The Startup Ideas Podcast - Meet the AI Agent Turning Simple Prompts into Viral Content

Starting point is 00:00:00 Today we're going to talk about how to use AI agents to get the most out of these creative AI tools that I'm sure you've seen and played with. I'm sure you've played with nanobanana. Maybe you've seen Kling. Maybe you've seen Juan 2.2.2. Sora too. You've seen them. But you've also seen that there's some people that are able to get 100 decks out of them. And other people who are just prompting it and being like, what is this slop? And I believe that the way to get the most out of creative AI is through two things. It's through understanding how to prompt properly and understanding different workflows. So actually stitching together multiple of these tools.

Starting point is 00:00:38 And today we're going to go through an app called Glyph. I have no affiliation with them. I just saw it online and started using it recently. That actually does this for you. It automatically prompts formats it for you and gives you some workflows. And why I think it's interesting is the people that could unleash creative AI have an unfair advantage. Because those are the people that are going to be able to create big audiences, ads that outperform, you know, vibe coded websites and apps that don't look like every other vibe coded app. So I'm particularly interested in figuring out how to get 10x out of more with creative AI.

Starting point is 00:01:19 and my thesis right now is it's through AI agents and apps like Glyph. So this is a tutorial for beginners. I'm going to go through GIF. We're going to go through GIF together. I've been using it for the last 24 hours. And let's just see if it's any good. And by the end of this episode, I think you'll have a good idea of where prompts and workflows and tools like Glyph fit in here. So the four use cases that we're going to go through today,

Starting point is 00:01:58 we're going to actually see how to use nanobanana ultimate AI agent on glyph. So we're going to try maybe creating a YouTube thumbnail or something else like that. We're going to see how you can create these videos with just little mini figurines. Why? Because that type of video has actually been going by recently. And I think it's really interesting. We're going to talk about how you can create AI influencers. that's going to be helpful if you're going to create organic content.

Starting point is 00:02:28 You want to create multiple accounts or even you want to create ads, right? And then we're going to talk about how you can create, you know, I'm sure you've seen that on TikTok, those Reddit stories, how you can create these workflows that automatically, you know, go and find these stories and then create video content around that so you can create these mean pages and stuff like that. The whole purpose of this video is to get your creative juices flowing, that you leave stronger than you came with.

Starting point is 00:02:58 So like and comment. And I have no affiliation with Glyph. This is a tool, again, that I've found on the internet. Let's get into it. So when you log into GIF, it's free to sign up. You're going to see that there's the workflows and agents. We're going to, in the agents section, you can see that you can actually just go and hire, so to speak, an agent.

Starting point is 00:03:20 And that's where you kind of want to start. Why do you want to start here is because you can obviously build your own agent or build your own workflows, but it's the simplest just to use someone who's optimized it already. And this is an episode for beginners. So you can see here, here's the nano banana ultimate. And if you're anything like me, you've used nanobanana. And sometimes you get amazing results and sometimes you don't. And I think it's because of the prompting. So let's go ahead and see if Nanobanana could go and read a design.

Starting point is 00:03:52 one of my thumbnails to be more Mr. Beast style. So I'm going to go ahead and copy this into glyph. So I'm going to say, hey, I'd like you to redesign this thumbnail to be Mr. Bees-esque. I'm going to say to be more Mr. Bees-esque. I want higher CTR, more contrast, fresher, I don't know, the stuff that gets Mr. Beast tons of views, but for my type of content. So if I were to actually put this into Nana Banana regular, I would actually get a thumbnail that probably isn't the YouTube size. It probably would be all over the place. my face would look different.

Starting point is 00:04:54 So let's see if it actually does something a little bit better. So it asked me to drop the thumbnail. So I'll go ahead and drop that again. And we'll get to work. Cool. Sam Altman, the co-founder of OpenAI, just said that it is the era of the idea guy, and he is not wrong. I think that right now is an incredible time to be building a startup.

Starting point is 00:05:20 And if you listen to this podcast, chances are you think so, too. Now, I think that you can look at trends to basically figure out what are the startup ideas you should be building. So that's exactly why I built ideabrowser.com. Every single day, you're going to get a free startup idea in your inbox, and it's all backed by high-quality data trends. How we do it, people always ask. We use AI agents to go and search, what are people looking for, and what are they screaming for in terms of products that you should be building? and then we hand it on a silver platter for you to go check out. We do have a few paid plans that take it to the next level,

Starting point is 00:06:03 give you more ideas, give you more AI agents and more, almost like a chatGVT for ideas with it. But you can start for free, Idea Browser.com, and if you're listening to this, I highly recommend it. So my hope is what it does is it analyzes the image. This is sort of the missing step, one of the missing steps. one of the missing steps in Nanobanana and other creative AI tools is, you know, we need to analyze this and then we need to figure out what is the best prompt based on that, right?

Starting point is 00:06:35 So it gives me the prompt. Here's your Mr. B. Style redesign, a high-energy YouTube thumbnail redesign featuring a man with short wavy brown hair and glasses making an exaggerated shock expression, of course. So this is very, very Mr. Beast. You can see it has the aspect ratio, so you hopefully get back the YouTube thumbnail in the right size. And it creates three different variants, red explosion, split screen. Interesting that it includes this, because this is like a tried and true format in YouTube when you have a split screen. Maybe it's like a sad face on the left and a happy face on the right. And then it asks you to generate.

Starting point is 00:07:18 Okay, cool. I've gone ahead and by the way, I've added $10 of credits for this video. It's cool. Actually, I didn't see like a monthly fee. I just saw you can buy $10 of credits. But you could use this for free. I tried doing this for free and you get like a few prompts for free. And if you actually want to go and create videos and multiple images,

Starting point is 00:07:40 you're going to need $10 or something like that. Okay. So, I mean, pretty pretty. amazing. Like, I couldn't have gotten this out of pure nanobanana. So I needed the training wheels. I needed the help here. And I bet you, like, I should A-B-test that. I don't know what happened to my top lip, but, you know, this is the type of thing that would work. And it's definitely, you know, it's definitely, what's also cool is I've used this image before. So now I've got this, like, other image that I haven't, you know, I didn't have to go into a photo shoot.

Starting point is 00:08:18 for. So love that it's done that. And that's Nana Banana Ultimate. Where I can see myself using this also is just icons, make it a mascot for my startup, Idea Browser.com. You know, there's so many brand identity stuff and just creating references images that you can go ahead and use in other creative AI. So I would say that this this was really good. It definitely exceeded my expectations, and I can see myself using this. Okay, so the next demo that we're going to do

Starting point is 00:08:56 is the miniature history for brands. So we're going to go back into the agent area. And you can see here, this agent uses Seedream and Wan 2.2 with 11 labs to create a short 32-second tilt shift. And you can see here that, these are the little videos I was talking about. I just think this is cool because you're constantly looking for, as a brand,

Starting point is 00:09:23 you're constantly looking for ways to tell your stories. And if you can tell your story in something that's like a little more interesting and a little more scroll stopping, then you're increasing your odds of probability of success, right? So we could, here they're using the example for history. but I think that, you know, I'd love to give it a story. Let's just click here. Tell me what I can do and see what it says. I create historical videos and tilt-chive minter shows. So here's my process.

Starting point is 00:09:59 You give me a historical topic, an event, a figure, an era. I research it. I create a video plan with four varied image scenes, a narrative voiceover, an animation prompts for each scene. You approve the plan. I generate everything. images, voiceover animations, period of probate music, I stitch it together with subtitles, and you get a 42nd historical documentary that looks like goes filmed with a miniature diorama.

Starting point is 00:10:25 Okay, so that's really cool. So the historical topic, let's do the historical topic of Facebook going IPO. So I don't know how historical that is, but I'm just thinking, I'm just, thinking like I have this business ideabrowser.com which gives people startup ideas gives them people prompts to go build those startup ideas. So if I'm trying to build, let's say, an Instagram account, like I might want to share stories of founders who've done a really, you know, who've created really big companies, right? So you can see it's gone and created the image prompts to start. So you can see like the scene one, modern glass wall off building exterior in Silicon Valley.

Starting point is 00:11:14 The different scenes here is interior of the NASDAQ stock exchange, young tech CEO and a casual hoodie. And it's gone and create the voiceover script. May 18th, 2012, Facebook prepared for the most anticipated tech IPO in history. Mark Zuckerberg, social network would go public. Shares price at $38, so it's gone in actually research with perplexity to go and actually get the facts straight. Of course, if you're doing this, I would want to make sure, just double check that it's correct. You know, perplexity could be wrong. Then it gives you the video animation prompt.

Starting point is 00:11:53 So it does it for C-Dance Light, which is great, right? Because for most of us, we would just probably go into SORA 2. We wouldn't be stitching together C-Dance or in others like that. And it goes and does it and it says, does this plan work for you? We're just going to say, just generate it. But you could adjust the scripts. You could change the video style and format if you don't like it. And what is happening right now is it looks like it's creating all the.

Starting point is 00:12:25 Yeah. Oh, my God. Are you kidding me? Yeah, this is crazy. Like that's the reference images. How cool is that? How cool is that? And that's the audio.

Starting point is 00:12:41 So it creates the. audio here and here and then it says do you want to generate the video so we're going to go ahead and generate the video and see what happens so it's going and creating the videos um and a lot of people will look at this and be like this is so silly right like why like historical videos like it's so silly how is this going to make me money how is this going to get me followers how is this going to get me likes well i think it's obvious how it's going to get followers and likes i think the non-obvious question is how does this, how does this help my business? And whenever you're, you know, when you're thinking about, you know, building your business, you know, I always think about it like this.

Starting point is 00:13:26 I call it the ACP funnel. I've talked about it on the pod before. You know, first create an audience, then create a community, then create a product. So it's literally a funnel. It's literally a funnel. And I think you start with an audience and you can tell stories. This is where you can tell stories. And this is where creative AI really plays a huge role. And then from that, you know, maybe you create a paid community, IRL events. And then from that, you're going to figure out what your product is. And that's when you vibe code something.

Starting point is 00:14:01 And that's when you sell it to them. So this is sort of the framework I use when I create any of my businesses, when I'm buying businesses, when I'm investing in businesses. and I think this gives you the highest probability of success. Let's go back to the glyph. So now what it's doing is it's mixing the background. So it's actually created background music at a low level. So it knows that it's not just doing voice over,

Starting point is 00:14:25 but it knows that people like background music, right? These are the nuances that you might have forgotten if you were just creating this on your own. And this hasn't taken that long. I mean, we're talking about a few minutes. It's like this. I've paid agencies to do this sort of stuff, and it's thousands of dollars. And it's ready.

Starting point is 00:14:44 So within about, I don't know, five minutes, we've been able to do it. And let's go ahead and watch it. May 18th, 2012, Facebook prepared for the most anticipated tech IPO in history. Mark Zuckerberg's social network would go public. Shares priced at $38 on NASDAQ, but technical glitches delayed trading. investors grew anxious as the system struggled to keep up. Zuckerberg retained control through special voting shares, but behind closed doors,

Starting point is 00:15:17 underwriters had quietly cut their revenue forecasts days earlier. The stock barely rose on day one. Within weeks, billions in value vanished. The dream IPO became a cautionary tale of hype. So, I mean, is it perfect? Absolutely not. But from a one shot, I think that was pretty amazing. and you can see how you can go in and create and take it to the next level, right?

Starting point is 00:15:45 So there you have it, folks. We created a mini documentary in just a few minutes. The next thing I want to do is I want to explore their AI influencer agent. So let's go watch this. I can't believe I'm not real. Can you? I can't believe I'm not real. Can you?

Starting point is 00:16:03 I can't believe it either, like that you're able to create something this good. And you're going to see, you know, the rise of AI influencers. It's going to be a, it's going to be, it's going to, it's happening and it's, it's becoming a thing. I can't believe I'm not. Follow me through a day in my life, collecting and cooking toads for the algorithm. This is more like fantasy, right? That is a nice and chubby one indeed. Like, imagine, you know, this is more of like a storytelling thing and this, this feels more real.

Starting point is 00:16:38 It depends what you're trying to do, right? But let's just say, let's see, you know, one thing you can do is you can just click, tell me what you can do. And let's see what it says. So it says that it creates talking head videos, generating realistic photos, turning those photos into talking, singing videos with lip sync. We can use various voice styles, you know, influencer, amateur, and you can add music. So let's just say we want a talking head video. Yeah, let's do a talking head video. And why I think, you know, I think talking head video is just from like a video ad perspective, you know, is very, very is helpful.

Starting point is 00:17:26 And also like if you're trying to, you know, trying to create influence or accounts, like gone other days where you create one brand account, right? you go and create one, like you create one brand. Let's go back to here in a second. Sort of the old way of doing accounts, brand accounts, social media on brands, was you'd create one brand account. And that brand account might have been on multiple platforms. So maybe it was on Instagram and TikTok. So you just do.

Starting point is 00:18:06 multiple platforms. That was the idea. But today, this doesn't really work that well. You actually want to create something like 10 accounts. Well, here's the way I think about it. One brand account, 10 people. Some of those people could be real people and some of those people could be AI influencers. But having these people on multiple platforms and maybe only two on 10 pop off or one on 10 pops off, that's going to help basically create this brand and get more followers, more likes. And this is sort of the evolution of marketing. This is more vibe marketing, right? You're kind of like viving using tools like Lyft to get followers. And this is just, you know, you're reliant on people.

Starting point is 00:19:02 I think that, you know, I don't want to see a world in social where everything is AI slop, of course. But, you know, people listening to this podcast, the startup ideas podcast, you want to increase the odds of success and whatever is you're doing. And the reality is AI helps to do that.

Starting point is 00:19:19 So going back to the glyph chat, it needs to know, okay, what type of character you want in the video, who should it be? let's just say we want a 35-year-old woman, brown hair, blue eyes, who is wearing tennis clothing because we are a tennis brand. Like say you're a tennis brand, right? And, you know, you want to, you want someone who like,

Starting point is 00:19:59 represents the brand. Like maybe you sell tennis rackets. Maybe you sell accessories. So it's gone ahead and, you know, use Quinn realism, which, again, is something I would probably not be using. I wouldn't think to use it. Let's go ahead and see what happens here. I mean, pretty great reference image.

Starting point is 00:20:25 And then it says, what do you want her to say? Maybe I don't know about you, but tennis has become my life. So, you know, you do need to have like a hook, right? So I actually would have loved if it gave me, you know, it was like, gave me optimized hooks. But maybe if I did prompt it and it was like, I want to do a hook and, you know, here's my script. What is the best one?

Starting point is 00:20:59 Maybe it would have done it. So then it says, what kind of voice do you want her to have? Amateur, raw voice, authentic. So I think amateur just because, you know, it feels like, you know, imagine you're going through stories. Like the best videos are the ones that feel real, not super like high, you know, polished and that sort of thing. So then it says they have the audio and then it says, do you want to create the talking head? By the way, everything that we've done so far from a credits perspective,

Starting point is 00:21:35 like we've used about $2 worth of credit so far. So all of this is taken about $2, the audio here, the thumbnail, and the, of course, the documentary. So all of it, which is absolutely crazy. So I think that using a tool like this is going to be cheaper in the long run because you're you're prompting it less, you're getting more optimized stuff. And realistically, it's going to save you time. So now it's using OmniHuman to create the image and the audio to lip sync to the video. Probably take a couple minutes. And let's maybe come back to this. Or no, we'll just wait for this to complete. So it's finally finished the output.

Starting point is 00:22:41 It's taken eight minutes and eight seconds to create our virtual influencer. Let's see what it sounds like. I don't know about you, but tennis has become my life. So I think it sounds amazing. I think she looks a little too AI for me, but still like it's like 95% there. You know, I think that we can prompt this to get to get it feel like more like in her, you know, she's like on the courts or in her. kitchen, you know, just the background for me, the fact that it's like gray feels like it's a bit

Starting point is 00:23:18 stage and a fit to AI, but I know that we could get it there with just prompting a little more. So really cool that this worked. The last use case we're going to show is these TikTok Reddit stories. So I'm sure you've seen this on TikTok, you know, like the Minecraft videos basically. It's brain rot for sure. But, you know, some people love them. This has 43,000 likes. You know, if you can find a way that you can use Reddit for these interesting stories, post it, again, create audiences, create likes, and ultimately sell some of your software or startups, that's what you, you know, is a viable channel for you.

Starting point is 00:24:03 So can glyph figure that out for us? So I'm going to say go and create an awesome TikTok video from the R slash SaaS subreddit. Why from the R slash slash slash? So if I'm doing this for, you know, ideabrowser.com, you know, SaaS subreddit, I'm sure has a bunch of startup, you know, people who've built software as a service. And they're, you know, I would want to attract those people, right? So it's gone ahead and used web search, exa web search. It's found how I built a $1 million SaaS just by postgun Reddit. So classic hustle story, underdog story.

Starting point is 00:24:49 And then it asked you to pick your style of prose, drama, educational, mystery, lifestyle. In this case, educational, like we want to teach people about, you know, building software, building SaaS. How fast do you want to go? ultra-fast, fast, medium. Probably like pretty fast. But it's cool that you're able to, you know, drip-feed that context into it. Do you want a Gen Z brain rod balance or thoughtful? Let's go with more of a balance vibe.

Starting point is 00:25:21 Let's go with more of a balance vibe. And let's say we want to do 60 seconds. I'm actually surprised that you're able to do such long videos within glyph. You know, I think it would be like 10 seconds. 15 seconds. Here you can see that it's creating seven clips that are eight and a half seconds each. Oh, so that's it. So it's basically creating these clips and it's stitching it together.

Starting point is 00:25:47 You can see that it's creating the audio. Here's the hook, the problem, the strategy. So it's already gone ahead and created the script. The script is a developer turned to Reddit, post into a million-dollar SaaS. Here's how he did it. You know, went on Reddit, identified subredits where his target customers hung out, provided genuine value. He shared case studies, answered questions. I'm going to say, can you make this script more narrative-driven, more interesting, more specific?

Starting point is 00:26:28 And just see what happens. Like, that's, to me, like, that script feels a little more, a little mid, you know? So here we go. In 2019, a broke developer named Tom had $47 in his bank account. And his SaaS idea, nobody wanted to fund. He couldn't afford Facebook ads. So he opened up Reddit and found his first customer arguing in the comments of R-slash SaaS. Tom spent two hours every morning answering questions and five subreddits, no links, no pitches.

Starting point is 00:26:56 So this is good. So that's just a quick tip, I guess, is you can kind of push it to create better scripts. Start production. I click start production. I was draining these audio segments in parallel. It uses 11 labs to go ahead and do that. I could see on the side that my credits are starting to drain that cost about 40 cents or something like that. It uses a custom FFMPEG tool to actually stitch it together.

Starting point is 00:27:30 And, yeah, hopefully it creates something that's interesting. I wonder if there's like a workflow that you can just run every single day to go ahead and create some of this. I'm sure there is. But, you know, I'm not going to figure that out in this, in this episode. This is, this is for beginners. But, you know, you can imagine if this works, you're just going to want to have this on, you know, on repeat, right? It creates this Facebook, sorry, it creates this faceless, short form production engine that every single day you're getting, content and creating followers, creating likes, etc.

Starting point is 00:28:13 So it says retrieving pixel videos in parallel. And it's got seven on seven unique clips. Let's go ahead and continue. It says trimming all unique clips to audio length and using make from assets v2. So it's creating the video from the images. That's really the key with creating AI video is really the images, having great reference images, having great scripts. So you can see here it's already created it, and it's going to go ahead and stitch it together.

Starting point is 00:28:53 So let's watch a couple of these. Let's see if we like it. In 2019, a broke developer named Tom had $47 in his bank account and a SaaS idea nobody wanted to fund. He couldn't afford Facebook ads, so he opened Reddit. and found his first customer arguing in the comments of Aso Saas. Tom spent two hours every morning answering questions in five subredits. No links.

Starting point is 00:29:21 So it's missing the subtitles, right? And, you know, if you didn't like any of these, you can obviously edit them. But pretty cool. So here it's got the master video here. In 2019, a broke device. developer named Tom had $47 in his bank account and a SaaS idea nobody wanted to fund. He couldn't afford Facebook ads, so he opened Reddit and found his first customer arguing in the comments of Asa Saas. Tom spent two hours every morning answering questions in five subredits.

Starting point is 00:29:58 No links, no pitches, just solving real problems. One comment got 2,000 upvotes. His inbox exploded with 89 people begging for his solution. He hadn't even built it yet. He co-consum. He co-exploaded. coded for three weeks straight, launched with a simple post, and got 340 signups in 24 hours, all from Reddit. 12 months later, he had 4,000 paying customers. Reddit drove 67% of them. His CAC was literally zero. Today, Tom's SaaS does $1.2 million in ARR. That's on Tom.

Starting point is 00:30:31 He still spends 30 minutes daily on Reddit, because it works. In 2019... So it's not perfect. Like, they could have brought Tom back. Oh, now it's adding music, the background music. And it's missing the subtitles, but you get the idea. Like, obviously, you would change some of this. This is one prompting it.

Starting point is 00:30:56 I do think the script is pretty good. I would change, like, white. Okay, let's watch this real quick. In 2019, a broke developer named Tom had $47. Like, not bad. Okay, adding subtitles to the video. So, yeah, I would say, like, You probably can get this to work.

Starting point is 00:31:17 You can probably get this to work, right? Like, I would have loved to have one prompted this, and it completely just blew it out of the water. I think that it took two prompts to get a good script. I think that, you know, this, obviously the short form could be way more optimized. Like, why are you opening up Canva? Why is it showing, like, a woman when it's talking about Tom or whatever his name is? Bring back the character and stuff like that. And that's where you come in, right?

Starting point is 00:31:44 you're the creative director. You have to push this thing. So, you know, but overall, like the fact that you can go ahead and create this, like, we didn't, we know it. Oh, here we go. Here's the masterpiece, the final video. Let's watch like 10 seconds of it. In 2019, a broke developer named Tom had $47 in his bank account and a SaaS idea nobody wanted to fund. He couldn't afford Facebook ads.

Starting point is 00:32:13 So he opened Reddit and Facebook. Like, it's not bad. It's not bad. I mean, obviously it's bad. Like, in the sense that there's some stuff that we need to change. But it's close. It's like it's the last 20% which we need to get to, right? So overall, like, I am impressed.

Starting point is 00:32:37 So what did we do? So what did we do today? We got the most out of nanobanana with the nanobanour. with the nanobanana ultimate AI agent. We created a miniature AI documentary, really cool, and we didn't even research the script at all. We had perplexity to it. We created an AI influencer.

Starting point is 00:32:58 It did take eight minutes, but come on, not too bad. And then we created a story, a Reddit story, that grabbed information from Reddit and created almost like stock footage, with audio on top of it, that could be used to create audiences and share our stories. So overall, I think it was really cool what we did today

Starting point is 00:33:23 and kind of exceeded my expectations. I don't know about you. I think I'll end this episode by saying there's all these different agents and different categories, the video image, the social media. You know, if you want to create podcast, you know, you want to create a podcast,

Starting point is 00:33:43 product influencer on video and image, you know, V-O-3 master prompter, you know, Kling 2.5. How do you create, you know, Hollywood special effects in your pocket? So there's a bunch of them here. You can go ahead and create your own agents and your own workflows. But, you know, it's really, in my opinion, it's advanced. Like, I would use the irregular agents to start, like before you're creating these custom instruction, custom memories. But it's cool to see what you can do, right?

Starting point is 00:34:16 You can go and search X for a specific topic. And then it runs a deep research report. And then it creates, you know, text to image with flux. And so there's so much that you can do. But I would say, you know, from a beginner perspective, play with agents, see if you get something more out of, you know, the creative AI. that exist. You know, I think if you, you know, if you've stuck around this long, you're seeing that

Starting point is 00:34:49 a tool like glyph is helpful, right? So, I hope this has been interesting to you. Hope it's gotten your creative juices flowing. And let me know what you want me to review next. Like, is there any tools that you think are interesting? Should I be doing more of this stuff? And, you know, have a creative day, my friends. This is the greatest time in history to be built.

Starting point is 00:35:12 building startups, to be building audiences, to be building communities. I can't wait to see what you build next.

The Startup Ideas Podcast - Meet the AI Agent Turning Simple Prompts into Viral Content

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