I'm Building Agents in Public Until $100K/Mo (SaaS + Client + Info)
April 29, 2025
Parker lays out the plan for building a fleet of AI agents in public, with a clear path to $100K/mo profit. He details the series structure, the initial tech stack, and the daily/dedicated content approach that ties everything together.
Cadence and format of the build-in-public series#
- Weekly builds, broken into three compact parts
- Batch content in one or two days, then release three 20-minute episodes
- Long-form videos on the main channel, Shorts on the daily updates channel
- Paid members get the full, unedited long-form videos, plus a one-page PDF and a playlist for easy reference
- The beta platform (ivibewithai.com) launches late May with a price increase
Revenue model and audience strategy#
- Target: reach $100K/mo in profit by scaling agent-driven workflows
- School membership: ~50 members currently; expanding with more hands-on content
- Daily channel: Q&A, news, and quick resources; content fed into a processing pipeline
- Cross-channel strategy: content produced for the main channel feeds Shorts and the daily channel
The initial “agentic” builds (the stack and the plan)#
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP) base for orchestration and processing
- First project: GCP-based agentic video uploader and metadata processing
- Audio processing, subtitles, chapter markers, descriptions
- Transcripts repurposed into blog posts and other assets
- Thumbnail automation: Google Cloud Platform + Pillow
- Daily content pipeline: AI news aggregator and classifier to populate the daily channel
- Short-form clipper and clip processing (experimental, including Opus-like approaches)
- Membership platform buildout: I vibe with AI (IVIBE) ecosystem (Teachable + School + more)
- Personal/custom tooling: vectorization pipelines for relevance, Discord membership SDK work
- Platform integration: map the SaaS product with Google agents and sub-agents
- Health integrations (HIPAA considerations) and robust database design
- Future: iOS companion app development
- Home infrastructure: a cost-effective, self-hosted option (a $12 VPS) for certain tasks
The workflow and best-practice approach#
- Build with an agent-first mindset
- Don’t start with “everything” for public release; map steps first
- Manually run through the steps, then distill into an agentized workflow
- Iterate by questioning each step, removing unnecessary bits
- Final step: automate as much as possible (the Elon Musk-inspired five-stepper idea)
What’s coming next (the road ahead)#
- Start with the GCP-based agentic video uploader and metadata processor
- Then ship the Thumbnail Builder (Pillow) to improve click-through
- Follow with the AI news aggregator to feed the daily channel
- Expand the daily content pipeline, then tie into the membership/education ecosystem
- Continue expanding agent fleets across Discord, MAP/SaaS integrations, health data handling, and eventual iOS support
How you can participate#
- Share ideas in the comments for features or workflows you’d like to see automated
- If you’re interested in the school, check ivibewithai.com and consider joining the beta when announced
- Expect ongoing updates on the tech stack, production tweaks, and real-world results
Takeaways#
- Build in public with a deliberate, three-part episode structure to maximize learnings and viewership
- Start with an end-to-end manual process, then automate it as an “agent”
- Use a single stack (GCP) to minimize friction across video production, metadata, and personalization
- Align content formats across channels: main long-form, daily updates, and Shorts, all feeding a unified pipeline
Links#
- ivibewithai.com (beta launch late May)
- Google Cloud Platform (for the agentic pipelines and processing)
Transcript
Hey there, I'm Parker Rex, led tech for a startup that sold for 23 million bucks. After that, I realized this AI thing is bananas. I got to go all in. On this channel, I'm going to have a new series where every single week, I'm going to have a new build. There's going to be three parts to it because I need help and I don't want to hire people. I need agents. So, I'm going to be building agents. I'm going to walk you through what to expect from this channel and all the different agents that I'm going to be building. I've done a lot of this stuff manually on both the coding and marketing side. And let's just talk about some numbers so you're grounded in truth. So this is a daily scorecard that I have. I used to run EOS for a company, the startup that I talked about at the beginning of the videos where you have a scorecard, you go through it. So this is just the stats. So over the last month, we got a,000 nearly,00 new subscribers on this channel you're watching. And then we've got close to 600 on the daily upload channel where I'm working on the program there too where it's just 15 minutes max. We cover AI news things that are relevant and we cut all the fat and any sort of resources and Q&A. And then on this channel, like I said, we're going to be doing builds. So, it's working. But doing this manually, 10 pieces of content, a lot of the videos that came out over the last two weeks had technical issues because I was partially automating them and then partially changing everything about the production. So the microphone, the software that's downloading or recording, the audio post-processing, all that needs to be agentic. So we also got 50 people into our school, which is awesome. and figuring out the offering with that where I think I've nailed it. But I'm excited to expand in May from being just on YouTube long form to YouTube shorts. Testing that. That'll be the next step. And yeah, doing it paid is really awesome because the people that are in it will get all the unscripted long form videos that I'm about to talk about. So on the daily, this will be just questions, news, resources, quick and easy, and that will be dropped into a pipeline that will be attached to Google Cloud Platform. So this is a pedabyte bucket and I drop it into the daily raw. It will process it and go into the processed raw where you'll get all the outputs, the metadata, all that jazz, eventually thumbnails and titles. But that's what's to come. So this series, right, we're building agents because we want to get to 100K a month in profit and we don't want to kill ourselves. So how are we going to do that? Well, this series is going to look something like this. It's like the ultimate build in public where I need to build a thing, right? And what I was doing before, which was not very smart, was I just build the thing and then I try to package it up for the people in school. Then I'm like, what do I put on YouTube? So I have like ancillary stuff like net new stuff like oh flappy bird that's okay but forced and so instead I build the thing that I need and then I break that into three episodes that are kind of nerfed because it's not going to perform well on YouTube one and two I want to grow the audience on YouTube. So I guess it's kind of tied to the first one where it's basically like if I have an eight hour video on YouTube it's not gonna be that interesting. I'm not from Minecraft, which by the way, if you're a nerd, go watch him. You It's basically the social network of coding where you just get pumped. But I'll build the thing that I need. I'll break it into three episodes. So, I'll batch it in one day, maybe two, and then have three 20-minute episodes that have all the kind of topics compressed. And then I'll talk over it a little bit. And then the long form video will be then on our Vibe withAI community YouTube channel email verified to those that are in it and they'll also get a onepage PDF and then I'll make a playlist out of that for the main and then like I said the full unedited version goes into school which will soon be on ivibewithai.com which if you're thinking about joining join now because we're going to be launching the beta of our own platform in late May and it'll be double the price. So then, as I said, the daily will be the Q&A and the news and all that stuff. So these are the builds that are coming up so you can get an idea of where this road map's going. And like I've said many a time in all these videos that I make is whenever you're doing something net new, you don't go agent first. So first you go and you list out the steps. What are the steps involved to do said thing? And then you question them. And you question them by actually doing the steps, right? You don't just list them out. You go and you do the thing that you're trying to eventually turn into an agent. And then you reduce the number of steps. So you're getting critical about each one. Why does this need to be in here? You're hopefully deleting. Like I already said, I'm totally forgetting the fourth one, but this is Elon Musk five stepper, but I'm just going to put automate. That's the last one. But if you don't do this in this order, then you end up not building the right thing. So what's to come on this channel is well it's this first one that I was mentioning with that bucket. So it's GCP platform agentic video uploader and metadata processing. Now, what that means is there's all this fluff around YouTube videos that people don't really think about, like the audio processing, like the subtitles, like the chapter markers, descriptions, other assets that can be used to build other forms of media, right? Like if I want a blog post, well, that transcript is going to be awfully handy. So this is the first one that we'll be nailing because I am doing dual channel. I have audio processing. I have subtitles. I have eventually clipping but all the metadata around it will be the first one and I'll compress that across three videos for this channel Monday, Wednesday, Friday starting next week. And then the long form and the repo and the PDF explaining it will be for the members. I think they're going to love that too because if you just have someone that's like spewing like theory, I don't learn from that. So I was like, what would I want to learn? And then next will be the Google Cloud Platform Agentic Thumbnail Builder using Pillow. So thumbnails, you see good ones, you see bad ones. I want good ones obviously. And I want to not only get to where I was when I was manually making them, which was just mid, but I want to elevate them. And like we said with the five-steper from Elon, you kind of have to do it manually before you can automate it. So you find patterns, you figure out what are the things that work, you remix people's, you have multiple steps, and then eventually this will be a gent where it's like the ideas are their own workflow. So it's like new stuff comes in, I check it, I go record, it it processes, it makes a thumbnail, I already have the title from the get-go. Then we'll be doing the AI news aggregator and classifier. So this is to help with the daily channel, right? All these things, everything I'm going to be doing on this channel plays into the next thing. And so when people discover me because it's some like title and it's like agent, whatever. Well, I'm going to have a fleet of these things. And I also have a home server that is running on like a $12 VPS German hosted. had to roll it out of German Linux to get it to work, but it's basically like a beef machine that is onetenth the cost of Digital Ocean, which is awesome. But yeah, those will all be running on there potentially if I wanted to roll my own. But that's the news aggregator, the short form clipper. It's doing something like Opus. So, we're going to be looking into their API on Friday to figure out what are they doing because there's a lot of libraries. Then the I vibe with AI membership buildout which is essentially teachable plus school plus and one. Then vectorization pipelines. So most of these platforms don't have anything that's AI first. So you go in there and you're just in this like forest of content and you're just trying to learn but it feels like a chore. So vectorization will be helpful for a lot of reasons, but it's basically like similarity search and figuring out like not only intramember mingling, but also matching their ratings that we gather across their interest in marketing, their interest in coding, their level of experience in each one, and then providing content relevant to them as well as news relevant to them. And then we'll be doing Discord membership SDK work. We're going to be going into map the map which is my SAS product and doing the Google agent integration with multiple sub agents. That is so key because that was a huge part of what helped me up on building that. We'll do health integrations. This also includes HIPPA compliance. This also includes all the database stuff. But yeah, and then eventually iOS companion app work. So this is kind of like the ultimate build and public. I'm really excited about it. So yeah, that's things I need. Here's some more of them. This is the one that I basically just pasted from the school and I think it's going to be great. Other stuff. Yeah, we're going to be hosting workshops, but that's just for the school peeps. If you have any ideas of things that I'm missing where they're in your workflow and you're like, "Yeah, you should totally be doing this thing because your audio could be a lot easier if you've used this or that." Drop a comment below. But yeah, that's the plan. I'm excited about it. Make sure you like the video cuz that's like the coolest thing you could do on a Tuesday or whenever you're watching this is just like the video. It's right there. Boom. Thumb. Yeah, we did it. Good job. Did you do it? Good job. Also, subscribe to the channel. That's the big update for today. All these are going to be agentic, meaning like it does one step. I hop in, I see how it's doing, and then eventually agentic where it'll pick the video, it'll pick the thumbnail, it'll pick all these things based on the feedback that I've gathered. Most of it will be on GCP because GCP it's just a one-stop shop and they should totally sponsor me. But yeah, I will see you in the next video.