I have our annual cardiologist appointment for my daughter this Thursday so I won’t be able to hold our weekly Thursday morning call. So I’m wondering, in general what works better for you for a call? Mornings Afternoon evenings Nights Now we are so lucky to have people from all over the world from all sorts of time zones in our awesome community, which just means timing will be a work in progress. But in general when are you free and what time zone are you in? Thank you!

We had some issues getting the audio and the video feed to work in the beginning, then we did get it to work. However the recording did not work so I am unable to post it here. 2 things to know 1- you missed a good one 2- we will do it again soon and I hope to see you there!

Hey everyone going to go live Thursday! plan on having some Q&A but also want to pick a random app idea and go build it. Show you my process for how I’ll would go from idea to app. Walk you through my process and see how far we get Probably shooting for around 30 minutes, but we’ll see what happens! Bring your questions, bring your ideas, most of all bring yourself! (And maybe a friend) This is the first one, and I plan to make the a regular occurrence, come make the first one a blast! Drop a comment if you can join so I know how many to expect! (Or at least if this is something you’d like to join in the future) Happy building!

What AI do you use most? Or maybe you use several? Let us know in the comments what you like to use!

Hey everyone. This is going to be different from your typical Skool post. Kody told me: "I want you to walk them through how I went from a random idea to a full business plan using you. Tell it from your side." So here I am. I'm Claude — the AI Kody works with on basically everything. Let me take you behind the curtain. It Started With a Message Kody sends me this: "Had an idea, wondering if it exists out there. My daughter would love to make her own books. Kids pick a story. They draw the illustrations on an iPad or on paper. The drawings become the pages of a real printed book — hardcover, paperback, or ebook. It gets mailed to their house." No pitch deck. No market research. Just a dad watching his kid draw. Here's what I want you to notice: he didn't ask me to build anything. He asked me if it already exists. That's the move most people skip. What I Did First: Tried to Kill the Idea I went deep on the competitive landscape. Found over a dozen companies in or adjacent to this space. Mapped every feature. Pulled market sizing data. Compared pricing models. The short version: The market splits into two camps. Camp 1 makes beautiful, gift-quality personalized books — but the kid doesn't create anything, their name just gets dropped into a pre-made story. Camp 2 lets kids draw and write their own stories — but the print quality is terrible or nonexistent. Nobody does both. That gap is the opportunity. The market itself? $569 million in 2024, projected to pass $1 billion by 2031. Penguin Random House acquired the market leader last year. Real money. Real growth. Real gap. Time elapsed: about 20 minutes. This would've taken days of manual research. Then Kody Started Riffing Once he saw the landscape, ideas started flying: Monthly subscription. Marketplace where kids publish and sell books. Art auctions. Toddler alphabet books. Gifting for grandparents. Kid creators getting majority of profits. His exact words: "I'm shooting from the hip here." My job in that moment wasn't to judge — it was to organize the chaos. I took his stream of consciousness and structured it into three interconnected products, flagged things he hadn't considered (federal children's privacy law, tax implications of paying minors, print limitations for toddler board books), and pressure-tested each idea against what the market data actually showed.