Built an entire email automation system in 60 minutes using Claude Code.
Stack: β Resend API (sending) β Google Sheets (storage)
Total cost: $20/month
What it replaced: $600/month ConvertKit setup
We overcomplicate everything.
It asks you 13 questions to know about your life - and then every time you upload a book, it gives you insights from that book that specifically applies to you right now, with some action items.
I was listening to a MFM episode of @thesamparr & @ShaanVP - where Sam was showing how he is using Claude to get personalized book insights.
I went ahead and vibe-coded a pro version of that, primarily for me but feel free to test it:
https://t.co/Hco90W3AXu
Ai is getting better every day.
The expressions are almost there now, and the replica tech is also alarmingly good.
If you are a business, 99% of your focus should be on how to use AI in your ecosystem.
To speed things up
To cut middle-steps
To automate processes
To innovate
Endless opportunities.
@beehiiv has been a pretty terrible company to deal with recently. After recommending 100s of people to join Beehiiv, they paused ads on one of my newsletters, implying that I have scraped a lead list and sending them emails.
I don't know what scraped list has a consistant 40% open rate, maybe they have one in their world -not in mine.
DMed @denk_tweets - he said to email him which I did, nothing happened after that, not even a reply.
They were always very quick to reply on everything when I shared my income screenshots.
But the support is terribly slow, reply takes 7 days on average.
And I am a paying customer, paying them 100s everymonth, not a free subscribe.
Overall, terrible experience. Will make sure to post this everywhere and do a detailed video about it too soon.
The holiday shopping season as you knew it is officially dead.
40% of shoppers will be completely done before December starts. Gen Z started in June.
54% are using AI to find deals months before Black Friday.
And you know the fun part?
The recommendations they get from Gemini vs GPT are different 63% of the time.
CRAZY!
@Google's "AI-guide" web search experience is almost here. They are testing it now in a few markets.
Soon, you will be able to chat with your Google search results, directly within Google.
Just canceled my @OpenAI subscription. I realized that I use a lot more Claude and Gemini lately.
The initial bias towards GPT is slowly fading and I am trying to be more open to all of them now.
Let's see how workflows perform, now that I don't have GPT paid plan.
Those tech scam takedown videos are so much fun - but why is no-one building a real tech solutions service?
If the scammers can get leads that easily - I am sure you can run Google ads and replicate the same with an actual service?
YouTube is officially becoming the 2nd search engine.
Soon, when you type something on YouTube, you will get a more traditional-looking search result, instead of a series of videos.
Here's an example from their demo.
Yes, the highlight, even within YouTube will be generated with ai (Gemini)
Google is phasing out schema (structured data) from search in an effort to simplify their search result page - not sure what that means.
These are the schema markups that are going away:
- Book actions
- Course info
- Claim review
- Estimated Salary
- Learning video
- Special announcement
- Vehicle listing
We have used the vehicle listing & the video one a lot for clients before. Sad to see those going away.