Dan Malone

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 Malone

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Every Monday I Type /mission — 9 Claude Code Skills That Run My Business

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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.

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 Malone

10 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mission Control: Give Your OpenClaw Agent a Team

A viral post about 10 AI agents coordinating like a real team got 3.5M views. I'm building the platform that gives every OpenClaw user the same power.

Dan Malone

12 min

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AI Gamedev Kit

The setup that lets AI agents build a game I never open the editor for: a JSON test bridge, engine API lookup tools and edit hooks.

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FreeShot

A free, open-source macOS screenshot app that replaced CleanShot X on my Mac. Same hotkeys, built in one session.

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