| | | Century City in Los Angeles is built on what used to be 20th Century Fox's backlot. The land originally belonged to silent cowboy star Tom Mix, who sold his ranch to Fox in the 1920s. | Fox decided to sell the 260 acres in 1958. Then Cleopatra happened, cost $40 million instead of the planned $5 million, and suddenly that decision felt very smart very fast. Elizabeth Taylor nearly bankrupted a studio and accidentally built a neighbourhood. | What’s in store: | | Read Time: 5 minutes |
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| | | | | AI TOOLS | Use Perplexity for your vibe-coding starting point | | Want to vibe-code a cool idea you could potentially sell? | Unpopular belief: start with Perplexity (don’t even touch Claude!). | Why? | Unlike using AI purely for brainstorming, Perplexity can search the live web for gaps in a niche market and cite the sources behind its answers. That makes it especially useful for figuring out whether there’s actually something behind your idea (or, if there’s an idea out there you haven’t thought of!) | Check it out. | 1. Find the problems people are already talking about | Open up Perplexity and tell it you’re vibe-coding something, and you need some help. Instead of asking: “Give me 10 business ideas for parents.” | Try: “What are the biggest recurring problems parents of young children are currently complaining about online? Look at recent articles, forums, Reddit discussions and industry reports. Group the problems into themes and cite specific evidence.” | This is a great method if you know that you want to come up with an idea for a specific industry, but you don’t feel like messing with something that’s already been done or not solving an actual problem that people have. | 2. Map what already exists | Once you have a direction, ask Perplexity to research competitors. It could very well be that the idea is out there somewhere. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, as there could technically be a competitor that hasn’t done anything of significance with the idea just yet. | Prompt with: “I’m considering building [IDEA]. Find the main products, companies and services currently solving this problem. Compare who they target, what they offer, pricing where available, and common positioning.” | Then, go check out these websites yourself. Do these look like viable businesses, or is it something that someone started and kind of neglected? | Pro-tip: Also, if you happen to be looking for a job right now, maybe instead of competing with this business, you join them! Check out the careers page to see what the options are. | 3. Keep all the research together | If you’re researching something over several days, put it into a Project on Perplexity. | Although Perplexity can remember your conversation across different threads, Projects keep your searches, files, instructions and accumulated context together, so you can keep building on the same body of research instead of starting from scratch every time. | 4. Now, turn your research into a Claude build prompt | Once you’ve settled on an idea, it’s time for the fun-part: vibe-coding | But, don’t waste time trying to get Claude to understand what you just did in Perplexity. | Instead, ask Perplexity to package everything it has learned into a Markdown file you can hand directly to Claude. | Download or copy that .md file, give it to Claude, and ask: “Use this brief to build me a functional prototype. Start with the simplest version that demonstrates the core idea.” | Of course, you can take it a step further by doing the design of the landing page in Claude Design. | Don’t vibe-code the idea. Vibe-check it first. - HL | Screenshot this | Find the problem: What are people repeatedly complaining about or struggling with? Map the market: What products already solve it, who are they for, and how are they positioned? Find the gap: What are those solutions missing, and where might there still be room for something better? Check the evidence: What suggests there’s real demand — and what evidence suggests you shouldn’t build it? Keep it together: Save the research in a Perplexity Project so you can keep building on the same context. Package it for Claude: Ask Perplexity to turn your findings into a Markdown brief, then give that file to Claude to build the simplest functional prototype.
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| | | | | THAT’S ACTUALLY WILD | | In 2024, scientists reported discovering what was then the oldest known example of storytelling through art: a cave painting in Indonesia dating back at least 51,200 years. It depicts a wild pig and three human-like figures, suggesting our ancestors were creating visual stories thousands of years earlier than previously thought. |
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