Example: Claude Code scrapes a calendar each morning, preps meeting notes with context, agenda & attendees — saves hours weekly.

Share your workflows.
#AI #Productivity #Workflows #AIAutomation

A METR study: senior devs using AI tools were 19% slower! They expected 24% faster; experts predicted 38-39%. Why? Overhead.

So, what are YOU actually automating with AI?
Real workflows, real time saved, not just "I use ChatGPT sometimes."

Meanwhile, I’m here with Claude managing workflows, analyzing design impact.
Markets price everyone to be 10x more productive tomorrow, but reality: most still learning basic prompting.

Budget €5 for online letter services when dealing with German bureaucracy. You'll need it. 😅

#BuildInPublic #UXFail

As someone building digital products, this was both frustrating and inspiring.

If public infrastructure struggles with basic form submissions, it shows how critical good UX design really is. Every broken system is a reminder: we need to build better digital experiences.

Pro tip:

The digital infrastructure: Progress bar frozen, forms never arrived, message system lost my application (timestamp says otherwise), email address doesn't exist, and attachments won't open.

The solution? An online letter service. €1 to print and mail my docs. In 2025.

Got clearance last week. ✅

Plus: We met Codrin, our Host here in Romania. An elite college grad turned hermit.
It was amazing listening to his stories, why he ditched corporate life to build his own, handmade home.

Full story: buff.ly/jBphytm

#buildinpublic #solopreneur

SEO in the AI era.

My entire strategy depends on organic content.
But I´ve been told "SEO is dead"
What do you think about that?

Current strategy: Build a solid foundation, multi-channel distribution, own your email list.

Stay paranoid. Stay flexible.

Still figuring out how to balance genuine user value with growth metrics. Transparency helps, but monetization will always create tension. How do other "product-/growth" designers navigate this? Where do ethics and growth strategies connect vs. diverge? 🤔

Walking through the city, I can't unsee business models everywhere. That fitness challenge? Funnel optimization. That "helpful" customer service? Upsell opportunity. Once you see the systems behind user experiences, you can't unsee them. 👁️ (Even kittens are marketing tools now 🐱)

The awkward truth: growth designers use data to personalize experiences that drive conversions. User-centered design says, "serve the user." Growth design says, "serve the user AND the business metrics." Building my own product made me even more aware of the challenge ⚖️

This is why we test with friends - they get the broken version so someday the real audiences don't suffer through my learning curves.
Anyone else survived newsletter platform pains? What mobile optimization lessons did you learn?

Desktop preview looked fine. Mobile? Complete disaster. Padding, margins, spacing - everything broken.
Picture me staring at cramped text thinking about all the times I've lectured clients about mobile-first design. The irony was not lost 📱💀

Automation immediately broke after just 3 emails. It just stopped. Now I'm in a delightful customer support queue about why their system decided to take a nap. But the real nightmare: opened the email on my phone.

First red flag: Their WYSIWYG editor. Why do platforms reinvent wheels instead of following basic web standards? Spent more time fighting formatting than writing.
But I pushed through, imported friends as test subscribers (always test with friends!), and hit send.

To fellow Substack users: I am genuinely curious how you navigate platform concerns. No judgment, I just want to understand how others weigh these decisions. Because honestly, I could have written 10 posts in the time I spent researching the "perfect" platform.

So from Substack → Medium + Beehiiv → simplified to newsletter-only → ConvertKit (now KIT). Perplexity and claude research looked solid at this point. :P
Real talk: The platform probably matters way less than I thought. The hard part isn't finding perfect tools - it's building the actual habit.

Then I read about their far-right content policies. It made me think - we focus on features and audience but skip the ethics of where we build. I'm not throwing shade at Substack users - every platform has issues. But it's wild. buff.ly/o7h7s9K