Recap from last week
Finished the reader and social features and after some light testing, it seems like people can read books for free on Agora, and answer a set of questions after each chapter.
Coming up against some complications based on the structure of some old books.
Marcus Aurelius → 12 chapters, easy.
Epictetus Discourses → 4 books, 30 ‘chapters’ per books (approx)
Seneca Dialogues → 12 books, 5-30 chapters per book.
The end of chapter questions work smoothly with Marcus Aurelius. The others don’t quite so much, so I’m testing a couple of methods to get readers’ thoughts onto the screen.
Built a marketing / growth agent which has been immensely helpful. I’ve linked to it below.
Tools and tricks
Iterate your agent: When you have a good session with an AI agent, ask it why it went well and if there’s anything that it should update in its docs. This is the way to build something that does better work with you.
I built this marketing / growth agent - Gerald. For B2C, it’s working very well and helping me implement interesting activation and retention tactics.
Reading
Still my favourite person to follow to learn practical tools for using AI: https://blog.fsck.com/2025/11/24/Superpowers-for-OpenCode/
Next up
Testing the app.
Finalising some email automations.
Starting the push to get people on it and getting value from it.