William Bowen

currently @clerkchat | enabling conversational messaging through AI

Substack:

[Sam @techandsundry]

POV: you’re hosting a Canadian tech event

[William Bowen @_williambowen]

Super cool. Worth trying https://t.co/sELRUhf8h6
same idea but uses your mac camera.
You can learn on paper, with chatgpt.

[Noah Tye @noahlt]

Lately I’ve been learning math with ChatGPT (Astra) as my tutor, using this document scanning camera and a vibecoded tool that pastes the captured image right into the chat.

This way, I just work problems on paper and ChatGPT gives feedback. It’s really nice.

[William Bowen @_williambowen]

Get ChatGPT to make calls for you

Clerk AI Plugin.

[Tibo @thsottiaux]

We are opening up our platform and you can now build full native apps with plugin extensions, and ship them right in ChatGPT. We have over 1.2B weekly users and will surface relevant plugins right in the conversations.

[William Bowen @_williambowen]

Been using my finance scribe for 6 months now.

Similar to my workout scribe, it tracks my finances over time. The main goal is consistent financial habits.

Today I gave it a journal-like UI with opus 5.5

[William Bowen @_williambowen]

https://t.co/ohYGneUdLL

[William Bowen @_williambowen]

print is soooooo back.

this but for pinterest boards.

turn your pinterest board into a coffee table book

Link below

[Daniel Belfort ⊙ @danielbelfort]

Introducing Offprint™

The physical magazine made from everything you "save for later" but never actually go back to read.

Find online, read offline.

Print media is back!

[William Bowen @_williambowen]

download now:
https://t.co/sELRUheAry

[William Bowen @_williambowen]

introducing whitebored.

an ai teaching buddy that helps you learn in the real world.

- talk out loud,
- draw on a whiteboard,
- scribble on paper.

whitebored helps you learn and think in the most natural way.

enjoy.

[Farza 🇵🇰🇺🇸 @FarzaTV]

Bringing back the computer we fell in love with.

See you tomorrow, link below.

@heyclicky

[William Bowen @_williambowen]

@FarzaTV riff on clicky

After clicky has completed a task, it has the chance to ask the user a question. It creates a context base on the user it can use going forward.

Gains more context on who the user is, why the task is useful, their motivations, etc.

[William Bowen @_williambowen]

How I track my workouts.

1. Write workout notes
2. Ai parses notes and tracks over time.
3. Chat with my workouts using ai, has complete context on my training history and patterns.

Built to reward consistency.

Built on lovable.

[William Bowen @_williambowen]

Reading is important.

Articles gather dust - too long to read.

Anyone else have this problem?

⚡️ I built tryTLDR ⚡️

Highlight your article, get your TLDR in 5 secs.

Comment, I'll send you the download link

#buildinpublic

[William Bowen @_williambowen]

YT vid on prompt template in real-life example: https://t.co/kKw8Xb9BP6

YT vid on my day: https://t.co/1kBsDHKSBG

[William Bowen @_williambowen]

#buildinpublic log:

- Wrote drafts for internal AI info docs. Empower people to use AI.
- Call with first AI client.
- Draft AI / Trello integration + build with Dev.
- Wrote a doc on AI vs non-AI automations.
- YT video on using my prompt template.
- Started 2025 AI roadmap.

[William Bowen @_williambowen]

@AryanMayya Thanks @AryanMayya - just starting this project today! Hope to have an MVP of the program by Friday to test for my conversation logs.

[William Bowen @_williambowen]

Build in public log:

- Tinkered with a self-improving AI agent program.
- If we build a reliable, self-improving AI, we can assert that any AI agent will meet a standard.
- Build a custom TLDR agent on ChatGPT.
- Linked below.
- AI sync with the team.

#buildinpublic

[William Bowen @_williambowen]

TLDR Agent: https://t.co/aTkvgT9GBL

2 min vid of today: https://t.co/sYpiDyepyF

[William Bowen @_williambowen]

@urtubiaswift keep going! this 14K on my fyp is an inspiring win to me!

[William Bowen @_williambowen]

I’m building AI Agents over SMS.

⚡️Today I got my first paying customer!!⚡️

If you’re someone who:
- Is interested in AI agents
- Wants to learn how to build AI agents that deliver real value to your business.

I’m going to document this whole build, make sure to follow!

[William Bowen @_williambowen]

Start with a real problem, share context with AI (your success metrics & available data) and let the solution evolve through conversation.

Nothing fancy - just clear communication with Claude about what you're trying to solve.

What simple AI solutions are you exploring?

[William Bowen @_williambowen]

⏳ 500+ support conversations per week. 📊 3+ hours of manual analysis.

Built a simple AI program that analyses our AI support agent's performance.

Results: 12+ hours saved monthly, clear metrics on agent performance, spotted 3 key improvement areas.

🧵 What worked for me: