Fastshot have just launched The Ultimate Mobile App Sprint, a one-month challenge to turn a mobile app idea into a real, revenue-generating product. No code required.

The basics:

Fastshot is an AI-powered mobile app builder backed by YCombinator. You describe what you want, and it handles design, development, and deployment to the App Store and Google Play. Adapty is built in for subscriptions, in-app purchases, and paywalls.

Every participant gets 1 month of Fastshot Pro for $1 using promo code SPRINT.

We’re going to be building along in public. What would you like to see us build? Let us know in the comments.

Most newsletter owners guess their sponsorship rates.

They look at what a few bigger creators charge, knock 40% off, and hope for the best. I've been on both sides of this, selling sponsorships and talking to sponsors, and the pricing conversation is always awkward when neither side has a framework.

So I built a calculator that fixes it.

You put in your subscriber count, open rate, niche, audience seniority, and geographic split. It runs the numbers against industry CPM benchmarks and spits out pricing for six sponsorship formats: primary placement, mid-roll, classified, dedicated send, and multi-issue packages.

Took me about 10 minutes using Macaly.

No code. No design skills. No back-and-forth with a developer. I wrote a detailed prompt describing the inputs, the pricing logic, and how I wanted the output displayed. Macaly turned it into a working web app.

The part that surprised me: the "Copy as Media Kit" button. I added it as an afterthought in the prompt, but it's the feature I'll use most. Run the numbers, copy the output, paste it into sponsor outreach emails. Done.

Check it out here.

And if you've been sitting on an idea for a small tool like this, try Macaly. The gap between "I wish this existed" and "I built it" is about a lunch break now.

A few weeks ago, I shared how Claude Cowork changed the game. Now that it has been used for a few weeks, let’s see some real world use-cases of how it’s being used in the real world.

Here's what it can actually do, broken into five levels of usefulness.

Cowork operates inside folders you choose on your computer. Point it at your desktop, downloads, or any specific folder and tell it what to do.

You can say "grab all images on my desktop and put them in an images folder" and it moves 50 files without you touching anything. It's also good at finding lost files. Tell it to dig through a folder for a missing file and it'll track it down.

You can also ask it questions about your files. Point it at a document and ask for a summary. It reads the file and responds.

Install the Claude Chrome extension and Cowork can operate inside your browser. This opens up tasks that no API can handle.

A few examples of what it can do:

Research a lead. Someone reaches out to your business. Tell Claude to go research the company, then create a 500-word competitive analysis doc and save it to your desktop. It browses the web, gathers the info, writes the doc, and saves it.

Analyze sentiment. Point it at a YouTube channel and ask for a summary of what people are saying in the comments of the latest upload. It navigates to the page, scrolls through comments, and gives you the breakdown.

Edit a Canva design. Tell it to open your latest Canva file, change a title, and download the first page as a PDF. It logs into Canva, makes the edit, and downloads the file. This one is wild.

The tradeoff: browser tasks are slower than file tasks. Start a task, approve the permissions, then go do something else. Come back when it's done.

Cowork connects to your apps through something called connectors. Gmail, Google Calendar, Notion, Fireflies, even your bank.

Setup takes about 30 seconds per service. Click "connectors," pick the app, authorize it, and you're connected.

Once connected, you can ask questions across services in a single prompt: "What was my last email? What's the subject? What's my next calendar appointment?" Claude pulls the answers from Gmail and Google Calendar at the same time.

Where this gets powerful is chaining services together. Ask Claude to pull your action items from your last Fireflies meeting, then create a Notion doc with those actions organized by person. It talks to both platforms and handles the whole thing without you opening either app.

If Gemini was your go-to for Gmail and Calendar integration, this setup now matches it and connects to far more services.

This is where Cowork starts saving serious time. A skill is a saved process that Claude can repeat for you.

Pick any task you do regularly. Then walk Claude through it once, refining the output until it's right. Once you're happy, tell Claude to save the whole process as a skill.

Example: turning a YouTube transcript into a newsletter.

Walk Claude through each step:

Break the task into pieces. Title, opening line, body. AI performs worse when you dump everything into one prompt. Work through each section, give feedback, and refine.

Once the skill is saved, the next time you publish something, you just trigger the skill and Claude runs the entire process. One prompt, full newsletter draft in your voice.

You can build skills for LinkedIn posts, Instagram content, client onboarding docs, whatever process you repeat.

Skills handle individual tasks. Plugins bundle multiple skills and connectors into a single package you can share.

Say you built five skills: YouTube-to-newsletter, YouTube-to-LinkedIn-post, YouTube-to-X-thread, YouTube-to-Instagram-caption, and image generation through Canva. You can bundle all five skills plus the Gmail, Canva, and YouTube connectors into one plugin.

Cowork ships with built-in plugins for common workflows: productivity, sales, marketing, customer support, product management. Each plugin comes with pre-built skills and suggested connectors. Install one and you get a ready-made system.

The real value: you can share custom plugins with your team or community. Build the workflow once, package it, distribute it.

A useful distinction: Cowork is your assistant that uses your computer. Tools like Claude Artifacts or Claude Code are more like hiring a developer to build custom software.

Both automate work. But Cowork runs your day-to-day operations while the other tools build your systems. They overlap a bit, but they solve different problems.

Pick one repetitive task in your business. Something you do weekly that takes 20-30 minutes. Walk Claude Cowork through it. Refine the output. Save it as a skill.

That single skill will pay for the subscription in saved time within the first month. Then build from there.

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