It was 3 AM, and I couldn’t sleep.
(When you realize you’re wide awake at 3 AM, do you get on up? I do sometimes.)
And what did I do?
Well, naturally, I spent 2 hours building a new tool 😜
I built a tool to make email intros easier, and I’ll share my process.
The idea came from a conversation about how folks don’t always carry the ball forward from an introduction.
We’re all guilty of this — there are a lot of reasons for it — too much friction, we don’t have enough personal connection with the person to make a meeting happen. It’s easy for the budding relationship to fizzle before it can ever even start.
I figured I could at least play a small role in reducing some of this friction.
Introducing Email of Introduction.
Here’s how I built it:
I put my voice memo into Claude Code: “Our goal is to build a beautiful tool with a very simple interface. The goal of the tool is to make an email of introduction to start the person that wants to write the email intro will input two LinkedIn URLs for two different people that will connect with an Apify process that I will give you the link to that we need to link up. After it looks up the two LinkedIn profiles, it... the tool needs to use a free or low cost LLN model in order to look for similarities in the profiles. It will make a nice bullet point list of the similarities, and then it will write Three different short email intros to connect the two people based on best practices for connecting people via an intro email.”
I knew about Apify —- they have prebuilt web scrapers you can rent for things like… getting all the info from a LinkedIn profile! You just have to create an API key. I get charged every time I scrape profiles.
Claude Code gave me V1 —- and then I made adjustments for about 20 minutes.
I added the code to GitHub.
I created a project on Vercel.
Bought the domain (“email of introduction” has 3k monthly searches — otherwise, I would have just added the tool to my personal website).
Changed the DNS records to point to Vercel.
Went live at https://www.emailofintroduction.com/
It won’t solve the whole connection problem. But maybe it’ll help just a little.
It only took me 2 hours to build.
Just 2 years ago, I would have had to get quotes from developers for this, and I imagine my less expensive bids would have been $2-5k.
This time, it was live before my wife woke up.
Shipping keeps getting faster, and this is the proof — idea at 3AM, live tool before I went back to bed.
In my latest YouTube vid, I built out a well-designed PDF in less than 60 minutes.
Claude Design is officially in my toolbox.
All Projects
Other projects I’ll update over time (or provide future updates) include…
Our Local Media Brand Newsletter[sold!]AI Email Newsletter Project[sold!]Real Estate Investing
Remote Work Email Newsletter Project[sold!]MSN writing hustle[we got kicked out!]4,000 weeks calendar (in process…)
Agency Work
Real Estate Rentals / Flips / Airbnbs
TrackItAndSave - a tool for tracking your subscriptions
Grow a YouTuber’s Merch Brand
CleverLayouts (a written and visual report with website feedback)
CreditCardTracking (a tool to help track credit card offers)
Helpful Analytics (dashboard to help make Google Analytics fun again!)
See more current, past, and dead projects here.
If I can help your business Erase Friction, don’t hesitate to reach out.
Until next time!
