Automation

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I spent two weeks running the same workflows through Zapier, Make, and n8n. Same triggers, same apps, same endpoints. The results surprised me: the “winner” had nothing to do with feature counts and everything to do with who’s building. A 2024 Gartner report found that 65% of automation projects fail because teams pick tools that don’t match their skill level, not because the tools lack capabilities. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I was copy-pasting the same “just checking in” email every three days — until I built a follow-up sequence in an afternoon that runs itself. Every three days, I’d open my inbox and paste the same message to a client who hadn’t replied. Twelve follow-up emails over two months. Every one manually written, manually tracked, manually sent. And I know I’m not the only one — the number one complaint I hear from solo business owners isn’t “I don’t have enough clients.” It’s “I keep losing the ones I almost had.” ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I made a TikTok dance video for $0.39 with AI — here’s the exact prompt Last night I spent $0.39 and made a TikTok dance video. No dancer. No camera. No studio. Two AI tools. One prompt. Ten seconds of content. Here’s exactly how I did it — and the full prompt you can steal. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. White-label this open-source tool and sell it for $200/month Last week I was paying $12/month for Calendly. Then I found Cal.com — an open-source alternative that does everything Calendly does, plus more, for free. But that’s not the interesting part. The interesting part is the business model hiding inside this repo. White-label it. Sell it to professionals who’ll never find it themselves. $200/month per client. No coding required. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. 🎧 Prefer to listen? Every year, someone publishes a “top AI trends” list that reads like a Silicon Valley press release. Quantum computing. AGI timelines. The singularity. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Last week I asked my AI assistant to check my calendar, find a gap, and schedule a meeting. It did it. No copy-pasting. No switching tabs. Just… did it. That’s tool calling. And if you’re using AI without it, you’re using 10% of what these models can actually do. ...

I run a fitness business. I’m not a developer. I don’t code. But I use AI every single day to handle the stuff that used to take me hours. This isn’t a “ChatGPT can write your emails” post. This is the actual stack I use — the specific tools, what each one does, and why I picked them. The problem nobody talks about Running a fitness business isn’t about fitness. It’s about content creation, client communication, scheduling, social media, marketing, and administrative tasks. The actual training part is maybe 20% of the work. ...

I used to publish content like this: write the post, log into WordPress, paste it in, format it, add images, publish, then manually share it on five different platforms. Each post took 30 minutes just to distribute. Now my pipeline does all of that. I write. Everything else happens automatically. Here’s the exact system — no fluff, no “you should try automation.” Just the pipeline. What the pipeline does The flow: ...

Last time I explained APIs — the restaurant waiter that carries your order to the kitchen. But APIs have a problem: you have to keep asking. “Is my food ready?” “Is my food ready?” “How about now?” That’s annoying. What if the waiter just came to you when the food was ready? That’s a webhook. APIs vs webhooks: the difference An API is like checking your mailbox. You walk outside. You look inside. Nothing yet. You come back inside. You check again 10 minutes later. Still nothing. You check again. Finally, there’s mail. ...

Build your first automation in 15 minutes I built my first automation to solve a problem I had every single morning: I’d check 5 websites for updates, then copy-paste the interesting ones into a note. It took 20 minutes. Every day. So I built an automation that does it for me. It runs at 8am. It checks all 5 sites. It sends me a summary. I haven’t done it manually since. ...