60-second founder update: the script prompt for a weekly build-in-public clip
A prompt that writes a 60-second talking-head update from your week's notes: the number first, one thing that broke, one thing shipped, one ask. About 150 words, no greeting.
Write a 60-second founder update script from the notes below. About 150 words at 150 words per minute (a parameter; adjust to how fast I actually talk).
Structure:
0:00-0:05 Open with the number of the week (a metric, a count, a date). No greeting, no name, no 'this week'.
0:05-0:25 What broke or what I learned: one concrete incident, what I thought, what was true.
0:25-0:45 What shipped: one feature or decision, said as what a user can now do, not what I did.
0:45-0:55 What is next: one line.
0:55-1:00 One ask: a question the viewer can answer in a comment, or a link.
Rules: short sentences, max 14 words each. Spoken English, contractions allowed. No adjectives about the company. Numbers as spoken words. Mark two moments where I should cut to a screen recording, with what is on screen.
Notes:
{paste the week's notes, commits, metrics} In Claude Code, paste the prompt as a message.
Steps
- Paste raw notes: commit messages, a metric from the dashboard, a support thread. The agent should pick the number; you should veto it.
- Record in one take at the end of the week, straight to camera, phone at eye level. Re-record only if a sentence is wrong, not if it is imperfect.
- Cut in the two screen-recording cutaways where the script marks them.
Tips
- The number goes first because it works with the sound off and tells regulars whether this week is worth a minute.
- If the week had no number, the update has no hook; post the 'what broke' story alone as 30 seconds.
| works with | Claude Code: Runs as a skill or a prompt in the terminal; can read your files and write the result. · Claude: Paste into claude.ai or the Claude app. · ChatGPT: Paste into ChatGPT; works with any GPT model. · Any LLM: Model-agnostic: Gemini, Mistral, a local model. |
| cost | Free. No API, no key. |
| status | Unverified: written from the technique, not yet run end to end by us. |
| license | CC BY 4.0 for the text here; skills are MIT. |
| updated | 2026-11-01 |
| for agents | sixty-second-founder-update-script.md |
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