The episode, in writing
by Richard Lovatt · from the episode above, checked against what was said
What's up folks. We're back. Today's been a hell of a long one, and it's a continued build from probably all evening as well. It's honestly kind of crazy to me, coming from someone who doesn't build, doesn't code, to be able to use this tech now to be a builder. One thing that does shock me a lot though is that it's developed so far that so many people can now build without having prior knowledge. But some things are so fiddly. Some things do last so long. Genuinely I'm sat maybe five, six hours sometimes just working on one thing, and it's just fiddly stuff, just not quite right, and you try this, try this, check this. It's insane.
But anyway, here's the story and how it came about. I think yesterday, or the day before, I asked GPT to have a look at my site, have a look at my code base, I wanted some feedback, tell me what's bad, what's good. And it came up with some legit really good concepts and things. So I've changed the website, I might do a session on that. Not really changed it, just added kind of small selling points that really do stand out.
It came up with one idea. It said both videos on the site are good, but there's no concept so that people can understand what being on the inside looks like. The first page, what do you see when you come in? Nothing really showed that. I was like, yeah, it's true. So it wrote up a storyboard on how that video would look, and it said it wanted me to capture these screenshots, so it would make an animated version of what it's like. And I said, you know what, you do it. So it went and got some screenshots, and some of the screenshots that came back were really bad, because it just highlighted some of the aspects that I haven't been working on. I've been really highlighting and working on my video aspects, which is this.
One part that was missing was really the podcast section, which was actually one of the feedback aspects it gave me, in terms of needing to sell this more, because there's going to be a lot of founders who want to talk but don't want to be on camera, maybe just start and let them kind of ease into it. One of the screenshots showed that happening, what it would show if someone chose they don't want to be on camera, they want to do a podcast. And I was like, oh my God. So I started to work on that, and it was so far behind, because in my head I just thought working on the podcast would be simple compared to the video side, that would be easy. But I realised actually it's way more fiddly than I imagined, because in my head what I envisioned the podcast section to be is not just you rambling, you're speaking to an AI that knows and understands your business, knows and understands what's been said, what you've achieved, and all the data points from when you've started this. That was not easy. I'm still working on it. But I got there, I got close, and I found some open source models and some things I could use.
It's really revolutionised not only the podcast aspect, because it's honestly awesome, but I don't want to make the podcast too powerful so that people choose that and not just speak like this. I think this is powerful too, but it's honestly insane, it blew my mind that it just knew everything I'm working on and all these little bits and it could bring them up. I even said to it at the end, because I was speaking to it last night, I said, hey, this is great and stuff but I'm going to bed, I'm tired, and it said, hey, perfect, I totally understand that you've been working on this all day, good night. And we ended it like that. Insane.
Let me share my screen and walk you through this. So if we click on today, I can't say record to next episode because I'm currently recording it, it should say like record another or continue, but if I click here, hopefully it won't go back to setup. So look, here's the cool thing. Let's say you click podcast, no camera, short, standard, long, and firstly you can have the app's host, so that's where you speak to the AI, or you can have it with someone, so someone can be in the room with me, or I can send someone a link and they join. They don't have to have this installed, nothing, they just join the link and it's a podcast. I just think that's cool. Eventually I'm going to get to a point where I get some staff or I get a VA and I can bring them in and we can chat. I've hired someone.
So that's added, which is really cool, and I've made it really simple. There's a few ways of coming up with topics. It will suggest some, but I can just say let's talk about hiring, and I click Talk About This and then it will just go, we'll just talk about hiring, and it will be clever about it, because it can look at this from the series, like the podcast lag from last night, the podcast section with the interview scaffolding gone, the lawyer said about the patent, watching back to stop sharing time. There's so many things it remembers, I can just create a topic about that. There's also connecting a meeting to a folder that notetaking saves to, so if you have transcripts you can connect it to that.
But Just Chat is what I developed, and Just Chat is where it's like, hey, you're tired, you don't want to be on camera, you just want to talk as if it was someone in the room with you asking you questions. The Just Chat is literally just chatting to an AI that knows what you've done, what you've said, what you're working on, what you've worked on today, everything. It's amazing.
My goal now is to really think about how I can take that tech and add it to the video stuff, because right now the video stuff is great, but if you ask it to ask you questions it's very robotic. It kind of comes up with X amount of questions, you can add to them, edit them, delete them, but let's say you chose four questions, it will just ask in a kind of AI-ish way, you talk, you click done, then next question. Which is fine, because you are getting those aspects across of what is important and you're talking about it. But once I experienced this kind of tech with the podcast stuff, I was like, this is literally like having a staff member with me all the time who's just helping me put content together. So there's a breakthrough here.
And the downside of all of this is honestly it ends up becoming quite expensive. So we will see.