I Built an App the Government Doesn't Want You to See

0:00 The US government spent $834 billion on contracts last year.

0:05 And most small business owners don't even know this money exists.

0:08 So, I went and built a tool

0:10 that finds all of these government contracts for you.

0:13 And it took me only this many minutes to build it.

0:15 And no, I don't know how to code.

0:17 I'm just talking to an AI.

0:18 Let me show you exactly how I built

0:20 this and then how you can profit from it as well.

0:22 So, it all starts on sam.gov.

0:24 This is the federal website where every federal contract gets posted.

0:29 This website gets 2.2 million visits a month.

0:32 And it's an ugly website.

0:33 It's clunky.

0:33 It's hard to use.

0:34 But new amazing deals are posted here every single day.

0:37 Lawncare, IT, construction, consulting, you name it.

0:41 But this site is brutal to use.

0:43 It looks like it was built in 2004.

0:45 Filtering is a nightmare.

0:47 Most people give up before they ever find anything.

0:49 So, what I wanted to do is to build something that makes this dead simple.

0:53 Type in what your business does, pick your state,

0:56 and see contracts you can actually bid on with dollar amounts.

0:59 Also, you don't need to be a business owner.

1:01 If you're an aspiring business owner, that also counts.

1:04 Now, a website like this would normally cost between 10 and 20,000 to build,

1:09 plus a team of developers and weeks or months of going back and forth.

1:12 But instead, I just used Replet Agent 4.

1:18 Now, AI coding tools have been out for a couple years now,

1:21 and they're amazing, but they're still kind of clunky.

1:23 You got to go one step at a time.

1:25 You describe what you want, you wait, you review, you repeat, you fix it.

1:29 Agent 4 is different because I can have multiple AI agents

1:32 working on different parts of the app at the same time.

1:36 One's building the backend that pulls the contract data,

1:38 one's building the front end that helps people search more efficiently,

1:42 and then another agent is generating the landing page,

1:45 and they're all running in parallel.

1:46 So, it's kind of like managing a team of engineers,

1:48 except they're always clocked in.

1:50 No one takes breaks, and they don't talk back.

1:52 So, let's build this together.

1:54 I'm going to show you exactly how I do what I do,

1:56 so you can build whatever you want.

1:58 And maybe you can find some cool government contracts while we're at it.

2:01 All right.

2:01 So, I'm here in Replet,

2:02 and I wanted to give Replet a really good, thorough prompt.

2:05 So, I went over to Claude and I said, "Claude,

2:07 I want to build this website that piggybacks on sam.gov.

2:10 It makes it easier to use." I gave it like three simple sentences.

2:14 And then I said, "Make me a beautiful prompt to give to Replet

2:17 to make sure that it does a great job." So here's my prompt.

2:20 I'm not going to read it all.

2:21 You can pause and read it yourself if you want.

2:23 Boom.

2:23 There's the top part.

2:24 Boom.

2:25 There's a bottom part.

2:26 Boom.

2:26 There's the last part.

2:28 I don't know what half this stuff means,

2:29 but looks smart, so I'm going to go with it.

2:31 And then I just pasted that in there and said,

2:33 "Build this for me, please." Okay.

2:35 Right here, it's asking for my sam.gov API key.

2:38 Anyone in the world can make an account at sam.gov.

2:40 Once you do, you just click on account details,

2:42 then API, then you click generate API key.

2:45 I don't even know what API stands for.

2:47 You don't need to either.

2:48 You just need a big string of numbers, and you paste it right here into Replet.

2:51 Okay, there's my key.

2:52 Now, this key will enable me to pull all the data I need

2:55 from sam.gov without having to scrape or work around any of their restrictions.

3:00 So, what you're looking at here is all

3:02 of those agents that I talked about running in parallel.

3:05 It's generating the front end right here.

3:07 It's checking something with open API right here.

3:10 It's talking about proxy routes over here.

3:12 I have no idea what that is.

3:14 Front end is generated.

3:16 Man, this is incredible.

3:17 Boom.

3:18 Look at that.

3:18 Okay, that took about 4 minutes.

3:22 Wow.

3:22 The US government spent 834 billion on contracts last year.

3:25 Find yours.

3:26 That looks incredible.

3:27 It's really good design.

3:29 I own a tree trimming business.

3:30 So, this is the preview.

3:32 This should work as it actually works in real life.

3:34 Let's go ahead and see if there's a tree trimming contract.

3:37 Boom.

3:38 There it is.

3:39 Posted March 9th, Department of Defense.

3:41 That's incredible.

3:42 I mean, look, it even has a quiz.

3:44 That was probably part of my prompt that I didn't even read

3:46 where people can find out if they qualify by answering this quiz.

3:50 It even put a disclaimer here at the bottom.

3:52 Okay.

3:52 Now, if we look at the preview, it looks great,

3:54 but there's some other things I want to do to it.

3:57 I would love for it to have a email collection field so people

4:01 can be notified when new government

4:03 contracts are posted that meet their filters.

4:05 So, I'm going to ask Replet to do that.

4:07 Okay.

4:08 My prompt is add a way for people to be able to subscribe

4:10 to get email notifications when new contracts appear that match their filters.

4:14 After they run their first search, show a pop-up that says, "Don't miss out.

4:17 We'll email you when new listings appear that match your filters,

4:20 so you can be the first to attack it." After showing that popup,

4:23 also give people the option to do the same across pages they navigate to.

4:27 Now I'm asking it to add three to five blog posts that will

4:30 help my site appear better in search

4:33 results when looking for government contracts.

4:35 And if I want even better search engine optimization,

4:38 I can click plus here to use a skill and I can do a branding generator.

4:43 I could do an SEO optimizer, SEO auditor, all kinds of cool things.

4:49 Here's what's cool about agent 4.

4:50 If you click this plus up here,

4:52 I can ask Replet to have its multiple agents run concurrent tasks.

4:57 Whereas before, you had to wait, wait, wait, wait,

4:59 wait for Replet to finish the task that it was working on.

5:02 And I'm impatient.

5:02 I never really like that.

5:03 So now, not only will it automatically run concurrent agents without you asking,

5:08 but if there's something specific you want that it doesn't know about,

5:11 you can click that plus button and ask them to do it.

5:13 Okay.

5:13 Now, I do like this landing page as it is.

5:16 This was my oneshot prompt,

5:18 but I'm going to use this thing called infinite canvas where I can go look

5:22 at other versions of the same landing page

5:24 and maybe I'll find one that I like more.

5:26 So, after clicking canvas, I'm going to click just reimagine.

5:30 And nothing's permanent here.

5:31 I can reverse anything.

5:32 It's just giving me previews of what it might look like.

5:35 So, explore different approaches,

5:36 try different layouts, explore different vibes.

5:38 More like this, but better.

5:40 Optimize for usability.

5:41 Show me the opposite of this and surprise me.

5:42 I'm just going to click surprise me.

5:44 So, it says it's going to try three different variations of the hero section,

5:47 which is what you see right here.

5:50 So, if I swipe over here to the right,

5:52 I can see the other three versions that it's generating right now.

5:55 Okay, awesome.

5:56 Version one, it's calling the opportunity pulse, aka live urgency.

6:01 347 contracts are closing this week.

6:03 Don't let them slip away.

6:05 Oo, I like that one.

6:06 Option two is find your lane industry selector.

6:09 Kind of boring.

6:11 And option three is proof it works success story.

6:15 Well, I don't really like that cuz that's not real.

6:17 I don't want to lie.

6:18 So, you know what?

6:20 I think I like the original one the best.

6:22 So, I like this one the most out of these three,

6:26 but I I like the one I came up with the most.

6:28 So, I'm going to keep it.

6:29 So, now the second to last thing I'm going to do

6:31 is I want it to make a five slide pitch deck.

6:34 Let's say hypothetically I want to go raise money for this.

6:37 I want to take everything on this website, put it in a in a PowerPoint because I

6:41 hate making PowerPoints and I know you do, too.

6:43 So, I'm just going to say make a five slide pitch deck.

6:45 Explain what this tool does, the market size,

6:47 and how it helps small businesses find set aside opportunities.

6:51 Okay, it has the context it needs.

6:54 Now, it's making the pitch deck.

6:55 Okay, there it is.

6:56 There's my pitch deck.

6:57 Six slides.

6:59 All right.

6:59 Boom, boom, boom.

7:01 Looks amazing.

7:01 So, if I wanted to go raise money for this, I could use this.

7:04 And if I want someone on my team to put real human eyes on it and to fix it,

7:08 they have all these like team sharing abilities where

7:11 multiple people can work on the same Replet project.

7:13 So the last step of this process is just to hit publish.

7:16 Okay, so now I got to think of a name for this business.

7:18 And the name that Replet automatically assigned it was Govde Dealinder.

7:23 And I kind of like that.

7:23 So I'm going to go see if the domain name is available.

7:26 Oh, and look at that.

7:27 It is.

7:28 So, I'm going to spend 12 bucks, buy the domain name,

7:30 and go ahead and link it to this Replet project, and click publish.

7:35 Boom.

7:36 So, how cool is this?

7:37 I wanted to build a business in the government contract space because Google

7:40 Trends and Aatrust and all these other random tools were screaming at me,

7:43 there's opportunity here.

7:44 And also, Replet is a partner of this podcast.

7:47 So, I thought, why don't I just use that tool that I use every day off camera?

7:51 I personally love it.

7:52 Why don't I use that tool to build what I want

7:53 to build anyway and hit record so you guys can hopefully learn something.

7:56 So, if you sign up for Replet with the link in my description,

7:59 you'll get 10 bucks in credits for free.

8:01 So, you can go build and ship something yourself.

8:03 Now, remember, the government hands out almost a trillion dollar a year

8:08 in contracts and about $200 billion of that is reserved for small businesses.

8:12 Those are businesses with under 10 employees, even zero employees.

8:15 And most business owners have never even looked

8:18 at a government contract or even thought about it.

8:20 So, no matter what you want to build, use Repent for.

8:23 It's incredible.

8:24 And if you want to go look at government contracts,

8:26 check out govdevalfinder.com because I just built it right in front of you.

8:29 The website is live.

8:30 Otherwise, you can go to sam.gov and we

8:32 all know that's going to be a terrible experience.

8:34 Anyway, thanks for hanging out on the Kerner