I started the newsletter build on 5 June, and as of today I have 762 sub. I made my first ad revenue - $80 - two days ago. I think people are hungry for local information hubs that pull 50 facebook groups together without the facebook bs that goes with them, all into one place. I'll talk more about this build and what I did, but it started with a tweet that I copy and pasted into claude code. __________________________ Can you build this project out in a folder? I'd use substack. Call it the Barrhaven Bugle. Confirm spelling. Task second brain, researching the idea to flesh it out and save findings. If I had to start one AI side hustle in 2026, this would be it: a local newsletter that pulls in 2k a month and runs entirely by a team of four AI agents. The founder (Lucas Walter) has never written a single edition. This is a copy-pasteable system that could be applied to any city in the world. Here's the agent setup: 1. A growth engineer agent scrapes every local news site, subReddit, and event calendar at 6:00 a.m. daily. 2. A content director reads the database and writes the weekly newsletter in his voice every week. 3. A sales director handles every inbound advertiser email back-and-forth, pitching AI-generated ad creative. 4. A CEO agent orchestrates all three and reports back to him. Results from Lucas's newsletter: Spokane Pulse, 7,400 subscribers, 47.5% open rate (industry average 20% to 30%), 11% click-through rate, 2k a month in ad revenue, and growing under 4 hours a week of human in the loop. Now imagine running the same system in your city. I link to the Spokane Pulse in the comments so you can check it out for yourself. ___________________________ From that tweet I just started building it out. Now I ultimately ended up with a different system than this. That looks much like a news aggregator. I do have seven Hermes agents doing it. I am pushing out five-question interviews to people by email and building features. I've added a cartoon daily, a crossword, and a swipe deck pulse.

Hi all, does anyone else find editing is the actual bottleneck on Reels, not the ideas or the filming? Cutting silences and filler words out by hand was eating more of my time than either of those. Had Claude Code help me build a small local script that handles the boring part automatically. 1. Record raw footage as normal. 2. Run faster-whisper locally for a transcript (free, no API key, stays on your machine). 3. Use the transcript timestamps to auto-cut dead air and filler words. 4. Burn in captions from the same transcript instead of typing them out separately. Curious if anyone else has automated this part, or if I was just avoiding it longer than I should have.

Fits the spirit of this place, so sharing it here. Dictation apps kept wanting a monthly subscription, so we built one with Claude Code that runs on our own machine: FU Flow. Right Alt to start, right Alt to stop, and the text is typed at your cursor. Whisper runs locally, offline after setup, no account, unlimited words. Windows 10/11, and Ubuntu 22.04+ as of today. MIT, source on GitHub. fuckyouflow.app Happy to share how we handled the 1.7 GB model download and the auto-updater if anyone is building something similar.

📜 Ethan Mollick posted on LinkedIn about getting Claude to make explainer videos drawn entirely in code. No image generator, no stock footage, just code drawing every frame. I liked it enough to build it into a Claude Code skill, and the video on this post is what it makes. ⚓ What the skill does - I point /explainer at a post, a doc or a topic - Claude writes a 20 to 30 second script from it, facts only from the source - The voice gets made, then Claude uses Whisper to find the exact second each word is spoken - Every animation is tied to a word, not a clock time. When the narration says "voice", the Voice step pops in - Claude draws the frames on an HTML canvas and renders MP4s in 16:9, 1:1 and 9:16 - Cost per video: $0 ⚓ About the voice The voice is mine, cloned with Pocket TTS and running locally on my own machine. You don't need that. You can paste the script into ElevenLabs (or any TTS you like), or record it yourself, hand Claude the audio file, and have Claude match the animation to it. ⚓ Why this video jumps around My videos normally stick to one style start to finish. For Claude Code Pirates the default is a pirate ship at sea. This one hops through every world I've built so far, just as a demo, so you can see the range: - Pirates: cannon broadside on every point, a kraken for the warning - Platformer: a side-scroller that bonks a block on every point - Shooter: a starfighter blasting an alien per step - Girder: barrels, ladders and a boss robot - Pow: 60s TV superhero, KAPOW on every hit That's the part Mollick's post showed well: once the engine exists, a new look is just another drawing function. Ask Claude for "a new world" and describe it. ⚓ Build your own I'm not handing out my exact skill, since it's wired into my own setup. Instead I put a new lesson in the Classroom with the kickoff prompt and a skill outline you can copy, paste and make your own: - 🏴‍☠️ Build Your Own Explainer Video Skill (in 🗺️ Quick Wins & Recipes)

Anyone else building an AI feature for a client and immediately hit the "no budget for API credits" problem? Ran into this on a room visualiser I'm building (client uploads a photo of their room, gets an AI preview of what new curtains would look like on their windows). Didn't want to put a card on OpenAI credits for something still in testing, so spent some time finding a free way to do it. 1. Cloudflare Workers AI has a free daily allowance for image models like FLUX.2, no card needed to start. 2. you just need a Cloudflare account ID and an API token, then you're calling the model directly instead of going through a paid provider. 3. keep input images under the provider's size limit (512px on the long edge worked for me), the output still upscales fine. 4. worth checking the provider's data policy too. Cloudflare states it doesn't train on customer content, which mattered since this is client-facing. Not sponsored, just glad it exists. Happy to share the exact setup if anyone's hitting the same wall.