I’ve been experimenting with a different way of structuring websites lately and I can’t tell if I’m overthinking it or finally noticing the real problem. Most websites I see aren’t ugly. They just feel disconnected. Like every section was designed separately instead of feeling like one continuous experience. So lately I’ve been testing simpler layouts, smoother flow, less visual stopping points, and more intentional motion. What’s interesting is the more I do this, the less I care about individual sections looking impressive by themselves. Now I pay more attention to:“How naturally does someone continue scrolling?” Feels like a lot of websites accidentally create friction every few seconds without realizing it. Curious if anyone else thinks about frontend/design this way or if I’m disappearing into a rabbit hole.

I want to sell automation solutions in the Turkish market, but I’m looking for an industry where response rates to cold emails are high and where companies aren’t overly skeptical of automation offers. What industry, target audience, and automation solution would be best suited for this sector—one where companies would be eager to adopt automation once they realize it can significantly streamline their operations?

Hi all! 👋 I'm Todd, from Tampa I'm an old-timey IT guy and an entrepreneur of 30+ years. I started a dial-up ISP in the mid-90's with Linux and grew it to a post-dot-com-bubble cloud support company (pre GCP), but left IT in 2010. My experience for the last 20ish years has been in business development, spanning real estate, executive coaching, photography, and local government. I left public service in 2023 after the death of the commissioner I was supporting, and was promptly bitten by the ChatGPT bug. I'll be honest that I've been snookered by a couple of other "gurus" and their online communities, and I'm looking for a new online home that aligns with my goals. The financial cost aside, I'm working through the feelings that I wasted much of my time chasing what I was never going to be. What I have been doing is consulting for an SMB doing Claude Teams training and Skill building... I believe the new term is FDE, or Forward Deployed Engineer. I'm working through the Anthropic Academy and hope to be certified and become an Anthropic Partner - if/when they open it back up. Some of my time is building a 3-node Kubernetes cluster and a bare-metal, dual-GPU AI inference server on Linux and vLLM. (pic to catch your attention 😀) This started from my son's summer project - and briefly made me want to switch to DevOps, but now it's the platform for me to build my 2nd brain. I also (try to) balance all this with my love of hockey, being a USA Hockey youth coach for both a 16U travel team and our local JV and Varsity High School hockey teams. Besides being brilliant, my son is a pretty dang good hockey player. 🏒 🥅 So that's me in a nutshell. I'm happy to connect with like-minded people. (disclaimer: all hyphens, em-dashes, and oxford commas are mine. 😂) #AISChallenge

Hey all, I'm working my way through the courses and trying to unlock the next level. What's the single most valuable lesson you've learned from this community so far? I'd love to hear everyone's biggest takeaway. I'm incredibly grateful to Nate for creating such an awesome community, look forward to keep learning from everyone here!

Day 4 is done, and I built something I'm actually proud of! But honestly, this challenge nearly broke me before I truly got started. This was because I spent the last four days trying to get everything set up on an external drive and kept hitting walls. None of the required dependencies would fire no matter what I tried. Turns out the whole thing needed to live on my local drive. Once that clicked, everything opened up. From there, I worked with Claude Code to build out what I'm calling the "First Responder", an AI-powered lead response system built specifically for real estate agents. Aside from Trigger Dev, VS Code and Claude Code, the tech stack that I used to complete this project was: - Twilio (SMS text) - Gmail / Nodemailer (email) - Google Sheets (lead logging) Here's what it does: The moment a lead comes in, within 60 seconds, it sends a personalized AI-written email and text (Twilio) to the lead, notifies the agent, logs everything to a Google Sheet, and kicks off a follow-up sequence. I use the Twilio 7-day free trial, so I couldn't confirm the text messages being sent to my phone; however I will upgrade after the trial ends and confirm that the texts are coming through. I built this in roughly two hours. Compare that to the previous days I lost just on setting up the project up. But here's what really got me. I wasn't just clicking through steps and saying I completed the challenge. I was watching commits get written, pushed to GitHub, GitHub Actions trigger a Trigger.dev deploy, runs succeed and fail in real time. I actually understand how this works now and it's a great feeling!😁 The dental leads finder and the Nate B. Jones video monitor that Nate demonstrated were great exercises, but they made me want to go further and build something that could actually be a working and profitable product. "First Responder" is it. Honest assessment: After verified testing and getting consistent results, I believe that this will be an MVP I could walk into a real estate office with and feel confident in landing an actual client.