Pick your project | Master AI Automation in 4 hours Master AI Automation in 4 hours Course About Ayush Modules Sample chapter Toolbox The Microcap Minute Classroom / Module 12: Capstone: One Real Thing / Chapter 1 Pick your project Watch first, then read. Same lesson, your pace. What you will learn – Six capstone briefs, each mapped to course modules – The three filters for choosing between them – Scoping down without shame The briefs Every option below is deliberately small enough to ship in ~2 weeks of evenings, big enough to touch at least five course modules: # Project What it exercises A Study Digest Bot , daily 7am message: your subjects’ news + one revision question, generated overnight by free models M3 cron, M4 free APIs off-peak, M6 scheduling/digest, M8 research B Notes → Quiz Engine , folder of class notes auto-converted into weekly MCQ quizzes delivered to friends M5 filesystem MCP, M4 API loop, M8 extraction, M10 assistant C Family FAQ Assistant , no-code assistant answering relatives’ recurring questions (forms, exams, schemes) from curated docs M9 vision (scans), M10 full anatomy, M11 privacy floor D Multi-AI Weekly Newsletter , the Module 7 pipeline productised: Claude plans, Kimi coordinates swarm drafts, Qwen executes, OpenAI polishes; shipped to a real list M7 end-to-end, M6 delivery, M8 research protocol E Expense Sensei , photo/forward receipts → extracted JSON → Sheets dashboard with monthly AI insights M9 vision/OCR, M8 extraction+spreadsheets, M4 APIs, M3 git hygiene F Terminal Research Agent , OpenCode-driven agent that researches a topic nightly and appends a sourced markdown brief to a repo M10 agents, M3 terminal fluency, M4 free models, M11 TRUST Three filters Run every candidate through: Real user? You or someone specific must genuinely use it weekly. Practice projects die without users. Data accessible? Notes exist? Receipts flow? If inputs are imaginary, output will be too. Excitement survives Tuesday? Week-two motivation runs on actual interest, not novelty. Score 1-5 on each; pick the top scorer. Ties break toward whichever scares you slightly. Scope discipline Write the one-sentence v1 (“every morning I get X”). Any feature not in that sentence goes to a v2.md parking file. Capstones fail from ambition inflation ten times more often than from technical difficulty. Try it yourself Score all six briefs against the filters honestly (including “none of these”, then write your own one-sentence v1 and score that). Commit in writing: project name, one-sentence v1, first user’s name, deadline two weeks out. File as projects/capstone/00-brief.md . That file is now your contract. Key takeaways – Six briefs, all shippable in two weeks, all multi-module. – Filters: real user, accessible data, surviving excitement; ties break toward slight fear. – One-sentence v1 or it isn’t scoped; park everything else. Download the exercise sheet (PDF) Module workbook (PDF) ← Module 12 index Next: Plan like a PM → Classroom / Module 12: Capstone: One Real Thing / Chapter 1 Pick your project What you will learn – Six capstone briefs, each mapped to course modules – The three filters for choosing between them – Scoping down without shame The briefs Every option below is deliberately small enough to ship in ~2 weeks of evenings, big enough to touch at least five course modules: # Project What it exercises A Study Digest Bot , daily 7am message: your subjects’ news + one revision question, generated overnight by free models M3 cron, M4 free APIs off-peak, M6 scheduling/digest, M8 research B Notes → Quiz Engine , folder of class notes auto-converted into weekly MCQ quizzes delivered to friends M5 filesystem MCP, M4 API loop, M8 extraction, M10 assistant C Family FAQ Assistant , no-code assistant answering relatives’ recurring questions (forms, exams, schemes) from curated docs M9 vision (scans), M10 full anatomy, M11 privacy floor D Multi-AI Weekly Newsletter , the Module 7 pipeline productised: Claude plans, Kimi coordinat
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