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Friday, December 19, 2025

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Daily Opportunity Digest

Friday, December 19, 2025

Executive Summary

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Auto-generated from 81 opportunity signals (last 7 days)

🎯 High Signal Opportunities

@starter_story viral opportunity revenue

Ya'll are SLEEPING on simplicity.

This guy built a $25K/month saas around one simple concept: a countdown timer.

Not by chasing AI trends, but by obsessing over a single painful problem.

The truth?

PAIN POINTS > FEATURES.

If a timer app can do $25K/month, maybe the problem isn’t how many features you have.

@tibo_maker authority opportunity revenue fresh

incredibly well condensed playbook for $100m ARR 👏

how to get it right 👇

  1. build a product x10 better than competition

  2. become ultra-discoverable -> work your SEO

  3. product education is never enough

  4. marketing is not math - you don't have to measure everything

  5. your brand is you

@starter_story viral relevant revenue

$35,000/month from 3 CLONED apps.

Bro was an optician. Taught himself how to code. Started building apps.

We talked for ~2 hours. Here’s the top 1% of our chat:

– Why you shouldn't "learn to code" anymore (1:58)
– How to know if an idea is worth "cloning" (3:45)
– His 3 REAL apps making $35K/month (7:28)
– The first thing he does after building any project (8:02)
– The most underrated things you should do as a solopreneur (11:40)

@EXM7777 viral relevant revenue

use this prompt to find your next $1M SaaS idea: https://t.co/dZYlZCRhdA

@boringmarketer viral opportunity

how to turn Claude Code into a full stack creative team

(create the highest quality images, videos, etc. from the command line in seconds)

  1. RESEARCH - this is the MCP layer, use playwright to feed visual inspo, perplexity to pull info on your niche, competitors, firecrawl to scrape or search

  2. BRIEF - I built a creative strategist skill that builds killer briefs from raw data and routes it to the right model and generation skill

  3. GENERATE - I get variations in one go from each of the be...

@gregisenberg viral authority revenue

i remember when seed rounds were like $1-2M

the new seed round is $15m somehow

@starter_story viral revenue

i've interviewed 1000s of people who built $1M online businesses with this hunk of metal (including myself)

now, these results aren't typical, BUT they are very real and very possible.

im not sure how long this is gonna last...

but i will do everything in my ability to document these stories on https://t.co/DjldVm9tw1

@ErnestoSOFTWARE popular opportunity

I don’t “validate app ideas”.
I validate markets.

→ if people buy courses = money exists
→ if competitors exist = demand exists
→ if creators exist = distribution exists

Then I build.

@thepatwalls viral authority relevant revenue fresh

Ok just met a college kid who built an online games website (think Newgrounds/Miniclip).

$15K+ per month purely with programmatic ads, while still in his dorm room.

Sold it for 6 figures, now just doing it again with a small twist.

Growth came from very simple faceless tiktok videos that drove people to the site, in which he monetized 1 cent per click!

I do think games are a very underrated space for builders. HUGE market.

Not bad for a junior in college!

@ErnestoSOFTWARE popular revenue

This Reddit App scaling strategy might be illegal, but it will turn $200 to $20k https://t.co/LNAXRsOz4l

🧵 Threads & Deep Dives

@EXM7777 viral thread

AI outputs are only as good as what you feed them... and most people are feeding them nothing

that's why everything sounds the same, here's what you NEED to do:

build a swipe file and 10x every piece of content you create

with NotebookLM supporting 600 sources, you can build something insanely powerful

focus on three categories:

goated copywriting

uni...

📌 Other Notable

@starter_story viral relevant fresh

Here's the secret.

Your idea doesn’t need to be genius.

It just needs to be seen.

Take a few days off before the new year and really think about that.

Imagine going into 2026 with a diabolical plan for distribution.

Or maybe even just spending 50% of your time on it.

I know this isn't controversial.

But I know most people that watch Starter Story would rather build a feature than create a piece of content.

(including myself)

Gotta rip off the bandaid. 2026 is the year of distribution.

@levelsio viral authority fresh

Idea for @xai team

Let people import their conversation history / data from other LLM chat apps

That'd make it much easier to switch from other apps because a big part of the lock-in of LLM chat apps is their memory about you https://t.co/ZoPV4FXswv

@boringmarketer viral fresh

stacking Skills + MCPs is the most powerful unlock in AI right now

@EXM7777 viral fresh

Openai is out of the race for 2026, game is on for Google vs Anthropic vs China

@EXM7777 viral fresh

you can create your own courses for ANY tool:

  1. ask Gemini to deep research all educational YouTube videos about the tool
  2. save all official documentation from the company's website
  3. search relevant subreddits to find power user tips and real-world use cases
  4. feed everything into NotebookLM and prompt it to create a detailed course from beginner to expert with practical exercises

now you have a personalized curriculum built from the best resources on the internet... tailored to how YOU ...

@godofprompt viral authority fresh

Don't use Perplexity or ChatGPT for market research.

I tested Gemini 3.0 and it's on a whole different level for data analysis.

Here are 5 prompts that turn it into your research team:

(Comment "Gem" and I'll DM you my Gemini Mastery Guide for free) https://t.co/jltthB1Fe9

@shl viral authority fresh

American housing next to Japanese housing in Tokyo, Japan https://t.co/TZgwaJeL05

@gregisenberg viral authority

the greatest productivity hack in the modern age is simply just do no disturb mode and electronic music

@gregisenberg viral authority

i find it extremely lame when founders dunk on each other publicly, it feels really high school.

@tibo_maker viral authority

incredible SEO results for this client: Shortimize

they subscribed to the Outrank "Managed Services" and started getting results in 30 days 🤯

basically the Managed Services is the Outrank engine + manual editing and improvement for the best results

super proud of the offering

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Notes & next steps for a solo/small-team founder:

Sources: coverage and product writeups from December 2025 industry roundups and tool comparisons[1][2][3][4][5].

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Funding Signals

Most likely interpretation: you want seed and Series A rounds announced in the past week (the 7 days ending Dec 19, 2025) that are in SaaS, developer tools, or productivity startups, with amounts and one-line descriptions. Below are specific rounds I could confirm from news summaries published this week; each bullet names the company, stage, amount, and what the company does, plus the source for that item. If a round’s primary coverage didn’t focus on SaaS/devtools/productivity, I omitted it.

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