5 AI Tools I’d Use to Make $1M (w/o employees, money, or time)

This podcast is called My First Million. So if someone is trying to get from zero to a million dollars, these are the tools that I'm using to make a million bucks. So today what I want to talk about is I want to show 5 or 6 different apps that I'm using, Sam, that I think you should be using. And we can, we can just go through it that are underrated hidden gems that you probably never heard of that will make you more productive and make you more money.

And the reason why this is fun is because a lot of people in the audience are like me, which is they're like, I'm a really good Googler. That's like, that's like my, that's the extent of how good I am on computers. I'm pretty good at ChatGPT, but you are like 3 steps above me in terms of being technical. And then there's like people that are like 10 steps above that, but you're kind of a good balance of someone who's like on the outer edge of being an early adopter. But also you can relate this to kind of like a Neanderthal like me.

I appreciate that. Yeah, I'm just going to try to clearly explain as much as possible. And I tried, I tried to pick examples of apps that literally anyone could use that is going to make like a big difference in their lives. By the way, I know people are going to listen to this. Some people are going to be like, because there's a lot of AI haters out there, Sam. Why? Why? Because they, they see stuff like this, which I will show you. You know, an AI-generated Taylor Swift, and they're like, you are ruining the world.

Hmm. Okay.

But, you know, this is the— this is where technology is going. And this episode is for people who want to use it to their advantage. And so that's what we're here for.

All right, Greg, fire me up. What do we got? How am I going to look like T-Swift?

All right. You want to start with that?

Friends, listen, what you're seeing right now is crazy.

We are crossing a line in human history where the boundary between reality reality and fiction is vanishing.

This is not Hollywood billion-dollar high-production studio. This is open source. This is from your computer, a click of a button, and most people will not be able to even tell the difference now.

So be safe out there, question what you see, verify what you believe, and follow who wants to stay ahead of the curve. Sounds just like Taylor, and it looks pretty much just like Taylor. And I think the coolest thing about it is look at her mouth movement. Looks exactly like this guy on the top, my friend Sirio. And you can do this not with just Taylor Swift. You can do this with like Mark Zuckerberg. You can do this, Jensen Huang, like anyone you want. You can kind of like deepfake.

Dude, this looks like she looks— Taylor Swift, I think, is a pretty woman. This is a very— she's got a stronger jawline than normal in this one, so it doesn't look exactly like her. You know what's interesting? So I think that you should do like a use case for each of these. Do you wanna hear a crazy use case I, I learned for one of these? I had someone I knew who, uh, they're a wealthy person and someone discovered that they were out of town and, uh, a person used one of these deepfakes to call the building to say that a handyman will be coming, please let them up into their apartment. And it was a, uh, criminal and they like robbed their apartment. And so these deepfakes are very nerve-wracking for these reasons.

Yeah. And that's— there is a dark side to it for sure. And bad stuff is going to happen and we need to be aware of it. I'm especially concerned about like, yeah, like grandmas and parents getting like scammed.

But dude, I've almost been scammed. Like I get almost scammed weekly. So it's not just grandmas. What's the, what's the service? What's the app that makes these, these videos?

So this is using an open source model called Juan 2.2. It's by the Alibaba people. Um, so it is a Chinese app.

Yeah.

So, you know, beware, you know, for a lot of people using open source technology is kind of difficult. So there are apps like enhancer.ai that allows you just to use their SaaS platform. So you can just pick it and you don't need to like look at a GitHub or there's another one called Freepik, which does the same thing. So, um, you know, I think it's worth people playing around with WAN 2.2. This is the anime. So basically you record a video of yourself talking and you can basically pick a character that, you know, yeah, you're right. It doesn't look like Taylor Swift exactly. It's more like a Tyler Swift.

Yeah.

Uh, you know, so if you wanted Tyler Swift, a Swift, or, uh, you know, Matt Zuckerberg, uh, you know, it's fun to play around with it and use it as content for your, you know, your brand or, uh, just per, or just having fun, like, you know, your personal brand as well.

That's cool. When do you think this is gonna be good enough for me to use like in ads or things like that?

I mean, it's, it's, it's 100% good enough to use in ads. Wow. Now I wouldn't use, you know, Tyler Swift.

Yeah, of course.

In an ad, cuz you might not get approved by, uh, Meta. But, you know, people are using JF, you know, JFK and Play-Doh and, you know, things that are in the public domain that you could use, you know, create ads for. And it's working.

So I can go to enhancer.ai, which I'm here, and I can film like I could film like a funny script of what I think JFK would say to promote MFM or something like that. And I can actually use that in an ad because JFK is considered public domain.

Exactly. I mean, I'm not a lawyer, but from my understanding, yes, there's this guy by the name of PJ Ace I just had him on my podcast. He's amazing. He's like the number one AI video ad guy and he's literally getting hundreds of millions of views on his AI videos. And he's, I've seen him like, he'll work with like, you know, the largest companies on the planet. And so he's using, look at this, like he's using Sam Altman here.

So, wow. Is there a way that, what would be the best way? This, like, I'm looking at this PJAs guy and I'm like, this sounds awesome. I want to use this immediately. What would be the best way for me to do that?

So first you need to write a script. And if I were to, if you know, what I would do is I would, uh, use ChatGPT, use Claude to come up with a script idea. And we won't have time to go through a tutorial of that today, but then I would create reference frames. So I would use, uh, one of the image models like Enhancer or like Freepik. Which we maybe we can go into later to create images of what the storyboard of the 20-second or 30-second ad might look like.

Oh my gosh.

And then I would animate those frames to create a cohesive story. Um, that's basically the process. You use ChatGPT, uh, Claude, uh, you use Enhancer and Freepik. Um, and then you use, um, you know, you might want to, if you're pro, you might want to use like a, you know, Final Cut Pro or something like that to get Yeah.

Okay. This is awesome. What's the next one?

Have you played with Perplexity Browser at all?

No, I actually used Perplexity the other day because I watched one of your videos on how to use Sora. And I saw that you say, um, that Perplexity is good for researching. And, uh, I forget what you exactly what you said in the video, but I use it to research, I think how to make a viral video or something like that. And then I like put that into Claude and then I got the script from Claude and then I put it in Sora. Is that right?

Yeah, so it's a hassle to move browsers. Like everyone has everything set up on their current browser. Maybe they're using Google Chrome. Um, but having an AI-first browser is an absolute game changer. There's Perplexity Comet, there's DIA, there's Opera, there's a few others. But for today's example, we're gonna use Comet cuz that's which one I think is the best. And I just wanna go through a few workflows. To— so by the end of this demo, I think that everyone is going to be like, yeah, I need an AI browser.

So do you use— let me, let me clarify— do you use Perplexity Comet instead of Chrome?

Yes.

Okay. So this is not a cool thing. This is ROI. This works. Okay.

Oh, and I can't go back. Like, you know, going back would— like, my eyes would bleed. You know, I— it is too slow to go back. Once you get used to an AI browser, you will not go back. Just like Now you use ChatGPT over Google probably 95% of the time.

Yeah.

So I saw this ad for this company called One Bone, which is a clothing brand for big and tall people. I'm actually not big. I'm pretty tall. I'm like 6'3", so I'm 165 pounds. I'm actually not that big, but I clicked on it anyways. I thought that it looked pretty cool. Um, and so, you know, let's just say I'm okay. I'm 6'3". Um, I'm gonna add this to cart. I always get to this. I don't know if this is just me, Sam, but I always get to this point where it's the discount code and I'm like, okay, there must be a discount code I could use here. And you know that there was a scam, uh, oh, it was like a scam basically with Honey, right? Where it was, they acknowledge, or someone did like a Coffeezilla type video where they said Honey is like getting a referral affiliate fee on each one, on your data and on your products, right?

Yeah, yeah, I saw that. That was about 6 months ago.

Yeah, exactly. It went viral. So here's an example of how I would use Comet. So I would say I want to use a discount code.

Oh my gosh.

I don't know any. Can you find one and only find one that works? And add it to this form.

Oh my gosh, this is awesome.

So what's cool about, uh, Comet is it sees what's on your screen and you can see on the right-hand side, it's, it's looking and it's searching through, you know, in this case, 10 different sources. Um, and it'll hopefully work. Um, and if it doesn't, you can keep just prompting it to get it to work, right? So look, Thrift 10.

Oh, sick.

Save $66 on my 2 jackets.

And Greg, have you ever heard of girl math? Is that what it's called? Ari, have you heard of girl math? I think this is an example of girl math. You've just made $60 shopping.

It's basically free.

It's basically— you just got paid $66.

I bought a jacket for 350-pound men and I'm 165 pounds. But it's— but it's free.

That's awesome. This is girl math. I love this. That's cool. Hey everyone, really quick. I can already tell that this is an episode that you guys are going to be taking a lot of notes on, and that's kind of a pain in the butt to do while you're either watching or listening to this. And so we actually made it really easy. We made the entire episode into a downloadable PDF, and this way you could just sit back and enjoy the podcast right now and get the notes later. So the link is in the description below. Click it if you want those notes. Now back to the episode.

So the next thing that I've been using Comet for has been, uh, finding exact moments in YouTube videos. So I'll say something like, so I'll open up Assistant on the right-hand side, find and play the exact moment Steve Jobs talks about Apple's intersection of liberal arts and technology. And then Comet's agents go and figure out where that is.

Wow.

And I can— yeah, it basically downloads the transcript, um, and it searches it. And look how fast it is, dude, because I use—

I do that all the time. Like if I'm doing copywriting, I'm like, oh, I remembered a good hook. I once watched this video of Steve Jobs and he made this like kind of small, uh, offhanded comment, but I don't remember, like it was at a graduation talk, but I don't remember which one. And this would save so much time by being able to like just ask it to find it.

It saves a lot of time and also you're in, uh, kind of you're in flow state. So if you wanted to do this on Chrome or, or another browser, you'd have to open up another tab. You'd have to like Google it, you'd have to find it, you have to watch, like it, it pulls you out of, wow, you know, your zone. How am I able to run 5 companies that are successful is because I have a lot of tricks like this that help me save time. So at the set, it says here, the quote begins at the 7-second mark. You can actually tell it's a— I think it'll— if I say play this video, it should actually play the video. Yeah, see, it opened up a new tab and you can't hear this, but, uh, it's literally playing it.

That's crazy.

And then you can go back to Assistant and you can say, um, this is a cool talk. I'm a founder. What are the most interesting takeaways for me, write it in an essay. And I find, I find that YouTube is just such a wealth of information. Like literally everything. There's so much there. All of our world, you know, world leaders are on it. The biggest founders on the planet, podcasts. Learning from YouTube is so amazing. And I just find myself just going to videos like this and seeing like, look how, look how amazing this is.

Man, I should have, I wish I would've known about this. I actually just installed the Chrome extension. Chrome plugin that gets the transcript from YouTube and it does it a little bit better than the normal YouTube transcript button. And I did it so I could copy and paste it just to put it into ChatGPT to ask it these questions.

Yeah, it's, it's, this is gonna make your life a lot easier. You're gonna be, you're gonna be way smarter from this. Not that you need to be smarter. You're, you're a smart guy, Sam, but you know, we'll take any edge we can get.

I, I, I'm a few brain cells away from just being a talking monkey, my friend. I could use anything I can get. Uh, okay, so, uh, perplexity comment, that's awesome. I like that.

I'll do one last one with perplexity comment and then we can move on. So you can ask it, um, you know, one of, one of the hardest things I have to do as a founder is trying to hire good talent, right? So you can say, find, um, find and go to the LinkedIn profile of someone who worked on Apple AI and now at Meta. So wow, it'll actually go and do that. Is this free? It's free. It just, it just came out like a few days ago for free for everyone.

Wow.

And I have no relationship to Perplexity, by the way. I'm just like, I'm, I'm a happy, you know, it makes my life better, right? So I'm happy to talk about it.

I pay, um, I think $200 a month for LinkedIn Recruiter.

Oh yeah.

And this just kind of like LinkedIn Recruiter has value, but this just would've helped as well. Uh, and maybe in lieu of and for free.

Well, watch this. So we got this answer. The LinkedIn profile of Mark Lee matches your criteria. He worked on Apple AI as a research engineer and is now an AI research scientist at Meta. So let's say, Sam, that you wanted to hire him for Hampton.

It would only cost $100 million.

It would only cost between $100 million and $500 million, but What you can do is say, can you craft an email?

Oh my gosh.

That is going to get this guy to work for me. I'm the CEO of Hampton. What's the URL?

Joinhampton.com.

Joinhampton.com.

Yeah, it's just going to say like, good luck, buddy. Get in line, pal.

I hope this message finds you well. My name is, you know, your name. I'm the CEO of Join Hampton. Uh, we're assembling an elite, you know, and this is, it's not bad and you can, you can kind of like craft it to make it your own, right? But what's really cool about this is, okay, cool. This looks great. My name is Sam Parr. Can you send this email for me on my Gmail?

Oh my gosh.

So what it'll do is it'll basically create an agent that will send this email for you so you can actually connect your Gmail. Wow. Yeah, I'm not gonna do it right now cuz you know, I'm not Sam Parr and I'm not trying to spend $100 million hiring this guy, but you can actually connect your Gmail and start sending emails.

Man, this is just so nutty. And this is a lot of people watching this will, will mock me here and make fun of me. But for the real nerds, like I use Whisper. Is it called Whisper Flow?

Yeah, it's Whisper Flow.

So I'm actually just, I actually talk to my computer a lot and I have it set up to where like the little globe button on the bottom left-hand of my screen, I just hold that button and I have a conversation with it and it types it for me because I hate typing. Like literally my fingers hurt sometimes because like, and so I will just, I just have conversations with my computer. And if I could do that now in the per— in Perplexity's Comet, that would make life way better.

Yeah. So speaking to computers, like how you're doing with WhisperFlow, which is another underrated AI tool, uh, once you do it, you can't go back. Yeah. Like here you can, here you can see like a keyboard, you can only get to 45 words per minute. Flow, you get to 220 words per minute. It's too slow to go back to a keyboard after.

So for those listening, You have to check out Whisper Flow and it's— or I think it's called Whisper. It's actually shockingly hard to find if you Google it because they spell whisper with in a startup-y way. I think it's like W-I-S-P-E-R. And so the way it works is you— I have it set up by a hotkey where I just click this one button, I talk to it, but sometimes I'll make a mistake and I'll say, oh, whoops, I mean this. So can you pick me up a burger? I mean, I actually want a taco. Like if I'm texting my wife, like it will not say the first thing and instead will say the second thing. Or I'll say, so my opinion on that is broken down into 3 points. Point 1 is this, point 2 is this, point 3 is this. It formats it where it says, my opinion is this, uh, colon, number 1, this paragraph, number 2, this.

100%. Also, I, I think that people could use Whisperflow for teams. I think that's an underrated kind of hack. Um, using the snippet library that they have, you can create these snippets like here, calendar, hours, support, intro, FAQ, so that you can just say calendar or say hours and it'll just throw it in there.

So, oh my gosh.

Um, I, I love Whisperflow. To me it's the same level up in productivity that you are gonna see if, you know, you're moving from, you know, uh, Chrome to, to an AI browser.

Wow.

Like, What are you more interested in talking about? Uh, AI Excel or content automation on TikTok, getting followers on TikTok?

Uh, I, I don't like TikTok, but I do wanna know how to get followers, but I wanna know more so the Excel thing because I've been trying to find a replacement for, like, I wanted to talk to Google Sheets. I actually use Google Sheets. I don't use Excel, but I think I saw that one company got funded, like 12 months ago, but I went and demoed it and it was only fine. And so I haven't found a good solution for this.

So yeah, if you're anything like me, you hate Excel. Like the idea, I don't even know what a macro is, honestly.

Yeah. I, I've, I, I don't know what that word means, but I hear people say it all the time.

Like to me, an Excel sheet is, is, is almost like terminal. Like when I'm in the terminal, I'm like overwhelmed. So I, I try to avoid going in Excel as much as possible, but there's this thing called tryshortcut.ai. It's from this research lab of like ballers, like some of the best researchers on the planet created it. And their first product is to create an AI-first version of Excel. And it's similar to actually Comet in the sense that, you know, on the left it sees your screen, which is like a cloud version of Excel. And on the right-hand side you have prompts and you can just use natural language to tell it what to do. And it, it works. For example, literally 1 minute before this call, this call, I actually used Comet to find, I was like, hey, find me a sheet of financial data that I can upload to Try Shortcut. I uploaded it to Try Shortcut. As you can see, it's this list of company, how much market cap they have, how much revenue they have, how much gross profit they had. I said, analyze my data for key insights. It gives me all the key insights. Now, if I wanted to say, hey, build me a DCF analysis or build me an income statement or explain me this or explain me that, you can do it. And it's— it works.

Can you ask it a question right now? Ask it, which stock would Warren Buffett pick based off of this data? The reason I'm asking is, is I actually bought a book called like Warren Buffett on Accounting or something like that, or Warren Buffett on balance sheets when I was trying to learn accounting. And 'cause I was trying to figure out what does he see, you know, what sticks out to him. But this, and the book was really hard to read. These are complicated concepts. This might just do it for me.

Yeah, yeah. And it has all, it has this data that is on screen, but it's also looking, you know, it's sending agents all across the internet to figure out what is happening. And so the beauty of this context plus that context, you end up getting really good outcomes. And then you can also say, uh, so Warren Buffett's pick is Apple. So we're getting some data here, but you can also, now that it's giving this data, you can actually say like, create a new document based on this that shows like the operating cash flow.

Yeah. Wow.

This is a big deal. I just saw that they, uh, have this now, which is an Excel plugin. So even if you don't want to use their cloud-based solution, you can just basically download. It only has 36 ratings. This is how early you are to this.

I want to be number 37. That's great. Are you— usually what I've done is I have uploaded my financials, like either my P&L, my business's P&L, or sometimes even like my personal income statement or my personal net worth. And I will ask ChatGPT questions off of based off that data. Would you feel comfortable doing that here on Comet? Not comfortable because it's not any revealing information. It's just numbers. It's not like a Social Security number or anything like that. But would you feel like it would give you good advice?

Yeah, I mean, I would feel comfortable. I think I would feel more comfortable though, just doing it locally on, on Excel. So you're not uploading your data to the cloud because who knows what could happen. Um, so I, I, you know, if it's really sensitive data, I do recommend just using Excel. Like, why not? You don't need to have it on the cloud, right? Everyone, most people use Excel. But look, look what you can do here. Like, you can, you know, it's not even just querying, because on ChatGPT you can query the data and be like, what would you do here? What would you do there? But you can't say, uh, you know, you know, if, you know, build LBO models or GCF analysis or pro forma statements. Like, this is This is stuff. This is basically a financial analyst in a box that you can, that you can use. And it's pretty cheap.

Wow. This is magical. And this is free.

You get like a certain amount of credits for free. It's not that many credits. I think it's like 4.

Man, this is great.

Yeah, that's cool.

That, that might be number 2 and Comet might be number 1, but it'd be close so far.

Yeah, I knew you'd like that one. You're probably going to hate this one, but I'm telling it to you anyways. Okay. And the reason I'm telling it to you is just because there's an arbitrage moment where I'm sure you've probably seen these slideshows on TikTok where—

I actually don't use TikTok, but I, uh, I— maybe you can convince me, but I think that like this AI content is just garbage, you know, like I'm a purist. I want like MrBeast.

I bet you people, I bet you have like favorited, shared, liked AI content, but you just haven't realized it.

Dude, I did the other day. There was one where, um, a guy used, made a fake potato launcher and he shot it at a grandma and it was the funniest thing I've ever seen. Yeah.

Or like, did you see like Stephen Hawking? Yes.

On a vert ramp.

Yeah. Yeah.

It's great. So yeah, I guess I'm, I'm kind of being convinced in real time here.

Yeah. And I think a lot of these types, what I'm showing here, these TikToks are like 6 mistakes we made during pool planning and how to avoid them. You would never think that that's actually AI that created it.

No, that looks real.

That looks real.

Okay, so how do I, uh, how do I fake the world?

Here's what I'll say. I'll say that, you know, a lot of people are vibe coding software right now. Um, but the hardest problem is how do you get customers to that software? Well, one way is to own a bunch of accounts like on TikTok that you can send traffic to. So I believe that there's an arbitrage right now to use AI to create these accounts, basically like meme accounts, and then, you know, sell your software through them. So there's a, there's a piece of software called Realfarm. This thing must do like like 10K a month MRR or less. It's like not many people know about it, but it's a way to automate TikToks to drive traffic to your website.

Just TikTok, not Instagram?

Just TikTok. Uh, I mean, you probably could, you, you know, upload it to Instagram, but from what I've seen, it does TikTok the best. What it, how it works is you can, uh, source images from, let's say Pinterest. So Pinterest has tons of images. Let's say you want to do, you know, top— a slideshow that says top 8 protein sources ranked by bioavailability and cost. So you add a prompt and generate a slideshow. You can see the slideshow over here.

That's crazy.

These images, and it's super clean. And the cool thing is that TikTok is promoting slideshows right now. And then you can just schedule and publish it. So within like 30 seconds, you have a piece of content in your niche that you can just schedule?

Wow, man. I have a friend that created an app. He's a man that helps men do Kegel exercises, which basically makes it so you don't premature ejaculate during sex. And I was like, man, this is neat and all, but this is real hard to promote. Like, I don't, you know, I wouldn't want to brag. I don't feel comfortable bragging about using this app. And when you go to Realfarm, I see ReelFarm, uh, Reel— what is their URL? reel.farm. Like, I see the companies who use it and I'm like, I see A16Z and I see Substack and I'm like, really? You, you guys use this?

Yeah, I don't know. I don't know if they use it, but I do know that if you want to fight for customers right now and you want audiences, slideshows and TikTok slideshows is a great way to do it. And then, you know, why pay an agency thousands of dollars a month? When you can just use a product like this.

You want to know something funny? Do you know who Stephen Bartlett is?

I do.

Stephen used to work for Sean. He was like Sean's intern or something like that. And then he left to start his first business. And apparently Sean tells a story, but it's public, which is like he had a whole bunch of like Twitter or Instagram handles. It was like things teens say about Georgia or art history where they just like told stories about art history and he would get all of them popular and then you would spend money with him, you would buy an ad and he would have his meme accounts tweet out or Instagram out your product and then like within 10 minutes it would go viral or something, or it would be highly ranked in the App Store. This is kind of like in the same vein and, you know, I'm teasing and making fun of it, but I'm on Reel.farm. Some of the— like he's got this one where he uses like old art to make like these slideshows. I am such a— like I watch those all the time. Like if it's something like, you know, the top 10 like strangest disappear— like missing person cases, like I watch all of them.

Totally. So you, that's what, that's what I'm saying. Like we've, we've watched this, like there's, there's, there's some way to do AI slop that just like is cringe and looks bad. But some of these like slideshows and, uh, he also has like a UGC ad avatar feature on Reelfarm that I think is pretty interesting.

What's that called? Reel? Oh, Reel, the same website.

It's the same website, but they basically have a way that you, you select a template. Let's say of this person, this, this sleepy looking guy over here in the hoodie. And you're like, okay, I want to create an ad. And then you come up with the hook. You know, you can use like ChatGPT or Claude to come up with the hook, or you can, you know, actually be creative yourself. And you can say like my top 3 matcha brands. You choose the background music and then it creates using AI.

That's crazy.

Like that looks real.

That looks real.

That looks real. This looks real.

So this guy is fake.

He's a fake guy. You set, you create the product video. You can use AI to create the product video or if you, you know, want, you can create it yourself, like with an iPhone.

It does look like green paint, not matcha, but that's, but you know, I guess because I'm staring at it.

Sherwin-Williams' new macho brand.

That's what it looks like.

Yeah. And like, you know, it's not perfect, but I also think that like we're looking at it like surgically, but the average person just swiping in their brain-rotted frame of mind is probably not like it looks like paint.

Yeah, they're just a fat pig in a cage just saying, buy it. I want to buy stuff, you know, I want to buy stuff.

And what's, what's an account like this worth? If you're just like reviewing matcha brands and you have thousands of followers, like, yeah, like that's probably worth a lot of money, dude.

This stuff, whenever I see it. So the capitalistic side is like, this is awesome. And then I find myself slowly like becoming a socialist and I'm thinking, oh my God, we're just, we're just a bunch of Palantirs in our house just watching us and we're just buying dumb stuff from AI ads. Okay. That's interesting though. Regardless if I make fun of it, I think it's kind of cool. What's the, uh, what's another cool one?

Okay. This one is also, you're going to hate this, I think also, but sign me up.

This is not just for you.

It's for, uh, it's for people looking for jobs. So, um, there's this thing called AI Apply. And if you go to the website, you could, Let's say you're looking for a job. You can literally apply to thousands of jobs automatically via AI.

That's crazy, man. This is absolutely crazy.

It also has this cool thing. There's like an interview buddy, so it helps you like get real-time interview help and answer interview questions. Um, it helps you build in resume, it helps you build a cover letter, and obviously the core feature is the auto-apply thing. Now, why I like this. Is it's— I get my feel in our little tech bubble that like the economy is good and everything like that. People are suffering right now and it's really hard to find a job. Any way that you can find an unfair advantage to get in the room, I support. It does suck for the HR managers and the, you know, the people at the companies getting all these AI applications. I will say that though.

That is insane, man. I hate this. but, um, I get, I get the need. It says that it's loved by 1 million users. So a million people use this.

Million people have used this. I, I actually tweeted like, what are some underrated apps? And the CMO replied with this. And some guy was like, yeah, but if you're, uh, you know, the company getting these, this sucks. And he responded saying like, the next version of the product is helping companies filter out AI applications.

This is like if Nestlé, like, owned the hospital, you know what I mean?

Yeah, exactly.

It's like we're going to fatten you up and then give you a bunch of medicine to make you skinny, and then we're going to fatten you up again.

Yeah, it's amazing. And it's probably going to be a great business. But I think that like there's an— again, I'm always looking for like the arbitrage opportunity. Has seeing—

yeah. And I get the moneymaking perspective and I think that if you haven't made your first dollar and you're looking to do something, then this is the future. And I, you know, like my business that made me money was a newsletter that had advertising in it. So I am, I am, I am no one to talk about any of this. But sometimes I see this stuff, I do get pretty bummed out where I think, and I think this will always happen. I think the people who are older will always look at the younger people and be like, back in my day, like we cared about our jobs or we were more craftsmen. So I'm going to preface all of that with, with that. But does any of this make you feel bad?

Yeah. So, well, this podcast is called My First Million. So if someone is trying to get from $0 to $1 million, like, these are the tools that anyone could use. And there's no capital restrictions and you don't need to be in Silicon Valley to win. So I think that, you know, if I'm trying to make a million bucks like this is— this is— these are the tools that I'm trying— I'm using. To make a million bucks. I grew up with no connections and, you know, not a ton of money and stuff like that. So like, I have a soft spot for people who are starting out going zero to one. And, you know, so that's who I'm focusing on, man. Like, I'm focusing— like, I'm— that's what I've like dedicated my career to doing really is helping people, you know, being in the light bulb business and helping people have light bulbs. So they can actually like change the trajectory of a life. Now I say that with like, I don't want to go on, on X and Instagram and see AI slop all day long, you know what I mean? Like, I love X and I love Instagram and we have kids now, right? We don't want our, our, our families to be addicted to these products. So I do, I do feel that. I do feel a sense of like responsibility as well.

But I do think it's interesting. You know, I think that, I think that the generation before the internet came around, they probably said the exact same thing.

They said the same thing.

I think that the generation before the Industrial Revolution, they would say the exact same thing. So things tend to work themselves out. And it's just, this is the first time in my life that I'm old enough where I'm potentially like, okay, are you getting on or are you getting off? Whereas if you're a young person, you're just born on. So there was no, are you getting on or getting off for the internet? I was born into the internet. That's just how I grew up. Whereas now I'm old enough to where it's not, I'm not default into it and I have to like learn about it. And this is, this is the first time I've experienced that.

Yeah. I mean, we are getting older, you know, so, and we've seen some of these shifts, but I agree, like, what's the difference between brain rotting on TikTok and like watching TV for 8 hours a day.

These tools are really cool. I do spend— how many, how many hours a week are you just nerding out and finding all these interesting things?

I mean, that's one of the reasons why I love the design agency is like the design agency is working with all, all the top AI apps to build up this stuff. So sometimes I just sit in meetings and I'm like, you know, teach me everything about, you know, Character AI, teach me everything about Jasper AI, teach me everything about, these tools.

How many of them are you proficient in?

I, I spend probably 10 hours a week playing with new tools every single week, and I would say I'm proficient in— I'm proficient, like I'm, you know, native in 10 tools, let's say.

Man, well, thank you for, um, for, um, fill me in. I do feel it's funny for years I was like the young guy. I was like, you know, the guy who my parents would ask, how do they turn their internet on or plug their TV in? Because I think that I'm like a computer geek. And but I was never actually that. And now I feel like I'm even further away from like the AI epicenter. But I'm so happy that I have friends like you who can like pull me towards it a little bit and show me what's cool and not make me feel stupid by not knowing what it is. And that's kind of the value that you provided to our audience this episode. So I appreciate you doing that.

It's literally my pleasure. It's an honor to do, to do so. And like, like I said, like I'm in the light bulb business, so you know, if you had 1 or 2 or 3 light bulbs, even if some of the stuff you, you saw today was like, ah, that's a little bit cringe, I wouldn't do that. There might be a way that you can do or use some of these tools in a way that works for you. And I think that's the important part and that's like the important takeaway. So. Sam, thanks for having me on and letting me share my nerdy stuff. And I'll see you next time.

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