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Hi! I'm new here and wanted to ask a genuine question — not sure if this is already solved somehow or if it's something I'd need to build from scratch. I'm exploring an idea for Dad Labs (a community for dads learning to use AI) — inspired by a video I watched about a footage crawler: reducing hours of video into searchable text descriptions using extracted frames plus a local vision model, all organized through folders/markdown. The application I have in mind is different from the one in the video (which was a 9TB professional archive) — I'm thinking something much smaller: helping families organize the years of video they've accumulated (weddings, first steps, etc.) that they never have time to sort through. I don't know if this is something the community already has as a template, or if it's more of an end-to-end project I'd need to research and build myself. I'd rather ask than assume — is there something similar already documented here, or any reference you'd recommend to start understanding the actual technical structure (folder organization, the markdown file format, etc.)? Any guidance is welcome, and if this is an obvious question for anyone who's been here longer, apologies — I'm just getting started.

This is part 3. Part 1 is the month that broke me: https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/why-its-been-so-quiet-from-my-crazy-loud-corner-of-the-world and part 2 is the system that held while it did: https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/the-system-that-let-me-disappear-for-a-week-and-then-some You don't need either one to follow this. This one starts a lot earlier, and it's the least flattering thing I've posted here. ------------------------------------ The offer ------------------------------------ A few years ago I sat down across from my business partner and got handed a choice. She buys me out, or I buy her out. She'd done her homework. She'd already gone to one of our clients and lined up the capital to write the check. She'd been meeting with our business advisor without me. And before any of it reached me, the story of who I was had already been told to the people who mattered. She was the workhorse. I was the show pony. I couldn't fully argue with it. I was undisciplined. Really undisciplined. I'd start five things, finish one, and be lit up about a sixth by Thursday. I was no prince charming either. I strolled into that office late plenty of mornings, which is the kind of thing everybody sees. What nobody saw was me working until one in the morning. That's the shift I actually kept, and it doesn't have any witnesses. So let me back up, because the show pony didn't come from nowhere. ------------------------------------ 2011 ------------------------------------ I lost my job in the aftermath of the real estate crash. Then I did the responsible thing. I took a stable job so I could feed my family and my wife could stop working, because we had young kids at home. No strategy in it. Groceries. Three years later I was ready to go out on my own again, and I was scared. So I did what scared people do. I found somebody to do it with me.

Pretty new to the AI world, but I'm using Obsidian for now to help me organize my journal entries and meeting transcripts. I connected Gemini to help summarize my meetings for the week which lives in the 04 Journal/Journal.md. So I got to thinking, maybe I should create more AI "thingies" within each folder and then have a master root file they all report to, sort of like a command center. What am I doing? And what's the proper term for these "thingies" called? Chief of staff? Agents? Skills? Instructions?

Hi All! I made an app for my mom, didn't charge her obviously, and my dad slipped me R1000 ($61) anyway. I got paid, whoop whoop! Sweet gesture - but now I've got a friend asking for a quote for actual paid work, and I genuinely don't know what to tell her. It's not a super simple bit of work either, it's actually got some real layers to it, but SUPER cool and SUPER interesting to build. The credits/hosting/sundries side I can work out, that's just cost. What I'm stuck on is pricing my work: the actual skill, the time, the layers that go into a build. So much of it is my data skills and understanding how to structure the data and put it all together, technically a lot of this is just pure data in a nice wrapper. So the question: when you price a build, once-off or subscription, are you working from hours × a rate, pricing against what a comparable service/tool would cost the client, or something else? How do you put a price on labour if you have nothing to compare it to? I'm a teacher with a few cool skills in data and making things look nice, and I like systems, which maybe makes it feel easier to me than it actually is, so I know that's not the most reliable measure of what it's worth. But she's not the only one asking, people keep reaching out, so I'm trying to build an actual system here, not just take any offer and hope for the best next time. (this is all going towards my Lyceum seat - not even sure if it is available anymore but I am working to get that seat so please help me figure this out.) Thank you in advance!!