build business tools with GPT3
tl;dr: Use GPT-3 to automate data collection, enrichment, and standardization
cost: $0 to start; up to $400/mo at scale
time: 30 minutes
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background
The company OpenAI …
tl;dr: Use GPT-3 to automate data collection, enrichment, and standardization
cost: $0 to start; up to $400/mo at scale
time: 30 minutes
The company OpenAI …
tl;dr: I explain several ways to create and use Google API Console auth
read time: 10m (skim), closer to an hour to implement and test
cost: free
The Google API Console is home to a baffling array of 305 APIs (at time of writing), including Google Docs, Sheets, Drive …
tl;dr: find spontaenous interactions by scraping tweets with given keywords
cost: $0
build time: 5 minutes (MVP)
Twitter can be a great way to connect with alike minds. But if you're here, you're (probably) not yet a Thought Leader™. Let's walk through a quick way to speed that up …
tl;dr: don't miss important personal moments with your own personal CRM
cost: $0
build time: 20 minutes (MVP)
Update August 2020: the trick that enabled easy data import has been disabled. you can still use this build, but it will be more manual to set up
Hey friends,
if …
tl;dr: create automations and workflows in Alfred
cost: $0 after one-time $31 cost
build time: 2 minutes (download existing) / 20-60 minutes (build your own)
you may remember me raving about Alfred in my SaaS stack article. (If not, it's a cool software that has a bunch of neat features …
tl;dr: Manage your website events and pixels easily in one place
cost: $0
time: 15 minutes
Google Tag Manager is the most approachable¹, most scalable², and most commonly used 'event' management system for a budding website/webapp. It is free and can be easily³ shared with non-technical collaborators once …
tl;dr: Use advanced Google Search to find any webpage, emails, info, or secrets
cost: $0
time: 2 minutes
Software engineers have long joked about how much of their job is simply Googling things
Now you can do the same, but for free
Below, I'll cover dorking
, the use of …
tl;dr: How to use and productionize Google Colab, a free Jupyter Notebook service
cost: $0
build time: 15 minutes (MVP)
Google Colaboratory (or just Colab) is a recently popular cloud-ish implementation of Jupyter Notebooks.
In addition to Jupyter features you're familiar with - cell based execution, shared state across cells …
tl;dr: write serverless infrastructure as code
cost: $0
build time: 5 minutes (MVP)
Serverless, confusingly, means two things.
There's serverless the concept - your infra provider dynamically spins up compute at invocation time and (spins it down after). This means no more worrying about managing (or scaling) compute - it's …
tl;dr: write Javascript in Google Sheets to build advanced automations
cost: $0
build time: 10 minutes (MVP)
Google AppScript is a custom Javascript 'platform' that allows you to write custom scripts for Google Sheets, Docs, Slides, Forms, and Gmail. It is particularly useful for enabling technical functionality like API …
tl;dr: create all Google Ads auth components so you can automate Google & Youtube Ads
cost: $0 (you don't necessarily need to run any ads, either)
build time: 60 minutes
There are two Google ad-related API suites: the old Adwords API …
tl;dr: How to set up AWS Simple Email Service, through which you can send emails via many invocation methods
cost: $0 per first 62k emails/mo
build time: 60 minutes (MVP) + 2 days wait to get out of sandbox
Every SaaS product at scale leans heavily on email for …
tl;dr: How to make a static website, built on Pelican, Netlify hosting, Netlify CMS, and Github.
cost: $0/mo (<$1/mo w/ domain)
build time: 45 minutes (MVP) / 2.5 hours (with CMS + custom domain name)
With a personal site, less is really more …
tl;dr: Using Python requests and BeautifulSoup libraries to scrape data from most data sources
cost: $0
build time: 30 minutes (MVP) / 120 minutes (cleaner v2)
BeautifulSoup allows you to navigate through the raw HTML pulled down from a website (in JS, this is called 'Walking the DOM'). Generally, you …
tl;dr: set up the Reddit API and use it to generate interest data
cost: $0
setup time: 5 minutes
Reddit can be a great place to waste an hour or to explore particular new hobbies. It also can be a valuable source of free information on one's customers. In …
tl;dr: set up programmatic reads and writes from any Google Sheet you have access to
cost: $0
build time: 15 minutes (MVP)
Let's start with a hot take to get the blood boiling.
Google Sheets is (probably) the most important database your company uses.
Why?
Every single employee can …
tl;dr: set up a pass-through phone number that forwards to anywhere
cost: $0.0075 per inbound SMS
build time: 15 minutes (MVP)
Think of all the times you've had to submit a phone number to get a promotional code, or an ebook download, or the love of your …