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Ideas & Experiments

Things I am building, testing, or arguing with. Half of these will not survive contact with reality — that is the point of writing them down while they are still running.

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01ideatoolingSep 2026

How I automated my entire social workflow with the OmniSocials API

One API key, four calls, your whole social presence

Hey, you commented API on my post, so here’s what I promised. About 10 minutes to wire up. After that you’re calling the API directly, no dashboard required. Written the way I’d explain it to a friend who codes.

REST APISocial automationSchedulingInbox+1read →

02ideamediaSep 2026

A shorts studio that runs in the terminal

One sentence in — script, visuals, voiceover, synced captions, sound design and a rendered vertical video out

A repo that turns Claude Code into a faceless-video studio. You describe the short in plain English and it writes the script, builds the visuals, generates the voiceover, syncs captions word-for-word, adds sound design and renders the vertical file. No camera, no face, no editing software — and on the default track, no per-clip generation cost either.

Claude CodeRemotionElevenLabsFaceless video+1read →

03ideatradingAug 2026

A Bloomberg terminal without the data feed

Six of the terminal’s seven layers on an agent swarm, with a chat bot as the cockpit

A Bloomberg seat bundles seven functions, and only one of them — the licensed real-time data — is actually protected by contracts. The rest are protected by workflow, which is the kind of moat agents dissolve. The architecture here is sound and the tools are real. The cost claim that headlines it is not: recomputed from its own inputs, the setup runs three to five times the price it advertises.

Kimi K3Grok BotAgent swarmDashboards+1read →

04ideatoolingAug 2026

Ten repos to check before you pay for a tool

Roughly 1.9M combined stars — directories, free tiers, local models and agent scaffolding

Ten repositories in the top tier of GitHub by stars that between them cover a lot of what a small team otherwise buys: an API directory, a free-tier directory, local model hosting, a scraper, a visual agent builder, an MCP index, and two agents that produce real files. Every star count here was checked live rather than copied.

Open sourceLocal LLMsMCPFree tiersread →

05ideamediaAug 2026

Codex CLI as a content pipeline, not a coding tool

One product photo in the terminal, listing images and ad videos out as files

What a coding agent is actually good at — read a goal, break it into steps, run tools, keep files organised — is the same shape as producing a launch campaign. This wires generation skills into Codex CLI so a single photo becomes listing images, UGC ads, commercials and thumbnails on disk.

Codex CLIAgent skillsGenerative mediaTerminal+1read →

06ideaagentsAug 2026

Two repos worth cloning before building an agent

Around 150 open-source agents and RAG apps — adapt one instead of starting from a blank project

Two GitHub repositories holding working agent projects across voice, customer support, research, RAG, coding and workflow automation. The point is not to read them — it is to find one close to what you need, open it in Claude Code, and describe your use case until it becomes yours.

AI agentsOpen sourceRAGMCP+2read →

07ideatradingAug 2026

An option-trading advisor built from Claude skills

25 skills and 32 MCP tools that turn plain English into quotes, Greeks, scans and portfolio reads

A set of Claude skills plus an MCP server that answer market questions with real data — option chains, Greeks, technicals, correlation matrices, PMCC scans, full PDF reports. Connect Interactive Brokers and it reads your live portfolio too. Everything but one skill is read-only, and it runs on the free Claude Desktop tier.

Claude SkillsMCPOptionsInteractive Brokers+2read →

08ideatradingAug 2026

100 mean-reversion strategies, as a working catalog

Futures, options and crypto — every entry, exit and stop, in a spreadsheet you can filter

A catalog of 100 systematic strategies weighted toward mean reversion, each with its precise entry, exit, stop, parameters and indicators. Eight of them were backtested on real data with costs on — those results are in their own tab, alongside the methodology for running the rest yourself.

Mean reversionFuturesOptionsCrypto+2read →

09ideatoolingAug 2026

The five skills to install before anything else

Memory across sessions, a brake on over-engineering, your notes as a knowledge base, and an image-to-video pipeline

Most people run Claude with zero skills installed, which is the difference between a chatbot and a system. These five are the ones worth setting up first — and the order matters, because each one makes the next more useful.

Claude CodeSkillsPluginsMemory+2read →

10ideaagentsAug 2026

The free agent web access setup

One open-source install that lets an agent read YouTube, GitHub, X and Reddit

Read and search access to the platforms an agent normally cannot touch — YouTube transcripts, GitHub, X posts, Reddit threads, any URL as clean Markdown — from one install rather than a stack of paid APIs. The X API alone runs about $215 a month at moderate use; this is MIT and free.

MCPClaude CodeResearchYouTube+4read →

11ideatoolingAug 2026

Five skills that turn Claude Code into an animation studio

Design DNA, GSAP, Three.js, Motion Design, Genjutsu — in the order that matters

A skill is not a plugin that adds a button — it is a manual Claude reads before writing. It stops inventing an API from memory and starts using the real one, pitfalls included. Five of them, each with its exact install command and the prompt to send immediately after. All MIT licensed.

Claude CodeSkillsGSAPThree.js+3read →

12ideamediaAug 2026

The Airbnb listing video system

Cinematic listing media for short-term rentals, made remotely from the host’s phone photos

Hosts pay thousands for professional listing photos and video. This generates both from the photos they already have on their phone — enhanced stills, a 20-second cinematic listing video, and a walkthrough tour — without ever visiting the property. $500 to $2,500 per property.

ClaudeMCPHiggsfieldGenerative video+2read →

13ideaagentsAug 2026

A multi-agent army on zero API keys

Three subscriptions, $240 a month flat — no meter, no per-token bill

Orchestration is the token bill, so the whole design is a delegation layer: expensive models decompose and judge, cheap models sprawl and summarise, and nothing raw ever crosses between them. The same work at API rates was tracking toward $15,000 over 10B tokens; on subscriptions it lands near $800.

Multi-agentClaude MaxOllama CloudCodex+2read →

14paper tradingtradingAug 2026

One setup, nothing else

A Claude Code agent that only trades reactions at decade-old price levels

Most trading bots lose because they take every setup they can see. This one is only allowed to do a single thing: wait for price to come back to a level that has mattered for years, and react there.

Claude CodeMCPRobinhoodSwing trading+1read →