GPT-6 Astra: How I’d Make Money With It

0:00GPT6 Astra is here and I got good news for you. By the end of this episode,

0:04you're going to understand what are the different startup ideas? What are the different use cases?

0:08How do you use it to be more productive? How do you use it to save money, to make money?

0:12Everything all in here. I'm going to show you how you can use it with hardware to create hardware

0:17businesses. And this is an episode not just focused around cool 3D demos. This is for people

0:24who want to make money to be more productive with AI and how you can use it specifically

0:29with Astra. What are the different prompts? How to think about it? I brought on my friend Ross Mike,

0:34who's just amazing at clearly explaining all this sorts of stuff. So enjoy the episode. Like,

0:40comment, subscribe for more of this in your feed. And I can't wait to see you at the end.

0:53Ross Mike on the pod. this isn't your average GP6 astro review, is it? No, we don't have no games.

1:00We don't have any trade demos. We don't have... There's some weird ones, right? Some weird 3D

1:07ones. Although those things are cool, they're not really useful to myself, you, and Greg. So we're

1:13actually going to talk about some useful, cool stuff. And particularly, we're going to get you

1:18guys to dream big with hardware. Yeah, exactly. So by the end of this episode, what I hope you

1:23take away is getting your creative juices flowing around really some ideas around how you can build

1:32a business using GPC6 Astra and actually how you can have a more productive code base, have

1:40better products. So by the end of this, you're not going to get some glitzy, cool video game thing,

1:46but you're actually going to have, okay, here's what I can actually create today. Yep, that's what

1:51we're going to do and we'll just get started. So a couple things about the model first and

1:55foremost. This is OpenAI's most expensive model. It's on par with Fable in terms of pricing, but if

2:02you have a codec subscription, very subsidized and not only that, it's also very efficient,

2:08meaning it doesn't take as many steps to complete a task. So even though, yes, the price is high,

2:13you're still getting a good bang for intelligence. If you have an existing app or web app, mobile

2:18app, something that you've worked on, software, I highly encourage you do two things. Tell the

2:23agent, tell your Codex agent, I want to run a performance update. My pages aren't as fast as

2:29they need to be. My API calls aren't as fast as they need to be. Please review my entire app and

2:34suggest a performance update. I did that for one of my apps and speeds went from 800 milliseconds

2:41to literally 20 to 30 milliseconds, right? that's an insane increase in speed highly suggest you

2:47do that number two something we couldn't do with fable is a security audit i was telling greg this

2:52i have some sort of payments startup if you will in the background for a specific niche and i had a

2:58couple of people using it i ran the security audit and astra was basically like my boy you would have

3:05been cooked if i didn't read all this so run a security audit if you have an app that people are

3:09actually using in terms of ui i mean i could just show some examples this is one that it designed

3:16really nice the reason it was nice was because i gave it a reference image and the reference

3:21image if i have it is the old microsoft xp network icon i really like the ot network icon for anyone

3:29very swaggy very over 30 you remember this i gave it that i'm like use this as a reference

3:35image and yeah it looks pretty nice Without a reference image, it kind of does too much,

3:41right? So do what you will with that. Number four, computer use. The agent codex Astra,

3:50insane with using your computer, insane with doing tasks for you in the background using

3:56your local machine. Highly encourage you to do that. But what Greg wanted me to talk about. Wait,

4:01before you get into this, before you get into this, I want to share some things of my own. that

4:08I think you should use Astra for. So let me share my screen real quick. Please. So I tweeted this.

4:17Greg Brockman retweeted it, and he said it was good. So if it's good enough for Greg Brockman,

4:23it's good enough for all of us. So I just wrote, here's some nine cool Astra prompts we're trying.

4:33One is the bill renegotiator. go through my internet phone software bills jump into

4:38each provider's chat support and negotiate them down or cancel what i'm not using oh no brainer

4:45for a lot of stuff i'll tell you that right now and you're in canada right so you can you know

4:49you're paying a lot probably for your phone and internet and stuff like that so i'm i'm obsessed

4:54with like how do you turn agencies into software right now so here pick one service business in a

5:00niche you can pick the niche and reverse engineer the exact workflow they sell to clients. Break it

5:05into steps, tools, use inputs, outputs, human judgment points in places where the work gets

5:11slow or expensive. Then design the simplest AI product that could replace the first version

5:15of that service and charge $500 to $5,000 a month. Now, is it going to be perfect? No,

5:21but it's going to get your creative juices flowing around what the software could look like. And I

5:29want to add to that. I think one thing that I do a lot that a lot of people should do is I prototype

5:34the heck out of everything, Greg. Like let say like I building an app and I using like Daytona

5:39like their sandbox provider I will literally before I jump into Daytona I spend 15 minutes

5:45trying to build a clone It not that I going to use the clone but I going to allow building the clone

5:50to like just get me to think Because I think one thing that I realized is intelligence has gone up,

5:56but the bravery for people to try new things hasn't gone up. Right? Like I said this the other

6:02in a video. The saddest thing that people can do with a model like GBT-6 Astra is generate landing

6:07pages. Literally. It's just like you can use GPT-4 or whatever. We're past that. Really think bigger.

6:15So I like that idea. Number two is fire. Number three, I almost called it the Gary

6:20Vaynerchuk prompt, but I refrained. Watch Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist in my city for cameras,

6:28furniture, bikes, what have you. Listed way under market and text me the second one's mispriced with

6:34the link. This is a really good idea for people who just want to make a few hundred dollars a day

6:39or something. And maybe they can't get a job. A lot of our young people can't get jobs right

6:46now. I'm going to screenshot that and put it in my church group chat because it's true. Jobs for

6:51the young kids is really, really hard right now. Yeah, it's really, really hard. So that's a good

6:57one. And also, for a lot of people, it's fun to do this sort of thing. So young or old, this is

7:03an interesting one. Number four, if you are a founder, this is a no-brainer. Look at my docs.

7:10Basically, it's creating the one-person company dashboard. Look at my docs, notes, Stripe exports,

7:15analytics, customer calls, and project lists, and build a weekly operator dashboard. I want

7:20to know what is making money, what's wasting time, what customers are asking for, what I should stop

7:25doing, and the three highest leverage actions for the next week. Be blunt and show your work. True.

7:32You should set that up for your project. I was literally just going to say that. Okay, we got a

7:39few more, and then we'll get to your hardware thing using Blender, which I think is just

7:44fascinating. I want you to show me that. Number five, audit my company for agent opportunities.

7:51Look at how this business works and find the tasks we should give to agents before hiring another

7:56person. This is just how I, by the way, side note, this is how I'm thinking. before I hire anyone,

8:02I'm like, should I just get an agent to do this? Sometimes yes, sometimes no, but that's been the

8:09default of how I've been thinking as I'm building my company. For each task, estimate the current

8:14human time, the cost of mistakes, the tools involved, the difficulty of automating it, and

8:19the first safe version we could deploy. Prioritize things that save money or create revenue within

8:2330 days. And then we have, I'll do, we're almost done, I'll do them all. Be my browser operator. So

8:30you can actually use Astra to do this, right? Use the browser to complete this workflow. You give

8:37it the workflow. As you go, click through the actual sites, collect the data, fill the forms

8:41where appropriate, and keep notes on what broke or slowed down. When you're done, give me the output,

8:46the repeatable SOP, and the automation plan so this can become an agent. And it will do this

8:52well. I'm so bullish on computer use. And a lot of people might think it's like, insane or it doesn't

9:00work or breaks like you'll be surprised how good like astra is if anyone's in canada then you know

9:06how terrible the cra website is like how atrocious that monstrosity is if the government's watching

9:13i'm just joking but i literally got astra with codex to comb through tons of pages to find me

9:20the exact thing i want that i couldn't find on google search right So it really is that good.

9:27100%. Number seven, you can literally build a QA team. So every night, open my app on a real phone,

9:35go through sign up, check out in the main flows, and screenshot anything that's broken

9:39or confusing. So keyword confusing too. Like when I say QA, I don't necessarily mean there's like,

9:46you know, of course it could be like a bug, but it can also be like a UX bug. Like people are

9:50just confused what happens here. It's too much information. The bundle is in the wrong place.

9:54Exactly. Competitor spy. Sign up to my top three competitors, sit inside their product and their

10:03emails, and send me a monthly report on every new feature, price change, and the thing they

10:06do better than that. That is a good one. That is a good one. Yeah. I mean, I think what's interesting

10:14is there's two types of founders. Either the founders who are obsessed with the competition and

10:19are spending too much time looking at competition, and then the founder who ignores it completely and

10:26doesn't know what they're doing at all. And I think what's good about this is it's sort

10:30of like the happy medium. So it's just monthly. Every month I want to know what I need to know,

10:37and that's it. No, that makes sense. And again, it's competition for a reason, right? There's sort

10:43of this element of like, oh, looking around and stuff, but obviously innovation always wins. And

10:49this one, yes, the last one is make a video game, but it's making a video game with the purpose of

10:56getting you email signups and phone numbers and data and helping you sell whatever you're selling.

11:04So it's build a browser game around this mechanic. You give it a mechanic. Don't just make a cute

11:10demo. Add progression, tension, scoring, failure, polish. And one reason, someone would send it to a

11:16friend. And that's extremely key because you're creating, you want to create something that's a

11:19viral game. I saw a lot of games that are like really cool but people wouldn actually send them

11:24to their friends Then add lead capture like email and SMS and it needs to tie into my core product

11:31which sells XYZ Yeah. Yeah. That's actually pretty good. Really something cute and fun that I'd want

11:39to share. Because to your point, people are making these first-person shooters, which is

11:43great. It shows the model capability. But I have Call of Duty at home. Exactly. All right. I showed

11:50you mine. And you show me yours. Yes. So please don't make fun of me, people watching. But I've

11:56had this idea of a hardware startup for a while. Obviously, we've seen the rise of personal agents.

12:02I have one in the works that I plan on launching soon that I think is a different take and pretty

12:06cool. But the one aspect that the reason why I wanted a personal agent and like this is,

12:12again, like a dream of mine since a child, like the whole Jarvis thing is I wanted there to be

12:16physical hardware. Right. And it's such a miss for companies like Amazon and Apple. They have

12:23these beautiful products, but their agent or the AI sucks. In particular, I'm talking about

12:28the HomePod. If anyone has the HomePod, Siri is terrible, but this is the best-looking speaker,

12:34in my opinion. And I just got to thinking, what if I could put my agent on the HomePod? So first,

12:41my thought process was buy the HomePod and jailbreak it. I did a little bit of research.

12:45Not possible to do it. I'm like, what if I built it? Right. So I literally told the agent and I'll

12:52zoom in so we can see the convo. I asked, I told the agent, I have Blender install. Can you use

12:56it? I know that it can use it. I just wanted it to set up a connection. It did that. And I asked it

13:02to create a HomePod like speaker. And it did. And I asked him, I want to build an AI home speaker.

13:08I want to load my agent Ruth from and I gave it my repo. How would I DIY? And then it basically

13:15said that I would need a Raspberry Pi speaker. I could load in my agent and it was possible. Now,

13:21this got me excited because I didn't think this was possible. I didn't think that I had the

13:25capability to do it. And it basically created me a diagram. And it said it even went as far as to say

13:32this is what I would need to buy to have a first physical prototype. Now, I got excited. Right. And

13:38it even gave me a budget like 350 to 450 before tax. I live in Canada, so this is like 700 bucks,

13:44600 bucks. I was like, cool, give me amazon.ca links, right? And it got me the links. And it

13:51was 561 before tax. I was like, I just bought. I just automatically bought. But then I panicked.

13:56I'm like, what do I do? I don't know nothing about hardware. So I asked the agent, Greg, can you use

14:02Blender to show me the setup of this project? And will you believe it? And it showed exactly how I

14:09would have each thing laid up, right? This is the Raspberry Pi. This is me plugging it in. This is

14:16some sort of speaker. This is the speaker. This is some sort of connector. I don't even know what

14:20this is, but this helps. And I think this is the voice recognizer. But it basically laid out on

14:27Blender how I would have this set up. Now I've got to the point where I'm like, oh, I can build this.

14:33And then it was telling me once we've proven the proof of concept, then this is what we would need

14:38to build out the HomePod version. And then even in a separate thread, I have emails there, so I don't

14:45want to share. But in a separate thread, it was even telling me Chinese suppliers to reach out to,

14:51to build the HomePod shell. So I went from idea to setup. I bought all the products. I told her

14:59I bought all the products. And then I was like, okay, like I bought this stuff, but I have my

15:04agent repo. What code would I need to add or what changes would I need to make to set this up? Guess

15:09what it did, Greg? It wrote the code and it made a PR. I literally had code. It made a PR where like

15:17once I have the thing set up, I can easily load my agent. Mind you, this is a couple of minutes

15:23conversation, but I dared to think a little more bigger out of my box. So it gave me the PR. It

15:30explained to me the code. And then I asked it for the links again because I didn't purchase at that

15:34time. I asked for the PR. I can click it and I can show you. I merged the PR. It made a PR. So I know

15:42like once I have all the hardware stuff ready, I'm going to build it and I'm going to have it set up.

15:50And I even asked it just to be should I get one of each, by the way. And it said yes. So we went

15:57from idea, from exploration, Greg, to setup, to initial prototype, cost you 500 bucks. It gave me,

16:06it showed me exactly how I would set everything up, right? And if I have further questions,

16:10I'll continue to work with the agent. It also wrote the code that I'm going to load into the

16:16Raspberry Pi to make my speaker agent work. This was half an hour work. So this, in my opinion,

16:23is the true power of Astra where like we have models like Fable, like, okay, not Fable,

16:29but we have like 5.6 Soul and all these different smaller models that are good at a lot of things.

16:35What makes Astra amazing is for these like insane hardware projects, this next level software. So

16:43again, if you're using Astra to build a landing page, it's a sad use of intelligence. But I kind

16:50of wanted to use this moment to encourage you all, if you had that hardware idea, if you had that

16:54next level software idea, if you want another, I don't know if I have the tab here. I have a PS4

17:02lying around. And I was wondering can I boot Linux on a PS4 and run agents on it And I literally said

17:09I have PS4 based on what you know about me I don plan on gaming with it What can I do That was the

17:14first thing I asked And it's like, you could turn it to a media server, this, this, that. But then

17:17it said, turn it into a Linux learning project. I was like, oh, I didn't know you could do that. So

17:23I said, low-key, nuking it and running Linux would be cool. And then it says, yeah, a PS4

17:28you can SSH into and use as a Linux lab would be a fun project. And then people have been talking

17:34about Omarchi, which is a type of Linux distro. And I was like, could I run it on PS4? Yes.

17:42I could run Linux on my dust collecting PS4. I would have never imagined, thought, or even tried

17:50to do this. But with this model, I'm starting to think way outside the box. And mind you, you

17:57might think, oh, you're a developer, so this is easier. This is networking OS stuff. I'm more of a

18:02web dev, mobile dev type of developer. Front end. This is like a little above my pay grade. But the

18:11last couple of months, I'm doing stuff like this. I have a home lab. I bought a couple of DJX. I am

18:17thinking way above what my normal means would have been if I didn't have access to this intelligence.

18:23And there's no reason you shouldn't. I'll stop yapping, Greg, so you can say some things as well.

18:29I remember when, 2024, when Lovable and Bolt and Replit at V0 came out,

18:37all of a sudden anyone could be a vibe coder. And we started seeing all these vibe coding projects,

18:43websites, landing pages, apps. And the effects of that are still playing out to this day. It

18:52feels like we're having a similar shift right now, but for physical projects. So what you showed me

18:59with your hardware product, you know, that would have required you become a full time 3D designer

19:06or engineer. I would have never known how to do any of this. And to be honest, I wouldn't

19:10have tried because it's intimidating. And like I think, you know, most humans like I myself,

19:15like I like knowing the stuff that I'm doing. And if I don't know, like about hardware, for example,

19:21it would feel intimidating for me for me to even try. Now, like I have a friend for $200

19:28a month or $50 a month or $20 a month that can actually walk me through all of this. And

19:34it's super possible. I even have a desk coming up that's going to be like right here. And it's going

19:38to be my hardware station. And I'm going to just start building random stuff. And let's say nothing

19:43turns to a product. The enjoyment of learning and developing and maybe it leads to job opportunity,

19:48a business, whatever it is. You owe it to yourself to do this stuff. Yeah, I mean, make a printable

19:56object, a CAD file, a blender model, a circuit board, like something. Because I think that

20:05there's opportunity in terms of niche products that you might be like, oh, I don't know how

20:12big of a market there is for this sort of thing. but it doesn't need to be huge. And if it doesn't

20:17cost a lot to create, like there's a business here. So I think I actually personally believe

20:22that there's gonna be thousands of $1 million a year plus businesses that get created and

20:28this whole shift that OpenAI has spearheaded with Astra around like vibe manufacturing. You know,

20:37will the other models catch up? Absolutely. But I think that it's fair to say that Astra was the

20:44first model that ushered in this era. And I think this is just really, like for me, where my brain

20:51is going is like, okay, what are some small little products that seem niche but solve a real pain

20:58point that I can go and create in a short amount of time and then create meta ads to drive traffic

21:05to those products? That's what's going through my mind. Yeah, and when I build my whole pod, I'm

21:10going to hit up Greg to teach me all that stuff. So make sure you're subscribed because that's all

21:13the stuff he teaches here too. I appreciate you. Mickey, thanks for coming on. Astra is awesome.

21:22And I'm curious to see how the other models take note of it. Sure. Anthropic is sweat for

21:29circumference. For the first time, I would like, if I, if someone asked me, pick a subscription,

21:35I would cancel my Anthropic subscription. I would cancel Claude. Astra's that good. So please take

21:42advantage of the subsidies before they eventually start charging us the real price of these things.

21:47Yeah, because the value, I mean, think about it, like the value is obviously more than what we're

21:51paying now. Yep, yep. Like I asked my Astra agent to calculate how much of, how much I've

21:59been using, like the subscription price, but also like in terms of API price, how much like

22:05I've been using in terms of model costs. and in the last week, I've spent over $24,000. Mind you,

22:12I just have a couple of $200 subscriptions, right? So there's an insane level of subsidization that's

22:18happening. Take advantage of it now. Dream big, act big, and build big. Appreciate you.

22:25I'll include links where you can follow Ross Mike, as he's known on the internet, YouTube X,

22:31and all those places. Go and subscribe. Go and check him out. Thanks again for coming on. I think

22:37this is probably your, what is it? Sixth, seventh, eighth time coming up? I'm a regular on this pod.

22:42And as always, I appreciate you, Greg. It really means a lot for you bringing me on. And thank you,

22:46everybody, for always watching and showing love as well. See you later. Have a good one.