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Built This Week is a weekly podcast where real builders share what they're shipping, the AI tools they're trying, and the tech news that actually matters. Hosted by Sam and Jordan from Ryz Labs, the show offers a raw, inside look at building products in the AI era—no fluff, no performative hype, just honest takes and practical insights from the front lines.
This giant yellow thing is your liver, and you can see the LDL floating around. As I start to increase the dose, it's impacting the LDL cholesterol.
Sam Nadler:I printed out built this week key chains, then customizing it, and then you can download the file, then boom, off to printing.
Intro:Built this week, breaking it down. Built this week, we show you how. A fresh idea, a clever tweak you locked in
Sam Nadler:Hey, everyone, and welcome to Built This Week, the podcast where we share what we're building, how we're building it, and what it means for the world of AI and startups. I'm Sam Nadler, cofounder here at Ryz Labs, and I'm joined each and every week by my friend, cohost, business partner, Jordan Metzenero. What's up, Jordan?
Jordan Metzner:Hey, Sam. How's it going? Happy to be back.
Sam Nadler:Good. Good. So we have a full docket today. And before I jump into the agenda, just a reminder to please like and subscribe. We have new episodes out every Friday on your, you know, favorite place to listen to podcasts, whether that's Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or YouTube.
Sam Nadler:So, you know, top of mind today, we're gonna cover, a little tool you built to, review, I guess, a health diagnosis or something within your personal health. I haven't even seen it, but, I'm excited to review it. Then we're gonna do a little, demo into three d printing. We we kind of highlighted last week that we talked about three d printing and, got some inbound requests about what we're doing with three d printing, so we'll cover a little bit there. And then lastly, some AI news.
Jordan Metzner:Awesome, Sam. Yeah. Let's get into it. And, you know, as you mentioned, like and subscribe on YouTube. We just hit 10,000 subscribers, so pretty big accomplishment.
Jordan Metzner:Super excited as we continue to build up the Built This Week podcast community. So please tell your friends and share these episodes, and that would go a long way for us. Alright. You ready to jump into it?
Sam Nadler:Yeah. I am. Show me what you built.
Jordan Metzner:Okay. Cool. So a little background here and maybe a little personal information, but I have historically and genetically high cholesterol. It's a pretty common trait. I think statins, the statins, which are the cholesterol medications, are the highest prescribed drugs, like, The United States or something like that.
Jordan Metzner:So this is obviously, like, a pretty common problem. I know a lot of people are on statins. So, you know, I take all these medications, but you don't really know, like, what's happening, how they work, where do they work in your body. I thought this was, a really good use case for AI, both for kind of the personal consumer as, a way where, you know, like, after your doctor's office, you could maybe come home and and build something like this for yourself, but also great, you know, maybe for medical professionals as well. So, you know, if you are a pulmonologist or a cardiologist, you could kinda build these models in real time for for your patients and give them a a little bit idea of of of how this all works.
Jordan Metzner:So I've got labels here, but, you know, this giant yellow thing is your liver. And here you can see the enzymes and you can see the LDL floating around. Here's the intestines and you can see the blood vessels. And, you know, I can zoom in. In fact, like, I can even do some other things like rotate it, check it out from different views here.
Jordan Metzner:So this is a full three-dimensional model of liver and intestines. Alright? So we'll jump back out kind of to the port to the outer view and the most common statin is Crestor. I think Lipitor is also equally common maybe. But what you can do here is you can turn it on and now Crestor is on and you can see that there's a slight change.
Jordan Metzner:Now this is only five milligrams of Crestor, but as I start to increase the dose, you'll see it's it's impacting the LDL cholesterol. And what you can see here is you have these other medications that you can add on as well. And so slowly as you start to add on these medications, this is Zetia, which is another type of cholesterol medication, and then ultimately Repatha, which is a third cholesterol medication, you can see that the LDL cholesterol has has diminished significantly, and and that's these, like, you know, these dots that are floating around here. So, you know, if we were to start all over, you'd see kind of look how much more LDL there is inside the body. And then, you know, as you obviously turn on these medications and turn up the Crestor, and then you can see this actually from different angles.
Jordan Metzner:So you can see the impact from the intestine and all the way through. You can zoom out and then you can see kind of like, you know, what impact having Repatha or no, having Crestor now.
Sam Nadler:Really cool visual, Jordan. I think it, you know, really could be impactful just as to understand what your own medications do for your body. I know personally, I'm always a bit oblivious with anything medical. Just kinda trust my doctor and and hope for the best, and hopefully, it has an impact. And but I think this is a really quick way you can get a deeper understanding of what the intended impact is.
Sam Nadler:And then secondly, I would say, I'm assuming this took you just a couple minutes to build. You know, imagine having a tool at the, doctor's disposal just to as they're prescribing something or even more a bit more complicated, they could just, you know, show a quick visual to to their patients to kind of ramp them and educate them a bit better about their, care plan. So I think a really interesting way to use it. I'm also just thinking how quickly Claude developed this visual, like, what as outside of medicine, you know, what visuals could be, you know, really impactful in other industries. I don't know whether it's agriculture or coaching or I I can't even you know, off the top of my head, I can't think of anything too innovative, but really cool use case.
Jordan Metzner:Yeah. I think I mean, anything like biological and nature, so whether that's like everything from like birth or, you know, how a plant processes photosynthesis. I mean, like, you can just imagine, like, all those types of organic diagrams and how good they could look. It didn't take me very long to build. This is only using Claude.
Jordan Metzner:I'm not writing any code at all. I'm not using any third party tools. I'm I'm simply chatting with Claude. I chose Claude because they have a very good web rendering engine. I think if I did this with Chachi b t, it wouldn't come out nearly as good.
Jordan Metzner:You know, you can kinda see the history of my prompts here a little bit. You know, I did definitely go back and forth and, you know, kind of coach it until I got, you know, the outcome I was looking for. But, you know, if I look at my original prompt, it says, like, build me an animated web tool that shows how the different cholesterol medications work, turning on and off these different medications, and showing how they work. And so, like, I kinda had, like, a two d model, then I scaled it up to three, and then I added kind of these like autoplay demos and labels and things like that. So, yeah.
Jordan Metzner:Hopefully, that's a that's a good demo of that. But, yeah. You know, I think when you go to the doctor nowadays, you know, usually you end up like kinda googling whatever Googling or chat GPD searching kind of whatever medications they prescribe you anyway. But this is one step further. But, yeah, I think to your point, this could work great for for doctor's offices, you know, for for medical professionals of all fields.
Sam Nadler:Yeah. Alright. Cool, Jordan. Thanks for that demo. And just moving on, I'm gonna cover, you know, it's technically not AI, but we did get quite or a few inbound requests, kind of what we're doing with three d printing.
Sam Nadler:And I would I would say both you and I are three d printing enthusiasts. You know, last week, we covered, sorry, how we're using Nano Banana to change three d printed artifacts into ecommerce images, you know, ready to sell on our ecommerce web page. And I thought I'd cover a little bit on how we just, build and and do things with three d printing. So really quick, you know, both you and I have a three d printer, and we both have the x one c. You know, really quick, if you're not familiar with three d printing, there is a a few major brands, but one brand we like to use is is Bamboo Labs.
Sam Nadler:We both have a Bamboo Lab printer. And then there's different marketplaces where you can get, different files to print. Our favorite is Make A World, and it's actually really, really simple. In in in kind of this example, I printed out, two built this week keychains. So BTW, I've got one for you as well.
Sam Nadler:I'll mail it to you. And it, you know, it was as simple as finding the the keychain, then customizing it. This is super simple, and I can do, you know, Jordan, generate. And, obviously, there's way more complex files. And then, you know, once you generate the it takes a minute.
Sam Nadler:Once you generate, you'll see how it comes up. And then you can download the file, and then boom, off to printing. So a little cute kind of deviation from what we're normally covering, but, you know, a great way to highlight something that you know, if you're a builder, printing, you're having your own little factory in your house where you can print pretty much anything as long as it fits within the container. I mean, you can you can print shelving. You can print canisters.
Sam Nadler:You can print I mean, who knows? Literally, the sky's the limit. But, you know, we got a little bit of inbound, so I thought it'd be fun to cover how you can, you know, print. If you're a builder, how you can use three d printing to build new stuff.
Jordan Metzner:Yeah. Well, one one of the reasons I wanna talk about three d printing just because, like, one, obviously, it's a builder trait, but it still also feels very early. I mean, these machines are pretty progressive and work really well, but I think we can both admit that they do require a significant amount of maintenance and upkeep in order to work properly. And you can see see how kind of how these machines will get better and better and, like, require less maintenance and, you know, allow you to print more and more and cooler stuff. And then I'm and imagine just connecting AI to three d models to the ability to, you know, pretty much dream up and print whatever you want.
Sam Nadler:Oh, yeah. I think, you know, one of the actually more challenging things for me is is customizing a file. Like, the the example I gave was a really simple one. You know, I was just changing the text, but, you know, customizing theoretically this tank right here, It's a little bit outside of my three d printing skill set. So, you know, that would be I think AI could, you know, accelerate.
Sam Nadler:You know, these a lot of these files are are pretty complex. So I think, you know, having an AI I'm sure they exist. I haven't even really explored them yet. But having an AI tool that could, like, easily customize these complex files so I could take something that already existed and and tweak it the way I I wanted would be, I think, an exciting application for AI and three d printing.
Jordan Metzner:Okay. Cool. What are some of the favorite things that you've printed before?
Sam Nadler:I print a lot of fidget spinners or or fidget tools. I've printed some kitchen tools, like ladle holders. I printed some travel tools, whether it's like cable organizers or little pill canisters. Here's a just on my desk, a little fidget tool that I fidget with frequently. It's really fun to print personalized kind of birthday things, which I do frequently for for my daughters.
Sam Nadler:And, you know, as mentioned in our last podcast, my daughter and I are are starting a little business. We're printing these charms and and selling them and all going to a good cause. So I don't know if I've unlocked the, oh, this is a critical use case, to my life yet. But, you know, it's fun little knickknacks and occasionally some, you know, helpful little tool for around the house.
Jordan Metzner:I mean, I printed a lot of different things from containers to bowls. This is a phone holder that I have on my desk. Let's see. I've got like a pencil holder here. A bunch of other stuff.
Sam Nadler:It looks similar.
Jordan Metzner:That's always fun. I guess we have
Sam Nadler:Similar taste.
Jordan Metzner:Taste. Alright. Well, anyway, three d printer is an awesome tool. One more tool in the builder builder tool kit. Alright.
Jordan Metzner:Let's jump into the news really quickly. So first up news story up. Reddit is in talks with Google to extend their data sharing. Initially, Reddit had done a $60,000,000 deal with Google and looks like they're in talks to do deeper integration into Google AI. To me, this seems really obvious, especially because of, you know, how rich the content is on on Reddit.
Jordan Metzner:You know, I I certainly enjoy Reddit, but I do find it to be a place and a source of truth, and I think that becomes critically important to some of the LLMs. So, you know, you get a lot of great reviews of different products and services on Reddit, and I think that's drives downstream to be critical to these LLM models. But, yeah, curious what your thoughts are here.
Sam Nadler:Yeah. I mean, Reddit's such a valuable treasure trove of information. I feel like it's real versus, you know, someone's agenda to promote, you know, a certain line of products or whatever. You know, it's I feel like it's genuine submissions. You know, it'll be interesting for how much it goes for because I you know, it says 60,000,000 was, what, a year and a half ago.
Sam Nadler:I'm curious if if that number increases greatly or if it stays around the same. But, yeah, it makes a ton of sense and
Jordan Metzner:and excited to leverage Reddit information at the touch of a button via OpenAI and Gemini. Alright. Moving on. Also in big tech news, Grock with a q raised another $750,000,000 at a almost $7,000,000,000 valuation. So I don't know if you use Grok with the Q, but I do like it a lot.
Jordan Metzner:It seems to be one of the market leaders in hosting open source models. It's incredibly fast. I use it sometimes for the open source chat GPT models and few other things. But, yeah, I think they've been growing a lot in The Middle East. They built their own, I guess, like chipset or board or whatnot.
Jordan Metzner:So, yeah, it just seems like, you know, there's more competition in the space. I guess this is like a NVIDIA style competitor, you might wanna say, but maybe even like a ChatGPT OpenAI kind of competitor as well. So interesting news. I would have expected a higher valuation here, but maybe this is reflective of the revenue or their growth. But, yeah, I don't know.
Jordan Metzner:What are your thoughts are here?
Sam Nadler:Yeah. I mean, obviously, it's a very large round and still a very large valuation. I also would have expected a higher valuation, just everything I've been hearing about Grok for the last, you know, several years. But, you know, I obviously don't know the numbers. And, you know, I know we've used it in terms of some open source use cases, but still, I mean, congrats to them and exciting to see more and more companies, you know, have a shot at being, you know, really competitive players in the space.
Jordan Metzner:Yeah. More competition, I think, is just gonna be good overall for the AI community. Alright. One last story here. Lyft and Waymo signed a deal to offer rides in Nashville.
Jordan Metzner:This story came to me as a surprise. I know Waymo is expanding markets beyond Los Angeles, and I just read that they are doing the airport at San Francisco. They're already operating in the city of San Francisco, Austin, Texas, and some other cities as well. And I know Zoox, Amazon's competitor is expanding in in new markets. Found this to be a unique bedfellows opportunity between Waymo and Lyft.
Jordan Metzner:But, as someone who, one, is from Nashville, and, two, you still work at Lyft, I'd love to get your feedback.
Sam Nadler:Yeah. Lyft is my alma mater, so, and, obviously, live in Nashville. So kind of a exciting announcement. I am a little surprised Nashville was the location. You know, pre other current Waymo markets, I I believe, are Phoenix, Los Angeles, San Francisco, I think via Uber in Austin, and maybe one other place.
Sam Nadler:So generally, pretty warm and stable climates. I know, you know, from my experience at Lyft, and I visited the l five autonomous facility, which I think was later transitioned to toy Toyota, I believe. I can't remember exactly. But, you know, I remember specifically that, you know, weather construction and all these things can have a huge impact on the success of autonomous driving. Just the variability makes it obviously more complicated.
Sam Nadler:That is why they launched in places like Los Angeles, which is really stable climate, Phoenix, etcetera. I guess San Francisco has a lot of rain, etcetera. But Nashville, you know, you've got all four seasons. You've got you can get icy roads. You have depending on where you are, you have the downtown chaos, which you have pedal taverns and people walking everywhere.
Sam Nadler:So, and as a market, you know, I know you know, it's been years, but I'm I'm really familiar with the the ride metrics of Nashville. And, you know, Nashville's not nearly as big as other cities. Maybe that's why they're launching it here first. But, you know, their its ride volume is is not nearly as big as places like Philadelphia, Miami, Chicago, all these other, you know, big, big metropolitan areas, Dallas, etcetera. So I'm excited to have it here in my market, and I think my daughter mentioned to me the other day that she's never taken a autonomous driving vehicle, neither have I.
Sam Nadler:So I guess it's in the near future for us. But, yeah, I was a little surprised Nashville was the first choice, but we welcome it.
Jordan Metzner:Congrats to Nashville and Lyft, and, yeah, we'll see as these robotaxis enter new markets with, as you mentioned, variable climate, you know, what the impact will be. Alright, Sam. We're at mid September. AI is still in a flurry. We've got, you know, about a little over one quarter left for the end of the year.
Jordan Metzner:Looks like rates interest rates are dropping, so I think we're gonna see a flourishing stock market in the last quarter of the year. But, yeah, overall, episode. Great to chat with you. Take care of your personal health. I think that's maybe one takeaway here.
Jordan Metzner:But any last thoughts or comments or feedback from you?
Sam Nadler:No. Thanks for connecting for episode 13, and don't forget, like and subscribe.
Jordan Metzner:Yeah. We got some great episodes coming up as we finish out the year, so don't forget to like and subscribe. You can find us on YouTube and all your favorite podcast platforms for Sam and Jordan. See you guys all next week. Thank you.