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Our Automated Report Arrived as a PDF and Three Teams Typed It Back In

Two years ago we automated the weekly depot performance pack. An analyst had been spending a day and a half each week assembling it from four systems, and we replaced her work with a job that produced…

• Automated report replaced a half-day of manual work
• Three teams still manually retyped figures weekly
• Automation now considers recipients' next steps

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A repeatable voiceover workflow for a product walkthrough

A screen recording can show every click and still leave the viewer unsure what changed. Narration has a different job from the cursor: it explains the decision, the result, and the next step.

• LOVO AI provides web-based voice studio for narration transformation
• Follow checkpoint-based narration structure for product walkthrough
• Export MP3 audio for video editing integration

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I built an API client that runs in your browser. Here's how I handled CORS without running an open proxy

I built a free API client that runs in the browser as part of Tool Reign. It isn't open source, so there's no code in this post.

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Getting the downloads was the easy part. Retention is the real game.

I'm Ayotemi, co-founder of The Rhyme Game, a freestyle rap training app. In my last post I broke down how we hit 400K downloads in four months by making the product generate its own content.

• Rhyme Game initially focused on generating viral downloads
• Retention became the true challenge after initial success
• Streaks, visible progression, and useful tool drove retention

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Prison Sentence for Former US Soldier Who Hacked AT&T and Verizon

Cameron John Wagenius was sentenced to 70 months in prison for stealing information from the wireless carriers. The post Prison Sentence for Former US Soldier Who Hacked AT&T and Verizon appeared…

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