🚨 STOP. DO THIS BEFORE YOU PICK YOUR NICHE. Okay so I was about to make the biggest beginner mistake. Had my niche picked. Tab was open. Ready to start cold-calling. Then I actually validated it against these 5 filters... and I realized I was about to waste 3 months building for the wrong client type. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ HERE'S THE FRAMEWORK THAT STOPPED ME: **FILTER 1: THE MONEY TEST** Can they actually afford a monthly retainer? Not "would they love this." Do they have the BUDGET? A restaurant with 10% net margins? They're not paying $3K/month. They're paying for inventory and rent. You're not even in the conversation. FAIL. **FILTER 2: THE CHURN TEST** How stable is the business type itself? SaaS companies stay in business. Restaurants? 50% fail in 5 years. Your beautiful automation doesn't mean anything if the business closes down. You built something great for a ghost client. FAIL. **FILTER 3: THE SPEED TEST** Can they make a decision in less than 30 days? Healthcare has REAL money — but approval takes months. You're not closing in 2 calls. You're waiting for board approval. Committee meetings. Legal review. FAIL. **FILTER 4: THE LIABILITY TEST** Does your workflow touch: - Patient data? - Financial transactions? - Legal advice? If yes, you just inherited liability. Risk management. Compliance obligations. Most beginners don't know how to handle this. **FILTER 5: THE INTEGRATION TEST** Does it connect to the tools they actually use? Or are you building a bridge between 4 legacy systems that were designed in 1995 and don't talk to each other? That's a 3-week "simple" project that becomes a nightmare. FAIL. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE NICHES THAT ACTUALLY PASS ALL 5: ✅ **Home Services (HVAC, Plumbing)** - High-ticket jobs (customers pay premium) - Fast decision-making (they need it NOW) - Clear ROI (missed calls = lost money, they calculate it instantly) - Result: Landing $2-4K retainers for automations you build in a weekend

Hello, I'd like to apply for a small N8N project to gain some more experience. Could you please give me some brief feedback on the proposal documents I would send to the client? I would really appreciate it.

Excited to share my Day 2 build for the #AISChallenge. Today I used Claude Code with Firecrawl MCP to scrape coffee export shipment data and turn it into a structured dataset. 💡 One thing I learned What surprised me most wasn't the scraping itself—it was how Claude automatically chose the right Firecrawl tool for the job. Instead of manually figuring out which approach to use, I could focus on what data I actually needed. 🚀 One use case idea This immediately reminded me of how different things are today. Around 2019, researching coffee export data could easily take me 1–2 days. I had to know the right Google keywords, visit multiple websites one by one, and manually copy everything into Excel. Now I can collect and structure the same type of information in minutes. For businesses, I can imagine using this for market research, competitor monitoring, supplier discovery, or building business intelligence dashboards that stay up to date automatically. I'm still learning, but it's exciting to see how much AI is changing the way we work. Looking forward to Day 3! 🚀 #AISChallenge

I hit my weekly limit in Claude. How do I use codex or Gemini to modify the ai_ios. Will Claude get confused that other agents are editing files. I think I saw Nate talk about creating an agents.md file

Little tip I found at the weekend. Auphonic has the best api for editing sound in videos. I trained Claude to use it to edit mp4 to cut out pauses and filler words. Saved me hours. My dream of replacing my video editor and reducing cost per video is being realised. My workflow is Record video Give Claude the title of the video Run the video editing skill using auphonic api It cuts out false starts, pauses, filler words and cleans up the audio Creates a google slide using my template using the title Inserts it at the start of the video Adds a recorded risk disclaimer mp4 at the start after the title slide Then codes it into a mp4 ready for final editing Time saved for a 20 min videos is like 2 hours or $80 And it does better than most editors