I have a community for unbiased tech discussions and planning, and those are subjects that come very often. ---> QUESTION NUMBER 1: Will AI take our jobs? AI will change the game drastically. It already has and it will continue changing it more and more. So no. AI won't take your job, someone who is good at using it will. Unless you're willing to adapt. Employees will need to be good at using AI and be able to prove it. I'm already at a point at my work that if I have a problem and ask for help before trying to solve with AI, I get a warning. So I need to count on AI first and ask for the help of my colegues second only at the last case. ---> QUESTION NUMBER 2: Can I get rich with AI? There are too man shady people trying to monetize on the AI hype. The times are complicated and there are a lot of opportunities, but also lots of scams. Don't fall for trends pushed by marketing scammers trying to sell you a get rich quick scheme. No, you won't build a multi million dollars SaaS with a prompt. That's bullshit. Even if you get a perfect code, operating a business is much more than that. The market is saturated with AI software slop that fail at solving any real issues. You want to make money with AI? Use it as a tool to solve the problems of your clients. Do a deep market research on what your specific niche requires. Get good contacts with experts. Figure out all the moving parts of a legit business (marketing, finances, law etc). AI is just a tool. It makes the technical part easier. But the business part is still as hard as it ever was, maybe even worse due to the hype and the disillusionment people are feeling after falling for the multiple scams this fad is generating. It's true that you can cut down on costs drastically by replacing staff with AI, but that can go very wrong. Search about the duolingo fiasco after they announced they were going AI first. So be careful. Use AI to your advantage but don't stop valuing human intelligence and the work it takes to develop a serious and legit business.

Automations on Skool are pretty limited and a lot of times frustrating. API is something that developers use to provide automation solutions by allowing an app to talk to other apps/codes. Solutions like Zapier, Make and N8N are basically a way to simplify all of that with no code needed. The problem is that Skool does not have a public API. It is also not featured at N8N. Meaning you're limited to automations on Zapier and Make. Of course automation wizards can go around that, but the alternative solutions are usually complicated and against Skool's terms and services. The Skool integration with Make is basically useless. The only possible action is to Invite a New Member. So we are left with Zapier. Here is what you can do with it: --> Triggers: the starting point of an automation - Membership questions: take the answers of the membership questions and use them to store somewhere or peform an action. The problem: it would be great if it didn't also work for rejected members. So you can't use that for email automations or automatic messages, as they would also include people you don't want inside your community. So it's only decent use case is market research. - New PAID member: that's right, the triger only works for members who paid. If your community is free, you can't use that. And another stupid limitation: the trigger also don't work if a member joined at a free trial! What a joke. ---> Actions: stuff you can do after the automation already started - Invite member: invite a member to a specific classroom course - Unlock course for member: the name says it all That's it. Shitty triggers with annoying and unecessary restrictions and patetically limited actions. No way to automate messages, posts, calendar events, add auto moderation. No way to get info for stuff beyond member's answers. And no open API to get around those limitations in an ethical way. Have you tried using zapier for skool? How do you handle such limitations?

If you want to find developers in the US or Europe, where do y’all look? I’m trying to find people who are far better than me at this game.

I keep seeing how many people keep asking for help, and I keep seeing so many people asking for DMs in here. And I'm gonna be real, if you are asking for help to solve a problem on your workflow and somebody tells you, I've solved this, blah, blah, blah, you need to DM me. You should not DM that person. Because most people that actually want to help in this community will straight up help you in the comments. They will give you the solution in the comments. The biggest issue when people ask for help is that a lot of people are being vague. They're not being clear on what they're trying to do or what they're trying to solve. So if you have a problem and need help with it, please record a video of the thing happening and what you want to happen. What things have you tried doing to solve the problem? Because we cannot magically help you solve the problem when we don't even know what you're trying to do. Like, if you post a picture and you're like, "I'm getting this error over here," it's just like, "Do you know how many nodes there are in there?" Like, we don't know what's going on. We're here to help, but please do some research yourself. When you post an ask for help, make it super clear what it is that you actually need help with. If somebody's asking you, "Hey, DM me and I will help you," you can DM them, but at the end of the day, it doesn't make sense. If they want to get paid to help you, there are people in here that will do it for free.

Zapier is by far the easier alternative for automation, and if you have the pro plan, it's pretty clear that skool want you to use it. But here is the thing: they only have 2 trigers, one for membership questions, and the other one for new PAID member. I have a client that wished to get the membership questions and add them to flodesk. It should be prety simple right. 2 step automation, first the trigger, sencond the floodesk. It should work even on zapier free plan. But there is an issue with membership questions being a triggered designed for both approved and rejected members, and that makes it useless for mailmarketing use cases, since you only want to incude people who actually joined to your newsletter. So we can only make this automation work for paid members? Why don't skool add a triger for any member joining and not just paid members? Greed I believe. Not only they want you to pay the larger fees for a pro account, they also want you to charge at least 1 usd for your members if you want to have easy automations. So we have to be unethical and use webscraping methods to go around the limitations that they put themselves. And in this proccess we create something that works even on a hoby plan. They won't like it, but it's a consequence of their own design.