The Startup Ideas Podcast - I challenged Manus AI to find $1M+ AI Startup Ideas - It Actually Delivered

Starting point is 00:00:00 Can Manus AI build you a million dollar business within 18 months? Let's find out. Now, I've been playing a little bit with Manus, but I wanted to just sort of get to know it more, learn more in public. So this episode is basically you coming along with me to learn if Manis could give us an idea to make us a million dollars in 18 months. and I want to lean towards a AI idea. You know, if you've been a long listener of the pod,

Starting point is 00:00:55 you know I've built and sold three venture back businesses before the age of 30. I spend most of my time thinking about ideas. And I want to see if Manus could actually do something worthwhile. And I'll be honest with you if I think the idea sucks. But I think the reason I care about actually playing with this is if it could figure out what trends matter. And if it could figure out what, you know, problems that we should go after, this is going to be huge. And if it can't, then it can't. I have played with Manus before and came into some challenges. So let's see if it's changed and let's just go right right to it. So

Starting point is 00:01:40 Manis. Okay, we are here. Let's give it a task. So, I want to create a business that's going to make me $1 million and call it 18 months. I think that YC's latest batch, Y Combinator's latest batch, is really interesting. I bet that there are other AI agent or AI startups that are more niche. that could be created that isn't in this batch. I also love looking at Reddit to find trends for business ideas to create. I want you to act as my AI co-founder for this process. In fact, I'm actually live recording this.

Starting point is 00:02:46 actually it's not live. I'm recording this whole process on my pod, startup, ideas podcast. So don't mess it up. Best case is you give me entire plan, maybe an MVP design, minimal Iowa product of the business, of my dreams that'll actually work. And let's just see what the hell happens next.

Starting point is 00:03:25 So it says I'll help you create a business plan that could potentially reach a million dollars in 18 months. I understand your interest in AI startups, particularly more niche opportunities than what's in the YC's latest batch. And you'd like me to act as your AI co-founder. Let me start working on this right away for your podcast. I'll research YC's latest batch. look for niche AI opportunity, analyze Reddit trends, and develop a comprehensive business plan with MVP design. So the Reddit trends, you know, if you've listened to the channel before, like I'm obsessed with looking at Reddit as a way to figure out if there's startup ideas.

Starting point is 00:04:04 So I'm really curious to see if Manus has the ability to go through Reddit and just comb through and give us, you know, give us some great ideas of subredits that could be, that we, yeah, we could just surface some great ideas from subreddit. So if you're watching my screen right now, you can see that Manus is actually using a browser. And it's check, it's at Ycom. It's looking at all the AI companies. It's looking at 2016, 2014. You know, so what I don't like about this is, you know, I want recent. Oh, okay. So it says it's researching YC's latest batch. So it's actually going through the website and it's looking what's new, what's old. So that's really, really cool. I was thinking that it was going to just take all the old ones,

Starting point is 00:04:52 but it's great that it's only looking at the new ones. So just let me make this. Can I make this bigger? Oh, interesting. So there is a button that if you wanted, you can take control of Manus. And you can actually use Manus's computer. Really cool. So what I've noticed about madness is if you want to do a

Starting point is 00:05:14 prompt like this, it's going to take 10 to 15 minutes. So just so you know, like it's not going to take a minute or 30 seconds. Like this generally takes 10 to 15 minutes. But, you know, let's see if it's worth it. Okay, so now it's looking at AI. This is startups funded by Wong Y Combinator, YC, 2025. Quick break in the pod to tell you a little bit about startup empire. So startup empire is my private membership where it's a bunch of people like me, like you,

Starting point is 00:05:47 who want to build out their startup ideas. Now they're looking for content to help accelerate that. They're looking for potential co-founders. They're looking for tutorials from people like me to come in and tell them, how do you do email marketing? How do you build an audience? How do you go viral on Twitter? All these different things.

Starting point is 00:06:06 That's exactly what startup empire. is. And it's for people who want to start a startup but are looking for ideas, or it's for people who have a startup, but just they're not seeing the traction that they need. So you can check out the link to startup empire.com in the description. Okay. So while it's browsing and figuring stuff out, I want to show you a few use cases of Manis. And it'll just get your creative juices. flowing. So when I log into Manus, I noticed that they included basically these use cases of how to use Manus. So for example, oh, list of YC companies. Let's check this out. So if you're looking,

Starting point is 00:06:56 if you're looking at my screen, basically it's showing a prior prompt. So this is 18 days ago. Visit the official YC website and compile all enterprise information under the W25, Winter 2025, B2B tag into a clear well-structured table, be sure to find all of it. So what it is doing is it's basically taking all this unstructured data, making it structured and this is super helpful information because like let's say you want to reach out and do cold DMs, for example. Or honestly, this would have been useful to actually use this. You can download this as a PDF and actually upload it to to our prompt around.

Starting point is 00:07:40 And we might end up using this. We might want to actually use this in the end. But basically, like, using this and uploading it to our, you know, a million-dollar 18-month idea. So really cool that you can take unstructured data and make it structured data. Let's see a few other use cases of Manus while we're waiting for our business plan to finish. Let's see if anything. I know a trip to Japan, like, you know,

Starting point is 00:08:09 know, chat TPT could do that. I'm looking for really, really interesting stuff. NVIDIA earnings report analysis, like using Manus as a financial analyst, that's pretty interesting because that will help people make money. So what is it doing? So you upload four annual reports to Manis and it's analyzing it. It's examining the revenue composition for each year in creating a comprehensive table as well as analyzing the changes in vizdia's cost structure cool so it's analyzing here this is something that an analyst would do right like um at a big bank you know at jp morgan you're paying people hundreds of thousands of dollars to do this and look you know look what's happening this is crazy okay so it's showing the revenue by reportable

Starting point is 00:09:07 segments and a pretty nice like clean table. And then it does an analysis on it, right? So the compute and networking has has grown, has shown extraordinary growth, 215% increase, graphics, data center, gaming. It goes into each category. And I guess how can you use this to make trading decisions? Well, you can then prompt it and be like, you know, historically speaking, Is this stock expensive or cheap? So I think that's an interesting use case for sure. Let's do two more use cases before we check out what's happening with our business idea. Contract reviews is an interesting one.

Starting point is 00:09:54 I'm like afraid to send things to my lawyer because I'm like every time I send him something, I get a bill for like $1,500. So of course you're not supposed to make Manis or chat GPT your lawyer. but let's be real. A lot of us are already doing that. So you upload a contract example. Please review this contract, or you upload a contract. Please review this contract thoroughly, identify all errors,

Starting point is 00:10:22 and provide both the revision history and corrected version. Wow. So you can actually do an analysis of any error. So, you know, what it says here, Manna says, after reviewing the sales and purchase agreement, between Tech Vision Dynamics and Midwest Industrial, have identified several errors and inconsistencies. And it's just, what are you noticing about Manus is it feels like just a little more horsepower

Starting point is 00:10:49 than chat GPT, a little more horsepower than perplexy, a little more horsepower than Clote. So it's because of this like multi-agent browsing sort of capabilities, I think, I mean, again, I'm going through this for the first time with you all and learning. It just feels like that's the case. I also really like that it has like, here's all the documents for a review. Like, it feels like I'm actually working with an AI coworker. Okay, should we do one more? Let's do one more.

Starting point is 00:11:30 Okay. So this prompt is, please convert my API input and output Excel file to a Word doc API documentation. So basically crazy that you can use Bannis on a conversion basis. So basically, I mean, not the most sexy

Starting point is 00:11:55 prompt, but the fact that you can actually use it for conversion, that's pretty damn cool. Okay, we're going to do one more because that one was just boring, but is, you know, boring but useful. Let's do one more. We'll put it in the WTF podcast editing. Ooh, let's do two more from WTF, and then we'll go back to the business.

Starting point is 00:12:18 Please cut the podcast audio into a two-minute highlight reel of key quotes. Select sentences with clear viewpoints of interesting content ensuring smooth transition. So basically you can up, this is crazy. You can upload a wave file and it's going to create a two-minute highlight reel from it. So it's analyzing the audio to identify key quotes, clear viewpoint. and interesting content. Then extracting complete sentences that flow well together. Let me get started on this right away.

Starting point is 00:12:46 Whoa, this is, this is wild. This is, you know, I got to take a sip of this, this non-alcoholic beer. Okay, so it's basically showing you the quotes and all the different time stamps and, you know, the most interesting stuff. So I think that's really cool. And then at the bottom, you have, you know, the actual audio file. and the transcript for you. So that's really cool. All right.

Starting point is 00:13:14 No more waiting. Let's go check and see how our business is doing. Were they able to find trends? Okay, here's where we're at. So interesting patterns I've observed. Many YC startups are focusing on vertical-specific AI solutions and legal healthcare, finance, and retail. This is music to my ears.

Starting point is 00:13:34 Why? Because I wanted to, I know this. I know this, but, you know, I wanted it to tell me this. I wanted it to pick up that pattern. And I find that in a lot of the other AI products, I haven't gotten that from them. AI agents and automations are a major trend with companies building specialized assistance

Starting point is 00:13:55 for specific workflows. Significant investment in AI infrastructure and tools help others deploy AI. General AI applications are being applied to video production, app development, and document processing. Several startups are focusing on making AI accessible through no code and low code solutions.

Starting point is 00:14:13 I'm now moving on to analyze the broader AI startup landscape beyond YC's portfolio. Would you like me to focus on any particular aspect of the AI landscape as to continue my research? So I didn't say yes. So let's just see what happened. So two minutes ago, Manus has completed the analysis of the broader analysis. They've got some key findings. Number one, vertical specific AI solution. number two agents in automation.

Starting point is 00:14:44 Okay. So, okay, so I've been identified several promising market opportunities. AI solutions tailored for industries with limited AI penetration. Okay, this is interesting. Making powerful AI tools accessible for small and medium-sized businesses,

Starting point is 00:14:59 services that help AI integrate into their workflow. So these are good. These are really good. I've seen portions of that, this, on other AI. on like the chat GPTs of the world. So I really want to see if they're, you know, if they can go deeper here.

Starting point is 00:15:19 So right now it's, I'm now moving on to specify niche AI opportunities not currently covered by YC startups, which will help us pinpoint potential gaps in the market for our business concept. After that, I'll research Reddit trends. Thank God. I'm excited about that to identify emerging consumer needs and pain points. Would you like me to focus on any particular aspects of these as I continue my research.

Starting point is 00:15:42 So I'm going to say Manis, you don't need to just do consumer. It could be B2. When you're on Reddit, I want you to

Starting point is 00:15:59 focus on trends and pain points that exist within subredits. The best businesses do well because of the tailwinds of a trend. So I'm particularly interested in building businesses based on trends.

Starting point is 00:16:27 So the other cool thing about Manus is when you use something like chat GPT or clode, when you type, the LLM is thinking. And if you want to just say something else, you have to stop the prompt. But what's really cool about Manus is it's multi-agent, right? So it's doing its things and it's able to listen to you and multitask, basically. Okay. So Manus says, I understand completely. We're going to focus on B2B and B2C.

Starting point is 00:17:07 And it's starting to research now to identify trending topics, recurring pain points, and emerging needs across various communities. Now, one thing I've noticed is you do have to tell Manis this stuff, right? So I know just, I know that Reddit is a good source of this, of this information. I know that the Alpha exists within Reddit. A lot of people don't know that. So I will say that you can't rely on Manus to basically say, hey, build me a million dollar business and just like say go wild.

Starting point is 00:17:43 you do have to do the right prompts here. Okay. So I'm looking at a document that Maness has created. Niche AI Opportunities Analysis 2025. So it says here's some key niche opportunity. So AI co-founder for specialized industries, why it's a niche opportunity. While general AI assistance exists,

Starting point is 00:18:05 there's a gap for deeply specialized AI partners. So that's really cool. Current YC startups focus on general assistance or narrow task automation, not comprehensive business partnerships. Okay, and then it tells you an implementation approach. Start with specific vertical, train on specific data, provide comprehensive support across marketing, $50 to $100 for basic features. Okay.

Starting point is 00:18:29 I mean, these are interesting ideas, silent refactoring as a service for legacy systems. Too technical for me. Two technical. Number three, let's see. This is interesting. So personalized information chains for professionals and highly regulated industries using AI to curate, summarize, and deliver relevant content about regulatory change and compliance requirements. This is like a really good idea. So you basically focus on professionals and regulated industries, healthcare for informational overload.

Starting point is 00:19:08 And you just create a media company around it. This is, yeah, this is, this is good. That's a really good one. I like this, I like that one because like the wine, you know, when you're building a business, you have to ask yourself, why now? Why should this business, you know, exist now? And the why now is a lot of these, well, it's actually a few reasons.

Starting point is 00:19:40 One is you don't want to open up like a magazine or a journal if you're in a regulated industry. Like you want an email or text about things, you know, things that you should know about. And so there's that, like changing of how people consume media. These, these industries are getting more and more complex. And the why now, most important why now is the AI allows you to, you know, to track everything, right? So you can do this. What used to cost a lot of money to go and, you know, hire a team, specialized team, who understands all these regulatory changes. Now you can just use something like Manis

Starting point is 00:20:24 to actually go and figure all these stuff, this stuff out. So that's like my favorite idea from this. It's cool. It does do an evaluation of opportunities against the YC portfolio. I think that's really interesting. And then it gives you a recommendation

Starting point is 00:20:44 for the highest potential opportunity. And it says the AI-powered micro-consulting for SMB is the most promising. So I didn't even go through that one. But it says it addresses a clear market need, has a straightforward path to monetization. I actually think the most interesting one is niche specific AI information aggregation for regulated industries. So me and Manis, we're, you know, we know what we don't know. agree all the time, but I'm happy it gave me multiple ideas. Now, let's see where we're at with the Reddit analysis. I've completed my analysis of Reddit chens for potential business ideas.

Starting point is 00:21:32 Okay, cool. Key insights. So it gave five key insights. And then it says the most promising opportunity that continues to emerge from our research as AI-powered micro-consulting for SMBs. An AI solution that provides expert-level consulting for small to meet insights businesses at a fraction of traditional costs. Addresses a clear market need across multiple Reddit discussions, has a clear path to monetization, to leverage existing AI technology, and offers natural expansion opportunities across business functions and industries, rides to the tailwind of increasing AI adoption by small business.

Starting point is 00:22:12 I mean, this is obviously not a bad idea. It's a good idea. And the truth is, it's the easiest to get going, right? Like in that sense, you know, small and medium-sized businesses want to understand what is happening with, you know, AI technology specific to their industries. And if you can help them figure that out, you know, you would do pretty well. Okay. So it gives us a text file, which we can check out. and this is the text file of the trends, the pain points, and business opportunities. So you can see AI automation for small businesses.

Starting point is 00:23:01 So it's giving all the trends, it's giving the pain points, it's giving the opportunities. This is interesting, but I think that what I would do if I were you or me, honestly, is I would try to figure out, okay, like I believe you, Manis, but what makes you say, and maybe we should ask it, like what makes you say that this is a key trend? So I'm going to ask it. So, Maness, I believe you with what you're saying with these key Reddit trends, but I need to know if these trends are supported.

Starting point is 00:23:48 by data, keyword, or I'll say like Google Trend like data, or, you know, I'm saying, like, data or, you know, subreddit growth data. What sort of data can you give me to make sure this is legit? I mean, I'm asking the tough questions here. You know, I think when I read this, like, and makes a lot of sense. But I need to know, I think one of the reasons why I like some other tools like Google Trends is, I mean, when I go on Google Trends or H-Refs or whatever or gummy search or any of these tools, I could see some data to support some of these trends. So, you know, it's abstracting.

Starting point is 00:24:45 What Manus is doing is abstracting away the data for me. I'd like to see the data. I don't know about you. I'd like to see the data. So if this can figure out, you know, with some Google trends data and subreddit growth data and just metrics, I would be, like this would be a gold mine. And while that's figuring that out, three minutes ago, Mana says, I've developed a comprehensive business concept for smart console AI. And now AI powered micro consulting platform for SMBs. I can do a million in revenue within 18 months.

Starting point is 00:25:25 addresses a clear market gap. Small business need expert consulting, but can't afford traditional services that cost $150 to $500 an hour. AI powered consulting agents specialize in key business functions at a fraction of the cost $49 to $500 a month. It's kind of interesting, right? You saw this with the commoditization of service businesses, you know, design pickle, for example. I think they were selling, I don't know, $40 million a year, $80 million a year. large amount of revenue, we probably can ask Madness, where they were saying, okay, it's $500 a month, unlimited design. And I assume that that's going to happen in this space as well.

Starting point is 00:26:10 Like you'll be, someone is going to create the design pickle, but for, you know, AI and agents. So if you can do that, there's a path to a million dollars, that's for sure. maybe even more. Okay, so I've compiled, Manus has compiled the data to validate the Reddit trends.

Starting point is 00:26:34 So it's looking at McKinsey, Salesforce, US Census Bureau. Like, no, I don't care about that stuff. Like, I actually care about Google Trend and stuff

Starting point is 00:26:44 and subreddit stuff. Okay. So here we go. Our slash small business, 47% growth in subscribers. AI, like that's not helpful to me. AI agents.

Starting point is 00:26:54 $312,000, yes. That's interesting to me. But I need more. I need more. I think, I don't know about you, but I feel like, I feel like I'm still hungry for more data around the trends. And I'm going to say that.

Starting point is 00:27:13 I feel like I'm still hungry for more data around the trends. Give me Google trends like data. and give me insights as to which keywords are most interesting to build the business around. And let's see what Manus says, you know, I think the most interesting data here is just like the subreddit grow stuff. I mean, it is interesting to see. Google Trend shows industry-specific AI searches. growing 2.5 faster than generic business AI searches. I know. So it's like, so tell me, tell me more about that, right? And maybe this isn't a madness issue. It's just, you know,

Starting point is 00:28:09 again, it's a prompting issue. You're as, you know, I guess you're only as good as the prompts that you're going to do. I will say, though, I am loving, I don't know about you, but I am loving the fact that we've got a browser going. We've got multiple browsers going. Things are happening. And, And I do feel like I'm making progress on this idea. So what happens when we click here? So when you click over here, you can see the task progress. So we're eight on ten. So it says we basically, you know, we're in the comprehensive keyword trend analysis.

Starting point is 00:28:52 Then we have design, minimal, viable MVP strategy, prevent comprehensive business proposal to user. I feel like what's missing from this Manus is I'd like to see. I've never seen Manus design a landing page. I don't know if it can do it. I'd like to see you design a landing page that you think is the highest, you think has a lot of taste and will, get people talking about the business. I don't want your average website. People forget about those.

Starting point is 00:29:45 Can you design something for me and be my AI product designer? Do you do that? And let's see. So Manus is typing. Absolutely. I'd be happy to design a landing page with a unique eye-catching aesthetic. So what's interesting here is that, you know, traditionally you'd go to V0 if you want like an AI product designer. Now, is Manis able to create something beautiful, better than V0, worse than V0, as good as V0? Who knows? That's what we're going to look for.

Starting point is 00:30:31 But you can do, you see here that Manus is using terminal right now and building a landing page. Like, this is crazy. Manus is gathering keyword trend data to inform MVP design implementation strategy for smart consult AI. What happens if I click and use Manus's computer? Like I don't, I just want to click in see what happens. Okay. Select an application to you so you can go to. into vS code or the browser.

Starting point is 00:31:22 Interesting. So what's happening here on screen is Manus is building the landing page. I'm actually surprised that it's not giving us the designs before building it. It's just building it. But let's see. Maybe they'll build something nice.

Starting point is 00:31:45 I don't know. So I just clicked. It said knowledge suggestions, five pending. I had no idea what that meant. So I clicked it. It says, suggested, sorry, suggested knowledge. Knowledge enables Madis to learn your preferences and task-specific best practices.

Starting point is 00:32:05 Madness will automatically recall relevant knowledge when needed. Interesting. So this is just to make things go faster, I guess, and more efficient. You can say, you know, when researching Reddit for business ideas and validating trends with data, here's what the content. User wants trend and identification. So you could make, you know, for example, in the past, before, when I was unhappy with the trend data, we could change that for future prompts, which is pretty cool. Okay, so we see, let's see what Manus is up to.

Starting point is 00:32:49 So it's still creating the file. I will say I do love that you can just watch what's happening live. this is a greater trend that's happening across all most AI products. With V0, for example, you can see what's happening live. Perplexity, Chatchabot, ABT. We're starting to see some of the copy. You can see expert consulting without the expert price. Honestly, pretty awesome tagline.

Starting point is 00:33:24 Pretty awesome tagline. Healthcare services, construction and trade. This is cool because it's going into the niche ideas that it gathered from Reddit and some of the YC companies. Okay. So it looks like right now it's designing it's designing it. It's taking a while, three minutes, almost four minutes. I mean, if we would go into V0, it would take a minute. So, you know, I hope it's.

Starting point is 00:34:15 I hope it's, maybe it would take two minutes, but, you know, I hope it's nice. I hope it's nice. So while it's figuring out the landing page, it did come up with a business concept validation executive summary. So this is kind of like a one pager. So it talks about, you know, the idea, providing expert level consulting, the target market, a million dollars recurring revenue. That's cool. the competitive landscape, the tools that you'll use to create this, the validation from Reddit and market research, for example, cost barriers, quote unquote, as a small business owner, I'd love to get expert advice

Starting point is 00:35:03 but can't justify $200 consultants from our small business. This is really cool. This is my favorite part that I've seen. Wow. So it's taking what it's seen. It's taking literal comments from subredits and validating your idea. Generic AI tools don't understand my industry-specific challenges from our entrepreneur. Information overload.

Starting point is 00:35:27 There's too much business advice out there. I need something that cuts through the noise with actionable steps. Implementation challenges. I know what I should be doing, but I need help with the how. Again, from a subreddit small business. This is really cool. It gives you the business model. I think that if I was actually building this business,

Starting point is 00:35:46 I would try to go back and forth with it and be like, well, why are you charging $49 a month? Like, what makes you, why $49? Like, I think pushing back on Manus is helpful. We learned that from the Google Trends data. The customer acquisition strategy, let's see what they say. Content marketing, paid in social. Again, this is like, yes, I agree.

Starting point is 00:36:12 this is probably what you do, but tell me exactly how to do these things. Give me the actual tactics for how to do these things. Core platform features, AI consulting agents. I think the other thing to note here is this is too big of a minimal viable product to start with. When you're building a startup, you want a minimal viable product that is attainable. Like you're not going to do this from day one, marketing consultant, operations consultant, financial consultant, strategy consultant. You might do that over time. But I think the most interesting thing here is being niche. So I wish that that wouldn't have happened and you would have to push back here. Okay, it gives you the tech stack, the competitive advantages and the going to market. Okay. It gives you risk, conclusion. Overall, I don't know, 7.8 on 10, 7.7 on 10. So, like, pretty good one pager.

Starting point is 00:37:21 And I guess my only, like I said, the only thing that matters that you really need to do is you kind of have to push it a little bit more. Okay. So it seems like it's done. It seems like it's done. So we're going to scroll, scroll down. And, okay. So it's designed a eye-catching landing page with an animated hero section, interactive business. Okay, can I look at it?

Starting point is 00:37:47 So it's just in a zip file. I can't, I can't preview it. It's kind of lame. Man is, okay, let me open up the zip file. By the way, downloading from like a Chinese website, zip file with code, do be careful. All right, I'm going to do it. I'm doing this for the, I'm doing this for the Startup Ideas podcast channel. I'm doing this, you know, I'm opening it up, making sure hopefully it works.

Starting point is 00:38:17 Okay. Yo, this is crazy. This actually is beautiful. It actually, it's a beautiful, nice website. This is actually, the fact that it has a free assessment, like a lead magnet, wow. This is legit, like, amazing. What happens if you put, put, okay.

Starting point is 00:38:44 Late checkout, Greg, at Gmail. Okay, retail and e-commerce. My top business challenge, growing revenue. What happens? Okay, interesting. So then a business assessment. I just think that's really interesting. They did a pretty good job.

Starting point is 00:39:05 And then at the end, finally, it presents the complete business proposal. and let's see. Would you like me to elaborate? Let's see. Oh, it's basically just what we talked about. So that's the business proposal. So, okay, I don't know about you,

Starting point is 00:39:27 but that was pretty impressive. We got like multiple good ideas, multiple trends on the positive side. I think that if you just continue pushing it on the trend side, I think that that's what this game is about, right? If in a world where anyone could create software,

Starting point is 00:39:47 you saw how easy to create software, figuring out what is the brand, what is the landing page, what is the product, and what is the trend, how do you build something that's in a growing trend, is going to be, I mean,

Starting point is 00:39:59 that's going to help you actually build a business, not just build a product. So I think that on the positive side, Manus, you know, you did pretty good here. On the negative side, you do have to know the right questions to ask. I wish it would just kind of, I wish you could just one prompt your way into winning. And at this point, you can't. I think you need to have taste. You have to know the right questions to ask. And that's kind of the state where we're in. I think that, you know, with With Manus, you have an AI co-founder.

Starting point is 00:40:43 You have someone who can go and build things, research things. It really does feel like an AI employee. But it's kind of like when you have a, you know, junior-ish employee, you do have to manage them, mentor them, and get them to be smart. And that's what this is. So I feel like here's a business idea. It's like helping, how do you get Manis from being like a junior, a junior analyst? to a senior I see.

Starting point is 00:41:13 And I think that's what this is, that's what it's missing. Currently, that's where I'm at with this. I wanted to just do this publicly because, you know, I'm learning just like you're learning. Manus today is still invite only. I don't have any invite codes yet. And I know people in the comment section are going to be like, this is a Chinese company. I have no affiliation with Manus. I just think it's cool

Starting point is 00:41:44 and it could be a tool to help you build your business. I mean, we're seeing it. And like, okay, maybe I shouldn't have downloaded the HTML and run it locally on my computer. But, you know, if I was actually launching this,

Starting point is 00:42:02 I probably would want a developer just to look at the code. And I wouldn't be giving it sensitive information, like, you know, I wouldn't be storing any payment information and stuff like that. So, um, hope you've enjoyed this. If you have, please let me know in the comment section. I literally read every single comment. Um, you can like this video. Um, and what that do is it'll give you more episodes like this. Um, and in your feed. And, uh, let me know, uh, let me know what you think.

Starting point is 00:42:40 Cheers to you. Hope you enjoy this SIP episode, Startup Ideas podcast, and I'll see you on the next one.

The Startup Ideas Podcast - I challenged Manus AI to find $1M+ AI Startup Ideas - It Actually Delivered

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