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Beginners

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Sketch of one man at a laptop with coffee, surrounded by robot workers handling support, servers, mail, monitoring, ads and the till

I made $1.6M+, cut my costs 61% and work 4 hours a week (thanks to AI)

$1,616,235 in revenue since 2021, no employees. How AI agents cut my running costs 61%, and what they could cut next.

Write it once, every session knows it: a skill folder feeding Claude Code, and three sessions that all know it

Your AI agent forgets everything. Skills fix that.

Every session your AI agent starts from zero. A skill is a runbook it reads on its own, so a lesson is learned once.

A YouTube link tapped in a phone browser goes through a browser extension and opens in the PipePipe app

Make your phone's browser open YouTube links in PipePipe

Every YouTube link on my phone now opens in PipePipe, even inside the browser. I told my AI agent what I wanted and it wrote the browser extension.

Don't watch it, ask it: youtube-vision reads what's on screen and what's said in a YouTube video, then answers 'PC Gamer, Nov 1996, cover'.

Watching YouTube is for boomers. I have AI watch it for me.

I don’t watch videos for information anymore. I paste the link into my AI agent with one question, it watches the whole thing, pictures and audio, and hands me the 30 seconds I needed. Recently that was “between 8:00 and 9:10, which magazines does he show Diablo

The orange Clawd mascot holds up a 35/40 scorecard inside a looping arrow of drafts, standing on a pile of rejected ones

Loop it till you make it

I gave this talk at EBR Da Nang, the entrepreneurs' meetup here in Da Nang, on 8 August 2026. It's about getting an AI to make video ads for a Japanese supplement I sell, by building a loop that scores its own work and rewrites its own

Pokemon Red battle: Clawd (Claude Code mascot) cleaves MissingNo. — built from dark UX patterns — with a binary katana. SUPER EFFECTIVE!

GUIs are deprecated: how I got my movie on the TV by yelling at Claude

Using Claude Code to play movie files on the TV while Android TV doesn't work.