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Built an App today

I have an idea for a new business serving the paper crafting industry. I worked with Copilot on my idea to see if there is a market. Then we worked out the free tools I could use to do the job. Next I did the job manually.

After that, I went to Claude and outlined the process and asked if it could automate it. It broke down the pieces it could do and stated what it couldn’t do. I selected one area to automate, built the app, tested it, and iterated until we got it to do what I wanted in an efficient manner.

Tool: process images from an input directory and remove the background and place in an output directory and name the files according to my naming convention. Then create a docx file that contains all the images. From there I can check the output and resize to my liking.

Things I added during iteration:

Log the files processed so if I add more images, it only processes the new ones
Have a default directory but let me override it
Changed output from pdf to Word so I could make final adjustments
Have Claude read the directory structure and ask me which sub directory I want to process (instead of having to enter the full path).

Scaffolding

Each theme follows the same directory structure. I have a template directory that I will copy and rename for each theme.

Next tool: read a prompt file and generate several images to put into to input directory. Once that works, I will link the apps.

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