#Onam, the official harvest festival of #Kerala, India, also marks the Malayali New Year. As an expat, organizing a celebration for over 100 people, while the feast and logistics are manageable, tracking expenses can quickly become chaotic. Receipts start pouring in from various people, shops, and categories. Questions arise immediately: "Who paid for the hall?" "How much have we spent on food?" "Can you send me that invoice?" To streamline this process, I developed a simple system where team members can upload receipts, add their names and categories in just 30 seconds. Once uploaded, the receipt is stored, AI reads and extracts line items, and everything is recorded in a database. A live dashboard updates automatically, showing spend by category, budget status, and direct links to the original invoices. This system provides clean data without the need for chasing updates or confusion over which version of the sheet is the latest. #TheBiggerPicture The underlying pattern is intriguing. This is not merely an event expense tracker; it’s a receipt-to-database pipeline with a live reporting layer. The Onam event serves as the context, but this architecture is applicable to any business with distributed spending-whether it’s field teams logging site expenses, franchise operators tracking outlet-level costs, or logistics companies capturing vendor invoices on the go. When it’s time to enhance the system-adding authentication, role-based access, approval workflows, reimbursement tracking, and multi-project support-the foundation is already established, allowing for extensions rather than a complete rebuild. This system was built over a weekend using #Nextjs, n8n, Supabase, #Codex, #GoogleDrive, and #Vercel

👋 New here? Start with this. Every week inside AIS+, a bunch of us hop on a live call we call CCC — Chill, Chat & Chaos. No agenda. No slides. No guru talking at you. Just builders — total beginners and seasoned pros side by side — thinking out loud about AI and automation. What's working, what broke, what we're figuring out in real time. People show up with a question and leave with a plan. Some weeks it gets deeply technical, some weeks it's just honest talk about building a business with this stuff. It's messy on purpose — and that's exactly why it works. Here's a taste of what you missed at the last one 👇 🔥 This week's Chill, Chat & Chaos 🔥 🤖 One builder flipped on a fully autonomous mode and let it run — and it spun up dozens of agents in parallel, tore through millions of tokens in under 20 minutes, and blew past his spend limit. The kicker? The AI company itself reached out to ask what on earth he'd just done. Would you dare let it off the leash? 🤥 Somebody finally said the quiet part out loud: your AI keeps telling you a task is DONE when it flat-out isn't. "Sorry, you're right — it's not done. I just burned all your tokens." We got into how you'd even catch it lying to your face... 📞 One person in the room built an agent that literally calls your phone when it gets stuck — "option A or option B?" — you answer mid-walk, and it keeps building. It went far enough to earn them a spot at an invite-only hackathon. Wait... that actually works? 🧠 Then a curveball: deliberately let a DUMBER model check your work. Because if your whole setup only holds together when the smartest model is driving, is it actually good — or is the genius model just quietly covering for you the whole time? 📸 My advice to a member trapped exporting 400,000 photos out of iCloud one hundred at a painful time: "I only consult when there are more than 500,000 photographs. You've got 400,000... come find me when you touch 500,000." 😄 🔒 And on whether the files you trust to the cloud are really yours — my official position: "As far as my wife can subpoena my stuff, I'm good with it. I'm safe here in India for now." 🫡

From $40K AI projects and first clients to custom CRMs, AI operating systems, and production-ready automations, another week inside AIS+ proved that consistent building keeps creating opportunities. 🚀 Standout Wins of the Week inside AIS+ 👉 @Kobe Shemesh closed a $40K upfront AI project after refining his Claude Code workflow, proving that small improvements in execution can create massive business results. 👉 @Galyn Fergerson landed her first client just 6 days into AIS+, turning a discovery call into a $750 AI OS project before even finishing the automation course. 👉 @Girish Mohan built an AI Scrum Master that now prioritizes his calendar, tasks, and deals automatically—helping him execute every day with more focus. 👉 William Rendall was promoted to AI Workstream Strategy Lead less than three months after joining AIS+, crediting the community for accelerating his growth. 👉 Diane McCracken celebrated her 100th Claude Code session at 68 years old, showing that curiosity and consistency matter far more than experience. ⸻ 🎥 Super Win Spotlight | @Ahmad Abd Alkarim Ahmad joined AIS+ with years of leadership experience but wanted a better way to turn ideas into action. Today, his custom AI Operating System helps him manage projects, analyze business problems, and support his team without slowing anyone down. His biggest lesson? Don't just watch. Build. Practice. Share what you learn. That's where the real return comes from. 🎥 Watch Ahmad's story 👇 ✨ Every week, members are turning ideas into systems, skills into businesses, and momentum into real opportunities. Step inside AI Automation Society Plus and start building assets, systems, and skills that compound 🚀

Hello everyone, Recently i decided to move from a locally hosted n8n to Hostinger VPS to host my n8n workflows. I subscribed to a KVM 1 plan and tried to access the n8n instance on the VPS. I was hit with a "This Connection Is Not Private" error. Why - my new VPS did not have an SSL certificate. So i figured this might be a common issue for anyone who is starting out with Hostinger or any VPS of the kind. In the attached PDF, I (honestly my Claude) list down all the steps that I followed to fix the issue and get my VPS up and running. hope this is helpful. Enjoy 😊 A huge shout out to @Zian Ansar for nudging me in the right direction.

As my sprint wraps up today, my AI agent just hit me with this perfect daily plan. It didn’t just list tasks - it actually thought through my entire day. Here is why I'm incredibly hyped about this build: - #TrueContextAwareness: It syncs across my multiple Google Calendars, Notion, my tasks board, instantly recognizing my actual 1h 45m work window between lunch, German class, and meet-ups. - #BusinessIntelligence: It knows exactly which deal I'm pushing forward, remembers a Saturday meeting, and flags a crucial 24h follow-up window. - #RuthlessPrioritization: It saw 8 non-triaged items in my backlog and proactively deferred them to the next sprint because of today's time crunch. Having an agent that doesn't just fetch data, but actively protects my time and understands my business goals is a total game-changer. And this is EXACTLY how AI augments both your and your business' productivity. The future of context-aware AI agents is already here. What are you building to automate your workflow?👇