I actually dealt with Apify before this activity which is another software that is used for webscraping but it's good to know of an alternative (Firecrawl) that is available and perhaps cheaper to use. For my day 2 build, I ended up working through a lead generator for my side business (since I'm learning AI to empower my side business, most of the activities will relate to this in some way shape or form). I haven't done too many iterations yet as the results are not great but I plan to add a priority level to my output as part of a "vetting" step in my workflow. Once I have my High priority targets identified, I will want to add another step to the workflow to automatically generate an outreach script. I can see how powerful this workflow can be and it will save me a ton of time later down the line. For those of you who read this, I'm wondering if you have any thoughts on how to prompt for more fine tuned leads that are more likely to convert? I'm also struggling with thinking of how to best automate sending the outreach scripts. It is difficult and unlikely for the webscraper to find email/phone numbers which can end up being a major blocker. I'd love to hear any suggestions you might have on this front as well!

I've already learned a tremendous amount even after day 1! I've finally understood what an IDE is and how it works. I learned how APIs work and how they are essentially the keys to the tools your workflows might need. I'm excited for what's to come! As for my build specifically, I created a weekly newsletter for my side business that I started. It is in the personal health and fitness industry and I iterated on the newsletter a few times. However, my build is still far from complete as the way the research is summarized doesn't make much sense even though it looks appealing. My few iterations were primarily focused on how the newsletter looks once it's sent out. I was even able to make the email stem from a send as alias from my side business' email address. I'm very happy with where I'm at only after a day and look forward to fully automating this newsletter for my subscribers. For anyone looking at this message - have you created or know of a public sources writing skill that would help with summarizing the research from the particular topic you prompt for?

Hope everyone is doing well! I've completed day 5 recently and wanted to share my results and learnings! For me, this activity was slightly different as I wasn't starting from scratch. I have an live website at the moment (https://vitakinetic.com/), which a 3rd party development team had created for me. I'm not the biggest fan of the UI or UX on my live website and I used today's challenge to help me enhance what it could look like. The results were shocking and I was very pleased with even the first iteration! Since there are a lot more pages to consider than just the landing page, I can see how this will be a valuable tool for me to use across my live website. I'll need to dig into how I can retain the button functionality and connectivity to other systems/databases that my live website has today. This likely will introduce a bit more complexity but is still a lot easier compared to learning how to code all of it myself! Let me know if you have any advice or have had success in the past with modifying only the UI of a website while keeping the back end connections in tact!

For those of you who read my previous posts, I'm sure you could have guessed that my skill aids my side business! The skill I created helps me build a visual card that I can use in my website. Essentially I prompt for a specialty fitness area (i.e. Pilates, or Bodybuilding and Competing, etc.) and the skill automatically generates a clean looking graphic that represents that specialty. I can then import that graphic into my website and use for that respective specialty category. This is extremely helpful and useful as new specialties can come up at any given point in time. In the past I've had issues with the consistency in image output - some specialty images looked totally different from others. I've been able to iterate and fine tune my skill well enough for it to be wayyy more consistent compared to prompting directly into nano-banana. Has anyone here encountered a similar use case where you're looking to increase consistency with the overall output? I'd welcome any thoughts or suggestions you might have!

Hi all, me again! In today's challenge I built further upon my lead generator skill. I wanted this skill to automatically run on a daily basis instead of manually invoking the skill every single time. I did run into a few issues with how I wanted to store and organize the output (whether that was in notion or gSheets) but I was able to update the typscripts and tasks that were being deployed to use both! I feel like I'm starting to understand more technical lingo (i.e. crons, development environment, production environment, etc.) which always feels rewarding. I didn't encounter any major issues during this build (hoping this is the case for my remaining 3 days!)