Vibe Coding the Easiest $5k Contracts of Your Life (copy this strategy)

hey there I'm Parker Rex I Led Tech for a startup that sold for 23 million bucks after that I tried my hand at building Airbnb for music very silly idea and then I went all in on AI because this is the biggest revolution of my lifetime it's bigger than Cloud bigger than mobile and I've dedicated pretty much every single day to learning exactly how this works so I've been in the startup game for a long time and on this channel we go through a couple different things there's quick section for Q&A quick section for some of the AI news going on and then some of my takes that I'm finding out as I scale an AI Services business to 100K in profit a month as well as a SAS so let's jump in first off lot of stuff going on right now and uh we're g to talk about some like 5K and 15K contracts and how to position those how to do them really fast so the questions that have come in let's see I think this is which channel is this this guy says poto means duck so I got to share a prompt with this guy thanks thanks for saying duck I'm pretty sure that that's what it means in Spanish and then I know I had two questions one was around if I had a a YouTube strategist uh in short I don't but I could go into depth on that um let's see I have do you have a YouTube strategist Hi Marlin no I don't what does one do helps get more sales through ideation script writing and packaging do you use one for the main Channel no I don't and so this is what I think about a lot I am the YouTube strategist and it takes time obviously and what I'm trying to do with this is I have different pillars of content and then I'm always trying to leverage the thing that I'm going to make already into content so this is what I think people are going to do in the future and I feel like I'm just starting to carve out how this works but I have a main Channel and then I have this Channel The Daily Channel I already do the bottom part like I already do all this myself every single day I just don't answer questions obviously but I go through and I figure out the news of what's going on so I can see if there's something I need to do and then I go through and I strategize on what I'm going to do to make money today so I already do these parts so there's really no strategy there and then on the main Channel what I'm doing that would maybe require some strategy and I'm doing myself now but if you have ideas totally open to them but it's how do you take the things that are happening in AI like potentially this build that I'm doing that's like a a 5k or 15K build how do you take that and then make it more attractive to Main Street so Main Street being normies people that are the 99% of people that don't know much about AI so in short I don't but if you're trying to uh help out or if you have any ideas let me know happy to hear them next is create video I'm looking to build AI agents but struggling with the cost of using multiple platforms like open AI relevance and zapier the monthly fees stack up fast how do you manage this should I absorb the cost up front or find a smarter way to balance expenses you can always make more money so there's a couple ways to approach this but the multiple on growth or basically uh you can only reduce costs so much right like if you have $100 you can only go down to $1 but you can go from $100 to a million dollar in terms of growth so that's one way of looking at it but I also understand just like being pragmatic and being aware that you want to have lowcost things and so what you can do is first of all you can't self-host zappier a lot of people say don't self-host it depends on your technical chops if you have technical chops then I would just self host for whatever you're doing and I would do with nadn and then you can do a manage digital ocean instance and I think that's about 40 bucks a month and that'll give you unlimited n8n and then unlimited super base and there's a really good repo for this that I open here I'm following it is called the local AI packaged so go follow this guy's videos his name is Cole Cole Medan and you go spend an hour and you'll have it all spun up and it should definitely reduce your cost and then in terms of credit just don't use CLA cla's the most expensive so I wouldn't I wouldn't use that and um yeah then just increase your costs and you do that by providing more value to the customer cool so on to the news the news for today is all about superbase superbase is the back end as a service it started as a replacement for Firebase it's a y combinator r company and it's the batteries included backend solution what does that mean it means that it has authentication so your ability to sign in with social sign your ability to uh authenticate and authorize actions so you might have an admin that can do certain things you might have a user that can do certain things you might have an anonymous signin user which means like you're allowed to save some data and then when we close you as a user we associate that but they're getting better and better and better and I'm really happy about this because if I don't run a project for like two months and I come back then everything's broken with off like I just had this happen and uh shout out to Hari who's helping me with there on the map project but what they're doing is they're basically putting more batteries included stuff in there so one of them is the UI that they launched which is a huge competitor to clerk clerk is user management and authentication software and they have a really really generous uh free program but it's just another thing like I think you should learn how to roll your own off if you want to get technical because being competent is the key but what they did is they launched their own sort of off so if we go back to their blog and we go to let's see where all the releases launch week we're going to go through a few of them so the superbas library has a bunch of things in it and you can see how it's laid out what's included is all of these so let's go and check them out you have a client block so this was already in their Docks but it's nice because it's hooked in with v0 and you can just run it through this so this is nice because I can go and I'm going to just take these blocks and then I'm going to run these commands and it will remove things so if I look at the map project and I open up my super base instance I can see in client I have browser which is your single instantiation of a client side connection with superbase you have a middleware which this was changing all the time this is something that literally causes so many issues if not done properly where you'd go and you'd log in and if it didn't get the token or nextjs changed the way the handle cookies then it just would not like you'd be logged in you'd have a cookie but then you get redirected to the wrong page this is a really problematic file and then you have the server which is what you're doing on the server side for client stuff with connecting to super base so having this is really nice so while I'm here let me just grab this and now everything is updated and it's just going to work isn't that nice cool so they have that which is a nice block so that's your initial setup then you have password based off so you can see that this would be associated with things that you need so I would go and I would run that they have a drop zone so this is likely react Drop Zone under the hood let's see great context so you're using context to call back they have bit rates o they have their own hooks what this would do is it connects into their storage which is wrapped over S3 yep so they're using react drops on the hood if you're not familiar it's great that they're using this because it's just a proven Technologies proven technology you always want to use stuff that's like been around the block so this one has three million downloads a week kind of the one they have realtime cursor so that's kind of wild we're doing collaboration software I'm assuming that this is using their new broadcast that they released which we're going to talk about in a second but everyone should be using super base that's for sure let's see how it works realtime cursors the hook is used realtime cursors yep it's using the realtime channel so realtime channel is opening a socket under the hood with Elixir is what it's written in Elixir is super deterministic super strict all of WhatsApp was written in it a lot of Telecom stuff's written in it so the it's just there's it's just very reliable um so that's very cool current user Avatar just another nicity because you don't have to know what the best practice is you can just drop these in these are a lot of these things are just stuff that I've done before that every D's done before was just annoying because you'd go and you get a Shad CN UI thing but then you needed to know okay well am I using a get session or a get user what's the best practice so by putting it on them the people who are writing these at the team that own the stack that you're using you know it's going to be right a real time Avatar stack this is really dope because then you can just pull in the users this would be an example where it'd be underneath something on a landing page right or on a document editor an example I think of for maybe one that isn't as good because it's probably a lie but I like Mark I'm just saying like a lot of people fake this um he probably didn't but like shout out Mark I love I love his his push in the space but that would be a real- time Avatar stack another one would be on notion so notion you'd have a doc and this is my my treasure chest of web stuff so if you want this then comment the word development Treasure Chest development Treasure Chest that's kind of hard to say but comment that word below and then I'll find you I'll hunt you down and I'll I'll DM you somehow and then put that there but yeah it has all this stuff in here like different libr uh sorry components and different best practices for next different open source projects these are really important these are my favorite ones that you can use to see how they're built so cal.com documento a lot of people wouldn't say cal.com is a great one because they've been like migrating for a while but yeah data fetching practices feature-based react architecture how used cach Works in next different templates so um but yeah that would be like in notion you'd see the real-time Avatar stack and just happened to be that my treasure chest is on notion and then realtime chat so this brings us into the next topic which they released which is these broadcast channels so if you've built anything in real time before you probably stuck a like an Express server up or something like python with their socket really easy to do but what's nice now is oops that's a that's five TV stuff what's nice now is when you're getting information back instead of getting all of it you can just filter against it now that wouldn't affect you if you don't have many users but it's kind of like I think of like graph ql was this specific querying language for large companies to then have a querying layer where you're not fetching the entire object you're not returning all this information you don't need you're just getting what you need before so it's at the database level which is really nice uh it's at the broadcast level where you are going to receiving you will receive basically exactly what you want and then there's no more over fetching which is really nice the last one that I just have to talk about I'm not sponsored by superbase but shout out to them if they want to is there's two left but the superbase studio you probably don't need to have a SQL editor anymore like back in the day I had used SQL workbench and so as a product manager I just raw dog SQL all day figure out stuff and now like you would have like that specific place that you go for this but this is getting better and better and better where in a studio not only do you have an assistant that is trained on their stack but now the assistant has multiple threads which is really nice you have the tabs which is really nice and then you have all these other things like like tabs for writing the sequel tabs for for the tables customizable reports that's awesome you could probably set up a web hook where the report gets output to your weekly scorecard so you know what's going on so you don't have to leave there and they're just changing the game like I am so excited about all the stuff that they're doing the log's got Improvement and all this is self-hosted which is wild when you self-host it you can just insert in all the details and it's free which is just crazy to me because it's open source so that's exciting and I think the last one wor talking about is Edge functions so an edge function was kind of confusing to set up and manage and you wouldn't really see much visibility on their dashboard what you do is you'd set up a doo which is node backwards but you'd set up an edge function that can run independent of the project which is helpful if you wanted to do open AI proxy seeing or if you wanted to call something or send emails or they have examples yeah stripe web hooks but it's nice because it stands alone and it's hosted there so you can have a trigger that when you want to vectorize something that's a really good use case if you if you're rolling your own rag which I don't think you need to most of the time now but if you were doing that then each time someone uploaded documents then you could have a trigger that had an add function that would call D Vinci 002 or whatever the state-of-the-art embedding model you're using is which would probably be nomadic there is actually better than uh open Ai and so now you have the edge functions in the dashboard so you have more visibility before it was literally a table that named them so that's very very cool and the last one I keep saying the last one but I forgot they launched this LSP so it's just auto complete for all the stuff in your database which is great now next we're going to or lastly we're going to go through some of the strategy stuff so I'm curious you guys have you used Squarespace this this sounds like it' be an ad have you used webflow have you used any of these no code like framer well I think they're all irrelevant I think they're toast I think some of them are less toast on the toast index scale on the toast on the RoR scale of of how F You Are by AI web flow is so far on the year F meter that they're breaking it because webflow anytime there's a new change in technology you have let's say you start here and it's 2020 and over here is 2030 now webflow and all these companies got like super hot in like 2015 and it's because the difficulty to code was just through the roof it was expensive and that's how they like really leaned in to selling their service it's like wow you have a coffee shop let's build you a really crappy website but it's going to be so easy get this template it's not going to load very quick you're going to get Spinners it's going to suck for every customer but it's easy so they get really popular right so let's just do little graph here and we're going to do difficulty or cost of code and then we're going to do webflow and then we're going to do uh let's see square space and then we'll do let's just like throw in like Wicks or something because they're actually kind of relevant so we're g to have a color and I think that there's a couple different things that I'm trying to get across in this point basically as the cost the popularity of web flow is up here in 2015 and then I think it kind of has held steady but then I think it's just going to go like this it's going to go absolutely off a cliff because there's no need for it because what happened was webflow said well it's really expensive to code and it's really hard so let's make a tab on the right side that is a visual editor for HTML and CSS and that's going to be awesome but no it sucks so now you have this whole cohort probably have like a million of these web flow devs that aren't like this is a misnomer they're not devs but they're not designers they're webflow devs this was an inet technology that is no longer relevant they're not moving on AI they suck to use you push a couple versions of it it gets clogged the client that you're doing it for is they don't they don't care if they got sold web flow website I promise you they don't care about the technology they just want it to be awesome and they heard cheaper but now it's actually harder to make this than it is if you have like even a week of vibe coding experience so bye-bye webflow I think Squarespace same sort of deal I haven't not a big Squarespace guy it sucks there we go Squarespace boom dead and then Wix I think it'll maybe like it'll maybe make it to like here so if we were talking about the death of these companies then web flow doesn't get to 2030 like it's just it's toast both in popularity it's usability it's just awful because it just got leapfrogged even the popular technology that they were trying to do everyone just used tailed one now sorry so I think instead what will happen is there's an opportunity for people like you and me to come in and basically flip the script so anyone that's posting like even though it's not that popular there's still people out there that are stuck on these things so you could do webflow builds and you go find everyone that's doing it and you say uh yeah well your thing we're actually going to make it better you could just go fart out a Vibe coded website in a day like I'm literally going to go do this after this call because I got a client and and close friend very reputable person in their space they don't need anything fancy from the perspective of like a web app it's literally a web site web site is just marketing site no off maybe a little bit of content maybe a CMS maybe even not maybe just hardcoding the values and then having Cloud flare host images or or sell but they don't care about any of the technology but you would be so much faster you'd have so much more customizability because again web flow it's like if you want to go and make something custom literally the thing that this client wants is I want a carousel every website on the planet has this guess what in web flow you can't do this you have to go and you have to get a thing called Slater doapp shout out to whoever's building this for your passion but pick a new topic pick a new thing that's a dead company too because it's just doesn't need to exist you're taking this and you're making it a Band-Aid for this it's putting a piece of crap on top of a bigger piece of crap and it's just a crap Band-Aid like it's horrible and it injects this CSS in there you can't even see what's going on so instead you're like okay well I spent too much time trying to make that work and I'm saving you time also highlighting opportunity where I threw a proposal I'm like okay 5K for the web flow one 15 for the custom one that was stupid having gone and done it I realized oh my gosh like it should have been the other way around if you make me deal with webflow 15K I wouldn't even say that but you get the idea and it's like I would just come in and i' be like okay 5K and you're G to get the best thing you've ever seen it's going to be able to do a carousel when you hover over it you're going to see this cool thing when you hover over that you're G to see this cool text you're gonna have stuff flying around you're gonna have custom cursors like all not curs ID like I can't draw like the thing that's on the screen that you click with and you don't need any of those meta skills you just say hey like this is the plan so that's what I'm going to be doing today and I'm speed running it in minutes fully recorded you will see me speedrun the website it's got see five routes 18 different pieces of content seven pieces of like press because this person's famous and I'm going to use what I call the a lincol method now I've outlined this before but everyone in the world needs to start adopting this that's new to this space so AB Lincoln President right gets shot too bad that's not the point he had a really good quote it is if I had eight hours to chop down a tree I'd spend six of them sharpening the axe go sharpen the axe before you start yapping at this LM instead you figure out okay like think like a product manager what are the things we're solving for so you narrow down the problem narrow the problem this will be one to two sentences you come up with this solution how are we going to do this there's likely some requirements in there so this is where you're putting functional requirements like what's what are the things that you like see and you need to do and then you have non-functional requirements Rex my last name is Rex by the way you have your uh rabbit holes so stuff you don't want to touch or you think could like blow up the project in this case there's literally zero none you have a time box so how long you want to get it done for this is just internal you're not going to feed this part to an LM so I'd say one hour but it constricts you to the thing that you need to do right so this drives this like sorry this drives this the solution is bound by the constraint that you artificially set if you don't do that you're going to run rampant and then we have rat holes and we have noos so these are different right rat hole is I know this thing but I don't know enough about it they are the unknown unknowns that I can somewhat identify it's like you can't really identify an unknown unknown but it's it's this area that's great to you versus a nogo which is uh we're not going to use webflow that wouldn't be a good example I'm just hating but you'd say we're not going to have live CMS we're just going to hardcode it because we have an hour cool so that's the Abe Lincoln thing that's really helpful next yeah next is strategy on a news page so I talked news at the beginning of this but these videos are I'm I'm going to find a way basically where the videos still are engaging for people who watch this later by just frontloading the news getting through it quickly but folks that are commenting they're like this is how I get my news now like hm there's a use case listen to the market so what I'm doing is the process that I normally go through is I scroll X lists right and then I scroll a couple different sites so I might hop around to like let's call it like seven sources and those seven sources can be across email can be across different websites um what I'm thinking is I want to take something that looks like it's basically a one pager and it's the aggregation of all this info so that I can go through and I can tick off whether or not that's something that I want to Yap about because then I'm training it on what's good or not and so the first version of this will be when I bookmark content I need it to be added to a folder so I'm going to call that at the news updates and that will then be listened to I'm not totally sure how I hope I don't have to get an X API paid account because I'll go broke paying for that it's so stupid but there's probably a better way to do it I can probably use a browser agent but listen to The Bookmark to bookmark folder if I can't get around that I'll add it to a form folder now it's listening to that we do a fire crawl against it that turns it into markdown we have a summarized agent that writes like I talk right so I'll take the Snippets from the front part of these videos and then train it to talk like that then I'll have the summarize agent and then we post that to a either next site or react router CU I just like want to try out the new V stuff with it but then you'll end up with this product that I can choose to in the first version I won't have the check boxes because I'm going to knock this out and I'll time box it for 90 minutes but you end up with this Dynamic page that will always inform whoever wants the stuff that I talk about and that I care about because people seem to care about it and then the same thing will be done for the school Community for Vibe Network where the school gets Auto updated and the way that works is you have web hooks so it'll be listening cool so that's how that one's going to work curated news page 90 minutes that's the challenge they do these builds inside the community that's like the one thing I gate really that in like the 70 videos and 50 prompts and the updates last is map so what are we doing with map map 5 in one productivity and health platform it's an agent that has a bajillion agents underneath it the main agent that drives it is your future best self so here's you you're at the bottom of a hill and through life you want to get to the top with your superhero cape on right and along the way there's all these things you have to do it's really hard like if you have a lot of goals so the way that it works is it starts with goals then it breaks those out into the next actions and those break into the daily things the weekly things the monthly things the yearly things and we do a bunch of tracking so it's a proactive future self that is yapping at you and then underneath that you have the calendar you have your notes you have your tasks you have your health Dash which is Apple whoop Ora because Biometrics are useless most of the time we need to put them to work and so what I'm doing here the strategy now is the multi- agentic stuff was just such a pain in the butt before we had gentic swarm management or orchestration W jargon there but sometimes jargon for you guys jargon actually makes sense because if you know what the word means it saves a lot of words so in this case the agent SDK has guard rails it has pass off it has logs this is a big one so you can see when a decision is made it has tools for agents it has Jason structure built in in and then obviously has the normal stuff right where it's like uh you know you can have structured outputs and whatnot the Jason structure thing built in is different from structured outputs it just you write raw Python and so what I'm doing is it will be a monor repo so turbo monor repo this is not a folder what do you draw a folder uh kind like that that's a bucket whatever this is a folder this will be the next app which is the dash this will be the python server which was the agent AK back end for that there will be most likely an Astro and that's the marketing site marketing CMS and a lot of people look at this and they' be like wow why would you use next for the dashboard uh because I know it and I'm fast and there are yes lots of nuances that you have to know to get the most out of it but I spent three years figuring out those nuances from the team there so I'm all in and so that's the plan and today is doing this doing this and then unblocking this by gutting out all that off stuff using the blocks going all in on the super bay stuff because I'm prioritizing getting this in front of customer besides like if the bill would just be crazy because versel it doesn't support certain things even with fluid compute even with their concurrency stuff there's just things that doesn't support so it'll still this this whole thing will be oh and then that's right the super base so this is like the I a infrastructure as code IAC I wouldn't use anible for this this is way Overkill but I'll just use Docker container stuff and then uh like cicd will be through GitHub actions so when you write your code it will run it'll do the build on GitHub and it'll use a runner and it'll go to the server it will update things I have right now a plan for how you'd have no downtime but it doesn't matter right now because this isn't even out and the downtime would be like a minute but in the future you there's ways to deal with this this is a solve problem so that's how it works comment again if you want the dev measure chest then you should go and check that out if you want access to me actually doing these builds then you can join our school and I in there you basically have like an episode schedule of all the things I'm doing so these are all the things that went out yesterday there's a bazillion pieces of content because I just went out of Alpha and released this uh to the paid version there's people that literally charge 500 bucks for like one of the things that I made and I'm like wow like this kid made $200,000 in a week teaching you how to make a really crappy podcast Notes app and I'm like maybe I should just done that but no instead I'm just jamming as much value in here because I'm incentivized to do that because I want to build this community I think that Community media Plus Code those are the Moes so that's why I'm doing it even if I won't make as much at the beginning um and then everyone will learn together and we'll all be friends so yeah I'm going to be doing the building the website from scratch challenge I'm going to be doing the open AI agents SDK and then I think that's oh the news one row below live news aggregator to school web hook and then that'll be the script for these videos thanks so much for watching drop the comments drop your questions if you want me to answer any questions and I'll see you tomorrow