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Explore episode May 16, 2026

Technology

Peter Levels Runs Startups Cheaper Than a Notion Subscription

Is Claude Max Worth $100 a Month? | Anthropic Beats OpenAI … · May 16, 2026 Technology

Peter Levels' infrastructure stack for his portfolio of startups costs less than a single Notion subscription per month, despite generating roughly $1 million in monthly revenue. The key: bare-metal VPS with Hetzner, Cloudflare for heavy tasks, and switching email from Resend to a native Cloudflare worker. AI now makes this level of lean infrastructure accessible to non-experts.

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Voice Cloning, Grok Skills, and the Ethical Grey Zone

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Business

Notion Opens Its Walled Garden to AI Agents

Is Claude Max Worth $100 a Month? | Anthropic Beats OpenAI … · May 16, 2026 Business

Notion launched a full agent SDK, CLI, webhooks, and database sync — positioning itself as the enterprise knowledge layer for AI agents. With 50% YoY revenue growth already, Notion is moving from business tool to AI agent platform. The risk: if businesses already have all their context in Notion, they won't migrate to native AI tools even if they're better.

Business

Notion revenue up 50% YoY

Is Claude Max Worth $100 a Month? | Anthropic Beats OpenAI … · May 16, 2026

Ben cited that Notion increased its revenue by approximately 50% year over year, driven largely by AI feature adoption within its platform.

Technology

Voice Cloning is Solved — and That's Terrifying

Is Claude Max Worth $100 a Month? | Anthropic Beats OpenAI … · May 16, 2026 Technology

Voice cloning is now good enough that people are using it to keep talking to ex-partners, and Matt noted he's surprised there aren't more scam cases impersonating loved ones. The tech is indistinguishable from real voices. xAI launching its own voice cloning just brought this capability further into the mainstream at lower cost.

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