number 1 is pretty cool. I was thinking about doing this but actually the opposite . When someone is asking for your services then a agent can respond with your company information.
Re #3 : I’ve thought about a group-format dating experience too. anyone who’s been on dating apps knows it’s lonely and discouraging and potentially sketchy, and wouldn’t it be great if you had a wing man/woman?
> They feel like they are searching everywhere. They have scanned Twitter for new ideas. They have cold emailed investors asking for suggestions. They have read biographies looking for inspiration. They still feel like they have no good ideas.
A variation or something like #2 has been attempted so for anyone interested - a fabulous way to learn? From previous mistakes. The Ivy, I think it was called? I’d double check and update. But people love exclusivity. And talking about themselves!
#6 - I’d much rather see an email or a draft I have from a year ago, then Facebook or Google reminding me that ten years ago today - yes… yes… I think we’ve all seen enough photos of Sultan and I- Google please stop - we broke up. (I figured out there is a way to do nix the reminders)
Also a note on DateMyFriend - As a bonafide serial dater - I’ve been on every single app (except JDate and E-Harmony) I thought The League was pretty solid in the beginning - but I was in a test city (SF).
So the advice to try in a test city, where people are six degrees from each other - maybe NYC? Would make sense.
Thanks again!
Really appreciate the help, and extra effort while some of us are at home with parents and dogs, and in -4 degree weather :)
These are some great ideas to work with. I was actually working on building #10 Substack Analytics but there are a lot of grey areas in Substack legal terms with respect to web scrapping as there is no official Substack API to use for pulling data. Some have reverse engineered its unofficial API but using that for creating analytics for other publications can itself be deemed violation of Substack terms.
I'll share this not to discourage anyone who wants to build it (in fact, if you already see an idea in the market that's excellent validation to pursue it) but for #3 Clay.com is doing a really good job at this. They've taken the whole notion of GTM and have leveraged engineering principles to make it so much more structured. All those repeatable motions that Sales has to go through can be automated in a way that maintains the personality but scales the individual.
I personally think that whole space is going to see an explosion of tools next year addressing this problem to allow a BDR and the AE to increase portfolio sizes.
Lots of great other ideas in there but that one stood out to me.
This is really cool. I built something similar at Quno, where brands like Canva and Coffee Meets Bagel used it to monitor competitor moves, hiring signals, product launches, and broader market shifts. One interesting takeaway was that LLMs worked best not just as a summarization layer, but as a programmable “monitoring lens” over the web. Letting users define their own prompts and cadence made the system feel much closer to ongoing strategic awareness than traditional market research.
this is pretty cool. would love more of these.
We will!
number 1 is pretty cool. I was thinking about doing this but actually the opposite . When someone is asking for your services then a agent can respond with your company information.
Hmmmm
This are some beautiful ideas ✨
Re #3 : I’ve thought about a group-format dating experience too. anyone who’s been on dating apps knows it’s lonely and discouraging and potentially sketchy, and wouldn’t it be great if you had a wing man/woman?
> They feel like they are searching everywhere. They have scanned Twitter for new ideas. They have cold emailed investors asking for suggestions. They have read biographies looking for inspiration. They still feel like they have no good ideas.
I feel seen.
LOVE ideas #1, 2, and 6.
A variation or something like #2 has been attempted so for anyone interested - a fabulous way to learn? From previous mistakes. The Ivy, I think it was called? I’d double check and update. But people love exclusivity. And talking about themselves!
#6 - I’d much rather see an email or a draft I have from a year ago, then Facebook or Google reminding me that ten years ago today - yes… yes… I think we’ve all seen enough photos of Sultan and I- Google please stop - we broke up. (I figured out there is a way to do nix the reminders)
Also a note on DateMyFriend - As a bonafide serial dater - I’ve been on every single app (except JDate and E-Harmony) I thought The League was pretty solid in the beginning - but I was in a test city (SF).
So the advice to try in a test city, where people are six degrees from each other - maybe NYC? Would make sense.
Thanks again!
Really appreciate the help, and extra effort while some of us are at home with parents and dogs, and in -4 degree weather :)
😉 🥶 🐕 🎄
These are some great ideas to work with. I was actually working on building #10 Substack Analytics but there are a lot of grey areas in Substack legal terms with respect to web scrapping as there is no official Substack API to use for pulling data. Some have reverse engineered its unofficial API but using that for creating analytics for other publications can itself be deemed violation of Substack terms.
good to know!
I'll share this not to discourage anyone who wants to build it (in fact, if you already see an idea in the market that's excellent validation to pursue it) but for #3 Clay.com is doing a really good job at this. They've taken the whole notion of GTM and have leveraged engineering principles to make it so much more structured. All those repeatable motions that Sales has to go through can be automated in a way that maintains the personality but scales the individual.
I personally think that whole space is going to see an explosion of tools next year addressing this problem to allow a BDR and the AE to increase portfolio sizes.
Lots of great other ideas in there but that one stood out to me.
Damnit Raj, that’s how I spent my whole afternoon working on number 3.
😉
Kidding.
😅 Only reason I called them out is because of some of the posts they are doing on Substack. Clearly living in ✨the future ✨
This is really cool. I built something similar at Quno, where brands like Canva and Coffee Meets Bagel used it to monitor competitor moves, hiring signals, product launches, and broader market shifts. One interesting takeaway was that LLMs worked best not just as a summarization layer, but as a programmable “monitoring lens” over the web. Letting users define their own prompts and cadence made the system feel much closer to ongoing strategic awareness than traditional market research.