basically is the instructions that you're giving your website. Like, where do you point your website? So you've got Echo's app, you've got Xena's floor or cheneypiano.com, john Cheney, whatever it is. Right. I can then if I change the DNS settings, it will change the server it's looking at. Right? So that's all we're going to do here. So if we were going to use this one, we'll use Gen IPI AI because I haven't set it up yet. But all I would do is come in here and there is a parked domain. It might. And you know when you create a new record, if you create a new A1 and if there's a conflict, it will tell you, oh, hey, you're going to need to delete this parked one. This is one that they just put there. So you would delete it, but then you're going to just add a new record. Okay? Super easy. And it told you to do this over here, right? It says add the following records to your domains. DNS settings. You want to learn more, learn more. They'll tell you exactly how to do it. Watch the YouTube video, figure it out. It's super, super easy. Okay? And you'll come in here and you'll just copy this stuff. So you'll say, okay, we need an A record at and then this is the record, right? So we'll grab all this and we can actually just click this copy button right here that it provides for us. That's great. And we go to godaddy and we just say, all right, we don't want any of this stuff here. Type a name, app value paste, add more records. Great. Txc, that was the one that it asked us for. Right here. Text. It's also at copy this and we are good to go. So now we would click save all records and boom. If I click this button in a Couple minutes, echoes app.com or sorry, I guess, sorry Genaipi and we are good to go. So now we would click saveallrecord. AI would be pointing at this website. Okay, any questions on this, guys? I want to make sure this is. This is really clear. If for those of you that might have never done this before, it's not that hard. But it's basically just the instructions on where to point your website. Okay. It. One other thing that you need to know. So I could click Link domain, right? And it will check it, it will verify it. If it's not connected properly, it will say it failed after about 30 minutes. It takes a little bit of time to fail, but you can just delete it and reset it. Right. If you know it's wrong. If you want to be able to have a subdomain like www, which is a subdomain.elementsapp.com you have to set that up too. So you just go next and then look at how everything else is the same. The record is the same. This record is the same. It's pointing at the same spot, right? You've got an A record and a. Txt record. But now the host name instead of just being at. Which is just echozap.com now it will be www.echozapp.com youm can do that. You can link the domain or maybe you have, you know, app.echozap.com, right? Or whatever it is that you want to set up for whatever reason. Or, you know, music.echozap.com, locations.echozap.com Be careful to be overly ambitious with subdomains. They complicate your setup, really. If you just do echo zap and www.echozap or whatever your domain is, you'll be great. So you link that as well and then you'll have it all set up. Right? So in a proper. So what we'll do here is we'll get rid of these guys. We'll just edit and we'll unlink and. Yes, I'm sure. And we'll unlink again. So we won't keep those because those were. Those were fake. I'll set those up later properly and get those. Get those done. Any questions about this DNS guys? Okay? Super easy, super easy stuff, but really, really important. Getting that all. Getting that all connected together is critical. All right, well, let's shift our focus, guys, right now to sales and marketing, right? And all of the things that need to happen for a company to feel like a company. Right? Let me. Let me just ask you guys this. Let's just have a little bit of discussion for a second here. What things have you experienced as you find a product, you click on an ad or something, or you land on a new website? Never heard of them before. What kind of things do you make you pause before buying.

A sketchy looking website?

Yeah, crappy website. Looks like it was built in the 90s. You know, I agree. I'm with you.

If the marketing actually looks more Photoshop than actually a photo shoot.

Totally. Yeah. Images that just look like. Yeah, was this, was this just AI created, whatever. And you know, that's something we're asking ourselves today. And the reality is probably a lot of it is, but did they at least care enough to make it look real? So, because what you really want, right? And Laurie, you were talking about this yesterday with your own product, right? You want people to not be surprised when the product shows up, right? When the product shows up, like you might get them to buy, but if the product shows up and then it's just dramatically different. So I sell this little like dish set on Amazon. I only have one product. My wife and I are like, let's try a product. Right? So we did and so we got this dish set all put together and, and we have a third party actually taken care of it for us. So we don't even have really control over a lot of the process. But the dishes are just a little bit smaller than you would expect. And you know, the images look great and, and quite frankly, if you know how big they are and you see people using them in the images, they actually, you know, it's not deceptive at all. It's actually a real photo shoot, but it just, it just looks a little different. Right. And so we'll get returns sometimes. And the only reason we ever get returns is the dishes were smaller than I thought. Right. And so that just happens. Right? So you want it? Yeah, yeah. You want accurate imagery? Pause for sure. What else? What else? Guys, when you're investigating a company, like maybe you find an ad on, on Instagram, do you ever, do you ever click on the Instagram profile and look at their posts and how many followers? And what about Facebook? Like, what do you guys do? What else causes you to pause and not buy?

I think a lack of information. When I'm trying to look at the product size or reviews. I think a lot. Or for me, when I was looking at one product, I couldn't find a specific information. Like it just wasn't detailed and I wasn't going to move forward with it because I couldn't find that information. It was like, for me, I thought if, if you're going to sell this product, give me all of the information so I know what I'm getting. And so for me, I just, I didn't move forward with it just because I was a lack of information.

Do you guys trust reviews?

No.

For me, there has to be a lot. And I, I am, you know, I take it with a grain of salt. But I, I do read through reviews to some extent, you know, so you.

Can usually tell pretty quickly. Like when everyone's like, this product is perfect. It's amazing, right? Like it's, you know, and even good, even good, you know, review site, like, they'll still, they'll put in some negative. They're like, it was really good. But I had this problem, but I still bought it and I still think it's worth it. You know, you can kind of almost tell when a review is fake. But yeah, if I'm really searching for something, like, if I'm looking at, like, I don't know, some protein powder or, you know, something, whatever it is, right. I'm jumping on Google and I want to find as many third party sites as possible. Like, I want a Reddit discussion, right? I want a Reddit discussion on my product before I can find it, right? And so we could keep having this discussion, guys, but the bottom line is you have to act, you have to think like your customer, right? If they land here, number one, are there any paper cuts? Does your website, you know, not work? Does something, Is something broken? Is something not looking? Right? Whatever is it, does it look super old, Thomas, like you were talking about? Right? So is there anything really like, you know, like cringe, Right? If you can avoid that, that's great. You've made it past the first step, right? Then they're going to start saying, okay, do I really want to buy this? Okay, what is the price? Great. Okay, that seems reasonable. Okay. What are people saying about it? Right? And so you want to make sure that you have all those things, all those little elements figured out. For me, when I think about a complete company, I like to make sure there's an X page, an Instagram page, a Facebook page, that the company's active, that they're posting, they're doing different things like that, right? Those types of, those types of things just add a little bit more, you know, completeness to it, right? Maybe a LinkedIn page for it as well. Right? I usually build a LinkedIn page and then I can show, hey, there's actual people working at the company and these people look like real people. Right? And so if I show those types of things in all of my marketing and all of my efforts, that's great. So When I was building Gen API, I would have replit work and then I was on the side, I was building all those things out. I was building out. I got the logo so that I had my profile picture and I built out all the pages and all the landing things and then I connected them all properly and then I had to build a bunch of content to fill, you know, to fill those pages. I was like, hey, I want to make sure there's, you know, six or seven posts already on these pages so that when someone clicks on it, they'll say, okay, yeah, this guy's posting, right? And most people won't go and be like, hey, did this get posted all get posted in one day? Like, yeah, they're all the same day and was yesterday, but who cares, right? They're just going to see, oh, there's content. Okay, great. You know, that's awesome. Now they might notice, oh, there's only 11 followers. So maybe it's a new page, right? Maybe it's a new company, right? But the bottom line is it's all put together and it feels like it's, it's more complete when you, when you start to do that. The other thing that you get, the benefit that you get from setting up your Twitter and your LinkedIn and your Instagram and your Facebook, as long as you do it right, is you get backlinks to your website, right? You're going to get, you know, you put the link in the profile, right? Www.echozap or genaipi.org, right? So you can click on that from Instagram and it takes you to that page. And Google cares about this big time, right? And all kinds of different, like legitimacy, things like, they'll look at it. What's the map like? What does it look like? If you, the best thing you can do is to get a third party, like a news agency or a, you know, an article or something like that that has a link to your website, right? Keep getting those and you'll just build this, this graph out this link web out there that will, that will improve your, your discoverability over time. You can't get all that in day one. You can. It's hard but, but that's where you got to start, right? You got to start where you say, okay, I'm going to settle this up. So when I was building out, I'm just going to share, I'll share my screen and I'll, I'll just kind of walk you through my chat CBT a little bit inside of General AI Proficiency Institute. Right. So here's my project, my general AI Proficiency Institute. You can go all the way back to the very beginning when I thought of the idea and I said, hey, let's, let's, let's do this. I think, yeah, this was the very first request that I gave, and I had a huge discussion with it, talking about, you know, hey, I want to create a website. My. My original idea, right? I said, hey, I want to build a, you know, company in three days. I was like, all right, I've got this idea. Let's. Let's do like an AI flavored IQ tests. That was. That was really what it was, right? Can we, like, see how smart people are, you know, in relation to AI, Right? They need to have. They know how to talk to AI. They need to be good, prompt engineers, and they have a good brain to figure out how complex systems can be put together to really be good with AI. Can you help me build this? Okay, so, like, great, let's start building it. I was like, hey, this is kind of cool. This is nice. Whatever, let's figure this out. All right, let's start with a good name. Let's figure this out. And so I just started working through the problems, right? So that was step one. Let's get it going. And then I had to fill in all of the gaps with all of that. Man, I've got some cool ideas in here. Social media posts. Yeah, here we go. So this is pretty cool. I basically said, all right, we need a bunch of posts out there. Let's figure out what we can talk about. You know, here's. Here's 10 social media posts. Talk about the power, what Jenny API is doing. And it just started coming up with different things, right? AI is not replacing you. People who use AI are. Here's the content, here's all this stuff. And so it made 10 posts, and then it said, hey, would you like me to generate the images? I was like, yes, right. And I hated all of these images. And so I didn't actually end up using any of them, right? Because they just look terrible and they look AI generated, and I just didn't like the way that they felt. I want. I wanted AI to feel more accessible, right? So I want to be more realistic. I also want to make sure we show some girls in these pictures. We need AI to feel accessible to everybody. So now it switches over to all girls in these 10. Hated all of them, whatever, right? But then I was like, hey, you know, okay, whatever. I'll figure out the images on another platform. So I go over to mid journey and you know, Canva even and use, use some of those, right? But then I wanted one of the good types of posts that works really well as a slide, like a, you know, slides or a carousel post. And so I said, hey, make a quick one, you know, does this, here's seven slides. And then I just opened up Canva, right? I just jumped into Canva and let's see if I've got it open somewhere in all my millions of things. Yeah, here we go. So I just said, okay, hey, the future is bright for those who are ready. You have what it takes to thrive in an AI powered world. Discover your AIQ and step into what's next, right? And so I just had it create this. I made some videos, I made some images and all I did was pull from ChatGPT, copied it over into here. I picked things that, you know, that felt accessible and I did a bunch of different variations of it. And then eventually I had, you know, Gen AIPI wait for it. All right.

Was that video through midjourney that you brought into Canva or was that created through Canva?

It was just in Canva as a template. Yeah. So then I've got my General AI Proficiency Institute. And if you look at all the photos and the different things I've posted, I haven't posted a lot, but it's enough, right? It's enough that it's there, right? I have posted those videos. I don't see them here, but, but then, you know, this is the, the carousel thing that I made. And if we just go back to the, if we go back to the posts, you know, like, do. Yeah, there's that one right there, right. And it doesn't even matter if there's a lot of, you know, information on this. The point is I've got genaipi.org right here. I've got that backlink set up. I've got some good content. If somebody scrolls down, they're going to be like, okay, yeah, he's got a lot of content. Great. Doesn't matter. A lot of people don't, don't engage with Facebook like with business pages anyway. So just having it is just kind of a good place. And the purpose of this is to point to the website, right? Can I, can I get even just a little bit of, of, you know, attention pointed at the website, Right? So did that, I did this on Facebook. I posted the exact same things to Instagram, I posted to LinkedIn and I posted to Twitter, I posted to X. Right. So if you go to X and you go. Actually, let's see here. Explore. Look for Gen IPI doesn't even matter what your. What your handle is. Gen AIP Institute. I couldn't get. Gen IPI didn't exist. Right. Somebody had taken it. Right? Or yeah, it did exist. And you know what? I don't even know if I even posted to Twitter. Yeah, I literally didn't even post any of these things. I probably forgot to do that. Zero posts. So I could come in here. That's something I could improve. That's a great thing that I could do. Also, who am I logged in as? I think I'm logged in as. Yeah, I literally didn't even post any of these things. I probably forgot to do that. 0 posts so I could come in here. That's something I could improve. That's a great thing that I could do. Also, who am I logged in as? I think I'm logged in as me right now. So I'm just going to go ahead and follow that. Now I've got four followers. Awesome. Okay. And. But it's here, right? And it's another. There's a. There's a genaipi.org I swear there is. Maybe I need to put in a couple posts. That would be a place I can improve. So obviously I need to do a little bit of work on X. If you go to Instagram and you look up Jenny API, there it is. Gen AIP Institute. That looks like what I did for a couple things. Same types of me right now. So I'm just going to go ahead and follow that. Now I've got four followers. Awesome. Okay. And. But it's here, right? And it's another content on there. Right. And I have these connected together so that when I post to Instagram, it just auto posts to Facebook to the Facebook page for me. Right? And I have. Hey, I have 41 followers. That's actually kind of cool. We're getting a couple people there. So if I keep posting to this and I really have not done a great job at doing this. Right. I posted this on May 5th. I posted this on May 6th. There's a. There's a genaipi.org I swear there is. Maybe I need to put in a couple. And I posted this on May 7th, so it looks like I had a few days there where I did great before then March 3rd. Right. And I haven't posted since then. So it looks like I got into a little. It's hard. It's really hard. Guys, we're going to Talk about this too. We're going to talk about this a minute about how to automate marketing so that you can have AI do it for you and even automate the entire process. And I don't recommend doing that. That would be a place I can improve. So obviously I need to do a little bit of work on X. If you go to Instagram and you look at with your personal social. But, but for your business, go like, like make it, make it good content, right? But automate the heck out of it. Just go. And it doesn't even matter. I don't care if I'm not getting a ton of engagement here. Obviously it will help. Every little bit helps. But you know, this was a. This was Jenna API. There it is. Gen AIP Institute. That looks like what I did for a couple things. Same types of the news cast of when I, you know, I, I was on the news about it, right? About going in Utah from government policy to education. AI is finding its way into all aspects of our lives. And this was actually a, you know, me and Jen. Aipi, right? Gen AIP Institute. Right. So anyway, kind of fun. If you saw that, great. If you didn't, you can go watch it later. But anyway, talking about General Acquisitions Institute.

John, one thing I did learn about Merck backlinks. Schools. Schools. If you can donate say 500 into a scholarship and get the school to post your website.

Those are weighted content on there, right? And I have these connected together so that when I post to Instagram heavily.

With Google over social media over, you.

Know, a thousand auto post to Facebook to the Facebook page for me, right? And I have, hey, I have 41 followers.

That's in different backlinks of schools crediting you will show way very heavily.

That's. That's great advice. I've never heard that specifically, but it makes sense, right? The more credible the institution is that that links you, the, the further it will go, right? So if you get linked by CNN or Fox News or fox Business and TechCrunch barons Wall street like big names in the media, right. Those are, those are fantastic, right? Getting that link that goes over actually kind of cool. We're getting a couple people there. So if I keep posting to this and I really have not done a great job at doing this, right. I posted this on May 5th. I posted this on May 6th. Your website is. Is big time, by the way. Guys. How do you think. And this is jumping ahead a little bit to the marketing discussion and we'll get there. We're kind of in There. In there a little bit right now. But how do you think I got a news? How do I. How did I get Channel two to cover my new business?

Pitch them.

Cold email.

Cold email, you nailed it. It's exactly right. And I posted this on May 7th, so it looks like I had a few days there where I did great before then. Mark, every news, every broadcaster, every article writer, every news, they're looking for stories. They want cool stories. And so if you have a cool story or you can, you can, you know, work with ChatGPT, write your story, make it cool, right? Make your why and everything that you're doing, like, Laura, you've got your product. It's awesome, it's cool. It helps migraines. How many people have migraines? Hey, I've been working on this March 3rd, right? And I haven't posted since then. So it looks like I got into a little. It's hard thing. And I've discovered this really, you know, this thing. I've launched this product. It's worked, it's blowing up. I think you guys might like doing a story on it, right? Make it good, right? They even had me playing the piano with my cast on for my surgery a couple weeks ago, which is kind of fun. But anyway, they just, they're sitting right here, literally in this room, right There's. They were standing right there looking at my bookshelf with my different, you know, it's really hard. Guys, we're going to talk about this too. We're going to talk about this a minute about how to automate marketing so that you can have AI do it for you and even automate the entire process. And I don't recommend doing that. Awards about my last business. So I got 15 signups for this course with this, with this news thing. That's $15,000. And, and I think I got two businesses that totaled probably, probably $25,000. 10,000 and 15,000. So a cold email, give them an idea for a story, and I generate $40,000, right? You gotta have a product, you gotta have something that works. And I, I got to that, right? And I proved it first. I didn't go there first. I, I launched, I got a bunch of, I got a bunch of business really quick because I figured out how to make that happen. And we'll, we'll talk about that. But then with your personal social. But, but for your business, go like, like, make it, make it good content, right? But automate the heck out of it. And then I said, hey, let's, let's start boosting this. Let's start talking to it. And now I have a backlink from kutv to genapi.org because they not only do the broadcast, they always do. If you go like kutv, Jenny API, Boom. Now I've got an article on me, right? From a legitimate news agency. That's pretty cool. So anyway, good stuff there. You can pay for PR and pay for ads, but also like paid advertisement. Earned media is way more powerful if you can convince them, hey, I'm a story worth talking about. And I here was my story, right? AI helped him build a Cisco and it doesn't even matter. I don't care if I'm not getting a ton of engagement here. Obviously it will help. Every little bit helps. But you know, this was a, this was six figure business in a few days. That's a real story, right? Anyway, pretty cool. Okay. Yeah, really, really fun, really fun stuff there. Okay. So I built out all of, all of this stuff here and then my, my idea originally, guys, was to, to build out this AI the news cast of when I, you know, I was on the news about it, right? About going in U tests. People would then land on the site and I had to figure out how are they, you know, how am I going to get them to buy, right? Let's click sign out here. So we're signed out on this browser too. And so I kind of land them here on this proficiency test, the IQ test, right? So take the free AI Mastery Predictor test. Let's see how smart you are, right? So they click on that government policy to education.

AI is finding its way into all.

Aspects of our lives. And they click start the tests and then they click through, they go through all the questions. I'm gonna, I'm just gonna click through this really fast because it doesn't take very long. And has anybody here ever taken an IQ test online? If this was actually a, you know, me and Gen aipi, right? Gen AIP Institute, right? So anyway, if you take a test online, I've done it many times because I don't know, I just like that kind of stuff. They always get you to the very end and then they say, great, good job. In order to see your score, it's $3, you know, or they'll make you, they'll have you pay some little amount. And I was like, I don't want to do that. I don't want to because I hate that. But I did say, okay, hey, your AI Mastery Predictor results, right? Create an account to see your score. Cool. Free account. No big deal. I could even probably add the word free, right? Create a free account to see your score. I could just change that and I might even get, you know, I might even improve my, my conversion a little bit more. So if you enter this, you enter this, you enter this, and then it will email you. Fun. If you saw that, great. If you didn't, you can go watch it later. But anyway, talking about General Acquisitions Institute.

John, one thing I did learn about Merck backlinks your score.

Okay. And, and then, and then actually, when. If you put in, if you create a new user, we'll just do this really quick. We'll just say John Chaney 2, 4, 5, and we'll make up a fake email and we'll put in a password here. I don't even know what password that is. Just click this password, password, create account and continue. Boom. Hey, there's my score. All right. You suck. You need to do a bunch of stuff, right? Obviously, just click through it. So I got a bad score, but that's how it works. Now all of a sudden, hey, what's your next step? Improve your skills. By the way, that email address, which was fake, we'll get an email at Explore courses, get certified Schools.

Schools. If you can donate, say 500 into a sky.

Okay. Or go to dashboard. Right. Over 10,000 professionals have improved their careers.

With our courses, scholarship, and get the school to post your website. Those are weighted and certifications.

That was something that Replit wrote that I haven't gone through and cleaned up. That's obviously not a true statement, so I need to go through and fix that. But, but, you know, here, here you know, your. You have foundational knowledge but would benefit from structured learning. Replit helped me set up all this, wrote all of this stuff. Okay. Wrote the test, wrote the tests, wrote all of these different things heavily with.

Google, over social media, over totally a thousand.

Now I can then click here and go, you know, courses, obviously I could do that above here. And then, hey, I want to get access to this. You know, get lifetime access. And hey, now I'm buying. I want to learn AI in business. This is cool. I can pay now. I've got that. So I thought it was a pretty decent, you know, a pretty decent way to do this, right? You have them test it, see if they're good, if they're great. That's awesome. Now, one of the things they can.

Do in different backlinks of schools crediting.

You will show do if they were great. We'll go back a Little bit here, see if I can get back to the test result. Yeah, awesome. So I also said, okay, hey, get officially certified, right? So if you did get like a 92, be like, okay, prove this. Put it on your LinkedIn, put, you know, whatever. Use it to get your next job. Get certified. So that was the other pathway to buy. If you're not great, weigh very heavily. That's. That's great advice. I've never heard that specifically, but it makes sense, right? The more credible the institution is that, that here's how you can learn. If you're great, you can get a cert, an official certification from the General AI Proficiency Institute. And that's a new credential, by the way, guys, I've had lots of people come and get their credentials from the General AI Proficiency Institute because I made my business seem legit and big and institute and it's a.org and like everything about it feels official. It feels almost educational. Like a research center or things like that. Right. And so I can then come in here, I can get them to pay $39 for this and that's awesome, right? Take tests. Now, they would have to then purchase it. Perfect. They pay and then it would show up. And I had to test all of this. Right. It took some time. It took me three full days to mix you the further it will go, right? So if you get linked by CNN or Fox News or Fox Business and TechCrunch, Barron's, Wall street, like big names and then make this happen, which was about 35 hours of development with Replit. Right. While doing other things in between. Right. Doing all the marketing stuff and getting all these things and making all that happen. But that was the goal. And then the goal was to say, okay, let's. Let's build an ad because how am I going to get customers in two days or really, really fast? Let's get back to here. X see if I can get back to the actual ads that I used. Campaigns, media. Right? Those are, those are fantastic. Right? Getting that link that goes over. I think it's this one sales test. I think this is the one. So let's. Yeah, let's edit this. Let's look at it. Okay. So I then jumped in here into Ads Manager in Facebook. The website is. Is big time, by the way, guys. How do you think. And this is jumping in and said, okay, let's just create this. Who here has never created an ad in Facebook? Anybody? Looks like everybody here has tried this. Okay, that's good. We don't need to spend A ton of time on it. But I want you guys to understand if you haven't done it for a minute, that ads on Facebook are now using AI in a couple ways, right? One of them is they're using this thing called Advantage plus Targeting. Okay? And the Advantage plus targeting is it will automatically show ads to people most likely to respond. Respond. Okay. You don't even have to target anymore. You just launch the ad and AI will figure it out. Okay. It'll just start head a little bit to the marketing discussion and we'll get there. We're kind of in there, in there a little bit right now, but sending it to a bunch of different places and then it will dig deeper where it's finding results and it will just automatically figure out, how do you think I got a news? How do I. How did I get Channel two to cover my new business? Who is going to respond to this? Okay, super cool. Then you have. Then you have your. Your actual content now here, I don't need to go through all this. You pick your Facebook page, you can do all these goals. You can connect pixels and all this stuff. By the way, guys, if you want to set up your Facebook pixel in replit, just.

Pitch them, hold.

Say, here's my pixel. Will you set this up? And it will be like, yeah, let me install the Facebook pixel package. And then it works. Your pixels all set up perfectly on your site. It's super, super easy. Okay?

Same thing with email.

Cold email. You nailed it. It's exactly right. Like Google Analytics. I added Google Analytics to my to gen AI PI yesterday. I wonder if it is actually collecting data now. No data received yet. Let's refresh this. Yeah, that's weird. That's weird that it's not doing it yet. It's saying active users. No active users. In the last 30 minutes, obviously we've been on the page, we've been doing it. So it's not set up properly. So I need to go work on that.

But.

But know that it's there and it's supposed to be easy. And when I checked the setup, it said that it was okay, but that's okay. So in here, guys, I then took every news, every broadcaster, every article writer, every news. They're looking for stories. They want cool stories. And so if you have a cool story or you can, you can look all of these different ads that I made, right? The ones that I made in Canva, right? All I did was I. I came in here. Let's see if I can just pull up. Yeah, so you've got what is your aiq, right? And yeah, here's a. Here's another one. This was another video I made. This was an ad I made, right? And all of this text came from. Came from here, right? I said, click, please create five options for powerful and clickbaity, but still professional ads for someone to take the AI Mastery Predictor IQ test. That was what I wanted. I want, you know, work with ChatGPT, write your story, make it cool, right? Make your why and everything that you're doing. Like, Laura, you've got your product. It's awesome. It's cool. It helps migraines. How many people have migraines? Hey, I've been working on this. I wanted them to just want to click on it, and I got a lot of clicks on it. All right, we'll talk through how that worked, okay? But then it creates all this stuff. I then took each of these pieces here. I took my. My ads, my images that were, you know, that were created with the help of AI and with. With canva. So, like, this image right here of this black girl at the computer, that was an AI generated image, right? This. This image right here, you can't see very well, was also an AI generated image. It was. It was empty. Let's see if I can find it. Sorry, the zoom stuff keeps getting in my way. And this is in the way, I swear I have it somewhere in here thing, and I've discovered this really, you know, this thing. I've launched this product. It's worked, it's blowing up. I think you guys might like doing a story on it, right? Make it good, right? They even had me playing the piano with my cast on for my surgery a couple weeks ago. Anyway, it was an empty office, right? Like, what if AI takes your job, right? That was the idea, right? That was. That would. That would get me to click on something if I was worried about that. And then a computer, and then I did a nature one, and then I did a couple images that didn't have, you know, you've got a girl here and a guy here, you know, guy working late at night. This girl's, you know, sitting here in the nice, beautiful sun. But I just kind of got a few. A few different images. And then when I actually first set it up, I actually had four videos in there as well, you know, which is kind of fun. But anyway, they just. They're sitting right here, like that one with the girl spinning a couple things. So I gave it all of this ad creative. Then I've got my Primary text, right. And all of these primary text came from here, right? Literally in this room, right? There's they were standing right there looking at my bookshelf with my different, you know, came from each of these. I could grab each of these headlines and then I went to, from the primary text I went to the headline here, copied the next line in each of these and then I came down here and I got the description also all copied from the chat GPT generated content. Okay, so now Facebook will use or meta will use the AI and different, you know, variations. Right. But I've added five descriptions, five headlines, awards about my last business. So I got five primary texts and then six images. So five times, five times five is 120. Five times six is 700 teen signups for this course with this, with this news thing that's $15,000 and 50. So there's 750 combinations here of image or video. When I did it was video but image plus the three different elements of that text that can be pushed out. And so you can see all of these different variations where they're going to show up on reels and all the different pictures and images and what it could look like. Instagram profile feed, all that different stuff. So it'll just go out and create all of these different variations, see what works best and hopefully drive people to your site. Okay, so I then launched this and I, and, and I think I got two businesses that totaled probably put a hundred dollars a day budget behind it when I launched it Sunday morning at 3:30am, super late Saturday and it'll be probably $25,000, 10,000, 15,000. So cold email, right? Is when I finished it, I just click go and I'm like, I'll come back and check this in in a day, right? I'll just rest all Sunday and go to church and just kind of let my brain, you know, decompress because I had spent 35 hours in rep with doing this hardcore like, hey, I'm going to launch this and a weekend. And I did it. And when I woke up Monday morning, got came in to check it and I had 140 clicks on it, right? I had 140 people that had clicked on it and gone to the site. And I was like, oh sweet, I probably have some sales. And so I go into my stripe and I look at it and I'm like, no sales, what the heck? Now give them an idea for a story. And I generate $40,000, right? Nothing. No one had purchased 140. People went, nobody bought it and 140 people landing on it. I should have had at least, you know, sign. You gotta have a product, you gotta have something that works. And I got to that, right? And I proved it first. I didn't go there, somebody do it. And so I clicked through and I was like, I wonder if something's broken on the site. So I went through and I got to the checkout and it failed. The checkout wasn't loading properly. Somehow. Something like I had tested it before. I knew it worked like I had. I had processed my own credit card and made it work all the way through. But something had gotten changed, you know, in that last deployment that I just didn't. I didn't go back and check. It was really late. I was tired. I was like, all right, I think it's good, let's go, let's launch it. First. I launched, I got a bunch of business really quick. And so Anyway, I sent 140 people if anybody wanted to buy it, because I figured out how to make that happen. And we'll talk about that. But then they ran into a bigger than a paper cut. They ran into a deep wound that killed the sale and they had to go on and, you know, and I might never get those hundred and forty people back, right? Because, you know, hey, the website didn't work. It must not be real, right? It looks like this must be a scam or whatever it is, right? Everyone's looking for a scam. Everyone, their default everything is, this is a scam and you have to convince them otherwise all the way through. But that was the process, right? So then Tuesday morning, I woke up Monday, I had a bunch of stuff to do. So like, okay, I'm just going to. Then I said, hey, let's, let's start boosting this. Let's start talking to it. And now I have a backlink from kutv to gen.org pause the ad and I'll fix this. And I spent about an hour working on it. And I had a bunch of meetings that day. And because they not only do the broadcast, they always do if you go like, kutv, Jenny API. Tuesday morning I woke up and I was like, okay, I'm a salesperson. I'm good at this. I know. I know how to make this happen. And so I jumped on LinkedIn and just messaged a few people that I kind of knew. I didn't know them super well, but a couple people that I did know well. The people that I didn't know well responded more than those that I do Know well, so I don't know what that says about me but, but anyway, I found a couple people and one person said hey, this sounds cool. Can I, can I jump on. And I was basically saying hey, I want, boom. Now I've got an article on me, right? I want to help, you know, assess and train your company with AI and, and someone was like hey, from a legitimate news agency. That's pretty cool. So anyway, that's cool. Let's jump on a call. And we talked about it and I gave him some examples what we could do and he's like yeah, let's do it. Great. How much does it cost? This is how much it is. $15,000 for how many employees you have. And he's like that sounds, that sounds like we can do it. Let's, let's make it happen, right? And boom. I had at least a verbal contract to get going there. And then when we pushed forward, we made it happen. And I was like that was pretty easy. Like that was a 1 pitch, $15,000 contract. Good stuff there. You can pay for PR and pay for ads. Like that's pretty good. I'm going to do this again. And so I tried a couple more times but I always say like paid advertisement, earned media is way more powerful. Got another contract, couple more times, got another contract. And I realized pretty quickly that the sale was actually probably much better from a business perspective. Right. And at this time, by the way, I did not have this how to build a business in three the course that you're on that did not exist. That was not part of my original business plan at all. That I, I don't even know if it's part of my long term business plan to be, to, to be real, right? I don't have time to just teach every day, all day like I'm. If you can convince them, hey, I'm a story worth talking about. And I, here was my story, right? AI helped them build a swimming right now with you guys, I'm not surfing. I can't scale this in the way that I want to. I, you know I could, I could automate it by just pre recording it and then having a cheaper course maybe and, and having it available there. But having this one on one feedback is, you know, or one six figure business in a few days. That's a real story, right? Anyway, to 6 feedback I guess in this case is, is hard for me to do long term. I do enjoy it. I do enjoy it, don't get me wrong. But, but it's not scalable. Right. It's. If there's a limit to what I can do, if I want this to become a 10 million or a 50 million dollar business, I'm gonna have to do it other ways. And I've thought through all of those things with lots of really smart people and, and they're pretty cool. Okay. Of course my AI partners who've talked through a lot of it. Right. So, so anyway guys, I, I figured out through a little bit of trial and error but in five days, Thursday morning I start that by Tuesday. I figured, yeah, really, really fun, really fun stuff there. Okay. So I doubt. Okay, this is a B2B product. People like this, this is not something I need to run ads for on Facebook and try them to take the AIQ test. Like it's there. It's cool, it's a good, it's a great landing page. I'm going to keep that going, but I'm going to call businesses and I'm going to close them. Right. And that's what's, that's where I've gotten most of my money from this, from this business. So I just figured that out. I figured out that hey businesses, you can, you know, if you have a business that has 150 employees and you can. I built out all of, all of this stuff here and then my, my idea originally guys improve their output by 10%, 30%, 50% was to, to build out this AI 100% by teaching them how to use AI really efficiently that pays itself back really fast. Right. And I charge 15 grand, 30 grand. I have, I have one company that's that my biggest proposal that I have right now is looking at 75 grand. And I'm hoping to hear back from them today. I had a meeting with their whole leadership team yesterday and I'm like, okay, this is great. We'll get back to you. Let's, let's keep keep moving this forward. So I think, I think I'm going to get that. And that's awesome, right? 75 grand for a company. That company has 275 employees and for me to be able to train them like that, that's amazing. I'm making an annual SKU test. People would then land on the site and I had to figure out how are they, you know, how am I going to get them to buy? Right. Let's click sign out here. So we're signed out on this browser too, Valerie, in one deal, right. That will take me about three days to deliver on. You know, that's, that's pretty Cool. So let's pause. I just went over, I went over how to create, you know, some of those marketing ideas and messaging and posts and things like that, how we created the images. You guys saw that yesterday. Yesterday. You know, I didn't do anything fancy. I just used, you know, I used, you know, meta. And so I kind of land them here on this proficiency test, the IQ test, right. So take the free ads manager, whatever to do this. But I had AI help me through the process, right. And yeah, set up all the ads, all AI mastery predictor tests. Let's see how smart you are. Right. So they click on that, create all the images, put it all together using just basic tools like Canva. I used Overall probably about 20 different platforms when setting up the business. Not all of them are AI. About half of them are AI and the rest were just things that you want to use. But I did it in an AI assisted way. Right. I had AI tell me what to do and how to use it better. So any questions about how I did all of that stuff? It's all pretty, pretty straightforward. But any questions about the process or what worked or what didn't work or what I've done since then?

Quick question to your knowledge, because that's a pain point. So you're. Oh, we've talked about social history, right.

And they click. Start the tests and then they click through. They go through all the questions creating.

A social history to give you more validity of your industry and your ends.

I'm gonna, I'm just gonna click through this really fast because it doesn't take very long expertise.

So I still pay a social media manager to kind of manage all that. You still had to manually input all of those ads. Yes, you're using AI, but is that something that, like looking at Mantis or looking at rep, that those are going to start that Facebook or long and.

Has anybody here ever taken that?

I will start to integrate where you can just plug in the idea, an.

IQ test online if.

And it's going to start to generate for you because there are still a ton of little individual steps.

Yeah, there are. Yeah. Everything I did there, there was definitely some manual stuff. Right. I'm using AI to automate and accelerate where I can, but then having to manually input it. Now we're going to talk about in a second. The next thing we'll dive into here is how would we automate at least the social creation, the post, the creation of the post and then the posting of the posts. Can't automate at this point. The ads Manager piece. Right. I can't automatically launch an ad. Right. But I can now. I can another way. What's another way to surf besides paying a person? You take a test online. I've done it many times because I don't know, I just like that kind of stuff. They always get you to the very end, and then they say, great, good job, in order to see your score. Software that does it.

Freelance employees.

Yeah. Virtual assistants.

Yeah. You can surf on people too, right. You can just pay them to do it and then you don't have to worry about that. That's off your plate. So sometimes that's what you got to do. Yeah. VA or something like that out of the Philippines or whatever. It's amazing how good they are and how cheap they are. One of my best employees ever. $3 an hour out of, like, Thailand. She would. It's $3, you know, or they'll make you. They'll have you pay some little amount. And I was like, I don't want to do that. I don't want to because I hate that. But I did say, okay. It was awesome. She was so good. And I actually have a second. A second person out of Thailand that I work. I don't use that other one anymore because we. That was my. That was seek. Back in like 2017 or so, we were paying her three bucks an hour, and she was out doing like a bunch of our employees that were. That were getting paid 15, 20 bucks an hour type things. We're paying her three. So, yeah. And she was pumped about it. She was so excited for the work. Right. Like, these people really are excited, you know, the Philippines. If you look at how much they make out there, if you pay them 10 an hour, they are well taken care of. They are well fed. They are paying for their living. Hey, your AI Mastery predictor results, right? Create an account to see your score. You know, everything that they need in their family. So it's really, really cool. It's really, really great way to. To help other people out there and get amazing value over here. Global economy is awesome. But. But yeah, cool. Free account. No big deal. I could even probably add the word free, right? I. To automate all of that stuff is. Is not very difficult. There. There are some services out there. Anybody heard of Buffer or hootsuite? There's other ones out there like that. But. But those things have APIs, right? So who. Let's.

Here's.

Here's quiz time, right? Somebody create a free account to see your score. I could just change that and I might even get, you know, I might even improve my. Somebody kind of build it out loud, if you can. Right. Architect it out loud using repli. My conversion a little bit more. So if you enter this, you enter this, you enter this and then it will email you and probably some AIs to create something for your business that will automatically post to you. You have to set it up. Take you a few hours to set it all up. But what's the architecture? Who thinks they can do that?

So you, you would request it. So you look at what. What's social media pages you want to use, which there's kind of seven dominant ones. LinkedIn, Facebook, so on and so forth. Instagram. So some will kind of duplicate Instagram, Facebook. You brought that up. So you would state your score.

Okay. And. And then, and then actually when. If you put in. If you create a new user, we'll just do this.

I need.

Just really quick. We'll just say John Cheney 2, 4, 5 and we'll make up a fake.

Well, so that's an E. That's the thing I'm looking more at operator. Right. Chat GPT operator because it can actually click where replit is more your outside forces are putting input. So I. That I'm at a loss. But you would request, you know, email.

And we'll put in a password here. I don't even know what five posts.

Per week on these seven platforms focusing.

On the password that is just like this. Password, password, create, account and continue five categories of.

If it's like my product, like health, food, exercise, recovery, you know, and give those topic out and then let it go.

So you're just saying have operator that can type and click and point to. Basically just build things for you and set it all up for you. Boom. Hey, there's my score. All right. You suck. You need to do a bunch of stuff, right. Obviously, just click through it. So I got a bad score, but that's how it works. Now all of a sudden, hey, what's your next step? Improve your skills. By the way, that email address, which was fake, we'll get an email and explore courses, get certified. Yeah, that is, I think, a real way to do it. There's probably a few right answers here, guys. Okay, so great. Oz, anybody else. Can anybody else think of a way that could automate it even further? Right.

Does Hootsuite have or Buffer. Do they have APIs you can plug into?

Yes.

So you could probably build. I mean, you'll use OpenAI to.

Or go to Dashboard. Right. Over 10,000 professionals have improved their careers with our courses and brainstorm ideas and.

Images and you can just, you can have it upload to whatever your tool is. Then it could push those out to the automated posting platforms and they would post it across all your social media platforms.

Yeah. That's fantastic. Right? So Replit, or your app, your website knows everything about what you do. It has your blog posts, it has your readme, it has all. You know, in the case of my genaipi, I have all these courses with tons of content, right. I have thousands of ideas of posts and things that it could talk about. Right? And quite frankly, it's AI. It knows, it knows everything. Right? So, yeah, set up a system and certifications. That was something that Replit wrote that I haven't gone through and cleaned up. That's obviously not a true statement. So I need to go through and fix that. But, but create an admin tool, right? Like we were talking about yesterday, Shane, right? Create an admin tool. That's your social media scheduler. And so what it would do is that social media scheduler would, would call OpenAI, the OpenAI API and it would say, hey, I need some posts. Great. Hey, let's get all those posts and then let's send them over to like a Google Drive, you know, here, here, you know, you're, you have foundational knowledge but would benefit from structured learning. Replit helped me set up all this, wrote all of this stuff, okay. Wrote the test, wrote the tests, wrote all of these different things for a Google Sheet or something like that. Okay. And then maybe I need some images as well, right? And so I have OpenAI send the request to Mid Journey API to say, hey, create an image that's like this, right? And it sends a perfectly prompted, crafted whatever thing over there and it sends it up and now you've got an image. And that image then gets sent over to that Google Sheet or that Google Drive. Okay. And then you have Buffer or something pulling from Google Drive. I'll show you what this looks like. Okay. Buffer doesn't actually have an API. Well, they do Buffer API if you click on this right here. But now I can then click here and go, you know, courses, obviously I can do that above here. And then, hey, I want to get access to this, you know, get lifetime access. And hey, now I'm buying. I want to learn AI. And they have one. But for the last six years, they don't support the registration of new developer applications. Okay, so we got to use something else that you guys are probably familiar with. Zapier right? Zapier can automate things. Zapier is incredible. So you click on Explore Apps, you search for Buffer, and hey, we're lucky. This is one of the one business. This is cool. I can pay now. I've got that. So I thought it was a pretty decent, you know, a pretty decent way that works. Then you come down here and you say, okay, let's do Google Drive, right? So I want to now have to do this, right? You have them test it, see if they're good, if they're great, that's awesome. Now, one of the things they can, when something happens in Google Drive, automatically do this, right? So you could then teach your replit social media manager builder automated poster to say, okay, I'm going to. You have a little setup. Say, okay, I want to set up posts for the next year, right? And you could, you could give it a theme for every day. You know, you were talking about that Oz, right? You could say, okay, for my Forge API, for AI Focus, we'll say, let's do, you know, Throwback Thursday. Remember when you had to do something like this? Now you can do this with AI, right? And so on Mondays, this is the new thing. Hey, this is the news that happened over the weekend. So that's our news day. And then Tuesday is, hey, did you know you could do this? Hey, Wednesday, did you, you know, hey, let's actually throw you. If they were great, we'll go back a little bit here, see if I can get back to the test result. Yeah, awesome. So I also said, okay, hey, get officially certified, right? So if you did get like a sales pitch out there, hey, come in, come in. You know, join our courses or join this or, hey, is your company struggling? Let me help you, right? Let us help you. Whatever it is, have it automatically build all that content for you. So it builds the content, sends it to a Google Drive, and then labels it, right? Labels it, you know, May 22, 2025. May 23, 2025. May 24, 2025, right? So you have it build out all these different things. And you probably wouldn't tell it to do it a year out because that's kind of, that's ridiculous. And the news hasn't come out. You would probably have to do it one week at a time maybe, right? But say, hey, Monday morning, I need you to wake up and I need you to check the. I need you to check the 92. Be like, okay, prove this. Put it on your LinkedIn. Put, you know, whatever. Use it to get your next Job, get certified. So that was the other pathway to buy if you're not great Internet. What's the most interesting thing in AI out there? Create a post about it, send it over to Buffer and have it automatically post for you. So Buffer, guys, for those of you that don't know or have never used it before, Buffer is it basically connects all of these. And I don't have my buffer set up right now, but I have used it in the past. But Buffer will automatically post to all of these different platforms for you. Automatically, right? You just, I have to refresh the connection. But you click new post, new post here and then you say, okay, I want it to go to all of these platforms, right? And, and then I say, you know, even you've even has the AI assistant to write it for you, right? But, but again, you're going to have all of this stuff automatically post for you. And then you customize for the network and you post it out so you can schedule all of this. Here's how you can learn. If you're great, you can get a certain official certification from the General AI Proficiency Institute. And that's a new credential. By the way, guys, I've had lots of people come and get their credentials from the General AI stuff out. You can, you can sit down, you know, Sunday night and put together a bunch of things and just have it, have it do all of your social posting for you automatically. I don't do this. I post manually, which is kind of crazy considering how much I post. I probably could improve that, but. But that's just what I do. It's just what I do. But setting this up for your own business Proficiency Institute because I made my business seem legit and big and Institute and it's a.org and like everything about it feels official. It feels would be, would be incredible and being able to automate the production of the content, having it sync it together with. With Mid Journey. And the thing is guys, all you have to be able to do is articulate what you want it to do. Hey, I want this system to automatically do this and to do this and do this. What do you think's the best way to do that? Repl it, right? Hey, I think we should do this, this and this. This is how we'll, we'll sync the images together, we'll grab this, we'll grab this and then we'll, we'll send over, you know, these folders of. To Google Drive of this and then we'll have that, you know, the Buffer API Will pull that in and you just have to kind of think through it and talk through it and troubleshoot it a bit until you're like, yeah, I like the flow. It works. Now then you have your own almost educational like a research center or things like that. Right. And so little social media automation system that can automatically post for you three times a day, seven times a day. So anyway, any questions on how that would. How we. How you would put that together? Does that make sense? Do you feel like you could sit down and do that over, you know, maybe five hours? Right. Just figuring it out, pushing through it.

John, quick question.

I can then come in here. I can get them to pay 39 for this. And that's awesome.

And maybe the more I'm going through this, realizing that asking the AI a lot of these questions is going to be helpful. But have you ever had built something in replit or know if it would be simple enough that the actual application you build in REPL it you could then use in a Zapier or a make.com right.

Take test now they would have to then purchase it. Perfect. They pay and then it would show up. And I had to test all of this. Right. Took. It took some time. It took me three full days to.

Have that functionality to hook it up that way to other programs.

Absolutely. You could do that. You can say, hey, I want to set this up so it. So it has a zapier connect. I want to. I want to zap. I want to build a zapier for this. And I'll say, okay, great, let's build an API. You can build an API into your own application. It's actually super, super easy. Like, that's a very easy lift for replit. It'll take it. It'll probably get it right in the first shot. Right. You might have to adjust it a little bit, but it's a very easy thing to do. Hey, we need to take this data. It needs to be available to be accessed at this endpoint. Right. And it will know. It will do that. Right? It will know exactly what. What to do or how to connect.

To that, I guess then even taking it one step further, make this happen.

Which was about 35 hours of development with Replit. Right. While doing other things in between. Right. Doing all the marketing stuff and getting all these things and making all that happen. But that was the goal. And then I'll just throw out an.

Example like Go High Level is a very popular program that a lot of agencies and sales tools use. If I build something cool in replit say, hey, could you make this so that it would. That users could then integrate it into whatever software. I guess Replit could also make its own.

The goal was to say, okay, let's build an ad, because how am I going to get customers in, you know, in two days or really, really fast?

Let's get back to program then being able to integrate with Salesforce or whatever. I'm just trying to think of ways to make these software is even more appealing to users.

Like, oh, I'm.

I like this because it can integrate with these other platforms I'm already using.

Yeah, I mean, you're saying all the right things already, right? It's. It's all about. It's all about knowing that you want to connect it to another platform to achieve some outcome. Right. If you can articulate that, the AI can tell you how to do it and then do it for you. Right.

Very cool.

And some of these things, right, you might. Maybe you're going to have that discussion first with. With ChatGPT, but sometimes I like to actually have these discussions with replit because replit will do it in the context of my entire project and what I'm doing. Right. Whereas ChatGPT might not understand the full capabilities of what Replit can do, you know, because Replit's so new and, you know, ChatGPT's knowledge is maybe a tiny here X. See if I can get back to the actual ad. Outdated. Right. So you have to really, like, dig deep on that. So I really like having conversations with replies that I used. Campaigns. Hey, don't write any code. Just tell me. I want to talk through this. Right? Don't write any code. Just tell me. Let's talk through how we would put this together. Oh, I would do this, this, this, and this. And you know, are the. Do you. Are there any limitations or do you think this is a good plan? Right. Don't run any code. Just tell me. Yeah, I think it's a good plan. Let's do this. Okay, great. Go. Right. So yeah, you. You can connect anything to anything. And this is, again, where you create a lot of value, guys, is when you start taking. When you put together a unique combination of different services and things that are out there to achieve an outcome faster, better, stronger, cheaper, whatever than. Than other things that are. I think it's this one sales test. I think this is the one. So let's. Yeah, let's edit this. Let's look at it. Okay. So I then jumped in here into Ads Manager and Facebook are already available on the Market. So building an automated tool to help you, you know, that uses AI to automatically post for your business. That's a business you could create, right? Jump into replit and build that business. Just build this amazing thing and then say, all right, here's all the source information. So this is the business, this is the website. Here's I'm said, okay, let's just create this. Who here has never created an ad in Facebook? Anybody? A bunch of documents, right? Did we create a custom GPT yesterday? Okay, we're going to do that today. Right now we're going to talk about how to prompt that and then how to actually build your own custom AI integration in replit. Right? Which is really, really cool. So let's. Looks like everybody here has tried this. Okay, that's good. We don't need to spend a ton of time do that right now, man. We only have an hour left. Time is light. We're almost done here. So, okay, let's share and let's build a custom GPT. This is super easy, guys. You're gonna be like, oh, my gosh, this is the easiest thing I've ever done. So you guys all have access to chat GPT, which is great. Over here in ChatGPT, you've got all these kind of fun things. Over here you've got Explore GPTs. You can click this button right here and in here. I'm on it. But I want you guys to understand, if you haven't done it for a minute, that ads on Facebook are now using AI in a couple ways. Right? One of them is they're using this thing you have, you know, writing and productivity and research and analysis, all these different things. And there's lots of different tools that people have built. By the way, all of these tools in here are free. They're completely free. And so you can go in and, you know, you want something that's specifically focused on doing whatever it will, you know, it'll be specially tuned to that. Then you can create your own. Creating the GPT takes about five minutes, if that. Okay. First you're going to name your GPT. Maybe I want someone to help me come up with, you know, music, let's say a song songwriter called Advantage plus Targeting. Okay. And the Advantage plus Targeting songwriter, let's call it Songwriter, Songwriter Assistant, is it will automatically show ads to people most likely to respond. Okay, and this. Okay, you help people write songs. Okay, then. Or. Yeah, description. I help people write songs. That's actually. You want to. You're talking to your customer. Then the Instructions. You, you can, you don't even have to target anymore. You just launch the ad and AI will figure it out. Okay? It'll just start sending it to a bunch of different places and then it will dig deeper where it's finding results and it will just automatically figure out. This is what's called the prompt, right? This is your prompt. Now this prompt, guys, could be 16 pages long. You could make a really in depth prompt. Here's what you can do. Here's the type of resources that you have, here's how you act, here's how you're going to behave, here's what you're going to do. You're going to talk to people. Here's what I don't want you to do, right? The prompts are really, really cool and really important. But, but here you'll say, you know, help. Help the, yeah, help the user come up with new song ideas, new lyrics or you know, help. Yeah, help them develop their lyrics, help them figure out chord structure. Who is going to respond to this. Okay, super cool, sure. Help them, you know, build songs that will, then you have, then you have your, your actual content. Now I'll be successful on the radio. Nobody listens to the radio anymore. But anyway, bottom line is you can tell it whatever you want and you could then go where I would actually develop this prompt is in chat GPT for sure. I'm going to go in there and I'm going to really dive in and be like, hey, help me build a. I'm building a custom GPT. This is, it's a songwriter. Help me, help me create an amazing and amazing here. I don't need to go through all this. You pick your Facebook page, you can do all these goals. You can connect pixels and all this stuff. By the way, guys, if you want to set up your Facebook pixel in replit, just in prompt for that, right? And then, okay, I want to write a song. I need a new idea for a song. Help me improve my lyrics, you know, write a song for me. Okay, whatever. Then knowledge. I could give it a bunch of knowledge, right? I could say, hey, you know what, I want you to, I want you to, you know, reference, you know, all of these lyrics and all of these things. And here's my strategy for writing music and all this stuff. Maybe you know, for some reason, theoretically you're writing this songwriter assistant because you have some domain knowledge that you want to be able to power through a GPT. You can make these GPTs for yourself or you can make them for the public Right. And so maybe you just won't say, here's my pixel. Will you set this up? And it will be like, yeah, let me install the Facebook pixel package. Want something that will help you internally? I'll show you a few tools that I've made that help me internally that I have not made. The networks, your pixels all set up perfectly on your site. It's super, super easy. Okay, same thing with public, but. But you upload a bunch of files, right? You just click upload and you upload, you know, PDFs or docs or images or whatever the heck you want. And it will then be able to reference all of that stuff in there. That's its knowledge base, right? So if you're building something for your company, you know, maybe you have a bunch of SOPs or your sales strategy or your pricing or, you know, whatever it is, right? And then all of a sudden you've got this assistant that knows everything about Google Analytics. I added Google Analytics to my to Gen A PI yesterday. I want your business super cool. You can then give it capabilities simply by checking the boxes. If it is actually collecting data now. No data received yet. Let's refresh that. You want it to be able to search the web? Sure. Do you want it to be able to do the Canvas tool, right where it pulls up and create documents? Do you want it to be able to do image generation? Do you want it to do code interpreter and data analysis? Right. Allow GPT to run this code. Right. So anyway, you can give it this capability to say, you know what, it doesn't need to be able to create images. Or maybe you do want it to, you know this, but the songwriter to be able to make a, to make an album cover for you or something, right? And then you can do great new actions and we won't dive into that right now. But you can, you know, you can do all kinds of fun things, right? Authentication schema, privacy policy. You can do some other things, things like that if you want. Okay. Then you add an image, you can upload a photo or you can just say this. Yeah, that's weird. That's weird that it's not. Use dolly, which is GPT's. That's the name of GPT ChatGPT's image generator. So it'll do random image. Yeah, go ahead.

Cool question. There other actions. Is that authentication so you could have like a login for your customer GPT. Is that right?

Doing it yet? It's saying active users. No active users in the last 30 minutes. Obviously we've been on the page, we've been doing it. So potentially, is that what you're saying? Potentially, yeah. So setting up this, it's an API key or an OAuth, right? So it's more like logging in with Google or something like that. But this is how you could connect maybe this to something you're doing inside of replit, right? Is you could create an API key and you can have Replit create its own API key. It's not set up properly, so I need to go work on that.

But.

But know that it's there and it's supposed to be easy. Your API that you make with replit, right? When you build that API to be able to see. And when I checked the setup, it said that it was okay, but that's okay. So in here, guys, I then took connect to other things and then, you know, again, you're going to all of these things, hey, what do I put here? What do I do here? Right? Just talk to your GPT about it. Talk to your AI about how to do that. But anyway, it created this fun little, you know, microphone, whatever. Cool. I've now created an assistant. So I'll just say anyone or only me, Anyone with the link GPT store, I can make it public, right? So maybe, Laura, you could create a public GPT, one that just knows about migraines and has a bunch of your, you know, information. Right? And that. And that knows that, hey, this, this pillow is one of the best things that does this. You could tell it, hey, subtly suggest to people to buy this. You know, all of these different ads that I made, right? The ones that I made in Canva, right. All I did was I. I came in as they do that. And you could do that and then you put it in the GPT store and people might find it when they're looking for something related to migraines in here. Let's see if I can just pull up. Yeah. So you've got what is your aiq, right? Awesome. Cool idea. Free, by the way. Free to do that. Okay, I'll click save. And now I can play with my songwriter assistant. Okay, so let's view it. Here it is. Hey, I need a new idea for a song. Sure. Here are a few fresh concept ideas. Let me know what you think. And yeah, here's the echoes in the rear view. How did it know I was writing about echoes? That's kind of funny. Anyway, these might be good, they might be bad, whatever. These outputs will be better if you give it a better prompt, right? You could Say, don't be cheesy. Here's another one. This was another video I made. This was an ad I made, right? And all of this tech be awesome, right? Like Bob Dylan, whatever. I mean, you can give it whatever instructions you want, and then it will. It will build those. Those things out for you. And I can just keep talking to it. Now I built my own custom thing. I could have also given it a name. I didn't give it a name. Right. I built a couple other ones over here. Lucy. I think Lucy helps you get dates. Yeah, there you go. How do I ask a girl out? Right? And anyway, so I just created. Next. Came from. Came from here, right? I said, quick, please create. I said, make it fun. Be peppy, whatever. And actually, I think I told Lucy to give bad advice. That was my. That was my goal, right? Yeah. Anyway, so. And it's five options for powerful and clickbaity, but still professional and a little bit wordy here. You could say, you know, be succinct, don't talk so much, make it funny. Whatever. You can do whatever. If you want to talk to Jack, you can ask about movies, right? What's the best movie out right now? What's the best TV show of all time? Oh, yeah, this is going to start fights for sure. So, Brandon, Breaking Bad's a good one. It's for someone to take the AI Mastery Predictor IQ test. That was what I wanted. I want. I've never watched the Sopranos. I've heard it's good. Obviously, the friends on Office are amazing. Never seen the Wire either. I wanted them to just want to click on it, and I got a lot of clicks on it. All right, we'll talk through how that worked. Okay? But then. And I've never watched Game of Thrones. I mean, I love TV shows, guys. I could talk about that for a long time, okay? But here's some real ways I've used it, okay? I had it create. I have John Cheney's writing style. So how did I set this up? I said, hey, this is supposed to write like John Cheney does, okay? And I uploaded a bunch of different articles. I've written and downloaded thousands of posts from my social media, threw it all into a document, and I just requested that from LinkedIn, right? But I posted on LinkedIn every day for almost a decade. They have thousands and thousands of things that I posted about. It knows what I like to talk about. It knows what I think, what I believe. It creates all this stuff. I then took each of these pieces here. I took My. My ads, my images that were, you know, that were created with the help of about all kinds of different things. And so I can then say, all right, write a LinkedIn post for today that's relevant to current events. Awesome. By the way, I never use this. I probably should, but I just don't. I just. I kind of like writing. And so when I. When I post on LinkedIn, it's just. I have like a backlog of things. I have. I have articles and stuff. Whoa. What an AI. And with. With canva. So like this image right here of this black girl at the Earth is wrong with my face here. It looks like it's a weird, like, it's like stretched a little bit or something. Anyway, hey, it found my profile picture. That's fun. Okay, so computer, that was an AI generated image, right? This. No, that's not what I want. Write a post for me. Like I said. Now it's going to review that again. I've never had it do that. I don't know why it like looked me up. That was weird. Kind of.

I love that you get sassy with your. With your gps.

You what?

I love that you get sassy with the GPTs.

I know. Yeah, for sure. So, yeah. Anyway, we just crossed 6 billion global Internet users. That's pretty cool. What does that mean? If your strategy is this, right? This is. This is something I would probably post, right? This is very on brand for this image right here. You can't see very well. Was also an AI generated image for me. I should do this more. I really should do this more. It was empty and see if I can find it. Sorry. The billion global Internet users. I'm going to do a quick Google. Google search. Six billion Internet users. Is that recent news? Humans on the Internet. Six billion by 2022. No, this was from July 19, 2024. 5.56. Yeah. I don't know where it found zoom. Stuff keeps getting in my way. And this is in the way. I swear I have it somewhere in here. But anyway, it was an empty office, right? Like, what if AI takes your job? Right? That was the idea that in recent news. I'm not seeing any like news about that. That was like, yeah, two weeks ago. 5.3 billion. It's not even real. It's not even 6 billion yet. But anyway, you have to faction, but it will give you ideas. What? Sorry, say that again.

Oh, I just had a question. So why set this up? Why not just go into the regular chat, cheap chat, GPT. What sets these apart from the Regular. Why? Why make a new one? Does that make sense?

Because it has context, right? This knows already. I don't have to upload all of my different styles of how I. Sorry, edit GPT. Why is this not working? Here we go. I've uploaded thousands of different things already here. So it knows what I'm talking about now. Right? That was. That would. That would get me to click on something if I was worried about that. And then a computer. And then I could upload all of these files every single time and say, hey, figure out how John Cheney writes now. Write some more stuff for me. But no, I've created a tool that lives forever and now allows me to do this. So for you, Laura, you could take all of the information, maybe have articles and. And all these things and maybe you have. I did a nature one and I did a couple images that didn't have. You know, you've got a girl here and a guy here. 50 pages of content about why your product is good, why it actually helps. This here are some studies. And here a guy working late at night. This girl's, you know, sitting here in the nice, beautiful sun. But I just kind of got all these things right? And then you can say, hey, you know, maybe that auto scheduler that, you know, Thomas just helped us and Oz just helped us figure out that auto scheduler can reference this database every time it's building new social posts, right? A few. A few different images. And then when I actually first set it up, I actually had four videos in there as well. You know, to go out for your business, right? So why do you set it up like this? So you don't have to set it up like this every time.

But wouldn't chat GPT remember that though. I mean, wasn't that part of the memory?

Now the memory is very, very broad. The memory itself knows. That's a great question, by the way. Right? I. It really is a good question. The memory itself is. Sorry personalization manage memories. It only knows this much. John's personal brand, John Chaney.com will showcase his music writing business and adventure work. It doesn't. It doesn't show. There's nothing more than that, right? Doesn't know what kind of music I've written. Right? Hey, it does. It knows a little bit more here like that one with the girl spinning and a couple things. So I gave it all of this ad creative then, hey, he's building echoes. He's the CEO of Velocity Access, right? Whatever. Right. I've got my primary tech text, right? And all of these primary text came from here, Right? Right. But. But it knows very, very, very, very little. Right? It doesn't have.

It's not taking. Okay, so it's not taking into consideration other past posts or any past questions that you've asked it?

No. Okay. It can. Came from each of these. I could grab each of these headlines and then I. Not. Yeah, I said this in the beginning, but you didn't know a lot in the beginning. And so you might, you might have missed it, right? You were. You're struggling with connection right at the very beginning. But this, this whole, you know, all. A lot of people think that Chat GPT knows everything you've ever talked to it about and it just does not. It does not. It's too much context for it, right? It's too much context. Every time you ask it a question, it reviews everything you've ever went to from the primary text. I went to the headline here, copied the next line in each of these or said, yeah, it can't do that. Right. That's too much context and it's asking it to do too much. And so you create these specific tools to help you do this. Here's another way that I use this. Okay. This is my Velocity Raptor sales guru, right? It's my Velocity Access. This is our, our mascot, the Velocity Raptor. So a sales assistant for crafting professional emails responses. So if I hire a new sales guy, right, I can just say, hey. And then I came down here and I got the description also all copied from, you know, create an email for a sales meeting or whatever. And let's just say, hey, I want to land the Cubby center as a new client. Write an email to help me get a first the chat GPT generated content. Okay? So now meeting set up focus on their needs and how our pricing model will help them. Whatever, right? So now I've got a quick, quick thing here. It knows the knowledge. Hey, here's how you can do it. Boom. We understand you're looking for something more than ticketing. You need true Park Facebook will use or meta will use the AI and different, you know, variations. Right. But I've added five descriptions, five headlines. Audience engagement, operational efficiency, financial stability. That's what we do. Zero financial risk. Low fees for your patrons as low as 4 to 9% compared to the industry average of 32% all in one functionality across ticketing, marketing, reporting, access control and more like, this is. This is our stuff. This is what we do. Fantastic. It's done. Boom. Ship it off. Right? And so I Can use that automatically. Now I've got, you know, inside here, all I have is, you know, a few documents that have. I've got even my Lean Canvas for my thing. Like, hey, this is why we're different. Right? I've got, you know, what is this one? 50 functionalities. What are all the things that it does here? A quick reference guide that talks all about it. Velocity access response. So this is actually interesting. I built or I actually did a big five primary texts and then six images. So five times five times five is 125 times six is 750. So there's 750 combinations here of image RFP that was like, it was like 30 pages long of content that I had to write to respond to their rfp. And it. And it went over everything you can imagine related to our business. And it was like, sweet. That'll just teach the Velocity Raptor everything it needs to know. And it's pricing all of these different things, right? So I have all these different things and I allow it to then figure that out. It has access to the web so it can search and figure out information about, hey, who is the right person to talk to, whatever. Okay, great, write. Write an email that's specifically targeted at her, do a little bit of research and whatever. So I've created or video. When I, when I did, it was video but image plus the three different elements of this tool for my sales team to be able to use. And I can share this one. It is. It isn't that text that can be pushed out. And so you can see all of these different variations where they're going to show up on reels. It isn't on the GPT store, but it is public. So I can copy the link and I can share it. And you guys can then talk to the Velocity Raptor sales guru. Right? So I can share that if I want. I can make it shareable, but not public publicly available to anybody. Okay, so creating these real quick, John.

Those chat or those utilizing the Velocity Raptor sales guru, if you sent that out to a group of people, let's just say everybody that's done this cohort and we're now all asking questions that doesn't ever affect the original base input. It's just an individual chat. Is an individual chat between all the.

Different pictures and images and what it could look like. Instagram profile feed, all that different stuff. So it'll just go out and create all of these different variations, see what works best, and hopefully drive people to.

Me and the Raptor.

Correct. That's exactly right. It doesn't, it won't save, won't learn, it won't do any of those things. It's not going to. It is trained on the hard coded data that I put in there. And that brings up a great question, right? How do you have it? Learn, how do you have it? You know, you know, adapt and get smarter or whatever. Maybe you don't want it to adapt because you don't want it to adapt to all the dumb people talking to it your site. Okay, so I then launched this and I. Right, Maybe you're like, no, I want you to know this data, don't listen to anybody else, right? But you could, you could build a system that actually has what's called, you know, recursive self improvement, right? Which we, which we heard what's his name, Eric schmidt. Talk about CEO of Google, right? The AIs are now put $100 a day budget behind it when I launched it Sunday morning at 3:30am, super late Saturday. Getting smarter. They're getting smarter on their own, right? So this is neat. Now one of the things that it doesn't do well here is it's hard to API into this, into custom GPTs. You can have the GPT itself API into something else, but you can't have your, you can't have like your Replit app that you build with Repl or your app that you build with Replit API into this to be able to reference it. So if you want to build a custom GPT that works inside of your own app, right? Is when I finished it, I just click go and I'm like, I'll come back and check this in a day, right? I'll just rest all Sunday and go to church and just kind of let my brain, you know, decompress because I. How would we do this.

Right?

Let's talk about it.

Add the link.

You could add the link, but let's say you want it to work completely. The problem is in order for someone to use this GPT, they do have to sign up for chat GPT. They have to have access to chat GPT. And so if you just want this, so let's do it. Let's build it right now on my website, okay? Not something I'm going to keep. So I'll just roll it. Spent 35 hours in replit doing this hardcore, like, hey, I'm going to launch this in a weekend and I did it back later. But, but we're going to do this. So let's go to preview it. And I woke up Monday morning, got came in to check it, and I had 100. Please build a chatbot powered by OpenAI that will talk to users about cool places to visit in the world. But this as a floating bubble that only stays on the homepage in the bottom right hand corner. So when you log in, you won't see it anymore. It's only on the landing page. 40 clicks on it, right? I had 140 people that had clicked on it and gone to the site. And I was like, oh, sweet. I probably have some sales. And so I go into my stripe and I look at it and I'm like, no sales. What the heck? Okay, so I'll say that to it in a second. Now it's asking for my OpenAI API key. You guys know how to do that? So it already has mine stored from the secrets because I have it on my account. So I'll just say, yep, use that one. And then I'm going to tell it this. So we make sure we build it correctly. You can tell it in the middle of something, hey, this is. I want you to do this. And it will modify its plan a little bit. Nothing. No one had purchased. 140 people went. Nobody bought it. And 140 people landing on it. I should have had at least, you know, and then change it. Make sure it does that. Okay. So it's only on the landing page right here. That won't appear after users log in. Let's build this travel chatbot step by step. Okay. Create the directory first by adding the file. Let me do that. Somebody do it. And so I clicked through and I was like, I wonder if something's broken on the site. So I went through and I got to the. Can you guys hear that phone ringing? That's good, because I can hear it. We have a. We have like an internal intercom system in our house. You can like ring other people. And I told the kids to not do it. The kids are all staying home today because it's the second to last day of school. And the teachers were like, we're not really doing anything if you want to stay home. The kids are like, yep, let's stay home. All right, so, all right, now it's going to implement the server side, install the OpenAI package, grab the secret, created the directory, the services directory structure, OpenAI service file. I'll continue with building the travel information chatbot that will appear as a floating bubble. Update the routes checkout. And it failed. The checkout wasn't loading properly. Somehow Something like, I had tested it before. I knew it worked like I had. I had processed my own credit card and made it. This shouldn't take longer than another two minutes or so. But guys, one of the things that it's going to do, or I mean, look, this is. We'll. We'll get ahead of ourselves just a little bit here, but it is going to do the exact same thing as this. This is how you. Is how you build a custom AI. You're going to have. You can have a name if you need to, right? But you're going to have a description work all the way through. But something had gotten changed in, you know, in that last deployment that I. You're going to have instructions. You're going to build a. A prompt. It didn't. I didn't go back and check. It was really late. I was tired. I was like, all right, I think it's good. Let's go. Let's launch it, right? You're going to give it a prompt that instructs the AI how to act and what to talk about. Okay. You can have conversations, all those things. But the two really important things that you need here are one, the instructions and two, the knowledge base. Right? It can refer to the whole world. Knowledge base, right, but you want to limit it to say, hey, I want you to focus on this, right? Prioritize the information that we know about, you know, places to travel and all that type of stuff, right? So now it's creating the actual chat bubble component for the landing page, and it's ready to go. Prompts, guys. Being good at writing good prompts is how you use AI efficiently. And by the way. And so anyway, I, I sent 140 people if anybody wanted to buy it. AI can help you write good prompts. Hey, help me write a good prompt for this question. Like maybe you have a question, right? Here's. They ran into a. An bigger than a paper cut. They ran into a deep wound that, that killed the. Killed the same. What I want to do is here's what I want to talk about. Can you help me write a good prompt that I can use to ask AI to do this? Right? Even to ask you about this? Right? That prompt can, can change a lot of things to get exactly the right type of output you're looking for. Okay? So now it's adding it. It's going to refresh it so we can sail. And they, they had to go on and, you know, and I might never get those 100. See it. It's broken something that's fine. It's like you're running in a browser like environment. Okay, well, that's kind of weird. We don't want to expose API to people back, right? Because, you know, hey, the website didn't work. It must not be real, right? That keys in the browser. That's correct. Okay, properly hand is handle this through the server side only. I don't know why it would even consider doing that another way, but I'm glad that OpenAI figured that out. So now we've got a little chat bubble right there. You saw that or at least you saw it there before it disappeared. Okay, so now let's talk to it. I bet it's. I bet it's close. Properly influence surf set handling to void exposing API keys. Browser will continue fixing this. I feel like it already did that. We can click on it. There we go. Travel assistant ready to go. I'm your echoes. Travel assistant. This looks like this must be a scam or whatever it is, right? Everyone's looking for a scam. Everyone. Their default everything is this is a scam and you have to convince them otherwise all the way through. Okay, but that. Okay, this should be working now. Why are you still doing stuff? Still working on the travel bot? Whatever. Let's ask it. Where should I go? That was the process, right? So then Tuesday morning I woke up. Monday I had a bunch of stuff to do. So like, okay, I'm just gonna. Oh, it was just about to tell me where I should go. That's okay. Okay, pause the ad and I'll fix this. And I spent about an hour working on it and I had a bunch of meetings that day and it's working. All right, where should I go? What would you like to know about? So now I'm actually using the OpenAI integration and it's saying, okay, here we go. If you're seeking inspiration for your next adventure, go to Kyoto Cities beautifully Blends. Whatever. Fantastic. Okay, tell me about the sun. The sun is certainly a fascinating subject. If you're interested in experiencing places where the sun creates magical effects, consider visiting troms in Norway. Answer this question. 59 now 29 x + 37 Tuesday morning I woke up and I was like, okay, I'm a salesperson. I'm good at this. I know. I know how to make this happen. And so I jumped on. I jumped on LinkedIn and just messaged him. Minus 5 times 76 equals 15. Solve for X. I can help you explore travel destinations instead. So this is a few people that I kind of knew. I didn't know them super well. But you know, it's critical. What I'm doing guys is I'm testing it because sometimes if you don't put the right protections in your prompt, people can land on your AI chatbot and just use it as a homework helper of people that I did know well. The people that I didn't know well responded more than those that. Right. Or whatever they want to research. Right. Tell me about why I have bunions. Why do I have this Right. They'll just start asking it questions and using your AI credits for something totally unrelated to your business. So you have to check that. You have to make sure it does that. Okay. Where can I see the prompt for this AI integration? In the files here. So anyway, it works now. We created, we created Chat GPT. Good job team. We did it Just, just, just to.

Be clear on this. So you didn't, you didn't tie this.

To they do know well. So I don't know what that says about me, but, but anyway, I found a couple people and one person said hey, this sounds cool. Can I, can I jump on. And I was basically saying, hey, I.

Want custom GPT and OpenAI. You just prompted Replit to do it and Replit built a prompt saying, hey, we want to do one that's just focused on travel, so we'll eliminate anything else. Is that correct?

Exactly. So this is the prompt that it made without any help. Okay. Role system. You are a helpful travel assistant for Echo. As a cinematic. I want to help, you know, assess and train your company with AI and someone's like, hey, map based storytelling platform. Your specialty is recommending great travel destinations around the world with a focus on memorable experiences. Keep responses friendly, concise and inspiring. Focusing on authentic local experiences. Share specific travel destinations, local tips, hidden gems and cultural insights. Cool. Let's jump on a call. And we talked about it and I gave him some examples what we could do and he's like yeah, let's do it. Great. Can you like how much does it cost if asked about non travel topics, politely redirect to travel related discussions. Responses should be under 250 words to fit the chat bubble interface. Boom. So that's the prompt. Now we can work on this prompt and change it. And how would I do that? I would just tell it, hey, let's improve the prompt by doing this. And I want the, you know, I don't love the formatting that it's kind of too long. Make the responses, you know, use bullet points and make it easier to read Shorter. Whatever. Tell it whatever the heck you want, and it will then change the prompt for you. Then if you had certain specific things related to your business, Laura, we'll go back to you. Maybe you say, hey, you know what I've got. This is how much it is. $15,000 for how many employees you have. And he's like, that sounds. All these research papers on why my pillow does this and why migraines, you know, can ruin your life. And that sounds like we can do it. Let's. Let's make it happen, right? And boom. I had at least a verbal contract to get going. Here's how you can do it. Here's how you can fix it. Whatever it is. You've got all this knowledge base that you want it to refer to. Then you could come in here and. And you could create a new folder inside of your file structure and call it knowledge underscore base in there. And then when you know, we push forward. We made it happen. And okay. And then you could just grab all your files and everything that you need and drag it into there and you just let go and boom, hey, it's uploaded that file into your file system now. And then you could say, hey, I need you to. And I was like, that was pretty easy. Like, that was a 1 pitch. $15,000 contract. Edit this right, please, Please refer to the knowledge or no, please be sure that the AI or the chatbot refers to the knowledge base whenever it's answering questions. Only share information related to the content in the database. It's. Yeah, anyway, so you can tell it to then. So now you've built your own custom GPT, right? You build a folder where it contains all of your knowledge base. You've given it a prompt like, that's pretty good. I'm going to do this again. And so I tried a couple more times. Change the name of you. Give it the name Travel assistant. Call it Bob, call it Lucy, call it whatever the heck you want and make your experience exactly how you want. Got another contract a couple more times. Got another contract. And I realized pretty quickly that wanted to do you see how easy that is, guys? Just point it, point it in the right direction. Tell it what you want to do. Build it, Architect it a little bit. Right? Architect. The sale was actually probably much better from a business perspective, right? And if the people who are good with AI, and this is what I learned when I did a bunch of research about how to build this AI IQ test. People that are really good at AI are good at puzzles. They're good at playing chess, they're good at thinking about systems. How this time, by the way, I did not have this how to build a business in the course that you're on that did not exist. That was not part of my original. Does this connect? Why does this connect? Right, because when you can connect the systems in your brain, you can then use all these tools to map together and whip up amazing solutions whether the solution is a piece of software or just a nicely crafted, you know, LinkedIn post. Right. I'm going to pull my knowledge base over here and I've got this over here and whatever it is, whatever you're trying to do, if you can, if you understand how to pull together systems and knowledge bases and pull things out of your own brain, then you can build a system using AI to get a great output on whatever you're trying to do. Any questions about this. Business plan at all that I, I don't even know if it's part of my long term business. Okay, either you're all really confused or I'm a really good teacher plan to be, to, to be real, right? I don't have time to just teach every day, all day. Like I'm swimming right now with you guys. I'm not surfing. I can't scale this one of the two. All right. We don't need the knowledge base right now because we're not going to just use pictures for that. But anyway, we built a travel assistant. Now this travel assistant, every time it's used, I just wanted to be clear, is using your open AI credits, right? So you've connected your credit card to that and it's going to be spending your money. Now this the way that I want to. I, you know I could, I could automate it by just pre recording it and then having a cheaper course made. This response here is 250 words. So 250 divided by 1 million. That is how much of your context you've used. And if you remember, for every it averages out to about 35 cents per million words, right? And so it's going to take you a long time to spend a dollar. It's going to take you a heck of a long time to spend a dollar. You could have hundreds or thousands of users talking to it about all kinds of fun places to visit and whatever and then you'll be like oh hey, I got a $37bill from OpenAI. Now if I connect to a more powerful model, might cost more if I need to do that, right? And having it available there, but having this one on one feedback is, you know, or one to six feedback, I guess in this case is hard for me to do long term. I do enjoy it. I do enjoy it, don't get me wrong. But the point is, don't worry too much about this. And if you are going to give access to something like this, maybe you limit it, maybe you limit. You know, without logging in, they can only ask up to 10 questions, right? Once they log in. Oh, now they can ask tons now, now they're providing value to you even if they're not paying you, even if they're a free user. But, but it's not scalable, right? It's if there's a limit to what I can do if I want. They are providing value to you because they're using your thing. You're. When you go to talk to an investor and say, hey, I want to raise some money, how many users do you have? I have, you know, 1.2 million users. Those guys are making you legit. If you show up to a meeting, you say, I have 1.2 million users, you're walking away with money. Right. As long as you're talking to the right person. That's a different, that's a, that's a different class. I've raised money from a lot of people and we could, we could do a whole class to become a 10 million or a $50 million business. I'm going to have to do it other ways on that one. That's fun. But Anyway, okay, good. APIs, chat bots. Yeah, pretty, pretty straightforward. I'm going to leave the travel assistant for now. I won't, I won't actually reverse that. I think it's kind of, kind of fun and I might change the name. I might do some things if I work on this later. It's probably going to take me another year to finish this echoes thing because there's so many things I want to work well and. All right, let's stop this for a second. Let's see here. Let's look at, just want to look at what we're supposed to be going over today just to make like in the whole class. So get the idea, validate the. And I've thought through all of those things with lots of really smart people and, and the idea, develop the plan, build and repl it, multitask through all of these claim, of course, my AI partners, we've talked through a lot of it, right. So I mean the social media handles buying your domain, registering your business, setting up your email. We didn't go over setting up your email or registering your business, I, I'm gonna assume that you guys are. So anyway, guys, I, I figured out through a little bit of trial and error are probably pretty decent at those types of things. It's not, it's not that hard. And I, I believe that you're capable of either talking to AI or Googling how to do those things if you've never done it before. It's really, really simple. Okay. Now if you do want to make money in a couple days with a new business, well, you're going to need a way to take money. So you're going to need to set up something like stripe with, you know, with their APIs and things like that. In order to have a stripe account, you need an ein, right. You need a federal, you know, employee identification number. You need. But in five days, Thursday morning, I start that by Tuesday. I figured in order to give an ein, you need to have a registered llc. And so you just, you know, you'll work backwards. Right. Hey, you need this. And so you get this and you get this. It's not very hard, but you need to set those things up if you want to accept money.

Okay, real quick, is there. Regarding handles, we could say social media handles. Gronk, would that be a good one to basically help search? Because it's going to use. Is it just use X or is it going to search variety of like social medias to find. Let's just say out.

Okay, this is a B2B product. People like this. This is not something I need to run ads for on Facebook and try them to take the AIQ test. Like it's there, it's cool, it's a good, it's a great landing page.

I'm gonna a brand unpaved parenting. Just something like that. Like that was something that Chad GPT kicked out. So if I wanted to go through and search each, I could do it individually or can I just throw it.

On, Keep that going. But I'm going to call businesses and I'm going to close them. Right. And that's what's, that's where I've gotten most the task. Yeah. So here's what you'll do. You'll use name check, check over 30 domains and more than 90 social media accounts. Right. So if you just say, okay, I want to look for Gen aipi, I'm not a robot. Search. Okay. Right here's stuff that's available. Oh, it's registered, stood by money from this, from this business. So I just figured that Out I figured out that, hey, business domains, check usernames, not available, available, not available, available, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Boom. Good question.

Awesome.

There's a tool for that, right? And if you were to ask AI for a tool about that, it would do that. Yes. Google about it. It will tell you that Google now has AI, right? I mean AI, AI search results, which is another big topic too, right? How do you show up as the suggestion that AI, you know, AI is going to be like, hey, you should buy this or you should go to. This is. You can, you know, if you have a business that has 150 employees and you can improve their output by 10%, 30%, 50% off this place, how do you become the suggestion for whatever it is your business is? Right, Shane, how does Boostly become the thing that AI suggests? I urge you to put your marketing person on that task. Have them spend some time researching it and then making sure you guys are up to snuff on that 100% by teaching them how to use AI really efficiently. That.

John, just with Stripe, any, any tips or recommendations or is it as simple as hey, replit, start accepting payments, here's my Stripe API and you're done.

It is as simple as that, but it's not as simple as that. Pays itself back really fast, right? And I charge 15 grand, 30 grand I have. And what I mean by that is when you set it up, it's going to be difficult to test. So here's one of the problems. So inside of when you're, when you're here, let's, let's, let's log in to John Chaney seven. I think that's the same password. Nope. Ah, I don't know my password here. That's okay, whatever. We'll just sign in with this one. I think I can get it to. I just need to get to a place where I can buy. I have one company that's that My biggest proposal that I have right now is looking at 75 grand. And I'm hoping to hear back back from them today. I had a meeting with their whole leadership team yesterday and I'm like, okay, this is great. We'll get back to you. Certification courses, live courses. Here we go. I think I can do it here. View Details I get the problem is when I'm logged in as an admin, all of my products are free to me. Right? But let's say I want to register for. Let's, let's keep, keep moving this forward. So I think, I think I'M going to get that and this course right here. And register now. When I click register now, it's actually going to kick me over to stripe. Checkout.swepe.com It's a totally separate domain and in repl.it the preview can only view REPL it.dev stuff. It cannot go to an external site, which is super annoying. Right? And so you can't test your stripe unless you deploy it. So you have to deploy, test, deploy, test, deploy, test. Right? So. So that's the only thing that you'll run into. What will, what will happen if you try to click on something to buy something in here? I'll show you what it does just so you can see it. But it will. It's awesome, right? 75 grand for a company. That company has 275 employees. Feel like it's broken. And you'll be like, man, it's broken. And then, hey, it's broken. Fix it. Right? Fix it. Replit. You can't fix it. What the heck's wrong with you? Right? So let's. Let's let it load this up. Give it a second. Come on.

Well, and on that front, we double check.

And for me to be able to train them like that, that's amazing. I'm making an annual salary in one deal, right? That will take me about three days.

To deliver on once you're off site. Now they're painting on Stripe. It then notifies repl it that this person paid.

Correct.

It is still communicating.

It is still communicating. Yeah, absolutely. It's communicating with it. But the problem is it's on a domain. It's on a domain that's separate. Wherever. I don't know.

Outside.

Yeah, it's on a domain outside. You know, that's. That's pretty cool. So let's pause. I just went doing that. I don't know where I was, but. But the point is it's going somewhere else. So if I click on live courses and I go to buy this and I click View Details and then I click schedule and I buy it, right? Register now. Then it tries to go to this external link and it just says external page. It just sits here, loading. And you're like, okay, load, load, load, load. Over. I went over how to create, you know, some of those marketing ideas and messaging, and it says powered by Stripe. It like almost looks like it's working. And then you're like, ah, it's not working. But actually it's working perfectly right now. What you have to learn how to figure out this is A great question. It's a great topic. Okay. You have to learn how to figure out what happens in your database. And so you need to talk to your agent about this. So when they click Pay Now, Stripe will send what's called a web hook. A signal, right? It'll send a signal and say, hey, this was approved. So you need to say, okay, rep. What happens when you receive that, that webhook, right? When payments approved. What, what, what happens, right, Is a new database record created and posts and things like that, how we created the images. You guys saw that yesterday. You know, I didn't do anything fancy. I just used, you know, I used, you know, Meta Ads manager, whatever to do this, but I had AI did is an email sent out is all those things. And so understanding what it's doing will help you design your user experience, right? Like, hey, when I purchase something, I should get an email notification. I should get a receipt, I should get an email notification. Maybe I want a notification as the owner, right? Every time you guys buy something, right? When you guys signed up for the course, I got an email. Hey, a new person has signed up for the course. Awesome. Great. Oh, hey look, Shane's here, right? He's jumping in this week. That's awesome, right? I got that. Help me through the process, right? And yeah, set up all the ads, all email. That's fantastic. So I set up those notifications, by the way, can replit email you those notifications. Not without an API. So you have to set up your own email service, right? Gotta set up an email service. So use something like SendGrid. You can just Google and say, I want to send an email and it'll. It'll walk you through it, right? It'll probably recommend SendGrid, which is the same as Twilio. Maybe you want to text. Anytime someone signs up, oh, boom. Hey, something change, changes. Signed up. Perfect, right? I got a text, right? So you can set a creator, all the images, put it all together using just basic tools like Canva. I used overall, probably about 20 different platforms when setting up the business. Not all of them are AI. About half of them are AI. And the rest were just things that up. Set up your notifications, but you set up your workflow. When this happens, then I want all this to happen. Right? If it fails, what should happen? Right? If the payment, you know, declines? Oh, it should automatically. Stripe should take care of that for you, right? Stripe builds out all of those things and you don't have to worry about it. Yeah, good question. You want to use. But I did it in an AI assisted way. Right. I had AI tell me. All right, I think we were doing something important a minute ago. Preston, you asked, you asked the question. You said this basically allows you. This was like 30 minutes ago I saw this chat, right. Allows you to train on custom data and produce an output that you can use over and over again. Yeah. So, yeah, that's what the custom GPT does that you can set up either you know what to do and how to use it better. So any questions about how I did all of that stuff, you know, custom inside of your own thing or just using that GPT? Let's see here. Customers watch and start selling, it's gonna improve. So, yeah, I mean, the one thing we haven't talked about is that I actually do talk about usually with this, within this class, and we'll have a very fast conversation on it is sales. I'm. If, if you were to pick what is John's best skill, that would be sales, right? That is my best business skill. That's what I do. That's what I've done my entire career. Career. I've sold to customers, I've sold to investors. I, you know, I've raised from 65 different. It's all pretty, pretty straightforward. But any questions about the process or what worked or what didn't work or what I've done since then?

Quick question to, to your knowledge, because that's a pain point. So you're. Oh, we've talked about social history, right.

Investors. Shane, what a pain, man. I know you've raised from a bunch as well. Right. But it is, you know, it's a sales. It's a sale, right? You're selling to an investor. You're saying, hey, I want you to do that. I've sold to employees. I've had about 150 employees throughout my career that I've, you know, sold on the vision of my business. And, and you know, whether or not it was a good decision for them to listen to me, I was able to convince them. So, you know, but it's a sale, right? Every time you sell someone and I've sold, you know, my, my client list at, at Seek that I, that I built, I had, I had meta reading.

A social history to give you more validity of your industry and your Google.

Walmart, Costco, Lego, Nestle, Wolverine, Samsung, Universal Pictures and hundreds more. Right. But like the biggest companies in the world, I was able to sell to and would do it without using agencies to get through to them and things like that. And so I'VE had a lot of experience. I've been selling since I was a young kid. I would. My dad gave me the idea and, you know, kind of helped me put it together. And then I went door to door and expertise.

So I still pay a social media manager to kind of manage all that. You still had to manually input all of those ads.

Sold mistletoe when I was seven years old, right? Just package up mistletoe. I'm from Houston and mistletoe, so it just grows on trees, but you have to like climb way. It grows way up high. You have to climb up and you have to cut it down and then kind of lower it down so it doesn't get ruined when it hits the ground. And then, then chop it up into small pieces, put it in little Ziploc bags, you know, with a little ribbon or whatever you want to do and then go around door.

Yes.

You're using AI, but is that something that like looking at Mantis or looking door.

Sell it for five bucks. Awesome idea. For those of you that have kids want to make some money around Christmas time, you can order mistletoe online now and just order it in, you know, a huge bulk, a big thing and then just cut it up, do the same thing. I've done it with my kids too. And who's going to say no for five bucks to buy some mistletoe, right? It's super good. Good practice. That's very, very low rejection rate. Right. But anyway, so I've been doing it for a long time. Sold. Sold. When I was a kid. When I was a teenager, I was like 15, 16 years old.

Not that those are going to start that Facebook or.

I was good. I was really good at video editing before. Video editing was easy, right? Like you had to have all these custom software and custom hardware and you connect like a digital, you know, recorder or whatever to a. To a thing and connect all these different things and then upload it in real time and sit there and press play and it would record over to the computer, you know, all this crazy stuff. And then I could edit videos and I would go door to door.

In my neighborhood, I will start to integrate where you can just plug in the idea.

And I find people that had, you know, businesses or maybe a 50th anniversary or a 50th birthday or whatever it is coming up and they wanted videos. And I'd sell thousand dollars here, 500 bucks there, 1200 bucks there. And I'd sell all these different things going door to door.

I did door and it's going to start to generate for you because there are still.

Heck, I even did that with my music. Right. I'm a pianist and I compose and I had CDs and I would go.

Door to door and sell upon a little individual steps.

Yeah, there are, yeah, everything I did there, there was definitely some manual, my CDs, right. To raise, to raise money for whatever it was I was trying to do at the time. And so I've always been in sales. I, I did it, you know, before my mission selling credit card payment systems after my, you know, went on mission mission, you know, two years of, of doing, you know, missionary work. You know, you're, you're selling, you're serving, right? But you're definitely like having conversations with people and talking to them about things. And it's a very similar process of selling when you're talking about even religious things. And so I've done it my entire career and we could go through the rest of the things I've done, but I've always led every single thing. And the way, the reason that I'm good at sales and this is really what I share with you guys. And we don't need to go super deep into it, but I've gotten really, really good at sitting on the other side of the table stuff. Right. I'm using AI to automate and accelerate where I can, but then having to manually input it now, that's it. This is the only thing that, that I do well. A lot of people view sales as like, okay, it's me versus them or like I got to figure out how to, how to convince them that I'm right. Right. But no, what I have to do as a salesperson if I want to be really successful is I just have to show up and say, hey, I want to understand you. I'm going to sit on your side of the table. I want to understand your problem. What do you have going on? And to be a really good salesperson, once you understand their problem because you're sitting on their side of the table right next to them, working with them, your. You have to be willing to say, hey, you know what? Now that I really understand what your problem is, we're going to talk about in a second, the next thing we'll dive into here is how would we automate? I don't think our solution is going to fix this, but here are some other ideas that I have, right? At least the social creation, the post, the creation of the posts, and then the posting of the posts. We can't Automate at this point, the ads manager piece. Let's do this. Right. I've sat in pitches where I do that, and they're like, wow, that's weird that you're saying that. Like, I've never had anybody say that to me. But. But if you take that kind of an approach, a mental approach, number one, you're all of a sudden not pressure selling at all, ever. Right? You're sitting on their side of the table, and you're like, okay, hey, this is really cool. Like, I've sat with. I've sat on the same side of the table with all of my customers. And you. You are perfect for this. Right? I can fix this problem for you. We've worked hard. We had the. Our customer had this problem. You know, we showed them this. They found out they could do this, and, hey, we're ready to go. Feel, felt, found. You can use all your. Whatever strategies you want to, you know, be a good sales rep and how to figure out how to do that. Right. I can't automatically launch an ad, but I can now. But it's your mindset of sitting on the other side of the table. This is. This is. This works at all levels. Laura, on your website, I'm assuming you created your migraine product because you have migraines, am I right?

My family does. My family, yeah, for sure.

Perfect. Have you, like, have you personally had them?

I do now. Yeah.

So that's just something that's in your family?

Yeah.

Gosh, can you guys not already feel that? She's got a powerful pitch. Your pitch is. I come from a family, and just some. For some reason, we get migraines. My mom got him when I was younger. I remember seeing her just lying down. She could hardly do anything. And now I'm a little bit older, and I'm getting them now. And so I had to find a solution. I can. Another way. What's another way to surf besides paying a person? Software that does it. To this. And this is what we came up with and we worked on, we tested, we found it. Now I do this every morning. Morning. I don't have migraines anymore. That video should be on your landing page.

Freelance employees.

Yeah.

Virtual assistants.

Yeah. You can surf on people, too. Right above the fold. They land on your page and they click play to watch Laura talk about the product. Hey, I'm the founder of whatever, right? That's your thing. You're sitting on their side of the table. You have their problem. You understand their problem. Right? Even if you don't have Their problem, right? Even if you're just solving something for someone else, maybe it's me trying to sell your thing, right? So I'm sitting on that side, man. Our customers, they come to us and they have these migraines, and I just feel for them, man. They tell me these horror stories. And I said, man, I know I can fix this for them. And so I did a bunch of research and I hired this person, I did this, and I was able to find a solution that actually solves migraines. And now you can just pay them to do it, and then you don't have to worry about that. That's off your plate. So sometimes that's what you guys. There's Laura, who used to have this. Listen to her testimonial, whatever, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, right? That is the kind of pitch that works so, so well. You can do this, Shane, even at your level, right? You can do that in a B2B, you know, environment where you're saying, hey, our customers had this problem. This is the solution we came up with. Here's why we do it. We're really excited for you to try this out. Right? Click here to learn more or whatever. Reach out to us. We can love to have a free consultation with you to learn about your business and how we can help you connect with your customers better. Whatever it is, just hit them. I knew, yeah, VA or something like that out of the Philippines or whatever. There's. It's amazing how good they are and how cheap they love videos, even B2B business. I love videos on the. On the website. I've been. I've been thinking about how I can do this on my site. I think I need to make it look really professional and institute, you know, they are one of my best employees ever. $3 an hour out of, like, Thailand. She was like, in a nice, really nice office, whatever, something like that. So not sitting here in my. In my home office is awesome. She was so good. And I actually have a second, a second person at a time, and then add that to genaipi.org so that I can sell that better. But, guys, that's it. It all just comes down to sit on their side of the table, make them feel welcome and that you understand them. If you feel that, if they feel that, if they feel that when they land on your stuff, whether it's in your writing, your, you know, your messaging, whatever, or your video or whatever it is that you're doing there, your images, like, oh, man, that is like a picture of me. Like man, here's. Here's me, like pushing right here, trying to stop that migraine, right? Like, whatever it is. All of your messaging should indicate that you understand your customer. So that means you need to know who your customer is, who you're selling to, right? What's the. That I work. I don't use that other one anymore because we. That was my. That was seek back in like 20 Persona that you're selling to and all that stuff, right? You can go through all those things on your own and work with ChatGPT to build that out. Now, oftentimes during this course and we. We don't have to do it right now, but one of the things that's really fun to do and I'll just. I'll just do it really quickly here so we. You can kind of see, see what this is like. And it's not. It's not anything fancy, right? But you'll open up your project, you'll start a new thing and you'll say, I want to make some money with this idea in the next 24 hours. I don't have the website completed yet. How can I do this? 17 or so we were paying her 3 bucks an hour, and she was out doing like a bunch of our employees that were. That were getting paid 15, 20 bucks an hour type things. We're paying her three. So. Right. And. And then just start talking to it and have this conversation. But asking that type of a question even if it's not there, right? Hey, pre. Sell it. Create an irresistible offer in one paragraph, right? Lifetime access for 50 bucks. Right? Sign up here, sign up now, whatever. And then you have Replit set up the lifetime access technology. Don't worry about it. Right? Figure that out. Craft. Yeah. And she was pumped about it. She was so excited for the work. Right? Like these people. Real checkout page in an hour. Okay. Set up this. Pitch it hard on social and dms. Post something authentic. Have been working on this opening to a hundred early backers. Boom. You can make $5,000. If you can find that. If you can figure that out, like, here it is and just start talking about it. Boom. Step 4. Offer a high ticket option, legacy building tier one on one time with you personal onboard. Their story pinned is a featured echo. You know, whatever. Maybe you put like a founders section. You know, you get like a founder's pin or a founder's badge on echoes and there's a list of all the people with your name, all the people that paid for that. There's so many crazy things, guys and you just got to talk about it. So I have a question. We are excited. You know, the Philippines. If you look at how much they make out there, if you pay them, how many of you guys are afraid or would. Or not afraid. That's the wrong word. Maybe we feel uncomfortable talking about your new business on your social media profile, like your personal Facebook profile. You feel a little bit weird, Preston Akil couple yeah, most feel a little bit weird about it. Why? Preston, we'll start with you. Why? Why? Why would you feel a little bit weird talking about your new business or whatever you're doing on your. On your Facebook, for example? Right. Maybe you don't have Facebook. I don't know.

But yeah, I think a couple of reasons. I think one is I don't want Mike. My friends and family feel like I'm pitching them or trying to pressure them into something. And the other is sometimes when it's.

In its infancy, $10 an hour, they are well taken care of. They are well fed. They are paying for their living, you know, everything that they need in their family. So it's really, really cool. It's really, really great way.

And it's. You're still like, figuring it out. It's not polished. There's a lot of rough edges. You're like, okay, well, once. Once things are cooking, then I'm excited to share it. But while I'm still, you know, in the back room trying to figure out how to bake the cake, you know, I'm not ready to display it yet. Those are probably the two things I would. That would hold me back to help.

Other people out there and get amazing value over here. So you don't want to feel like your friends are being pitched, and you don't. And you don't want them to see an unfinished product. So that's curious. Do you?

Do you.

Which is hard because I know, like, the big thing right now is like, building public, right? Like, I know I should be building in public, but that's hard for me.

Let me ask kind of a weird question that might seem a little bit rude, and I'm not trying to do that, but are you afraid of people knowing that you make money or how you make money?

No.

Yeah. Are you, you know, are you trying to portray an image where you just magically live life without having, you know, any sort of income or. Or job or whatever? Global economy is awesome. But. But yeah, the reality is think, think to think to your own, like, your own social feed. And when you see somebody talking about something to do do you. Are you like, oh my gosh, I'm unfriending that person. I can't believe they would tell me about their product, right? Like, I've never had that reaction, right? I might not be interested in it, right? You know, it's fine, right? Maybe I'm not. I. To automate all of that stuff, is not very interested in essential oils or whatever it is, right? But like, if I need essential oils, I know who I can turn to or if I need this. I can't tell you how many times I post on my Facebook and my Instagram, my Twitter and whatever. Very difficult. There are some services out there. Anybody heard of buffer or hootsuite? I asked my LinkedIn all this stuff. I post on it every single day. And I post all kinds of stuff. I have no filter to what I will post on my social media. There's other ones out there like that. But. But Those things have APIs on LinkedIn. I will talk about my religious beliefs on Facebook. I will talk about my. I will talk about my business, right? I can do all this. I will talk about whatever. Now I'm very, I'm very kind and I'm not confrontational at all. And I actively avoid confrontation. If someone tries to bring confrontation onto one of my posts, I can just delete that comment. I control my landing page. It's mine, right? But I am not afraid to talk about anything. And so I get comments all the time or DMS all the time where people will say, man, hey, this is really cool. I need to learn about AI. Like, I want to talk to you about that, right? And you know, they're just like some friend from back in high school or whatever. And then they bring me some huge deal because all of my friends are 40 now, tons of them, right? So let's, here's, here's quiz time, right? Somebody, some businesses, or they're in VPs or their C suite positions, whatever, right? And so they see that now it's really, really useful. Or I'm on LinkedIn and I'll say something, you know, religious or how, how, you know, Jesus Christ drives a lot of what I do in life and this thing, like. And I'll get. It's funny. I'll get some people that will comment, but I get 10 times as much engagement in my DMs because they're a little bit afraid to talk about it in public too, right? And that's fine, whatever. But they'll be like, thank you so much for this post. Like somebody kind of Build it out loud if you can. Right? Architect it out loud using Replit and probably some AIs to create something for your business that will. I love that you talk about this in public. And I really just. That strengthened me today and it was, it made me feel great, whatever it was, right? But it's amazing, guys, when you just remove those filters and say, hey, you know what, here's what I do now people know what you do, what you're about. And Preston, you have no idea how powerful the build in public, you know, trend is. Hey, automatically post to you. You have to set it up. Take you a few hours to set it all up. But what's. I've got this first version. It's, it's, you know, it's raw. There's mistakes on it. That's fine, whatever. What do you guys think? And people are like, oh, I want to get my opinion. Everyone wants to give their opinion. You ask for opinion, you get free market research, free qa, free whatever, right? Like, oh, I clicked on this. It didn't work. This didn't work. This didn't work. When I first published my Gen API back in, back in March, you know, when I, when I published it out, I was like, March 1st or March 2or whatever, I let it go and I got tons of people that said, hey, I clicked on this. Didn't work, didn't work, didn't work. And I just took all their feedback and just pasted it into replit and I said, hey, done some errors. Fix these things and done. And you know, after a day of that, like it was, it was humming like all those paper cuts were gone. And so don't be afraid, guys. Don't be afraid to the architecture who thinks they can do that to talk about your, your, your professional life on Facebook. There's, there's great ways to do it. Right now, one of the books that I want you guys to read and you will agree with me more and more and more on what I'm saying here. If you read this, read this book. You probably heard of Gary Vee. Gary Vaynerchuk is brilliant. I think he.

So you, you would request it. So you look at what.

What's is the smartest mind in social media on the planet Day trading Attention. It is a super easy read. You can order on Amazon. It's like 20 bucks oz. You probably can't have Amazon prime delivery because you're leaving, but you can get this on audible and I've listened to an audible and I've got the book and it has like tons of examples. Every page has ex social media pages.

You want to use, which there's kind of seven dominant ones. LinkedIn, Facebook, so on and so forth. Instagram.

So sample posts and what you should do and how you should do it. If you're this type of business, here's what you would do. It is amazing. It is such a good guide on how to do that. But to sum up everything. He basically is like, if you're not drowning in money, then you're not talking enough. Straight up. You're just not posting enough. He posts. Oh, go ahead, Laura.

Sorry, I just have a quick question. Speaking of posting a lot, I feel like when I post, I don't post a lot, only because I feel like it has to be professional. Like a professional post because it's a professional product I'm selling. So that's where my I don't post a lot is because I'm trying to spend more time.

Some will kind of duplicate Instagram, Facebook. You brought that up. So you would state I'm on these.

Posts looking professional rather than just a quick, hey, this is me kind of. I'm real, not and not professional. So where's the line between I'm being professional and a business and I'm a normal person?

Who do you want to be friends with, the professional or the normal person?

The normal people is who I want them to buy. But at the same time, don't you want us to view that it's a. It's a professional product?

Do you know what I mean?

Like whether it's a service or a product, that it's legit?

I guess.

Yeah. I mean, I need. They'll. The product will stand on its own legs. Right? You have to build your personal brand, guys.

Well, so that's an e. That's the thing I'm looking more at.

If you want to be a professional and all uptight and, you know, academic, do that. If that's your. If that's your Persona and that's who you are, be that. Be. Be that. Unapologetically, I don't think that's bad. Right. But if you're, you know, loosey goosey and you just like to hang out and you know, I am exactly the same on social media as I am in real life.

Operator, right? Chat GPT operator. Because it can actually click and now.

I get to live one life instead of two or three. Right. I don't have to be a different person at church and a different person at work and a different person here. I'M just, this is who I am, guys. And my life is so much better. I haven't always been that way. I had to learn this. I had to learn how to do that and be okay to accept all these different things and whatever. People know who I am and what you see is what you get. Right? And I'm very. I can be polished when I need to. If I need to stand up in front of a nice big audience in front of 2000 people and give a speech on something, I can do that. Right? But I'm actually generally, even in those cases, a little more casual than, than probably other speakers are right. I've spoken on stages in front of thousands of people and I'm joking and.

I'm making fun of myself where replit is more your outside self and I'm.

You know, whatever and, and you know, I, I am who I am everywhere and it really, really works well. But Laura, I wouldn't be afraid to just be like, hey, I've had this problem, like, try, try the video, you know, on social that I was talking about, right. Like, my family's always struggled with this and I'm struggling with now. And so I made this product, look at it, check it out. It's so awesome.

Sources are pretty input, so I that I'm at a loss. But you would request, you know, five posts per week on these seven platforms focusing on these guys want to buy it.

I just want to show you what I do. This is what I do and it means a lot to me because it's affected my family. Right? You will get so many comments. You know, many people have problems with migraines and how they're looking for a solution for that thing, right? But if you just put the product, hey, look at this product that I did and it's beautiful. And here are all the scientific reasons why it's awesome. Like, no, here's my story and it works.

Five categories of if it's like my product, like health works.

This is, this is, you know, if you have any questions about it, DM me or comment would love to, love to chat, you know. Now if you want to get really good engagement on social, there is one price you have to pay. Consistency. Consistency is the price of admission for growing on social. You have to post every single day. And I know that's very difficult.

You can food, exercise, recovery, you know.

You can schedule it out. You can hootsuite or buffer, you know, those things that we were looking at. You can schedule it out. You can write your own posts and and you can do your own thing. You don't have to automate everything. Right. But you can schedule it out. So you only do it once a week. If you're going to the Grand Canyon to raft it for 14 days, which I've done, it's amazing, go do it. But if you're going to do that, you got to schedule it out because if you, if you stop posting, if you miss one day on LinkedIn, your reach will drop by 90% and you have to earn it back over the next couple weeks. It's crazy, right? You'll go from getting 75 likes on a post to two and give those.

Topic out and then let it go.

So you're just saying have opera like it just drops, pushes you off the base of the planet. So you have raider that can type and click and point to basically just build things for you and set it all up for. You have to be consistent. Gary vee posts about 60 times a day across all platforms in total. Obviously he has a team to do that and he has a lot of automation set up and he has, he literally has people follow him around with the camera. So he's constantly creating content. Right. And so that's great. I'm not saying you got to do that. You can post. Yeah, that, that is, I think, a real way to do it. There's probably a few right answers here, guys. Okay, 5, 10, 15, 20. There's no limit on X, right? The more you post, if you post 10 times a day on X, you will grow. Right? And those posts are short thoughts, short little, hey, this, whatever, and, and that's good posting, you know that and then commenting. We'll talk about , a second LinkedIn post every day at 6:45am Utah time or wherever. 6:45am for wherever your target market is. Most of my target market. You know, my, my network is really big in Utah. So most of my people see it and then it will expand, it will push it out to other networks. 6:45am On LinkedIn, if you want to do a second post on LinkedIn, that is the most you can do. Do it at 12:45pm so great. Oz, anybody else, can anybody else think of a way that could automate it even, even.

Further?

Right. Okay. There's a couple reasons for this. 1. 6:45am A lot of people are waking up, they're sitting on the toilet, they're reviewing whatever they're doing. They're in bed, they're. They're just scrolling through something and they're looking for Content. Okay. And they'll see it. There's a lot of people on at 6:45am Same thing with 12:45. A lot of people take lunch right at noon and at one they're back to work. It doesn't usually take them an hour to.

Work. So does Hootsuite have or in Buffer, do they have APIs you can plug.

Into? Yes. Like, I've got 15 minutes to blow now. I might go scroll on something. Okay. 6:45, 12:45 on LinkedIn. Do not post more than two times a day on LinkedIn or you will start to get pushed down a little bit. They don't like people that are super loud and talking a.

Lot. So you could probably build. I mean, you'll use.

OpenAI. I struggle because I have 10 posts a day I could do on LinkedIn. I have so many things I can say. Okay, Facebook, it's about. You can do almost anything you want. You could post five times in a row at almost any hour. And Facebook does a good job at taking that content and then brainstorm.

Ideas and images and you can just up. You could have it upload to.

Whatever your tool is, pushing it out to what's called a topic graph. Okay, so if you write about AI, they're going to push it out to people that like AI. If you write about migraines, they're going to talk about people that have looked or clicked on those types of things. It's all about topics. Okay. You can post one time a day, five times a day. But if you post every day, you. Your post will get boosted more Instagram, probably one post per day on your. On your thing. You can do as many stories a day as you want. The right. The magic number is seven stories a day. Okay, now I'm talking about. This is how people post that want to grow their. Their. You know, I make money on social media because I post enough. I make, I.

Make. Then it could push those out to the automated posting platforms and they.

Would. Not a ton, but enough to make it worth it for me to keep going. Not as much as my mom. Gosh dang it. She didn't even think about just post these stupid elephant videos and gets 4 million views and she'll make, you know, a couple hundred bucks per video. So crazy. She has one video that has over 500 billion views. So ridiculous. And anyway, I have, I have one video that has, across all platforms, 150 million views. But on any individual platform, it's only up to about 20 million, which is still a lot and it's a stupid video. It's a stupid video. Guys, this is what I'm famous.

For. But posted across all your social media.

Platforms. Yeah. That's fantastic, right? So repl it or we'll show you. If you guys want to know, even if you don't want to know, your app, your website knows everything about what you do. It has your blog gonna show you. So welcome to my phone. Wait for it. There it is. Okay, let's jump on TikTok and click on my profile. 18.9 million views on posts. It has your readme, it has all, you know, in, in in the case of Mona's on. This is my backyard. It's one of our pipes. When you cleared out in the beginning of the year, that's what it does. So anyway, that's what I'm famous for. That's the only thing I can go famous for. But, but guys like you don't have to get 20 million views to, to get a lot. Like when you say something, if 500 people like it or watch it, do you know how big like Igen aipi. I have all these courses with tons of content, right? I have thousands. Think about putting 500 people in a room. Think about how big that room is, right? How many people are in there and how much value you've added to the world with only 500 people seeing it, right? For social media standards, you didn't go viral. But holy cow, if those 500 people are real people that can use your migraine thing or your, you know, customer experience and communication chain or all the things you guys are doing, right, it's worth it. It's absolutely worth it. LinkedIn will make you the most money. If you're posting about products or at least you're posting on business related products. Laura, I think your number one, your numbers of ideas of posts and things that it could talk about, right? And Quite frankly it's AI one platform could be either TikTok or Facebook, right? Facebook guys is the biggest social platform. It's the most active social platform in the world. A lot of people are like, yeah, Facebook's kind of old and whatever. Yeah, they kind of went through a little bit of an image. You know, it knows, it knows everything, right? So yeah, set up a system, you know, prop. A phase where, where that, that image was kind of there. But oh my gosh, they are the number one platform. If you, if you just do a quick Google search, like top platforms, how many daily the average views, all these, these things, Facebook dominates them. Create an Admin tool, right? Like we were talking about yesterday, Shane, right? Create an admin tool. Meta dominates everything. WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook. Altogether, it's more than half the world. Use it every single day. It's crazy. So, yeah, use social media, guys. Talk about what you're doing. Talk about it now. Talk about it before it's ready. Hey, I'm building this thing, you know, this is what, this is what it's about, right? I'm excited to show you guys. Talk about it, tell people about it. They will love it. They will love to talk about it. You'll find people that are interested in it. Don't be afraid. The worst thing that can happen, guys, for you posting something on social media is they scroll past you. That's your social media scheduler. And so what it would do is that social media scheduler would, would. That's it. That's the worst thing that can happen. Gonna scroll past you. If I see somebody selling something, you know, whatever. I've got this one girl that I follow that I know. She's a good friend and she posts all the time about, you know, like natural, like stones and things and, you know, whatever. I. I don't care about that. That's not my thing. It's not my style. I don't care. I'll still be friends with. Call OpenAI, the OpenAI API. And it would say, hey, I need some posts to Janessa. She's awesome. But I'm just going to scroll past that thing. If she posts about something else, hey, that's cool, you know, then I'll talk about it when I want to talk about it, something with it, right? And so I don't care if somebody's posting me. I don't feel Preston, for example, like I'm being pitched by my friends. When they post something about what they're doing now, I just know what's great. Hey, let's get all those posts and then let's send them over to like a Google Drive they do for work part. Like, think about this, guys. You spend so much time working on your work. Eight to ten hours a day for most people or a Google sheet or something like that. Okay? And then maybe I need some images as well. And you don't want to include that in, like, who you are and like what you're about now. That might change. The things that you're doing during that 8 to 10 hours might change a few times throughout your life or 10 times throughout your life. And that's fine. Hey, this is what I'm working on lately. Hey, this is really cool. I found out this is super interesting lately. Anybody else ever done anything like this, right? You guys, you know I'm new to this field, right? Tell me about it. Teach me how can I do this right? Hey, I just learned this new thing today, right? Maybe it hits, maybe it doesn't, but just don't be afraid to talk about it. I have done almost zero marketing. I started doing some test marketing for this course that you guys reading right now. Started it last week. I've spent about 500, right? And so I have OpenAI send the request, hundred dollars on it. I got two signups for it so far. So $2,500 off of 500 bucks. Hey, that's cool, right? So I'll keep doing that. But until this, except for those two signups, I've had over a hundred people take this course. Over $100,000 in revenue only from posting to social. I post on LinkedIn about it, I post on Facebook about it, I post on Instagram about it. One of the things to mid Journey API to say, hey, create an image that's like this. There's another book by Gary Vee called Jab Jab jab hook, right? And the purpose of the, the point of that book is you, you give value. You give value, you give value and then you ask for, right? And it sends a perfectly prompted, crafted whatever thing over there and it sends it up something, right? Value, value, value, ask for something. And for you, you might say, you know what? I want to give seven jabs before I ask for before I do the hook, right? And so I might say, hey, have you ever, you know, have you heard of this platform? It's really cool, right? Hey, look at this cool thing you can do with AI. Hey, look at this cool thing, right? And I'm not. And now you've got an image and that image then gets sent over to that Google sheet or that Google Drive, okay? Asking for anybody to join a course or anything like that or whatever I'm doing, right? Hey, if you want to learn more about AI, you know, I teach these courses. I do them, I do them, you know, every week or now I'm doing them only twice a month. You know, jump in. I'm. I'm going to be raising the price later. Whatever, whatever. My, my post is, hey, come join, right? Here's more value. Here's more value. Here's more value. Here's my value. Here's my value. Hey, come join my course. Or hey, you know, did you know These, you know, if you're having migraines, I actually sell these products. I made these. These are cool, right? If you want to know about it, just DM me, I'll tell you. And then you have Buffer or something pulling from Google Drive. I'll show you what this looks like. Okay? Right. Don't try to be so professional and robotic. Right? Don't act like AI, act like a human. That's what people want. They're looking for that even more these days.

Lauren. So, yeah, John, I probably only saw two or three posts. I don't even know someone in my network referenced you. I knew nothing about your background, but just a couple of your posts were good enough that I'm like, hey, this guy sounds cool, seems cool. I want to take this. And that was all it was for.

Me. Now that's super cool. I appreciate that. Buffer doesn't actually have an API question.

Too. With LinkedIn, do you post on weekends as well? Do you need to also be posting on Saturday and Sunday so that you don't see your reach drop every.

Day? And on Sunday, you know what? Well, they do Buffer API. If you click on this right here, I'm someone who goes to church, right. I'm very open about that. Right. And so I'll talk about something that's kind of religious about how like, you know, here's how, how, you know, having strong family relationships helps me during the work week. You know, like I'll, I'll talk about something maybe a little bit more church related. They have one, but for the last six years they don't support the registration of new developer or something on Sunday on LinkedIn. Or sometimes I'll just be like, hey, look at this cool news. You know, this is what, this is cool, this happens, right? But, but yeah, don't be afraid, don't be afraid to, to talk about those types of things. I don't, I will tell you, Saturday and Sunday are the, are the worst days for LinkedIn for sure. For.

Sure. But it's just part of keeping.

That, feeding the algorithm, feeding the monsters. You just got to do it, find something relevant, post a cool picture. Like, you know, on Saturdays often I'm just like, it's nice to have a day off. I'll just literally post that and people will be like, oh yeah, what are you doing today? And you know, there's a little conversation that starts and you know, so I'll answer that also Ripper applications. Okay, so we got to use something else that you guys are probably familiar with. Zapier. Right. Reply, reply, reply. The other thing I need to say, guys, this is. This is big time, and I meant to say it earlier. Commenting. Commenting is where you. Is where the real magic happens. Hey, we've got a little mini Oz right there. Anyway, guys, yeah, commenting is where the real magic happens. You LinkedIn and Twitter, oh, my goodness, those two platforms specifically, they give back what you get into. Give into it, right? If you go and you comment on 20 people's posts every day, people will start looking at your stuff. Way Zapier can automate things. Zapier is incredible. So you click on Explore, right? And I know it sounds like a lot like 20 comments. Oh, my gosh, that's so much work. But no, it's like five minutes in the morning you comment on a few people's posts, and at lunch you look at it and maybe in the evening you do it and you search for buffer and hey, we're lucky, this is one of the ones that works. Then you come down here and you say, okay, let's do Google Drive, right? So I want to now have, you know, it's not that hard, but give meaningful comments, engage with other people. If you want to grow your following and use social as a place to actually do business and to grow and build your. Your personal brand and things like that, which are getting more and more important. Comment, comment, comment, comment. Be active in the community. Don't just give or don't just post, post, post, post, post. Right? Give to other people, too. Help them grow. They'll give it back. They will. So. All right, guys, I am one minute late. When something happens in Google Drive, automatically do this right for my next meeting, which I have right now. So I will. I'll take another minute here. I'll be late to that. I will follow up today. You'll have all three YouTube links for all three days. You'll get that folder of all those things. I will ask you guys for referrals in the, in the email as well. If you, if you refer somebody to come do this course, I'll give you 100 bucks, right? And you just text me, say, hey, Preston signed up and which is what happened last night, right, Preston, you were a referral, right? You had. You had someone else. What was who. Who referred you so you could then teach your replit Social Media Manager builder automated poster to say, okay, I'm gonna. You have a little setup. Say, okay, I want to set up. Spencer. Spencer. Yeah. So Spencer told you about it whenever you signed up. Great. So I threw him 100 bucks fantastic. Amazing. So I will ask for that for you guys. That's post for the next year, right? It's another way to grow, you know, to get. To get more stuff, too, Right? To get more people to use your products, ask for referrals. But anyway, I'll send that over if you need more help or whatever. You know, obviously, you've got the Facebook page. You all will have my cell phone number. It's in there. It is. It's just my personal cell number. If. If you ever want to, you know, hang out, if you're in the area, you want to come get some eggs from my farm or you want to just do whatever, I am more than happy to be your friend. You guys are all my friends now, and you're all in my personal contacts. Okay? You could. You could give it a theme for every day. You know, you were talking about that Oz, right? You could say, okay, for my. For Jenna. If you want tons of help on your business, specifically, I'm going to charge you money. Right? And the only reason for that is because I can't do it for everybody. I've had almost everybody come out of here and be like, hey, could you help me build this? I'm like, you know what? I. I would love to, but I can't build 100 things at once, right? So I have to be very, very, you know, specific about that. And my time is. Is a little expensive, Right? I'm not even gonna. I'm not even gonna answer your call on helping you build your business unless it's probably 15 to 20 grand starting, right? And so it doesn't mean I don't want API for AI focused. We'll say, let's do, you know, throwback Thursday. Remember when you had to do something like that to help? And I certainly am willing to help, and I've had plenty of people come through this course and then pay me, you know, to go work on something with them for a little bit. But. But, man, I really. I don't. This. Now you can do this with AI, right? And so on Mondays, this is the new thing. Hey, this is the news that happened over the weekend. So that's our news day. And then Tuesday is, hey, did you know you could do this? Hey, Wednesday, did you, you know, hey, let's actually throw. Want to sell you more things. That's not my goal here. My goal here, hopefully, over this last three days, is I've unlocked your mind to be able to say, okay, I know how to do this now. Or at least I know how to learn how to do this. Now I know how to go to the AI or whatever it is to search and figure this out and do almost anything. Not in the, like Tony Robbins, rah, rah, whatever. But now you now have tools available so you, you can go figure anything out. A sales pitch out there. Hey, come in, come in. You know, join our courses or join this or hey, it's your company. Go do cool stuff. So I hope to do that. I hope to, you know, keep rubbing shoulders with you guys and, and see you build awesome things and tell me about it, right? If you have a quick question, by the way, if you text me like, hey, I was trying to figure this out, you know, a quick question like that, that's fine. Text me, message me, whatever. Like, I will answer, I will respond and I won't get annoyed, right? Um, it's. If you're like, hey, can you like join my company and I'll give you some shares and I'll do this, like, I'm probably gonna say no. Like, it's just I've had so many people try to do that and that's okay. I love all you guys. You're so awesome. Have fun in Asia, Oz and everybody else. I'll, I'll see you around. Okay, so we'll be in touch. I'll send an email probably tomorrow with all this follow up stuff and you guys can be off to the race, struggling. Let me help you. Right? Let us help you. Whatever it is, have it.

Automatically. Thanks.

John. Yeah, thank you so.

Much. Jonathan, thank you so.

Much. Appreciate.

It. Build all that content for you. So it builds the content, sends it to a Google Drive and then labels it. Right? Labels it, you know, May 22, 2025. May 23, 2025. May 24, 2025. Right. So you have it build out all these different things and you probably wouldn't tell it to do it a year out because that's kind of, that's ridiculous. And the news hasn't come out. You would probably have it do it one week at a time maybe, right? But say, hey, Monday morning I need you to wake up and I need you to check the, I need you to check the Internet. What's the most interesting thing in AI out there? Create a post about it, send it over to Buffer and have it automatically post for you. So Buffer, guys, for those of you that don't know or have never used it before, Buffer is. It basically connects all of these. And I don't have my buffer set up right now, but I have used it in the past, but Buffer will automatically post to all of these different platforms for you. Automatically, right? You just, I have to refresh the connection. But you click new post, new post here and then you say, okay, I want it to go to all of these platforms, right? And, and then I say, you know, even, you've even has the AI assistant to write it for you, right? But, but again, you're going to have all of this stuff automatically post for you. And then you customize for the network and you post it out. So you can schedule all of this stuff out. You can, you can sit down, you know, Sunday night and put together a bunch of things and just have it, have it do all of your social posting for you automatically. I don't do this. I post manually, which is kind of crazy considering how much I post. I probably could improve that, but. But that's just what I do. It's just what I do. But setting this up for your own business would be, would be incredible. And being able to automate the production of the content, having it sync it together with, with Mid Journey. And the thing is, guys, all you have to be able to do is articulate what you want it to do. Hey, I want this system to automatically do this and to do this and do this. What do you think's the best way to do that? Replit. Right? Hey, I think we should do this, this and this. This is how we'll, we'll sync the images together, we'll grab this, we'll grab this and then we'll, we'll send over, you know, these folders of, to Google Drive of this and then we'll have that, you know, the Buffer API will pull that in and you just have to kind of think through it and talk through it and troubleshoot it a bit until you're like, yeah, I like the flow. It works. Now then you have your own little social media automation system that can automatically post for you three times a day, seven times a day. So anyway, any questions on how that would, how you would put that together? Does that make sense? Do you feel like you could sit down and do that over, you know, maybe five hours? Right. Just figuring it out, pushing through.

It. John, quick question. And maybe the more I'm going through this realizing that asking the AI a lot of these questions is going to be helpful, but have you ever had built something in Repl it or know if it would be simple enough that the actual application you build in Repl it you could then use in a Zapier or a make.com to have that functionality to hook it up that way to other.

Programs. Absolutely. You could do that. You can say, hey, I want to set this up so it. So it has a zapier connect. I want to. I want a zap. I want to build a zap for this. And I'll say, okay, great, let's build an API. You can build an API into your own application. It's actually super, super easy. Like, that's a very easy lift for replit. It'll take it. It'll probably get it right in the first shot. Right. You might have to adjust it a little bit, but it's a very easy thing to do. Hey, we need to take this data. It needs to be available to be accessed at this endpoint, right? And it will do that, right? It will know exactly what. What to do or how to connect to.

That. I guess then even taking it.

One step.

Further, I'll just throw out an example. Like Go High Level is a very popular program that a lot of agencies and sales tools use. If I build something cool in replit, say, hey, could you make this so that it would. That users could then integrate it into whatever software? I guess Replik could also make its own program than being able to integrate with Salesforce or whatever. I'm just trying to think of ways to make these softwares even more appealing to users. Like, oh, I like this because it can integrate with these other platforms I'm already.

Using. It's all about knowing that you want to connect it to another platform, to these discussions with replit, because Replit will do it in, in the context of my entire project and what I'm doing. Right. Whereas ChatGPT might not understand the full capabilities of what Replit can do, you know, because Replit's so new and you know, ChatGPT's knowledge is maybe a tiny bit outdated. Right. So you have to really like, dig deep on that. So I really like having conversations with Replit. Hey, don't write any code. Just tell me. I want to talk through this. Right? Don't write any code. Just tell me. Let's talk through how we would put this together. Oh, I would do this, this, this, and this. And you know, are the. Do you, do you. Are there any limitations or do you think this is a good plan? Right. Don't run any code, just tell me. Yeah, I think it's a good plan. Let's do this. Okay, great. Go. Right. So yeah, you, you can connect anything to anything. And this is again where, where you create a lot of Value, guys, is when you start taking. When. When you put together a unique combination of different services and things that are out there to achieve an outcome faster, better, stronger, cheaper, whatever than. Than other things that are. That are already available on the market. So building an automated tool to help you, you know, that uses AI to automatically post for your business, that's a business you could create, right? Jump into replit and build that business. Just build this amazing thing and then say, all right, here's all the source information. So this is the business, this is the website. Here's a bunch of documents. Right? Did we create a custom GPT yesterday? Okay, we're going to do that today. Right now we're going to talk about how to prompt that and then how to actually build your own custom AI integration in ReCapt, right? Which is really, really cool. So let's do that right now, man, we only have an hour left. Time is light. We're almost done here. So, okay, let's share and let's build a custom GPT. This is super easy, guys. You're going to be like, oh my gosh, is. This is the easiest thing I've ever done. So you guys all have access to chat GPT, which is great. Over here in ChatGPT, you've got all these kind of fun things. Over here you've got Explore GPTs. You can click this button right here and in here you have, you know, writing and productivity and research and analysis, all these different things. And. And there's lots of different tools that people have built. By the way, all of these tools in here are free. They're completely free. And so you can go in and, you know, you want something that's specifically focused on doing whatever it will, you know, it'll be specially tuned to that. Then you can create your own. Creating the GPT takes about five minutes, if that. Okay, first you're going to name your GPT. Maybe I want someone to help me come up with, you know, music. Let's say a song. Songwriter, Songwriter, let's call it songwriter, songwriter, assistant. Okay. And this. Okay, you help people write songs. Okay then. Or. Yeah, description. I help people write songs. That's actually. You want to. You're talking to your customer. Then the instructions, you. You can. This is what's called the prompt, right? This is your prompt. Now this prompt, guys, could be 16 pages long. You could make a really in depth the prompt. Here's what you can do. Here's the type of resources that you have. Here's how you act, here's how you're going to behave. Here's what you're going to do. Here's you're going to talk to people. Here's what I don't want you to do. Right. The prompts are really, really cool and really important.