Podbit · Waveform: The MKBHD Podcast
The new $99 Google Home Speaker is the first Gemini-native smart speaker. You can chain commands like 'dim the kitchen lights, play relaxing music, set a 20-minute timer' and it actually understands. But the $10/month Google Home Premium subscription — and how it ladders into the $20 AI Pro plan — is where the real strategy lives.
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Producer Mariah prompts a light-hearted smart home vibe check, asking the hosts what percentage of their homes run on smart technology and whether they could function without it. Marques stuns everyone by revealing he doesn't own a single lamp: just overhead lights and natural light from windows. David relies heavily on his living room smart switch and notes that when it glitches, he simply can't turn the lights off. The segment loops back to the intro's smart outlet gag — Marques uses his one smart outlet exclusively for the Christmas tree — and ends with the pre-recorded show intro playing the lamp exchange the audience just heard live.
Game apps keep users engaged long enough for ads to pay off. Tool apps don't — so if you're building a utility, ads are almost always the wrong call and subscriptions are your only real lever.
Inside SEO Bot, a single button labelled 'Boost My Domain Rating' routes users directly to Listing Bot. That one interaction converts a user of one tool into a user of two — without any marketing cost.
Directory listings are a powerful but underrated growth channel — but only if your product is genuinely interesting enough to earn the click. AI products have a natural advantage here because they're easy to package in a compelling, clickable way.
The fastest path to Twitter growth isn't volume — it's forming sharp opinions about how the platform works and sharing them immediately. People cluster around those who understand the rules and say so out loud.
Sam had no coding knowledge, so he used ChatGPT voice mode to generate his entire codebase and copy-pasted it into Notepad. A friend later introduced him to Cursor, and he never looked back.
Copy days of Discord chat history, paste it into ChatGPT, and ask it to list recurring pain points. The ones that come up most often are your best product bets.
Sam's top advice: when prompting Cursor, tell it to architect code for 100,000 users from day one. The AI changes its approach, building scalable frameworks instead of brittle one-user code.
With AI coding tools like Cursor, Bhanu replicates an existing free tool for a new keyword in under 5 minutes. What used to be a multi-day build is now a lunch-break task.
Ahrefs, SiteGPT, Cal.com, PostHog, Datafast, Sibyl AI, Bento, Feather, Featurepace, Mintlify, Cloud Code, ChartMogul — Bhanu runs his entire business solo with these 12 tools.
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