The Memelord built an API so agents can make memes for you | Jason Levin
Jason Levin, CEO of Memelord, discusses building a meme generation API that enables AI agents to create contextual memes for brands. He shares his journey from non-technical founder using no-code tools to building a company that generates memes through AI, emphasizing the importance of entertainment in marketing and empowering non-technical team members to code.
Summary
Jason Levin, CEO and founder of Memelord, discusses how he built an API that allows AI agents to generate memes for marketing purposes. Levin argues that the world is becoming more entertaining and brands need to embrace memes as a form of cultural transmission to capture attention. He demonstrates how his API works with OpenClaw agents to create contextual memes based on trending topics and current events.
Levin shares his unconventional founding journey as a non-technical entrepreneur who started with a newsletter and Google Sheets, then built the entire platform using Bubble (a no-code tool) before raising $1.5 million and hiring engineers. He grew the company to $100K ARR using 395 workflows in Bubble without any coding knowledge. The company has since transitioned to using Cursor for development, with Levin establishing a rule that all marketers must learn to 'vibe code.'
A key insight is Levin's prediction that agents will become major users of meme generation tools because they don't overthink humor like humans do. His investor Sam Lesson told him he doesn't want to use software interfaces anymore, preferring API access instead, which reinforces the 'no UX is the best UX' philosophy.
Levin demonstrates several creative marketing tools his team built, including free meme generators that serve as lead magnets and have generated hundreds of thousands of email signups. He also shares personal AI projects, including a hardware hack using a Raspberry Pi and keyboard that lets him capture ideas in bed without waking his wife, and an OpenClaw system that analyzes his calendar to provide weekly productivity insights.
Key Insights
- Levin argues that agents will become major users of meme generation tools because they don't get in their head about being funny or not funny, they just go straight to the tokens without overthinking
- Levin's lead investor Sam Lesson wrote a $1.5 million check then told him he doesn't want to use anybody's software anymore, leading to the API development
- Levin grew Memelord to $100K ARR using only Bubble with 395 workflows without hiring any engineers, demonstrating the power of no-code tools for non-technical founders
- Levin established a company rule that every marketer has to learn vibe coding, allowing them to build free tools that generated hundreds of thousands of email signups
- Levin believes AI can be funny but argues that Grok and Gemini are the funniest models while ChatGPT and Claude are too safe, and that memes are the opposite of slop because they are hyper-contextual
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Transcript
[0:00] Confession, I'm not a vibe coder. I'm way worse. So, I started Memelord about four months before vibe coding started hitting. >> You are an example of a company in a product that's going to get an inflection point because agents are going to become your users because agents don't get in their mind about being funny or not funny. They don't overthink. They just go straight to the tokens and yolo something out. >> I just built it on Bubble and I grew it to 100KR on Bubble without hiring engineers. 395 workflows just on the [0:31] editor. And I was able to grow this just out of pure obsession and the love of it. I can't code…
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