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Documenting the journey of building digital businesses as a non-developer. Tips, tutorials, and lessons learned along the way.
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How To Build An Airtable Directory Site
How I Automate The Lead Matching Workflow on Unicorn Factory
A Beginner's Guide to Webflow (2020 Edition)
How To Hack Together A Profile Updates Feature With Memberstack
A Beginner's Guide To Zapier (2020 Edition)
How I Automate Onboarding On My Freelancer Marketplace
My No-Code Tools Stack (2020 Edition)
Tella Just Released Their Video API — and It Fixes the Worst Part of Video Creation
Making the video is not the hard part. For me, filming a video usually takes 30–50 minutes. Sometimes less. Everything around the video is where the real friction lives. After recording, I still need to: \- Upload it to YouTube \- Write a proper title \- Write a custom description \- Create a blog post to go with it \- Repurpose it for socials \- Share it with my team That easily adds another 3–4 hours per video. That's the part that kills momentum. Recording feels creative. Publishing feels like admin. This is the gap Tella's new Video API finally starts to close.
Circle AI Agents Review: Automate Community Management with AI
If you’ve ever run a community, you know the pain of answering the same support questions over and over again. “How do I update my email?” “Where can I find this?” “Is this client a red flag?” — it adds up fast. Now imagine handing those questions off to an AI agent that actually knows your business. That’s exactly what Circle is promising with their new AI Agent feature — and in this post, I’m diving deep into whether it’s ready to take that job off your plate. Here’s what you’ll get from this breakdown: - What [Circle](https://www.connorfinlayson.com/a/circle) AI Agents are and how they work - Real-world examples of AI support in action - How I’m using them to handle onboarding, support, and coaching - How to set them up with custom knowledge and permissions - Where Circle’s AI still needs improvement - Whether the pricing makes sense for your stage Whether you’re running a small private mastermind or a growing freelancer marketplace, community support can eat up your time. Let’s explore if Circle AI Agents are finally the fix we’ve all been waiting for.
