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Off on a Tangent Thursday

SQUIRREL!!! I started feeling better today and when I got home I dove back into SS10D documentation and was planning to do more recording and....yep SQUIRREL!! I mentioned in yesterdays posting how I couldn't create even clean images for the smut writers room... This gave me my final reason to leave manus.ai. It has a couple of operational characteristics that I loved. It manipulated files well, created to do lists, and used claude skills and projects with nanobanana to create most of my wonderful graphics I use here. But I'm done. It's $47 a month i'll not be paying for anymore, BUT it has the feature I hate most in all software. No easy way to export your work.

Well thanks to a light day at work and Claude Code on my personal EDC (and woefully slow and underpowered) laptop. My buddy Claude and I wrote an export scraper that pulled all 150 chats in human readable format and some 400 files that were created with those chats to my local drive. Yippee Skippee!

The single biggest thing that Manus did involved the marketing and merch team skills. instead of just creating prompts it used nano banana to create the graphics on a canvas. I've shown some of these to folks in my live feeds. Well i've teased it for a bit and with just a little luck I'll have ConceptCrafter available for use by the time we get to cover generation for SS10D. I'm trying to watch Oskar's latest class on this at the same time to see what he can add to the mix, but i will share some screenshots below. Again this started as separate app and became one of the first of the WCP plugins.

And because I can and it worked out so well we have a couple of new WCP features as well as part of this.

The Good News/Bad News is that existing users get all the goodies added to their current acounts. New users after release will get a choice of 3 tiers: Writer, Pro, and Studio to choose from depending on what features they want/need. The current list in development is ConceptCrafter, MarketCrafter, BookCrafter, AutoCrafter, and PlotCrafter. Each of these is as much or more code than WCP itself. Its a debate if MarketCrafter (a much enhanced marketing plugin) or Book Crafter (my vellum/atticus replcement). I'm leaning towards the second as much of its code is in ConceptCrafter already.

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Off on a Tangent Thursday