AI course idea; low traffic; building public; automating diary.

I have an idea for generating courses from articles using ai, but none of this makes any sense until I actually get some traffic.

I reached out to a person who said they were interested in paying for it a few months back when all I had was a fake demo. They agreed to check it out and give me some feedback.

Looking at PostHog, I've had 57 visitors, 14 got to the sign-in form, and none of them actually signed in. I've had 2 sign ins before launch, and that's probably from Discord.

I think I'll try the idea of building in public. I'll add the diary to my portfolio page, and post daily to X and maybe weekly recaps to LinkedIn. I've never used X before, so that should be interesting.

I tried Cursor for the first time building this, and holy shit. I did a ton of work today and the diary is almost ready. I had so much fun, I couldn't stop until 1:30 AM.

I've moved all the diary entries to a separate repo, cleaned them and separated per file. I wrote and deployed a go program that can take markdown entries, parse data from them, generate daily and weekly summaries using the Gemini API, save them into the db and expose an api to access them.

I set up a github action that will post new diary entries to my go api whenever i push them. So all I have to do is push a new markdown file for each day, instead of writing in the same one, but everything else should be handled automatically.

There's a bug to resolve where the current week isn't getting created.

Tomorrow, I'll resolve that and do some more testing to make sure it works. I'll finish the ui, hook up Linkedin and X and hopefully start posting automatically. I haven't checked if I can even do that for free. If I can't, I'll just prepare them and post them manually.