I fixed Claude Code for you in 30 seconds

There's a way to tune your Claude 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 Hoard, come on the podcast to show how to use it. What last 30 days does is it uses trending data on places like X and Reddit as the starting point for your prompts on Claude code. The cool part is you end up getting way more out of Claude 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 Hoard is on the podcast and he's gonna demo something very special, Matt, by the end of this episode, what are people gonna learn? They will have a new superpower in Claude code. It's called slash last 30 days and it's gonna 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 gonna 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. I say we just get right into it. All right. Yolo, let's go. I can just dive in. So we are in Claude code and so this is a skill for Claude code and so once you install it, you just type in last 30 days. So research any topic from the last 30 days. So it can be anything. So let's say I want, let's kick one off right here, most popular rap songs. So let's kick that one off and then I'll show some pre-can ones that I've done. So using the last 30 days school, it's research most popular rap songs. Let me research rap songs from the last 30 days. And so right here, it's Reddit, reading what editors are saying, X, reading the timeline, and then it's also running a web search. So 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 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 happening? Like, look at, you know, molt bot. What's happened there? It's changing so quickly. And so being able to just become expert in something, it kind of reminds me of 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 why I built this. And honestly, so I could use it for myself. Looks like our our rap research. So if I had one Reddit thread, 19 X posts and the most popular rap songs right now. So it kind of dug in into hip-hop heads, some X posts, billboard data, some Spotify data, hip-hop heads, hip-hop all day, rap, complex, and created this this reply. So someone in the comment section is going to be like, well, I could use perplexity or chat GBT to do that. Why should I use this? Yeah. So absolutely could, but it's and again, 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 open AI has a deal with Reddit that gives you that Reddit access. I'm actually looking into Reddit API keys if that's an option to make the product better. That's what I was that's one of things my weekend projects. And then the the third is you can't search X using your X account. You have to use an X AI 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 called email frameworks for ICP output three email variants subject line. So they went on X, went on Twitter, found Reddit threads, expose web pages. And 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 want it to write a good email. So I said, can you write me some cool emails for getting on great guys at works podcast? Sorry, I spilled your name wrong. Good target started by these latest all about unconventional startup is community building a fast unique relevance. You know, what's your angle? What's your credibility signal? Any connection points to Greg mutual follows what timely talk about AI tools and work on and I once made a smart oven 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 password. Greg went from building smart oven to building AI tools. So it might sound weird to you here. It turns out the hardest part of hardware talking exactly what's broken and how people in ARCA they had I'm building the fix. Katrina, what does smart oven talking 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 P's framework praise picture push. Ada attention. I've never read any of these in my life. Intention based 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's been around forever like, you know, OG David Oglevey days but other, you know, the other ones like it feels like those are timely frameworks like these emails, like I'm reading these emails in there. 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 give it much effort. I literally said I'm a former smart oven entrepreneur. You couldn't have given like less context and it did okay. And then another one I just tried last their days how to get X followers. Our research people are actually saying and what I learned replies the number one growth strategy multiple X power users all credit becoming a reply guy as the fastest path to growth shows 3080 thought replies daily gauge before he was before posting find larger accounts reply first consistently post these one X a day five days a week. Reddit threads X threads Instagram marketing Facebook ads and share your vision. What's your account and what's ever followers? I'm Ben Horn and I made an AI tool for Claude code. I don't know what's going to do now. That's the exciting part. One other let's spin off another last 30 days window. Sorry for all the all the windows. So all right so last 30 days of research Claude bought 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 just said research cloud bot. I shouldn't do that. I mean what do you recommend when you're you know is it shorter prompts medium prompts long prompts like how getting the most out of I think it's it's kind of you prime the engine by first doing this research cloud bot 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 cloud bot right check X check Reddit and then what I'm going to do is actually load one of my favorite tools compound engineering shout out 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 cloud bot and use that as the starting point to kick off a enterprise version of cloud bot and to build it. So let's let's let this run and see how our other stuff is going. All right I remember I'm in a tool for cloud code a tools are hot right now here's a growth playbook for you. Morning 45th for your first post reply to title from anthropic Alex Albert birch labs cloud power users at genuine value share tip ask a smart question contact 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'm not going to do this I think this was just I actually asked chat GPT for suggestions of what I should demo on your show and it gave me this what but quickest wins pin your best demo tweet show the tool in action bio formula I build tool one later go shipping a tools for cloud code that's not bad no it's it's not bad it so let's close this one out all right we got cloud code best use it overnight coding agent manager daily breathing some morning do want to dive deeper okay so now I'm going to call on another tool let's plan throw in workflows plan take the context above about cloud bot 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 them you know gets me paid and it's interesting because there's so many trends that are happening right now and X as like a data source and reddit as a data source that you know if this if this is actually good it's going to help give you ideas and and sort of eventually a PRD right yep anyway so it's still make it our plans researching still doing a analysis so we'll we'll see what 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're seeing all the all these problems so like the people that listen to the show these are people these are founders solopreneurs people building businesses they're always looking for unfair advantages like what sort of what sort of prompt you would you suggest that type of person someone wants to build a business you know as a competitive research is it you know what what are some ideas you have oh good good question 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 you know I think it's you know we could probably do something like let's try it for your your web design idea right you kind of describe poke.com which I missed right so what web page 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 it also helps like give you know when I'm designing something it helps give me ideas it's so overwhelming sometimes when you have like a blank page and you don't know where to start yep totally there and I kind of my kind of the the thing that inspired this tool was I used to before I would jump into any type of vibe coding session I would go on chat GPT 5.2 and I would just say in thinking mode and be like go this is for design I would say go on read it and research and end up banana pro best best 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 like you know learning kung fu learning the prompts that everyone's using without actually needing to read about it if that makes sense you could 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 it's open the plan in uh and be be edit all right so this is the plan for the audio listeners so this is the plan for the the mobile enterprise commercial SaaS 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 mobile from the cloud into an open source A person to a multi tenant enterprise SaaS platform called mobile enterprise or cloud cloud this capitalize on the viral growth get up stars B2B adoption enterprise AI assistants are 30 why enterprise can't use mobile today no multi-tests hey no are security vulnerabilities no audit logging like uh there was movewise card by service now from market validation proposed solution of fully managed enterprise grade mobile commercial I really don't like the name cloud cloud come on come on lm cloud architecture slack webhook discord gateway team hooks message reader cortexial components and so kind of it it used last 30 days as the basis for its expertise to learn about moltbot 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 again like and llem's do nothing about cloud bot because it didn't exist before testing still very very recently all right phase one only build a multi-tentive foundation post full MVP I guess 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 want to do a bigger build is that what I saw yeah exactly and so just said okay let's just do the the demo yeah that type something else new repo also can you please give it a better name Greg you're you're you live in this world what should we call this thing I mean why not I actually don't hate cloud cloud it just what will they got in trouble for using cloud exactly so why not just call mold cloud but then we're going to trouble with bolt mold okay so why don't we call it should we go after I was going to say but why don't we call it red lobster all right let's go let's go with lead speak let's go red laugh it that's cool this describes a 40 week product row surveys what scope do you want to do I don't know just do it do it I got any question all right all right what do we ask here what web designs are getting the most love right now yeah the most love Shopify winner edition yes I remember I saw that one that was really awesome that was beautiful look 3,000 likes 320 retweets the YC landing page so it's funny as I saw this I didn't actually look at it yet but I saw that it was getting love and hype praise for scrappy home of beginning shop web landing our like jewelry craftwork's design all he just reported back read it and finding topic too visual for text discussions but found what tools 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 all right 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 this could literally pump out a figma design is that possible I haven't spent enough time in figma in the AI era all my figma time was pre AI so I don't know what like prompting figma even means in 2026 but I don't I could just say one and see what happens now what are you designing all right now it's instead of again a portfolio of landing page for productivity yeah it's fine more than the suggestions this is what are you designing a sass lining page a portfolio side ecommerce home page for skin care brand agency website hero and 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 here we go here's a prompt for figma apparently that's the thing 2026 forward trend design identified that feels warm and human not cold sass stuff layout anti grid composition hero section is asymmetrical balance headline left product screenshots floating right at angle section below flow organic with very spacing not rigid 12 column uniformity typography one oversized display headline paired with small body text at a single hand run underline or circle action on the keyword consider variable font like satoshi or general songs nature is still 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 I was too bad I don't have figma a i said but so that's pretty cool let's see if it can do this for like a nano banana prom like hey you know wonder if we can do that can you make this uh nano banana pro prom yep but a nano expert and nano banana yeah I didn't ask it to become an nano banana prompt expert so who knows what's going to happen yeah back to telegram and let's see what happens we should get three images your malt bot is typing that's a cool feeling like watching your malt bot type someone needs to visualize that with like lobster a keyboard yeah why did you choose telegram over i message or discord or something else because my hell them told me to because I'm on a four dollar month shell account for my I don't have the mac mac mini setup and so the um you can't use i message 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 you just expand on that yeah sorry uh by the way this is our applaud bot 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 node js that's nice wow that's cool here we go oh yeah not bad it'd be nicer in figma that was pretty solid and again that was by using slash last 30 days what are the hottest web page designs that the world is excited about right now like what's trendy and then okay now use that for my sass productivity app like how it like circled random words flow effortlessly more that's awesome yeah like that it feels like hand drawn it's uh it's pretty wild 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 mad to uh 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 I'm not a software engineer I have not shipped anything of value since high school and argue the web pages I was shipping in high school we're not a value either but at least I could write some some basic HTML or some basic scripts and so what's uh 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 cloud bot seems intimidating and my recommendation for starting out is setup setup cloud 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 if you're successful um and and what I what I do is I um have keep a chat gbt window open to ask questions too 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 gbt 5-2 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 gbt and my terminal and like I couldn't figure out actually how to post screenshots into my terminal so I asked chat gbt and it's like oh you have to use control v instead of command v and then once that that was the biggest unlock for me in the terminal figuring out that I could post screenshots with control v and anyway so I recommend getting into cloud code and and try last 30 days obviously because it gives you superpowers but use tools like compound engineering use skills like 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 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 running more and more terminal windows and testing it and testing it and being like hey figure out how to get access to this API hey figure out how to do this hey how can my users do this and going from there I love them and we'll include a link to last 30 days in the show notes in the description link where where you can follow map and horn on x and dude this is this is really cool and it's crazy this is just sort of like a project they started and it's gaining so much traction and I think people are just you know obsessed with cloud code for you know for good reason but I think people are just trying to get the most out of it so this came at a very perfect time and I can't wait to see how it evolves and thanks for doing a little show and tell for us yeah of course it was fun being here thank you so much great I appreciate it I'm at till next time