Day 1: AIS#7DaysChallenge (Newsletter automation for my soon-to-be-launched Skool fitness nutrition community)
Hey everyone! Here's my submission: https://fuellab.sharpr.cloud/newsletter/issue-001.html Quick intro: I'm a software engineer, Level 3 PT and Level 4 Advanced Sports Nutritionist, HYROX racer, half marathon runner, and getting ready for my first Ironman next year. You also saw my recent winning post on the community a few weeks ago: https://www.skool.com/ai-automation-society/community-wins-recap-apr-25-may-1?p=2b0f460e So when I started looking at what to build for Day 1 of Nate's 7-day challenge, the project that picked itself was tied to the thing I'm actually trying to launch on Skool — a fitness nutrition community for athletes and busy people who train hard. https://www.skool.com/test-community-3892 Why this was the right project to start with Soft launch is close. To get there I needed a landing page, an email list, a video sales letter on that page, the legal pages every site needs, and a way to actually publish weekly content without burning a full day every Wednesday. Nate's Day 1 brief said "build a newsletter automation." I figured I'd kill a flock of birds with one stone — newsletter pipeline, landing page, subscriber capture, VSL, and the legal footer, all in one connected system, all in one session. The stack I'd been wanting to try Claude Design for a while, so the landing page got built there first — pure React + Tailwind, no build step, the hand-drawn-coach aesthetic I'd been carrying around in my head for months. That gave me a real surface to attach the newsletter to. For the video sales letter, I used HeyGen — recorded one solid take, let it handle the avatar lipsync and the cleanup. The footage embedded straight into the landing page hero. Saved a half-day of trying to film myself in a quiet room. For the Privacy and Terms pages — every site needs them, nobody enjoys writing them — I just asked Claude. It produced two real, brand-appropriate pages that hold up. Five minutes from "we need legal pages" to "legal pages are live."