I started the newsletter build on 5 June, and as of today I have 762 sub. I made my first ad revenue - $80 - two days ago. I think people are hungry for local information hubs that pull 50 facebook groups together without the facebook bs that goes with them, all into one place. I'll talk more about this build and what I did, but it started with a tweet that I copy and pasted into claude code. __________________________ Can you build this project out in a folder? I'd use substack. Call it the Barrhaven Bugle. Confirm spelling. Task second brain, researching the idea to flesh it out and save findings. If I had to start one AI side hustle in 2026, this would be it: a local newsletter that pulls in 2k a month and runs entirely by a team of four AI agents. The founder (Lucas Walter) has never written a single edition. This is a copy-pasteable system that could be applied to any city in the world. Here's the agent setup: 1. A growth engineer agent scrapes every local news site, subReddit, and event calendar at 6:00 a.m. daily. 2. A content director reads the database and writes the weekly newsletter in his voice every week. 3. A sales director handles every inbound advertiser email back-and-forth, pitching AI-generated ad creative. 4. A CEO agent orchestrates all three and reports back to him. Results from Lucas's newsletter: Spokane Pulse, 7,400 subscribers, 47.5% open rate (industry average 20% to 30%), 11% click-through rate, 2k a month in ad revenue, and growing under 4 hours a week of human in the loop. Now imagine running the same system in your city. I link to the Spokane Pulse in the comments so you can check it out for yourself. ___________________________ From that tweet I just started building it out. Now I ultimately ended up with a different system than this. That looks much like a news aggregator. I do have seven Hermes agents doing it. I am pushing out five-question interviews to people by email and building features. I've added a cartoon daily, a crossword, and a swipe deck pulse.

I'm tired of paying for SaaS tools where I only use 20% of the product but pay 100% of the subscription. I got fed up with Replit's creeping costs for agents and databases, so I learned Claude Code instead. Now I build my own tools. This community is for people who want to do the same. 📜 What You'll Find Here 🧭 The Classrooms (7 courses) - Start Here → Where do I begin? - Setting Sail → Install and build your first thing - CLAUDE.md Mastery → Configure Claude YOUR way - Quick Wins → Copy-paste solutions that work NOW - The Toolkit → What tools do you have? - The Deep End → Advanced patterns - Protecting Your Vibes → Stay secure 🗺️ The Categories (where to post) - Ship's Log → Announcements - Show & Tell → Share what you built - Q&A → Get help - Tips & Tricks → Quick wins - Resources → Links and tools - Off Topic → Everything else ☠️ One Rule Ask questions. Share wins. Help each other. No gatekeeping. Watch the video below, then head to Start Here in the Classroom. That’s it. - Jay, the Claude Code Pirate