Artificial Intelligence
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In around 12 hours of time since Friday, I used Claude to build a tool to automate Instagram posts to my account https://www.instagram.com/shape_… so I can do a better job of promoting the prints I'm making. That's been the part I've not been doing.
I created post formats for square, 4:5, and 9:16 reels and can post as either a single post or carousel. The reel feature builds out mp4 videos by animating from screen-to-screen. I've got four design formats for full view of a print, detail view, a specs view showing print prices, and a final promo slide with more info. Can upload my own music to embed in the video and sync bpm with animation timing on the video.
I can queue up posts day by day in a calendar, and post time. It even integrates with Claude to help write post content if I want to use that.
Lives on my NAS, functions in the browser. Far more technical aspects than anything I've done yet because it required a Meta developer account, API keys, etc. and a ton of Terminal usage, including edit/management screens for the NAS that I've never even seen and were really confusing.
At publish time, it sends a zip file to a NAS folder, which then SFTP's to my web host, drops the zip in there temporarily, unpacks it, and the Instagram API grabs it and uses it in the post.
At most per post, I just need to upload an image and edit a description if I want. It's like two minutes of work.
There are full-blown subscription services for this stuff that cost $35+ a month. I did this in 12 hours, customized to my needs, using no tokens and just within my normal Claude account. Hell, it built all this out with Sonnet 5.5! :D
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I've been building stuff with AI since spring 2024. I know several of you have as well. What I find fascinating and worth remembering is just how fast this is all moving, and how insane the quality and features are now compared to even the entirety of 2024. I'm probably even doing more than I should have manually, because I think I could have had Claude going directly into Terminal and doing everything there.One workflow that I've really enjoyed figuring out is having Claude write tasks to a kanban board in ToDoIst, broken down by major tasks and sub-tasks. It stays connected to it and closes out tasks, and drops prompts in there that I need if I'm doing the build in VS Code.
Credit to @set if he's back on here after a convo where he told me about something related that he was building.