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Postiz gives its code away on GitHub and makes $326,687 a month, up from $17,000 in January, after founder Nevo David started building for AI assistants. The opening is a free tool people pay for, with an MCP server so an AI assistant can run it and a hosted version on sale. Featuring: Postiz, Nevo David, TrustMRR, TryPost, Postbase, Claude Watch on YouTube Read the full report Brought to you by: Trends.vc: Discover new markets and opportunities. HeadsUp: Know when your competitors move. Before your customers do. Multi: Turn any content into a YouTube video. Chapters: (00:00) Free code, $326,687 a month (00:39) The launch Reddit tore apart (01:29) Why free code sells the paid version (02:14) "Less UI, more CLI and MCP" (02:52) From $21,000 to $120,000 in four months (03:20) The night Postiz went down (04:08) The opportunity: tools AI assistants can run Where to find Trends.vc: Get the free Trends.vc newsletter Find your next profitable market with Trends Pro Watch new markets broken down on YouTube Follow the Trends Podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify Subscribe to the Trends Podcast for a new market every week. Click here to view the episode transcript.

Google paid $10 million for bankrupt Spirit Airlines' 100 million emails and 500 million Teams messages, outbidding Mercor at auction. Closing startups sell the same kind of records with no bidding contest, which is the opening for a founder who runs one. Featuring: Google, Mercor, Spirit Airlines, SimpleClosure, Korra, MIT Technology Review Watch on YouTube Read the full report Brought to you by: Trends.vc: Discover new markets and opportunities. HeadsUp: Know when your competitors move. Before your customers do. Multi: Turn any content into a YouTube video. Chapters: (00:00) Google's $10M bid for a dead airline's inbox (00:42) Why AI labs want your work email (01:35) How the Spirit auction turned into a fight (02:11) Scrubbing names and what stayed out of the sale (03:04) The privacy objections (03:41) One founder's $25,000 code sale (04:40) The opportunity: auctions for closing companies Where to find Trends.vc: Get the free Trends.vc newsletter Find your next profitable market with Trends Pro Watch new markets broken down on YouTube Follow the Trends Podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify Subscribe to the Trends Podcast for a new market every week. Click here to view the episode transcript.

ChatGPT can plan a trip in a group chat and forget it a month later. Jarvie raised $8.3 million to build the group chat AI that remembers. The opening for a small company is one kind of group that plans the same thing each week, like the parents on a youth sports team. Featuring: Jarvie, Shapes, Series, Continua, Instinct, Lightspeed Watch on YouTube Read the full report Brought to you by: Trends.vc: Discover new markets and opportunities. HeadsUp: Know when your competitors move. Before your customers do. Multi: Turn any content into a YouTube video. Chapters: (00:00) ChatGPT forgets the trip it planned (00:09) Jarvie raises $8.3M (00:43) What Jarvie is (01:31) Who else is betting on group chat AI (02:46) Build for one kind of group (03:47) Instinct is already in these chats (04:01) Pick your group Where to find Trends.vc: Get the free Trends.vc newsletter Find your next profitable market with Trends Pro Watch new markets broken down on YouTube Follow the Trends Podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify Subscribe to the Trends Podcast for a new market every week. Click here to view the episode transcript.

Testers cut the AI assistant Instinct off from their email and it kept summarizing their inbox anyway. The fastest-moving agents ask for less of you, and freelancers chasing late invoices are the buyer Paraglide skips. Featuring: Instinct, TechCrunch, Accenture, Wajo, Google, Meta, Stripe, Shop Pay, Ollie, Vellum, Paraglide, Invoice Ninja, FreshBooks, InvoiceWatchr, Upwork Watch on YouTube Read the full report Brought to you by: Trends.vc: Discover new markets and opportunities. HeadsUp: Know when your competitors move. Before your customers do. Multi: Turn any content into a YouTube video. Chapters: (00:00) Testers switched off Instinct's email access (00:17) The biggest lie about AI agents, and the 9% who'd trust one (01:06) Why agents ask for your inbox, card and login (01:31) Your email and your card: Fo, Gemini Spark and Meta's Muse (02:50) Your passwords: Ollie and Vellum (03:37) Freelancers chasing late invoices (04:33) The one-line pitch Where to find Trends.vc: Get the free Trends.vc newsletter Find your next profitable market with Trends Pro Watch new markets broken down on YouTube Follow the Trends Podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify Subscribe to the Trends Podcast for a new market every week. Click here to view the episode transcript.

Viktor, an AI coworker a team shares in its chat app, went from launch to a $15 million run rate in three months, and Slack has announced an agent of its own. Agencies that keep a separate chat with each client are the opening for a small company. Featuring: Viktor, AlphaSignal, Accel, Slack, Pylon, ClearFeed Watch on YouTube Read the full report Brought to you by: Trends.vc: Discover new markets and opportunities. HeadsUp: Know when your competitors move. Before your customers do. Multi: Turn any content into a YouTube video. Chapters: (00:00) $15M a year in three months (00:13) What Viktor is (00:37) How one quiet install spread across a team (02:01) Accel's $75M round and the run rate (02:23) Slack tried bots once, then built its own agent (03:05) The agency opportunity (05:00) How to start Where to find Trends.vc: Get the free Trends.vc newsletter Find your next profitable market with Trends Pro Watch new markets broken down on YouTube Follow the Trends Podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify Subscribe to the Trends Podcast for a new market every week. Click here to view the episode transcript.