Michael Shemelis

Everything Michael Shemelis said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

STARTUP IDEAS Opinion

Ross Mike: GPT-6 Astra computer-use automation is surprisingly effective

“Like, I, like, I'm so bullish on computer use. Like, I really, like, a lot of, and a lot of people might think it's, like, insane, or it doesn't work, or it breaks. Like, you'll be surprised how good, like, Astra is.”

Michael Shemelis Sep 10, 2026 ▶ 8:53 GPT-6 Astra: How I’d Make Money With It

STARTUP IDEAS Opinion

Ross Mike: Using GPT-6 Astra to build landing pages wastes its intelligence

“What makes Astra amazing is for these, like, insane hardware projects, this next level software. So again, if you're using Astra to build a landing page, It's a sad use of intelligence”

Michael Shemelis Sep 10, 2026 ▶ 16:36 GPT-6 Astra: How I’d Make Money With It

STARTUP IDEAS Opinion

Ross Mike says he would cancel Claude subscription for Astra

“Anthropic is sweating for sure because for the first time I would like, if I, if someone asked me pick a subscription, I would cancel and drop my Anthropics subscription. I would cancel Claude. Astra's that good.”

Michael Shemelis Sep 10, 2026 ▶ 21:28 GPT-6 Astra: How I’d Make Money With It

STARTUP IDEAS Disclosure

Ross Mike used $24,000 in model costs on two $200 subscriptions

“Like I asked my Astra agent to calculate how much of how much I've been using, like the subscription price, but also like in terms of API price, how much like I've been using in terms of model costs. And in the last week I've spent over 24,000 dollars. Mind yo…”

Michael Shemelis Sep 10, 2026 ▶ 21:54 GPT-6 Astra: How I’d Make Money With It

STARTUP IDEAS Assertion Not checkable as stated

Ross Mike: Astra performance review cut app latency from 800ms to 20–30ms

“I did that for one of my apps and speeds went from 800 milliseconds to literally 20 to 30 milliseconds, right?”

Michael Shemelis Sep 10, 2026 ▶ 2:36 GPT-6 Astra: How I’d Make Money With It

STARTUP IDEAS Assertion Partly supported

Ross Mike: GPT-6 Astra is OpenAI's priciest model, priced similarly to Fable

“OpenAI's most expensive model. It's on par with Fable in terms of pricing, but if you have a codec subscription, very subsidized, and not only that, it's also very efficient, meaning it doesn't take as many steps to complete a task.”

Michael Shemelis Sep 10, 2026 ▶ 1:57 GPT-6 Astra: How I’d Make Money With It

The other half of the tape: Michael Shemelis's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 8 times in 1 episode across the shows. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Greg Isenberg 8

Statements about Michael Shemelis, by other people (1)

STARTUP IDEAS Opinion

Raz Mike: Most software ideas can be built as Chrome extensions

“Most ideas I truly believe can be Chrome extensions.”

Michael Shemelis (Raz Mike) Oct 18, 2024 ▶ 39:29 Do this to build a $100k/mo chrome extension using AI (Cursor AI, Claude)

Every mention by year

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Michael's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
STARTUP IDEASLEDGER	DX Engineer, Convex	1	6	83% 5/6	full record on the Startup Ideas Podcast →