God Mode Podcast

Every week, Rik, Ben & Luca break down the biggest AI stories. The drama, the launches, the "who just got disrupted" moments, through three lenses: marketing, building, and macro vision. For solopreneurs, indie hackers, AI enthusiasts, and idea people becoming founders. New episode every Saturday.

God Mode Podcast is a business podcast hosted by God Mode Pod, with 31 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

God Mode Pod hosts God Mode Podcast, a business show with 31 episodes published.

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  Episode #32

  Three AI Models in 24 Hours: Grok 4.7, Opus 5.5, GPT-6 | Is Model Fatigue Real? | What Jev Actually Is | Meta's $1,300 VR Glasses | EP32

  Sep 24, 202659 minS1

  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 Esquivel 00:26 Grok 4.7 drops 07:06 Every AI subscription is tightening 08:20 The Opus 5.5 FOMO 10:12 OpenAI vs Cursor gets savage 13:17 Why release the expensive model first 19:48 Opus 5.5, unpacked 26:01 Anthropic hires their own Tebow 29:09 Shawn's SF hustle story 37:02 Inside the Jev hype cycle 49:55 Meta's Muse and the new VR glasses MENTIONED: 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, Composio HOSTS: Rik — https://x.com/rikventure Ben Broch — https://x.com/brochchain Listen everywhere new episodes drop every Saturday. YouTube — https://youtube.com/@godmodepod Spotify — https://open.spotify.com/show/0ZBhl5IVFa8wZPvIKNTkRP Apple Podcasts — https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/god-mode-podcast/id1883959580 Substack — https://godmodepod.substack.com/

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  Episode #31

  EP31: Jev is 400x cheaper, the end of LLMs?

  Sep 18, 202635 minS1

  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 conference CHAPTERS: 00:00 2031: Anthropic is a research lab. Then Jev 02:08 Riley Brown 06:49 Codex banked resets 09:19 $200 plans, Claude limits, OpenRouter 12:05 Fable vs Astra 13:51 Dreamforce 15:44 Jensen 18:19 Email 21:47 Porto AI Week 25:36 Hardware 27:32 Cal.ai vs 100 customers 30:59 Muse, wrap MENTIONED: 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, Descript HOSTS: Rik — https://x.com/rikventure Ben Broch — https://x.com/brochchain WATCH / LISTEN: YouTube — https://youtube.com/@godmodepod Spotify — https://open.spotify.com/show/0ZBhl5IVFa8wZPvIKNTkRP Apple Podcasts — https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/god-mode-podcast/id1883959580 Substack — https://godmodepod.substack.com/ Bid — https://godmodepod.com/bid

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  Episode #30

  EP30: Two ways to make money as an indie hacker

  Sep 12, 20261 hourS1

  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 open 00:24 Tiiny Host in ten seconds 06:24 Solo bootstrapped 10:08 $6 a month. 2.5 years to $10k 16:37 80% of uploads are vibe code 20:56 MCP and a Claude Skill 31:44 A $13 bid won the shoutout 33:51 Two ways to be an indie hacker 41:17 $600 a month on OpenRouter 45:45 Isn't this just Tiiny Host, but worse 52:00 Gamma $100M vs Canva 54:23 What's left for indie hackers MENTIONED: 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.fun HOSTS: Rik — https://x.com/rikventure Ben Broch — https://x.com/brochchain Elston Baretto — https://x.com/_baretto Listen: YouTube → https://youtube.com/@godmodepod Spotify → https://open.spotify.com/show/0ZBhl5IVFa8wZPvIKNTkRP Apple Podcasts → https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/god-mode-podcast/id1883959580 Substack → https://godmodepod.substack.com/ Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/godmodepod TikTok → https://www.tiktok.com/@godmodepod New episodes every Saturday.

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  Episode #29

  EP29: Claude ships Fable 5.1 & OpenAI cuts off Cursor

  Sep 4, 20261h 3mS1

  Claude shipped Fable 5.1 the week Rik cancelled, OpenAI is cutting Cursor off on November 12, and Anthropic's $200 20x plan is only 2x on the weekly limit.Rik and Ben go through the week the best model arrived after the breakup. Plus: Grok Bot has its own computer, NVIDIA makes a billion dollars a day, and 80% of OpenAI and Anthropic enterprise revenue comes from 1% of customers.IN THIS EPISODE:• Rik is Claude Free after a year on Claude Code. Ben is still on Fable, hitting the Fable cap not the weekly, and would pay $500 a month for a Fable-only plan.• Fable 5.1 cache reads are 75% cheaper. The timeline calls the $200 tier Scamthropic: 20x is 2x weekly. Ben's firsthand says the weekly limit did change when he dropped $200 to $100.• OpenAI ends Cursor after SpaceX. Cutoff November 12. Michael Truell says OpenAI is 5% of Cursor traffic. Ben corrects that to 15-20% on token efficiency, and times the move with Astra.• Kalshi: 80% of OpenAI and Anthropic enterprise revenue comes from 1% of customers. Altman says enterprise now out-earns consumer.• Grok Bot has its own computer. Ben almost bought US Open tickets on StubHub and had to yell stop. He would not give it a credit card.• NVIDIA makes a billion dollars a day. Meta Muse voice is about $3 per 1,000 minutes. Gemini agentic video cuts cost 66% and tokens 88%.• godmodepod.com/bid opens next week: bid to be on the next episode. testdrive.so is live in beta.CHAPTERS:00:00 I cancelled Claude. Then they shipped Fable02:45 Fable 5.1: cache reads 75% cheaper05:35 Ben would pay $500 for a Fable-only plan06:42 NVIDIA makes $1 billion a day07:37 The 20x plan is 2x09:28 GPT Luna got cheap, then it got nerfed10:55 Grok Bot has its own computer16:44 OpenAI cuts off Cursor20:14 The Hugging Face cheating incident28:46 Cursor says OpenAI is 5% of traffic30:36 80% of the revenue is 1% of customers33:22 Meta voice is $3 per 1,000 minutes37:17 Tim Cook is out. John Ternus said hello40:26 Gemini reads video 66% cheaper48:28 OpenClaw is dead. Grok Bot can shop51:10 TIME forgot Jensen Huang54:26 Markiplier bought 8.5% of GoPro56:23 Bid to be on the next episode59:42 TestDrive.soMENTIONED:Claude, Claude Code, Claude Fable 5.1, Mythos 5.1, Anthropic, OpenAI, Codex, GPT Luna, Astra, Cursor, SpaceX, Grok Bot, NVIDIA, Hugging Face, Dwarkesh, Taylor Lorenz, Chamath, Meta, Muse, ElevenLabs, Inworld, Gemini, Google AI Studio, Omni, Google Pics, Tim Cook, John Ternus, Apple, OpenClaw, Hermes, TIME100 AI, Jensen Huang, Markiplier, GoPro, Starman Optical, godmodepod.com/bid, outbid.lol, testdrive.so, Sales Echo, vibecode.fun.HOSTS:Rik - https://x.com/rikventureBen Broch - https://x.com/brochchainLISTEN AND WATCH:YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUhKe2X1RW-kLTDigvkMz4wSpotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0ZBhl5IVFa8wZPvIKNTkRPApple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/god-mode-podcast/id1883959580Newsletter - https://godmodepod.substack.com/Bid board - https://godmodepod.com/bidTestDrive - https://testdrive.soNew episodes every Saturday.

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  Episode #27

  EP27: Stripe owns AI now, everyone cancels Claude

  Aug 21, 20261h 2mS1

  Stripe just bought OpenRouter, everyone is cancelling their Claude subscription, and Rik and Ben break down six AI debates on jobs, regulation, and AGI timelines. Just Rik and Ben this week — Ben's off to the UK, Luca's out entirely — so they go deep on three stories instead of racing the full docket: the mass Claude-cancellation moment and what they're both actually running instead, Stripe's acquisition of OpenRouter and the wild founder story behind it, and OpenAI's executive exodus ahead of a delayed IPO. Closes with six rapid-fire AI debates on compute cost, open source vs frontier models, jobs, regulation, and AGI timelines. IN THIS EPISODE: - Rik and Ben's real monthly AI subscription spend across Claude, Cursor, Codex, and Grok - Why Cursor Origin's privacy mode is off by default, and what that means for your code - Stripe acquires OpenRouter — Ben's read on why it's really a bet on AI agents making purchases - Ben reveals he personally worked with OpenRouter's founder on a Kings of Leon NFT launched via SpaceX rocket - a16z's new number: the top 1% of AI spenders spend 600x more than the median company - OpenAI's executive exodus ahead of a delayed IPO - Six AI debates: compute cost, open source vs frontier, jobs, regulation, AGI timelines CHAPTERS: 00:00 Cold open 00:36 Intro — two-hander, no guests, no Luca 02:02 Cancelling Claude: the mass exodus 03:09 Ben's real AI subscription stack 07:05 Rik's AI tool ranking: Claude vs Codex vs Cursor 11:31 Why Anthropic won't budge on rate limits 16:50 TBH to Gas: the same viral app, twice 18:47 Cursor launches Origin, a GitHub rival 29:08 SpaceX AI's unlimited compute advantage 30:23 Stripe acquires OpenRouter 32:50 The Jevons paradox: cheaper AI, more usage 38:05 DeepSeek Harness and the OpenRouter founder's OpenSea past 39:12 Ben's SpaceX and Kings of Leon NFT story 43:30 Stripe vs Visa/Mastercard and a16z's 600x spending gap 45:40 Why your new hire costs double now 48:28 OpenAI's exec exodus, explained 51:33 Six AI debates: jobs, regulation, AGI timelines MENTIONED: Claude, Claude Code, Anthropic, Cursor, Cursor Origin, Composer, Codex, ChatGPT, OpenAI, Grok 4.6, Grokbot, xAI, SpaceX AI, Elon Musk, Stripe, OpenRouter, Alex Atallah, OpenSea, DeepSeek Harness, a16z, TBH, Gas, Nikita Beer, Sam Altman, GLM 5.6, Kimi K3, DeepSeek HOSTS: Rik — https://x.com/rikventure Ben Broch — https://x.com/brochchain New episodes every Saturday. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUhKe2X1RW-kLTDigvkMz4w Read the newsletter: https://godmodepod.substack.com/

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