Bethany Crystal
@bethanymarz
Teaching people how to build and making learning apps with Build First at buildfirst.ai.
it's too bad they didn't know
if you turn me down today
i will come back stronger tomorrow
omg i need to frame this quote from a call I just had 😭
"You were not the first person to come to a pitch with us for AI training, but you walked in with a very, very good pitch, which is the other thing to know as a small business selling to other businesses. It was excellent, very compelling, really thought through."
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Hehehe so I’m running a high school workplace challenge project for my company Build First with high schoolers in the Bronx
Before I ask them to research vibe coding tips I had to teach them how to use AI for research, so I had them look up me and my company on Gemini while I was standing there to fact check live with...
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Our block association, the Manhattan 75, is officially powered by a new Claude Code backend, complete with a DIY CRM, event manager, photo uploader, and Stripe connection to process member payments. 🔥 🔥 🔥
You can view the latest iteration here: www.manhattan75.nyc
Incredibly cool to meet up with two othe...
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We are taking our first trip to DisneyWorld with the kids + cousin this summer and worried about kids wandering off. I jokingly suggested we AirTag them and make custom necklaces to hold them, then asked my dad to 3D print a sample. Here’s what he came up with
🔥🔥🔥
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remixing my own app for tomorrow's building with the bard (remix shakespeare with AI) studio build tomorrow morning hehehe
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Friends, Builders, Countrymen... lend me your laptops!
It's the last chance to RSVP for our inaugural session, "Building with the Bard" -- an opportunity to practice your Claude Code skills by building an app based on the complete works of William Shakespeare!
Bring ye sonnets, literary analyses, and grand plans. Cof...
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leaning into my legally blonde era by running AI trainings in bright pink blazer and flower jumpsuit hehe
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Nooooo Bethany you can’t sign up to run 1-2 AI workshops a day and still stay sane
Noooooo you don’t make that much and your business ceases to exist in 2 months stop signing up to do so many things without support
Bethany noooooo you shouldn’t keep hosting more events, but what if people in the community are dependi...
Nooooo Sam you can’t launch 1/1 multiple candle scents in one day
Noooooo you don’t make that much and your business ceases to exist in 2 months stop pouring so many candles
Sam noooooo you shouldn’t make all these new scents but if somebody else wants them
Nooooo Sam AI can make those fragrance notes for you what’s
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Today i got some disappointing news and ended up bursting into tears in front of the group of strangers I was coworking among
It imagine it was kind of weird for them, but the truth is that it was also kind of great for me to have had the news land while I was among community at all (which is not always the case for ...
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☠️ ☠️ ☠️
Event venue just canceled on me for Friday morning due to construction. Anyone in NYC happen to have access to a fun...
- office
- conference room
- classroom
- bookstore
- furniture store
- studio
- ANYTHING AT ALL
that can accommodate 20-30 happy people building apps based on William Shakespeare???
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not gonna lie, it's been pretty tough to stabilize myself as a biz owner in the last year. lots of false starts, lots of shifting priorities, people coming and going in my life, technology changing too fast for me to keep up, not able to pay myself at all last year, not sure what the biz is going to look like even thre...
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the really interesting thing about building in public is that sometimes the people you need next on the journey are already the ones who have been playing along from home
i have been seriously falling behind on maintenance and upkeep and knowledge work for my block association (because volunteer work...) so the exec ...
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