The OpenAI Launch Nobody's Talking About (ChatGPT Skills)

0:00 What's up everyone? Welcome to the Startup Ideas podcast today is December 22nd. I'm going to talk about a huge news item, open AI, quietly launch something not a lot of people are talking about. I'm going to talk about one trend. You could take advantage of, build a business around. I'm going to talk about one app that I'm using that, you know, I think you should too.

0:20 I'm going to talk about one startup idea and just give it away to you. And at the end, I'm going to give you a mobile app framework so you can actually go and build a mobile app in 2026. And that's today's episode. So the news item I want to talk about that I don't think a lot of people are talking about is quietly open AI has launched skills.

0:49 So we've seen anthropic and cloud skills a lot of people talking about that, including myself, how amazing it is. But quietly we have codex now officially supported skills skills are reusable bundles of instructions scripts and resources that help codex complete specific tasks. You can call a skill directly with dollar sign dot skill name or let codex choose the right one based on your prompts.

1:15 So what's really cool is they're just following the agent skills IO standard the one by anthropic a skill is just a folder basically an MD skill. MD file for instructions and metadata. And all of a sudden your chat GBT and codex has just become a lot more valuable. So there's a tons tons of ways that you're going to be able to use agent skills within codex or chat GBT.

1:46 You know it gives some examples here in the official in the official announcement some technical stuff because it's talking about codex specifically but like a notion spec to implementation skill a have codex read and update your linear tickets skill have codex automatically fix your GitHub CI failures skill.

2:08 So it does a lot of things and you know I think a lot of people don't really understand the difference between what is a skill what is a sub agent and what is an mcp. So just to you know give everyone a little bit of a foundation a skill is like a written guy that tells you know code or you know codex or chat GBT exactly how to do a specific task for example analyze spreadsheets this way or write emails in this voice or design.

2:38 You know design the interface like this so you can basically call and reuse the same skill again and it just it allows for more consistent output. So what is a sub agent well sub agent is making a few extra copies of you know the LLM that you're using you know code or or codex or chat GBT each with its own job such as you review the code you write tests you update docs the main the main LLM can hand out pieces of a big task to help these workers so work happens in parallel and stays organized and an mcp is just a universal power plug.

3:17 That lets the LLM access other tools like we saw that you know it's going to update your linear tickets well it needs access to that and that's through mcp's so highly encourage everyone kind of you know plays around with this. You can you can see over here on agent skills.io I'll include it in the show notes it kind of explains a little more about what what agent skills are says here it's an open format a simple open format for giving agents new capabilities and expertise.

3:50 Agent skills are folders of instructions scripts and resources that can discover and use to do more than more accurately and efficiently and who doesn't want that says how you know what an agent skill can enable domain expertise so package specialized knowledge into reusable instructions from legal review processes to data pipelines new capabilities where you can give agents you know new capabilities like creating presentations are building mcp servers.

4:18 There's a repeatable workflows interoperability so yeah there's a lot there there's some example skills that they give as well on GitHub and I just think that not not a lot of people are talking about it so I had to I had to let you know about it so that's the one news item that I think you should be paying attention to that could be super valuable for you in 2026.

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5:27 It's also about making your business AI first how you can actually build not just one product but multiple products and you're going to leave with tactical answers your questions so if that's you in this sounds interesting I'll see you there. So that's the news item the trend that I've been hearing about is something called face yoga don't know if you've heard about it but if you go I'm going to go on to idea browser and just check the trend face yoga you know I'm sure you've heard of yoga obviously.

6:09 But people are doing these like face yoga techniques to get slimmer faces and there's a lot of opportunity here if you want to create different apps because there are a ton of opportunities in yoga right there's people making millions of dollars a year with these yoga apps. But face yoga is kind of a sub niche that I think is interesting and is getting a ton of volume you know you're seeing you know 110,000 searches in August.

6:43 The average EBC is about a dollar the competition is low and I just think that you're going to see opera yeah I think there's an opportunity to build products apps you know around face workouts facial exercises face yoga. Face lifting yoga exercises jawline trainer face slimming exercises so there's a lot of opportunity here a trend I never heard of heard of but face yoga.

7:11 Face yoga involves facial exercises stretches massage to tone facial muscles potentially reducing signs of aging like wrinkles and sagging by firming the skin much like body yoga strengthens muscles offering a natural and holistic way to improve facial definition. You can even see here people are creating YouTube videos on it 10 minute cheek lift face yoga tone right like there's an opportunity to build an app that's you know just some of these exercises and you can charge for it or make it free and do advertising sponsorship so.

7:47 Face yoga trend I have recently heard of that hey might get your creative juices flowing one app that I wanted to talk about that I've been using literally for 14 years and you know some of you've heard of this one it's the things to do is that. So it's by a company called culture code not affiliated with them at all and it's the to do list that people often ask me like how do I how do I stay focused how do I you know i'm because i'm working on multiple companies and and a lot of people work for you know worth with me and stuff like that and I keep everything in.

8:33 To do list and it's just sorry into things not to do this as much to do list and what I like about it has like what i'm focusing on today what is my upcoming and what is something I want to do someday and it isn't a monthly fee it's just like a one time fee. There is some stuff to be desired here I will say like I could use some AI features and stuff like that but overall if you're looking for like a simple to do list app I just find this things to be the simplest the simplest one there.

9:10 And I've tried other things I tried more intense ones ones that are on like the GTD framework and and sort of more. Yeah like kind of more the kitchen sink type ass but I don't know I always come back to things does what I need to do and I recommend it I recommend it for people who are looking for a simple to do list.

9:33 Let's give away a startup idea so the startup idea of today is is one that was on the like you know you can check here every day for the last 24 days we've been giving away a free startup idea here's day 22 I'll include the link in the show notes if you want to. You get these ideas for free you just got to claim them so today's idea I really like says call an expert service for non-developers stuck at 80% done so how many of us have built a vibe coded app and are like 80% of the way there we use things like you know cursor or replete or v0.

10:15 And then we kind of just give up so the idea is something called last 20 last 20 is a phone a friend for builders who are almost there upload your code describe the block get matched with an expert who's hit that wall before and knows the way around it 15 minutes on a screen share that's it problem solved basically a higher a fire vibe coder ship it maybe you charge $15 to $50 per session or maybe you do a yearly thing for agencies maybe it's like 100% to $500 a year who can't afford stalled client work experts set their rates so you basically create this marketplace and then you charge a percentage maybe it's 5 10 15% so many of us are becoming vibe coders right there's literally millions of us but we're you know at the end of it we're kind of just like how do I do this one thing

11:07 and there's so many you know I think this is so true there's so many YouTube comments of people being like how do I do this agency slack channels asking as anyone ship this integration for okay so here is the the main you know higher vibe coder phone a friend opportunity and if you look at the search data it's absolutely beautiful you know AI helpers AI tutors all this sort of stuff is just going up into the right and I think that's why it's such a huge opportunity it's scored a 9 on 10 the problem is a severe pain I don't think it's you know the feasibility to 5 on 10 like it's not that hard to do and the why now 9 on 10 perfect timing so you know I think I always check the the value letter and idea browser is just some get your creative juices flowing around how you can actually go and build this this product so I would start with like a lead magnet around

12:10 an AI project roadblock guide with with the goal just to get people's email addresses get their phone numbers then you do a front end offer so freemium access to an AI help tool then the core offer expert help sessions you do like a paper session access to expert advice and then eventually you layer on the annual subscription offering priority access and additional features and then eventually you do the agency thing right you do the enterprise package so I think this is sort of the ladder and you know the key stages here just like why like the value letter talked about this before but it's basically you give free value to build trust and capture leads that's the guide you do the front end offer which is like a low ticket product convert leads to buyers that's that freemium access to an AI help tool so maybe it's like a chrome accession that allows users to capture AI project issues and submit them to experts and I know someone's like oh chrome extension it's going to be so hard to create well with cursor and things like that you know it it it's not out of the realm of possibility create it and you can use you know you could

13:23 you probably can create something pretty lightweight that that does this and yeah so I overall I think this is an interesting idea I think that I think it would it would do quite well and I hope someone takes it I hope someone does it and please let me know how it goes and as you build it because I would I would actually use this you can even by the way just do this idea for like one product so replete has replete bounties which is sort of this idea where you can hire someone to help you with but this is basically replete bounties for all the different vibe coding tools cursor v zero you name it so you can even just do like v zero bounties dot com or just focus on one platform or cursor cursor help dot com or text the cursor

14:20 code or something like that dot com I do think that last 20 is like a very catchy name so so I do think someone should take that idea but thinking about doing this on one particular channel first one particular platform and then eventually expanding this to all the different vibe coding tools I think that's that's the move we're going to end this episode with a framework this is a framework I saw on on Instagram by a account called builder cult so it it's basically here's the six step playbook to viral validation so let's just talk about you know if you're building an app how can you get viral validation so the first step is warm up your account so you sign up to an Instagram account you sign up to a tiktok account or warm it up watch it

15:14 videos in your niche every single day of the week comment like share follow like minded creators and this prevent shadow bands so many people just create a brand account and then start posting stuff and it's not you know not really working well it's not really working because the platforms are trying to prevent shadow bands step so you know your app must have one visually heavily visually heavy element example pimple popping must be explainable in three words track your acne this is just an example and must solve a fundamental human insecurity lose weight productivity height class this sort of thing right so you want to the apps that do the best are just sort of the simplest apps that you can explain so simply that you know just in a few words that you can

16:12 have one visually heavy element because that's going to be helpful when you're creating organic content that you hope to get go viral step three is to build the simplest MVP you can so do something like literally three screens minimum embarrassing some embarrassing Lee simple give yourself two to three days to build it you can use you know rock dot app that's a mobile app builder you can use anything dot com that's a mobile app builder you can use vibe code app that's a mobile app builder but yeah give yourself a couple days iterate on it show it to friends show it to people DM into people and get their get their feedback post step four is post daily until one goes viral that's the goal so you're going to want to create one video per day for 30 days minimum or

17:00 four four videos per week you're going to want to test different angles of the same app idea and hopefully one will catch they say in this one will catch that's not true not necessarily it will catch in 30 days it might take you 60 90 120 but you know it's shots on that but you'll know when one hits because the comments will explode step five is to build the community um you know before the product so you have this like wait list right so you create a discord they say telegram i'm not a huge fan telegram discord what's up for the wait list or an email newsletter for the wait list post updates like building the app here's what i'm adding this keeps early believers engage while you while you're building in your iterating and converts into day one users and then finally launch the app once it's secure and stuff like that finalize features convert the

17:51 work or anything or vibe code app into a full fledged product using cloud code launch with a hard paywall something like super wall um dot com post content daily you know different angles same value and then hopefully scale from zero to 10k mr purely organic so that is today's episode uh i hope you enjoyed it i'm trying this new format where i'm giving uh a news item a trend an app a startup idea of framework all the alpha to give you the highest probability of winning because i want to see you win in 2026 if you've gotten to this far please please like and comment and subscribe share this with a friend i read every single comment that you write so i will see you in there and uh yeah have a have a creative day for my friends and i'll see you next time