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🏆 WEEK 5 COMP WINNER 🏆
Yet again making this SO hard to decide, I am bringing together a rubric just to be able to really break these down its getting so close. OVER 37 ENTRIES. Spent all day today looking at YouTube Videos, testing apps, reading through markdown files. Going to spotlight six (no particular order), then a few thoughts on where this is heading as well as the winner out of everyone. 🥊 @Ariel Ortiz , The Praeceptor Honest read: if Ariel had been premium last week, he was the winner and again this week easily can take home the prize but more importantly they are premium now! He went premium and somehow raised his own bar. Idea for a Native iOS app in Swift 6 , three YouTube videos including a 4:28 behind-the-build, voice mode pipeline, 17 operator extractions (Grove, Munger, Walsh, Aurelius, Naval, more). Hero copy reads "A room. Not an app." which was really a great hook, one of those opening lines that makes you very curious right off the rip. What I'd take from Ariel beyond this comp: he treats every brief like a product launch. Even the video stack alone is a walk towards the idea that distribution matters as much as tech now. 🔗 https://praeceptor-web.vercel.app 🔗 https://github.com/orteug/the-praeceptor 📹 https://youtu.be/Cfs1KAC2Ry0 🔥 @Ruby Sparks , The Gut Mechanic Ruby's a monster. Every week crushes it without a doubt. The landing pivots from consumer pain into a B2B sales pitch in one stat (the $530B-lost-to-employee-health number) and her voice across the entire page is sharper than what most paid brand consultants ship. She also created an ENTIRE skool community for it. Which is a win in its self. Twenty years of chronic illness in the founder story. IG, Skool, a 14-minute course, B2B framing layered into the consumer hook so the consumer side does discovery and the B2B side does monetization.
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Congrats to all! Really great work by everyone! I'm learning a lot from their solutions
🏆 WEEKLY COMP #5: THE COACH 🏆
💰 $500 CASH 💰 Win this and you've covered a year of Premium with $175 left over. 📋 THE CHALLENGE Build a folder-based AI coach for a specific domain. You pick the domain. This week's deliverable is one coach folder that someone could drop into a Claude project and use as their personal coach for whatever you've built it for. 🎯 PICK YOUR DOMAIN The domain is yours. Pick something specific. Pick something you'd actually use. A few sparks to get you thinking: - 🎤 Public speaking coach for new managers giving their first big presentations - 💼 Salary negotiation coach for tech workers at Series A startups - 📞 Cold call coach for first-year SDRs in B2B software - 🎯 Interview prep coach for product manager roles - ✍️ Writing coach for one specific genre (sci-fi short stories, college essays, op-eds) - 🏋️ Fitness form coach for one movement (squat, deadlift, golf swing) - 🌍 Language learning coach for one use case (medical Spanish, business Mandarin) - ♟️ Chess coach for one specific opening or endgame pattern - ⚽ Youth athletics coach for one sport and age group The more specific, the better. "Life coach" is too broad. "Salary negotiation coach for tech workers at Series A startups" is right. 🗂️ THE METHODOLOGY If this is your first comp, welcome. Here's what you need to know: This week (and every week) you're learning the foundation of interpretable context methodology. Folders as architecture. Each file does one job well. Your coach is a folder with five things: - 📄 identity.md (who the coach is) - 📐 rules.md (how they coach) - 💬 examples.md (what good looks like) - 📚 reference/ (frameworks, drills, source material) - 📖 README.md (how to use it) Drop the folder into a Claude project. Claude becomes the coach. Reusable. Shareable. Portable. 🔥 THE ANGLE THIS WEEK A coach is NOT a knowledge base. A coach gives feedback. Pushes back. Asks better questions. Holds people accountable.
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🎯 Pointer Invariant Coach — a folder-based AI coach for competitive programmers who write two-pointer and sliding window solutions by feel. 🔗(demo+page) https://quantum-codes.github.io/pointer-invariant-coach/ 💻(github) https://github.com/Quantum-Codes/pointer-invariant-coach in: (linkedin post) https://www.linkedin.com/posts/-ankit-sinha_github-quantum-codespointer-invariant-coach-share-7464209663262097409-pl5G/ I just wrapped up my second year of CS undergrad. On pointer problems, I'd catch myself writing while (left < right) without being able to state what that condition preserved — pass 90% of test cases, fail on an edge case, can't explain why. ChatGPT doesn't help: ask it anything and it hands you the algorithm. I wanted a coach that taught me how to think. So I built one. 💪 🗂️ Scope: Five pointer patterns — fast/slow, opposite-end, fixed window, variable window, partition. Paste a DP or graph problem and the coach names the family and stops. 🔥 Not like ChatGPT: - Refuses to give the algorithm or name the pattern until you discover it from your own hand-trace. - When your code has a bug, it doesn't read the code — it asks where your invariant first breaks. - Beg for a hint and you get "No." 😤 🚪 Five gates, no skipping: understand the problem → justify the complexity → trace by hand and notice the repeated work → state the invariant, prove termination, justify the loop bound, trace edge cases → (if buggy) locate where the invariant breaks. 🏆 Payoff: every cleared session ends with an Invariant Card — a record of what you proved. Over time it's a personal library of patterns you actually understand, not memorized. Drop the folder into a Claude project, paste a problem, Gate 1 begins. ⚡
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Accompanying post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/-ankit-sinha_github-quantum-codespointer-invariant-coach-share-7464209663262097409-pl5G/
HTML better than MARKDOWN?!?!
I just watched the video where it was speaking about markdown being outdated and agents being able to do more with HTML. I am by no way a developer I’m know , very little still learning so is this true? Will mark down be outdated soon? Looking to hear from the experienced developers.
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@Tyrone Hines this is the post: https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/html-is-over-2x-costlier-than-markdown
HTML is over 2x costlier than markdown
Was discussing with @Kevin Carrasco over on his post and decided to post so it helps others too! (Discussion: https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/html-over-md-files?p=f349c1fc ), putting the core arguments here Recently, there was a twitter (X) thread that was talking about how HTML was the better choice over markdown and many claude engineers were making the switch. BUT, as experimented, HTML is over 2x costlier than markdown. I made a report with both md and html from the same content .md: 2k tokens html: 4.6k tokens (for the exact same information) More than 2x Thinking: .md: 3k - 2k = 1k html: 5.7k (direct gen from content) - 3.2k = 2.5k Again more than 2x Values are attached in the screenshots: 1. Generating md report from content (the one with 3k out tokens, 2k content and 1k thinking) 2. Generating html report from the same content (but this report had very little data so rejected this, still took more tokens) (5.7k out tokens, 3.2k content and 2.5k thinking) 3. Generating html report from md report instucting to put every piece of data (7k out tokens, 4.6k content and 2.4k thinking) The container tags have both open and close tags while markdown has just a single or a few character prefix for formatting. And then html has attributes, styles, all of which will require more tokens to represent. You can have more information in the same amount of tokens with markdown. There can be cases where HTML visualisation can cost lesser than a markdown one (ASCII art for drawing stuff. bar charts in ASCII is still cheaper.) and in those places you can just use html for those specific visualisations. Most markdown readers allow html rendering too for specific sections and you can have the rest of report in md. I have attached all output files too so you can see them. Markdown report is pretty nice too.
HTML is over 2x costlier than markdown
HTML OVER .md Files
A Claude code Eng just dropped this. Anyone been doing this switch yet or will try? Curious to see what @Jake Van Clief has to say. It’s a file still just a different format. Same thing right… thoughts? Pros and cons? Here to learn and discover https://x.com/trq212/status/2052809885763747935?s=46&t=Ayzo8Ebbgb8PZhLNm057bg
HTML OVER .md Files
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Thinking too took more tokens for html .md: 3k - 2k = 1k html: 5.7k (direct gen from content) - 3.2k = 2.5k
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@Kevin Carrasco i should probably make a post 😅
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