Hey everyone, I'm Maryan, based in Greece. I build small SaaS products and spend quite a bit of time working with AI agents. Lately, I've been using Hermes Agent for research, coding and some of the everyday work around my projects. I enjoy the building side, but my focus now is getting better at finding problems people will actually pay to solve. It's easy to get carried away building things. I joined to meet other people figuring this out and learn how you're applying AI in your own businesses. Happy to compare notes and share what I've tried, including what hasn't worked. Outside work, I enjoy long walks, meditation and time with my family. What are you working on at the moment?

Been exploring agent harnesses beyond the usual n8n/Make setup and started building on Hermes (open source, from NousResearch). Milestone 1: fully set up and running on my own machine, agent loop, messaging gateway, and MCP support all working. Will keep posting updates as I add memory, skills, and eventually deploy it properly. If you're curious what Hermes actually does differently from OpenClaw, happy to share what I've learned so far. Has anyone here tried Hermes or is it mostly OpenClaw in this group?

I just hit 1 million subscribers today. I posted my first video 720 days ago. I was a fresh college grad who had moved from Illinois to Salt Lake City, and I had no idea what I was in for. I remember filming with a $30 webcam and no microphone. People in the comments were begging me to upgrade both. I even kept a towel under my keyboard so you wouldn’t hear me banging on the desk when I typed. Those early videos were rough, but people still watched. That meant the world to me. Since then, I've had some of my lowest lows and some of my highest highs. I've learned so much, met people I'm so grateful to know, and made plenty of mistakes along the way. Every day feels like a new adventure. I get to wake up excited to work, learn something new, and share it with people who are figuring things out alongside me. I feel really lucky to call that my job. To my parents, thank you for always being in my corner. Just knowing I have your support is all I really need. Jon Morrow, thank you for being the first person to join the team, becoming a mentor to me, and helping me figure out who I want to be. Yash Chauhan, you’ve been here since around 8,000 subscribers. Thank you for caring so much about this community long before it was ever your job. To my family and friends, thank you for being there through all of it. To the entire AIS team, I appreciate you all more than you know. And to everyone who's spent part of their day watching my videos, thank you. Hearing that something I shared helped you build something or take a chance on yourself makes my day. I still have so, so much to learn and so much growing to do. I know there are plenty more mistakes ahead, too. But I'm excited to wake up tomorrow, see what the day throws at me, and try to tackle it as best as I can. Thank you for being part of these past two years. - Nate

for anyone who hasn't looked into it yet, grok bot is xai's version of an ai agent that you assign real tasks to and it just keeps working on its own, connected to your normal tools. market wise grok's been growing fast, jumped a ton in us chatbot market share this year and xai just raised a huge round. but grok also has a rocky track record with reliability and trust in the past so that's worth keeping in mind before building anything client facing on it. has anyone here actually tested it enough to say if it's worth adding next to n8n or claude code, or is it still too early?

This might be hard to believe, but AI is now capable of starting and running a profitable business. It can help you grow much faster. And spend far less. Inside my company, we’ve grown to an average of $420,000 per month of revenue with less than 10 full-time employees in the past 12 months. Not by using AI to replace people. But by using it to make each and every one of those employees superhuman. If you have a business, or you’re thinking about starting one, you need to be at this event. My team and I will be showing everything we do behind-the-scenes. >> ANNOUNCING: event about using AI to start and grow a business - Nate