Pretty happy with this (I run a gardening business and haven't had mulching spring newsletters ever (it's always been on the to do list though!)). Few iterations which Claude did well. Starting to glimpse the idea of skills and workflows... #exciting

So this was built regarding a problem I experienced in Day 1 of researching, writing, and formatting a Newsletter. A big problem I encountered was that I had no Brand Kit to give guidelines to the output of the Newsletter. This resulted in too much back and forth with Claude trying to make minor tweaks. So, naturally, I decided to make a Brand-Kit-Extractor SKILL. The idea was to make the SKILL work with either extracting a Brand Kit from your own website for reference, or to use it on any website to extract a Brand Kit that could be used for inspiration or to use that style to apply to any project. The Output would go to an editable Canva Project so the results could be fine tuned if necessary. This was an important distinction, rather than having a single PDF-style page that you could not alter. It is not perfect yet. But has delivered some pretty great results. Enjoy. - What skill you built - brand-kit-extractor SKILL. You enter a URL and it extracts: logo, fonts, color palette, and images into an editable Canva Project. That's it. It organizes the assets into a pre-loaded Canva Template. This Template is completely editable with hexadecimal values and displays all the assets that can be downloaded into any format Canva allows. Plug this downloaded Canva output into any project that requires a brand kit. - One optimization you made - There were a lot of optimizations. One thing I learned is that extracting exact fonts is a PITA, I believe I fixed it. Another thing I learned was getting a real logo in any desirable resolution is also a PITA, I believe I fixed it. I also wanted to provide two logo options: 1. a logo with transparent background and 2. a standard logo with color. Also a bit difficult. The result works and involved how the scan of the website operates. - Screenshot - I provided three screenshots of the output. One was for a website for a local cleaning business I work with. The second was, of course, Nate Herk's website. The third was a popularly admired site Stripe.

Hi all! What you scraped: I was thinking of this project as a lead-gen idea. I positioned this as a lead generation scrape for a local service business. In this case a local cleaning biz. I went to Redfin, Zillow would have also worked, and searched real estate listings that were “pending”. This usually means there is some cleaning to do, either post-construction, or move-in/move-out type cleans. I scraped mainly contact information of the realtors associated with the properties, as well as some basic information. (I have hidden the actual contact numbers in the Screenshot for privacy reasons). The goal being to contact them regarding any help they need with cleaning or staging of the property. One thing you learned: I learned that helpful datasets are EVERYWHERE. I am now scraping Municipal Records for Construction Permits, Local Event Licenses, Sporting Events etc… All with the goal of translating those records into leads for any kind of local service biz. One use case idea: I am becoming familiar with public datasets that could help marketing for any local business. A targeted scrape could be offered as a Marketing or Lead-Gen Consultation to local businesses. Day 3 incoming!

The weather in Europe is hot . Was wondering what are doing to keep your head cool ?

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