Glif AI: The $10 App That Replaces a Full Creative Team

Today we're going to talk about how to use AI agents to get the most out of these creative AI tools that I'm sure you've seen and play with. I'm sure you've played with Nano Banana. Maybe you've seen Cling. Maybe you've seen Juan 2.2, Sora 2. You've seen them, but you've also seen that there's some people that are able to get 100x out of them and other people who are just prompting it and being like, what is this slob? And I believe that the way to get the most out of Creative AI is through two things. It's through understanding how to prompt properly and understanding different workflows. So actually stitching together multiple of these tools. And today we're going to go through an app called Glyph. I have no affiliation with them. I just saw it online and started using it recently that actually does this for you. It automatically prompts, formats it for you work and gives you some workflows. And why I think it's interesting is the people that could unleash creative AI have an unfair advantage because those are the people that are going to be able to create uh big audiences, ads that outperform uh you know vibecoded websites and apps that don't look like every other vibe coded app. So I'm particularly interested in figuring out how to get 10x out of more with creative a AI. And my thesis right now is it's through AI agents and apps like Glyph. >> So this is a tutorial for beginners. Um I'm going to go through uh glyph. We're going to go through glyph together. Um I've been using it for the last 24 hours. Um and let's just let's just see if it's any good. And by the end of this episode, I think you'll have a good idea of where prompts and workflows and tools like Glyph fit fit in here. So, uh, the four use cases that we're going to go through today, we're going to actually see how to use Nano Banana Ultimate AI agent on on Glyph. So, we're going to try maybe creating a thumbnail, a YouTube thumbnail or something else like that. We're going to see how you can create uh these these videos with just little little mini figurines. Why? because those that type of video has actually been going viral recently and I think it's really interesting. Uh we're going to talk about how you can create AI influencers. That's going to be helpful if you're going to create organic content, you want to create multiple accounts or even you may you want to create ads, right? Um and then we're going to talk about how you can create um you know, I'm sure you've seen that on Tik Tok those Reddit stories, how you can create these workflows that automatically, you know, go and and and find find these stories and then create uh video content around that. So you can create these meme pages and stuff like that. Uh the whole purpose of this video is to get your creative juices flowing uh that you leave stronger than uh than you came with. So like and comment. And I have no affiliation with Glyph. This is a tool again that I've found on the internet. Let's get into it. So when you log into Git Glyph, it's free to sign up. You're going to see that there's the workflows and agents. We're going to in the agents section. uh you can see that you can actually just go and hire so to speak an agent. Uh and that's where you kind of want to start. Why why do you want to start here is because you don't have you can obviously build your own agent or build your own workflows but it's the simplest just to use someone who's optimized it already. Uh and this is an episode for beginners. So uh you can see here uh here's the Nano Banana Ultimate. Um, and if you're anything like me, you've used Nano Banana and sometimes you get amazing results and sometimes you don't. Um, and I think it's because of the prompting. So, let's go ahead and see if Nano Banana could go and redesign one of my thumbnails uh to be um more Mr. Beast style. Um, so I'm going to go ahead and copy this into glyph. So, I'm going to say, "Hey, I'd like you to redesign this thumbnail to be Mr. Beastesque." I'm going to say to be more Mr. Beastesque. I want higher CTR, more contrast, fresher. I don't know, the stuff that gets Mr. Beast tons of views. But for my type of content, so if I were to actually put this into Nano Banana regular, I would I would actually get a thumbnail that probably isn't the YouTube size. It probably uh would be all over the place. My face wouldn't would look different. So, let's see if it actually does something a little bit better. Um, so it asked me to drop the thumbnail. So, I'll go ahead and drop that again and we'll get to work. Cool. Sam Alman, the co-founder of OpenAI, just said that it is the era of the idea guy, and he is not wrong. I think that right now is an incredible time to be building a startup. And if you listen to this podcast, chances are you think so, too. Now, I think that you can look at trends uh to basically figure out uh what are the startup ideas you should be building. So, that's exactly why I built ideabous.com. Every single day you're going to get a free startup idea in your inbox and it's all backed by high quality data trends. How we do it? People always ask. We use AI agents to go and search what are people looking for and what are they screaming for in terms of products that you should be building and then we hand it on a you know silver platter for you to go check out. Um we do have a few paid plans that you know take it to the next level. uh give you more ideas, give you more AI agents and more almost like a chatgbt for ideas with it, but you can start for free ideabrows.com and if you're listening to this, I highly recommend it. So my hope is what it does is it yeah analyzes the image. This is sort of the missing step. Um, one of the missing steps in Nano Banana and other creative AI tools is uh, you know, it it we need to analyze this and then we need to figure out what is the best prompt based on that, right? So, it's it it gives me the prompt. Here's your Mr. Be style redesign. A high energy YouTube thumbnail redesign featuring a man with short wavy brown hair and glasses making an exaggerated shock expression, of course. So this is very very Mr. Beast. You can see it has the aspect ratio so you get hopefully get back the YouTube uh thumbnail in the right size and it creates three different variants. Red explosion split screen. Interesting that it includes this because this is like a triedand-rude format in YouTube when you have a slip uh a a split screen. Uh maybe it's like a sad face on the left and a and a happy face on the right. Um, and then it asks you to generate. Okay, cool. Um, I've gone ahead and, by the way, I've added $10 of credits for for this video. Uh, it's cool. Actually, I didn't see like a monthly fee. I just saw you can buy $10 of credits. Um, but you could use this for free. I I tried doing this for free and you get like a few prompts for free. And if you actually want to go and create videos and multiple images, you're going to need uh 10 bucks or something like that. Okay. So, I mean, pretty pretty amazing. Like, I couldn't have gotten this out of pure nano banana. So, I needed the training wheels. I needed the help here. Um, and I bet you like I should AB test that. I don't know what happened to my top lip, but you know, this this is the type of thing that would work. Um, and it's definitely, you know, it's definitely What's also cool is I've used this image before. So now I've got this like other image that I haven't, you know, I didn't have to go into a photo shoot for. So love that it's done that. Um, and uh that's Nana Banana Ultimate. Where I can see myself using this also is uh just, you know, icons, make it a mascot uh for my my startup ideabouser.com. uh you know there's so many you know brand identity stuff and just creating references images that you can go ahead and use in other creative AI. So uh I would say that this this was really good. It it it definitely exceeded my expectations and I can see myself using this. Okay, so the next uh the next demo that we're going to do is the miniature history for brands. So, we're going to go back into um the agent area. And you can see here uh this agent uses Cream and Juan 2.2 with 11 Labs to create a short 32se secondond tilt shift. Uh and you can see here that these are the the little videos I was talking about. I just think this is cool cuz um you're you're constantly looking for as a brand, you're constantly looking for ways to uh tell your stories. And if you can tell your story in in something that's like a little more interesting and a little more scroll stopping, then you're you have you're increasing your odds of probability of success, right? So, um we could here they're using the example for history, but I think that uh you know, I'd love to to give it a story. Um let's just click here. Tell me what I can do and and see what what what it says. I create historical videos in Tilchip Minto. So here's my process. You give me a historical topic, an event, a figure, an era. I research it. I create a video plan with four varied image scenes, a narrative voice over, an animation prompts for each scene. You approve the plan. I generate everything. Tilt chip images, voiceover animations, period appropriate music. I stitch it together with subtitles and you get a 40-second historical documentary that looks like it was filmed with a miniature diarama. Okay, so that's really cool. So, um the historical topic, let's do do the historical topic of um Facebook going IPO. So, I don't know how historically that is, but I'm just thinking um I'm just thinking like I have this business ideabouser.com which gives people startup ideas, gives them people prompts to go build those startup ideas. So, if I'm trying to build let's say an Instagram account, um like I might want to share stories of founders who've done a really, you know, who who've created really big companies, right? So, you can see it's gone and created the image prompts to start. So you can see like the scene one modern glass walloff bu building exterior in Silicon Valley. Um the different scenes here interior of the NASDAQ stock exchange young tech CEO in a casual hoodie um and it's gone and create uh this the voiceover script May 18th 2012 Facebook prepared for the most anticipated tech tech IPO in history. Mark Zuckerberg social network would go public shares priced at $38. So, it's gone and actually researched with Perplexity uh to go and and actually get the facts straight. Of course, if you're doing this, I would want to make sure just double check that it's it's correct. You know, Perplexity could be wrong. Um then it gives you the video animation prompt. So, it does it for C dance light, which is great, right? Cuz for most of us, we would just probably go into Sora 2. Um we wouldn't be stitching together C dance or and others like that. and it goes and does it and says and it says uh does this plan work for you? We're just going to say just generate it. Um but you could adjust the scripts. Uh you could change the video style and format if you don't like it. Um and what is happening right now is it's uh is it looks like it's creating all the Yeah. Oh my god. Are you kidding me? Yeah. This is crazy. Like that's the reference images. How cool is that? How cool is that? And that's the the audio. Um, so it creates the audio here. Um, and here are and then it says, do you want to generate the video? So, we're going to go ahead and generate the video and uh see what happens. So, it's going and creating the videos. Um, and a lot of people would look at this and and be like, this is so silly, right? like why like historical videos? Like it's so silly. How is this going to make me money? How is this going to get me followers? How is this going to get me likes? Well, I think it's obvious how it's going to get followers and likes. I think the the non-obvious question is how does this how does this help my business? And whenever you're, you know, when you're thinking about, you know, building your your business, you know, I always think about it like this. I call it the uh ACP funnel. I've talked about it on the pod before, you know, first create an audience, then create a community, then create a product. So, it's literally a funnel. It's literally a funnel. Um, and you know, I think uh, you know, you start with an audience and you can tell stories. This is where you can tell stories and this is where creative AI really plays a huge role. And then from that, you know, maybe you create a paid community, IRL events, and then from that, you're going to figure out what your product is. And that's when you vibe code something, and that's when you sell it to them. So, this is sort of the framework I use when I create any of my businesses, when I'm buying businesses, when I'm investing in businesses. And I think this is gives you the highest probability of success. Let's go back to the glyph. So, now what it's doing is it's mixing the background. So, it's actually created background music at a low level. So, it knows that, you know, it's not just doing voice voice over, but it knows that people like background music, right? Like these are the the nuances that you might have forgotten if you were just creating this on your own. And this hasn't taken that long. I mean, we're talking about a few minutes like this. I I've paid agencies to do this sort of stuff and it's thousands of dollars. Um, and it's ready. So, within about I don't know five minutes, we've been able to do it. Uh, and let's go ahead and watch it. >> May 18th, 2012, Facebook prepared for the most anticipated tech IPO in history. Mark Zuckerberg's social network would go public. Shares priced at $38 on NASDAQ, but technical glitches delayed trading. Investors grew anxious as the system struggled to keep up. Zuckerberg retained control through special voting shares. But behind closed doors, underwriters had quietly cut their revenue forecast days earlier. The stock barely rose on day one. Within weeks, billions in value vanished. The dream IPO became a cautionary tale of hype. So, I mean, is it perfect? Absolutely not. But from a one shot, I think that was pretty amazing. and you can see how you can go and and and create and take it to the next level, right? So, there you have it, folks. We created a mini a mini documentary in just a few minutes. Uh the next thing I want to do is I want to explore their AI influencer agent. So, uh let's go watch this. >> I can't believe I'm not real. Can you? I can't believe I'm not real. Can you? >> I can't believe it either. like that you're able to create something this good. Uh, and you're going to see, you know, the rise of AI influencers. It's going to be it's it's happening and it's it's becoming a thing. >> I can't believe I'm >> Follow me through a day in my life collecting and cooking totes for the algorithm. >> This is more like fantasy, right? >> That is a nice and chubby one indeed. Like imagine, you know, this is more of like a storytelling thing and this this feels more real. Um it depends what you're trying to do, right? Um but let's just say, let's see, you know, one thing you can do is you can just click tell me what you can do and let's see what it says. So it says that it creates uh talking head videos generating realistic photos turning those photos into talking singing singing videos with lip sync. We can use various voice voice styles, you know, influencer, amateur, and you can add music. So, um, let's just say, uh, we want a talking head video. Yeah, let's do a talking head video. Um, and and why I think, uh, you know, I think talking head videos just from like a v video ad perspective, uh, you know, is very very is is helpful. And also like if you're trying to you know trying to create influencer accounts like gone are the days where you create one brand account right you go and create one like you create one brand let's go back to here in a second sort of the the old way of doing accounts brand accounts social media on brands was you'd create one brand account and that brand account might have been on multiple platforms. So maybe it was on uh Instagram and Tik Tok. So you just do multiple platforms. That was the idea. But today that's this doesn't really work that well. Um you actually want to create something like 10 accounts. Well, here's here's the way I think about it. one one brand account, 10 people. Some of those people could be real people and some of those people could be AI influencers, but having these people uh on multiple platforms and and maybe only two on 10 pop off or one on 10 pops off, that's going to help basically create this brand and get more followers, more likes. And this is sort of the evolution of of marketing. You know, this is more vibe marketing, right? You're kind of like vibing using tools like Lyft to get to get followers. And this is just, you know, you're reliant on people. I think that, you know, I don't want to see a world in social where everything is AI slop, of course, but you know, people listening to this podcast, the Startup Ideas podcast, you want to increase the odds of success in whatever it is you're doing. And the reality is AI helps to do that. Um, so, uh, going back to the glyph chat, um, it needs to know, okay, what type of character you want in the video? Who should it be? Let's just say we want a 35year-old woman, brown hair, blue eyes, who is wearing tennis clothing. because we are a tennis brand. Like say you're a tennis brand, right? Um, and you know, you want to you want someone who like represents the brand. Like maybe you sell tennis rackets, maybe you sell accessories. So, it's gone ahead and uh, you know, use Quen realism, which again is something I would probably not be using. I wouldn't think to use it. Um, let's go ahead and see what what happens here. I mean, pretty great reference image. Um, and then it says, "What do you want her to say?" Um, maybe I don't know about you, but tennis has become my life. So, you know, you do need to have like a hook, right? So, I actually would have loved if it act if it gave me, you know, was like um gave me optimized hooks. Uh but maybe if I did prompt it and was like, I want to do a hook and you know, here's my script. What what is the best one? Maybe it would have done it. So, then it says, what kind of voice do you want her to have? Uh amateur, raw voice, authentic. So I think amateur just because you know it feels like you know you're imagine you're going through stories like the the best videos are the ones that feel real not super like high you know polished and that sort of thing. Um so then it says uh they have the audio and it says do you want to create the talking head? Um, by the way, everything that we've done so far, uh, from a a credits perspective, like we've used about $2 worth of credits so far. So, all of this has taken about $2, the audio here, uh, the the thumbnail and the, um, oh, of course, the documentary. So, all it, which is absolutely crazy. So, I think that using a tool like this is going to be cheaper in the long run because you're you're prompting it less. you're getting more optimized stuff and realistically it's going to save save you time. So now it's using Omnihuman uh to create the image and the audio to lip-s sync to the video. Um, probably take uh a couple minutes and um and let's uh maybe come back to this. Oh, you know what? We'll just wait for this to complete. So, it's finally uh finished the output. It's taken 8 minutes and 8 seconds to create our uh virtual influencer. Let's see what uh what it sounds like. >> I don't know about you, but tennis has become my life. >> So, I think this it sounds amazing. I think she looks a little a little too AI for me, but still like it's like 95% there, you know? I think that we can prompt this to get to get it feel like more like in her, you know, she's uh like on the courts or in a in her um you know, kitchen, you know, just the background for me, the fact that it's like gray feels like it's a bit stage and a bit too too AI, but I know that we could get it there with just prompting a little more. So, really cool that this worked. The last use case we're going to show is these Tik Tok Reddit stories. So, I'm sure you've seen this on Tik Tok, you know, like the Minecraft videos basically. Uh, it's brain rot for sure. Um, but, you know, some people love them. This has 43,000 likes. Um, you know, if you can find a way that you can use Reddit for these interesting stories, post it, uh, again, create audiences, create likes, and ultimately sell some of your software or startups, that's that's what you, you know, is a good is a viable channel for you. So, can Glyph figure that out for us? Um, so I'm going to say go and create an awesome uh Tik Tok video from the r/SAS subreddit. Why? Why from the r/ So if I'm doing this for, you know, ide.com, you know, SAS subreddit, I'm sure has a bunch of startup, you know, people who've built software as a service and they're, you know, I would want to attract those people, right? So, it's gone ahead and used web search, Exo web search. It's found how I built a $1 million sash just by post on Reddit. Um, so classic hustle story, underdog story. Um, and then it asks you to pick your style approach, drama, educational, mystery, lifestyle. In this case, uh, educational like we want to teach people about, you know, building software, building SAS. Um, how fast do you want to go? Ultra fast, fast, medium. Probably like pretty fast. Um, but it's cool that you're able to, you know, drip feed that context into it. Do you want a Gen Z brain rod balanced or thoughtful? Let's go with more of a balance vibe. Let's go with more of a balanced vibe. Um, and let's say we want to do 60 seconds. I'm actually surprised that uh you're able to do such long videos within within Glyph. you know, think it would be like 10 seconds, 15 seconds. Um, here you can see that it it's creating seven clips that are eight and a half seconds each. Oh, so that's it. So, it's basically creating these clips and it's stitching it together. You can see that it's uh creating creating the audio. Um, here's the hook, the problem, the strategy. So, it's already gone ahead and created um created the script. Uh, the script is, you know, developer turned a Reddit post into a million dollar SAS. Here's how he did it. Um, you know, went on Reddit, identified subreddits where his target customers hung out, provided genuine value, he shared case studies, answered questions. Um, I'm going to say, can you make this script more narrative driven, more interesting, more specific, and just see what happens like this? That's to me like that script feels a little more a little a little mid, you know? So, here we go. In 2019, a broke developer named Tom had $47 in his bank account and a SAS idea nobody wanted to fund. He couldn't afford Facebook ads, so he opened up Reddit and found his first customer arguing in the comments of r/SAS. Tom spent two hours every morning answering questions in five subreddits, no links, no pitches. So, this is this is good. Um, so that's just a quick tip, I guess, is you can kind of push it uh to to create better scripts. Um, start production. I click start production. Now it's dreading these audio segments in parallel. It uses 11 11 Labs to go ahead and do that. I could see on the side that my my credits are are starting to, you know, drain. That cost about, you know, 40 cents or something like that. It uses a custom FFmpeg tool to actually stitch it together. Um, and yeah, hopefully it it creates something that's interesting. Uh, I would I wonder if there's like a workflow that you can just run every single day to go ahead and create some some of this. I'm sure I'm sure there is. Um, but you know, I'm not going to figure that out in this in this episode. This is this is for beginners. But you know, you can imagine if this works, you're just going to want to have this on on, you know, on on repeat, right? It creates this Facebook, sorry, it creates this faceless short form production engine that every single day you're getting content uh and creating followers, creating likes, etc. So, uh, it says retrieving pixel videos in in parallel. Uh, and it's got seven on seven unique clips. Um, let's go ahead and continue. Says trimming all unique clips to audio length and using make from assets v2. So, it's creating the v the video from the images. That's really the key with creating AI video is really the images, having great reference images, having great scripts. So, you can see here it's already created it and it's going to go ahead and stitch it together. So, let's watch a couple of these. See if we like it. >> 2019, a broke developer named Tom had $47 in his bank account and a SAS idea nobody wanted to fund. He couldn't afford Facebook ads. So, he opened Reddit and found his first customer arguing in the comments of Aar S. Tom spent two hours every morning answering questions in five subreddits. No links. >> So, it's missing the subtitles, right? And uh you know, if you didn't like any of these, you can obviously edit them. Um but pretty cool. So, here it's got the master video here. Let's watch. >> In 2019, a broke developer named Tom had $47 in his bank account and a sass idea nobody wanted to fund. He couldn't afford Facebook ads, so he opened Reddit and found his first customer arguing in the comments of Assa S. Tom spent 2 hours every morning answering questions in five subreddits. No links, no pitches, just solving real problems. One comment got 2,000 upvotes. His inbox exploded with 89 people begging for his solution. He hadn't even built it yet. He coded for 3 weeks straight, launched with a simple post, and got 340 signups in 24 hours, all from Reddit. 12 months later, he had 4,000 paying customers. Reddit drove 67% of them. His CAC was literally zero. Today, Tom Sass does 1.2 million in ARR. >> That's not Tom. still spends 30 minutes daily on Reddit because it works in 2019. >> So, it's not perfect. Like, they could have brought Tom back. Um, oh, now it's adding music the the background music. Um, and it's missing the subtitles, but you get the idea. Like, obviously you you would change some of this. This is one prompting it. Um, I do think the script is pretty good. I would change um like white. Okay, let's watch this real quick. >> In 2019, a broke developer named Tom had $47 in >> like not bad. Okay, adding subtitles to the video. So, um yeah, I would say like you probably can get this to work. You can probably get this to work, right? Like I would have loved to have one prompted this and it completely just blew it out of the water. I think that that that uh it took two prompts to get a good script. Uh, I think that, you know, this obviously the short form could be way more optimized. Like, why are you opening up Canva? Uh, why is it showing like a woman when it's talking about uh Tom or whatever his name is? Um, bring back the character and stuff like that. And that's where you come in, right? You're the you're the creative director. You have to push this thing. Um, so, um, you know, but overall, like the fact that you can go ahead and create this like we didn't, you know, it Oh, here we go. Here's the here's the the masterpiece, the final video. Let's watch like 10 seconds of it. >> In 2019, a broke developer named Tom had $47 in his bank account and a sass idea nobody wanted to fund. He couldn't afford Facebook ads, so he opened Reddit and found his arguing in the comments of Ass. Spent 2 hours every morning answering questions. >> I mean, obviously, it's bad like in the sense that >> no pictures. there's some stuff that we need to change, but the it's it's close. It's like it's the last 20% which we need to get to, right? So, overall, like I I am impressed. >> So, what did we do? So, what did we do today? We got the most out of Nano Banana with the Nano Banana Ultimate AI agent. We created a miniature AI documentary. Really cool. And we didn't even research the script at all. We had Perplexity do it. We created an AI influencer. Uh it did take 8 minutes, but come on, not not too bad. Uh and then we created a story, a Reddit story, uh that grabbed information from Reddit, uh and created almost like stock footage with uh audio on top of it that could be used to create audiences, uh and share our stories. So, overall, I think it was really cool what we did today and uh kind of exceeded my expectations. I don't know about you. I think I'll end this episode by saying there's all these different agents in different categories. The video image, the social media, uh, you know, if you want to create podcast, you know, you want to create a pod, uh, product influencer and video and image, you know, V3 master prompter, you know, cling 2.5. How do you create, you know, Hollywood special effects in your pocket? So, there's a bunch of them here. Um, you can go ahead and create your own agents and your own workflows. Um, but you know, it's really, in my opinion, it's advanced. Like I would use the regular agents to start like before you're creating these custom instructions, custom memories, but it's cool to see what you can do, right? you know, you can go and search X for, you know, a specific topic and then it runs a deep research report and then it creates, you know, uh, text to image with Flux. And so there's so much that you can do, but I would say, you know, from a beginner perspective, uh, play with agents, um, see if you get something more out of, you know, the the the creative AIs that exist. Um, you know, I think if if you you know, if you've stuck around this long, you're seeing that a tool like Glyph is helpful, right? Um, so, uh, hope this has been interesting to you. Hope it's gotten your creative juices flowing. And, uh, let me know what you want me to review next. Like, is there any tools that you think are interesting? Should I be doing more of this stuff? Uh, and, uh, you know, have a creative day, my friends. This is the greatest time in history to be building startups, to be building audiences, to be building communities, and I can't wait to see what you build