Build to Launch MCP
Connect via MCP and work directly in your AI agent. For builders, writers, and business owners.
500+ practical guides, workflows and prompts for setting up, researching, building, automating, writing and selling with AI, plus open-source skill packs. Built from hands-on AI work, and kept current as the tools change.
Your first steps with AI: learn to prompt, set up your AI for daily work, and get your first result.
129 items in 9 groups: 60 guides · 43 setups · 6 workflows · 13 prompts · 7 examples
Hub orientation
Learn what Program, Courses, Library and Community each do, and the three-step build loop that takes you to a shipped build.
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Two-rule prompt course
Learn two prompt rules and a reusable template across eight lessons, then fix, test and save one real request of your own.
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Claude setup for daily use
Set up Claude Desktop in under 10 minutes, then get Claude to know your work and pick a first plugin for your role.
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Claude Code for non-coders
Know what Claude Code does on your computer, how a session runs step by step, and whether it fits someone who does not code.
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MCP servers in plain English
Know what an MCP server does, with three real examples (Gmail, a database, Perplexity), and why most people need no code to use one.
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AI coding tool picker
Pick the right AI coding tool for each task from a table of nine, Claude to v0, each with its unique strength.
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Claude Skills vs GPTs and Gems
Know the four types of Claude Skills and how they compare with ChatGPT GPTs and Gemini Gems across 10 dimensions.
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Three types of AI agents
Place any AI tool in one of three agent types, then test any agent product with five questions before you sign up.
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Obsidian vault Claude reads first
Set up an Obsidian vault with 5 fill-in context templates and a CLAUDE.md that tells Claude to read it first, in about ten minutes.
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Free AI learning roadmap
Know where to start with AI for free: four learning paths, a five-stage curriculum, free GPU options and a 1-3-5 portfolio rule.
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Fill-in prompt for any AI tool
Fill in one four-part template (what, why, how, constraints) and paste a build prompt that works in Claude, Cursor, Lovable or ChatGPT.
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Claude basics course
Learn where to start each job in Claude (Chat, Cowork, Code or Design) over ten lessons, ending with one real task you verify.
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Check ideas, competitors and facts, and run deep research with AI on any topic.
101 items in 7 groups: 23 guides · 13 setups · 27 workflows · 28 prompts · 10 examples
Idea validation research
Get a build, don't build or build differently verdict on your idea, from 10 to 15 mapped competitors, data access checks and demand signals.
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NotebookLM in the browser
Add up to 50 sources on a free NotebookLM account, get answers citing the exact passage, and make audio, slides or quizzes.
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Substack notes pattern research
Find which note formats perform in your niche from up to 500 notes per creator and three analysis passes. Needs the Substack Notes MCP.
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Research MCP routing
Pick the research MCP for each job: Tavily to find sources, Exa to match by meaning, Apify for login walls, Firecrawl to read pages.
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Research prompts map
Find which of 80 research prompts in 8 files fits your situation, and add a CLAUDE.md rule so Claude Code picks one for you.
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Obsidian vault Claude reads first
Set up an Obsidian vault with 5 fill-in context templates and a CLAUDE.md that tells Claude to read it first, in about ten minutes.
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Claude in Chrome use cases
Get Claude in Chrome working with one install fix, then have it fill forms, test your product and run browser tasks on a schedule.
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Competitor strategy breakdown
Turn 10 to 15 of a creator's articles into 3 things to adopt, 3 to ignore and 1 gap you could fill.
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Perplexity web search in Claude
Set up live web search with citations inside Claude through Perplexity, with a session token or an API key that bills separately.
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Cited research from NotebookLM
Run NotebookLM deep research inside Claude Code for cited answers you can query in later sessions. Needs the NotebookLM MCP and a Google account.
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Creator notes pattern study
Turn one creator's Substack URL into their top 20 notes, a one-page pattern summary and 3 note ideas adapted to your niche.
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Morning brief from open tabs
Get a morning brief from your open browser tabs: top 3 decisions, key updates and one task to start first. Needs Claude Cowork.
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Plan the app, guide the AI through the build, then test, deploy and launch it.
168 items in 8 groups: 54 guides · 12 setups · 29 workflows · 41 prompts · 32 examples
Idea validation research
Get a build, don't build or build differently verdict on your idea, from 10 to 15 mapped competitors, data access checks and demand signals.
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First Claude Code project
Install Claude Code with one command and build a first project, a website or expense tracker, from exact prompts in about 30 minutes.
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Five AI coding platforms compared
Choose between Lovable, Bolt, Replit, v0 and Base44 after one portfolio build tested each on external data, AI chat and payments.
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Pre-deploy checklist
Run one checklist before every production deploy to test function, devices, speed, security and rollback, plus a clear deploy or do-not-deploy call.
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Build process skill pack
Give your coding agent a build process from brainstorm and plan to tests, review and a finished branch, with telemetry you can turn off.
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Substack niche analyzer build
See how a Substack niche analyzer was built in Python and Next.js, including the Vercel deploy bug that broke it and its fix.
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App idea to build prompts
Turn an app idea into a Master Initialization Prompt and 5 phased build prompts, after 7 rounds that lock the architecture before any code.
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MCP server build patterns
Choose between stdio and HTTP MCP servers, then follow verified build steps for five ways to ship one, from local script to OAuth.
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One-prompt app plan
Turn an app idea into architecture, a setup prompt and phased build prompts for your coding tool, for apps with 1 to 2 integrations.
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GitHub connected to Claude
Connect Claude to GitHub to read repos, search code, and open issues and pull requests from chat. Needs a personal access token.
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Engineering skill pack
Set up an open-source skill pack (MIT) to grill an idea, write a spec, split it into tickets, build test first and review code.
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Notes scheduler build story
See how a teacher replaced a broken notes automation with a Chrome extension in 19 build days for about 135 dollars, using Claude Code.
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Schedule jobs, sort your email, run agents on their own, and save any job to repeat it.
95 items in 10 groups: 26 guides · 28 setups · 20 workflows · 13 prompts · 8 examples
Automation mechanics course
Learn the five jobs and sixteen mechanisms behind every automation, from whether it is worth automating to where it should run.
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First Cowork project
Turn one weekly browser-and-text task into a Cowork project, with the setup steps and a recap fix for when Cowork loses context.
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Four levels of AI automation
Know which of four automation levels your job needs, from Claude chat to n8n workflows to an OpenClaw agent, before you pick a tool.
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Multi-account Gmail MCP setup
Connect four Gmail accounts to Claude as four named MCP servers under one Google Cloud project, so results never bleed between inboxes.
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Inbox action list
Get one numbered list of under 10 items that need you today, from replies to payments, across four Gmail accounts in 40 seconds.
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Weekly Substack notes batch
Pull 5 note ideas from your latest article and schedule the week in Claude. Needs QuickViralNotes, its Chrome extension and the Substack MCP.
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Image prompts as slash commands
Save your image prompts once as reusable commands in Cursor, Claude Projects or ChatGPT, and call them by name for every hero image.
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First Claude Code routine
Build your first Claude Code routine with a five-part map, an AUTOMATION.md instruction file and a receipt for every run, in seven steps.
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Claude skill build guide
Learn to build a Claude skill that triggers, from description and body to references, tests and upkeep, refined on one skill across 14 evals.
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Shared memory for AI tools
Give your AI tools one local memory, then run intake from Markdown, RSS, YouTube or Hacker News with Claude or Codex, receipts included.
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Workflow orchestrator prompt
Map a repeated 5+ step job, mark each step as automated, MCP or human, and get one prompt that runs it end to end.
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Claude scheduling modes compared
Pick one of four Claude scheduling modes for each job by what stops each, including Cowork tasks moving to the cloud in July 2026.
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Draft and edit articles and posts in your voice, grow your newsletter, and make the AI check its own draft.
65 items in 6 groups: 10 guides · 5 setups · 12 workflows · 30 prompts · 8 examples
Article to social notes
Make 10 to 12 social notes from one article, with a mix of thought-provoking, educational and personal notes, in Claude Code or ChatGPT.
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Voice card from your writing
Get a Voice Card your AI reads every time you write, built once from 5 of your articles.
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Article repurposing kit
Turn one published article into 5 pull quotes, a 7-tweet thread, a LinkedIn post, a short email and 3 new angles with Claude Cowork.
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Critique-then-create prompt
Have the AI name what is weak, generic or off in your draft first, then rewrite it from that critique in a second step.
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Substack Notes MCP install
Connect Claude Code to Quick Viral Notes in about 2 minutes so Claude can generate, schedule and publish Substack notes. Needs a QVN account.
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8-stage AI writing workflow
Write an article from blank page to published in 8 stages, with AI as your editor and about 2.5 to 3.5 hours total.
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Video to newsletter drafts
Get a 300-word newsletter section, a 7-tweet thread and a LinkedIn post drafted from one YouTube video that Claude Cowork watches in Chrome.
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Self-review prompt add-on
Add one line to any prompt so the AI reviews its first draft, challenges its assumptions and revises before you see the final version.
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Substack article reader for Claude
Let Claude read your published Substack articles, check engagement stats and find internal links. Rerun the login when cookies expire every few weeks.
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Nine layers of AI flavor
Find the nine layers of AI flavor in your draft, each with a before-and-after example and a prompt that corrects it.
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Substack notes from an article
Get Substack notes of 40 to 80 words from one article, matched to your voice, scored and stress-tested by a skeptical reader pass.
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Writing prompt library map
Pick from 78 writing prompts in seven files, voice to SEO to email, or set up Claude Code to choose the right one.
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Make images, infographics, video and podcasts, and reuse your recordings.
27 items in 4 groups: 3 guides · 5 setups · 10 workflows · 5 prompts · 4 examples
Image prompts as slash commands
Save your image prompts once as reusable commands in Cursor, Claude Projects or ChatGPT, and call them by name for every hero image.
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Audio brief for stakeholders
Give stakeholders a 10 to 20 minute podcast-style audio brief of a code change, made in NotebookLM from your change summary.
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Content repurposing playbook
Turn one transcript or article into 20 to 30 assets: LinkedIn posts, X threads, an email, a blog post and short video scripts.
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Canva designs from Claude
Make editable Canva infographics, carousels and social posts from one article, made by Claude through the Canva MCP on a free Canva plan.
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Consistent character hero images
Make hero images with the same AI character every time, using one reference image, fixed identity rules and a six-step ChatGPT method.
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Video to newsletter drafts
Get a 300-word newsletter section, a 7-tweet thread and a LinkedIn post drafted from one YouTube video that Claude Cowork watches in Chrome.
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NotebookLM MCP install
Query all your NotebookLM notebooks from Claude Code after a 5-minute install and one login. Needs Python and uv.
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Ask your recordings questions
Ask a NotebookLM notebook of your courses, calls and videos a specific question from Claude Code and get the exact passage with a timestamp.
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Meta Muse safe browser setup
Set up Meta Muse at muse.ai with every action waiting for your approval, then turn one article into a podcast, page, image and video.
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Cover style from past covers
Connect one MCP URL that scans your recent covers and returns your visual brand as a prompt template with slots for each new article.
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NotebookLM in the browser
Add up to 50 sources on a free NotebookLM account, get answers citing the exact passage, and make audio, slides or quizzes.
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Branded infographic maker
Pick from 27 infographic types and get a branded HTML page from your content that downloads as a PNG in any browser.
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Shape an offer, find buyers, get found in search, and write emails that sell.
84 items in 6 groups: 16 guides · 8 setups · 17 workflows · 25 prompts · 18 examples
Three Substack growth levels
Know what recommendation swaps, notes and articles each do for Substack growth, and how often to run each so your articles get found.
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Stripe MCP for Claude
Connect Claude to Stripe with one command, then check failed payments, manage subscriptions and create coupons from chat. Needs a Stripe account.
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Value-based price calculator
Get three price points for your AI tool from the time it saves buyers, with the math shown and a sales script.
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SEO and AI search fixes
Get SEO and AI search fixes with code for your framework, from Next.js to WordPress, after it asks six questions about your site.
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Email marketing prompts
Copy 8 prompts for a welcome email, a 5-part nurture sequence, lead magnet landing pages and 10 subject lines under 50 characters.
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Creator business breakdown
Map any creator's business from one URL into a brief on their offer stack, marketing, tech stack and what is worth copying.
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Conversion rate test plan
Copy three tests, one change at a time, that took a product page from 1% to 8% conversion: urgency, no video, a lower price.
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Monthly search position report
Run a monthly Search Console review that ranks CTR gaps, content decay, cannibalization and AI citability, and compares each month with the last.
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Gumroad store from Claude
Create Gumroad offer codes, check sales and manage products from a Claude chat, using an access token from your Gumroad settings.
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Substack growth on little time
Learn the three-level Substack growth plan (recommendation swaps, notes, linked articles) one writer with a full-time job used to reach 6k subscribers.
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Research-first cold outreach
Research the field, then each person, before you write, using prompts for role cards, a top 10 shortlist and messages under 90 words.
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Local business lead scanner
Build a scanner that finds local businesses with no website on Google Maps and turns one scan into three service offers. Needs Apify.
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Fix what broke, maintain what runs, build the operations behind your AI system, and keep it under your control.
36 items in 5 groups: 13 guides · 1 setup · 6 workflows · 7 prompts · 9 examples
Stuck-loop breaker
Keep the AI from repeating a failed fix or adding features nobody asked for. It stops and explains after 3 edits to one file.
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MCP error fixer
Fix a broken MCP install: match the symptom to one of four error types, each with its own fix.
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Claude Code error fixes
Fix common Claude Code problems, from API Error 400 to context degradation, with a seven-step order of commands like /doctor, /cost and /compact.
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Production rollback playbook
Stop a broken release fast with a 2-minute response plan and copy-ready rollback commands for Vercel, Git, API routes and database migrations.
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Why Claude skills fail silently
Find why your Claude skills break with no warning, sort what goes in CLAUDE.md, a skill or a command, and run the included auditor.
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Post-launch vibe coding fixes
Catch the 8 mistakes that break vibe-coded apps after launch, from plaintext passwords to dirty context, with a numbered fix for each.
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Claude skill scoping guide
Know when to use a skill instead of MCP, scope one skill to one job, and spot the two failure modes that break skills.
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Let AI interview you first
Have the AI ask you questions until it is 95% confident, with three prompt templates for coding, writing and research decisions.
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Where CLAUDE.md rules live
Sort each CLAUDE.md rule into one of five layers by when Claude loads it, and keep the file under the 200-line target.
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Deeper MCP troubleshooting
Solve the 10 most common MCP setup problems, such as wrong URLs, wrong project scope, missing OAuth popups and too many servers.
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Raw log debugging
Paste the full console output into AI so it can find the exact breaking point of a silent failure, with no description needed.
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Claude Code token savings
Cut Claude Code token use by fixing three token drains, blocking expensive files and keeping CLAUDE.md under 200 lines.
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Pick an idea from projects that already work: apps, writer tools, agents and their launch lessons.
80 items in 9 groups: 6 guides · 5 setups · 8 workflows · 61 examples
Portfolio of AI builds
See a portfolio of apps, MCPs and systems built with AI since January 2025, with the build story and current status of each.
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Substack growth from zero
See which 7 mistakes cost one writer subscribers and which moves, like peer recommendations and weekly posts, grew a newsletter from zero to 4,500.
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Photo search by description
Follow a first AI build that searches a local photo folder by description with Cursor, Flask and CLIP, including fixes for two rendering bugs.
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Consistent character hero images
Make hero images with the same AI character every time, using one reference image, fixed identity rules and a six-step ChatGPT method.
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First app launch lessons
Know what launching a first vibe coding app costs beyond code, from hosting across 5 platforms to desktop packaging and the 10/90 rule.
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Cowork use cases from 17 creators
Learn which kinds of work Cowork fits from 17 creators' real setups, such as daily briefings and content pipelines, and why four left.
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Personal agents compared
Choose a personal agent from ChatGPT dots, Grok Bot and Meta Muse, tested on real accounts for what each does best and costs.
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First Claude Code routine
Build your first Claude Code routine with a five-part map, an AUTOMATION.md instruction file and a receipt for every run, in seven steps.
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Gmail MCP workflows in Claude Code
See five Gmail MCP workflows across four accounts in Claude Code, from a receipt extractor to a morning brief that took 40 seconds.
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Personal website from one prompt
See four personal websites built from one prompt in under 10 minutes, and the four changes that made one site its owner's own.
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LLM outage backup plan
Build an LLM backup before an outage: a model that passes token, quality and cost tests in API mode, plus a fallback prompt.
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Notion AI agents
Build a first Notion AI agent in 5 steps and about 30 minutes, from a house search example. Written in beta: check first.
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Start from the tool you use, and find the guides, setups and workflows for it.
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Claude Code
The Claude coding agent in your terminal or code editor. It reads your project, writes code and runs commands.
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Substack
A newsletter and Notes platform. Items cover growth, Notes and the Substack MCPs.
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MCP (connectors)
The standard way to connect your AI to another app. These items cover what it is, install, build and fix. Setups for one app are under that app.
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Cursor
A code editor with an AI agent built in. Good when you want to see and edit the code yourself.
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NotebookLM
A Google notebook that answers only from the sources you add. It also makes audio overviews, slides and research reports.
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Claude skills and plugins
Packaged abilities you add to Claude: make one, install one and fix one that does not start.
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Claude Cowork
The Claude Desktop mode that works on files and folders on your computer and runs scheduled tasks for you.
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Claude app (chat, Desktop, Chrome, Dispatch)
The Claude chat app on the web, on your computer and in your browser. Use it to think, write and run tasks without code.
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Gmail
Lets your AI read, sort and draft email in one or more inboxes.
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ChatGPT
The OpenAI chat app. Use Projects to keep instructions and files for one job in one place.
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Replit
Builds, runs and hosts an app in the browser, with checkpoints you can go back to.
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Slack
A team chat. You can talk to Claude from a Slack thread and get the answer back there.
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Members connect Build to Launch to Claude or ChatGPT one time: add one web address in your AI app, in about five minutes. After that, ask in plain words.
Your first question
“Build to Launch, what can you do for me, and where should I start?”
Four ways to ask
Do it with me
“Build to Launch, do the MCP Troubleshooting Guide with me. My Gmail server says connected but shows no tools.”
Your AI opens the guide and walks the steps with you.
Build a workflow
“Build to Launch, build me a weekly routine that turns my Monday notes into three Substack notes.”
Your AI puts the right items in order and runs them as one job.
Ask
“Build to Launch, what should I set up first if I do not write code?”
Your AI answers from the Get started job and gives you the first step.
Find
“Build to Launch, find the item that stops Claude from making the same mistake again.”
Your AI finds the item and opens it.
Members open every item, with its prompts and steps, and your AI does each job with you.
Use the same email when you sign in afterwards.