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  Episode #25

  The $100 Game: The AI App That Pays You to Make Games

  Sep 29, 20265 min

  A Squid Game knockoff typed into a prompt box hit 3.5 million plays in four weeks on Astrocade, an app that pays makers $100 when it picks their game and then pays on plays. What that feed pays, what it said about a $10 million creator fund and what can take the money away. Featuring: Astrocade, Roblox, Rec Room, Sequoia, David Cahn, Lovable, Bolt, Unity Watch on YouTube Read the full report Brought to you by: Trends.vc: Discover new markets and opportunities. https://trends.vc/ HeadsUp: Know when your competitors move. Before your customers do. https://headsup.bot Multi: Turn any content into a YouTube video. https://makemulti.com Chapters: (00:00) Crab Game and its seven trials (00:47) The $100 rule and the feed (01:23) From paying for engines to getting paid (02:05) Crab Game against the payout bar (02:34) Copies, Squid Game and changing pay (03:16) Rec Room and why feeds pay makers (04:09) Where to start Where to find Trends.vc: Free newsletter: https://trends.vc/ Trends Pro: https://access.trends.vc/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@trends_vc Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/trends-podcast/id1715195197 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6mjqraFSl12siglTjZ45lq Subscribe to the Trends Podcast for a new market every week. Click here to view the episode transcript.

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  Episode #24

  I Investigated the AI Astrology Business

  Sep 22, 20265 min

  Faladdin sells a million coffee-cup readings a day out of Istanbul at about 90% margin. The buyer rates the reading on how they felt when it ended, so a model that never met them can do the job. The business that survives the regulators is the one that says on the page what the reading is. Featuring: Faladdin, AstroSage, Nebula, Astrotalk, Co-Star, FTC Watch on YouTube Read the full report Brought to you by: Trends.vc: Discover new markets and opportunities. https://trends.vc/ HeadsUp: Know when your competitors move. Before your customers do. https://headsup.bot Multi: Turn any content into a YouTube video. https://makemulti.com Chapters: (00:00) Sertaç Taşdelen learns to read coffee cups from his mother (01:44) A million readings a day, ahead of Tinder in Turkey (02:09) AstroSage rates its AI above its 700,000 human astrologers (02:40) Turkish police, a 1925 statute and the seized accounts (03:17) The FTC freezes Nebula over a $45 renewal (03:38) Why the category grades itself on stars (04:14) What the version that survives says on the page Where to find Trends.vc: Free newsletter: https://trends.vc/ Trends Pro: https://access.trends.vc/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@trends_vc Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/trends-podcast/id1715195197 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6mjqraFSl12siglTjZ45lq Subscribe to the Trends Podcast for a new market every week.

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  Episode #23

  He Asked Claude Code To Make Money. It Did.

  Sep 14, 20267 min

  One engineer sold the loading line developers stare at inside Claude Code and served 100 million ads on a surface he does not own. Six networks copied him in a month, two are already dead, and the wait they sell is shrinking. Featuring: Andrew McCalip, Kickbacks, Anthropic, Claude Code, Codebacks, Idlen, Idle Dev, AdGuard, Gravity, Perplexity, Time, Ally Bank, Ramp, Linear, Varda Space Watch on YouTube Read the full report Brought to you by: Trends.vc: Discover new markets and opportunities. https://trends.vc/ HeadsUp: Know when your competitors move. Before your customers do. https://headsup.bot Multi: Turn any content into a YouTube video. https://makemulti.com Chapters: (00:00) A founding engineer calls the Claude Code spinner the most watched line on Earth (00:35) Kickbacks sells the wait: $2 per thousand, half to the developer (02:14) Six copycat networks in a month, and two already shut down (02:35) AdGuard reads the code and prices a developer's data at $75 a year (03:29) Anthropic's Super Bowl ad said no ads in Claude, and its answer so far is a setting (04:11) The wait itself is shrinking as Claude Code moves to the cloud (05:47) Sell the line you own, without a network Where to find Trends.vc: Free newsletter: https://trends.vc/ Trends Pro: https://access.trends.vc/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@trends_vc Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/trends-podcast/id1715195197 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6mjqraFSl12siglTjZ45lq Subscribe to the Trends Podcast for a new market every week. Click here to view the episode transcript.

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  Episode #21

  #0153: OpenClaw Hosting: Wrapper Bubble, Fork Ecosystem, Compliance Gap

  Feb 28, 202613 minS0

  <p>35+ hosting companies launched in weeks around a single open-source project. An 18-year-old hit $17K MRR in 5 days, listed for $2.25M, slashed to $225K the next day. The wrapper bubble is already deflating.</p><p>This episode covers the OpenClaw hosting landscape: who survives the consolidation, why forks like PicoClaw and ZeroClaw are creating entirely new markets on $10 hardware, and where the durable opportunities are above the hosting layer.</p><p>We break down 19 players, 7 predictions and 10 opportunities — from agent observability platforms to the compliance gap that turns $50/month customers into $5,000/month enterprise contracts.</p><p>Full report and links at...

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  Episode #20

  #0083: Programmatic SEO: No-Code Tools, Monetizing Traffic, AI Writing

  Jan 31, 202414 minS0

  <p>In this episode, we're going to talk about programmatic SEO. This is about how businesses get customers by creating lots of pages aimed at specific topics. They use tools and AI to make content. We'll look into where SEO is heading, like more use of no-code tools, more competition for less common keywords, and how to deal with searches that don't lead to clicks. We'll give you tips and talk about chances to use data from users, create specialized search engines, and get more people to visit your site. Join us to learn about the changing world of SEO...

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