What you built: I built an AI-powered newsletter pipeline that does research, writes content, generates images, applies my branding, and sends the final email via Gmail. I used Gemini for research (instead of Perplexity) because it’s free. One thing you learned: I learned how to troubleshoot fast and keep moving, especially through OAuth, SSL, and setup issues during a live build. One thing you’d improve: Next, I’d compare Gemini and Perplexity on the same topic to measure differences in source quality and final content.

What I built: A fully automated newsletter system using Claude Code that researches a topic, writes the content, designs it in my brand, and outputs a ready-to-send HTML email. First time ever using Claude Code. 🤯 One thing that clicked for me: The CLAUDE.md file is everything. Once I dropped my brand guidelines in there — my colours, fonts, tone of voice, target audience — Claude Code just knew. It stopped writing for corporate AI companies and started writing for Pilates studio owners. That moment when I saw my actual brand colours and fonts in the output... I was not ready 😭 One thing I'd improve next iteration: The content topic was still a bit broad. Next time I want to give it a more specific studio owner problem — like cancellations or waitlist gaps — so the writing gets even more targeted to my audience. Honest reflection: I had no idea what I was doing half the time. I just said yes to every bash command and trusted the process 😂 But that's the point right? You don't need to understand everything — you just need to keep moving. On to Day 2 — MCP servers 👀🌿

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