AI and I14 Feb 2024

How to Find Your Next Big Idea Hiding on the Internet - Ep. 10 with Steph Smith

Steph Smith is the host of the a16z podcast and a prolific online creator.

Steph sees the internet through a high-definition lens that gives her a deep understanding of what people want.

She can isolate a clear signal from the noise, which she uses to build wonderfully creative, useful things.

In this episode, I dive deep with Steph on how she uses the internet and AI to unearth emerging trends and validate business ideas.

I pitch Steph two potential companies on the show, and we use an arsenal of tools and strategies to vet them live.

We get into:

How she leverages ChatPT to generate great ideas
Why ChatGPT is ideal for understanding complex concepts
How she uses ChatGPT to organize huge swaths of data
Tips on using SEO tools to vet business ideas
How to surface useful insights from Reddit
What to look for while reading customer reviews
Ways to gather more data on a market just from Google

This is a must-watch for anyone who spends time online and wants to discover the next big idea hiding on the internet.

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Timestamps:

Introduction 01:12
Leveraging ChatGPT to generate great ideas 22:11
Why ChatGPT is ideal for understanding complex concepts 29:29
How to use ChatGPT to organize huge datasets 48:00
Shark tank! Dan pitches Steph business ideas 1:00:41
Steph’s first move while validating a business idea on the internet 1:07:51
What to look for in a customer review 1:11:09
Tips on secondary keyword searches 1:17:45
How to gather market data from a simple Google search 1:26:24
What type of trend charts depict a good market 1:31:55
Using SEO tools to find useful insights from Reddit: 1:34:11
How to gather data about competitors: 1:42:37
Lightning-round questions from X 1:55:51

Links to resources mentioned in the episode:

Steph Smith: https://twitter.com/stephsmithio
Internet Pipes: https://internetpipes.com/
Doing Content Right: https://doingcontentright.com/#features
Steph's database of untranslatable words: https://eunoia.world/
Dan’s piece on the Allocation Economy: https://every.to/chain-of-thought/the-knowledge-economy-is-over-welcome-to-the-allocation-economy
Neal Agarwal: http://neal.fun
Keywords Everywhere: https://keywordseverywhere.com/
Reddit tools: https://anvaka.github.io/sayit/?query=, https://gummysearch.com/
SEO tools for market analysis: https://www.similarweb.com/, https://www.junglescout.com/, https://answerthepublic.com/

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