Ideation Engine v2.0
Three Ideas Before Breakfast
Every morning at 8am AEST, a scanner searches the web, cross-references my stack, and writes 3 launchable ideas with revenue math. Total cost: about ten cents.
How It Works
Step 01
Cron Trigger
8:00am AEST
Railway fires the cron job on schedule.
Step 02
Approval
8:01am
Telegram prompt: "Run today's scan?" — approve or skip.
Step 03
Web Research
8:02am
Claude Sonnet searches for signals from the last 24–48 hours.
Step 04
Ideation
8:03am
Asymmetric Ideation Engine v2.0 generates 3 ideas with revenue math.
Step 05
Deliver
8:05am
Ideas land in Telegram. Stored in Supabase. Deduplicated for tomorrow.
Today's Ideas
AI Contracts Reviewer for Freelancers
A Telegram bot that reads contract PDFs and flags non-standard clauses — late payment terms, IP ownership traps, liability gaps. Freelancers paste the contract, get a plain-English summary in 60 seconds.
12 clients × $150/mo = $1,800/mo
Sample — live data in v2
Micro-SaaS Audit Trail for Solopreneurs
Lightweight compliance logging for solo operators who sell to SMBs requiring audit trails. One script, one Supabase table, one weekly PDF report — without the enterprise overhead.
20 clients × $49/mo = $980/mo
Sample — live data in v2
Railway Deploy Watchdog
A cron-based monitor that pings Railway deployments every 5 minutes, detects silent failures (process exits without error), and fires a Telegram alert with the last 20 log lines.
50 users × $9/mo = $450/mo
Sample — live data in v2
The scanner runs every weekday morning. Live output arrives in v2 when the archive is populated enough to be useful on its own.
Archive
Archive grows daily. First entries arriving soon.
The Prompt
Asymmetric Ideation Engine v2.0
Free Alpha
Tech Stack
Railway hosts the cron job — the daily trigger that wakes the scanner at 21:00 UTC (8:00am AEST). Free tier. No uptime concerns, no managed server.
Claude Sonnet is the research and ideation engine. Each daily scan costs about ten cents in API credits — web search plus the ideation prompt, combined. The whole system is roughly 400 lines of Python.
Supabase stores results and tracks idea names for deduplication. Tomorrow's scanner knows what was already suggested, so the same idea never surfaces twice in the same week.
Telegram handles both the approval gate (one tap to run or skip) and delivery (ideas arrive as a formatted message at 8:05am). No dashboard to check, no email to open.
Monthly total: roughly $3–5, less than a coffee. The Supabase free tier covers the storage volume. Railway's free tier covers the cron frequency. The only real cost is Claude API usage.
Three ideas. Every morning. Ten cents.
The prompt is free. The scanner runs daily. See what it finds.
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