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How to Make a SaaS Feel Alive: Intercom Lifecycle Messaging, Built with Claude
Most SaaS treats a new user like a transaction — a sign-up confirmation, then silence. Lifecycle messaging is how you make the product feel alive instead. Here's how I built a full system in Intercom — 37 outbound messages wired into four Series — by pointing Claude at Intercom's own internal API, plus the one rule most teams get wrong.
Dan Malone13 min
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Business
Every Monday I Type /mission — 9 Claude Code Skills That Run My Business
I built 9 Claude Code skills to keep my one-person portfolio business oriented around goals, KPIs, and the actions that actually move them. Here's how the whole system works.
Dan Malone12 min
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AI & Automation
Smart Home
Live Notifications in Home Assistant: The YAML That Got 760 Upvotes
How to build Android progress notifications for appliances and doors using smart plugs, power monitoring, and a few lines of YAML. No smart appliances required.
Dan Malone10 min
AI & Automation
Business
A Client Website Built Over WhatsApp: Jamie Skelton, Magician and Mentalist
Jamie Skelton is a Dublin wedding and corporate magician. His new site went from a Wix site to a live Next.js site in about 25 hours. Jamie never opened a ticket or a design file. He sent WhatsApp messages, and AI agents read them and made the changes.
Dan Malone6 min
AI & Automation
AI Agents Built My Game in Godot, Then Ported It to Unity. Here's What I Learned
I'm building Crush Depth, a deep-sea salvage game, and AI agents write all of the code. It started in Godot 4.7, and this week the full port to Unity 6.7 got under way. Here's how I picked the engine, the numbers behind the call, and what made the agents useful.
Dan Malone7 min
AI & Automation
Business
I Replaced CleanShot X With a Free Screenshot App I Built in One Session
A free, open-source screenshot app for the Mac. I take screenshots all day, and that meant CleanShot X. This week I replaced it with FreeShot, which I built in one session with Claude Code. Here's what it took, what it cost and what I gave up.
Dan Malone5 min
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Business
I Built an AI Staff to Run My Business. Here's the Full System.
I built five AI agents to run my business. Everyone who saw it asked the same thing: how do I get this? Here's the full system — five agents, what each one does, and how the pieces fit.
Dan Malone14 min
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AI & Automation
How to Build Your Own AI Mission Control with OpenClaw and Telegram
A step-by-step guide to setting up persistent, always-on AI staff in a Telegram forum — four specialized agents with isolated workspaces, inter-agent communication, and scheduled automation using OpenClaw.
Dan Malone18 min
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AI & Automation
Stop Building Forms. Start Building Conversations.
I replaced my lead capture form with an AI conversation. You chat about your project, the AI extracts structured data in real time, and you walk away with a 12-page branded PDF brief. No forms. No wizards. Just a conversation.
Dan Malone10 min