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Pivoting to $20K/Mo AI Services on the Path to $100K (Instead of VC)

March 8, 2025

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Parker shares a pragmatic path from chasing unicorns to building $20K/mo in AI services, plus a clear content and product strategy to push toward $100K/mo. Two growth lanes (Cursor-focused AI tools and broad AI education) power a content engine that feeds paid courses and a community.

Strategy snapshot#

  • Pivot point: go all-in on AI services after a stint chasing VC success; hit $20K/mo within the pivot week.
  • Revenue path: build goodwill with free content first, then monetize with paid courses and services.
  • Two-pronged approach: Cursor-centric tooling and broad, mass-audience AI education. Both feed a single channel and funnel to a paid school/community.

Niches and positioning#

  • Cursor niche: focus on the best-in-class coding/AI automation setup, multi-agent platforms, and practical builds.
  • Mass AI education: teach fundamentals, prompting mastery, and practical workflows for non-experts who want results fast.
  • Strategy balance: publish broadly to attract attention, then convert that audience into paid courses and a community.

Content strategy and formats#

  • Core ideas:
  • 10x prompts and meta-prompts: push for higher-quality outputs by giving more context and a strategic prompt frame.
  • Prompt scaffolding: level-based prompts (zero, one, two, etc.) and meta prompts to unlock better results.
  • Show-how demonstrations: practical setups (cursor + mCP, browser debugging, etc.) over theory.
  • Content cadence:
  • Daily updates on AI journey.
  • Long-form masterclasses and tutorials on key topics (to be hosted in the paid school).
  • Listicles and tool-dove content to surface new tools and use cases.

Tools and tech stack#

  • Core tools:
  • mCP (Model Context Protocol) by Claude
  • Claude family for agents and tool calls
  • Cursor (AI-enabled coding/automation assistant)
  • Superbase as a backend toolset
  • Warp and Whisper for content pipeline (transcriptions)
  • YT DLP for video download
  • Zed (Rust-based IDE) for fast tooling
  • Webflow, Figma, Squarespace, WordPress as website options (with quality vs ease-of-use tradeoffs)
  • Workflow enablers:
  • Make.com for no-code automations
  • YouTube-to-blog post pipeline (transcriptions → blog posts)
  • Blog posts as evergreen content to reinforce paid courses

The content pipeline (YouTube to paid content)#

  • Core flow:
  • Record daily AI journey videos
  • Transcribe using Whisper (via Warp)
  • Turn transcripts into blog posts with structured prompts
  • Use blog posts to funnel to paid courses and community
  • Example prompts/tools:
  • YouTube to blog post prompts (comprehensive prompts tailored to video type)
  • Output verification matrix (keeps content quality in check)
  • Airtable as the content planning hub
  • Content ideas to repurpose:
  • Calorie tracker in 10 minutes
  • Build a WordPress clone in 10 minutes
  • 10x prompting and meta-prompt deep-dives
  • “What tools I wish I knew” listicles

Product and monetization plan#

  • Paid products:
  • Courses and masterclasses (longer than 30 minutes)
  • A paid school/community with ongoing updates
  • Traffic strategy:
  • Channel content drives traffic to the school
  • Two niches feed the same hub for scalable monetization
  • Evergreen content:
  • Glossy, tool-agnostic concepts (product analytics, CRO, and prompt engineering)
  • Emphasis on fundamentals so tools’ noise doesn’t overwhelm learning

Browser tools and debugging with mCP#

  • End-to-end flow:
  • Set up mCP browser tools extension (Chrome) to expose browser actions to the agent
  • Run the browser tools server and connect it to Cursor via mCP
  • Use the integrated debugging to capture console errors, network logs, and screenshots
  • Practical use:
  • Debug client-side issues without flipping between dev tools and chat
  • Create a debu commands workflow to automate debugging steps
  • Visual example:
  • The extension acts as a logger and screenshotter; you can prompt the agent to read logs, take screenshots, and report back

Quick experiments and ideas highlighted#

  • “YouTube counter” concept: a YouTube channel that comments on popular videos to attract creators and showcase capability
  • AI-driven social media agent: autonomous posting and engagement experiments
  • Cross-tool bridges: pining the gap between Figma and Cursor to streamline design-to-implementation
  • Real-world test ideas: Peter Levels’ flight simulator, a mortgage/ads-based game, etc., to illustrate practical AI productization

Actionable takeaways#

  • Build two growth lanes: Cursor-focused projects and broad AI education. Let them feed one another.
  • Publish freely and often to build goodwill before charging; your audience buys into you, not just your tool.
  • Create a tight pipeline: daily video → transcription → blog post → lead into paid courses.
  • Master prompting: start with level-based prompts, then move to meta prompts to extract stronger outputs.
  • Leverage browser-enabled mCP tools to debug and iterate faster; connect the browser tools to Cursor for end-to-end visibility.
  • Document your process in a public way (Airtable, resources page) to lower friction for learners and potential students.
Transcript

most YouTube content is either too complex or flat out useless for business you don't need more Theory and demos you need Real Results I'm Parker X I built and Le product for a startup that did $50 million a year before we exited after that I chased the Silicon Valley unicorn status for three years until pivoting to going all in on AI the week I pivoted I went to making 20K a month using Code no code and all sorts of AI tools I've scaled products to half a million users I built multi- agentic platforms and launched 50 really popular gpts I cut through the noise and share what I'm learning so you can too so this is a daily video on AI and instead of making highly produced videos every couple of weeks this is just a really quick update on my journey to 100K a month so in each one of these videos I'll cover my strategy of growing those AI Services my strategy on growing a Content business and an update on a tool that I'm trying out so today we're going to be using mCP which is by Claude so the format of this video is I'll basically have a little whiteboard and if you're familiar there's a channel called Nick serve I don't know really know how to say his last name but I saw what he was doing and he does no code uh automations with make.com and it's a lot of inspiration for what I'm doing here so first we'll jump into a little bit of the strategy for today on the AI side so I've built paid products in the past I did a product management for beginners course and I made about $20,000 on it in about a week when I launched it and it was just a series of a bunch of YouTube videos and it was right when we got bought and I was like hey this would be pretty cool I had built a small a on the internet on this channel and they had been asking so I put it together and now it's all free I think at the time I charged $200 but it's a little bit outdated in terms of some of the tools but I try to make it Evergreen where even when I do mention a tool I bring it up that this will be the same concept like learning how to do product analytics learning how to do um basically conversion rate optimization is the same as it was before you know does the page look better are you getting them through the funnel are you making the person think or not all that stuff's the same so now what I'm looking at is how do I grow AI services to $100,000 a month and I think what I've learned from both uh just being in this space for a while and also a lot of the teachings that Alex Heros does is you need to build a lot of Goodwill with your audience before you start to charge for the products because if you just posted a video and you're like hey Buy my thing but you had not put out content and you're not someone that people trust then it's not going to sell I think the reason that I was able to do $20,000 a month um or $20,000 just when it was out for a week was because I had posted so much free content um and that's why it worked so now what I'm doing is I'm kind of thinking through like what is the kind of content that people are going to want to see and I'm stuck between two niches um you know I basically look at this as a problem where there's a ton of people that want like you know you have like cursor content and so cursor fastest growing IDE in like forever where it just basically has just like exploded the charts in terms of growth and what it does if you're not familiar it's like traditionally you'd have to go and you'd write a bunch of code and each line of code you do by hand and then you know kind of the first iteration or change when AI came along was like oh we have like auto complete and auto complete was really helpful for people because instead of you just having this here and you write this one thing then it would guess what you're going to write next and then quickly after Auto compete came chat and chat basically took it from being like this ID where you know you were maybe getting the autocomplete in here to then having this chat thing over here where instead of having to go back and forth with between chat GPT or any of these models you would be able to chat right there and you could also like chat in line so you could grab a block a code hit command K and then have updates be done so cursor kind of pioneered the best version of this because it is just the smartest it's the most effective and people are interested in it like if you look at some of the the stuff out there I just want to show you a tweet from uh the founder of superbase who follows me on Twitter you should follow me on Twitter but he basically posted that the growth of their usage has just absolutely exploded now I'm probably not gonna be able to find this on the spot I'm going to try though let's see I know his name is kiwi I think I should know his name none of this video is going to get edited by the way so if you stick with me I promise you'll learn something but yeah if we look at his page see when did he post it boom if you look at this chart this kind of explains the story of what's going on in the AI space in terms of coding like I think a lot of people uh there's two camps like one Camp says coding's dead and I think that that is partially right I think it would be a mistake to think that none of it's going to change but it also lowers the barrier to entry for anyone wanting to learn like I I started learning how to code and took it seriously about two and a half years ago and that was only because I could go and ask this always on tutor AKA chat GPT how to do all this stuff but now you're starting to see it where as the models are getting better more people are entering the market now say what what you will about the quality of those uh projects that people are putting out like to-do apps and basic things that wouldn't be ready for production but more people are defitely entering the space and I want to be there to help them kind of learn how to go from Just Vibe coding to actually building stuff that people can use and another really good example of this is Peter levels put out a flight simulator oh I think it's levels iio yeah he put out a flight simulator and this thing has Gone Bananas where it started with and it's also started people building their own products that didn't have followings but he put out a flight simulator that basically let you fly around in a real world and it wasn't great right like four to eight FPS people are complaining but he did this through his you know Vibe coding meaning like telling the model hey I don't know how to do this can you do this paired with his ability to actually code and he got a lot further where now you know he has a game that is getting 60 frames per second you can see that there's 43 people playing right now I think he's generating $70,000 a month now off of the back of this little idea that I think he launched like two weeks ago absolutely nuts so that was all possible because of cursor and again I think in order for me to position this right and be an authority in the space and need to be producing a lot of content around cursor one of the videos that I did have that kind of went viral in terms of me like it got more than 10,000 views was just showing how my cursor setup works because I started using it I was one of the first users I talked to the uh Engineers on the team I've gotten a lot of insight from just dming people and then you have people that can go and make stuff like this where you know he's now selling ads for a sailing game so kind of nuts but I I do think that the whoa the misconception with this is like if you're building something like this and you didn't have any fundamentals then you wouldn't be able to build something like this I think that you would be really confused because you wouldn't even know like I mean when you look at a typical software project like we'll look at just my website which by the way I was able to kind of rebuild the entire thing and and position it as someone who knows what they're talking about in this space I was able to do all that in about one evening using Claude code but if you you know if you looked at this and you didn't have any background in programming I don't care how good the model is if it messes up you don't know what a TS config is you don't know what a package.json is you don't know what a package is you don't know what MPN pmpn bun all these things you don't know how environment variables work you don't know what a node module is so all these things you still need to know the fundamentals of it to get the most out of it and that's I think where this kind of cursor for beginners is going to play out but isn't this amazing this guy built this this like sailboat game where you're just turning a Rudder and I can see you know there's a bunch of other people sailing little boats around and then they put the signs up like this guy's making mortgage money off of selling signage in this virtual game so all that said cursor obviously is one of the big inites that I think I'm gonna be going after so I've been just trying to think of like what are the best um ways to kind of approach this so you know covering mCP covering all the different pieces of the puzzle so to speak and kind of scaffolding out like a really basic um like lesson structure so I think that's where this is going to go it's like you know you kind of need this blueprint um you kind of need like what is the ideal work setup because like I mentioned earlier I made a video where I just literally walked through hey here's the settings that I have it works for me I built all these things people liked it they got a lot of Engagement uh I think another part of that would just be teaching people like how to generate 10x responses so if you know how to talk to the model then you'll get a lot better um outputs because the thing is is most people like they go and and this goes for non- cursor stuff too but it's like most people they're sitting there and uh you know they have some sort of need and like the computer is here right and it's a desktop and they're just asking that thing for some question that they they're really struggling with maybe it's like oh I need a react component to do this or oh I need a a better email response or how do I handle this situation and they don't realize that the computer like it has never you know it's been basically trained on like the entire internet and so you have this whole thing that's in there and it's not going to be that great if you just walked up to it and it had no context of who you are what you're trying to do it could be like if you walked up to someone on the street and you're like hey give me an answer to this question but they didn't know how to give you that answer in the context of you like it'd be very generic very Bland and so that's the thing that I've noticed a lot of people struggle with like so instead of like you know level one prompt would be like uh give me a react component that does XYZ well that'd be like a level let's call it like a level one maybe a level zero would be they just say give me a component that does XYZ and then level two would be I need a Shad CN typescript Tailwind for nextjs 15.2 app router like the more context that you're giving the better it is and then as you get down this you know Rabbit Hole of prompting then you realize this's this thing called a meta prompt where you can tell the computer what prompt you want and the better the meta prompt the better the prompt you're going to get so it all just kind of ties into this stuff and like as I'm even talking about it I'm like wow this gets confusing so I think that'll be a big thing uh to be teaching people because it does apply to cursor like when I open up cursor and I have this folder called uh cursor and then you have an mCP like this gives me the ability to you know give my my database access to to the agent so that's that's kind of what I'm thinking when it comes to this course stuff um also it's going to be important like these things change all the time so I will be having a schol community that I'll funnel people into so if they want to kind of see more updates than just the uh original paid product it'll probably be in there too um and so what I was saying before is like there's these two niches where it's like there's cursor and then over here there's another one which is just really like broadly just teaching people AI like because it is this thing that's super magical that everybody kind of knows they need to to be doing so it's really like you know like Mass audience newbie content when I say newbie they may be a professional in one area but they don't know how to use it and so they just know that like like I was saying before like they have a task and they just want to get done but they're not really sure how to do it so I think that this will be kind of this will be really the two that I'll be playing around with and they'll all go into the one channel the channel will Drive traffic to the school to the paid content the courses all that stuff um and so yeah and then that does play into part two which is just the content strategy so when you cruise around and you see what videos people are watching like there's this guy Steve and he runs a software as a service called Builder and he'll do you know some evaluations of what he thinks makes a good model teaching some of those Concepts so I think those could be good I think teaching people how to uh broadly generate images with AI because a lot of them look really bad maybe you didn't even know it was possible so just kind of thinking about that like going through the new tools of cloud code that's the one that I find to be the best will probably be a good idea so what I do is I just kind of go through all these things like simple ideas of oh this guy built a WhatsApp chatbot well what about a calorie tracker in 3 minutes because everybody's building calorie trackers right now or what would it take to build a WordPress clone in 10 minutes I think the issue sometimes though with like these in 10 minutes things is people don't it's kind of like a show people don't associate the fact that or they don't thinking about the fact that the Creator aka me in this case would have gone and done a lot of pre-work for that to be able to pull it off in 10 minutes um but it all should kind of tie back into like would then go into like the 10x uh like prompting video I'm clearly having trouble with this pencil I'm new to it but it's fun to do but that would play into like oh like if you want to be able to do this then you need the 10x prompt the way you do that is with the meta prompt here's the meta prompt toober in the school so you kind of like all like it all like ends up playing into into one another um some other videos that I will be putting out is just listicle style content of of what tools I wish I knew um I can actually pull up the list of videos and I'm taking a kind of a product management approach to all this now so if I look at my video ideas then you can see I have like the status of them the channel of where it's going to go and then I'm trying to put together like what a series would look like so you can expect to see courses tutorials master classes I kind of classifi as a video that will be like longer than 30 minutes so they can kind of get a 10 one on and I got to take a SI of my coffee because I just made it but other videos would be more so like showcases and like oh like how would Mr Beast make an AI video well he would probably give his credit card to an AI agent let it go ham maybe you could give an AI agent um a million dollars in a trading account for crypto with like a paper trading account and see how it does I think another experiment perhaps would be like oh I built an AI to run my social media or I built a social media account that is totally autonomous I think one that I thought of yesterday actually would be a YouTube account that would automatically comment on popular YouTube channels and you it would be called the um counter because a lot of people say um when they're recording YouTube videos and if you just kind of funny I think if you did that or if you did that on a bunch of different channels and it was always commented immediately then people would be like how's that done there's no way someone's watching this and counting it then the Creator would probably look at that and think wow I say I'm a lot how did they do this then if they went and checked out the YouTube channel they could see maybe it links back to me it's just something that would be a really easy transcription pipeline where I guess I could maybe kind of think that through because I think it's an interesting idea but if you had the um counter and the goal of it would be to get attention from popular creators so they know that you're the smart Dev you basically would have something that you well you you need a list of creators you need a whisper pipeline when I say pipeline it's really just like a whisper call Whispers the um video to transcription you would need probably YT DLP YT DLP is uh the downloader so then after you'd have all those transcriptions then you would feed the go transcription which is typically a text file so txt and then the transcription would go to in this case if you wanted to keep it easy it'd literally just be a GPT assistant and there'd be some prompt in there that'd be like I'm going to type this because it's way faster but it would be like you are a video analyst for popular YouTube channel your job is to read through a large transcription text file and count the number of hesitations or es that are normal in the English language like um M and then return the number of times um was said throughout the entire transcript so that'd be something really simple to set up now do I think that this is like an award-winning idea no but that's just something that you can do when you do have this skill set and then you basically bring those together and while I'm on the topic this is something I did yesterday actually where let me see if I still have it yeah so I have shown you earlier in the video the product management course that I made but I wanted to make it so that it was in blog post format and so that's what this is is basically taking a script so I came in and I said hey uh I want to run a whisper on a playlist of videos for each video make a new text file in the current directory with the name of the file after the name of the video here's the playlist so then this is using warp so it's another agentic tool in the dev tool kit and it basically gave me the plan where it said hey I need to process a YouTube playlist and create transcripts for each video this will involve One downloading the video from the YouTube playlist two transcribing each video using whisper three saving each transcript is a text file named after the video first I'll check if he has YT DLP yes I do and then it does some smarter stuff like I wouldn't have thought to use this temp videos thing but is nice for storage space where I don't really want to keep all these videos they're already hosted on the cloud they're already saved on a hard drive but it creates the shell script it goes and it does it and then it's just running and then you end up with all these transcriptions so that would be really the first part of the job now the output of what the task I was doing here was not to count the number of times I'm saying um but actually to take it and turn into blog posts which is another thing that I'll be doing in this content uh pipeline so I have these prompts and one of them is YouTube to blog post and then I have these different sub prompts in here based on the type of content that it is so if it's a YouTube video that's an academic lecture and you're turning it into a blog post it's going to look very different than let's say like a design and creative tutorial so in this case it's comprehensive prompt for generating academic lecture right so I want to transform academic lectures subtitles into a rigorous scholarly yet accessible markdown blog post that captures the intellectual depth and Nuance insights of the original presentation then it has this input processing methodology it has the structural requirements of it and all this stuff really helps when you're trying to set up a good Pipeline and so then you have the output verification Matrix I took this from an open source project that I found um but this entire air table is free if you just go to my website and uh there's a lot of gold in there but if you go to my website I think I put it under resources and maybe AI tools yeah so under AI tools you'll you'll be able to see that and then it's under uh YouTube to blog post yeah well so all those are really really helpful in the case that you were trying to take you know even a video like this like I could run that same thing on it um so yeah so that's a little bit of a high level on the strategy that I'm going to be working on and some of the stuff that I'm looking forward to today uh in terms of strategy for the daily I know that I have a client that I'm meeting with at 4 and this one's not so AI related but it's you know as I'm building out the services and building out the kind of audience online I'm willing to do different things so this is like a just literally just a web flow site I don't even know why I have to write that but what I will say is this is a good topic to talk about because webflow is maybe an a little bit of hot water because you have other products like bolts and lovable and uh v0o and then I want to just throw in figma too because I think this is an interesting point to make so if you had on a spectrum let's say let's throw in WordPress let's throw in Squarespace let's throw in Wix cool so let's put these on a spectrum and I want to say like uh easy to use and this will be like non-technical and then maybe on that scale and then like we need another scale which is like product quality from low to high how do we want to do this so I really think that we should have something like oops this and let's get another line and go like this and the higher up on the product quality we go there and then ease of use low to high and I think this will make sense and just just a second because I'm thinking about this a lot when I go to Select Technologies to use this plays into like um AI automation software too like make.com and it in but when it comes to website building I think that there's a lot of these that just won't exist or need to exist because models are getting better A lot of the meta skills that came out of uh basically the lack of of coding skills for agencies website Builders they're just going to go away so let's put Squarespace um this is going to be a low product quality and uh really easy to use so let's actually we're gonna flip this super easy to hard so this would be hard and high product quality so we'd put custom built slash let's just put cursor in this case so cursor would be up here we're going to change the colors of these to Black cool I think figma it's really got a door open to do something here now they don't natively provide website building but I think that they're the ones that should be able to and I think that that skill set of being a good designer has long legs meaning like you can tell when a website is made by vzero you just can like someone sent me one yesterday and they're like it's so awesome I learned how to code and I made it with vzero and Shad Cen I'm like I can tell that's fine for most but then it's kind of the new cookie cutter so I want to just make this like just more like a conversational piece where like I really think that if they can make this bridge between figma and cursor even better which is a tool that we're going to go through in a sec that it's poised to just Crush um so I just want to put that one there I think these ones bolts and lovable I played around with them it's more like a like a bar trick where it's like you can get something up and running like relatively quickly but the quality is not great they use a lot of stuff that a lot of devs would kind of scoff at doesn't mean it's right or wrong but I don't feel great about these um they're pretty easy to use and the product quality is I'd say like kind of mid so I put that there I want to just highlight that you know cursor would be here I think then to be fair we'd say like vs code is a little bit harder to use um but obviously it's going to be like a high product quality I think Squarespace WordPress WordPress is a little bit more of a learning curve so you know these would all be in here webflow I think this is this is really the point I wanted to make is like web flow is if they don't act fast this whole meta skill didn't need to exist like it just didn't um I know they launched a feature recently that lets you do some AI stuff but it's basically like a type form with some templates behind the scenes um when you actually look at a lot of the stuff that's involved in it like you know it's just like quasi coding like it's nothing great it's it's like teaching you what padding is and whatnot but like if I click on this and then I open up the um the design controller and I want to design here I have all these things on the right that really are just Tailwind classes um so I I just think that like if you if they can act fast and they put a little bubble here that just says what do you want and then you can talk to it and say make this image rotate make the image line up so the bottom of the carpet is at the bottom like just little things like that they sound easy to say but they're pretty dang hard to actually Implement and so yeah that was just something I wanted to to talk about so I need to do some of the edits on here that'll be that'll be really quickly or really quick and the last thing we're going to go through an AI tool that I am eager to try out so I mentioned the mCP thing earlier I think a lot of people were conf confused about what it does but basically mCP is the model oops crap I'm still figuring out this pen I think you're supposed to be well zoomed in cool we're going to pull up the docks for it so I think I don't have that open any more model context protocol super base so here's an example of one so super is like a back end in a box fantastic highly recommend it I've rolled my own stuff and it's just this is just easier here's an example of it and then I'll go to the actual docs but basically it gives you access to a set of tools that are uh well defined so you don't have to write your own tool calls what does that mean it means if I'm using cursor and I have super base I want to be able to uh query something in the database using the agent and have it make a an answer to query then I can do that so it's defining the set of tools um it's a standard way now it's nice because it basically lets people share them so you don't have to write your own things over and over and over model context protocol uh anthropic let's pull this up so I remember reading this when it came out because it's not new I don't know why everyone's like just like freaking out about it on the internet but I guess there's a quite a delay which means if you follow this channel then you'll stay ahead because I talked about this in November that's crazy but yeah so let's see how they explain it oh we're back on the wrong site so introducing the protocol today we're open sourcing it great so you can check it out you can see that they have a bunch of stars um I'm assuming but the way that they explain it is like hey we have this server we let you connect to different tools you can do it um with that Claude desktop app so if you had like a hard drive full of files that you're working at a law firm and you have a bunch of different PDFs that you want to reference and you want to Buble to do it in Cloud desktop then you can do that with the protocol fear coder it's really helpful because you can basically like hook it up and um there's different sdks that you can do it with but that's that's more or less what it is it's like standardizes the way that you can connect to other services and I think by having a protocol it's nice because then you can to website that has a bunch of them and see how it works you can see that block and Apollo some of the first ones Z I should do a video on Zed Z's actually really sick just real quick it's a rust based IDE so whenever you hear the word rust just equate it to the word fast there's like no lag um which is really nice but the reason You' care about this if you're a user both technical or non-technical is then you can basically find um examples so all these are servers that someone else wrote or uh protocols that someone else wrote so you could have a slack server which means I can have Claude interact with my slack workspaces say hey go read through these messages and tell me what happened then you can set up an automation like maybe a good use case for that would be like hey I want to have a daily update of my daily update so I don't have to open Slack or take every conversation that's going on in the fluffy couch Lounge Channel and run a s sentiment analysis on it so I can know if my employees are pissed off or not weird use case obsidian markdown notes a lot of people are nerding out on that you could have it Go and uh basically query any note that you have if you had a folder full of notes and video ideas you could use claw desktop or cursor whatever's hooked up to kind of reference that so the easiest way to explain it is like it connects to other apps It's Like Glue one of the interesting ones that I saw and what we're going talk about uh before I wrap this video is um one that's done with a browser so as a developer that's really helpful because if you're building something and then something goes wrong then you have to open this up and then you have to look in the console or the network Tab and then you have to go to fetch and then you have to filter and you have to look through so like if something's going wrong like all this stuff not going wrong right like you can see these rsc's their uh react server components you see he's getting 200s in here that's awesome good job but if that's not the case since Link's broken and you're going back and forth and then you got you know this thing open and you're trying to figure it out pay in the ass so what we're going to go through now is basically an mCP that connects up to your uh browser and does it via a Chrome extension so let's see I had already downloaded this now let's see let's just follow along with this video real quick now have browser tools mCP so first thing is get that good developer mode unpack navigate to the browser tools NCP repository that you just cloned and within that click on Chrome extension and click select you will now have a browser tools okay so that looks Chrome extension so you just grab the whole folder so if I go into my manage extension and then I go to my extensions and then I go load unpacked then I can grab the folder these are also all like just random products that I've built um like this one was me rebuilding the flight simulator I tried to build agent of Empires that was a little more challenging caj is definitely one that you should check out if you're into chat Bots it's this open source beast but let's see where the heck is it in the developer and what's it called um mCP browser tools downloads sorry to make you guys wait but I have no clue where this is oh it's in Dev tools why of course of course I put it there okay developer Dev tools browser mCP Chrome extension select Okay cool so now that's in there you will now have a browser tools mCP server Chrome extension now that's step one done the next thing you want to do is to you want to run the browser tool server not the mCP server but the browser tool servers and I'll show you just how just run to this fing command It'll ask you whether you want to install the F okay so we got the extension now we're going [Music] to of course we need an update for on oh my z uh MPX agent desk AI browser tools server cool so we get a package now it's listening okay you the screenshot and you can verify that this is working oh you can see it's saying interesting okay so this thing's listening and then now I wonder how I wonder if I have to have this running all the time let's see so if I go in here then there should be an extension yep browser tools path to screenshots okay so capture screenshot cool and then that's all the data for that I got all the oh okay now I get it this is cool so basically it's taking everything from it's it's a a logger and a screenshotter and then what else can I do with this limit the logs include the headers I wonder how I mean is going to show me I wonder how it works when I'm using this shorts audience from clipping CH but typically no see this is the guy I'm I'm uh remixing check his channel out it's really good um he basically like blew my mind when it came to what you can do with no code stuff because I was a big hater location and you can actually just open it up so he's actually taking a screenshot for you now that you know that the functionality is working so now you've got the Chrome extension maning and step two is done the third thing is to integrate it with your IDE like cursor this is where the mCP server comes in what you want to do is that you go to you go to cursor within cursor you do command shift p and go to cursor settings and then you do add a new mCP server and the way you want to do you can Calla it anything you want to call it browser tools mCP make sure that this is command you want to use the fing command which is effectively just ntx agent AI browser tools NCP and that's just the version if you add it in just wait for a few seconds and then you just do this that green and you and oh this I get what I get what's going on so I'll be be able to call this ideally from any project hopefully I don't have to read this agent desk AI browser tools mCP at 1.1.0 okay no tools available now can okay got it boom this makes sense so by having this I can use browser debugging like client side stuff can then stream into my chat so that if it's having an issue I don't have to go back and forth and that's what I knew it did but it's cool to see so this is just a good example right like I can hover over it and see check our browser logs prams are random string get conso errors it's interesting to see how they do this so these are all just function calls tool calls in AI World okay let's see it in action add it in just wait for a few seconds and then console locks getting errors and taking a screenshot I'll show you how you can actually use cursor uh to be able to do this let's switch to uh the tutorial project you can get a copy of this project if you go on my GitHub all the SCE that you this as well you can follow along this code but you don't have to first oh funny I can see that it's debugging this browser so if I call a server error logs into a console and what you can do within curs now is that you can open up composer so I this on the side and you can say GA how do I kill a server you can see it's actually going to call the mCP tool get console errors it will run it and it's actually been able to get all the errors that appearing on Chrome into cursor and it's going to try to get some network error locks right now which we don't really need and now it's going to get the console locked and it's getting the debug logs and the non-error logs as well and now it's going to take a screenshot of the application for you and says screen wouldn't have been able to ask the AI to a little bit about the hype for the written that and you call it rules and you just name this debot commands. MDC and this will actually pull up project rules in cursor and you can give a description this tool performs debugging steps for applications and so what you can do is that you can do star star yes right so this this applies to everything and what you can say here is that when I say debug gather console logs a screenshot got it so he's maybe doing this globally no it wouldn't be Global long Comm you can actually just say for SLB he know that it needs to debug your application um and now you know that there's a custom command called debu commands and now it will automatically also use the mCP tool to take a screenshot so it's taking a screenshot so it's taking a screenshot right and then now it's getting the console Ops it's basically doing everything that we did just now but with one single command so this is today's bonus tip as well to save you to trouble of having to prompt okay yeah that makes a whole lot of sense another one of the videos that I wanted to do I'm probably do tomorrow but it's just guy named AI Jason Jason zoo I want to say yeah there he is this guy he has a school you should check it out but he's using I want to say figma was the one that I was looking at where it like connects the dots oh here's another proof point on cursor zero to 100 million AR in 21 months it's nuts but yeah he has one where it's it's basically using the mCP to then go and look at figma and then draw out all the nodes or read all the nodes it's very very uh interesting but okay I'm gonna wrap the video there if this was interesting at all then let me know and if you have any questions stuff that want me to cover um really anything I'm looking for comments so that I can add a segment to this type of video where I go through the comments or any questions and can do a Q&A at the beginning of the video besides that enjoy the rest of your day see you