The RSS Surprise

Added two more people to the early access invite list today, and reached out to several more. Expecting some traction tomorrow.

The highlight for me today was a working session with my cousin. He wanted an agent to monitor news feeds in his industry. We sat down together and started building it in conversation with Claude. The first version half-worked — several of the sites we were pulling from are dynamic WordPress sites that kept failing on auth walls and redirect loops. Not great.

But Claude was persistent. It kept thinking, tried different approaches, and then decided on its own to check whether any of the sites offered RSS feeds. Four of them did. Switched to RSS and it worked like a charm.

This is the thing I keep coming back to. The conversational design process is incredibly powerful when the AI and the human can work together fluidly. My cousin isn’t technical. He couldn’t have debugged those WordPress redirect issues himself. But he knew exactly what he wanted, and Claude figured out how to get there. That back-and-forth — describe, try, fail, pivot, succeed — is what makes this different from every other automation tool.

Excited that our management tools are maturing enough to support our upcoming users– not named Greg!!

and damn, cloudflare is fast.

-greg