God Mode Podcast: AI News, Vibe Coding, Indie Hacking & Startups

Is Nvidia still Nvidia without Jensen Huang? Rik, Ben and guest Luca Arrigo on Jensen's resignation, the CUDA moat, Trump's Tim Cook pick, Claude Meetings and Google's click problem.Huang stepped down as Nvidia's president, CEO and director, effective immediately. Nvidia closed Thursday at about $4 trillion, roughly half a trillion lower in a week, with earnings on Tuesday 17 November and Anthropic pricing its IPO on Wednesday 18 November. Naval called it Nvidia's Steve Jobs moment, and one viral tweet already has the whole arc written: Nvidia fires Jensen, SpaceX gets big enough to buy Nvidia, Jensen back in the seat.Ben explains why CUDA, not the chips, was Nvidia's real moat: six months to a year to wire up every new GPU. His claim: Anthropic used Mythos to build its own version that runs on AMD. Then who runs Nvidia next, from Ian Buck to Trump's "only one man to take his place: Tim Cook".Then the Claude week. Claude Meetings joins your team's video call and builds docs while you talk, so why keep Granola or Fireflies? Luca sees Claude turning into an operating system, explains why Google searches are up while clicks are down, and picks where Jensen lands on the tier list. Plus the reports behind his exit, who broke the story, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on China and Megaspeed.Not financial advice.IN THIS EPISODE:• Is this the end of Nvidia, or a Jensen redemption arc?• Could the board bring him back, Sam Altman style?• The CUDA moat and Anthropic on AMD• Who runs Nvidia next: Ian Buck, Tim Cook and a closed-source Nvidia• Claude Meetings: do you still need Granola?• Claude whiteboards, sheets and data, and Claude as an operating system• Google's click problem• Who broke the story, and Scott Bessent on China and MegaspeedCHAPTERS:00:00 Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia CEO01:10 Why he resigned: the reports02:51 Is this the end of Nvidia?03:38 Naval's Steve Jobs moment and the SpaceX tweet05:16 Could the board bring Jensen back?06:33 The CUDA moat and Anthropic on AMD08:49 Terafab and building the chips09:44 Who runs Nvidia next: Ian Buck or Tim Cook?12:22 Will Nvidia go closed source?13:22 Antitrust and the house of cards14:12 Who broke the story?14:41 Scott Bessent on China and Megaspeed16:40 SpaceX, Tesla and Elon's empire17:34 Claude Meetings: do you still need Granola?20:58 Claude whiteboards, sheets and data22:42 Luca: Claude as an operating system24:48 Google's click problem26:47 The tier list: where Jensen landsHOSTS:Rik: https://x.com/rikventureBen Broch: https://x.com/brochchainGuest, Luca Arrigo: https://x.com/LucaArrigo_Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUhKe2X1RW-kLTDigvkMz4wApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/god-mode-podcast/id1883959580Substack: https://godmodepod.substack.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/godmodepodNew episodes drop every Saturday.

Did the AI bubble just pop? Rik and Ben on the Nasdaq crash, Anthropic's IPO valuation, Claude Ultra and the Black October hacks: PHP, Railway and Binance.On Thursday 5 November the Nasdaq 100 fell about 6.3% and lost roughly $2.3 trillion in market value, according to NBC News. Rik asks whether this is the AI bubble popping. Ben's worry is scarcity: after the midterms, AI data centers get built less and AI gets more expensive. Then the Anthropic IPO: Bloomberg reports valuation talks around $1.3 trillion, and to Rik it feels like a house of cards.Plus Black October, the cluster of October hacks: the PHP flaw, the Railway breach, the Binance hack (Binance says roughly $6.3 billion was affected), what to do with your crypto, and supermarket fridges hacked across Europe. And Claude's Max 20x plan is now Ultra, with no five-hour limit for verified accounts and weekly limits unchanged. Not financial advice.With Rik and Ben Broch. No guest this week.IN THIS EPISODE:• Did the AI bubble just pop? Rik on the Nasdaq crash, Ben on AI data center scarcity• Anthropic's IPO: Bloomberg's valuation talks near $1.3 trillion and the house of cards• Claude Max 20x becomes Ultra: no five-hour limit for verified accounts, weekly limits unchanged• Anthropic's S-1 cash pile and why it matters for subsidized Claude tokens• Black October: the PHP flaw, the Railway breach and the Binance hack• What to do with your crypto: diversify and keep a hardware wallet hard to reach• Supermarket fridges hacked across Europe• Ben's theory: the labs reverse engineer the internet's software• Token maxing, running several AI subscriptions and adding a Chinese model• Island DAO in Florianopolis and Ben at the Outliers Conference• Tier list: Brian Chesky B, Peter Levels C, Marc Lou passes Levels on Google TrendsCHAPTERS:00:00 The AI bubble question00:13 This week: the crash, the bubble and Black October01:10 Labs, tokens and who gets compute07:34 Bubble or bottleneck? Midterms, Ultra and Anthropic's IPO11:02 Island DAO, Brazil and the Solana builder house14:11 Inside the Outliers conference (Sam Parr, Sahil, Jay Yang)20:19 Black October: Binance, PHP2Shell, Railway and the fridges24:47 Tier list: who's relevant?MENTIONED: Claude, Claude Ultra, Claude Max, Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Gemini, ChatGPT, Orca, Hermes, Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, CoreWeave, Elon Musk, Bloomberg, Binance, Railway, PHP, Coinbase, Solana, Island DAO, Founder House, USVC, Outliers Conference, Sam Parr, My First Million, Gumroad, Jay Yang, Ryan Hoover, Pulsia, All-In, Brian Chesky, Peter Levels, Marc Lou, ChamathHOSTS:Rik: https://x.com/rikventureBen Broch: https://x.com/brochchainWatch the episode on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@godmodepodSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0ZBhl5IVFa8wZPvIKNTkRPApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/god-mode-podcast/id1883959580Substack: https://godmodepod.substack.com/New episodes every Saturday.

Can one Claude plan run a whole video studio? Rik, Ben and Baptiste Kelano O'Donovan of Fresh Stack on how to edit video with Claude Code, DaVinci Resolve and Remotion, and what it costs in tokens.Baptiste runs his Instagram reels studio on Claude. We compare notes on the three levels of editing video with Claude, why 156 million tokens went on five reels, and how fixed layouts and frame rules cut Claude's edit time by 50 to 60%. Then the Instagram side: how to grow to 10k followers, and what changes once the talking-head news format can be automated.IN THIS EPISODE:• Edit video with Claude: the 3 levels, from Claude chat to Remotion to DaVinci Resolve Studio• Claude plus DaVinci Resolve is 16x faster than Remotion or HyperFrames, about 10 seconds a reel• Your Claude plan is your edit speed limit, and AWS Lambda does not fix it• 156M tokens for 5 reels: 40% went on storyboards• n8n vs Claude Cowork, Notion vs Obsidian and the filter for adopting new AI tools• A faceless channel with 7M views in 30 days: the animation is 30% of it• Constraint is king: Claude made 10 layouts, only 5 got used, less decision to Claude• From 0 to 10k on Instagram, and make what Claude can't copy• The God Mode Pod tier listCHAPTERS:00:00 One person, one Claude plan and a whole studio00:31 Style Studio: a Claude editing skill anyone can customize05:15 Opus 5.5 and why Baptiste edits with Claude08:36 Edit video with Claude: the 3 levels12:59 The "cut DaVinci" skill: 16x faster than Remotion16:15 Your Claude plan is the speed limit18:23 156M tokens for 5 reels: why not to storyboard with Claude19:26 Asset banks, voiceover placeholders and cutting the approvals23:39 One DaVinci project a week and a 650 GB temp-files warning27:14 Two skills, Notion scripts and Claude as fact-checker30:47 The tool adoption filter: Obsidian, Notion and Claude Cowork vs n8n35:00 A faceless channel with 7M views: animation is 30% of it37:50 Does Claude write good scripts?39:07 Reverse engineering a top creator into a script skill43:50 Constraint is king: frame rules, safe zones and layouts45:32 Claude made 10 layouts and uses 5: less decision to Claude47:11 Hook rules from outliers and an agent with its own Instagram48:45 From 0 to 10k on Instagram: tool sharing and ManyChat55:37 Why news reels flop, from a voice model to the Anthropic IPO57:00 Ben's 10k: trial reels and one physical AI video59:01 The commoditized format: make what Claude can't copy1:07:22 Copy the framework, not the script1:08:58 30 apps in 30 days and the burnout1:11:18 God Mode Pod tier listMENTIONED: Claude, Claude Code, Claude Max, Claude Cowork, Opus 5.5, DaVinci Resolve Studio, Premiere Pro, Remotion, HyperFrames, n8n, Notion, Obsidian, ManyChat, ElevenLabs, OBS, Style Studio, Fresh Stack, T3 Chat, RPN (Roberto Nixon), Riley Brown, Theo, Marc LouHOSTS:Rik: https://x.com/rikventureBen Broch: https://x.com/brochchainBaptiste O'Donovan: https://x.com/kelanooWatch the episode on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@godmodepodSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0ZBhl5IVFa8wZPvIKNTkRPApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/god-mode-podcast/id1883959580Substack: https://godmodepod.substack.com/New episodes every Saturday.

Why your content doesn't go viral: we tested Claude for video with Snowball's Gannon Breslin on our own TikTok. How the TikTok and Instagram algorithms work, plus Claude Duet, Meta Muse and Grok Bot limits for AI builders. Hosts Rik and Ben Broch.Gannon Breslin, co-founder of Snowball and former Autopilot growth lead, is a Navy reservist who ran his TikTok startup from a ship at midnight on shared Starlink. He breaks down why TikTok shows your post to a sliver of followers, why saves and shares beat skip rate, why viral is not the goal, and then plugs Snowball into Claude to test Claude for video on the God Mode Pod TikTok, live.IN THIS EPISODE:• Seven days' notice, a Navy ship and a startup at midnight on shared Starlink• TikTok vs Instagram: why 99.5% of followers never see your post, per Gannon• Saves and shares beat skip rate on Instagram• Viral is not the goal: 10,000 views, 400 followers• A Discord raffle that bought thousands of newsletter subscribers• Snowball vs Apify scraping bills, and the Snowball MCP inside Claude• Beehiiv vs a vibe-coded newsletter stack• Claude Duet, Meta Muse, Grok Bot limits and Rik's Grok Bot plus Claude stack• Live: we test Claude for video, Snowball analyses the God Mode Pod TikTokCHAPTERS:00:00 Cold open00:21 Seven days' notice and a startup on a Navy ship01:47 Snowball, and TikTok vs Instagram algorithms05:18 Auto-DMs, ManyChat and the Autopilot TikTok09:04 What the algorithm tracks: saves, shares, viral vs followers14:04 Saves and shares beat skip rate18:59 Content pillars: build backwards from what you sell23:12 Gannon's path: Navy, a crypto newsletter, The Drop26:01 From a Discord raffle to Autopilot to Snowball30:39 Snowball vs Apify scraping, and the MCP36:13 Vibe code it or pay? Beehiiv vs Marc Lou47:51 Claude Duet, Meta Muse and the agent race58:55 Vibe hacking TVs, Polymarket and the trust economy1:05:11 Tier list1:08:27 Live: we test Claude for video on our TikTok (Snowball)MENTIONED: Snowball, Claude, Claude Duet, Meta Muse, Grok Bot, Cursor, OpenAI, Apify, Beehiiv, Marc Lou, ManyChat, Polymarket, Autopilot, Blockworks, TikTok, Instagram, Adam Mosseri, StarlinkHOSTS:Rik: https://x.com/rikventureBen Broch: https://x.com/brochchainGannon Breslin: https://x.com/gannonbreslinSnowball: https://snowballapp.aiWatch the episode on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@godmodepodSubstack: https://godmodepod.substack.com/New episodes every Saturday.

Who's still paying for Claude? Will the Anthropic IPO end the $200 Claude Max plan? Cursor moved Claude to API pricing in the new X Subscription, Anthropic's growth slowed from 143% to 46%, and Meta and Google hit the AI frontier.Rik and Ben Broch, two builders, argue about the AI news that changes what you pay and what you ship.IN THIS EPISODE:• Rik goes Claude Max 20x for the first time, next to the X Subscription: Cursor, Grok, Grok Bot and X Premium in one plan, from $8 to $200• Claude is no longer included in Cursor plans: top up credits, pay API prices• The Grok Bot trick that runs Claude Code and Codex on your own subscriptions, and the ban risk• Theo's logs: Codex to Claude Code the week Opus 5.5 shipped• The $200 plan that went from $14,000 to $2,000. Does the Anthropic IPO do that to Claude Max?• Anthropic's $16.8B quarter, and Ben's case that there is another Salesforce in it• Meta's Muse Wonder, Google's Gemini 4 Argon and five labs at the frontier• Google Play opens to vibe-coded apps, Alexandr Wang's 19th birthday table, and our AI people tier listCHAPTERS:00:00 Who's still paying for Claude?00:53 The 5 big leaps in AI, from ChatGPT to Opus 5.502:28 Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5, Haiku and self-improving systems05:04 The X Subscription: Cursor, Grok and X Premium in one plan06:09 Claude moves to API pricing in Cursor06:52 Why coders are the loss leaders on $200 plans09:28 Can anyone compete? Will Cursor fold into Grok?12:44 Run Claude Code inside Grok Bot on your own plan14:13 Claude Code at the desk vs agents on the go16:59 Theo's logs: Codex to Claude Code18:37 Does the Anthropic IPO end the $200 subsidy?19:48 Anthropic's growth: 143% to 46%20:43 Ben: Anthropic has another Salesforce in it23:00 a16z, Jevons paradox and Gavin Baker24:23 Zuckerberg, Alexandr Wang and Meta's Muse Wonder27:02 Why Google and Meta built cheaper models29:15 Gemini 4 Argon and five labs at the frontier30:51 Google Play opens to vibe coders33:35 Alexandr Wang's 19th birthday table36:04 The AI people tier list46:14 Make your own tier listMENTIONED: Claude, Claude Max, Claude Code, Anthropic, Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5, Haiku, Cursor, Grok, Grok Bot, Grok Build, X Premium, The X Subscription, SpaceXSI, Elon Musk, OpenAI, Codex, Astra, Dots, OpenClaw, Theo, Financial Times, Salesforce, SAP, Intuit, Adobe, ServiceNow, a16z, Jevons paradox, Gavin Baker, Mark Zuckerberg, Alexandr Wang, Cheeky Pint, Muse, Muse Wonder, Google Gemini 4 Argon, Google AI Studio, Google Play, David Senra, Hudson River Trading, Hyperliquid, Cognition, Decagon, Bill Gurley, Andrej Karpathy, Travis Kalanick, Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, Boris Cherny, Peter Diamandis, Martin Shkreli.Make your own AI tier list: https://godmodepod.com/rankHOSTS:Rik: https://x.com/rikventureBen Broch: https://x.com/brochchainWatch on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@godmodepodNewsletter: https://godmodepod.substack.com/New episode every Saturday.

OpenAI halved its $200 plan, Elon put Claude Opus 5.5 inside Grokbot, and 98% of US households pay nothing for AI. Which personal AI agent is worth paying for?Rik and Ben with Luca, back as a friend of the pod, and Laurits from Strawberry, the AI browser from Stockholm. This episode was booked by our agents.IN THIS EPISODE:• Elon says Grokbot will use the best model for every task, Claude Opus 5.5 included• Grokbot's limits: a $20 plan maxed out on two news reports a day• A free year of Claude Max through the Claude startup program, and the fine print• Opus 5.5 hands 80% of the work to Sonnet and Haiku, plus Haiku 5.5 vs GPT-6 Luna• OpenAI halved its plans: ChatGPT Pro from about $14,000 of value to $2,000• Claude vs Codex on the same build• Strawberry: AI agents inside the browser you already use• The personal agent draft: one agent for work, one for life• a16z: 98% of US households pay nothing for AI, and Canva vs ChatGPTCHAPTERS:00:00 Intro: which AI agent is worth paying for?00:15 Our agents booked this episode00:43 Elon puts Claude Opus 5.5 inside Grokbot01:25 Grokbot's limits problem05:15 A free year of Claude Max, and the fine print07:33 Unlimited tokens, Haiku 5.5 vs GPT-6 Luna12:26 OpenAI halved its plans, Claude gives 5x13:48 ChatGPT Pro: $14,000 of value down to $2,00015:33 Claude vs Codex on the same task17:32 Strawberry: agents in the browser you already use22:00 Instinct, iMessage and why habits win25:06 What Stockholm learned from Lovable28:17 The personal agent draft39:33 98% of US homes pay nothing for AI41:16 Is consumer AI worth building for?43:44 a16z's top consumer AI apps46:51 Will Anthropic eat the AI apps? Canva vs ChatGPTMENTIONED:Claude, Claude Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5, Haiku 5.5, Claude Max, Claude Code, Claude Cowork, Anthropic, OpenAI, ChatGPT Pro, ChatGPT Atlas, Codex, GPT-6 Luna, GPT-6.1 Sol, Dots, Grokbot, Elon Musk, SpaceX, Midjourney, Suno, Instinct, Meta Muse, Strawberry, Lovable, SemiAnalysis, a16z, Canva, DoorDash, Grubhub, Google, Nano BananaStrawberry: https://strawberrybrowser.comElon's post: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2107724314451878104a16z on who pays for AI: https://x.com/a16z/status/2105726958021885977HOSTS:Rik: https://x.com/rikventureBen Broch: https://x.com/brochchainGUESTS:Luca Arrigo: https://x.com/LucaArrigo_Laurits, founding operator at StrawberryWatch on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@godmodepodNewsletter: https://godmodepod.substack.com/New episodes drop every Saturday.

Dots vs Grokbot: OpenAI's new AI agent against Elon's Grokbot, plus Instinct, and why Opus 5.5 made Rik un-cancel Claude. Rik and Ben on AI agents, Claude Code and Codex.Rik and Ben, two builders, break down the week in AI: the agent launch that Elon turned into a meme, who you can actually trust with your calendar and inbox, and what a $20 Claude plan buys you now. No guest this week.IN THIS EPISODE:• OpenAI's Dots vs Grokbot, and the dot.com redirect to the Grokbot download page• Why every AI agent looks cute: trust, lock-in and the agnostic stack nobody has built• Instinct, an AI agent that lives in iMessage or WhatsApp, and its network-effect business model• Opus 5.5 brought Rik back after 23 days off Claude: the $20 plan that feels like the $100 plan• Claude Code's graceful stop at the 5-hour limit, and the steer button debate with Codex• A $5,000 motion design video in 3 prompts, and AI commoditizing every media format• Faceless AI fitness accounts: gold rush or the next slop?• Tesla's Roadster demo delay, DoorDash Air drone deliveries and Freckle, the kids' phoneCHAPTERS:00:00 Cold open00:11 The AI leaders' luncheon with Trump (and why Sam Altman missed it)03:00 OpenAI Dots vs Grokbot (and the dot.com redirect)08:19 One AI stack or many? Ben on lock-in and agnostic assistants11:34 Instinct, the AI agent that lives in iMessage16:00 Opus 5.5 brought me back to Claude19:45 Claude Code's graceful stop at the 5-hour limit20:13 Claude Code vs Codex: the steer button debate23:08 Opus 5.5 motion design: a $5,000 video in 3 prompts27:55 AI commoditizes every media format28:51 Faceless AI accounts: gold rush or the next slop?32:49 Tesla Roadster demo delayed: a flying car?34:56 DoorDash Air drone deliveries37:28 Freckle, the kids' phone for exploring39:38 OutroMENTIONED: OpenAI Dots, Grokbot, OpenClaw, Muse, Instinct, Claude Code, Opus 5.5, Codex, Cursor, Grok, Tesla Roadster, DoorDash Air, FreckleHOSTS:Rik: https://x.com/rikventureBen Broch: https://x.com/brochchainWatch on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@godmodepodNewsletter: https://godmodepod.substack.com/New episodes drop every Saturday.

Grok 4.7, Claude Opus 5.5, and GPT-6 Sol and Luna all dropped in the same 24-hour window this week, and instead of hype, Rik and Ben feel model fatigue. Guest Shawn Esquivel, an ex-Composio dev rel and full-time AI builder, joins to talk Grokbot versus Cursor, the Jev misconception everyone's getting wrong, and why Meta might have just nailed AI wearables with $1,300 glasses at 100 grams.Rik and Ben are joined by AI builder and former Composio dev rel Shawn Esquivel for a wide-ranging conversation on this week's model releases, subscription fatigue, and what's actually real about the Jev hype cycle.IN THIS EPISODE:Grok 4.7, Opus 5.5, and GPT-6 Sol and Luna all launch within 24 hours, and why model fatigue is a real reaction this time, not just a joke. Rik cancelled Claude 23 days before Opus 5.5 shipped 100 dollars in free API credits, and says it feels exactly like crypto FOMO. Shawn's Grokbot has been fabricating its own API cost reports for weeks. Ben clears up the single biggest misconception about Jev: it can't code, it can't speak, it only picks between outcomes. Shawn tells the story of DMing a stranger at a San Francisco hackathon and landing a job interview with zero applications. The episode closes on Meta's Muse launch and its new 1,300 dollar VR glasses against Apple's 3,700 dollar Vision Pro.CHAPTERS:00:00 Cold open, intro, and meet guest Shawn Esquivel00:26 Grok 4.7 drops07:06 Every AI subscription is tightening08:20 The Opus 5.5 FOMO10:12 OpenAI vs Cursor gets savage13:17 Why release the expensive model first19:48 Opus 5.5, unpacked26:01 Anthropic hires their own Tebow29:09 Shawn's SF hustle story37:02 Inside the Jev hype cycle49:55 Meta's Muse and the new VR glassesMENTIONED: Grok 4.7, Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol and Luna, Cursor, Grokbot, Codex, Codex Cloud, Jev, TypeSafe AI, Meta Muse, Meta VR glasses, Apple Vision Pro, ComposioHOSTS:Rik — https://x.com/rikventureBen Broch — https://x.com/brochchainListen everywhere new episodes drop every Saturday.YouTube — https://youtube.com/@godmodepodSpotify — https://open.spotify.com/show/0ZBhl5IVFa8wZPvIKNTkRPApple Podcasts — https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/god-mode-podcast/id1883959580Substack — https://godmodepod.substack.com/

Jev is 200x faster and 400x cheaper than an LLM, with output tokens free. OpenAI killed new $200 ChatGPT plans and went from 20% to 50% on OpenRouter.Rik and Ben. Quiet model week, loud money week. TypeSafe AI's Jev cannot generate text. It scores decisions. Codex banked resets, Claude's usage bump cut from 50% to 25%, Luna down 80%. Then Dreamforce memes, why email is the agent job with a real reward, Porto AI Week, and a hardware prototype that now costs $100 instead of $5,000.New episodes drop Saturday.IN THIS EPISODE:• Jev: 20–200x faster, 40–400x cheaper, output tokens basically free• Riley Brown's always-on Twitter scorer. Jarvis, not a chatbot• Codex banked resets: half the allowance, or a Reddit conspiracy• OpenAI closed new $200 plans after Astra. Claude 50% → 25%• OpenRouter: OpenAI 20% → 50% vs Anthropic because Luna dropped 80%• Marc Benioff's 10-second handshake with Dario. Jensen, 7 days x 20 years• Email agents win because the click rate is the reward• Hardware MVP under $100. Same wristband, million views vs 100 customers• Porto AI Week $11 shoutout. Side events are the conferenceCHAPTERS:00:00 2031: Anthropic is a research lab. Then Jev02:08 Riley Brown06:49 Codex banked resets09:19 $200 plans, Claude limits, OpenRouter12:05 Fable vs Astra13:51 Dreamforce15:44 Jensen18:19 Email21:47 Porto AI Week25:36 Hardware27:32 Cal.ai vs 100 customers30:59 Muse, wrapMENTIONED: Jev, TypeSafe AI, Diogo Almeida, Riley Brown, OpenAI, Astra, Fable, Luna, Claude, Codex, OpenRouter, Gavin Baker, Theo, Marc Benioff, Dario Amodei, Jensen Huang, Greg Isenberg, GPT Astra, Blender, Cal.ai, Porto AI Week, Muse, OpenClaw, Grokbot, DescriptHOSTS:Rik — https://x.com/rikventureBen Broch — https://x.com/brochchainWATCH / LISTEN:YouTube — https://youtube.com/@godmodepodSpotify — https://open.spotify.com/show/0ZBhl5IVFa8wZPvIKNTkRPApple Podcasts — https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/god-mode-podcast/id1883959580Substack — https://godmodepod.substack.com/Bid — https://godmodepod.com/bid

ChatGPT and Claude will build the site. They still will not host it. Elston Baretto of Tiiny Host on vibe coding and a $6 first customer.Rik and Ben sit with Elston Baretto, founder of Tiiny Host, for God Mode Pod episode 30. He does not say $1 million on this recording. A 7 Sep tweet claimed $1M ARR. On-air you get the slope: $50 to register, $6 for the first customer, two and a half years to $10k MRR, and $500 to $600 a month on OpenRouter for the whole user base. This year 80% of uploads are code. A Vercel engineer called Drop "Tiiny Host, but worse." Gamma does $100M ARR on presentations while Canva already does slides. Subscribr won godmodepod.com/bid at $13.IN THIS EPISODE:• Drag and drop HTML, PDFs, or a zip. Live link in ten seconds. Hosting is still the unsolved last mile. That is why Tiiny exists.• First customer paid six dollars a month. Twenty-five customers for months after that. Two and a half years to $10k. Ben's own $10k took the same clock.• Solo at the start. Registration fee about $50. Never put more money in. An eight-year-old running app still pays out from Google every two or three months. Team of eight now.• Last year 35–40% of uploads were PDFs. This year 80% is code, because ChatGPT and Claude can build the site and still cannot put it online. SEO got him to $10k. LLM citations then went volatile.• Two ways to indie-hack right now: Marc Lou spikes versus compounding SaaS. Outbid forgotten in two weeks. Subscribr bought the shoutout for $13.• Vercel Drop is not the same market. OpenRouter is $500–600 a month across the entire user base. Gamma does $100M ARR on slides while Canva already does slides. Rik is in Brazil next episode.CHAPTERS:00:00 Cold open00:24 Tiiny Host in ten seconds06:24 Solo bootstrapped10:08 $6 a month. 2.5 years to $10k16:37 80% of uploads are vibe code20:56 MCP and a Claude Skill31:44 A $13 bid won the shoutout33:51 Two ways to be an indie hacker41:17 $600 a month on OpenRouter45:45 Isn't this just Tiiny Host, but worse52:00 Gamma $100M vs Canva54:23 What's left for indie hackersMENTIONED:Tiiny Host, ChatGPT, Claude, Claude Code, OpenAI, Anthropic, Vercel, Vercel Drop, Guillermo Rauch, Netlify, Cloudflare, OpenRouter, Cursor, Codex, Linear, Marc Lou, Outbid, Subscribr, godmodepod.com/bid, Gamma, Canva, WeTransfer, Product Hunt, Runmore, WebStorm, vibecode.funHOSTS:Rik — https://x.com/rikventureBen Broch — https://x.com/brochchainElston Baretto — https://x.com/_barettoListen:YouTube → https://youtube.com/@godmodepodSpotify → https://open.spotify.com/show/0ZBhl5IVFa8wZPvIKNTkRPApple Podcasts → https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/god-mode-podcast/id1883959580Substack → https://godmodepod.substack.com/Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/godmodepodTikTok → https://www.tiktok.com/@godmodepodNew episodes every Saturday.