The OpenAI Launch Nobody's Talking About (ChatGPT Skills)

0:28What's up, everyone? Welcome to the Startup Ideas Podcast. And that's today's episode.

0:39So the news item I want to talk about that I don't think a lot of people are talking about is, quietly, OpenAI has launched skills. So we've seen Anthropic and Claude skills. A lot of people talking about that, including myself, how amazing it is. But quietly, we have Codex now officially supports skills. Skills are reusable bundles of instructions, scripts, and resources that help Codex complete specific tasks. You can call a skill directly with$.skill name or let Codex choose the right one based on your prompts. So what's really cool is they're just following the agent skills IO standard, the one by Anthropic.

1:21A skill is just a folder, basically a skill.md file for instructions and metadata. And all of a sudden, your ChatGPT and Codex has just become a lot more valuable. So there's tons of ways that you're going to be able to use agent skills within Codex or ChatGPT. It gives some examples here in the official announcement. some technical stuff because it's talking about codecs specifically, but like a Notion spec to implementation skill. Have codecs read and update your linear tickets skill. Have codecs automatically fix your GitHub CI failures skill. So it does a lot of things. And I think a lot of people don't really understand the difference between what is a skill, what is a sub-agent, And what is an MCP?

2:20So just to give everyone a little bit of a foundation, a skill is like a written guide that tells Cloud or Codex or ChatGPT exactly how to do a specific task. For example, analyze spreadsheets this way or write emails in this voice or design the interface like this. So you can basically call and reuse the same skill again. And it allows for more consistent output. So what is a subagent? Well, a subagent is making a few extra copies of the LLM that you're using, Clode or Codex or ChatGPT, each with its own job, such as you review the code, you write tests, you update docs. The main LLM can hand out pieces of a big task to help these workers so work happens in parallel and stays organized.

3:13And an MCP is just a universal power plug that lets the LLM access other tools. We saw that it's going to update your linear tickets. Well, it needs access to that, and that's through MCPs. So highly encourage everyone plays around with this. You can see over here on agentskills.io, I'll include it in the show notes. It kind of explains a little more about what agent skills are. It says here, it's an open format, a simple open format for giving agents new capabilities and expertise. Agent skills are folders of instructions, scripts, and resources that can discover and use to do more accurately and efficiently.

3:58And who doesn't want that? It says what an agent skill can enable. Domain expertise, so package specialized knowledge into reusable instructions from legal review processes to data pipelines. New capabilities where you can give agents new capabilities Capabilities like creating presentations or building MCP servers, repeatable workflows, interoperability. So yeah, there's a lot there. There's some example skills that they give as well on GitHub. And I just think that not a lot of people are talking about it. So I had to let you know about it. So that's the one news item that I think you should be paying attention to.

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5:27It's also about making your business AI first, how you can actually build not just one product but multiple products, and you're going to leave with tactical answers to your questions. So if that's you and this sounds interesting, I'll see you there. So that's the news item. The trend that I've been hearing about is something called face yoga. I don't know if you've heard about it, but if you go, I'm going to go onto Idea Browser and just check the trend. Face yoga. I'm sure you've heard of yoga, obviously. But people are doing these face yoga techniques to get slimmer faces. And there's a lot of opportunity here if you want to create different apps.

6:21Because there are a ton of opportunities in yoga, right? There's people making millions of dollars a year with these yoga apps. but face yoga is kind of a sub niche that I think is interesting and is getting a ton of volume you're seeing 110 ,000 searches in August the average EBC is about a dollar the competition is low and I just think that you're going to see I think there's an opportunity to build products, apps around face workouts, facial exercises, face yoga face lifting yoga exercises jawline trainer face slimming exercises so there's a lot of opportunity here a trend i never heard of heard of but face yoga face yoga involves facial exercises stretches massage to tone facial muscles potentially reducing signs of aging like wrinkles and sagging by firming the skin much like body yoga strengthens muscles offering a natural and holistic way to improve facial definition.

7:29You can even see here people are creating YouTube videos on it. 10-minute cheek lift face yoga tone, right? Like there's an opportunity to build an app that's, you know, just some of these exercises and you can charge for it. Or make it free and do advertising or sponsorship. So face yoga, a trend I have recently heard of that, hey, might get your creative juices flowing. One app that I wanted to talk about that I've been using literally for 14 years and some of you have heard of this one it's the Things To-Do List app. It's by a company called Culture Code not affiliated with them at all. It's the To-Do List app.

8:20People often ask me how do I stay focused? Because I'm working on multiple companies and a lot of people work with me and stuff like that. I keep everything into things, not to-do list, as my to-do list. What I like about it, it has what I'm focusing on today, what is my upcoming, and what is something I want to do someday. It isn't a monthly fee, it's just a one-time fee. There is some stuff to be desired here, I will say. I could use some AI features and stuff like that. But overall, if you're looking for a simple to-do list app, I just find things to be the simplest one there. And I've tried other things.

9:11I've tried more intense ones, ones that are around the GTD framework and more the kitchen sink type app. But I don't know, I always come back to things, does what I need to do, and I recommend it. I recommend it for people who are looking for a simple to-do list app. Let's give away a startup idea. So the startup idea of today is one that was on the, You can check here. Every day for the last 24 days, we've been giving away a free startup idea. Here's day 22. I'll include the link in the show notes if you get these ideas for free. You just got to claim them. Today's idea I really like. It says, call an expert service for non-developers stuck at 80 % done.

10:04How many of us have built a vibe-coded app and are 80 % of the way there? We use things like Cursor or Replit or v0. And then we kind of just give up. So the idea is something called last 20. Last 20 is a phone a friend for builders who are almost there. Upload your code, describe the block, get matched with an expert who's hit that wall before and knows the way around it. 15 minutes on a screen share. That's it. Problem solved. Basically, hire a vibe coder, ship it. Maybe you charge$15 to$50 per session or maybe you do a yearly thing for agencies. Maybe it's like$100 to$500 a year who can't afford stalled client work.

10:48Experts set their rates so you basically create this marketplace and then you charge a percentage. Maybe it's 5%, 10%, 15%. So many of us are becoming vibe coders. There's literally millions of us but at the end of it we're kind of just like how do I do this one thing? and there's so many I think this is so true there's so many YouTube comments of people being like how do I do this? Agency Slack channels asking has anyone shipped this integration for? Okay so here is the main hire a vibe coder phone a friend opportunity and if you look at the search data it's absolutely beautiful AI helpers AI tutors all this sort of stuff is just going up into the right And I think that's why it's such a huge opportunity.

11:39It scored a nine on 10. The problem is a severe pain. I don't think the feasibility is a five on 10. It's not that hard to do. And the why now, nine on 10, perfect timing. So I think I always check the value letter in Idea Browser. is just get your creative juices flowing around how you can actually go and build this product. So I would start with a lead magnet around an AI project roadblock guide with the goal just to get people's email addresses, get their phone numbers. Then you do a front-end offer, so freemium access to an AI help tool. Then the core offer, expert help sessions. You do a paper session, access to expert advice.

12:26And then eventually you layer on the annual subscription, offering, priority, access, and additional features. And then eventually you do the agency thing, right? You do the enterprise package. So I think this is sort of the ladder and the key stages here. Just like why I like the value ladder. I've talked about this before, but it's basically you give free value to build trust and capture leads. That's the guide. you do the front end offer which is like a low ticket product to convert leads to buyers that's that freemium access to an ai help tool so maybe it's like a chrome extension that allows users to capture ai project issues and submit them to experts and i know someone's like oh chrome extension it's going to be so hard to create um well with cursor and things like that you know it it it's not out of the realm of possibility to create it and you can use you know So you probably can create something pretty lightweight that does this.

13:28And yeah, so overall I think this is an interesting idea. I think it would do quite well. And I hope someone takes it. I hope someone does it. And please let me know how it goes as you build it. Because I would actually use this. you can even by the way just do this idea for like one product so replit has replit bounties which is sort of this idea where you can hire someone to help you with replit but this is basically replit bounties for all the different vibe coding tools cursor v0 you name it so you You can even just do vzerobounties.com or just focus on one platform or cursorhelp.com or textacursercoder.com.

14:24I do think that last 20 is a very catchy name. So I do think someone should take that idea. Thinking about doing this on one particular channel first, one particular platform, and then eventually expanding this to all the different Vibe Coding tools, I think that's the move. We're going to end this episode with a framework. This is a framework I saw on Instagram by an account called Buildercult. It's basically, here's the six-step playbook to viral validation. Let's just talk about if you're building an app, how can you get viral validation? So the first step is warm up your account. So you sign up to an Instagram account, you sign up to a TikTok account, warm it up.

15:13Watch videos in your niche every single day of the week. Comment, like, share, follow like-minded creators. And this prevents shadow bans. So many people just create a brand account and then start posting stuff and it's not really working. Well, it's not really working because the platforms are trying to prevent shadow bands. Step two is to design the idea. So your app must have one visually heavy element. Example, pimple popping. Must be explainable in three words. Track your acne. This is just an example. And must solve a fundamental human insecurity. Lose weight, productivity, height, class, this sort of thing.

16:00The apps that do the best are just sort of the simplest apps that you can explain so simply that just in a few words that you can, very important, have one visually heavy element because that's going to be helpful when you're creating organic content that you hope to go viral. Step three is to build the simplest MVP you can. So do something like literally three screens minimum, embarrassingly simple. give yourself two to three days to build it. You can use rourke.app, that's a mobile app builder. You can use anything.com, that's a mobile app builder. You can use Vibecode app, that's a mobile app builder.

16:42Give yourself a couple of days, iterate on it, show it to friends, show it to people, DM it to people and get their feedback. Step four is post daily until one goes viral. That's the goal. You're going to want to create one video per day for 30 days minimum or four videos per week. You're going to want to test different angles of the same app idea. And hopefully one will catch. They say in this, one will catch. That's not true. Not necessarily it will catch in 30 days. It might take you 60, 90, 120. But it's shots on net. But you'll know when one hits because the comments will explode. Step five is to build the community before the product.

17:25So you have this wait list, right? So you create a Discord. They say Telegram. I'm not a huge fan of Telegram. Discord, WhatsApp for the waitlist or an email newsletter for the waitlist. Post updates like building the app. Here's what I'm adding. This keeps early believers engaged while you're building it and you're iterating and converts into day one users. And then finally launch the app once it's secure and stuff like that. Finalize features, convert the Rourke or anything or Vibecode app into a full-fledged product using Cloud Code. launch with a hard paywall, something like superwall.com, post content daily, different angles, same value, and then hopefully scale from zero to 10K MRR, purely organic.

18:11So that is today's episode. I hope you enjoyed it. I'm trying this new format where I'm giving a news item, a trend, an app, a startup idea, a framework, all the alpha to give you the highest probability of winning because I want to see you win in 2026. If you've gotten to this far, please, please like and comment and subscribe. Share this with a friend. I read every single comment that you write, so I will see you in there. And yeah, have a creative day, my friends, and I'll see you next time.