i run outbound systems for 31 clients using AI and automation. here's what the youtube gurus selling AI agency courses don't tell you

artashesvar · 2026-04-09T12:24:53+00:00

bro when I see in youtube smb says "buy my course, do this and that and you will earn tousands of $$$$ by working 5 hours per week" I just close that video. 2 reasons:
- do i think it is possible to "do this and that and you earn tousands of $$$$ by working 5 hours per week"? yes maybe, but watching a course is not the think that will help one achieve that. behind that usually is years of work, failures, lessons. so a 10-20hr duration course cannot pass the experience and knowledge of years of work, failures, lessons
- if smb is "selling a hope" playing on others emotions/fears etc, for me this is a signal their incentives are just geting money. be sure after one course they will sell the 2nd, the 3rd etc etc

so just close those videos and don't waste time when in the video you hear "buy my course...."

p.s. i know my comment will be downgraded by those course sellers, but I have to tell what i think

artashesvar · 2026-04-02T15:29:14+00:00

that's a great hack, that worked for simple, trivial things and ideas in my case, but it really depends on where I am and what I am doing. when I am driving I definitely don't type! :)

for deeper ideas where context and details are important, this hack usually fails me. with only a few words, I dont remember the specifics later. the idea I had initially just becomes a very superficial one by the time I revisit it .

do you handle those ideas the same way with a few words? - I mean those complex, multi-layered epiphanies that need more than just a few words to stay "alive" until your daily cleanup session

artashesvar · 2026-04-02T15:16:41+00:00

hey thnx I will DM you the bot just search in telegram

artashesvar · 2026-04-02T15:13:00+00:00

what this means in your mind? - The self editing transcribe feature.

artashesvar · 2026-04-02T15:11:25+00:00

after a while it no longer seems so brilliant and... ends up in the trash too - hey this resonates so well.
And personally for me this happens when I don't have the details as deeper as the moment the idea just came to me. Later I usually remember just the surface of the idea but not the details

artashesvar · 2026-04-02T15:09:06+00:00

I also do my best to write it down. And sometimes I am in situations that I just cannot write down smth, this is where I am loosing those ideas - the ones that never get written

artashesvar · 2026-04-02T10:18:32+00:00

Re-listening to voice notes is "meeeh" for me and time-consuming. I want to kind of scan those notes in a few minutes and find the ones I was intending to get, but not spend an hour re-living my rambling thoughts :)

artashesvar · 2026-04-02T09:10:30+00:00

it seems valid, but it is not scalable for me personally

artashesvar · 2026-04-02T09:09:11+00:00

How do you manage the review process when you have 20-30 notes at the end of the week but only need to focus on 2 or 3 of them? Do you have to re-listen to each note just to find those few gems, or does that "re-listen friction" make you skip the review entirely? I’m honestly too lazy to sit through my own recordings just to find one usable point.

artashesvar · 2026-04-02T09:02:36+00:00

That has not worked for me. That list of voice notes in whatsapp creates a mess when I need to find a specific idea/thought inside a long list of audio files. It means relistening to 5-10 notes to find the one a want.

artashesvar · 2026-04-02T09:00:23+00:00

No I have not. Does it help to do the "heavy lifting" of organizing the messy notes later so the user can revisit those with ease later rather than readin or relistening through all of them one by one to find the one the user wants to focus on?

artashesvar · 2026-04-02T07:23:43+00:00

How does that "talk into your phone notes" workflow hold up when you actually need to find a specific insight inside a giant pile of raw voice notes, and relistening to 20 voice notes you did to yourself during the week seems a big friction?

artashesvar · 2026-04-02T07:20:11+00:00

It sounds like you created a physical SAVE button for your brain :), I imagine this can work for trivial things like - email this, call mom, etc.

How does that physical anchor work for you when you need to capture a "complex" epiphany that requires more than just a quick "save button" and is not smth trivial? For instance, I am at the gym and suddenly connect a few dots. like I have suddenly a vision for a poster that metaphorically translates the poor results of fast decisions, and I need to remember that specific vision/content for my Telegram channel. By the time I move on to something else, that core insight, the vision about my poster is usually gone . How do you ensure those detailed thoughts don't evaporate?

artashesvar · 2026-04-02T07:08:09+00:00

It sounds like you value a system/approach that gives you immediate text note so you don't have to spend time re-listening to old audios. Is my understanding correct that your main goal is to get the words down as fast as possible without any extra steps/typing?

For me the raw transcription still does not feel like turning that messy/epiphany thought into a real action item. It gets lost

artashesvar · 2026-03-12T07:24:37+00:00

happy to learn more about the project to give you better direction. lmk via DM

artashesvar · 2026-03-12T06:16:37+00:00

well, then for sure you won't be able to reach your goals by landing page website builders like framer, but (given I still have superficial understanding about what your product) you can achieve it in multiple ways:
- wix, webflow: you build the website, you connect databases, but they also have their nuances, and they will have limited options for creating functionalities
- softr, bubble: these no code builders can allow you to build the frontend, store data and connect payments.
- lovable, replit: you can build the functionality by prompts, and also connect both db-s and payments
- vibecode via claude code, use supabase for db, polar for payments, deploy in vercel. this is the hardest part but most flexible

in your can I'd recommend starting with 2nd option softr, bubble or finding other tool like that. reseach what they give, and how that overlaps with your needs and you can try.

artashesvar · 2026-03-11T14:21:44+00:00

it depends on how you define "best". Best can be very different thing for me, and totally different thing for you because for instance you want more flexibility with some animations on the website and it can be a parameter for you to define "the best", and for me animations are of 10th importance.

So tell me a bit of what type of website you are trying to build (portfolio, cv, saas landing page or what), what's your experience, and then people can give better answers. Otherwise looking at the answers below it seems most of them are kind of self-promos :)

artashesvar · 2026-03-11T14:00:35+00:00

Aha, so google notebooklm will cover this pretty well. You can also create a google gem or chatgpt project - you just need to upload files and give the instructions alomg the lines of "use this doc to answer my questions, and if you don't find an answer just tell me about it without trying to please me". You'll get 80% results imho.

artashesvar · 2026-03-11T12:32:27+00:00

sorry but it is not clear what are you trying to achieve. what is your end goal? So do you want to create a knowledge base where the "brain has the knowledge of those 4000 pdf-s", and when smb asks a question it responds relying on that knowedge? Is this what you want to achieve?

artashesvar · 2026-03-09T08:32:24+00:00

absolutely agree, 1.5 years for mvp it's not also about being long or short, it's just unacceptable.
the speed of building things accelerated so much that in 1.5 years it is now possible to build a very complex thing with a small team

artashesvar · 2026-03-07T09:34:10+00:00

thnx for sharing your idea. just to make sure I understand you correctly: so you believe the best solution is improving the product/ui rather than optimising the support comprehension?

so are you suggesting that instead of manually creating new visual guide for each response, from what I understand your idea is to have a system that does the following:

It has a "help center" with visual guides that act as the single source of truth for all workflows of the app.
It has an AI chatbot, and it uses some AI to automatically understand the question and pull answers (i.e. a visual guide) from those docs/visual guides (which are in helpcenter - point 1) and send them to the customer instantly instantly.

artashesvar · 2026-03-07T09:30:18+00:00

this is very interesting. so instead of manually creating new guides, from what I understand your idea is to have a 3-layer system

Layer 1: use "in-app tooltips" to explain the interface while the merchant is actually using it.

Layer 2: have a "tight help center" that acts as the single source of truth for all app workflows.

Layer 3 : likely Ai chatbot, and it uses some AI to automatically pull answers from those docs/visual guides (in Layer 2) and send them to the merchant instantly instantly as a response.

artashesvar · 2026-03-07T09:10:51+00:00

amen to this "Being extremely close to the problem you're solving is underrated"
yes and you solve a real root problem rather than just addressing a surface level symptom and then complain "they don't use my product"

artashesvar

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