The Claude Code Skill My Smartest Friends Use

There's a way to tune your clawed code so you get absolute superpowers. Some of my smartest friends are using this tool and it's called Last 30 Days. It just came out and I had the founder Matt Van Horn come on the podcast to show how to use it. What last 30 days does is it uses trending data on places like Axe and Reddit as the starting point for your prompts on cloud code. The cool part is you end up getting way more out of cloud code because the prompts are way more dialed and optimized. Enjoy the episode. Let me know if you think this is cool and I'll see you in there. >> I feel like I'm in I know I'm in for a treat. Matt Van Horn is on the podcast and he's going to demo something very special. met by the end of this episode. What are people going to learn? >> They will have a new superpower in cloud code. It's called slashlast30 days and uh it's going to for any topic you could possibly imagine from best prompting techniques for a particular tool to how should I use claudebot to what are the greatest rap songs right now. It's going to search X, Twitter, and the web for only things that have happened in the last 30 days and give you a great result and help you be expert. >> My smartest friends are using this right now, so I had to ask Matt to come on and showcase how to use this. So, thank you, Matt. Uh, I say we just get right into it. >> All right, yolo. Let's uh let's go. I can just uh dive in. So we are in cloud code and so this is a skill for cloud code and so once you install it you just type in last 30 days. So research any topic from the last 30 days. So uh can be anything. So let's say I want um let's kick one off right here. Um most popular rap songs. So, let's kick that one off. And so, and then I'll I'll show some ones some pre-en ones that I've done. So, using the last 30 days school, let's research most popular rap songs. Let me research some popular rap songs from the last 30 days. And so, right here, it's Reddit reading what Redditors are saying. X reading the timeline. And then it's also running a a web search. So, so is the is the thinking like is the reason why you created this is there's so much good data on the internet and you want to use that as like the jumping off point. Is that why >> the the reason that I built this tool is I feel like everything is moving so quickly in AI and it's nearly impossible to keep up with the conversation on X on Reddit on GitHub and I wanted a tool that gives you superpowers to be able to just become expert on any topic based on what's happening on Reddit X and the web. very very quickly because the prompts are changing so quickly. What's happened to like look at you know Maltbot? What's happened there? It's changing so quickly. And so being able to just become expert at something it kind of reminds me in the Matrix when he gets plugged in and it's like I know kung fu, right? So to be able to do that for any topic very very quickly is is why I built this and honestly so I could use it for myself. Looks like our our rap research. So, I found one Reddit thread, 19 expost, and the most popular rap songs right now. So, it kind of dug in and into hip-hop heads, some expos, Billboard data, some Spotify data, hip-hop heads, hip-hop all day, rap complex, and created this uh this reply. >> So, someone in the comment section is going to be like, well, I could have used perplexity or chat GBT to do that. Why should I use this? >> Yeah. So, absolutely could, but it's uh and again I'm I'm not fully up to date on which which tools have what access but to set up last 30 days. So you need cloud code, right? So you're already paying for cloud code, right? So you need that account. You need a open AI key because OpenAI has a deal with Reddit that gives you that Reddit access. Uh I'm actually see looking into Reddit API keys if that's an option to make the the product better. That's what I was um that's one of the things my my weekend projects. And then the the third is you can't search X using your X account. You have to use an XAI key. And so last 30 days pulls in all these API keys and pulls it all together if that makes sense. So this is one that I did right before we started. So I said last 30 days highest performing cold email frameworks for ICP output three email variants subject line. So it went on X went on Twitter found Reddit threads expost web pages and what what's interesting how I use this tool is I often don't even read what it says. Like sure it's interesting to see what it learned but mostly I just wanted it to write a good email. So I said, "Can you write me some cold emails for getting on Greg Eisenberg's podcast?" Uh, sorry I spelled your name wrong. Good target startup ideas later is all about unconventional startup ideas, community building unique relevance. You know, what's your angle? What's your credibility signal? Any connection points to Greg mutual follows. What timely uh talk about AI tools I'm working on and I once made a smart oven. Uh, smart oven details gold unexpected founders who shipped hardware and software. That's your hook. Here are three email variants. subject smart oven AI tools not the P Greg I went from building smart oven to building AI tools that might sound weird until you hear it turns out the hardest part of hardware taught me exactly what's broken and how people interact with AI I'm building the fixed what is smart oven taught me about AI so anyway I literally did nothing here I barely gave it any context and it had become expert in different cold emailing concepts the three Ps framework praise picture push ADA attention I've never read any of these in my life intentionbased data trigger framework and then it just did it for me if that makes sense without even me having to read the research. Yeah. I think what's really cool about this is these frameworks. I mean, ADA has been around for forever like you know OG David Oglevie days, but other than you know the other ones like it feels like those are timely frameworks like these emails like I'm reading these emails and they're I get a lot of cold email and these are actually ones that would break through the noise. So that's what's really cool about this. >> And I didn't even give it much effort. I literally said, "I'm a former smart oven entrepreneur." >> You couldn't have given it like less context. >> And it did. Okay. >> Yeah. >> And then another one I I just tried last 30 days how to get X followers. I researched people actually saying um and what I learned reply is the number one growth strategy. Multiple X power users all credit becoming a reply guy as the fastest path to growth. shows 380 thoughtful replies, daily engagement, 40 before posting. Find larger accounts. Reply first consistently. Post at least 1x a day, 5 days a week. U Reddit threads, X threads, Instagram marketing, Facebook ads, and share your vision. What's your account and what's followers? Uh, I'm M. Van Horn and I made an AI tool for claw code. I don't know what it's going to do now. >> That's the exciting part. one one other let's spin up another last 30 days window. Sorry for all the all the windows. So all right so last 30 days of research cla bot so I can build an enterprise competitor to make money and not give it away for free. Maybe I'm giving too much context but I should have just said research clav um actually I'm going to do that. I mean, what do you recommend when you're, you know, is it shorter prompts, medium prompts, long prompts? Like, how do getting the most out of >> I think it's a it's kind of you prime the engine by first doing just research cloudbot top use cases. So, what my my vision for this thread of what we're going to do is it's going to learn about Cloudbot, right? Check X, check Reddit, and then what I'm going to do is actually load one of my favorite tools, Compound Engineering. Uh, shout out to to Kevin Rose for introducing me to it. And compound engineering is when I'm starting a new project is where I do my planning. And so what I want to do here is take this research on from last 30 days from Cloudbot and use that as the starting point to kick off a enterprise version of Cloudbot and to build it. So let's let's let this run and see how our other stuff is going. All right. I'm in I'm in A tool for cloud code. A tools are hot right now. Here's a growth playbook for you. Morning. 40 minutes for your first post. Reply to tip from anthropic. Alex Burch Labs. Cloud power users. Add genuine value. Share a tip. Ask a smart question. Content type tool demo. Build X today. What it does. Cloud code tip. Five things I learned X. Build in public. Ship. By the way, I I'm not going to do this. I think this was just I I actually asked chat GPT for suggestions of what I should demo on your show and it gave me this one but quickest wins. Pin your best demo tweet. Show the tool in action. Bio formula I build tool one logo shipping AI tools for cloud code. >> That's not bad. >> No, it's it's not bad. So all right, let's close this one out. All right, we got cloud code best use overnight coding agent management daily briefings and morning. Do you want to dive deeper? Okay. So now I'm going to call in another tool. Let's plan throw in workflows plan. Take the context above about Claudebot and propose an enterprise version that could make a lot of money. Just do that. Keep it simple. >> Yeah. I mean this is this is interesting, right? like you know you're taking a trend open source trend and you're like okay how can I build a product that you know gets me paid and it's interesting because there's so many trends that are happening right now on X as like a data source and Reddit as a data source that you know if this if this is actually good is going to help give you ideas and sort of eventually a PRD right >> yep anyway so it's still making our plan it's researching still doing an analysis. So, we'll we'll we'll see where that adds up. But anyway, do you want you want to try a last 30-day prompt? Yeah. I mean, I'm curious like I mean you you're seeing all the all these prompts. So, like the people that listen to this show, these are people these are founders, solopreneurs, people building businesses. Um they're always looking for unfair advantages. Um like what sort of what sort of prompt do you would you suggest that type of person someone who wants to build a business? Um you know is it competitive research? Is it um you know what what are some ideas you have? Good good question. Um I mean I think it's it's very good for competitive research. I think it's very good for looking at at hot topics. Um, you know, I think it's, you know, we could probably do something like, um, you know, let's try it for your your web design idea, right? You kind of describe poke.com, which I missed, right? So, um, what webpage designs are getting the most love right now? Yeah, because that's interesting because if we, you know, knowing the trend is just so important. And uh it also helps like give, you know, when I'm when I'm designing something, it helps give me ideas. It gives it's so overwhelming sometimes when you have like a blank page and you don't know where to start. >> Yep. >> We've all been there. And I kind of my kind of the the the thing that inspired this tool was I used to before I would uh jump into any type of vibe coding session, I would go on chat GBT 5.2 and I would just say in thinking mode and be like go uh this was for design. I would say go on Reddit and research Nana Banana Pro best uh prompting techniques and I would do that at the beginning and then I wouldn't even read what it would say and then I would just be like, "Okay, give me a prompt." And so it's it's kind of this like hack of, you know, learning kung fu, learning the prompts that everyone's using without actually needing to read about it, if that makes sense. you kind of just like, okay, let's just trust the the the mind crowd, the the world that's out there and and use those best practices. All right, we've got a plan. Let's uh I guess let's open the plan in uh BBEdit. All right, >> so this is the plan for for the audio listeners. So this is the plan for the the mobile >> enterprise commercial SAS platform. So again, this is not a business plan. This is actually a plan to how to build the software architecture and I could just then tell compound engineering to just go build it. So transform maltbot form cloud into an open source AI into a multi-tenant enterprise SAS platform called moltra enterprise or cloud cloud. This capitalizes on the viral growth. GitHub stars B2B adoption enterprise AI assistance are 30 blah blah blah. Why enterprise can't use multipart today? No multi-tensity, no RBA security vulnerabilities, no audit logging. Uh there move wise required by service now for market validation. proposed solution of fully managed enterprisegrade maltbot commercial I really don't like the name cloud cloud come on come on lm cloud architecture slack web hook discord gateway team hooks message radar core technical components and so kind of it used last 30 days as the basis for its expertise to learn about maltbot and then it did the rest and now I could just say okay build it. >> So, >> dude, that's crazy. It also that that was a pretty that was pretty dialed. Like, that was pretty dialed. >> I'm impressed. >> And and LLMs knew nothing about Claudebot because it didn't exist before didn't exist till very very recently. All right. Phase one only build a multi-tenant foundation postcress but has full MVP. Uh I guess let's uh let's build the proof of concept. So So basically, you know, it asked if you wanted to do an MVP. It asked if you wanted to do a bigger build. Is that is that what I saw? >> Yeah, exactly. And so I just said, "Okay, let's just do the the demo." >> Yeah. >> I typed something else. New repo. Also, can you please give it a better name? Greg, you're you're you live with this world. What should we call this thing? >> I mean, why not? I actually don't hate uh Claude Cloud. It just Well, >> well, they got in trouble for using claw. >> Exactly. So, why not just call it molt cloud? >> But then we're getting in trouble with malt. >> Mold. Um, okay. So, why don't we call it >> Should we go lobster? >> Um, I was going to say, why don't we call it red lobster? But I think that >> All right. All right. Let's go with Let's go with lead Speak. >> Let's go with Red Lava. >> That's cool. >> This describes a 40week product surveys. What scope do you want to do? I don't know. Just Just do it. >> Just do it. Why are you asking me so many questions? >> All right. Um All right. What do we ask here? What web designs are getting the most love right now? >> Um the most love Shopify winter edition. Yes, I remember. I saw that one. That was really >> That was really awesome. That was beautiful. >> Look, 3,000 likes, 320 retweets, the YC landing page. So, what's funny is I saw this. I didn't actually look at it yet, but I saw that it was getting love and hype. Praise for scrappy humble beginnings. Shop web landing all like jewelry, craft works, design, all agents reported back. Reddit didn't find anything topic too visual for text discussions, but found uh what tool do you want to use to create designs? So it's like, okay, now that I've researched these things, what do you what do you want to design in, right? Um, so it's kind of it's kind of pushing you to be like, okay, I've now learned this expertise. Now, let's do something with it. >> So So this could literally pump out a Figma design. Is that possible? >> Uh, I I haven't spent enough time in Figma in in the AI era. All my Figma time was preai, so I don't know what like prompting Figma even means in 2026, >> but uh I don't I could just say one and see what happens. >> Now, what are you designing? All right. Now, it's it's diving in. >> Um a portfolio landing page for productivity app is fine. What are the suggestions? >> It says, "What are you designing a SAS landing page, a portfolio site, an e-commerce homepage for skincare brand agency website hero?" And so I keep coming back to this, but it's it is impressive how little you're giving like how short your prompts are. >> Mhm. Here we go. Here's a prompt for Figma. Apparently, that's a thing. >> Wow. >> 2026 forward. Design that feels warm and human, not cold sass up layout. Anti-grid composition hero section use asymmetrical balance headline left product screenshots floating right at angle sections below flow organic with varied spacing not rigid 12 column uniformity typography. One oversized display headline paired with small body text. Add a single handdrawn underline or circle accent on the keyword. Consider variable font like Satoshi or General Sons. Nature distilled warm cream background. charcoal text, one muted accent, avoid harsh pure white or saturated blues, glass morphism element, feature card. I want to see this. It's too bad I don't have Figma AI set up. But um so >> that's pretty cool. >> Let's see if it can do this for like a nano banana prompt. Like, hey, you know, I wonder if it can do that. Can you make this a nano banana prompt? >> Yep. But I didn't ask it to become expert in >> a nano banana. >> But I didn't ask it to become a nano banana prompt expert. So, who knows what's gonna happen. >> Yeah. Back to Telegram and let's see what happens. We should get three images. Your maltbot is typing. That's a cool feeling, like watching your maltbot type. Someone needs to visualize that with like a lobster on a keyboard. >> Yeah. >> Why did you choose Telegram over iMessage or Discord or something else? Cuz my LM told me to. Uh because I'm I'm on a a $4 a month shell account uh for my I don't have the Mac Mac Mini setup. And so, um, the, um, you can't use iMessage or WhatsApp, I believe, when you're just on a shell. I think you need to run some sort of Mac software. And so, Telegram seems to be the default where you when you don't have that. >> And for people who don't know what a shell account is, can can you just expand on that? >> Yeah, sorry. Uh, by the way, this is our Cloudbot competitor that it's building. I don't know what is going on or what it's building. It's adding a demo script showing tenant isolation. Then oh, it already set up TypeScript and NodeJS. That's nice. >> Wow, that's cool. Here we go. >> Oh yeah, >> not bad. I bet it' be nicer in Figma. >> Yeah, that was pretty solid. And again, that was by using slast 30 days. What are the hottest webpage designs that the world is excited about right now? what's trendy and then okay now use that to for my SAS productivity app. I like how it like circled random words flow effortlessly more. >> That's awesome. Yeah, I like that. It feels like handdrawn. >> It's uh it's pretty wild. It's it's wild times. It's uh the rate at what we're we're able to build things and how fast things change is absolutely wild. >> So Matt to to this has been fun. um you know if people want to get started they want to like what advice do you have you know in terms of getting the most out of this product? >> Yeah. So one of the things I'll say is I uh I am not a software engineer. I have not shipped anything of value since high school and could argue the web pages I was shipping in high school were not of value either. But at least I could write some some basic HTML or some basic scripts. And so what's um what's amazing is being uh not a software engineer and being able to go into cloud code. Like it seems intimidating. You're in the terminal. Setting up a cloudbot seems intimidating. And my recommendation for starting out is set up set up claude code. It's magical. Sign up for the $20 account. if you'll be on the $100 and the $200 account probably real soon if you're uh if you're successful. Um, and and what I what I do is I um have keep a chat GPT window open to ask questions to. And so I'm kind of moving back and forth and posting lots of screenshots be like there's some error. I don't know what's going on. Help me. And so chat GBT52 thinking will be like, "Okay, great. In your in your shell, in your terminal, this is what's going on. This is why it broke." And I'm like, "Okay, great. What do I do? Help." And then it's just like, "Copy this into the terminal." I'm like, "Okay." And I again don't even have to read it, don't have to overthink it. And so kind of just like screenshot trial and error back and forth between chat GPT and my terminal. And like I couldn't figure out actually how to post screenshots into my terminal. So I asked chat GPT and it's like, oh, you have to use controlV instead of commandV. And once that that was the biggest unlock for me in the terminal, figuring out that I could post screenshots with controlV. And anyway, so I recommend getting into cloud code and and try last 30 days obviously uh because it it gives you superpowers, but use tools like compound engineering, use skills like uh there's another one called superpowers which is getting a lot of love right now and you just kind of enter these plan modes and you try and you build things. And I had this idea for the last 30 days and I've never looked at the code for the skill that I wrote quote unquote. And it was just a lot of trial and error and running more and more terminal windows and testing it and testing it and being like, "Hey, figure out how I can get access to this API. Hey, figure out how I could do this. Hey, how can my users do this?" And going from there. >> I love that, man. Well, I'll include uh a link to last 30 days in the show notes, in the description, link where where you can follow Matt Van Horn on X. And dude, this is this is really cool and it's crazy that this is just sort of like a project that you started and it's gaining so much traction and I think people are just, you know, obsessed with Claude Code for, you know, for good reason. Um, but I think people are just trying to get the most out of it. So, this this came at a a very perfect time and and uh can't wait to see how it evolves. And thanks for doing a little show and tell for us. >> Of course. It was fun being here. Thank you so much, Craig. >> I appreciate it, Matt. Till next time.