Well, if you’re reading this it means that you’ve found my website.

Which means I must have successfully created one in the first place!

And I did!

All on my little lonesome. 🙂

And I didn’t just use Elementor widgets in WordPress.

I used AI to describe what I wanted the website to look like, then it provided HTML code, which I then imported into WordPress.

I had to tweak some things but I’ve now got a fully-functioning website, which has “Submit” buttons and everything too.

But the thing I’m most proud of is that I’m trying to stay abreast of technology and use it in a practical way.

After I created the website, I had to think about what I then wanted to set-up with technology.

I know automation and workflows are going to be more important in future so I’ve been brushing-up on automation tools, such as Make.com and Voiceflow.ai.

Going through their tutorials and learning new skills.

So I thought … wouldn’t it be great if whenever I published a new post, an email would automatically be sent to my subscribers telling them about it, as well as an X (formerly Twitter) post automatically generated? 🤔

(By the way, to me, X will always be Twitter as X merely sounds like a premium-version subscription to Pornhub 🤨)

See? … I’m trying to think like a top content-provider too!

Anyway, I started building a scenario in Make.com, until I ran into the following problems:

❌ Make ceased allowing X to be used in integrations with Make scenarios (bummer 😟).

❌ If I send an email to my list using the generic “Send Email” module, I can’t include automatic unsubscribe links (which is mandatory).

After thinking about this, I’ve decided to use the following workarounds:

✅ I’ll just create a Mailer Lite (the email provider I’ve decided to use) campaign and hook it up to my WordPress RSS feed. That way, unsubscribe links are automatically included.

✅ For the moment, I’ll manually post in X whenever I publish a new post on my website. If things ever get bigger I’ll revisit things then.

I’m not particularly happy with the above. 😠

I still feel that there should be a workflow I can set-up that allows the above to be done automatically.

And perhaps there is! … I just haven’t found it as yet.

But for now, what I’ve realised is that, despite all the marketing … despite all the noise about how seamless things can be … it’s not true.

There is no button that does it all.

Perhaps there will be at some point in future, but not now.

And if there are human beings involved in the process is some way, shape or form, then there will always be friction.

But I’m enjoying learning abut technology and its use cases.

I like the idea that I can have a business on the side, run by a team of AI agents in future, utilising technology and automation and with just me as the sole human.

It’s definitely something I’m keeping my eye on.

But for now, I’ll just keep plodding-on, learning what I can about what’s out there.

And basking in the glory of having created a website. 😬