I've built, and I am continuing to develop an AI agent that is easy to set up. No need for the terminal. How valuable do you think this is to businesses?

So far, I've found that a lot of prospects and users like that a lot. But it could be that only my circle and users value that a lot. I'm not sure if this applies to other businesses.

Let me know what you guys think.

I run everything myself. Podcast goes out Tuesday, but repurposing it into LinkedIn posts, tweets and an email newsletter takes all of Wednesday. I tried Buffer and Hypefury but I still have to write the posts. ChatGPT helps, but moving between tools kills flow. I want to upload the audio once and get back a blog draft, 5 LinkedIn posts and 8 tweets in my voice, then schedule after I approve. Is anyone actually running this content marketing automation end to end without a VA?

Hi all! Small business owner here. I’m looking for apps or GPTs that I can use in :

1. Drafting contracts
2. Creating flyers /brochures
3. Creating a website

Thanks!

Superhuman: keyboard-first email client that pre-writes follow-up replies based on thread context. Cleared 87 emails in 11 minutes. $30/month, email only.

Lavender: scores your cold emails 0-100 and tells you exactly why they underperform. Rewrote one email from 43 to 88 and got a reply in 4 hours. $29/month, built for sales.

Shortwave: Gmail replacement with smart bundles and a writing assistant that learns your tone from sent emails. $9/month, Gmail only.

Full reviews plus workflow tip and steal-this-prompt in this week's ToolSignal. Free, new issue every Tuesday. Link in bio.

Which email tool have you actually stuck with?

My cofounder and I are experimenting with agent reliability tooling. We've been running thousands of agent tasks on tau-bench (airline customer service benchmark) trying to automatically detect when agents fail and improving their accuracy.

However, we're stuck on something and curious if anyone else has hit this.

Catching wrong actions is relatively straightforward as you can compare the constraint against the tool call and flag it.

But catching missing actions is a different beast. In one of the experiments user asks to add baggage and change seat. Agent does the seat but just never touches baggage and the conversation ends like nothing happened. There is no error anywhere in the trace. In real life one can only catch this when the customer complains or someone manually checks.

So we built a tracker that parses what the user asked for and checks whether each thing actually got done by the end of the session.

But the problem is sometimes the agent correctly didn't do something. Policy blocked the flight change. The user changed their mind halfway through. The agent tried but the API timed out and the user said "forget it just transfer me to someone". All of these look identical to "agent silently skipped an action" if you're just checking whether a tool got called or not.

We're at about 50% precision right now. Meaning half the stuff we flag as a failure isnt actually a failure. The agent made the right call, we just cant tell the difference yet.

Anyone building agents in production running into similar stuff? Or working on evals/monitoring that deals with this? Would love to compare notes.

when you run a solo business using wrapper code and automated workflows you usually stitch together APIs fast while leaving huge security gaps in your live server setup. it is incredibly easy to overlook an unconfigured cross-origin resource window, forget your basic cache-control directives so sensitive user data gets cached publicly, or miss setting up proper dmarc records so your business emails get spoofed or flagged as instant spam. to handle this before someone scripts an automated fuzzer to break your database logic, offurl.com hits your domain with 150+ explicit security audits spanning 16 backend categories in about 30 seconds flat. instead of trying to hook you into an expensive enterprise retainer or giving you basic generic warnings, it outputs the exact nginx config rules, apache blocks, or php code snippets you need to copy and paste to patch your endpoints immediately. you do not need to create an account, there are no subscriptions to cancel, and the first premium report is completely free so you can lock your micro-saas infrastructure down before driving traffic to it

Hey Reddit,
I’m a non-technical founder from Ghana who designed and shipped KIN — a working social platform where tipsters post betting slips, build verified win rates, and grow real followings.
The app has a full working feed, tipster leaderboards, verified win rates, group chats, user profiles and affiliate link integration. Built and live.
Got traction locally but the monetization model doesn’t work with African betting platforms. The US is the obvious move — cappers there monetize messily through Discord and Substack with no verification layer. KIN solves that.
Revenue: Tipster subscriptions + premium follower access + boosted slips. No betting license needed.
I bring: Product vision, design, business development, a working product.
I need: Someone US-based who can scale the technical infrastructure and knows the sports betting world.
Equity split negotiable.

As the title says, I can automate almost anything. I’ve been working a lot with automations for repetitive business tasks like moving data between tools, handling spreadsheets, processing emails or PDFs, scraping data from websites, or even setting up simple AI chatbots to answer common questions. A lot of these things that take hours every week can actually run automatically once the workflow is set up.

I’m curious what’s one task in your business that feels repetitive or takes way too much time? There’s a good chance it can be automated.

Have you currently started a business that you are running? What kind of service or product do you offer?

We always wanted to be able to serve the small businesses that didn't have the budget for a custom solution. A lot of them have no need for a custom site either.

They just need something basic to get them online, rank higher, build trust and credibility.

But we couldn't be profitable on those smaller projects, even with volume.

Now we can. 3Web.ai has enabled us to compete with yellow pages, offering simple, brochure style sites that are affordable but still turn a profit.

It's a win/win. Who else is taking advantage of this opportunity?

What are you using?

p.s. this is an actual friend, not a "my friend" kinda post 😂

We were debating whether these kind of tools are good, and would anyone want them.

You probably seen some form of this agentic system where you connect your startup/saas or whatever and it automatically writes seo content, generates and runs video ads, spams linkedin etc

Personally I was skeptical that anyone would want to use it. Everyone thinks they can make this themselves. But my experience is that a) the output is not that good without quite a bit of human in the loop and b) if it did work, then everyone would do it, then it wouldnt work again anyway bc it's basically just spam email at that point.

Would this be a slop cannon you would avoid?
Or would you try it and put your company marketing on autopilot?

Running solo means you're constantly trading time vs leverage. Everyone talks about tools and ai workflows, but i'm more interested in the unsexy routines that keep revenue, quality and sanity stable.

I'll go first: my most underrated workflow is various templates for social post distribution which saves me much time about different formats and requirements of different platforms.

What's the workflow nobody compliments, but you'd panic without? how often does it run?

what part is manual on purpose, and what did you automate only after it was boring and repeatable?

Guys, I'm seeing progress but extremely slowly, I've been at one client since march, in the talks with another one. I hate cold calling, and don't have time since I'm still in school. Cold email has been dead (at least in my books). What should I do??? please comment or DM

I work 9-to-6 and run a side business. I don't even know why I thought this was a good idea sometimes.

By the time I get home my 4-year-old is already in that mode where everything is an emergency, and by the time she's down I have maybe 90 minutes before I become useless. I've been spending those 90 minutes trying to make marketing videos that don't look like I filmed them in a panic. Which I did. Because I did.

I tried HeyGen and Synthesia first. They're impressive I guess but the avatars just look like someone who has been told to smile and is trying very hard to remember how. I spent way too long in the settings. Like, I adjusted the eyebrow tension for 20 minutes. Eyebrows. I am a grown adult who adjusted AI eyebrows at 11pm while my kid was asleep.

Then I just started trying everything. Sora, VEO, whatever came up when I went down the reddit rabbit hole. The deeper I went the more lost I got. At some point I wasn't even sure what I was looking for anymore, just clicking and rendering and being disappointed.

I remember seeing PixVerse mentioned somewhere in that whole spiral. I think a comment thread, maybe a discord, I honestly don't remember, and I scrolled past it. I was already demoralized and didn't want to add another thing to the list of tools that didn't work for me.

A few weeks later I was complaining to basically no one in a group chat and someone dropped a link. Same tool. I figured I'd already hit rock bottom with this so why not.

It's not, okay it's not perfect and I want to be clear about that. The audio flakes out and my voiceover sync is still a mess most of the time. Because of that I've basically just accepted that I'm in “good enough” territory for now. Character stays consistent most of the time, visual gets done, I do the voice myself and just try to make it work.

The thing that actually surprised me was I threw an affiliate link into my posts mostly as an afterthought and it's been covering some of the credit costs. Not life changing. But it's something concrete coming back which at this point I'll take.

I don't know if I'm cut out for this honestly. But I also can't afford to stop yet, so here I am.

Anyone else doing this whole solo founder + virtual spokesperson thing with a full time job? How are you not losing your mind.