Blake Anderson

I have either a professional designer or someone on Upwork convert that into more fleshed out UI. Uh, and then it becomes time to build. With regards to building, I myself, I use ChatGPT to teach me how to code to build RISGPT and UMAX. Now, if you have capital, this is not a route that I recommend. If you have capital connections to great CTOs, you don't need to do that yourself.

But if you're just getting started, like I was at the time, you get the designs done and then you start, you figure it out. So for me, it was talking to ChatGPT on a daily basis. Originally, I used SwiftUI. So I was getting code from ChatGPT in Swift UI, placing that into Xcode moving forward. Now, when I code, I'm doing it in a cursor with React Native.

I just started doing this about a month ago. Quick note, I did not code CalAI. So I coded RISGPT in the first version of UMAX. Yeah, I think that people are often looking for like a one size fits all answer when it comes to the development side of things. I just don't think that it exists. I think that it's different for everybody.

But what I can say is what I'm doing now is React Native and Cursor.

So I would think around two things, like think about around the cross between functionality and virality. The resume analysis, that's very high functionality. Now, how do we take something that's functional, right? Scanning someone's resume and giving tips on how they can improve it. How do we also make that viral? So what I would probably do here is a six factor rating system similar to UMAX.

I would give them scores based on different sections of their resume. Now I would see, design those scores around the sort of popular ed tech content right now, get in contact with the ed tech creators and then have them start to post. So that's just on the resume analysis side of things. I would also do a career analysis.

You take a quiz and then at the end of it, it's a nice pretty screen that says, you should go into X, Y, and Z. And then I would probably figure out how to create a trend, which is like people being really excited because they're a senior and they got recommended computer science and that's what they've been studying.

And then people being like, wait, why did it take until I'm a senior to realize that I shouldn't be studying this? And then create that content on social media. And I think that I can make that viral relatively quickly.

Okay, idea number two is journal AI. I haven't seen anyone crack this quite yet. I know people have spoken about it. The way that I would build it is somewhat of an AI second brain, but branded and framed as a journal. And the sort of analysis that you would get would be things that would help increase your productivity, emotional support, relationship analysis.

And I really don't think it would have to be that technically robust. I would say essentially just chat GBT with more complex memory storage and UI that's more conducive to journaling.

Yeah. So I think one of my theses here is that I've seen people organically use chat GPT as their journal and get a lot of value out of it. I've essentially done that myself. Um, Now I'm not a daily journaler, but when I provide ChatGPT with, I have notes on my computer that just have a lot of information about some topic and maybe too much to be contained within ChatGPT's memory.

And when I want to go get a deeper analysis, I'll go paste those in. And now I think that, yeah, sort of like an emotional support assistant framed as a journal. would be pretty easy to get it to go viral, as well as I think that there'd be pretty high value add. You know, we have this like one sided relationship with journals, where we put in and get nothing out. And that's great to some effects.

But I think the ability to get that sort of like intricate objective analysis back out similar to how we, like, I think a lot of people building this or thinking of it as like a therapist AI, but I wouldn't brand it as that. I would brand it as a journal AI, if that makes sense.

Yeah, people ask this question a lot. I think that it's hard to say at this point in time I think that the appending AI is valuable when you are creating innovation within a relatively stagnant industry, such as Cal AI within the calorie tracking space. Like calorie tracking as a whole, people viewed it as archaic and it's slow and it's annoying and it's complicated.

So then when we add AI, that brings a level of sophistication. Now on the flip side, when it's something where You know, if you're building like a medical document service or something where like you need 100% accuracy and any minor errors would be unacceptable, the system just wouldn't work.

I would probably not include the term AI as people would be a little bit skeptical or scared that it may become dangerous in some capacity. So that's how I think about it. But, you know, I mean, my co-founder, Zach, from CalAI, recently made a tweet about how adding AI at the end was a negative signal. He and I had a lengthy discussion on that.

Kind of came to this resolution that I just referred to just now. But, yeah, I guess that's how I think through it. And now with regards to journal AI, the names that I'm using right now are just because they're easy to wrap your head around. I'm not sure if I would name it Journal AI. Maybe I would try to name it something like Juni or like Journey that feels more friendly.

But yeah, I wouldn't say that I'm by any means a master of naming. So maybe there are better people to go to on that front.

That's why I think Cal AI is probably the name that I'm most proud of. Um, The reason for naming UMAX, for example, UMAX was because the plan was to become this like all-in-one self-improvement ecosystem that I'm now building with Apex. Now, for a number of reasons, I decided not to pursue that.

But in retrospect, if UMAX, if the plan was to take it to where it is now, I probably would have named it Luxmax AI. as our copycat ended up doing, so.