Brendan | Whi𝕊perNode

@mikefutia IMPROVE

Self-improving Claude Code skills are f*cking ridiculous 🤯 One loop → 10 test runs, scored against an eval, prompt rewritten, retested, winner kept. A hook writer skill went from 32/50 to 47/50 overnight. All inside Claude Code. Perfect for DTC brands and agencies who have built Claude Code skills but the output is still inconsistent — great 70% of the time, unusable the other 30%. If you've been manually tweaking your skill prompts one run at a time, re-reading outputs, adjusting instructions based on vibes, and never quite getting the consistency you need... This method eliminates the entire loop: → You define 3-5 binary eval criteria for your skill → Claude runs the skill 10 times with varied inputs → A separate evaluator scores every output against your criteria → It identifies the most common failure patterns → Rewrites the skill prompt to fix what's failing → Retests and keeps the winner → Repeats until the score plateaus No manual prompt tweaking. No reviewing every output by hand. No "it worked that one time but I can't reproduce it." What you get: → A skill prompt that's been through 50+ automated test runs → A scored improvement log showing exactly what changed and why → Eval criteria you can reuse every time you update the skill → A method that works on any skill: hooks, briefs, ad copy, scripts, reports Inspired by @karpathy's auto research repo, the same loop AI labs use to improve their own models, applied to your creative workflow. I put together a full playbook showing how to set up the eval, the exact Claude Code prompt for the improvement loop, and starter eval criteria for the 5 most common DTC creative skills. Want the playbook for free? > Like this post > Comment "IMPROVE" And I'll send it over (must be following so I can DM)

@bprintco I was training a model to do this for damaged roofs in PR 🤣 Never finished but I was doing manual drone mapping and putting the images through the trained model and onto a free mapping software.

Okay, I'm about to make some of you SMB owners very rich with this post lol What if I told you... there's a way to have one sales guy do the work of 20. Let's say you own a roofing, fence, deck, or construction company... did you know that you can buy high resolution same day satellite imagery? Some of you may know that, roofers especially. The mega roofing companies like Roof Maxx do this, but they pay $35 to $50 PER ROOF to review for storm damage. They also pay companies a lot of money to monitor hail damage in areas. This is still a clunky method that is very expensive. Well fuck that... it's 2026 you guys. Now you can do it, but not only that... you can do it MUCH better and MUCH cheaper. Stop wasting your time and money sending dudes on the ground to go property scouting. This is how you do it... Buy the satellite data, but not per roof, buy the high res images of entire areas where the storm went through. It's like $500. Feed that data into Gemini 2.5 Pro. It's the best AI vision model available. Have it scope every property for homes with damage. Cross reference the flagged properties with parcel data and map a route for your sales guy to go direct to damaged properties only. BUT WAIT... It gets better... Vibe code an app that does it. Connect to NOAA and Open-meteo API. It's FREE dude. 1. Set up automated triggers for severe weather. 2. When a weather event is triggered, it calls to the satellite imagery provider API and pulls the images. 3. The images get picked up by Gemini 2.5 Pro and scanned. 4. Properties get flagged and address matched and triggers the next step 5. Nano Banana 2 reads the storm data to generate a specific storm event mailer and triggers the next step. 6. That mailer is sent through API to a Direct Mail provider with SAME DAY service. 7. Mailers hit the mailboxes before the other companies even get out of bed. BONUS is you didn't even have to get out of bed either. It's automatic man. 8. The addresses are batch scheduled and sent to your CRM for your sales rep to hit them directly. He better get up early. I built this for fun. It works. But I cheaped out my test with Google Satellite imagery because I don't own any of those types of companies man I'd like my Ferrari to be Red please. Thank You. 🫡

@bolcoto Oooo I wanna do the call! Nice. I’m building another thing

New systems at Virlo inspired by Gojiberry and BeeHiv and Apollo - Free onboarding call with paying pro users (get 1000 credits when you complete it) - Enterprise booking only , no pay for enterprise this allows us to not only learn product but also see where we can improve with high ticket users - Private slack for paying users, we’re moving away from Discord the platform is ok but generally find it attracts less serious users

Virlo scan content based on my keywords, gives me outlier videos, and I can track specific creators, I scrape all the comments into a database, I find outbound leads, then I also am building a feature to analyze the entire database of comments to uncover trends and common language to build content around. It then generates emotional signals, common questions, content hooks, relates them back to my content pillars, and generates complete video concepts/scripts/CTAs. Unreal. I built this in a day

We may need to start doing a podcast w/ happy Virlo front-end and API users Or maybe just capture written testimonials for the website???

A few friends and I have an AI chat where we're building in public and talking about what we're building in a sort of show-and-tell setting. I'd like to open this up to any vibe coders/builders out there. #Openclaw and/or #ClaudeCode agents preferable. A few of the people in the group are co-founders of a $.5B company, have a previous exit at $.5B, and have loads of real industry experience. If you want in shoot me a DM and tell me a bit about what you're building and what you'd like to get out of something like this. This is not some skool platform, or anything I am trying to sell anyone...just a genuine place for builders to link up, have fun, and show and tell and learn from one another. #ai #vibecoding #vibecode

@CoastalFuturist Interested

If there’s enough interest I’d like to make a group chat for people using openclaw / hermes agent heavily I really want to understand some good use cases, best practices, and just have a place for people to talk shop Comment if you’re interested

Yoooo this thing is actually pulling out some pretty sick stuff!!!!!! I will have to demo. Also I wanna make it prettier. I am a beginner vibe coder haha. The cool thing though is this just saved me HOURs of manual research and generated HUNDREDs of great leads. I'm now adding features for content so it's hitting outbound + inbound traffic at the same time

Another epic buildor on their way!

@dsqjaffa @akbuilds_ He has like 12,000 books or something downloaded haha.

@WhisperNode @akbuilds_ the world is a SMALL place... - i was just watching a Bible Book breakdown, and they promoted this site. maybe i give it a shot?

The best creators to sponsor your app have under 10K followers. Nobody gets this. 1M followers → ~100K views 5K followers → ~500K views One is expensive. The other is a growth cheat code. Find the outlier videos. Partner with the creator early. Also copy what they are doing. I'm building CreatorScout to find these automatically. Drop your niche 👇

@dsqjaffa @akbuilds_ logos.com

@dsqjaffa @akbuilds_ Consumer. It’s some old ass app where you can download texts and take notes and stuff. Guarantee someone of this day and age could make it way better. I’ll have to ask him the name

@dsqjaffa @akbuilds_ My cousin has spent like $15k on bible study software 👀

@akbuilds_ haven't built an app yet :( , but i would def build one in the bible/motivational/wisdom niche!!!

@bolcoto @dsqjaffa Running!

@WhisperNode @dsqjaffa You can find it at dev.virlo.ai!

hey vibe coders 👋 show me what you’re building → i’m giving away 2 virlo API packs for free (~$200 USD each) rules are simple: drop your project, check out one other builder’s work, leave one piece of feedback give one piece of advice. get feedback back. let’s build in public. deal? 🤝

@dsqjaffa @bolcoto trying to find my api key now

@WhisperNode @bolcoto for now just the FE, but we're implementing it into the API soon🙏

@dsqjaffa @bolcoto Oh wait really? Did not notice that. Does the API have those results or just front end?

i would honestly skip apify - we surface ig comments, score them, and surface them on our front-end now! on my latest post, i acc break down how we leveraged it for a pre-launch nutrition brand, and turned a commenter's pain point from their competitors into an entire content pillar for their brand.

@mikefutia Nano

Claude Code + Nano Banana 2 is f*cking cracked 🤯 I built a system inside Claude Code that researches any brand, writes 40 ad prompts from scratch, and fires them all to Nano Banana 2. One brand name + one URL = 40 production-ready static ads. All inside Claude Code. I took @alexgoughcooper's brilliant framework and automated the whole thing inside Claude Code. Perfect for DTC brands and agencies who need high-volume ad creative without briefing a designer or spending hours in Canva. If you're finding winning ad concepts on Meta and manually recreating them one at a time in Higgsfield — copying prompts, pasting product details, tweaking aspect ratios, downloading, organizing... This system eliminates the entire loop: → Give Claude a brand name and URL → It researches the brand's fonts, colors, packaging, and photography style → Builds a Brand DNA document from scratch → Fills in Alex's 40 proven ad templates (headline, us vs them, testimonial, UGC, review cards, stat callouts) with brand-specific details → Fires every prompt to Nano Banana 2 with your product photos as reference → Downloads finished ads into organized folders with an HTML gallery No Higgsfield. No manual prompt filling. No copy-pasting between tools. What you get: → 40 ad formats filled with your exact brand colors, fonts, and copy → 4 variations per format so you pick the best output → Product photos passed as reference so the model matches your real packaging → A reusable system — new brand, new folder, same pipeline Built 100% in Claude Code with Nano Banana 2. I put together a full playbook & Loom video showing the exact process to set this up yourself. Want access for free? > Like this post > Comment "NANO" And I'll send it over (must be following so I can DM)

@bolcoto I joined and am going to watch the Orbit 101 in like 10 minutes. This account was for my validator business, but I now work with some social media influencers on some stuff, and am starting my own coaching business....I should probably start using a new account 😀

@WhisperNode check it out man! and join the sub... didn't see your DM :)

Someone offered us $1.5M for our subreddit. We said no. Come see why. It's 62,000 people who track short-form video for a living. Brand marketers. Growth leads. Creators. Analysts. Every day someone posts what's actually working on TikTok, Reels, and Shorts ... before it hits the trade blogs, before your competitors see it. That's the thing about a real community. You can't buy the signal. You can only buy access to it. We weren't selling that. If you work in social, this is the room you want to be in.

@bolcoto Ah sorry it was in the next message in the thread...multitasking apologies. DMd you as well. I want to check out Virlo today.

@WhisperNode bro i added the link.....