I've missed one flight in my life…
Security at Nashville. Forty five minutes. A TSA PreCheck lane that was somehow slower than the regular one.
The app said I had time. It did not have time. We have an idea!
In Todays Edition, TL;DR
2.9 million daily passengers and zero real time checkpoint data
The internal tool Deel built that someone should be selling to everyone
ChatGPT agents: what they are and how to actually start
OpenAI launches ads, Meta connects to Claude, and a voice model worth paying attention to
The Friday Idea
💡 A live crowdsourced security wait tracker for every major airport checkpoint in the US
The Problem: 2.9 million people fly in the US every day. Every one of them goes through a security checkpoint. None of them know how long it will take until they're already in it.
Airlines model inbound delays before the crew has landed. The TSA publishes wait times on their website, updated infrequently, covering a fraction of checkpoints, with no breakdown by terminal or lane.
🛠 Solution: Think Waze for airport checkpoints. travelers report their wait on the way out, everyone behind them gets a real number.
Crowdsourced reports layer over historical patterns to produce something no travel app currently offers: an honest answer to "how early do I actually need to leave."
Business Model:
base plan: Live wait times for any airport, basic historical averages, ad supported.
Pro plan: Personalized alerts by home airport, terminal, and departure time. Push notification at the exact moment you need to leave. Subscription.
API tier: Checkpoint data feed sold to corporate travel platforms, airline apps, and
Weekly Tutorial
Chatgpt workspace agents: what they are and how to start 👇🏻
ChatGPT agents are live inside the business plan. You describe a workflow in plain English, the builder turns it into a structured instruction set, connects your tools, and runs it on a schedule without you touching it again.
You access them through the business workspace, not the personal one. Once you're in, look for the Agents tab in the sidebar. From there you describe what you want, authenticate the apps it needs and set a trigger on demand, on a schedule, or fired from another tool like Slack.
The part most people skip: testing. Run it in preview mode with realistic inputs before it touches anything live. Then give it messy ones. When it fails, tell it what went wrong in plain English. It updates its own instructions. Run the same test again.
Real examples from the tutorial: a product feedback agent that reads web forums, groups recurring issues, and creates Linear tickets automatically. A sales outreach agent that researches inbound leads, sends the first email, and stages the follow-up in Gmail. A vendor risk agent that pulls third-party data, runs it through your evaluation criteria, and hands a finished report to a human analyst.
None of these required a developer. That's the part worth sitting with.
Napkin Note Ideas
A turnkey internal app store that lets any mid market company do what Deel did
Problem: Some of the best startups started as internal tools someone built for themselves. Slack was an internal chat tool inside a failing video game studio. Google ran internal prediction markets long before Polymarket existed.
Deel just shipped an internal AI app store. 1.5 weeks to build. 48 apps live. Over 1,000 hours saved per month. Maintained by one engineer. That's a compelling proof of concept for a product nobody has productized yet.
The solution: a platform that lets any mid market company spin up their own internal app store in minutes. An employee describes a workflow in plain English. The platform generates the app, deploys it on a private subdomain, and lists it on the company's internal store for anyone else who needs the same thing. Connects to Google Workspace, Salesforce, Slack, and Notion on day one.
Business model:
Seat plan: Per user monthly fee for access and app creation
Production plan: Per app monthly fee for deployed apps with usage caps
Integration plan: Per integration monthly fee for enterprise connectors
Weekly Gems Worth Reading
OpenAI just dropped GPT-Realtime-2 — GPT-5-class reasoning in a voice model means your AI phone agent can now actually think, not just talk.
OpenAI just launched an ads platform — ads.openai.com is live, verification is open, and getting in early on a new ad network is usually the move. Go sign up before the waitlist gets long.
Meta just connected its ads platform directly to Claude mcp.facebook.com/ads went live April 29, 60-second setup, full read and write access to your ad account. Build campaigns, monitor pixel health, pull performance reports, all from a Claude chat. 29 tools, free in beta.
John Collison breaks down the two types of people who'll thrive in the AI era over the next 10-20 years. 👇🏻
That’s all guys
That's Monday. An app that solves the one variable every travel platform quietly gave up on, a Deel internal tool that somebody should have productized already, and Meta handing Claude full access to your ad account in sixty seconds.
Lot to build this week.
Talk Monday