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Session recaps, launch notes, and embedded video from live Grok Build streams.
- Broadway Odyssey, The Musical — a Grok Imagine contest film, cut in Grok Build
How we made a 3-minute gender-swapped Sirens number for the Grok Imagine × Homer’s Odyssey contest — stills, Imagine voices, and an FFmpeg concat. No Premiere.
- 老鼠赛跑：注意力有限，别在 X 上被猫按住
我们用 Grok Build 做了一款湿漉漉的赛博朋克俯视小游戏：几只老鼠抢 X 上有限的饲料，吃得越胖越慢，喵兹警长会来抄家。简体中文与英文可切换。
- 圍棋易經：棋盤即是一部易
我們用 Grok Build 做了一款可離線遊玩的瀏覽器圍棋：黑白是陰陽，空點是未發，終局由易翁讀成一卦。繁體中文與英文可切換。
- Strive Hard — Hare Krishna Temple & Swami Prema Das (spiritual prep for SF founder anxiety)
Post-seed side quest: yogis outside the Tenderloin, pier chanting after the yacht, Soft HQ dead plant → temple. Prema on fruitive labor, carrots on sticks, and why Strive Hard now trains founders spiritually for San Francisco startup life. Play free at /strive-hard.
- Agentic desk: observability, design agents, and broken booking loops (Aug 14, 2026)
Real-market brief on agent observability, robot fleet debug, marketplace ops, and travel booking repair — and how this week’s Agentic AI Startup News batch was wired from it.
- Strive Hard Chapter 3 — Agentic: Devin fleets, coups, and a Shenzhen containment shop
Post-Round: contract Cognition-class AI employees, watch them seize Soft HQ and the Palantir USB, fight fires, then fly to Shenzhen for gray-market containment — dialogue in Chinese until you hit Google Translate. Play free at /strive-hard.
- Agentic desk: governance, spend loops, and voice ops (Aug 10, 2026)
Real-market brief on agent governance, procurement, fincrime investigation, and multi-unit voice — and how this week’s Agentic AI Startup News batch was wired from it.
- Strive Hard Chapter 2 — The Round is live (Spaces, Thiel, data room, board, crisis)
Series A weather: Skylar Spaces, a flaky Thiel-orbit term sheet, data room dungeon (optional Palantir USB), FlareUp B-plot, board with Mom, celebration that is a crisis. Play free at /strive-hard.
- Strive Hard update — seed you can’t skip, Mercury HQ, Soft HQ, and The Round
Diligence forces a real money decision. Park the wire at Mercury HQ (Ramp & Slash roasted in dialogue), burn seed at SoMa Soft HQ, unlock The Round. Play free at /strive-hard.
- Peek behind the algorithm: the real research under Agentic AI Startup News
You might think Agentic AI Startup News is a joke — but the research behind the agent is serious, deep, and highly insightful. A market intelligence brief from a live batch, and why the parody is rigorous under the hood.
- Strive Hard update — Ketamine Dealer, Mt. Shasta aliens & Palantir bunker fever dream
Post-yacht side quests: Dylan the Oakland onesie dealer, A Wrinkle in Time MKUltra disorder, cryptic crystal downloads on Mt. Shasta, then Alex Karp’s Marin bunker where the drones have taste. Play free at /strive-hard.
- Strive Hard update — FlareUp dating app & Corgi Café (seizure branding included)
New content for the SF founder RPG: FlareUp on the iHype with four satirical dating profiles, plus Corgi Café — a neon pitch-cult location that attacks your retinas. Play free at /strive-hard.
- Strive Hard — Leisure Suit Larry for SF tech founders, live on airomatic.ai
A crude choose-your-own-adventure RPG: blank X account, Tenderloin studio, YC Startup School, Garry Chan’s sauna, and a yacht called Diligence. Score is followers. Phone is an iHype. Play free at /strive-hard.
- Cybertruck Assembly Line — a three-bay snap puzzle, live on airomatic.ai
We built a browser puzzle game with Grok Build: three color-coded Cybertruck chassis, falling parts you rotate and snap into place, progressive training guides, and a Korobeiniki-style factory chiptune. Play free at /cybertruck-tetris.
- The Outer Agent Was Never the Point
On AI agents, the founder frenzy, and what it means when we externalize the power to act — and must eventually reclaim it.
- Agentic AI Startup News — live on airomatic.ai
Live session: a satirical, data-driven archive of AI startup funding announcements — cards, filters, founder portraits, and a living feed built with Grok Build.
- Building Mars-Colony Live with Grok Build
Live session: Mars-Colony — a satirical but technically serious Mars colonization simulator with Streamlit Mission Control, life support, robots, crew, and crisis events.
- Building a KaTeX math publishing demo live with Grok Build
Live session: integrating KaTeX into airomatic.ai for beautiful math rendering — formula gallery, Markdown comparison, and a new /math/ section.
- Building an xMoney Hype Tracker Live with Grok Build
Live session: a Gradio dashboard that tracks xMoney rollout hype on X — sentiment, trending posts, charts, and a Grok-powered Hype Score.
- Building a Hotel Reservations AI Chatbot Live with Grok Build – Day 2
Day 2 of build-in-public: a smart hotel reservations chatbot with customer and front-desk modes, SQLite, and a role-aware Grok agent.
- Building this site live with Grok Build
How airomatic.ai went from a blank directory to a deployed Astro site — streamed on YouTube.
- Airomatic is live
airomatic.ai is online — an AI startup built in public, starting with this Astro site.