It answers comments while I sleep
Someone comments a word under one of my posts and gets a message back with the thing I promised, at four in the morning, without me touching it. There are about a dozen of those running.
The machine
Everything on this page
is running right now.
I did not learn this from a course. I taught myself by breaking free tools at one in the morning, and I run my own week on it before it goes anywhere near a client.
$ what is up
comment automations ······· a dozen, answering on their own
scheduler ················· publishing to two networks
live endpoints ············ four, wired into my own tools
database ·················· up
dashboard ················· mine, built to watch all of it
browser ··················· one it drives itself
# all of it on a server I rent, in my name.
In plain words
What each of those actually does.
It publishes without me
A scheduler I host myself pushes posts out to two networks on a calendar I set once. I have not opened a posting app in weeks.
It picks up work from anywhere
Four live endpoints sit waiting. I can send a voice note from my phone and something on the other end turns it into a written draft and files it where it belongs.
I can see all of it on one screen
I got tired of guessing whether things were alive, so I built a dashboard that shows me what is running, what it is using, and what is queued.
It uses a browser by itself
There is a second browser on my laptop I am not allowed to touch. It opens it, clicks, reads the screen, and decides what to do next. It is signed out of everything of mine.
It remembers my whole life
Every decision, every client, everything I said last month, in a place it opens every single time. It stops asking me who I am.
Limits
What I will not do.
Nothing reaches your customers on its own
Anything that goes out to a client of yours gets read by you first. I set things up to draft and wait, not to send.
The rule
Draft, then you press send
I do not keep a copy of your files
Everything lives in your accounts, on your machine. You keep your passwords and I never ask for them. If something is confidential and you want it left out, you say so and it stays out.
The rule
Your accounts, your machine
I will not build you something you cannot run
If it only works while I am in the room, it is not finished. You should be able to change it, break it, and fix it after I am gone.
The rule
You can run it alone
One a day
I post the build every day.
Working or broken, one video a day, so you can watch the thing get made instead of taking my word for it.