Trends Podcast

Trends.vc, Dru Riley
  • 4.3 (3)
  • Business
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Find your next business idea before it's obvious. Spot the markets growing right now, who's making money in them, how they got in and where the openings still are. We're your smart friends doing the homework for you. Get what matters without spending hours on research. You're in great company with 50,000+ founders finding new opportunities. Press play and let's see what's trending!

  1. 1h ago

    The Opportunity I See in Amazon Blocking Meta’s AI Agent

    Amazon locked Meta's new shopping agent, Muse, out of its store twelve days after launch, and Shopify opened about a million stores to it the next day. The brands those agents skip are the opening. Featuring: Meta, Amazon, Shopify, ReFiBuy, Azoma, Mark Zuckerberg, Tobi Lütke, Ben Thompson Watch on YouTube Read the full report Brought to you by: Trends.vc: Discover new markets and opportunities. https://trends.vc/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=sponsor HeadsUp: Know when your competitors move. Before your customers do. https://headsup.bot Multi: Turn any content into a YouTube video. https://makemulti.com Chapters: (00:00) Amazon locks out Meta's agent (00:50) Muse at checkout, on camera (01:44) Why Amazon blocked it (03:20) Shopify opens a million stores (04:09) Why an agent skips a product (04:54) Who pays to get picked today (05:42) The opportunity for small brands Where to find Trends.vc: Free newsletter: https://trends.vc/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=shownotes Trends Pro: https://access.trends.vc/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@trends_vc Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/trends-podcast/id1715195197 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6mjqraFSl12siglTjZ45lq Subscribe to the Trends Podcast for a new market every week. Click here to view the episode transcript.

  2. 5d ago

    The $1,000,000,000 Puzzle Game

    A game where pigs ride a conveyor belt made its 20-person Istanbul studio worth more than $1 billion. How Pixel Flow went from a paper-and-pen test to more than a million dollars a day, and why Scopely bought in. Featuring: Kübra Gündoğan, Emre Çelik, Loom Games, Pixel Flow, Scopely Watch on YouTube Read the full report Brought to you by: Trends.vc: Discover new markets and opportunities. https://trends.vc/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=sponsor HeadsUp: Know when your competitors move. Before your customers do. https://headsup.bot Multi: Turn any content into a YouTube video. https://makemulti.com Chapters: (00:00) Pigs on a conveyor belt and a $1B deal (00:27) Loom Games and its founders (00:40) Tested on paper first (00:56) How Pixel Flow makes money (01:06) Going all in (01:26) A million dollars a day (01:56) Copies and a new beginning Where to find Trends.vc: Free newsletter: https://trends.vc/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=shownotes Trends Pro: https://access.trends.vc/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@trends_vc Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/trends-podcast/id1715195197 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6mjqraFSl12siglTjZ45lq Subscribe to the Trends Podcast for a new market every week. Click here to view the episode transcript.

  3. 5d ago

    Roblox Just Copied the AI Game Startups I Mapped

    A Roblox game about stealing eggs from pets hit six billion visits in nine weeks, three days before Roblox let players type a game into its phone app. Why the startups that sold that prompt box first now sell playable ads to online shops instead. Featuring: Roblox, Steal An Egg, Astrocade, AppLovin, Adam Foroughi, Playables AI, Rosebud Watch on YouTube Read the full report Brought to you by: Trends.vc: Discover new markets and opportunities. https://trends.vc/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=sponsor HeadsUp: Know when your competitors move. Before your customers do. https://headsup.bot Multi: Turn any content into a YouTube video. https://makemulti.com Chapters: (00:00) A kid types a game into Roblox Build (00:39) Who can make and play Build games (00:52) Steal An Egg and Roblox's discovery system (01:51) Crab Game and the browser link (02:38) Shops that want an ad people can play (03:10) Playable ads and who builds them (03:37) The opportunity: playable ads for shops Where to find Trends.vc: Free newsletter: https://trends.vc/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=shownotes Trends Pro: https://access.trends.vc/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@trends_vc Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/trends-podcast/id1715195197 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6mjqraFSl12siglTjZ45lq Subscribe to the Trends Podcast for a new market every week. Click here to view the episode transcript.

  4. Sep 29

    The $100 Game: The AI App That Pays You to Make Games

    A Squid Game knockoff typed into a prompt box hit 3.5 million plays in four weeks on Astrocade, an app that pays makers $100 when it picks their game and then pays on plays. What that feed pays, what it said about a $10 million creator fund and what can take the money away. Featuring: Astrocade, Roblox, Rec Room, Sequoia, David Cahn, Lovable, Bolt, Unity Watch on YouTube Read the full report Brought to you by: Trends.vc: Discover new markets and opportunities. https://trends.vc/ HeadsUp: Know when your competitors move. Before your customers do. https://headsup.bot Multi: Turn any content into a YouTube video. https://makemulti.com Chapters: (00:00) Crab Game and its seven trials (00:47) The $100 rule and the feed (01:23) From paying for engines to getting paid (02:05) Crab Game against the payout bar (02:34) Copies, Squid Game and changing pay (03:16) Rec Room and why feeds pay makers (04:09) Where to start Where to find Trends.vc: Free newsletter: https://trends.vc/ Trends Pro: https://access.trends.vc/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@trends_vc Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/trends-podcast/id1715195197 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6mjqraFSl12siglTjZ45lq Subscribe to the Trends Podcast for a new market every week. Click here to view the episode transcript.

  5. Sep 22

    I Investigated the AI Astrology Business

    Faladdin sells a million coffee-cup readings a day out of Istanbul at about 90% margin. The buyer rates the reading on how they felt when it ended, so a model that never met them can do the job. The business that survives the regulators is the one that says on the page what the reading is. Featuring: Faladdin, AstroSage, Nebula, Astrotalk, Co-Star, FTC Watch on YouTube Read the full report Brought to you by: Trends.vc: Discover new markets and opportunities. https://trends.vc/ HeadsUp: Know when your competitors move. Before your customers do. https://headsup.bot Multi: Turn any content into a YouTube video. https://makemulti.com Chapters: (00:00) Sertaç Taşdelen learns to read coffee cups from his mother (01:44) A million readings a day, ahead of Tinder in Turkey (02:09) AstroSage rates its AI above its 700,000 human astrologers (02:40) Turkish police, a 1925 statute and the seized accounts (03:17) The FTC freezes Nebula over a $45 renewal (03:38) Why the category grades itself on stars (04:14) What the version that survives says on the page Where to find Trends.vc: Free newsletter: https://trends.vc/ Trends Pro: https://access.trends.vc/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@trends_vc Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/trends-podcast/id1715195197 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6mjqraFSl12siglTjZ45lq Subscribe to the Trends Podcast for a new market every week.

  6. Sep 14

    He Asked Claude Code To Make Money. It Did.

    One engineer sold the loading line developers stare at inside Claude Code and served 100 million ads on a surface he does not own. Six networks copied him in a month, two are already dead, and the wait they sell is shrinking. Featuring: Andrew McCalip, Kickbacks, Anthropic, Claude Code, Codebacks, Idlen, Idle Dev, AdGuard, Gravity, Perplexity, Time, Ally Bank, Ramp, Linear, Varda Space Watch on YouTube Read the full report Brought to you by: Trends.vc: Discover new markets and opportunities. https://trends.vc/ HeadsUp: Know when your competitors move. Before your customers do. https://headsup.bot Multi: Turn any content into a YouTube video. https://makemulti.com Chapters: (00:00) A founding engineer calls the Claude Code spinner the most watched line on Earth (00:35) Kickbacks sells the wait: $2 per thousand, half to the developer (02:14) Six copycat networks in a month, and two already shut down (02:35) AdGuard reads the code and prices a developer's data at $75 a year (03:29) Anthropic's Super Bowl ad said no ads in Claude, and its answer so far is a setting (04:11) The wait itself is shrinking as Claude Code moves to the cloud (05:47) Sell the line you own, without a network Where to find Trends.vc: Free newsletter: https://trends.vc/ Trends Pro: https://access.trends.vc/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@trends_vc Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/trends-podcast/id1715195197 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6mjqraFSl12siglTjZ45lq Subscribe to the Trends Podcast for a new market every week. Click here to view the episode transcript.

  7. Sep 7

    How AI Became Worth Less Than The Workers It Replaced

    An operator put his agent on seven AI job boards in one night and it won 192 tasks for $0. The boards that do pay run money through a rail that reaches a bank account the owner controls. Featuring: TaskMarket, MoltJobs, Execution Market, Superteam Earn, dealwork, Toku, TaskBounty, Upwork, Stripe Watch on YouTube Read the full report Brought to you by: Trends.vc: Discover new markets and opportunities. https://trends.vc/ HeadsUp: Know when your competitors move. Before your customers do. https://headsup.bot Multi: Turn any content into a YouTube video. https://makemulti.com Chapters: (00:00) An operator puts his agent on seven job boards in one night (00:27) TaskMarket awards 192 tasks and settles $0 (00:49) Execution Market pays into a wallet that cannot sign (01:58) dealwork, Toku and TaskBounty clear real money through Stripe (03:28) A payroll service for the boards that award work they can't pay for Where to find Trends.vc: Free newsletter: https://trends.vc/ Trends Pro: https://access.trends.vc/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@trends_vc Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/trends-podcast/id1715195197 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6mjqraFSl12siglTjZ45lq Subscribe to the Trends Podcast for a new market every week. Click here to view the episode transcript.

  8. Feb 28

    #0153: OpenClaw Hosting: Wrapper Bubble, Fork Ecosystem, Compliance Gap

    35+ hosting companies launched in weeks around a single open-source project. An 18-year-old hit $17K MRR in 5 days, listed for $2.25M, slashed to $225K the next day. The wrapper bubble is already deflating. This episode covers the OpenClaw hosting landscape: who survives the consolidation, why forks like PicoClaw and ZeroClaw are creating entirely new markets on $10 hardware, and where the durable opportunities are above the hosting layer. We break down 19 players, 7 predictions and 10 opportunities — from agent observability platforms to the compliance gap that turns $50/month customers into $5,000/month enterprise contracts. Full report and links at https://trends.vc Generated with https://makemulti.com

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Find your next business idea before it's obvious. Spot the markets growing right now, who's making money in them, how they got in and where the openings still are. We're your smart friends doing the homework for you. Get what matters without spending hours on research. You're in great company with 50,000+ founders finding new opportunities. Press play and let's see what's trending!

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  • Creator
    Trends.vc, Dru Riley
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    28
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Trends.vc, Dru Riley
  • Show Website
    Trends Podcast

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