I fixed Claude Code for you in 30 seconds

0:00 There's a way to tune your cloud code so you get absolute superpowers. Some of my smartest friends are using this tool, and it's called Last 30 Days. It just came out, and I had the founder, Matt Van Horn, come on the podcast to show how to use it. What Last 30 Days does is it uses trending data on places like Axe and Reddit as the starting point for your prompts on cloud code.

0:23 The cool part is you end up getting way more out of cloud code because the prompts are way more dialed and optimized. enjoy the episode let me know if you think this is cool and i'll see you in there i feel like i'm in i know i'm in for a treat matt van horn is on the podcast and he's gonna demo something very special matt by the end of this episode what are people gonna to learn.

0:56 They will have a new superpower in cloud code. It's called slash last 30 days. And it's going to for any topic you could possibly imagine from best prompting techniques for a particular tool to how should I use cloud bot to what are the greatest rap songs right now? It's going to search X Twitter in the web for only things that have happened in the last 30 days and give you a great result and help you be expert.

1:22 My smartest friends are using this right now so i had to ask matt to come on and showcase how to use this so thank you matt uh i say we just get right into it all right yolo let's uh let's go oh i can just uh dive in so we are in cloud code and so this is a skill for cloud code and so once you install it you just type in last 30 days So research any topic from the last 30 days.

1:51 So it can be anything. So let's say I want, let's kick one off right here. Most popular rap songs. So let's kick that one off. And so, and then I'll show some ones, some pre-can ones that I've done. So using the last 30 day school, let's research the most popular rap songs. Let me research the popular rap songs from the last 30 days.

2:19 Right here, it's Reddit, reading what Redditors are saying, X, reading the timeline, and then it's also running a web search. Is the reason why you created this is there's so much good data on the internet and you want to use that as the jumping off point? Is that why? The reason that I built this tool is I feel like everything is moving so quickly in AI.

2:44 And it's nearly impossible to keep up with the conversation on X, on Reddit, on GitHub. And I wanted a tool that gives you superpowers to be able to just become an expert on any topic based on what's happening on Reddit X and the web very, very quickly. because the prompts are changing so quickly. What's happening?

3:08 Like, look at, you know, Maltbot. What's happened there? It's changing so quickly. And so being able to just become expert at something, it kind of reminds me of The Matrix when he gets plugged in and it's like, I know Kung Fu, right? So to be able to do that for any topic very, very quickly is why I built this.

3:27 And honestly, so I could use it for myself. Looks like our wrap research. So I found one Reddit thread, 19 expos, and the most popular rap songs right now. So it kind of dug in and into hip hop heads, some expos, billboard data, some Spotify data, hip hop heads, hip hop all day, rap complex, and created this reply.

3:52 So someone in the comment section is going to be like, well, I could have used perplexity or chat GPT to do that. Why should I use this? yeah so you absolutely could but it's uh and again i'm i'm not fully up to date on which which tools have what access but to set up last 30 days so you need cloud code right so you're already paying for cloud code right so you need that account you need a open ai key because open ai has a deal with reddit that gives you that reddit access uh i'm actually looking into reddit API keys if that's an option to make the product better.

4:30 That's one of the things, my weekend projects. And then the third is you can't search X using your X account. You have to use an XAI key. And so last 30 days pulls in all these API keys and pulls it all together, if that makes sense. So this is one that I did right before we started. So I said, last 30 days, highest performing cold email frameworks for icp output three email variance subject line so it went on x went on twitter found reddit threads x posts web pages and what's interesting how i use this tool is i often don't even read what it says like sure it's interesting to see what it learned but mostly i just wanted to write a good email so i said can you write me some cold emails for getting on greg eisenberg's podcast uh sorry i spelled your name wrong good target

5:25 startup ideas later is all about unconventional startup is community building and found unique relevance you know what's your angle what's your credibility signal any connection points to greg mutual follows what timely uh talk about ai tools i'm working on and i once made a smart oven uh smart oven details gold unexpected founders who shipped hardware and software that's your hook here are three email variants subject smart oven ai tools not the path of the great going for building smart oven to building a tools that might sound weird until you hear it turns out the hardest part of hardware time exactly what's broken how people interact with a i'm building the fix katrina what does smart oven tell me about ai so anyway i literally did nothing here i barely gave

6:05 it any context and it had become expert in different cold emailing concepts the three p's framework praise picture push ada attention i've never read any of these in my life intention-based data trigger framework and then it just did it for me if that makes sense without even me having to read the research yeah i think what's really cool about this is these frameworks i mean ada has been around for forever like you know og david ogilvy days but other than you know the other ones like it feels like those are timely frameworks like these emails like i'm reading these emails in there i get a lot of cold email and these are actually ones that would break through the noise so that's what's really cool about this and i didn't give it much effort i literally said i'm

6:54 a former smart oven entrepreneur you couldn't have given it like less context and it did okay and then another one i just tried last 30 days how to get x followers our research people are actually saying um and what i learned replies the number one growth strategy multiple x power users all credit becoming a reply guy as the fastest path to growth shows 30 80 thoughtful replies daily engagement 40 was before posting find larger accounts reply first consistently post at least one x a day five days a week uh reddit threads x threads instagram marketing facebook ads and share your vision what's your account and what's up with followers uh i'm i'm van horn and i made an ai tool for claude code i don't know what's gonna do now

7:48 that's the exciting part one one other let's spin off another last 30 days window sorry for all the all the windows so all right so last 30 days of research clod clod bot so i can build an enterprise competitor to make money and not give it away for free maybe i'm giving too much context but i should have just said research club um actually i'm going to do that i mean what do you recommend when you're you know is it shorter prompts medium prompts long prompts like how getting the most out of i think it's a it's kind of you prime the engine by first doing just research cloud bot top use cases so what my vision for this thread of what we're going to do is it's going to learn about cloud bot right

8:48 check x check reddit and then what i'm going to do is actually load one of my favorite tools compound engineering uh shout out to kevin rose for introducing me to it and compound engineering is when i'm starting a new project is where i do my planning and so what i want to do here is take this research on from last 30 days from clodbot and use that as the starting point to kick off a enterprise version of Cloudbot and to build it.

9:22 So let's let this run, see how our other stuff is going. All right. I'm in AI tool for Cloud Code. AI tools are hot right now. Here's a growth playbook for you. Morning, 40 minutes for your first post. Reply to 10 from Anthropic, Alex Albert, Birch Labs, Cloud Power Users, add genuine value, share a tip, ask a smart question, content type, tool demo, build X today, what it does, Cloud Code tip, five things I learned X, build in public ship by the way i i'm not going to do this i think this was just i actually asked chat gpt for suggestions of what i should demo on your show and it gave me this one but quickest wins pin your best demo tweet show the tool in action bioformula i build tool one shipping a tools for cloud code that's not bad no it's it's not bad so all right let's close this

10:08 one out all right we got cloud code best use overnight coding agent management daily briefings of morning do you want to dive deeper okay so now i'm going to call in another tool let's throw in workflows plan take the context above about claude bot and propose an enterprise version that could make a lot of money just do that keep it simple yeah i mean this is this is interesting right like you know you're taking a trend open source trend and you're like okay how can i build a product that you know gets me paid and it's interesting because there's so many trends that are happening right now on x as like a data source and reddit as a data source that you know if this if this is actually good it's going to help give you ideas and and sort of

11:05 eventually a prd right yep anyway so it's still making our plan it's researching still doing an analysis so we'll we'll see where that adds up but anyway do you want to try a last 30 day prompt yeah i mean i'm curious like i mean you you're seeing all the all these prompts so like the people that listen to this show these are people these are founders solopreneurs people building businesses um they're always looking for unfair advantages what sort of prompt would you suggest that type of person, someone who wants to build a business is it competitive research what are some ideas you have?

11:53 Good question I think it's very good for competitive research I think it's very good for looking at hot topics I think we could probably do something like, let's try it for your web design idea. You kind of described poke.com, which I missed. So what web page designs are getting the most love right now?

12:23 Yeah, because that's interesting. because knowing the trend is just so important. And it also helps give, when I'm designing something, it helps give me ideas. It's so overwhelming sometimes when you have a blank page and you don't know where to start. Yep, totally. And the thing that inspired this tool was I used to, before I would jump into any type of vibe coding session, I would go on ChatGPT 5.2 and I would just say in thinking mode and be like, go, this was for design, I would say, go on Reddit and research Nano Banana Pro best prompting techniques.

13:16 And I would do that at the beginning and then I wouldn't even read what it would say and then I would just be like, okay, give me a prompt. And so it's kind of this like hack of learning Kung Fu, learning the prompts that everyone's using without actually needing to read about it, if that makes sense.

13:33 You kind of just like, OK, let's just trust the mind crowd, the world that's out there and use those best practices. All right. We've got a plan. Let's I guess let's open the plan in BBEdit. So this is the plan for the audio listeners. So this is the plan for the Moldbot enterprise commercial SaaS platform.

14:02 So again, this is not a business plan. This is actually a plan to how to build the software architecture. And I could just then tell compound engineering to just go build it. So transform Moldbot into an open source into a multi-tenant enterprise SaaS platform called Moldbot Enterprise or Cloud Cloud.

14:21 This capitalizes on the viral growth. GitHub stars, B2B adoption, enterprise AI assistance, R30, blah, blah, blah. Why enterprise can't use Maltbot today. No multitasking, no RBA security vulnerabilities, no audit logging. Movevice required by ServiceNow for market validation. Proposed solution of fully managed enterprise-grade Maltbot commercial.

14:45 I really don't like the name. Cloud Cloud, come on. Come on, LLM. cloud architecture slack webhook discord gateway team hooks message reader core technical components and so kind of it used last 30 days as the basis for its expertise to learn about molt bot and then it did the rest and now i could just say okay build it so dude that's crazy it also that that was a pretty that was pretty dialed like that was pretty dialed and again like i'm impressed and llms do nothing about clodbot because it didn't exist before it's still very very recently uh all right phase one only build a multi-tenant foundation post full mvp uh i guess let's uh let's build a proof of concept so so basically you know it asked if

15:46 you wanted to do an mvp it asked if you want to do a bigger build is that is that what i saw yeah exactly and so i just said okay let's just do the the demo yeah type something else new repo also can you please give it a better name greg you're you're you live in this world what should we call this thing i mean why not i actually don't hate uh claude cloud it just well Well, they got in trouble for using Claude.

16:15 Exactly. So why not just call him Malt Cloud? But then we're going to get in trouble with Malt. Malt? Okay, so why don't we call it... Should we go Lobster? I was going to say, why don't we call it Red Lobster? But I think that name is already frigging. All right, let's go with Leet Speak. Let's go with Red Lobster.

16:40 That's cool. this describes a 40 week product survey is what scope do you want to do I don't know just do it just do it so many questions all right what do we ask here what web designs are getting the most love right now the most love Shopify winter edition yes I remember I saw that one that was really awesome that was beautiful look 3,000 likes 320 retweets the YC landing page so what's funny is i saw this i didn't actually look at it yet but i saw that it was getting love and hype praise for scrappy humble beginning shop web landing all word like jewelry craftworks design all ages reported back reddit and finding topic to visual for text discussions but found uh what tool do you want to use to create design so it's like okay now that i've researched these

17:30 things uh what do you what do you want to design in all right um so it's kind of it's kind of pushing you to be like okay i've now learned this expertise now let's do something with it so this could literally pump out a figma design is that possible uh i haven't spent enough time in figma in an in the ai era all my figma time was pre-ai so i don't know what like prompting figma even means in 2026 but uh i don't know i could just say one and see what happens now what are you designing all right now it's it's diving in a portfolio landing page for productivity app is fine one of the suggestions this is what are you designing a sass landing page a portfolio side e-commerce homepage for skincare brand agency website hero and then so i keep coming back to this but it's it is impressive

18:32 how little you're giving like how short your prompts are here we go here's a prompt for figma apparently that's the thing 2026 forward trend design anybody that feels warm and human not cold sasta but layout anti-grid composition hero section use asymmetrical balance headline left product screenshots floating right angle sections will flow organic with varied spacing not rigid 12 column uniformity typography one oversized display headline paired with small body text add a single hand-drawn underline or circle accent on the keyword consider variable font like satoshi or general sans nature distilled warm cream background charcoal text one muted accent avoid harsh pure white or saturated blues glass morphism element feature card i want to see this it's too bad i don't have figma ai set up

19:24 but um so that's pretty cool let's see if it can do this for like a nano banana prompt like hey you know i wonder if we can do that can you make this a nano banana pro prompt yep but i'm an expert a nano banana i didn't ask it to become a nano banana prompt expert so who knows what's going to happen yeah back to telegram and let's see what happens we should get three images your malt bot is typing that's a cool feeling like watching your malt bot type someone needs to visualize that with like a lobster on a keyboard why did you choose telegram over iMessage or discord or something else because my lm told me to uh because i'm i'm on a four dollar a month shell account uh for my i don't have the mac

20:31 mac mini setup and so um the um you can't use imessage or whatsapp i believe when you're just on a shell i think you need to run some sort of mac software and so telegram seems to be the default where you when you don't have that and for people who don't know what a shell account is can you just expand on that yeah sorry uh by the way this is our clodbot competitor that it's building i don't know what is going on or what it's building it's adding a demo script showing tenant isolation then oh it already set up typescript and node.js that's nice wow that's cool here we go oh yeah not bad it better be nicer in figma yeah that was pretty solid and again And that was by using slash last 30 days.

21:25 What are the hottest web page designs that the world is excited about right now? Like what's trendy? And then, okay, now use that for my SaaS productivity app. I like how it like circled random words. Flow, effortlessly, more. That's awesome. Yeah, like it feels like hand-drawn. It's pretty wild. It's wild times.

21:46 It's the rate at what we're able to build things and how fast things change. is absolutely wild. So Matt, this has been fun. If people want to get started, what advice do you have in terms of getting the most out of this product? Yeah, so one of the things I'll say is I am not a software engineer. I have not shipped anything of value since high school.

22:17 I could argue the webpages I was shipping in high school were not of value either, but at least I could write some basic HTML or some basic scripts. And so what's amazing is being not a software engineer and being able to go into cloud code. Like it seems intimidating. You're in the terminal, setting up a cloud bot seems intimidating.

22:44 And my recommendation for starting out is set up cloud code. it's magical sign up for the $20 account if you'll be on the $100 and the $200 account probably real soon if you're uh if you're successful um and and what i what i do is i um have keep a chat gpt window open to ask questions to and so i'm kind of moving back and forth and posting lots of screenshots be like there's some error i don't know what's going on help me and so chat gpt 5.2 thinking will be like okay great in your in your shell in your terminal this is what's going on this is why it broke and i'm like okay great what do i do help and then it's just like copy this into the terminal i'm like okay and i again don't even have to read it don't have to overthink

23:31 it and so kind of just like screenshot trial and error back and forth between chat gpt and my terminal and like i couldn't figure out actually how to post screenshots into my terminal so i asked chat gpt and it's like oh you have to use control v instead of command v and once that that was the biggest unlock for me in the terminal figuring out that i could post screenshots with control v and anyway so i recommend getting into cloud code and and try last 30 days obviously uh because it gives you superpowers but use tools like compound engineering use skills like uh there's another one called superpowers which is getting a lot of love right now and you just kind of enter these plan modes and you try and you build things and i had this idea for last 30 days and i've never looked

24:21 at the code for the skill that i wrote quote unquote and it was just a lot of trial and error and running more and more terminal windows and testing it and testing it and being like hey figure out how to get access to this api hey figure out how i could do this hey how can my users do this and going from there i love that man we'll include a link to last 30 days in the show notes It's in the description, link where you can follow Matt Van Horn on X.

24:49 Dude, this is really cool and it's crazy that this is just sort of like a project that you started and it's gaining so much traction. I think people are just obsessed with Cloud Code for good reason, but I think people are just trying to get the most out of it. So this came at a very perfect time and I can't wait to see how it evolves.

25:13 Thanks for doing a little show and tell for us. Of course, it was fun being here. Thank you so much, Craig. I appreciate it, Matt. Until next time.